Rescue of Ivan Hess

The Rescue of Ivan Hess was a successful trial undertaken by Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson to test their combined powers, in order to unlock the mind of Ivan Hess while he was in a catatonic state.
==Background==
Ivan Hess was an engineer working for Roxxon Corporation, who was present on the Roxxon Gulf Platform on the night it was destroyed by a powerful and uncontrolled outburst of combined Lightforce and Darkforce. Unlike the other workers on the rig, Hess was not affected by the released energy and thus did not turn into a Terror. However, he was still heavily affected by the whole event, and despite being the only survivor of the catastrophe, he remained in a catatonic state which prevented him from interacting with the rest of the world.Cloak & Dagger: 1.07: Lotus Eaters
Eight years later, Tandy Bowen, who had developed Lightforce-based hope perception powers in the aftermath of the destruction and sought to clear her father's name, got acquainted with Hess' daughter, who also worked for Roxxon, while infiltrating a gala.Cloak & Dagger: 1.05: Princeton Offense Following her to the hospital where Hess was being taken care of, Bowen used her powers to read into Hess' mind, but eventually stumbled upon a door engulfed in Darkforce she could not open.Cloak & Dagger: 1.06: Funhouse Mirrors Knowing that she needed Hess to figure out the truth about what had happened on the rig, Bowen asked Tyrone Johnson, whose own powers were based on Darkforce, for assistance.
==Rescue==
Tyrone Johnson and Tandy Bowen entered the hospital room where Ivan Hess had been living for eight years. Once Bowen explained why she needed to access Hess' mind, Johnson agreed to help her and they both touched one of Hess' hands, using the combination of Darkforce and Lightforce to read into his mind. Once the vision had begun, Bowen pointed at the door she had previously found, stating that only Johnson could open it and admitting that she had no idea what would happen afterwards.
As soon as Johnson touched the door engulfed with Darkforce, Johnson and Bowen were transported in a recreation of the Roxxon Gulf Platform, although they were initially unaware of what it was. They were immediately found by a Terror, and Johnson believed that he would be unable to see them as it had been the case in other visions. However, he was soon proven wrong when the Terror attacked them both, forcing Johnson and Bowen to take him down using their powers.
In an attempt to hide from more Terrors, Johnson and Bowen entered a room where they found Hess, the only person who seemed to have kept his mind intact. However, it soon turned out that something was wrong as Hess seemed to not even know his real name and where he was. Bowen and Johnson figured out themselves, understanding that they were on the oil rig on the verge of destruction.
As Hess informed them that there was less than two minutes before the collapse, Johnson and Bowen asked him for a way to prevent it and left the room, although Hess insisted that they would be unable to reach the core room in time. On their way, Johnson and Bowen were attacked by two more Terrors armed with an axe and a chain, and despite being able to kill them using their powers, they sensed a small explosion before being surrounded by more Terrors. The destruction of the platform then actually occurred, causing a massive blast which killed them all.
The vision was then resumed, with Bowen and Johnson finding themselves in Hess' office one more time. They understood that since the real destruction had occurred, Hess had been trapped in a catatonic state of mind which caused him to relive the same chain of events again and again, as Hess explained that he had stopped counting how many times he had been through it after 100,000 iterations. Johnson then asked Hess to guide them throughout the whole event, and Hess accepted, detailing what the Terrors were and inciting them to hide from one of them, Monsieur Flambé.
Bowen, Johnson and Hess then returned into the room where they had met the first time. Johnson suggested that their attempt to save Hess was futile, but Bowen insisted as she needed Hess' help. She then tried to appeal to Hess' memories of his daughter, but Hess did not remember her either. Bowen then mentioned her own father, whose name seemed to ring a bell for Hess, who identified him as the man who called him at some point in the vision. Bowen thus figured out that her father had been talking with Hess on the night he died.
As the phone rang, Bowen moved to pick up the phone and got to hear her father's voice. As she talked with him and admitted that she missed him, Bowen failed to hear Johnson urging her to end the call until the destruction occurred once again, causing the vision to restart again. Johnson then insisted that they had to try again to shut off the valves to prevent the destruction, but Bowen was too much shaken by the fact that she could speak to her father to come with him, forcing Johnson to go alone while Bowen waited for her father to call again.
Johnson sneaked behind two Roxxon Corporation workers, Sam and Charlie, who discussed about the temperature surge right before the mixture of Darkforce and Lightforce exploded, turning them into Terrors. They moved towards Johnson, who teleported away from them and other Terrors. Johnson managed to get near the kill switch and the valves, which he shut down, but the platform was destroyed nonetheless, thus restarting the vision.
Johnson told Bowen that he had failed, although Hess was impressed that he had even managed to access the valves. Once Hess left, Johnson told Bowen that they had to return into the real world to find a way to succeed. Bowen refused, stating that she would be happy to remain in Hess' mind if it allowed her to speak with her father, but she eventually accepted. However, once back in the hospital room, Johnson realized that Bowen had lied. Failing to separate Bowen's hand from Hess', Johnson had no other choice but to return into the vision.
Johnson found Bowen alone in the office, waiting for her father to call while killing off Monsieur Flambé who approached from behind Johnson. Johnson, who ended the call much to Bowen's anger, realized that even though he felt as he had only left her for a minute, she had actually been through more than 200 iterations of the vision, and had begun to forget him. Bowen explained that her life in the real world was horrible as she had no home, purpose, father and friend, and that she wanted to remain in the vision.
Once the vision restarted, Johnson explained that he understood how Bowen felt, although she refused to believe that. When the phone rang, Bowen threatened Johnson with a Lightforce dagger so he would not touch it and picked up the phone, but Johnson unplugged it, thus ending the call. This caused Bowen to ragingly project Lightforce daggers at Johnson, who avoided them by teleporting away. Johnson then asked Bowen whether she had told her father the truth about herself, her criminal activities and her drug consumption. The rig then exploded again, thus restarting the vision before Bowen could attack Johnson.
Johnson told Bowen that he understood Bowen's actions, but admitted that he no longer remembered the sound of his own deceased brother's voice. He then told her that he would leave her only if she asked her father a question with an answer only he would know. As the phone rang, Bowen asked him about who was sitting on his backseat, as the answer was supposed to be Bowen herself as a child. However, her father told her that there was no one, thus confirming that Bowen was talking to a mere approximated recreation of her father, who was definitely gone.
The vision restarted once again. Bowen, who had returned to her senses, noticed that Hess had been eating cookies in the beginning of the vision, and asked him where it came from, knowing that they had been baked by his daughter. Bowen urged Hess to remember his daughter, hanging up the phone without answering it, and managed to have Hess recall about the secret ingredient his daughter had put in the cookies, which led him to remember her daughter. As they discussed how to get out, Johnson told them that Hess had to be the one shutting off the valves himself.
In a final iteration of the vision, Johnson, Bowen and Hess made their way to the valves, with Johnson and Bowen using their powers to take down the Terrors they encountered on the way, including Sam and Charlie. This time, their efforts were successful, and all three of them regained consciousness in the hospital room, although Hess did not recognize Johnson and Bowen and asked for his daughter.
==Aftermath==
Having recovered from his catatonic state, Ivan Hess was moved into another hospital room where his daughter Mina immediately came to visit him and celebrate his healing. Tandy Bowen later came to visit Hess as well to ask him about details on the Destruction of the Roxxon Gulf Platform. Hess admitted that her father had written a memo alerting Roxxon Corporation executives of the safety issues on the Roxxon Gulf Platform, which had mostly gone ignored. Hess then gave Bowen indications on how to find the memo.Cloak & Dagger: 1.08: Ghost Stories
Returning to his home, Tyrone Johnson recalled mentioning to Bowen that he did not remember his brother's Billy's voice, and searched through his stuff until he found an old voice recorder, with a recording of the two Johnson brothers. Johnson then called Bowen to share this recovered memory with her, much to her delight.
Peter Scarborough also paid Hess a visit to make him sign some documents and make sure that he posed no threat as to establish Roxxon's true accountability in the platform's destruction.
==References==
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