Louis Bloom/Major Events & Arcs

Ocean Dumped by Chang Gang
In the late hours of December 3rd, Deputy Bloom was securing a vehicle after a criminal had ditched it during a highspeed chase. As he was taking pictures of the car and documenting it, another car slowly rolled by him. Despite his suspicion of the vehicle rolling by, he continued to write down his account of the crime committed earlier in the MDW. It wasn't until this suspicious car rolled by a second time that Bloom quickly looked away from his MDW, however it was too late.
As the car came to a stop beside Bloom, the masked individuals inside demanded him- at gunpoint- to stop what he was doing and to get into their trunk. With little time to react, Bloom listened to their demands and entered the trunk. As the vehicle started to drive off, with Bloom secured inside the trunk, the individuals inside began to question Bloom. The questions pertained to Bloom and his sexual advances on other people.
Unbeknown to Bloom, this sudden kidnapping was the result of his actions against Novah Walker. Weeks prior, Bloom had developed a crush on Novah and since that point, had been actively flirting with and making advances on her. On the morning of November 3rd, Novah had called Randy Bullet and made him aware of the things Deputy Bloom had been saying to her. As Novah was a fellow member of Chang Gang, the members act like an over-protectve family towards her. This meant that, when word spread to the rest of the gang through Randy- they swore to confront Bloom and try to take his life.
During this car ride, members of Chang Gang, especially Bobby Brown shouted at Bloom and tormented him for his interest in Novah (without naming her specifically). Between the profanities and torment, Bloom was forced out of the car to sign off duty- preventing other cops from tracking his GPS. Once back in the car's trunk, the bullying continued from the gang.
Eventually, the car came to a stop at the Humane Labs and Research in Blaine county. This is where Randy Bullet, Bobby Brown, Mr. Kebun and Big D collectively dragged Bloom's handcuffed body out of the trunk. Once he was out of the trunk, the members took to clearing out his pockets and taking all of his possessions- Randy pocketing Bloom's ID and PD badge.
After forcing Bloom to walk down to the water-chamber part of the labs, members of CG turned to questioning him on his relationship with Novah. During this conversation, they made it clear that Novah was under their protection and they'd go to any lengths to serve justice on those who harmed her. They warned Bloom to not make any further advances on her as he would be met with extreme retaliation from all members of CG.
As the confrontation came to a natural close, Mr. K demanded Bloom to try and swim away through the narrow underground water- system. The ultimatum consisted of either swimming away through the underground system or getting shot by four assault rifles if he attempted to re-surface where he came from. As Bloom dived into the water and attempted to swim down, he quickly ran out of breath. Subsequently, drowning.
While in the murky waters, Bloom lost consciousness and his vitals began to dip. It was not until after an hour and a half in the water that a worker noticed him and dragged him out of the water, calling the police in the process. When the police arrived on scene, there was no evidence to be found. EMS quickly ushered him into an ambulance and doctors at Pillbox Medical Center cleared his lungs of water.
Upon Bloom awaking, he remembered very little from the encounter. While in his hospital bed, he continually scribbled "I'm gonna make you my bitch" on a piece of paper- a quote directly from Bobby Brown. The main result of his time in the water was an absence of emotions, Bloom became emotionally damaged and suddenly found it hard to process or broadcast what he was feeling. Despite not knowing why he was "ocean dumped"- Bloom was fairly sure it had nothing to do with Novah and continued to speak to her as before.
The "Novah Walker" Saga
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Investigating The Dabria Twins
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Introduction to Drugs
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Shot by Julio Thomas and Novah Walker
On May 24th, 2022, Bloom had the plan to stick Julio Thomas with a needle of metamorphine.  While still on-duty as a cop, he found Julio at the Mirror Park gas station with Andi Jones and Lilith Ailhart.  When they asked Bloom what he was doing there, Bloom came up with an excuse about how he wanted to fix the relationship he had with Julio.  Julio was unconvinced while Andi was in disbelief that Bloom no longer wanted to follow through on his previous plans to stab him. Flustered, Bloom rushed off the scene to go back on patrol.   Less than ten minutes later, Bloom was on top of the Mirror Park mountains canvassing the Mirror Park gas station for signs of Julio.  When Julio was no longer at the gas station, Bloom drove by Julio’s house and saw he wasn’t there either. Bloom then went off duty to properly hunt down Julio.
Bloom returned to Mirror Park after clocking out, but this time he was disguised in a Zorro mask, a gas mask, and a gray hoodie.  After circling Mirror Park several times, Novah Walker's car caught his attention.  He followed her until she led him to Julio in his Coil Savanna.  He went to the cul-de-sac to get his thoughts together, but accidentally ended up almost face to face with Julio.  Bloom then retreated to the top of Mirror Park mountains.  Novah called him to tell him that she knew it was him following her and Julio.  Bloom lied to her about what he was doing and where he was at, then abruptly hung up on her.  Novah called him back, dejected at his response. 
Bloom quickly bought a new hoodie then returned to the mountains of Mirror Park to look down at the cul-de-sac, but the couple was no longer there.  This made Bloom realize that his plan wouldn’t be able to go through at this time.  He returned to MRPD to get back on duty, but Novah called to ask him to meet up off duty because they hadn’t spoken in a while.  Though Bloom was previously upset with her ghosting him, he agreed to this meet-up.
Novah arrived at MRPD to pick him up. Unprompted, she opened her trunk to prove that no one was with her.  That worried Bloom slightly, but he quickly became distracted once Novah asked him how he was doing.  Novah drove them to the mountains of Banham Canyon while Bloom rambled about his troubles.  They got out of the car when she came to a stop at the top.  Novah took off her mask and asked Bloom what was really going on with him.
Bloom reiterated some superficial problems he was dealing with, but she was unsatisfied with that answer.  As she walked away from him, she told him, “I thought you wouldn’t lie to me, but I guess I was wrong.”  That didn’t phase Bloom as he continued to talk about other things then asked her what she thought he was lying about.  She exploded out of irritation saying that she knew something was wrong because she could hear it in his voice, but wouldn’t admit to it.  Bloom wanted to know why she even cared which had irritated Novah even more.  Bloom avoided saying the truth, but Novah kept pressuring him.  Bloom told her about him telling Mr. Kebun and Siz Fulker to drug Gunner and about him taking drugs from Siz.  She wanted to know why he was doing drugs, but he avoided that by telling her what specific drugs he was on and what it was doing to him.
Novah pushed to know the main thing that was bothering him.  Bloom lashed out and told Novah that Andi told him that Julio asked her to marry him and she didn’t say no.  She rebutted by saying she also didn’t say yes because the proposal location was where she shot Outto-Tune Tyrone (OTT) when she was an Eastside Balla.  Bloom became upset because she told him that she and Julio were done.  She deflected by saying Julio proposed to her all the time, but she hadn’t said yes.
Bloom started to become upset because Novah was upset, and this was the main thing he wanted to avoid.  Frustrated, he told her that he was going to walk back.  Novah refused, so Bloom told her that they were both too heated to ride together.  She tried to defuse the situation by hugging him, but Bloom still didn’t want to get in the car.  Novah told him that she would take him anywhere if he got in the car.  Bloom said he wanted to leave her to be with Julio for his own sake.  At this, Novah gave him back the Novah Walker toy he gave her, he put it back in her trunk then asked her why should he torture himself with how invested he was.  When she agreed that he was right, Bloom began walking down the mountain.  Novah wanted him in the car, but Bloom wanted space to process everything that he told her.  Novah pulled up next to him and got out of the car with a gun.  She told him to get in the car Bloom got in quietly.  Novah drove him to the Mirror Park dam.
On the drive there, she repeatedly said, “I don’t want to do this, Bloom,” without telling him what.  She did tell him that no matter what her opinion was or how she felt, Bloom would never be accepted.  Bloom said he didn’t need to be accepted, he just wanted clarity in their relationship.  She told him that she cared too much about someone she wasn’t supposed to care about at all.  Before getting out the car, she admitted that she liked Bloom a lot. 
Julio ran up to the car with a gun in hand. Novah asked for a moment alone with Bloom, she held him at gunpoint, but Bloom was unafraid.  He asked her why this had to happen, and she feigned ignorance.  Bloom wanted to know why he was going to get shot over feelings he never wanted to share in the first place.  Novah shifted the blame by asking him why he lied in the first place.  Bloom told her that he already knew that this would be a result if he ever expressed his feelings.  Novah let him know that this wasn’t about his feelings, it was because her gang came first.
Bloom tried to walk away to let Julio shoot him instead, but she shot him in the head before telling him to stop moving.  Bloom remained silent, on the brink of tears, Novah wanted to know why he wanted Julio to shoot him.  Bloom kept his silence and begged Bloom for the reason.  Already dead inside, Bloom told her it was because he never thought Novah would shoot him.  He turned away from him to face the water.  Julio walked up behind him to say “Sorry it had to be this way, Bloom,” before shooting Bloom in the head again.
Bloom landed in the water.  He remained in the water for 12 minutes before EMS came to help him.  He was then later transported to Pillbox to get medical attention in the operating room.  At Pillbox Medical, Lennon McDermitt performed surgery on Bloom. Luckily, the bullets didn’t penetrate and only caused a slight fracture to the skull. Dr. McDermitt relieved the pressure building up in the skull and stopped Bloom from bleeding out. Bloom was given an antibiotic drip during his stay in the ICU.  The emergency contacts for Bloom were: Crystal Clear, Edward Thatch, McDermitt, Saul Leesemann, and Novah Walker.  While in the ICU bed after taking care of Bloom, McDermitt checked and saw that Bloom had a DNR but she had said that Bloom is not allowed to die.  Crystal came in with two others after a call to see Bloom and after she was told that it had been at the dam Crystal claimed that it had been the HOA who had done this to Bloom.
Post Traumatic Stress & Spiral
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The Blond Arc
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The Terrance (TJ) Walker Torment
An unknown robotic voice calls and says that “we” have been watching and approves of the work that Bloom is doing.  When Bloom asks what kind of work he is approving of, the voice says that they would like to meet them, but with a stipulation for Bloom to come alone to the location that the caller will ping them to.  After the call Bloom tells Lily Pond about the call, which Pond is worried about the unknown caller taking Bloom away where she cannot follow him.  Bloom tells Pond that this is a way for her to get unsuspended quicker for catching someone who is a kidnapper.  William Gunner then calls with a location of more pills for Bloom and puts the idea of Bloom getting a pill press in his head.
Bloom thinks that if Pond is anywhere near where it is happening the person organizing it will be spooked away.  Pond retorts that she does not trust to not have an eye on Bloom.  On the way back to Pond’s house Bloom believes that it is not a negative thing that is happening, while Pond is adamant that it is due to her experience with serial killers.  Shortly after arriving at the house Bloom gets an anonymous ping, then leaves Pond after asking what her ping # is.  Pond notices shortly after forcing Bloom to go back and pick her up, when he does pick her up, he states that he got the ping up in Paleto.  As Bloom is leaving to go to the real location, he tells Pond that he will be going to the U-tool to pick up a radio.
When the unknown person comes down to meet Bloom, he is instructed to drop his weapon and to get into the vehicle.  Bloom states that someone else wanted to come with him, in which he lied and said it was Gunner as he was taken to the hill Northeast of the quarry.  When on top of the hill the unknown person asks to confirm if it is Bloom where he replies that it is.  After that the unknown person asks Bloom if he has been giving drugs to officers, when Bloom states that it is just one officer the unknown person asks him to confirm or deny.  When restating that it is just one the unknown person confirms that it is just Pond, which Bloom questions how the unknown person knows that.  The unknown person ignores Bloom and asks if Bloom will continue giving out drugs, which Bloom responds with saying that yes, he will.  The next question asked is if Bloom sells the drugs or gives them out since the unknown person does not want to make money from this and then Bloom responds with him saying that he has only given the drugs away.  Bloom is then asked to turn away and asked if he knows what he is doing, the unknown person then continues by stating that they are impressed because they are an officer giving another officer illegal medications.  Afterward Bloom states that he does not like the unknown person standing behind him due to being shot in the back of the head a month prior by Novah Walker and Julio Thomas.  The unknown person then apologizes for the circumstances, then shoots him in the back of the head twice after saying “For Bundy.”  Before the unknown person leaves, he states that “Jeffrey Bundy sends his regards” and calls 911 anonymously that Bloom rests up high.
Max Muller was the first police officer to arrive on scene shortly followed by EMS in helicopter, Pond, and Thomas Metzger.  When being treated by Bailey Jade and Lucy DeMonte it is found that there was no exit wound for the two bullets in his head, and on the flight back to the hospital Bloom was constantly bleeding through gauze.  When landing at the hospital Bloom had been in a critical state.  After arriving at Pillbox Bloom went into operation room 3 where he was operated on by Tsury Nanakaze and Lennon McDermitt.  With further analysis of head injury, it is noticed that Bloom has a fractured skull and brain damage.  During the operation Lennon struggled to help Bloom throughout, which eventually led to Lennon leaving the operating room before the operation had finished.  Tsury had finished the rest of the surgery without any more incidents occurring and transferred Bloom to ICU to stay the night.
Once in the ICU bed he is visited by Pond, Gunner, Muller, TJ Mac, and Dingle Fan.  Gunner searched Bloom since he had been shot and Muller responded by saying the only thing that had been missing from Bloom’s is his class 2 firearm.  Fingle Dan enters the room as Mac and Muller are talking back and forth about who could have done it and any angle to pursue the investigation.  The Emergency Contact list was Crystal Clear, Pond, Edward Thatch, Shelby Lane, and Fingle Dan.  McDermitt entered Bloom’s ICU room and left after ~10 seconds of being there without saying anything.  Once everyone but Tsury has left the room Lennon returns and does not say anything to Bloom.  Lennon says that she cannot deal with this, which she had also said in the operating room before she had left.  DeMonte had entered the ICU room to ask for Tsury to look after Bloom and thanked him for helping Bloom.  Bloom was left alone for a while before Saul Leesemann and Brick James walked in with Pond shortly after.  Saul asks Brick and Pond to leave, which Pond is reluctant, and says that she will commit terrorism if anything happens to Bloom.  Saul and Brick leave and Pond talks to Bloom saying that she is both angry and terrified.  She also vows that when she finds out who shot Bloom that she will put two bullets in the back of their head.  Pond leaves and comes back to stay the night after bringing back Petal to the hospital.
The day after the ICU Bloom has amnesia due to the damage from his brain.  Since Bloom and Pond are still suspended from what happened the day prior, they spend the day together.  Eventually while they are at the windfarm Bloom gets a phone call from Metzger about having Pond go to MRPD where he accompanies her.  Metzger and Pond go down to interrogation while Bloom is left with Shelby.  As soon as Bloom is out of sight of Shelby he leaves and tries to get to interrogation but is locked out then found by Shelby again.  Bloom is constantly evading Shelby, which he eventually loses by handcuffing her.  He goes into the observation room and hears Pond talking about what led up to the two of them getting suspended.  They then start talking about the kind of drugs that the two of them had been taking the day that they had gotten suspended.  During the middle of it Bloom leaves and clocks off.  Fingle then let us Bloom back into the observation room.  Bloom comes in and hears Pond really cares for Bloom and wants to help in any way that she can to find out who did it.  Metzger says that Pond is the first stepping stone to know what happened, then Pond gets a call from an Unknown Number.  Which she was allowed to answer, which she hangs up when she finds out it is one of her stalkers.  She was then asked if in the past week and a half-had Bloom taken pills with her, in which she paused and said that the silence should tell him the answer.  Metzger pushed further and said that he needs a yes or no answer and she replied yes.  When asked how frequently he did it she replied that they would take a few at night before bed.  Metzger then asked if he did any on duty, in which Pond replied that she did not know.  Metzger then asked if there were any other drugs that they had taken, which Pond said that she took metamorphine three times.  She then goes into detail about each she had taken metamorphine, which she said that she had taken the last dose of it two hours before Bloom had been shot.  Metzger then went back to the pills and asked if anyone else had known that she was taking the pills besides Bloom.  Pond responded with the fact that Rocky Topps, her therapist, had known about the pills.  Shelby and Vincent Cannoli then find Bloom, which both Shelby and Cannoli say that he must get out of there before Metzger finds out because if he does it will be bad.  Shelby and Bloom then go up to the roof to talk.
The next day the same unknown voice is calling again, but Bloom does not remember that they are the person that is responsible for his memory loss or the bullets that landed him in the ICU.  The voice says that they are happy that Bloom is alive, but that his “mission” is not yet complete.  The voice then asks what Bloom remembers of the last few days, Bloom responds that he remembers that he woke up from the ICU and is suffering from withdrawals.  Bloom stops responding and questions why he is talking to the unknown voice, but the unknown voice only laughs into the phone and asks if Bloom would like metamorphine.  Bloom pauses for a moment and asks who is on the other side of the phone, but the unknown voice only responds with a laugh and says, “We are watching.”  Bloom questions if it is Gunner on the other side of the phone, but the unknown voice persists to see if Bloom wants metamorphine.  Bloom still believes it to be Gunner, the voice denies that it is and asks if he wants the metamorphine one last time and Bloom responds with a yes.  The unknown voice says that he can receive the metamorphine later, Bloom asks who the person is once more.  The voice laughs and states that we are always watching, Bloom continues to ask who the voice is and who is “we.”  The voice responds with a goodbye to Bloom and hangs up the phone.
Pond walks in as the phone call ends, and questions Bloom on who he was talking to.  Bloom responds with the fact that he thinks that it is Gunner, but states that he is unsure.  Pond then asks who the “we” is, Bloom goes quiet for a moment and states that he does not want to talk in MRPD.  Once they are out of MRPD and in a car Pond asks who it was, which Bloom responds as he does not know and that he did something stupid.  When questioned he explains that when given the opportunity to get metamorphine he said yes.  Pond asks if he was going to take it, Bloom responds that he does not know but he did say yes even though he should not take anything due to getting drug tested.  Bloom gives the same description prior to the shooting of what the person sounded like, saying it was more like a robot since it did not recognize his answers.  Pond tells Bloom that he is not picking up the metamorphine since it is the same kind of phone call he got before he was shot.  Pond was able to connect the two calls from the phrase “We are watching.”  Bloom apologizes for saying that he wants the metamorphine, but Pond says that he does not have to and that she would also most likely say yes to getting the metamorphine as well.  After a few minutes Pond says that she wants the needle, Bloom proposes that it might not be a trap.  Pond adamantly states that it is a trap since he got shot twice for it and that she also got a phone call saying that it was her fault.  Bloom calms down and says that it is fine, and it was a trap.  Pond proposes that they could use Bloom as bait, but then immediately after says that she is not letting Bloom get hurt again.  Later Pond asks Bloom to not respond or if he does that, he tells Pond so that she can go with him.  Bloom responds that he will, and Pond says that he must do it before he is there, not when he is already there.
The unknown caller contacts Bloom again roughly after 20 minutes since they had last contacted him.  The unknown voice says that his request has been fulfilled and that they had left the metamorphine behind his house in a dumpster.  The voice also says that there is one for his partner Pond, which Bloom tells the voice that they can fuck off.  The call ends after the voice reminds him that it is there.  Pond asks Bloom if he is ok, and he responds with that he is and tells Pond that there is a drop off.  Pond enquires where the metamorphine is located, and Bloom tells her where it is at and the fact that there are at least two needles at that location.
The next day Bloom is woken up by a call from the same unknown voice stating that Bloom did not take his medication last night.  When questioned Bloom said that he did want it and still does but did not due to many reasons.  The voice questions again if he still wants it and Bloom responds with the answer that he does not.  After a short pause, the voice asks what Bloom wants, his deepest desire.  When bloom asks why he would even say it to the voice it responds with that is their objective to make those things happen.  The voice then states that Bloom was someone else’s deepest desire and that is the reason that he does not remember anything.  After that Bloom impulsively states that he wants Julio Thomas dead and his life back to what it was.  The voice wants a reason as to why he wants Julio, but Bloom instead asks why he had been chosen; the voice responds with the name of Jeffrey Bundy.  The voice then says that the reason that Bundy wanted him dead was because he gets Pond high and gives her drugs.  The voice then states that it was not just the fact that Bundy wanted Bloom dead, it had also been the fact that Bloom had said yes to get more drugs and continue to distribute them to Pond which is hypocritical since he is a police officer.  The voice then says that Bloom likes to see others suffer and abuse, Bloom retorts that it is not the same for those he cares about.  The voice comes back and asks if he cares about Pond, which the answer Bloom gave had been yes.  Bloom defends himself saying that Pond would have gotten the drugs anyways, but the voice interrupts says that there is a sense of irony since he locks away people for doing and trafficking drugs while he does them at the same time.  Bloom out of frustration states that the voice knows nothing, but it quips back saying that it knows he was shot in the back of the head twice and uses drugs.  Bloom states that he needs the drugs to forget, which the voice asks what he needs to forget, either who he is or to a troubled time.  The voice then states after Bloom answers it is to forget a troubled time that if you forget a tough time, you also forget who you are since your past is linked together with your future.  Bloom then asks what he is supposed to do with the information given to him, which the voice asks if he still wants Julio dead.  Bloom says that he does not know if that is what he really wants right now, which the voice then asks again of what he wants.  The voice tells him to figure out what he wants before it happens again and not just to Bloom but to others around him.  Bloom asks how long he must think, and the voice says that he has 24 hours to have a response then hangs up.  After about 8 minutes Bloom calls Pond telling her he got a call from the unknown voice.  Pond responds saying that she will be home soon.
Pond gets back to the house shortly after the call while Bloom smokes weed in the bedroom.  Pond asks if Bloom is all right, which he responds with the fact that he knows who is the person that “did it” to him.  Pond asks who it was which results in Bloom struggling to tell her.  Before Bloom says who, it is Pond asks if it was the voice that told him the information, to which he responds that it was them.  Bloom then states that he believes them, then says that he knows it was at the top of the quarry.  He knows why and who put the hit out, which was Pond’s adopted father.  Pond then responds that since Bundy was not the actual one who did attack Bloom, just shot them twice in the head, who was the person who did shoot Bloom.  He responds with the fact that the robot voice said that it was “we” who had done it.  Bloom hesitates, but then says that the voice has given him 24 hours to tell them what he wants, or they will hurt those around him, which he suspects is Pond.  Pond states that she had a theory in her mind that it had been Bundy to put out the hit for Bloom but did not want to believe it.  The only reason that Bloom believes the caller is because they said that there was a chance that he would not have gotten shot, but he was since he answered wrongly, they did.  Bloom then explains again that the voice gave him 24 hours to put a hit out on someone.  He told Pond that he originally told them Julio but went back on it and goes on to tell her about the situation before he was shot at the dam.  He then admits that his second thought was to have the people get Bundy in a room with him so he can talk to him but did not say that since he knows why Bundy did what he did already.  Pond asks if she was one of the people that were a part of the ones close to him.  Bloom says that they did not mention anyone specifically, but her name did come up a few times in their conversation.  Even though they did not mention Pond’s name Bloom does know that the voice knows how close the two of them are.  Bloom goes on to state that there are very few people that he cares about anymore.  Bloom goes on to mention that when she had left him last night, he was panicked from it, and says that she is the only person that seems to care about him.  Bloom says that he did not know how serious he had been leaning on Pond since she had been there since he had woken up from the hospital.  Pond says that it is fine that Bloom uses her as a point of reliance since she also can use other people as points of reliance.  A little while later Bloom asks who he can trust with the information about having to put another hit out and having a hit put on him.  Bloom does not think he can tell anyone in the UPD since it had been a captain of the LSPD that started it in the first place.  Pond states that he can tell Muller or Metzger about it since he in on the investigation for his attempted murder.  Bloom then goes on to question how the unknown person knows about everything unless Bundy had been the one to tell them.  Pond then reveals that it was either Bundy told them, or it was that they had been a witness to what happened in the hospital, so they did it on his behalf.  Pond says the fact that the people claim that they fix people’s problems is strange, but Bloom interrupts her about how they had been upset that Bloom did not take the drugs last night.  Which brings Pond to confess that she pushes people away and goes on to explain that when Bloom had been distracted, she had signed off duty for about 5 minutes and went to go look for the metamorphine.  Despite this Bloom says that this is a good thing since it confirms the fact that these people are only watching Bloom Not Pond, or they would have known that she was looking for it.  Pond apologies for doing what she did since it could have resulted with her getting hurt, kidnapped, or even tortured.  After a few minutes of conversation Bloom asks what he should do about Bundy since he could shoot Bloom on a scene and blame it on the criminal.  Pond says that she will not let that happen and that she will talk to Bundy about everything.  After that they began to talk about not putting blame on themselves after Bloom brought up the drugs because if Bloom does that Pond will blame herself because she thinks that he took more drugs when he was with her.  Pond then asks who he is going to choose, which he is unsure because he assumes that they will also tell them that Bloom was the one who put out the hit.  Pond believes that the unknown person/persons only want to create more violence between people.  Bloom then goes on to question if he can get someone else and have them taken somewhere so he can talk to them because he wants to talk to McDermitt, so he knows what he did to her.  Pond goes on to say that from what Bundy told her about it is that during Bloom’s first recovery from PTSD is that Bloom took McDermitt down with Bloom.  Pond believes that it was also on McDermitt since she had fallen down the hole with Bloom since she did not have support.
The next day while Bloom and Pond were on patrol, they received a call from Max Muller to come in and speak to them at Popular PD.  Bloom and Pond both enter the interrogation room and Muller sets up a recording device, once everything had been set up Muller had read the Garrity warning to both.  After being read their rights, it is revealed that Pond requested this meeting to happen.  Pond reveals that it is because of a phone call that she got after Bloom woke up from the ICU, which she said that the unknown number said that it had been her fault and had something to do with Bundy.  She believed that they had done this to put her against her father, which is why she did not think it had been true at the time.  That was her thinking until the phone call that came up the previous day, where he says that the people who shot him keep calling him.  Muller asked if it had been assumed people presumed people, which Bloom shares that it is like a computer talking to him only when it is convenient for them.  Stating that if they do not understand an input, when he thinks they understand it they just do not want to acknowledge it.  Bloom then goes on to say that the unknown voice called him and told him who had put the hit out, Jeffery Bundy also stating that he was told this information about 22 hours ago.  When Bloom had enquired further the voice says that Bundy despises Bloom for what he did to Pond.  Bloom then talks about how he got a warning from Tsury saying that if he is conscious and able to not let McDermitt touch him in the hospital and that he was looking into it.  From what Bloom knows is that McDermitt hates him, and that the only thing that he knows about it is that he texted her sorry which he has yet to get a response.  Muller asks how many calls both Bloom and Pond has received from the unknown caller, which Bloom says two or three while Pond has only gotten one.  The only thing that Bloom remembered from the first call he got after the ICU is that they had laughed at him and told him he was alive for a reason.  Muller then asks if there is a basis of when they are calling Bloom, which is interrupted by an unknown number calling Bloom.
Bloom answers the phone, and the voice greets him and tells him that it is his time to give an answer.  Bloom asks what they will do, the voice then says that they want him to think of what he wants from them.  He asks for the voice to leave him alone, in which it asks if that is his deepest desire.  Bloom responds with no because he does not know what his deepest desire is.  After a small back and forth Bloom says that his deepest desire is to not get shot in the back of the head.  When asked if his deepest desire is Julio Thomas he said no and that he did not mean it when he said it the previous day.  The voice asks if he blew him up at that moment that he would not be happy or that he would be satisfied.  Bloom paused for a moment then asked if they had him but snapped back and said that he would not be happy.  The voice asked for him to make up his mind, then Bloom asks the voice who they are.  It responds by saying, “I am you, I am your past, I am your future, you know who I am.”  Bloom then asks if they want to know his deepest desire, the voice says yes as Bloom mouths to Muller and Pond that he does not know what to do.  Muller says to ask what Bloom can do to fix the situation, which he promptly asks.  The voice then says that he already knows the answer to stop Bundy from trying to kill him.  Bloom knows why but does not know how so the voice says that he must look into himself to find the answer.  The voice reminds Bloom that if he does not give him a name or an item those closest to him will be affected.  Bloom says that he wants to meet the person on the other side of the phone, but they respond with the fact that they have already met.  The voice asks if Pond is next to him, to which Bloom responds that she is next to him.  The voice then says that they want him to respond with his own answers, not what Pond is telling him, so Bloom clarifies that Pond is not saying anything.  The voice is adamant that she is giving him answers and that they are always watching.  Bloom then says he has an answer which is to get Pond’s stalkers to leave her alone.  The voice then says that he is not being truthful since it does not think that it is his deepest desire.  Bloom then admits that he has a lot of desires and is trying to not make them desires.  Bloom then admits that he also desired the metamorphine from the other night but did not do the drug.  The voice is constantly saying that Bloom is lying to them but does not say how he is lying to them.  Bloom questions that if they know his deepest desire then what is it, the voice retorts that he has told them two desires.  Bloom says that he does not actually want Julio dead, then Bloom says that he just wants to be left alone.  It then states that Lily Pond will no longer be with you and quickly hangs up the phone.
After the call Bloom stays quiet for a while before saying that he fucked up, which Muller asked him to expand on that.  Bloom then explains that when he had asked to be left alone, they had replied that Pond will no longer be with him.  Muller then reassures Bloom that nothing will happen to either of them because the last time something happened it had been an anonymous ping to a secret location where he went alone.  Bloom then states that he had just put a giant target on Pond, which Pond says it was not Bloom’s fault it was because they had wanted it.  Bloom then goes on to explain the phone call from the previous day where he got to know who put the hit out on him as well as the 24-hour period where he would have to do the same.  Bloom says that he had fucked up because the first thing that he had said the previous night was Julio Thomas’ name.  Bloom states multiple times that he did not know what or whose name he was going to say to the unknown voice and took back Julio’s name.  Muller says that the people who did the hit have no reason to help Bloom in any way, then Pond points out that if they had done the hit for Bundy why would they go after her.  Bloom believes that they do this for a lot of people, and it is now their turn to deal with them.  Pond then points out that it will expose them if Bundy knows who they are, to which Bloom retorts that they could have reached out to Bundy.  Bloom then explains the reason for them shooting him in the head as well as their hesitation to do so until Bloom said he would continue to give drugs to Pond.  Bloom did not say Bundy because it would be a cycle between the two then thinks that it might be another test for Bloom to see if he is still a “corrupt” police officer.  Muller then points out that they had been picking what they wanted to be his deepest desire since they had shot down many of his choices.  Muller then says that this is an isolated incident since no one has come forward with anything like this or the fact that they have not heard of anything like this previously.  Pond says that she must go, so the interrogation is ended.
The three of them get into Muller's car to drop off Pond to get a helicopter.  On the ride their Pond says that they are just trying to get under Bloom’s skin, which Bloom says that they are getting under his skin.  Muller then says that the people are not loyal if they are telling the truth about who set the hit out on him.  Muller then asks Bloom who he has told about the situation and tells him to keep it to the people he has told so far which is just Muller and Pond.  As Pond is leaving to help Bundy out on a date he organized, she tells Bloom not to push her away.  Which as soon as she was out of earshot immediately tells Muller that he is going to push her away since he cannot bring her into the situation.  Muller then goes on to question how they knew that Pond was with him, but they did not know Muller was around them which brought up that they could have been using dispatch.  Muller thinks that they are just using words to get to Bloom, he does not believe that they will act on anything.
They drive back to Popular PD and Muller sets up the interrogation recording.  Bloom starts off by talking about how two nights ago the voice that has been calling him offered metamorphine to him, which he accepted.  He then admitted that they dropped it off by his house which he did not go to since he “wasn’t feeling well.”  The voice knew he did not take the metamorphine, but Bloom did not know how they knew he had not taken the drug.  Muller then asked about the terminology/use of language that the unknown voice is demonstrating.  Bloom says that they are taunting, and the metamorphine had been behind the electronics store that was not the digital den.  Bloom states the next day the voice had said that he did not take his medicine and laughed when he told them to fuck off.  Muller then asks about the call that had happened that day and what terminology they were using, to which Bloom stated that the voice said, “I am you, I am what you will be, I am what you were.”  Muller then questions how Bundy had gotten into contact with the people in the first place, which Bloom says that they had given no indication to how they got in contact and admitted to not knowing how they got into contact with himself.  He then explains that there had been a lot of people around at Pillbox when he had gotten hit by Bundy but cannot remember who was there due to his amnesia.  Muller then states that he is done questioning him since he does not remember anything prior to him getting shot and does not think that the people are going to do anything to Pond.  He says that he does not believe so since the reason that they got involved in the first place is because they wanted to only get rid of Bloom, not Bundy’s daughter.  Bloom asks if anyone has talked to Bundy, which Muller says that they are taking it slow so they can do it properly.  Muller later asks what is the last thing that he remembers without the help of others, to which he responds that it was him going home and that it was about a month ago.  Muller then ends the recording device and asks Bloom why he started taking drugs in the first place.  Bloom responded it mostly started at the casino with Gunner and continued to take the drugs to help him forget but does not remember when he started taking metamorphine.  Muller then asks Gunner’s involvement in the drugs which Bloom replies that he was just giving him drugs the casino night.  When questioning how often Gunner has given Bloom drugs, he just says that it was a onetime thing.  Muller then goes into incidents and people around the incident when he was shot in the back of the head.  Muller asks if he is terrified of Julio, which Bloom says that he is afraid of what he will do if he is alone with Julio.  Muller then goes to ask if Julio would do the same thing that Bloom would do if they were alone together.  When Muller mentions the dam Bloom goes quiet and later says that he is afraid of Julio.  Bloom then leaves after Muller ponders aloud why Bloom is the way he is.
The next day Bloom answers a call from Metzger while he is on patrol with Pond.  Metzger tells Bloom to report to Sandy SO by himself to talk to him.  Bloom asks he could bring Pond since she cannot speak due to her being shot by Michael Simone that same day.  While dropping off Pond at MRPD, Bloom gets a call from Novah, and when he answers the phone Novah immediately tells Bloom to listen since what she is about to say is important to her.  Novah tells Bloom to be very honest to her as she is asking him a question, which she then asks if Bloom took a hit out on Julio.  Bloom says no, which afterwards she tells him that Bundy had taken a hit out on Bloom.  There is a pause between the two of them then Bloom asks what she is talking about, which she restates that Bundy had taken a hit out on Bloom.  When Bloom asks how she knows, she states that the person who did the hit told her.  Bloom asks how Julio comes into play, which Novah explains that the person also said that he put a hit out on Julio.  She then goes on to tell Bloom that it is something that he would not do since she learned a lot of things about Bloom after her interrogation.  She also says that the only reason that she is making this call is because someone made her realize that if she cared for Bloom, she would tell him this information.  Bloom then tells Novah that they were going to start going after people close to him, which he then lies and says that he does not know how it involves Julio.  She says to not tell the unknown person since she does not want to get killed.  He then asks if Julio had something done to him, which she responds with no.  Novah then tells him to promise her that he will not tell the people that she had told him any of this, which he says that he will not tell them.  The call then ends while Bloom heads to Sandy SO to meet with Metzger.
When Metzger arrives at the sheriff's office, he asks Bloom to take a seat inside the interrogation room.  When Metzger starts recording, he says that he is conducting a criminal investigation that involves Bloom where he was shot twice in the back of the head.  Metzger then gives a warning to Bloom that all the information about to be shared to him is privileged and should not be shared to people other than him, Muller or Richard Dark or he will be facing obstruction of justice.  Metzger then read off his Miranda rights, while he is not a suspect of his own shooting, other information may lead to his own arrest.  He also tells Bloom if he feels it is necessary, he will be giving IA the transcript of their meeting.  Metzger then goes on to state that he is not looking for individual charges to push on people he wants to find the underlying cause of what happened.  He then starts talking about Bloom’s medical report and how Bloom is missing his memories since May 21st, 2022.  Bloom is then questioned on background information i.e., name, birthdate, profession, etc.  One of the positions in the Burglary Task Force (BTF) that Bloom is a part of which is the Drug Task Force (DTF) caught Metzger’s attention since he had experience with drugs.  That leads on to the question of what Bloom’s focus is while he is on duty which he replies with “pump drug dealers.”  Of the formalities are out of the way Metzger asks Bloom about his relationships, in which he has only a father outside of the city, no adopted family, and close friendships.  Bloom states that Edward Thatch is like a brother to him, Crystal Clear is his best friend, Max Muller, and Lily Pond and him are a thing.  When questioned further Bloom says that they are dating instead of being a thing, due to not liking things being in the middle ground.  Metzger asks how long the two of them have been dating which Bloom states that to his recollection they have been dating for about five days, but to his best guess they have been together for about 25 days.  He then lists Gunner as a friend as well as the Dans, Metzger then inquiries about Novah Walker.  Bloom goes silent then answers following him stating that they are friends because he had been told so.  Metzger says that he strongly thinks that they are friends despite appearances, which he follows up with asking about Julio.  Bloom says no because they just have not gotten along due to him being between him and Novah.  Metzger confirms that Novah and Julio have been dating for a few months then asks if Bloom and Novah had been romantically involved with one another, which Bloom says that he has not been in one with her.  When asked why he stalked Julio, Bloom sat up in his chair and told Metzger that it was a bold accusation.  Metzger says that multiple people have stated that Bloom has done so he can either be a man and tell the truth, or Metzger will have to start picking at the trivial things and charge Bloom for crimes.  Bloom says it was not stalking; he had looked for him for one night off duty for 40 minutes.  This brought Metzger to inquire if there had been romance between Bloom and Novah either one way or both ways, to which Bloom had said that there was between both.  Bloom then exclaims the only reason he had lied to Metzger is because he believes that if the truth got out there Novah would be blooded out of her gang.  Metzger then says that if he likes to wear his badge and continue to wear it that he should be as truthful as possible.  When questioned about the friendship of Novah and Bloom after, Bloom said that they did not end off on good terms and that it is news to him.  When asked about who he has talked about his shooting he says Pond, Muller, and doctors about his recovery.  He also mentions Gunner since he had been there when Bloom first woke up, saying it was the day after the casino when they had gotten high and fucking with him.  Metzger then asks what Pond told Bloom and when she had told Bloom these things.  He was told the day he woke up that he had gotten two bullets to the back of the head, which is the same reason he was in the ICU a month earlier.  Bloom then goes on to tell him about the time they went metal detecting at the wind farm a day or two after he woke up and mentioned going to the quarry, which is when Pond told him that is where he had been shot.  She had also talked about Bloom receiving a phone call from an anonymous phone number, which Bloom seemed positive about at the time according to what Pond had said.  Pond then stated that he lied about the location then left her alone to go to the quarry, which he got there before her due to his faster bike.  Bloom is then asked if that is all she has told him, which he responds with as far as he remembers but does mention that there have been Unknown Number calls.  Metzger asks more about the phone calls, to which Bloom tells him that he is getting them every day from an anonymous phone number around 8 PM central time +/- an hour.  He is then asked if it is a male or female voice contacting him, which he says male but cannot tell fully since the voice is heavily modified to sound like a computer.  Bloom talks about his first call since he had been shot twice saying that the call was more of them poking at Bloom and saying that he had deserved it.  Then he talks about Pond getting a phone call the day he woke up at UWU Cafe, where they had told her it had been her fault Bloom had gotten shot.  The next call he had gotten they had asked how he was doing, saying that they had been making fun of him as well as a slight sense of empathy towards him.  They had been asking about his memory of the quarry incident which they had filled him in on because he did not remember.  They told him that he was shot because he was a dirty police officer and had a hit put out on him, but it was what he had said on top of the quarry that sealed his fate.  The next call Bloom had gotten was when he had just woken up around 7 PM central time and stated that the reason that they had done this was because he was giving Pond drugs.  The voice then said that it was Bundy who had been the one to put the hit out on Bloom, which is when they told him about the question asked on top of the hill.  If Bloom had more drugs, would he continue to take them which he thinks he said yes and that is why he had been shot.  When asked why, they asked if Bloom were father would he like seeing his daughter being killed by drugs given to her.  They then gave Bloom a deadline of 24 hours to give them his deepest desire, which the call happened two days ago and said that he got the call while in interrogation with Muller.  Bloom then says that there is a group of them because they refer to themselves as we and said that Bloom has a chance of redemption and that they help people with desires.  Since he had been Bundy’s desire it was his chance to name a desire of his, which he emotionally said Julio Thomas dealt with but immediately told them that he regretted saying it.  He was able to convince them to not go through with it and to give him more time to think it through.  The reason that he had to think of something was because if he did not, they would start going down the list of names that he had given Metzger earlier.  He did say that he contemplated getting Bundy in a room or McDermitt since he does not know why she hates him.  Bloom tried to get to an answer where no one would get hurt, but in the end, he asked to be left alone.  The exact wording is the voice stating, “That can be arranged, Lily Pond will no longer be with you.”  Despite their relationship being fresh to him Bloom still said that it had been frustrating to him.  Bloom then goes on to clarify that he had given other desires that had been shot down such as going to meet them.  Bloom said that he could not think of any other desires now but does remember them saying things like that is not what he truly desires.  That was the last time they had contacted Bloom, but they are unsure if they have spoken with Pond in the last 24 hours.  He then states that Lily had already been shot in the jaw and it was Michael Simone who had done it and does not believe these unknown people to be Simone since he claims what he does.  Metzger then goes back to the point about Bloom supplying Pond with drugs which he has no recollection of, but he did since Pond has confirmed it.  Bloom had also been told about a fight between him and Bundy at the hospital where he had announced it loudly.  As far as Bloom knows he has never supplied drugs to anyone else, which Metzger questions him about it further with Novah.  Bloom is then reminded about a phone call that he had with Novah where he was told that he gave Novah oxy.  When he was going to check how long ago the text was sent about the oxy, Metzger stopped him saying that he does not need to check saying that it had been recent.  Metzger then questions Bloom when he started doing drugs, which was after the night at the casino with Gunner which was around May 13th, 2022, before he was shot the first time around.  Before that point he had never done drugs before that point including joints, except the time when he was injected with metamorphine.  After the casino Bloom stated that he had done one or two pills at his house off shift and went to bed, but from what Pond had said it quickly escalated to from 10-30 a day.  When asked about what caused this spiral, since he does not know fully, he believes that it led to his last ICU visit.  As far as he is aware only Pond knows about it but does not know fully since he lost his memory.  Metzger then says that it was only metamorphine and oxy, which Bloom denies says it was metamorphine, cocaine the night of the casino, and pills that had him hallucinate.  He was then questioned if he had paid for any of it or given to him, Bloom recalls that he won 280k in the casino and was given it by Gunner.  Gunner then gives him another needle to run with when the police officers arrive, but Bloom is unsure where the cocaine and pills came from.  Since the casino Gunner has not given Bloom any drugs since their suspension was serious.  When asked if he has given anyone else more drugs, Bloom responds with a no, as well as if he knew where they came from.  When asked about the pills and where they came from Bloom says he does not know where they come from or what type they are, but he had stated that he had gotten the pills from Gunner.  When Metzger asked about the volume of drugs, Bloom said he only had 30-40 pills left from the night with Gunner.  Metzger then questioned if Bloom had gone to any dead drops to get drugs, which he had said yes to once to his own knowledge.  Metzger then says that Bloom has used metamorphine a lot recently including after he got out of the ICU, which he says he has not which jogged his memory about the voice.  The first time that they had called him was them offering him metamorphine at a dead drop in Mirror Park and says that he has not done metamorphine since he has woken up from the hospital.  He then states that he is not doing drugs and has proof since he is still getting drug tested every day while doing it in front of a doctor and a corporal rank or higher.  Bloom is then asked what he knows about Pond’s family, Bundy dad, Lennon mom, and names of other family members.  He describes Bundy and Pond’s relationship being rocky since the unknown caller said he put a hit out on Bloom.  Metzger questions about the altercation that he and Bundy had in the hospital and to describe how it was told to him.  At the courthouse he got suspended and had gotten battered by Pillbox and the courthouse.  This was confirmed by Pond, and Tsury referenced the incident while warning Bloom about Lennon abandoning the surgery and to not allow her to render medical aid to Bloom if possible.  Pond told Bloom that there were a number of people that could have been the suspect since there had been a crowd of people when the incident occurred.  Bloom then also says that Pond told him that Bundy said that Bloom should have lie down in the canal and drown in his own vomit and that the next time he saw him he would shoot Bloom.  Metzger asks who was the one who suspended him and Gunner at the casino incident, which they had only been sent off duty and received an email later about it.  Metzger then leaves after confirming that as far as Bloom knows he was attacked at the courthouse and Pillbox.  After several minutes Metzger comes back into interrogation and asks Bloom who Bundy associates with, inside and outside PD.  Bloom answers with Lennon McDermitt, Lucy DeMonte, and all SCU.  The only person Bloom knows about outside of the PD that would even do this is Simone, but states that he shot Bundy, so they are not on good terms.  The conversation then shifts to the call that Bloom got from Novah, where he said he had gotten it at MRPD while heading to the Sandy SO.  Bloom says that she asked him if he put a hit out on Julio, which he said no to which he knowingly lied to her.  Novah then divulged that Bundy had been the one to put a hit out on Bloom after he told her that he did not put a hit out on Julio.  He stated that Novah told Bloom to keep this to himself or she might get hurt because they will go after her and kill her.  Metzger then ends the recording and tells Bloom off the record to keep his mouth shut and be careful to who he talks.  Also, that Bloom needs help since he looks like a husk of a person.  Then Metzger suggests that he goes and apologizes to Novah and Julio for potentially hurting them and because they have both stuck their neck out for him.
After 3 days of silence from the unknown voice, they call Bloom, and Bloom says that he had asked to be left alone.  The voice responds by saying that he was left alone, but Bloom states that he wanted to be left alone for a longer period.  After Bloom says that the voice asks if they had stuttered the last time that they had talked, to which Bloom says that they had said something worrying and then hung up after laughing.  The voice then asks what Bloom’s deepest desire is, to which he responds by exclaiming that he just wants a month to be happy and at the bare minimum a week.  The voice then asks Bloom what happiness is, which Bloom responds with it is the exact opposite of what has been happening bar a few things.  The voice then asks if he thinks that he did not bring this on to himself, which the voice then says that he has done everything that he should not have.  The voice then asks what Bloom’s goals are, which are to not get fired and to be happy.  When Bloom uses the phrase up good, the voice says that every drug dealer he has put away had also been up good before he did that.  Then Bloom said that he is not a drug dealer and does not think that he ever sold drugs, but the voice says that he did give out the medications.  The voice then says that he had been giving out drugs not selling.  After talking about the legality of it the voice asks how Pond is doing.  They say that they had heard about the incident that she went through and are not sorry, and then Pond walks up to Bloom while he is still on a call with the Unknown Number.  They then state that they told him what would happen, to which Bloom asks if they are taking responsibility.  The voice then states that they know that it was Simone that had shot Pond, which Bloom then states that he knows something that they do not know.  The voice then inquires as to what he knows, but Bloom refuses to tell them then asks why they are calling him.  They had called Bloom to ensure that he stopped doing stupid shit, then they claim that they had talked with Simone.  When Bloom does not believe that they had a hand in Pond getting hurt it asks if Bloom wants it to happen again.  It also asks if they should continue doing it if they cannot claim credit for this incident, and states that Bloom is trying to provoke them.  When Bloom says that he provokes a lot of people, it responds by saying that he is challenging them.  Pond writes down on a notepad in front of him saying that it is bullshit and that Simone is not the kind of person to do things for other people.  Bloom also states that when he first heard the news of Pond getting hurt that it had been them that had done it.  Bloom then goes on to state that this current call is a manifesto of why they did it, how Bloom is doing, and to see if his desire has changed which Bloom states that it has.  Bloom says that they suck at delivering things, since they are still contacting him after he said he wanted to be left alone.  Bloom then says that they are fussy about people’s desires, the voice then goes on to say that when asked the first time around what his deepest desire was, he answered Julio despite him going back on it he gave the name.  Bloom then told the voice that they also ignored fifteen other desires that he wanted, so the voice in Bloom’s eyes just wanted to play God.  The voice then goes on to state the reasoning behind him getting shot as well as them targeting Pond due to him saying Julio’s name.  They then state that every time Bloom gives a negative or illicit response, they act.  Bloom states that he put that together due to his past in SCU and intuition, but the voice says that his intuition has led to people getting hurt.  Bloom calls them bat shit crazy because they shot him, but the voice retaliates by saying he is dealing drugs and that they both kill.  Bloom agrees with the voice, and they then ask if they should keep playing their game, to which he says that he already told them his deepest desire.  The voice then clarifies that Bloom just wants to be happy, which Bloom agrees with, then the voice says that he has yet to tell them what his happiness is.  After a pause, Bloom says that his happiness is being left alone with the people that he cares about, which he is then questioned on why he continues to work.  He says that if he does not distract himself, he might slip back into doing drugs, which was not influenced by the voice on the other side.  When Bloom mentions the drug drop off, they ask if he still wants it, to which Bloom says that he does not want any.  When asked who is next on Bloom’s list there is a pause and when asking if they want right answers only, they respond they do.  Bloom responds by saying, “me, come get me pussy.”  Bloom immediately hangs up the phone after telling them to go after him.
Pond indicates that she did not want him to say that with hand gestures and pulls out her notepad to write “>:( “at Bloom.  When asked about the get me pussy line, Bloom says that the people are not going to stop.  He then goes on to state that even if they had a small part of Simone hurting Pond it must stop, which Pond says that they have nothing to do with since her and Simone are old stuff.  Bloom then asks how many people know about Simone shooting Pond, which Pond writes that a lot of people know.  Pond then says the next time that they get a phone call from them to check payphones since that is how they got Martha Žaidima (aka The Game Master).  Bloom then states that he does not care if he gets hurt if those around him do not get hurt, which Pond tells him to stop because that is what she does.  He then states that he stopped the Nekomata (Jakka Romano) bullshit, and that this is just another hurdle.  Pond then writes to Bloom that he cannot use her tactics because she does the same thing and that she is meant to be the hurt one.  Bloom says that the phone call was supposed to taunt him and take credit then Bloom reads and says that it is not supposed to go that way.  Pond writes that it is the way things have gone because the stalker went for her instead of Bundy.  Bloom states that he is ready for them, to which Pond tells him to keep safe.  Bloom then states that he will not be safe and refuses to take the relic that she is offering him since she needs it as well.  Bloom says that after the conversations with the voice he believes that they will be going after the people that he cares about.  Pond then asks about what they are going to do if they get her since she has been tortured before, Bloom then says that she cannot think like that since he will not let it happen.  The conversation ends there as Pond is about to go to the hospital to get surgery that would allow her to talk again.
The next day while patrolling with Gunner and Roy, Bloom receives a call from Pond.  Sounding strained, she says that she needs him at the courthouse now.  Pond continues to say, “I just got-,” after which she makes a pained noise, and the call cuts out.  Bloom says that he’s sure Pond is being kidnapped, repeating what she said on the phone.  After rushing over to the courthouse, they arrive to see Pond’s SUV in the middle of the road and Pond herself sitting on the sidewalk.  Bloom rushes over to Pond, asking what happened, calling out her name, but she remains unresponsive.  He then notices a needle on the ground next to Pond and picks it up.  As Bloom’s original ride drives off, he picks the barely conscious Pond up and drags her over to her SUV.  He asks her who did this to her, stating that he knows she did not do it to herself.  Pond only mumbles in response.  Finding Pond’s SUV to be damaged, Bloom begins to repair it.  Pond stumbles out of her car, and Bloom attempts to call her back as she keeps walking around in a stupor.  As Bloom carries her back to the SUV, he continues to inspect the scene, asking about what happened here.  Bloom responds to some chatter on the radio and then states that he is dealing with an officer that has been drugged, so he will not be available.  He quickly drives Pond over to Viceroy while she continues to be in and out of it.  Arriving at the hospital, Pond mumbles that she should have just gotten shot and Bloom insists that it is fine, and she should not be talking.  Bloom carries her inside and immediately seeing Tsury, he tells him that Pond has been injected with metamorphine.  He also states that it was forced on her and she did not do this to herself.  While getting settled on the hospital bed, Pond again mentions that she should have just gotten shot.  Bloom tells her to focus on relaxing.  As the doctors begin to treat Pond, he tells them that she just had jaw surgery the day before.
As PillBot hands Tsury Narcan, Bloom receives a phone call from an unknown number.  Being visibly livid, he picks up the call.  A robotic voice asks him if he enjoyed their gift.  Bloom rushes over to the SUV and begins looking for payphones.  He responds, saying that they pick and choose what they want to do and who they want to do it to.  He asks if the caller gets off on playing God.  As the voice laughs, Bloom says that they do not do things to help people and states that he knew that was a lie from the moment the caller said it.  The voice says that of course they do not, as Bloom continues, saying that all they do is to torture people.  The caller says that is correct, then reiterates that it is “not just me, we.”  As Bloom begins to call 911 about needing all available units to search for payphones, the voice says that actions have consequences.  They say that Bloom is paying for them and to enjoy it, then hang up.  911 is not sent out.  Immediately realizing that he is not going to find them, Bloom decides to cut his losses and go be with Pond.  Bloom rushes back into the ER to find Pond continuing to receive medical treatment.  After about a minute, her vitals begin to drop.  She is reacting negatively to the drug they gave her.  As Pond begins to crash, Bloom calls Cleo Shaw and asks her if she had been with Pond within the last hour, whether she has seen her, talked to her, anything.  Cleo responds that she had called Pond 23 minutes ago.  Bloom asks what Pond had been doing, Cleo says that she does not know.  She had called Pond to ask if she would like to come to Cleo’s expungement tomorrow.  Bloom asks about how Pond responded and whether she sounded out of it.  Cleo responds that Pond had said yes and that she had sounded fine.  After confirming that that was the extent of their conversation, Bloom explains to Cleo that someone has injected Pond with metamorphine.  He thinks that it was either that or get shot.  He explains how he found Pond high at the courthouse and that she is now in the hospital.  Cleo asks if Pond is with him and if she is safe.  Agitated, Bloom says that he is the problem, and that the people that want to kill him are hurting her.  Cleo repeatedly tells Bloom to breathe.  He talks over her about how he went around looking for phone booths when the voice called him and taunted him, and Pond is in there dying because of him.  Cleo tells Bloom that it is not his fault and tells him to breathe.  He states that he is breathing, while Pond might not be because of him.  Cleo asks him about the unknown calls, Bloom tells her that he did not have time to look for them and he had been about to call for all units, but the call was too short.  Cleo tells him to text her next time he gets a call, and then she and Cody Speedwagon will look around for pay phones.  Bloom dejectedly laughs and says that they are not going to call him again.  Cleo says that she is heading to the hospital and that she will let Demi know about Pond’s condition.  She tells Bloom not to blame himself or do anything rash, and that they are here for him and for Pond, and the call ends. 
As Bloom walks back over to Pond’s bed, a pulse can be heard on the monitor.  PillBot informs him that Pond had crashed twice, and they had had to defibrillate her.  Although her pulse is low, she is now in a stable condition.  The dose she was administered was significant enough to cause an overdose.  PillBot asks Bloom to confirm that it was metamorphine, to which he says he is positive, but then hands over the empty syringe, telling PillBot to test it.  PillBot describes how Pond does have symptoms of opiate use.  A few minutes later, the doctors check Pond’s pupils and finding them to be normal, they state that the dose appears to have been reversed.  PillBot says that all that they need to do now is wait for Pond to wake up and to alert one of the staff when she does.  They leave Pond with Bloom, Cleo, and Cody.  Cleo quietly asks what happened.  Bloom restates that the same people that shot him and are still actively trying to torture him injected Pond with metamorphine.  He says that from the way she was talking, it sounds like they gave her a choice between bullets or metamorphine.  Bloom mentions how her car appeared to be riddled with bullets and was disabled on scene.  He tells Cleo and Cody to be thankful that they are ignorant of the situation.  He says that he is seething but cannot tell them more.  Cleo suggests that they get another officer involved to take Pond’s statement.  Pond groggily responds no, after which Bloom agrees and states that they cannot do that.  Bloom says that he will take care of it.  Pond says that she should have taken the bullet, to which Bloom tells her to shut the fuck up.  He says that it is his fault and that she should not even have been in this situation.  Pond tells him it is not his fault.  Cleo says that they cannot expect her to just give a shit about this.  Bloom raises his voice, telling her that he does not expect her not to give a shit, he just cannot tell her more or everything else will fall apart.  He says that the situation goes so much deeper than this, but if he talks any more about it, he will go to prison.  If he thought that talking about it and going to prison would solve the situation, he would talk about it, but that is not going to be it.  Pond makes a noise.  Bloom says he does not give a fuck about what happens to him, and Pond responds by saying that she gives a fuck.  Cleo tells them that they do not have to go through this alone.  Bloom asserts that the more people they bring into it, the more that are going to get hurt, so he tries to keep it just to him.  He says that this all started because he was poisoning Pond.  Pond says no, as he keeps talking about how he supposes he kept bringing more people in.  Pond tells him to stop.  As Cleo starts telling him that he cannot blame himself, Bloom exclaims that none of this would have happened if he had not given Pond drugs.  He says that no one can tell him he is wrong as Pond squeezes his hand tightly.  She says that she can, but Bloom does not believe it coming from her.  Pond says she is going to tell him to shut up in a minute.  Cleo attempts to convince Bloom that he did not poison Pond and that if he continues blaming himself, it will continue to hurt him and Pond.  Cleo and Cody walk away to give Bloom and Pond time alone.  PillBot walks up to Pond’s bed as Cleo is leaving.  He asks everyone to move away.  Pond is put back on an adrenaline drip as she has once again passed out.  Officer Daniel Kain walks up to Bloom and asks to speak with him for a second.  Bloom hesitates to walk away from Pond’s bedside but follows eventually.  Kain tells Bloom that there is about four Chang Gang members out front and asks Bloom if they had anything to do with this.  Bloom quickly says no and walks back to Pond’s bedside.  The doctors continue to discuss Pond’s condition.  Dr. Hector van Buren draws a blood sample to assess for any other substances that might be in Pond’s system.  Soon after, Pond’s body begins to shake, which PillBot identifies as a seizure.  As Tsury calls out that her temperature is dropping and prepares to cover her in thermal blankets, PillBot administers Lorazepam.  Nothing other than the metamorphine is found to be in Pond’s system.  As the doctors prepare to move Pond to a different bed, Pez walks in.  He tells Bloom to come over to talk to him immediately.  He asks about what the unknown caller sounds like.  Bloom describes the voice as an alien robot.  Pez asks if they try to sound sophisticated.  Bloom replies that they are just trying to play God.  Pez asks what the voice says, and Bloom mentions how the voice refers to himself as “we” and that the latest phone call was them telling Bloom that he fucked up.  He says that usually it is something about his deepest desire or telling him who put the hit out on him.  Bloom apologizes and says that he is not really thinking straight.  He continues to mention the voice’s constant laughter at him, attempts to get Bloom hooked back on drugs, and assertion that this is happening because Bloom keeps answering things incorrectly.  Bloom talks about how long this has been going on for and about how the voice has tried to take credit for Michael Simone shooting Pond, but Bloom does not believe it.
Bloom walks back to Pond’s bedside.  PillBot quickly informs him about how they are currently giving Pond dialysis in the hope that the machine will filter out the metamorphine.  Bloom asks about what else they can do.  PillBot says that this is it, and that if the process works, Pond should start becoming conscious slowly.  If it does not work, they will have to send her to the ICU.  Bloom unhappily states that this means Pond will simply either make it or she will not, and Cleo says that she will, she is stronger than they think.  Pond’s condition begins improving, and the doctors decide to try to wake her up.  Tsury tells Bloom to come stand beside Pond.  Bloom puts his hand on Pond’s shoulder, and she holds his hand.  He asks if she is with them.  Pond eventually responds with a “hey.”  The ER is too noisy, so they decide to move Pond to a corner bed for more privacy.  Bloom puts down barriers.  Pond is a bit dismayed but amused.
Pond, Bloom, Cleo, and Pez talk in the corner of the ER.  Cleo tells a funny but cringe story to Pond.  Bloom then says that he knows it is soon, but he needs to know where Pond was when it happened.  Pond says that she had just been patrolling near the courthouse.  She saw a blonde woman - Pond relates this to something that happened in The Vampire Diaries - laying in the middle of the road, so she stopped to help her.  Pez rushes out to look for single blonde women.  Pond cuts off after mentioning a man in all black with a bowler hat.  After a minute, she says that it was the voice.  Bloom responds by saying that he knows, they had called him.  Pond says that they gave her a choice: a bullet or the needle.  She says that she should have said bullet and Bloom says that he needs her to stop saying that.  Pond, sounding like she is crying, says that she could lose everything.  Bloom insists that she is not going to get in trouble.  As this is happening, Pez comes back in, shouting that he had found one.  He is with a blonde woman, and he asks her if she lured a police officer in to get stabbed.  The woman says no, so Pez says she can leave.  They joke around for a bit more before she leaves.  Bloom then tells Pond that her job is not even remotely in jeopardy.  Even if she gets drug tested, he says that they have so many witnesses.  Pond says that the last things she remembers are talking with Ophelia Dawson because Pond had made her angry, then seeing Nancy Drew and Collin McKinley at the Vault to pick up a megaphone, and then driving towards the courthouse, after which they rolled up.  Bloom confirms about which Ophelia she is talking.  Pond confirms it and explains that Ophelia had been her main suspect in a case, but she had never caught her.  She describes Ophelia as her “one that got away.”  Pond explains that she had pissed Ophelia off because she had told Ophelia’s brother that the woman is a “fucking murderer.”  They talk about her brother, Orpheus Dawson, and the siblings’ interesting relationship.  Pond calls Ophelia a bitch and describes how she was incredibly angry at Pond and then drove away, then repeats the other stop she had made at the Vault.  Pond then describes that they pulled up on her in a buggy with a black frame.  Pond goes into more detail on her interaction with Ophelia.  She then describes the woman that she is stopped to help as Caucasian, with blonde hair, a cat mask, and a baggy gray suit.  Pond says that the woman’s car was crashed out.  She mentions that the buggy had been driving around but she had not thought anything of it at the time.  Bloom asks if the person that pulled up was using the voice changer.  Pond confirms that it was them and describes them as a male.  They had hopped out of the buggy wearing a full black outfit and a Black bowler mask.  Bloom begins looking up profiles in the MDW, starting with Ophelia, as Cleo repeats the timeline that she has written down back to Pond.  Pond says that the woman that had been in the middle of the road was crying about her brother being missing.  Cleo asks about the woman’s hairstyle, which Pond describes as blonde in a ponytail, likening it to Candice DeFitt’s hairstyle.  They confirm the description of the woman’s clothing and Pond mentions that she had an accent.  Bloom says that he has been racking his brain about this and looking up people’s profiles.  Pond asks who he is looked up so far, and after Bloom lists out Collin and Ophelia, Pond asks if he is looked up Junior Meats and TJ (Terrance Walker).  Bloom realizes that he is looked up to neither of the two.  He checks their properties, sees that TJ lives in a house owned by Jesse Reed.  These searches produce nothing, but Cleo begins listing out the women that are involved with the BBMC, mentioning Ophelia, then Stevie McQueen.  Bloom tells her to hold on, as Stevie’s MDW profile pictures her with blonde hair.  Cleo also says that Elizabeth Byrne (Lizzie) is a hangaround, but Bloom dismisses it, claiming that it would have been far more personal if she was involved.  Pond agrees, saying that if it were Lizzie, she would have made sure that Pond knew it was her and that Pond would not be in a hospital, she would be dead.  Bloom then says that all he needs to do is find this Stevie girl and break all her fingers until she talks.  Pond begins asking why, then in a distressed voice says that she wants to get out of the hospital.  She says several times that she does not want to be there.  Cleo goes to find a doctor.  Pond sounds on the verge of tears, repeating herself, and Bloom comforts her, saying that they will get out of there as soon as they make sure that she is good.  Dr. Mercy Moon approaches them and asks about the situation.  Bloom mentions that the incident happened about an hour ago and Pond, sounding distressed, says that it is inside.  Bloom is confused at first but quickly realizes that she is talking about her trauma with closed spaces.  Mercy understands and goes to check on paperwork, as Bloom helps Pond off the hospital bed.  He carries her out of Viceroy, Mercy walking along with him.  She asks Bloom if he will be fine with her releasing Pond into his care, and he confirms that he will take care of her.  As they get outside, Cleo asks him to wait a second, but he continues walking, saying that Pond just needs to not be inside.  He tries to find a bench, but Pond says to just let her walk.  They walk around the car park.  Pond hugs Bloom and asks him if she can sign out, to which he says of course.  Bloom mentions Cleo wanting them to wait for her and asks if Pond wants to do that.  Pond says that she can follow them.
As Bloom points out that their car is right there, an unknown number calls him.  He tells Pond that he needs to put her in the car.  He answers the call, and the voice asks him how she is doing, meaning Pond.  Bloom tells her to get in, and the voice asks again before Bloom speaks to them, asking them where they are.  The caller laughs and says that he will find them in time.  Bloom once again begins to call 911 about checking payphones.  He asks the voice why they are calling him.  They claim that they wanted to know how Pond was doing.  Bloom calls in a 311 telling PD to detain anyone making a call on a payphone right now.  They say that they take it she is not doing well, and tell him “Goodnight, Bloom.”  Bloom tries to say that no, she is doing fine, but the caller hangs up.  Cleo walks up to him as he calls in to disregard his 311.  Bloom tells Cleo that the voice just called him, and that he is just checking on Pond.  He says that he called to all units about checking payphones, but that it was too late because he could not keep him on the phone.  Cleo then brings up that she does not think Pond wants to be here anymore and asks Bloom where she should follow them to.  Bloom tells her to go to Bob Smith and walks to the car.  As he starts driving out of the parking space, PillBot walks up to them.  Bloom tells them that he is taking Pond off-duty.  PillBot informs them that Pond’s follow-up for her jaw surgery as well as this overdose is tomorrow.  They start speaking about the possibility of Pond developing any more symptoms today.  PillBot’s further explanation is drowned out by a loud beeping noise.  After a second, Bloom panics, and says to get out of the car three times, doing so himself.  He calls out “Lily” and the car blows up.  Bloom is flung away from the car and 13A’s.  Bloom is unconscious.  A deputy immediately carries him inside Viceroy.  After Bloom is brought inside the ER, the deputy that carried him in checks his pulse, which is low.  Cleo becomes concerned and runs over to do CPR on Bloom.  She stops once she confirms that he has a pulse.  Tsury runs over to treat him, checking his vitals and breathing.  Bloom is riddled with shrapnel and bleeding a lot.  Tsury attaches blood bags to replenish what he is lost.  Mercy is also treating Bloom.  Tsury increases the oxygen flow rate and a few seconds later Bloom is crashing.  Tsury charges the paddles and defibrillates Bloom, which gets them something, but he begins to crash again.  Tsury starts him on a drip to increase his blood pressure.  Bloom stops crashing.  The doctors begin to extract the shrapnel out of his body.  Tsury begins to bandage Bloom up.  They finish his treatment and adjust him on the bed, but Bloom remains unconscious.  When Tsury and PillBot walk up to Bloom’s bed a few minutes later, one of his eyes is open.  Tsury asks if he is okay, and Bloom responds by hoarsely asking where Lily is, then muttering “where is she.”  Tsury slaps him a couple of times, telling him to wake up.  Bloom again asks where Lily is and Tsury tells him she is over on the other bed and that she will be fine.  Tsury asks what the fuck that was, then takes out a flashlight and checks Bloom’s pupils.  He determines that Bloom has a small concussion.  Tsury asks about Bloom’s hearing, and Bloom says that he can barely hear and to speak up.  He says that he can barely even hear himself and wonders aloud as to whether he is even talking.  Tsury administers some tinnitus medication, saying that Bloom does have some damage to his ears, and that he hopes it is not permanent.  Mercy says that she has a whole box of hearing aids.  She soon comes back with them and puts one on Bloom’s ear.  He exclaims about how loud it is.  They adjust the aid to a better volume.  Tsury asks him if he can get to his feet, Bloom asks about Pond’s whereabouts again and begins to get up.  Tsury tells him to take it slow because he is going to feel dizzy.  He helps Bloom go over to Pond’s bed while Mercy apologizes for any misinformation, she might have called in via 911, which Bloom is confused about.  Bloom asks how Pond is.  Tsury says that she will be fine, and that Bloom will want to care for her.  PillBot walks up and informs Bloom that there was a lot of shrapnel in Pond’s body.  He describes how her vitals were crashing in the beginning and that she was resuscitated back.  Pond is still unconscious, which PillBot speculates might be due to a combination of a concussion from these injuries and the overdose for which she was just treated.  She had lost a lot of blood and they speculate that if she does not wake up soon, they might have to admit her into the ICU.  Bloom holds Pond’s hand and waits.  He says to Cleo, “you see what I’m talking about.”  Cleo responds by saying that she has been in this position before and knows exactly what it is like.  She asks if the same individuals did this.  Bloom says that there is no doubt in his mind, that they called him beforehand.  He states that he should have put it together and that he is stupid, even though they did not say anything that would allude to a car bomb.  Pond is waking up, moving slightly, and making small noises.  She asks if SCU is looking into this or something with a small laugh at the end, referencing what Bloom said to her when he woke up after his shooting.  Bloom asks if she thinks she is fucking funny.  He apologizes for not catching onto the bomb, saying that he had thought the beeping was PillBot.  Pond says that she is starting to think that they were wrong.  She says that she wants to take painkillers and asks him to tell someone.  Bloom hesitates.  She tells him to go on, then after a beat says not to and that it just hurts a lot.  Bloom says that no, she should not be in this pain and that it is because of him.  Pond says no, but he walks over to Tsury and asks him to give her painkillers.  Tsury says that he will check with PillBot on that.  Bloom turns around and tells PillBot, who is working on Pond, to give her some fucking painkillers.  Cleo says his name.  PillBot says that he is already administered some and that there is nothing stronger they can give her.  Bloom disagrees and says to give her an opiate.  PillBot informs him that that is not possible due to her very recent recovery from an opiate overdose.  Bloom asks what their options are.  PillBot says that if it is unbearable for Pond, they can sedate her, but other than that there is nothing that they can do.  He walks back to Pond and asks her what her pain levels are.  Pond says that it is a seven.  Bloom kicks a medical cart.  PillBot informs Pond of her pain management options, as Bloom walks back over to her bed.  PillBot says that discharging Pond would be possible, but that she would need to take it slow and take care of herself until tomorrow’s visit.  Pillbot then checks Pond’s vitals, which are low but improving.  Pillbot tells Pond that she needs more fluids and no alcohol or drugs.  Pillbot suggests that if she cannot take the pain that she can be put into the ICU or given over the counter pain medication.  Pond takes the pain medication then Pillbot applies it and says that she also needs to have a snack or meal every 6-8 hours.  Pillbot reminds Pond to take her antibiotics from the surgery that she got and to drink fluids every 2-4 hours as well as no alcohol/drugs.  Before Pillbot discharges Pond they ask if she can walk, to which she says that she can.  Kain comes back noticing that they have been there for a while and asks if they have any ideas to who it was, Bloom says that it might have been the same people who had drugged before.  When asked if Bloom knows who they are, he responds by saying that if he did know who they were he would not be there.  Kain mentions that Chain Gang (CG) had been around his car, then asks if he is all right to give his statement about the situation.  Bloom says that he got into his car and drove forward slightly, stopped to talk to Pillbot and heard beeping then blew up.  Cannoli then goes to Bloom saying that Pond is leaving and the only one that can stop her is Bloom, as he leaves the building, he sees Pond next to Cleo. 
Bloom tells Pond that she needs to go home and rest, Pond says that they need to sign out and says that she is starting to feel like they were wrong that it was not connected.  Bloom thinks that it might be a wild coincidence since there had been four CG members around her car.  Pond says that he knows who this is, the person who had shot her, as she starts freaking out, he picks her up and pulls her away from everyone else to have a talk.  Bloom tries to calm down Pond by telling her to look at him and saying that Simone claims what he does.  Pond then inquires who Bloom had been on the phone with, reluctantly Bloom says that it was the unknown voice checking in on her, and Bloom reiterates that it could still be a coincidence due to CG being near the car.  Pond starts getting worked up again, so Bloom grabs her and puts her head in his chest while she cries.  Blooms says that it is his fault and that he is sorry, Pond starts to say that it is not.  Bloom interrupts her telling her not to talk and that he will figure out who did this to her.  Bloom says that she needs to go with Cleo back to her house, Pond asks where he is going which Bloom says that he will be home.  Pond tells Bloom not to go alone, she suggests that he goes with Cannoli and that he promises that he will not go alone.  Bloom does not respond then calls over Cleo telling her to make sure that Pond gets home.  Cleo asks where he is going saying that they each need each other.  After the second time Pond asks why he cannot stay, he responds by saying that it has not worked out for her so far.  Cleo says that Pond is choosing to stay and taking a step back will hurt both since they both need each other.  Cleo says that do not let psychopaths get in the way, to which Bloom asks what he will have if she is dead the next day.  Cleo says that he needs to stay vigilant for himself and for her, Bloom then recalls a phone call similar in nature to him.  Pond pleads with Bloom to stay, as well as Cleo supporting Pond’s plea.  Pond steps away and Cleo does as well in another direction for a moment before Pond goes back to Bloom.  Pond then comes back and inquires as to where Bloom will be going, to which he says that he does not know besides looking for answers.  Pond asks why she cannot go with him; he responds by saying that she is in no state.  Bloom says that it is already his fault, and if she is with him, it really will be his fault.  Pond tells him to stop saying that, Bloom then snaps back saying that it is his fault as well as Bundy’s fault despite him doing this for her.  Pond inquires what Bloom is talking about, to which Bloom stays quiet and says that she needs to go home and rest.  Pond says that if he is going to yell, might as well say who it is, Bloom instead proclaims that none of this would happen if he did not give her drugs.  Pond believes that it would have happened either way since she believes that it was Simone, Bloom rebuts by saying that CG have planted plenty of bombs on cars.  He also states that it was not Simone because he would have called her by now since she knows his patterns better than anyone.  Bloom then tells her that she should not let them get into her head, but she exclaims that they are getting into his head since he is pushing her away.  Bloom tells her that he is a little bit fucked up in the head, to which Pond says that she is as well.  When Bloom asks what she wants him to do, she says that she needs him to stay since she would be in more danger if she was alone.  Bloom then states that she would be safer alone since they want him to be alone so they would stop.  Pond asks what would happen to him once he was alone, Bloom says that he does not give a shit, but Pond says that she does.  Bloom then pronounces that he died a month ago and all this extra time has been good until things like this start happening.  He states that he is having the time of his life with her, but people are trying to take that away from him currently.  Pond says that he should not let them and to not push her away.  Bloom asks again what he should do, and Pond says, “Stay, you are supposed to stay.  You are the one who is supposed to stay.”  After a pause Pond says that he did not die a month ago since the past month for her has been more living and emotion that she has felt in a year.  Bloom retorts that if he did die it would have been easier, Pond says that she said the same thing whenever Dundee had tortured her.  She then says that she would have also missed all the good memories, her family, and the people she fell in love with.  Bloom says that he has gotten a lot of happiness this month as well, but that could end in a short amount of time because she dies.  Pond then says that she is not going anywhere and that he cannot make her do it either.  After a pause Bloom says that they should go home for her to get rest and the two of them cannot be out in the open.  Pond says that they should go home or do something, to which Bloom agrees.  Pond then says that the only thing she wants from Bloom is for him to stay and not tell her what to think.  She then exclaims that she knows that she might be in danger but does not blame him instead the people who have been tormenting them.  Pond then says that he cannot blame himself, because if he does, she can start blaming herself for things such as getting shot with a sniper.  Bloom says that the only difference is that his timeline makes more sense when he gave drugs to her that caused him to get shot and being taken notice of so she would not have gotten hurt since they would not have cared about him.  Pond then asks why they are not looking into them, to which Bloom snaps again and says that he is trying.  Bloom calms down again saying that he cannot have her get hurt, Pond then asks if he is going to let himself get hurt.  Bloom says that is what they want anyways and that they will stop since their problem is with him and not Pond.  She says that they will since they will find more reasons and tell Bloom to not go out and make himself a martyr.  Bloom then says that they should leave, and they share a hug.  Pond suggests that they go and grab Petal once they do leave.  They go over to Cleo who says that she will have someone get her car so they can go together, sign off duty, and drop take them wherever they need to go.  After Cleo leaves there is a long pause before Pond asks what Bloom is thinking, to which Bloom says that he knows and does not know at the same time.  Pond then asks what he is thinking about doing, to which Bloom says that he already told her in the hospital.  When asked to clarify he tells her that he wants to chat with Stevie, when asked what the chat would look like he responds by saying not one she would want to see.  Pond then says that she might want to see it, he says that she does not want to see it.  Pond reminds him that she has killed someone before, but Bloom reminds her that she has been tortured before.  Pond responds by saying she knows how it feels and knows what hurts.  Bloom says that her being directly involved is the exact opposite of what he wants and does not want her to even know that it is happening.  They then get in a car with Cannoli to sign off duty.  At MRPD Bloom goes into the locker room and grabs his MP5 and Petal.  Cannoli comes into the locker room with Bloom and Pond informing them that Cleo is getting her car and that he will not interview them since they have been through a lot that night.  Cannoli then tells them that he is making the report but there is no evidence with the car since it had been impounded as well as no indication of it being a grenade, so the thing that happened was a car bomb.  Cannoli then leaves the two of them alone so they can talk and comes back later to let them know that Cleo is out front for the two of them.  They walk out of MRPD and get into Cleo’s car who is joined by Pez, Cleo asks where they want to go.  Bloom responds by saying that he does not care, it is more about where Pond wants to go which she says whatever to.  Bloom asked Pez if he went out front to confirm if CG were outside.  Cleo says that it may be CG, but not Simone since he is loud about what he does.  The four of them arrive at the vineyard, and Bloom says that he does not know what to do, Cleo tells him to not be impulsive and be smart about the moves he makes.  Bloom says that he cannot talk about the person he is certain started all of this, but Cleo constantly asks who it was until Pond interrupts her since it is under investigation.  Cleo says that it is bull shit and that it is a weight, Pond says that it is not a weight that she wants.  Cleo responds by saying she will make that judgment for herself, since they would want to help her if she was in the same situation, but Pond says that knowing does not change anything.  Pez also chimes in saying that telling her could put her at risk and leave when he gets a phone call.  Bloom says that if going for the main source of the problem would have done anything he would have done something already, but he believes that it has evolved past them.  Bloom says that the only people that know about this situation are standing in front of Cleo, and Cleo says that she would go to hell and back for both but not be stupid about it.  Cleo eventually leaves the two of them alone and after a long pause, Bloom says that he wishes he could do something about it that did not involve him breaking the law.  Pond laughs and says that the DOJ will let them down even if they do it the right way and if they do it the wrong way, they will fuck them as well as the PD.  Bloom retorts that it is only if they find out about it, then asks how they go about their current situation.  Pond asks what he is thinking, Bloom says that he does not think that they would give her an overdose then blow up their car or Simone since he was willing to pay her still why would he continue to do this.  He believes that it is CG since they have been constantly harassing them for class two firearms.  Bloom says that it would be extremely easy to blame the unknown people since they had just called him before the bomb went off, he thinks that it being CG is just as likely or more likely.  Pond says that she does not believe that it was CG because it does not make sense, she says that because they told him they are connected to Simone the previous day as well as a bomb going on the same car that was blown up previously.  Bloom tells Pond to ask Simone about the bomb, Pond says that she cannot text him she will have to call him.  Bloom then asks genuinely thinks that it was Simone or if it is a spiral, to which she responds that she genuinely thinks that it is Simone and will call him tomorrow.  Bloom points out that she has not gotten a text or a call from him, and Pond points out that CG would have taken a photo of it.  Bloom says that it is either CG or not Simone, so it would be the unknown voice or CG.  Bloom rules out the unknown voice because they want to hurt the people around him, not him since he wants him to learn a lesson and must live with it.  Pond says that it does not make sense, but he points out that the only thing that has made sense the entire time has been his motive.  Pond says that there does not need to be sense to this, which is why he thinks it is CG which Pond still refuses to believe.  Bloom calls Gunner to see if he will contact CG and ask if they did plant a bomb on their car, but Gunner disconnects his call.  Pond then makes a call and gets information about a blond-haired lady that they do not know the name of that had been near their car.  Bloom says that he heard that they had pulled someone that just left the hospital, but the bomb had been on the car for a while since they had been at the hospital.  He does not know when the bomb had been placed but says that it is unlikely that it was right before they had left.  Pond says that it was either it was a bomb activated by speed or one that you call to blow it up, Bloom said that he moved a little bit then the beeping started.  Pond says that it is not one activated by speed due to the small amount they had moved, it usually happens after the person driving has been moving a while.  Gunner calls back saying heard he had gotten bombed, Bloom asked if he could call CG and see if they were the ones that bombed them.  Gunner responds by saying that they have not been around since they went to bed, then Gunner asks if he has pissed anyone off.  Bloom says that he has, it was the person that put two bullets in the back of his head.  Gunner asks if they think that it is the same person, to which Bloom starts breaking down his thought process.  They have three suspects CG, the unknown voice, and Simone.  The unknown voice had called right before they had been bombed, Simone since he just hurt Pond, and CG since they had a group of them around the car.  Gunner then hangs up on Bloom because he sees class two weapons while Bloom says to find out if it is them.  Pond says that it could be the unknown people since there was one leaving as they got bombed and a blond woman stopped her before she got injected with metamorphine.  Bloom also says that there are a lot of blond women, like the person dating a member of CG.  Bloom says that it could be a possibility, but it is not tied to Simone.  Pond says that he does not know that and needs to think more openly about it.  Bloom agrees saying that Simone is on the table, Pond then says it is not an absolute answer and to eliminate some with facts and evidence.  Bloom states that he has already done that with Simone, which Pond says that she will only eliminate him after talking to him.  Pond apologies for getting mad at Bloom because of her head.  Pez and Cleo walk back over so Bloom and Pond stop talking about their situation. 
The next day while leaving Parsons, Bloom mentions to Pond that Metzger had called since he saw the report of the car bomb and no statement from Bloom/Pond.  Pond then says that she had a conversation with Bundy and has not had time to talk to Bloom about it.  Since she had talked to Bundy a few things had fallen into place for her.  Pond first brings up that there had been about ten people in the hospital as they had their argument in the reception area, and Bundy had said some things that she will not forgive him for.  Bundy had also said that he talked to a few people including Terrance Walker (TJ Walker) and spoke to someone else.  She then says that he has a running theory, which Bloom interrupts and asks his running theory.  Pond then said that she let Bundy speak to see what he would say, since she cannot fully cross him off.  Bundy had said that he spoke to a few people about the incident such as Dark, TJ, and someone else she cannot remember.  Bundy and Lennon swear that they had gone home and went to bed, and that if Bundy had done it would be with a sniper rifle.  Pond says that she believes him in that regard that it was not him who did it but does not say that she believes he did not have any involvement.  Bundy then believes that if it was anyone, it was the BBMC because the BBMC does evaluate to see if they are still loyal to the Club.  Pond believes that Bundy is pointing in the direction that Irwin Dundee is the one that had shot Bloom, about which Pond says that it is not him since he would not hide behind a mask and voice changer.  Pond says that the entire time during their talk he had been trying to defend himself and that it had to be someone else such as Simone.  When Pond confronted Bundy about it, she felt as if she was getting half-truths from him.  Bundy had felt upset that someone, which he did not say who, told him that he was being investigated for this incident.  Pond then admits that she told him everything, but from the sound of it he already knew.  Pond said that she is stuck in the middle of two impossible and that she refuses to believe that Bundy could do this, but he knows who did and that hurts her.  She also wants to know who had shot Bloom twice in the back of the head because she cares about Bloom.  After a pause Bloom finally states that he does not know what to say, and Pond states that she had to tell him since she had learned it before prom.  Pond says that she thinks that Bundy knows who this had done to Bloom but is not telling her, which hurts since not only did they hurt Bloom but her as well and he is not doing anything about it.  After another long pause Bloom states that he does not know what to do with the information given to him, which Pond says that he does not need to do anything just that he deserves to know.  Bloom thanks her for telling him as he turns around towards his bike, and Pond asks where he is going.  Bloom responds by saying he is going on duty or something, Pond asks what he is thinking since she does not want him to go out angry.  After a pause they are interrupted by multiple 10-13As, and Pond asks him about what he is thinking.  Bloom says that he needs to go and shoot something, then drives on his motorcycle to the sight of 10-13As.
Bloom receives a call from Lucy asking where Pond is since she is acting weird in texts and drinking, Bloom tells her to check the observatory and top of the Maze Bank Tower.  He cannot go himself since he is in a situation where he needs to pay attention where he might get shot.  Once he gets to a more secure position, he texts Pond to know where she is.  Bloom gets a text but does not check it while during a long situation Lucy calls Bloom again.  Lucy asks if Bloom is still processing and that she is not answering Cleo anymore and they still have not found her, Bloom asks if they also checked her house as well as the beach next to it.  Lucy says that they had already checked there and asked if he would call Pond himself, which Bloom says he will.  Bloom reads the text from Pond, and it says “Safe” and calls Pond, but does not answer him.  Bloom calls Lucy telling her that she is not picking up for him as well as telling her about the text that she is safe he got five minutes prior.  Bloom says that safe to Pond is outside and not in an enclosed space, Lucy asks where Pond and Rocky go for therapy.  Bloom does not know where they go, but does suggest going to the wind farm, Lucy says they will go there then to Paleto where her family spends time together.  Bloom says that he will help as soon as he can when he is done with the situation that he is stuck in.  Bloom gets another text from Pond but does not look at it.  Bloom calls Pond and this time she answers Bloom when he calls and asks where she is, to which Pond says that she is fine.  Bloom then says, “Pond I swear to fuck god, where are you?” which she says that she is fine.   Bloom asks again where she is, Pond says what if she does not want to talk right now.  Bloom says that it is fine, he just wants to know where she is, and she says that she is fine.  Bloom then says to flip the situation where he would be in that situation, what would be going through her head because that is going through his.  Pond then brings up that Bloom did that about an hour prior when he left her at Parsons, so she does know how it feels.  Pond says that it is fine that he wanted space, to which Bloom responded that he did not want space and that he was pissed that she told Bundy what was going on.  He is mad that the person who shot him in the back of the head will never get caught, he did not know what to say so he went off to go shoot someone.  Bloom said that he did not need space, he needed to cool down before he said something he would regret.  Pond says that he already knew about the case, she just used an in to get more information to find out who was the one responsible for it.  Pond says Bundy was reflecting the entire time, which makes her think that he is lying to her.  Bloom apologizes for storming off, which Pond says was a valid response, and Bloom says that three people are worried looking for her including himself.  Pond asks if that is an issue, that if Bloom had not met Pond that he would not get two bullets to the back of his head.  When Pond asks if she is wrong Bloom states that she is because he is self-destructive it would have happened.  Pond then says that she wished people would not worry about her, but since she was missing and drinking people would worry about her.  Pond then says that she wants to push everyone away so no one else will get hurt and just her will get hurt.  After a long pause Pond says that she answered the phone call because she might not want to push, despite pushing being much easier to do.  Pond apologizes, so Bloom asks why she is sorry because she does not need to be.  She does this because she keeps defending the man that could have gotten Bloom shot in the back of the head, and when Bloom does not respond she says that his silence is deafening.  After another pause, Bloom says that he is quiet because he is trying to think through everything right now.  Bloom says that he is trying to think everything out before he says something he will regret and “opens his stupid fucking mouth.”  Pond says that his mouth is not stupid to which Bloom disagrees on, she then asks what Bloom’s first instinct is.  He responds and says to let them have what they want, which Pond asks if it is to push her away.  Bloom says that punishment for him is to be alone and miserable, which he thinks also keeps Pond safe.  Bloom also states that the selfish part of him does not want that to happen and to be with her, which Pond says is not selfish.  Bloom inquires how him wanting to be happy is not selfish, because him being happy puts her in danger every day.  Pond responds by saying she wants the same thing; she wants to be happy but puts him in danger since it was her father that might have gotten him two bullets in the back of the head.  Bloom asks whose fault it was, and when Pond blames herself, he asks if she had told him to do it.  Pond says that she might as well have.  Bloom then asks if someone were poisoning someone that she cared about what would she do or what would she stop at, so he does not even blame Bundy for doing it.  Bloom then goes on and says that every time he wants to be mad at Bundy but is not because he believes that he deserves every bit of what happened to him and more.  Pond says that he does not deserve it because she was doing cocaine before they had met and chose to do the pills with him.  Bloom then asks what he is supposed to do, looks at Bundy every day and smiles knowing he put a hit out on him.  He also asks if he is supposed to look at her being kidnapped and forced to overdose because of him.  Pond says that it was not him, it was the person that put the needle in her arm.  Bloom then wonders why they did it, then says that they called him and told him why they did it.  Pond then says that they are a psychopath and using him to get the blame off themselves.  Bloom goes on to tell her about the conversation that he was told about at the top of the quarry about giving her more drugs and why he had been shot.  Pond says that since the bullets to the back of Bloom’s head did not kill him, they are trying to destroy his life.  Pond then says that if Bloom were not there, she would have nightmares to the point that she would not sleep, would not laugh as much, and would not enjoy her time being around.  Pond says that she did not answer the phone so that either of them could push one another, despite her body telling her to.  Pond then says that she is sitting down drinking looking at the ocean and thinking that she should push everyone away including her family and him, since it would be the safer option.  Bloom says it would be safer, but Pond says that it would not be safer since she would be on her own and vulnerable so she might as well just sign her own death certificate.  Bloom then says that if he is out of the picture she can go on and continue being happy with her family since he does not want her to push them away.  Pond says that they were already doing that on their own.  After a pause Bloom asks if she is on the beach, to which she responds that Rocky might have just found her.  Bloom then says that he will be busy because Vingle Dan might be dead, and that he needs to go to the hospital since they are also killing police officers at the hospital to get to the ninety-fives.  Bloom says that once he is done, he will go and meet her, and Pond apologizes to Bloom for stressing him out.  Bloom states that his entire life has been stressful, and she is one of the only reasons that he is still going then hangs up.
Two days later the unknown voice calls Bloom again, saying “wow you are still alive.”  They say that he had challenged them to go after him, and they are taking credit for the car bombing.  They then state that they do not need guns to get to Bloom, to which he responds by saying he got that since Pond got injected and then they both got blown up.  After calling them a psychopath they respond by saying they are always watching and that they want the best for everyone.  Bloom says that they do not want the best for everyone, but the voice continues and asks if he wants to end this all.  Bloom agrees and the voice says that he needs to prosecute Gunner if he wants it to stop, he needs to weed out the corruption.  When asking what to prosecute him for, the voice tells him to do it for drug trafficking, since Gunner grappled into the prison with joints.  Bloom says that there is no evidence besides him telling him about it, but they tell Bloom to investigate such as the DOC who shot him down.  The voice tells Bloom to use his brain because he is smarter than how he is acting.  Bloom tells them that it is stale if it was when Pred was in prison, but the voice asks what the statute of limitations is.  Bloom says that it is 60 days, but it was not documented without any pictures or proof.  He also questions why he should trust them after what they have done to both him and Pond, they ask what their motivation is.  After Bloom says that it is playing God or to weed out corruption.  When told to think about it and that they have told him why things have happened after they do them to him, he restates to weed out corruption.  The voice then says why can they prosecute anyone else, but no one goes after them.  Bloom then says that he has charges being dangled over his head for some of his actions, when asked if he is risking losing his badge Bloom says that unfortunately he might.  When asked about the likelihood of that happening, Bloom says that it is 30%, the voice then says that they would put down millions if it was 30% but they believe that it is 0%.  They repeat that if Bloom wants to end this, he knows what he must do, and that he knows what he does.  Bloom says that he does not know anything but the fact that they told him he delivered drugs to prison.  The voice then questions if Bloom is that naive, Bloom then says that if he meant ignorant that he is.  The voice then says that they thought highly of Bloom and that he was better than this.  The voice says that until the point where he prosecutes Gunner to keep his head on a swivel, and Bloom responds by telling them to do the same as the phone is hung up.
About an hour after the phone call with the voice, Pond calls Bloom while he is talking to Gunner about prosecuting him for drug trafficking.  Pond tells Bloom that she has TJ Walker in the cells with her and wants to talk to him outside the evidence room.  Pond starts off by saying that after Bloom went to bed yesterday that she talked to Cleo.  Cleo believes that TJ is the person that put two bullets in the back of Bloom’s head.  The thing that solidified that it was TJ is the fact that he has access to bombs.  Pond lets Bloom know that she wants to confront TJ about the entire thing but is letting the investigators do the work instead of asking him.  Bloom tells her that he is not angry and to not let her think that he is, instead Bloom is intrigued by her telling him this.  He clarifies further by saying that Bundy still makes him infuriated, but the information being told to him now is not going to do that.  Bloom is confused as to why TJ is doing this because he thought that the two of them were on good terms as far as he was aware.  Bloom then reveals that he got a phone call from Novah, and that she had been in contact with her, and that Bundy had put a hit out on Bloom.  He then clarifies that he does not know if it was an anonymous phone call, a regular phone call, or in person.  Bloom does not remember asking her who it was since he had a rough time answering her phone call in the first place.  Bloom theorizes that they could subpoena either Novah or TJ, but then says that he does not know if they should even touch the case.  Bloom then tells Pond that if he wants all of this to stop, he needs to prosecute Gunner for drug trafficking.  Pond laughs and tells him that it is not going to happen, but Bloom informs her that he is already doing it.  Pond says that she is going to talk to TJ and try to scare him, also to see what his attitude towards her is.  Bloom then says that he has run into TJ multiple times in the past saying that he did not even get an inkling of this.  Bloom then says that it sucks that neither of the people investigating the case are around.  After they are done talking Bloom calls Muller, one of the ones investigating the case asking when he is going to be on duty and when Metzger will be on duty.  Muller tells him that he will be in bed in about half an hour at most, so Bloom tells him that he got a phone call from the people telling him to push drug trafficking to Gunner.  Bloom says that he is going to put it up on the docket to make it all stop but does not know how it will stick since it is not a felony amount.  When asked how they got this information Bloom replied that he does not know how they got it since there is not a report on it.  A theory that Blooms has is that they learned it from Gunner since he is forthcoming about the information.  Muller says to talk to Metzger before putting anything on the docket, but Bloom says that it does not matter since it will not stick due to it not being a felony number of joints.  Bloom also has more information about the hit that was put out on him but does not know how trustworthy it is.  Muller asks for it, to which Bloom says he got a call from Pond, but before he could explain it Muller was getting texts to have him call her.  After ten minutes Bloom meets back up with Pond, and when Pond asks if he is good Bloom says that he has information overload.  He says that everything makes sense, but he does not want it to make sense because she saw BBMC and 20 minutes later she got injected.  Bundy is associated with BBMC so that is his relationship with TJ, and Pez started to pay attention as soon as they began talking about the case.  Pond says that Cleo and Pez know much more than they do, and that he needs to talk to them to understand more.  Bloom then asks if he needs to know this or if the investigating officers need to know, to which Pond inquires back if he wants to know the information.  Bloom says that he guesses that he already knows about it and that the line seems clear, he just does not want to believe it.  Bloom then asks why TJ quit the PD, Bloom then goes back to the voice and how it keeps talking about corruption.  Bloom does not remember any corruption happening around the time that TJ had left, Pond then states that they might find out that he may be involved since she made a bit of a snide comment towards TJ.  The snide comment that she said was “don’t you prefer brownings” since he was caught with a desert eagle and the gun that he shot Bloom with was a browning high-power.  Pond said that TJ seemed very confused by that comment.  Bloom says that he needs to put the case of drug trafficking on the docket against Gunner, which Pond says that he does not and asks him why he would.  Bloom responds by saying he will keep fucking with them until he does, and it was not even felony possession so it would be thrown out.  Pond tells him not to do anything till he talks to Metzger, but Bloom says they just need to see it on the docket.  Pond says that they can wait, but Bloom disagrees because they might get to her again.  Pond says that they will not get to her but putting up the docket case will alert everyone and will raise questions that do not need to be raised.  Pond then pleads for Bloom to talk to Metzger first then post it, but Bloom does not see the negative of posting it first since Gunner is fine with him posting it on the docket.  Bloom says that if he can get them to stop why not post it, going to the point of adding a judge to it to make it seem real.  Bloom says that he does not know what else to do, since a lot of his trains of thought lead to him hurting TJ if it is true that he hurt Pond.  Pond says that what if this docket post is not the only thing that he has Bloom do, since he can always find increased things to have Bloom do for him.  Pond says that it will happen because they will keep making threats towards Pond, since they know that is all it will take.  Bloom says that there is only so much that is going to give and what will come of this docket posting since there is no report of Gunner breaking into the prison.  Pond says that she will not tell him what to do, but she has already given her advice to him.  Bloom asks what the negative part of this for them doing is, which Pond says is to be put under control since it only takes once to push down the dominos.  Bloom agrees that it is a big negative.  After a few other small conversations Pond says that she needs to have a Bundy and that he needs to tell her the truth.  She says that if he does not tell the truth that he is as bad as Sam Baas, then she talks about how she was tortured by Dundee and confronted him about it.  Bloom says that he has been holding his tongue about Bundy since this started and will continue to do so, but Pond insists that he can talk about it.  Bloom says that he knows he can but does not want to sway opinions.  Bloom had been fine with Bundy because he understood his reasoning for putting out the hit, but once Pond had gotten hurt that is where he drew the line.  Pond says that she is going to use her getting hurt to get him to talk, since she cannot see him allowing her to get hurt.  Bloom and Pond both agree that what is currently happening is far out of their control at this point, but Pond says that if she can get him to tell the truth it would be a start.  Pond tells Bloom to go out on patrol, but he does not want to leave her.  She insists since she will be doing SCU work and then they separate.
A few days after Metzger had dropped the case due to Baas telling Bundy that he was being investigated and Muller had also given up on the investigation with no one else to pick it up from either of them.  The prosecution of Gunner for drug trafficking never happened, with no retaliation from the unknown group.  Since the last phone call nothing has happened with that group, which was led by TJ Walker, but it is not able to be proven in the court of law.  Roughly a month after the last talk about TJ Walker that Bloom had, he received a file given by Pond that Bundy had written right after the incident when Bloom had been shot.  The file written by Bundy included everything from his side as well as his own mini-investigation into the matter of Bloom being shot.  He is upset at Bundy because it seems as if he had drafted the report to shift blame off himself, so he did not get into any trouble.  Bloom is angrier that Bundy does not think that he is responsible for anything involving getting Pond injected with metamorphine and blown up at the hospital.
While on duty with Brick James and Pond a month after Bloom was given the file written by Bundy.  Pond receives a call from TJ Walker asking to see her at Dean World pier.  While she is on the phone Bloom asks what is happening but is ignored and Pond asks Bloom to drop her off at the pier.  Bloom asks what is happening, which Pond responds by saying TJ wants to talk, and Bloom states that he is not dropping her off anywhere alone.  Pond agrees to let the two of them go, but Brick must stay in the car while they talk to TJ.  When they arrive at Dean’s world, they park the car and walk over to TJ, and he starts by saying that the two of them want to kill him.  As for not killing him right then he says that he will allow them to ask him whatever he wants, but there is a part of the conversation where he wants to talk to Pond alone for it.  Bloom and TJ both agree that it would be up to Pond to give that kind of call, TJ goes on to clarify that nothing will happen to her and that he is not planning anything.  TJ talks about the lighthouse being blown up and the significance of it and stating that they cannot kill death.  Pond says that she knows it and that death is inevitable, Bloom then points out that he only became death about three or four years ago.  TJ then goes on to clarify that death is an entity and that Norman Bones is a vessel of that entity, so the person before Norman just took over Norman’s body.  Next TJ talks about how there is an equal and opposite, so where there is life and there is death to counter one with the other.  TJ says that he needs to step back a bit, but Pond says that if he is alluding to the deal that Pond has made that Bloom was made aware of it.  TJ then goes on to say that instead of tearing everyone apart death has only brought them together and pointing out Bloom and Pond’s relationship together after TJ interfered.  Bloom says that it was fine before him, and TJ then retracts and says that it is metaphorically.  TJ then asks about the deal that Pond had made with Norman and if it had included the lighthouse in it, to which she says that it is not and that her deal with him still stands.  TJ says that deals with Norman are deadly, but Pond says that she is already aware of that fact and that she has a plan for it.  TJ asks if Norman has brought her to purgatory, in which she says that she had not been to purgatory.  TJ says that he has been there twice and says that it is different for each person.  He describes it as so cold that you cannot even see your hand in front of your face, arrive by a boat and walk an exceedingly long strip of land with many unmarked graves on each side of it.  At the end of the strip of land there was a fire, but it was not the first time he went.  The first time he went to purgatory when he had just left PD was just full of doors, and each one unlocked had a clock.  TJ then is interrupted by the sound of someone jumping in the background.  Pond says that it is not a police officer due to a lack of blip on the map, and Bloom goes out into Dean’s world to see who it is.  When he went into the back Bloom had found Pez and Flop Dugong trying to hide and making up the excuse that they were making out.  Pez then later admits that he is here because of them talking to TJ, which Bloom states that he does not want to be there either.  The reason that they are not doing anything to TJ is that he might know something about Norman.  Pez says that TJ does not know anything, but Bloom cuts him off to return to Pond so TJ does not get suspicious of Bloom’s absence.  Bloom returns to the two of them talking and TJ asks if Bloom had found the person who had jumped, Bloom says that he did not and that they were around for the same reason that the buggy parked in the parking lot was.  He also states that they were running on the beach in the opposite direction of them.  TJ asks if he is lying to which Bloom says that he might be due to a lack of respect for TJ.  TJ then goes on to tell Pond and Bloom about his experience with metamorphine, and that he gave all the information that he knew to Bundy.  TJ says that Bundy had done nothing with the information, so he shot his dog for it, but despite that they still grew close to one another to give him keys to the BBMC gate and houses.  TJ then goes on to explain that there was one event that had led to the events that occurred to Pond and Bloom, which he states that he is sorry for who he had done it for.  TJ then talks about the AWM that was gifted to Bundy from Simone, and that Bundy had pushed him so far with Simone that he betrayed all the trust he had with him which is why he went after Bloom and Pond.  TJ then goes on to say that he told Bundy the next day after he shot Bloom in the back of the head twice.  He also claims that the forced injection of metamorphine given to Pond was also his work, which she says that Bundy still does not believe that it was TJ that did it.  TJ also says that he also wanted to do the Jordan Lee case himself (club member that died), so he went after people that were close to him.  TJ then asks if Bundy and Simone like to play games with one another, which Pond says that he does but cannot blame him since she used to do the same thing.  TJ reiterates that they can ask him any questions, which Bloom asks why they are even there.  TJ says he wants to apologize and talk about the lighthouse.  Pond asks if she should worry about purgatory, which he responds by saying it is not a place you want to end up at.  TJ then states that if they find out anything about Norman that it would be beneficial to all sides, but Pond says that she does not know what side she is on to which TJ says she must determine that.  The two of them then talk about how they cannot do anything to Bundy due to the statute of limitations, Bloom then says that he is not the center of any attention if that is what he is looking for.  TJ goes on to apologize for what he did to Bloom, but Bloom says that what happened to him he does not give a shit about.  TJ then talks about the deal that Pond and Norman had made and if he is not satisfied with what Pond is offering so he takes Bloom instead.  Bloom then states that it is not a deal, just like how it was when TJ was the unknown voice just picking and choosing what they want.  TJ agreed that he did pick and choose what he wanted since his mind was already made up about it because of the betrayal that he faced from Bundy.  Pond then states that Bundy did not care that they were getting hurt, only that people were going to investigate him about it.  Bloom then goes on to say that TJ had only crossed the line when Pond had gotten involved and hurt because of it.  Pond then asks to talk to TJ alone, so Bloom walks back to the car and talks with Brick watching Pond and TJ talk to one another.  When Pond and Bloom are alone together later, she asks what he is thinking, which he does not respond to because Brick returns to the car.  Brick is dropped off and Pond asks the question from earlier.  Bloom says that just made him angry and nothing more than that because there was not an attempt to apologize to Pond, not that it would matter, just to make himself feel better.  Pond agrees with him that it was only to make TJ feel better about himself.
The Blond Arc: Round 2
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Norman Bones and the Lighthouse
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Lily Pond Kidnapped by Peter Speedwagon
Bloom wakes up to texts from Lily Pond and Lucy DeMonte.  Bloom looks at the texts from Pond telling him that she went to the Lighthouse after weird things happened and then moves onto Lucy’s texts.  Lucy had sent texts about how Pond had been taken by the Highwayman (HWM), Odessa Glafx was looking for her, and that River (Pond’s dog) had been burned and put in the hospital.  Lucy had also said that she blames herself for Pond being kidnapped by the HWM.  Bloom tries to call Lucy, but she does not answer the phone because she is asleep.  While on duty Bloom reads about the BOLO for Pond where it also says that it is the HWM and that he is extremely dangerous.
Later into the day while on duty Bloom gets a text from Balto Connelly to talk to him.  Balto confirms that it is the HWM and questions Bloom on what he knows about the HWM.  Bloom states that he knows that Pez Speedwagon was one and that they conduct deals for death (Norman Bones), then questions why go after Pond.  Balto says that she is just the first target out of many to try and hurt Cody Speedwagon.  Bloom asks how to stop it from happening since both he and Pond have a deal with Norman.  Balto says that the way to stop him is to find out if he has not acted on his deal or if the HWM has gone rogue.  Bloom states that his deal has not been asked of yet, which is to bring Jeffrey Bundy to him when he asks.  Balto then says that there is no way that Pond had left the mineshaft where she was taken, and that there are only a few ways for an entity like the HWM to make a body disappear.  Bloom then asks about River, Balto says that there is going to be skin that will never grow back due to the burns and that she is in the animal hospital.  Bloom wants River back as soon as possible since it is an extension of Pond.  Balto then goes on to explain the situation of Pond’s disappearance, he says that she was getting pinged from the HWM all over the island and River got hurt an hour or two before Pond went missing.  Bloom then says he knows it is HWM, he is questioning how he contacts the HWM.  Balto says that the issue with it is that this is a supernatural entity HWM not Cody, and that he could be anywhere at any time.  Then he goes on to explain that the reason that River had gotten hurt in the first place was that Pond did not do what the HWM wanted.  Balto told her not to go alone, since the HWM could be hurt since he might have a physical form.  Balto informed Bloom that he went off duty to meet with Pond somewhere but did not show up to meet him then got a ping saying that “I hope you treated her well Lily Pond was a good officer.”  They had also gotten a 911 call about being able to find what is left of her body below Rooster’s Retreat, in which nothing was there but a voice saying leave if you want to survive.  While outside Balto says that there was laughing that sounded like Cody’s but older, which makes him think that it might be the father, Peter Speedwagon.  The conversation then moves onto Norman and that he just makes deals to entertain himself and that the next person to take his place can do whatever they would like to.  Norman typically lets souls go peacefully to the afterlife, but occasionally he likes to play games with those that fascinate him.  Balto says that now Cody will not be of any help because Pez and Peter are now separated from him but might be able to contact the HWM.  Balto asks if Bloom sees any of the crows to grab one for him to break the bond that it has to Norman.  Balto says that the only way for them to beat death, since they cannot kill it, is for someone to bite the bullet and become death themselves.
While on patrol with William Gunner, Bloom receives an anonymous ping to his house in Mirror Park but cannot go due to being in a chase.  Then he started to get mass anonymously pinged to his house then instead of anonymous it was from Peter Speedwagon (Pez/Cody’s father).  Balto calls Bloom and when Bloom answers he must talk to Peter.  Balto calls again to tell him not to go alone, Bloom says he knows that it is the same person that took Pond and says that he will kill him.  Bloom hangs up before Balto can say anything else to Bloom and ignores his next upcoming calls to Bloom.  Bloom then starts getting mass pinged to his house again but is still in the chase.  Gunner drops Bloom off in Mirror Park since he also had to get gas for the charger that they were in, leaving him with Lucy and Balto outside his house.  Bloom walks up to the two of them and asks what is happening, Lucy says that at his door there is blood and hair.  Bloom clears the house and goes back outside to pick up the prosthetic eye of Pond and a note which states: “She couldn’t even give you a farewell message.”  Bloom then texts Norman to call off his dog, referring to the HWM, and to give back Pond.  Bloom tells Balto that he does not know what to do and that he is feeling helpless in the situation.  Balto responds by saying that is what he wants him to feel, Bloom says that he is going to the lighthouse.  On his drive to the lighthouse, he hears Pond say his name.
Bloom swims to the lighthouse after hearing his name being called out again.  Bloom calls out saying that he is there, but after no response he says that he went there for nothing.  He once again hears Pond call out his name and calls out for her.  Pond’s call for him goes out again followed by a laugh.  Bloom asks what is so funny and tells him to give her back, after a while he asks what he wants and what he can do to get her back.  The HWM asks if he wants her back followed by her calling out for him.  Blooms says that he does want her back and that this was not a part of the plan.  He also says that the HWM is off his leash biting off more than he can chew.  The HWM says that Pond was just the appetizer, Bloom asks if he wants to take a bite out of him since he is way more than what he can eat.  HWM responds by saying that Bloom is the dessert, when asked who the main course is HWM responded by saying everyone followed by another Pond calling out Bloom's name.  Bloom asks if Norman knows what he is doing, after a moment of silence he continues saying he knows that it is not him pulling the strings it is Norman doing it.  After another moment of silence, he says that the HWM is just like death wanting everyone but does not play games.  He says that it is a shame since he heard he was and is disappointed just like death and swims back to the dock.
After arriving at the dock Lucy told him that the HWM said that it was her fault.  Bloom says that it is not her fault because it would not make sense that it was, Lucy says that she let Pond go alone.  Bloom claims that she would have gone alone either way, Lucy still claims that it is her fault.  Bloom then snaps at her saying that if she blames herself, it is that much more his fault, and he cannot think like that.  He then pleads with her to not think like that, because if she was with her, it means that he was that much more not with her.  Lucy then explains that she left because if she did not Lucy would have gotten hurt using her as leverage against Pond.  Bloom sighs and says that is what he does, then says that there must be something that he wants more than Pond due to her being the appetizer and him being desert.  Following his logic, he says that there must be someone more important because there must be someone in the middle that he wants more than everyone else.  Lucy states that HWM just wanted to meet Cody’s friends and figure out what they are made of, so it must be his dad.  Bloom explains his mass pings and the fact that he is hearing something but does not elaborate, Lucy asked if he was talking to them.  Bloom says that he did hear the HWM, Lucy then says that she heard him on Chiliad and at Viceroy after Pond had left.  Lucy then said that he had appeared in front of her and Cindy Tipton after a puff of smoke then went into the house and went missing after that.  Bloom clarifies that it was the house near the lighthouse, which Lucy confirms that it is that one.  Lucy says that she is ready to explain everything but does not want to be there anymore.  Bloom tells her to get ready to leave since he is going to go check out the house and reaffirms to her that it is not her fault.  Lucy cries saying that if she had left the family before all of this had started, she could not have been used as leverage like she had been.  Bloom follows Lucy up the stairs and when they get back to where their bikes were parked Lucy points out that Bloom’s is missing.  Bloom just says that his bike is missing and goes inside the house, the house is cleared out by him with nothing to be seen besides a message from Storm Peyton.  After leaving the house he says that it was all clear and asks if Lucy knows a Storm person, Lucy says that she is dating Cody and that she had stayed the night.  Lucy says that she had also cleared the house except for Cleo Shaw’s room, which Bloom also said it was hard to see her photos around the house.  The two of them get on Lucy’s bike and track Bloom’s to find it not far away with nothing nearby and it to be waterlogged.
On the way to the observatory Lucy asks what HWM had said to Bloom, Bloom assures her that he already explained what was said on the docks.  When they arrive at the observatory they move to the back where Lucy starts explaining everything that happened.  Lucy says that she sent out a text message to her since it had been a while since the two of them had talked, which Pond called her immediately after and told her about River and the car going missing at the lighthouse.  Lucy picked her up and brought her to the hospital where Cindy was and asked to talk to Pond alone and let the two of them talk despite Cindy acting differently than normal.  She started getting pings to Hookies off Great Ocean Highway, where they had seen Pond’s car blown up with River in it.  Lucy and an EMS had to treat the dog due to a lack of veterinarians or doctors around.  After getting the dog treatment they went to Lucy’s apartment to get her car and went up north, on the way up north she got more pings which was at the top of Mount Chiliad.  When they had reached the top, they saw the HWM standing on top of the lift building, when they went up the building he was gone.  The car that they were in had also disappeared down the side of the mountain, when they got in the car Pond’s polaroid photo book was in the glovebox.  As they were looking at the photo book the HWM spoke to the two of them telling them he wanted to know Cody’s friends and to evaluate them.  They left, going back to the lighthouse where Cindy and Storm were already at, and Pond swam across to the lighthouse to see if Norman was there.  When she went to the lighthouse a puff of smoke rose between Lucy and Cindy where he had appeared and walked slowly into the house where Cindy followed him.  The house had been empty except for Cindy who was doing a lot of coke.  Balto had called them back to the hospital to check on River, Pond stopped at Dean World to get her bike.  She left after getting back to the hospital so Lucy had called her, Pond begged her to stay at the hospital and to not go looking for her since she would get hurt if Lucy were still around.  Lucy called her again and made her agree to call her every ten minutes, after calling multiple times with no response she got police officers involved since he or Bundy was not around.  Odessa was the one to call her saying that she was looking into it, after she got a drink at the bar.  She was then told to go in to make a statement about the situation, but she did not since she was passing out at her house.  Later she did give her statement and texted Crystal, Bloom, and Bundy.  Bloom then said that Bundy is the most responsible for this so he should stay as far away from this as possible.  Lucy then had found out that only two people had been searching for Pond, Bloom says that he is familiar with that and will be talking to Norman as soon as possible.  Lucy asks if he wants anything to be clarified, but he says that there is nothing that they can do until he talks to Norman.  Bloom then goes on to say that they will all be picked apart till he talks to the person in charge, and what is currently happening should not be.  Lucy then points out that the deals do not seem to be dependable in any way, Bloom says that he thinks the HWM is a dog off his leash and that Norman does not know about it.  Lucy points out that despite just getting him he is already acting out like this is not normal for Norman.  Lucy then goes on to say that the PD is looking at Cody as the primary suspect in their investigation based on the questions they had asked.  Bloom says that he needs to talk to Cody and to Norman since he cannot just walk into purgatory and pick her out or trade places with her.  Lucy also says that she would trade places with Pond in a heartbeat.  Bloom says that he no longer wants to be there since it is a place that he and Pond go to talk.  As they are walking back to the bike Bloom thinks that he could trade Lucy for Pond without a second thought and never tell Pond about it.  The two of them get on a bike where they separate from one another outside of Bloom’s house where he makes the promise that he will get her back if it is the last thing that he does.
After roughly five hours of silence from the HWM Bloom receives a ping while on a crime scene from Peter.  The ping brought Bloom behind Harmony on top of the hill behind a tree.  Bloom made a comment about the last time someone had talked to a tree they wrote a book about it, the HWM said the last time he heard Pond she had been screaming.  Bloom looks at the ground and finds an engagement ring.  Bloom picks up the ring and says that the next time he sees the real him it will be him that is screaming.  After silence from both sides Bloom returns to duty.
While in the garage of MRPD Bloom receives a call from Cody with him saying that he is just now finding out about Pond being missing from Storm.  Bloom then tells Cody that the HWM has Pond, Cody asks what he knows about the situation.  Bloom says that HWM is calling him dessert, Pond is an appetizer, and everyone else is the main course.  Bloom says that the HWM is hunting, Cody then reveals that HWM had also stabbed Cindy the previous night but got back up after being stabbed.  She did have blood come out due to it, but the wound itself was not visible or there.  Bloom tells Cody about the text he got, River getting hurt, and him taunting Norman about his deal.  Later they talk about where Pond is, Bloom guesses that it is purgatory and that it is not a part of his or her deal that this would happen.  Bloom then calls the HWM a rabid dog off his leash, Cody then says that any gas tank in the city is what he does.  Bloom then tells him about River getting hurt and where and thinks the only way to get her back again is to make a deal with death again.  Cody then says that his father’s MO is to torture, kill, and move onto the next one.  Bloom asks if the HWM is just a hitman for Norman, Cody then points out that he never specified what he wanted with Cody’s father out again creating chaos.  Bloom says that her deal was less important than his deal, and when questioned about it Bloom states that he does not have a deal.  Cody questioned him again and Bloom confessed that it had been a deal to end Pond’s deal, but he did not tell him what was in the deal.  Cody then points out that he would have to kill someone because he made a deal, Bloom corrects him by saying he only must bring Norman someone.  After Cody had brought up if he said that he loved Pond he hung up and went to bed.
The next day while on a raid Bloom hears Pond and asks if someone else heard her crying as they passed by.  They responded that they did not hear anything, a little bit later he hears him again and pulls over away from everyone else.  Pond’s voice then says to save her, Bloom yells out that he is trying, and he does not know what to do.  Bloom asks what he is supposed to do to Pond, the HWM then questions him if standing there doing nothing is helping.  Bloom says that he must talk to him to help her, HWM responds by saying that he just wanted her to bleed out a little bit.  HWM then says that she is not looking good, Bloom asks what he wants in return for her.  He is told that he just must try harder, but Bloom says that he does not know how to try and get somewhere he does not know.  Then the HWM says to try harder which causes Bloom to shoot randomly into the air.  When Bloom turns around there is a corsage from the time that the two of them went to PD prom together.  The HWM says that there is no winning here, he just likes to see people suffer.  Bloom responds by saying that he hates him and to give him Pond back, he then asks what he is supposed to do with the objects given to him.  After a long silence he hears Pond cry out in pain followed by her saying she wants Bloom, which he gets on his bike and eventually parts next to Jack Ripley’s car.  In the car is his K9 unit Zero that he asks if he is going crazy, to which the ‘dog’ replies that he is going crazy.  Later the ‘dog’ tells Bloom to shoot people and that he does not have the ball to do it.  When he does not do it Bloom threatens Zero, which asks for him to shoot Zero.  Bloom refuses to shoot the dog and drives away with no more encounters with HWM for the rest of the day.
The next day early into the shift he hears Pond cry for help, but nothing else happens till later when Brian Knight calls him asking him if he was watching the stars with Pond recently.  Bloom informs him that he watched the stars with her, but it does not tie into her going missing.  Knight then says that if he cares for Pond that he needs to go to Davis PD, Bloom does not go since he is in the middle of a traffic stop with another officer.  Knight calls him and says that he knows where Pond is, which causes Bloom to run to MRPD to get a car to drive to MRPD.  When arriving at Davis Bloom gets in the car with Knight and Alan Crane, Knight says that he had just spoken to Pond.  When asked to clarify, Knight asked where they had looked at the stars together at which was at his house in Mirror Park.  They make their way to his house, and in front of the door is hair covered in Blood and a card he had given her months ago.  Bloom then informs Knight that this is not the first time that this has happened, then a puff of smoke appears with the HWM laughing.  Bloom punches and shoots around the smoke while Knight is yelling at him to leave, and then the HWM states that he does not have a purgatory like Norman.  Then HWM gives them a hint that the bridge you cross to get to her is very real and it is very cold there.  Knight asks if there was a bridge near where she had been kidnapped, but the HWM interrupts by saying that he is not ready to cross that bridge.  He then says that he will keep her alive for now and to keep an eye on Richard Dark and Lennon McDermitt because they will be crossing the bridge kicking and screaming.  Bloom suggests that they could see where Lennon gets dragged off to, but Knight says that they should not because it might be harder to find Pond after.  Bloom explains that Norman is above the HWM to Knight and Crane, then they get in a car to drive.  On the drive-up North Knight suggested that his ability to get Pond back requires him to redeem himself or spiritually grow.  Bloom then tells him about the engagement ring he had gotten from HWM, and then later he tells them everything that he had gotten from the HWM.  After a quick stop to get fuel they stop by the lighthouse, while stopped Crane says that the bridge that Pond has crossed is a metaphorical one to the afterlife.  A little bit later Knight joins the two of them and says that there is a bridge near the mines, so they all get in and drive to the mines.  On the drive to the mines Knight explains that the HWM has multiple personalities and when he consumes people, he consumes their entirety making him more powerful.
Once they find the mine Bloom is the first one to enter, and Knight mentions that there is no bridge nearby and that it might be a metaphorical bridge.  Knight later suggests that he might have to propose to Pond to get her back, which he is opposed to since they have only been dating for four months at this point.  Bloom then explains how he had gotten Pond’s eye from the mass pings, Knight then says that Winston Walker heard the HWM but believes that he also hears Pond.  Bloom does not know if hearing just Pond is under the HWM’s control, but he does believe that he has her.  Knight asks if everything that Bloom has received was on Pond’s person, which Bloom says that the ring and card she would not have on her person.  Knight asks if the engagement ring that was given to him came from someone in her past.  Crane interrupts their conversation by bringing up that the bridge could be by the industrial area near Mirror Park due to the area having meat processing plants which are cold.  Bloom then continues his conversation by saying he thinks it is Domenic Toretti or it could be from John Spartan when they had been married.  After a small moment of silence Crane asks what is cold to which they produce wind next to water, mountains, freezers, and basements.  As they are getting in the car driving away, Knight then says that it might have to be along the highway but is interrupted by a phone call.  Eventually while driving on Cassidy Trail a puff of smoke appears with the HWM phasing in and out of existence walking towards their car.  Knight tells Crane to put down a talisman, which gets him stabbed in the back.  He is then loaded into the car by Deputy Mayor Harry Martinez and rushed to the hospital.  While on the highway the HWM grunts at them then asks them why they are still on the highway.  When getting closer to Viceroy the HWM grunts at them again.  The knife had burned its way in and out of Crane according to the doctor, which they believe is an ethereal blade.  After Crane gets up the HWM pronounces that this is the fear and terror that he can inflict even before Norman has let him off his leash and that it is wearing thin.  Crane questions if they can get rid of his leash to get Pond back from him, which Bloom would be all right with.  Knight leaves the two of them and Crane and Bloom go together to look for Pond some more.  Bloom calls Tessa Lamb to help him try and find a cave near the Great Ocean Highway bridge, which there is none nearby except for a small waterfall.  Crane checked out an island with a house that was empty, and Bloom feels as if their efforts are in vain since the HWM is not appearing or taunting them, thus this ended their search for Pond.
While at the courthouse Bloom receives a call from Lucy asking if he has been to his house due to what is outside of it.  Bloom explains that the HWM had stabbed Crane and that there is a cold bridge.  Lucy explains that she had gone around the island twice already looking for Pond, Bloom then talks in more detail about how Crane had been stabbed.  Bloom also believes that they are getting closer to Pond since HWM started to get more cautious when they had been searching in that area.  Lucy asks if they can really find her, Bloom responds by telling her that he does not have a purgatory like Norman does and that his leash is breaking.  While telling Lucy to be safe HWM walks in front of Bloom and a little bit later Lucy scream oh my god and the call is ended.  After about a minute Bloom calls Lucy and she explains that she had been stabbed in his driveway but had been magically healed.  Bloom tells her to get out of there and be with someone and tells her that he is at the courthouse if she wants to be there with him.  A few minutes later Lucy is at the courthouse sitting on a bench by herself.  While at the court case Patricia Mayonnaise (Patty) calls Bloom telling him that Winston is getting pings to the hobo camp up north from Peter Speedwagon.  Bloom informs her that he did stab Crane today and give him things that belonged to Pond.  Patty tells him that he hears Pond’s voice and offers for him to go with them, Bloom does not go with them.  Bloom also informs her about how the HWM appeared in front of him then to Lucy shortly after to then stab her.  Patty lets Bloom know the channel that they will be using so he can listen to what they are doing while they are up there.  While on the phone she lets Bloom know that they see a male body and then they hang up.
After the call with Patty Bloom gets a call from Siz Fulker to watch Elizabeth Byrne (Lizzie) get tortured/get involved in torturing her.  Siz then asks Bloom to bring him in for the torture of Lizzie after he is done with her.  On the way to MRPD Bloom asks if the person on the ground was alive, they confirm that he is alive with the HWM going after them.  Winston gets stabbed and they collect the person and get out thereafter.  Patty also let us Bloom know that the HWM had said that he knows what he wants but did not elaborate on that when she asked him to.  Bloom pulls out a car from MRPD and goes to the dam after receiving a ping to it where he is brought in by Andi Jones.  While Bloom is down there, he is seen by Lizzie and Lee Nova who are cuffed and asks to be cuffed and escorted away to avoid suspicion.  Bloom goes back up to his cruiser to change into something else, so he is not recognized by either of them.  While watching her get tortured by Nick Simone the HWM that he should kill her, Bloom says that he will not because he only has a PD gun.  HWM then asks what Pond would do, Bloom just responds by saying that he is a police officer.  The HWM then calls Bloom a coward, which he responds by saying he is not a coward, that he is a police officer, and this is not his kill.  The HWM also says that he will never save Pond and that he is too much of a pussy.  Bloom, Siz, and Lizzie then leave the dam to go to MRPD to arrest her.  As Bloom is about to drop Lizzie off the bridge behind MRPD Kayn Larp (Yeager) joins them to hurt Lizzie.  While on his way to the house he gets a call from Patty and she says that she has something for him, Bloom shortly hangs up on her saying that the HWM is talking to him then signs off duty at Bob Smith PD.  While at Yeager’s house Bloom asks himself what he is doing, the HWM says that this is what he is supposed to do.  Bloom questions how this helps him in getting Pond back, he responds by saying it shows that Bloom has the balls to do it.  The HWM says that if Bloom cannot kill a defenseless woman, how does he plan to hurt him?  HWM asks what he would risk getting Pond back, Bloom says that he would risk everything to get her back.  Yeager returns from his house with a RPG to shoot Lizzie with it, and they bring her out to a random mountainside and shoot her.  After Yeager shoots her Siz stays behind, Bloom takes the RPG and drops Yeager off at his house.
After dealing with Siz, Bloom meets with Patty in MRPD to talk to her.  After talking about things unrelated to the HWM Patty talks about the situation that occurred at the hobo camp up north.  Patty then gives Bloom an item that they had received near the body that they had found which had been a photobook, at first Bloom refused to open it and tried shooting the empty RPG.  Bloom then opens the photo book that contains three photos, the first of her and Bloom, SCU arcade night, and Hardcastle with River.  It came with a note saying, “This person is not important (referring to the person found in hobo camp) no ties, no binds, no Norman deals, but can die the same.  Norman will get what he wants and that is chaos, but not before Cody’s loved ones pay for it.”  Bloom says that HWM has two new targets of Lennon McDermitt and incorrectly remembered Winston which he says he is 99% sure of.  When Patty had asked what the HWM wanted, he responded saying he wants the souls of people.  Bloom then tells Patty about the items that he has received from HWM, during their conversation the HWM walks by with only Bloom noticing him.  A little bit later he shows up again across the hall from the two of them next to Dan Faily and all three of them shoot him to no results.  Bloom talks about how fast he is going since Bloom is the finisher, the HWM responds by saying he is the finisher.  After running down to the first floor and giving Dan a brief explanation on what is going on Bloom mentions that they have hints that Pond is somewhere cold next to a bridge.  When they were at the bridge at Cassidy trail is when Crane was stabbed and had to be taken to the hospital, so they think that she is around there.  The conversation about Pond’s case ends there and everyone goes their separate ways.
A few hours later Ashley Smith asks if Bloom is ready to do it, Bloom agrees to do it right then.  Inside the SCU room Ashley starts off by asking if Bloom had a prior relationship with the HWM, Bloom says that he knew a previous HWM and that the current one calls him dessert.  When asked if this HWM acts different from the one he knows of he responds by saying that this HWM has a different name.  When asked about something more than just a different name to the person, Bloom says that the old HWM is no longer a problem which is not true for this current HWM.  Bloom reveals that Pond had contact with the old HWM in the past but not himself, so he is going off what he has heard and reports.  Bloom confirmed that the HWM had targeted people in the PD for corruption and this current HWM has been put in place to just cause chaos.  Bloom then describes his pings to Mirror Park at his house and the note/glass eye found at the scene also that he started hearing voices.  When asked about the note he tells Ashley that it said that she never got the chance to say goodbye.  Ashley then asks about what kind of things the HWM is saying to him, Bloom tells him that it is trying to make him do terrible things.  He also states that HWM says he has Pond and is in a physical location that they have not found yet.  Bloom goes back to after he first got the eye then went to the lighthouse saying that Pond had been the appetizer and that he was the dessert, when asked the main course Bloom informs her that everyone is the main course.  Bloom says that he has not seen him till today and that he is dropping him things that only Pond has access to that proves that he has her.  When asked about the photobook given to him, he clarifies that it was Patty who had given it to him when they had gone to the hobo camp as well as what had happened there.  Bloom goes back to chronological order of explaining things where he talks about how Knight, him, and Crane went looking for Pond.  Then after that what happened with him and Patty in MRPD, after he tells Ashley the exact items that he had gotten from the HWM.  They had then talked about how they looked in the room in the mineshaft for Pond, then about how he had been taunting people like Dark.  Bloom then said that in his driveway that day the HWM said that Dark and McDermitt were next on his list, which Ashley assumes is one of his original targets from before.  Bloom explains that Cody used to be the acting HWM and when he had stopped Norman got Peter back from Cody.  Bloom explains very briefly what happened on the day where they had fought Norman at the lighthouse.  Bloom then explains how the HWM is still on the leash, but it is breaking.  Then Ashley brings up that he is trying to torment people, Bloom states that he possessed Zero telling him to kill the dog.  Ashley thanks Bloom for talking to her and informs him that it will not be in the MDW.  Bloom quickly explains how Lucy had been stabbed earlier that day and Bloom goes back on duty with no more instances of the HWM/supernatural things happening till the end of his shift.
Two days later Bloom gets a call from Shelby Lane to check up on Bloom.  Bloom tells her that the HWM has Pond and the two hints of where she might be.  He also lets her know that he is hearing her and that he is going crazy.  Bloom then reveals that he had seen Crane get stabbed by the HWM and that he might be going crazy due to his lack of sleep.  When asked if he needs anything he responds by saying he wants Pond back, but nothing with which she can help.  After their conversation nothing else occurred with the HWM or anything else related that day.
After a total of four days of silence from the HWM, Bloom gets a call from an unknown number with Pond on the other end saying, “I never got to tell you” and “I just want to hear his voice again.”  Despite Bloom trying to talk to the HWM he gets nothing but the sound of Pond’s voice and crying before the phone is hung up by HWM.  A few minutes later another unknown number calls again with Pond’s voice begging the HWM to make it stop followed by a short scream then the phone hangs up again.  Lea Nova talks to Bloom after noticing his distress, she suggests that he stops answering the phone since the HWM is just trying to get in his head.  She also says that the HWM might go after him in a more public setting which would allow Bloom to catch him, another call comes in and Bloom ignores it till it disconnects after almost answering it.  About a minute later Bloom receives a text stating that not answering his phone call cost Pond a finger, Bloom immediately says that he was trying to, but his phone was finicky.  The HWM then comments about the difficulty of reattaching a finger, a little while later HWM asks who he should stab between Nova and Randy Wrangler to save Pond’s finger after mentioning that it is harder to appear/disappear in front of people and stabbing them.  Bloom responds by saying that he should go after Nova, the HWM texts him back that it would be done.  Bloom then says that he could have Peach Chee if he can get Pond back but refuses him on his offer of a trade.  Thirty minutes later while Bloom was taking a shower the HWM showed up outside of his shower stall with a knife and left.  After a few minutes from seeing him in the shower he gets another call from an unknown number and the HWM says that Bloom answering that time had been much faster.  The HWM then asks if he has figured out where Pond was, but he responds by saying no he has not or he would have gotten her by now.  The HWM says that Bloom has been too busy crying and screaming, also he says that he is looking at Pond as they are speaking.  Bloom asks why he does not just tell him where he is at, the HWM ignores him and says that it is cold there with no heating and she is in the corner shivering.  The HWM then says that he took a blanket from a local to give to her and that there is a view of the ocean from his location then hangs up.
After getting the hints from the HWM Bloom looks on his map for areas where Pond might be located, and then Bloom calls Knight for ideas of where she might be.  Knight tells Bloom that he cannot look for Pond without Odessa around and that Jenny Hall had also agreed to that point, Bloom tells him to fuck off and that he will be going off duty to look for her.  Winston then calls him and tells him to be on duty while he is looking for her as well as Bloom letting him know that she is somewhere cold.  Bloom leaves MRPD and goes to the shipyard (Russian docks) and looks for Pond on one of the ships then other places around the shipyard.  Bloom goes back on the ship and while he is looking around the HWM asks if he has found her yet, to which Bloom responds that he obviously has not found her and that it is a stupid question.  The HWM says that it is a stupid answer since he is in the wrong place.  Bloom says how could he even trust him and that he does not, the HWM later asks him if he knows any good coffee spots next to the highway.  Bloom then gets on his bike and heads northbound from Great Ocean Highway stopping at any place that could sell coffee.  While Bloom is in Paleto looking for Pond at coffee shops he gets a call from Balto telling him that he forgot to pick upriver from the other night.  Bloom then asks if Balto knows of any coffee places off the highway, which the only one he knows that is near the highway is LemonHayes while the rest of them are not on the highway.  Balto offers to help him go up and down the highway since he is off duty at that time and will be going up Senora Freeway.  Bloom talks to two people that are prospects of the Mayhem MC (seen on vests they are wearing), but they are no help since they have no ideas.  Balto calls again saying that the only place that he can think of is the minimart next to the U-Tool.  While Bloom is on the phone, he starts heading southbound on Great Ocean Highway and stops at a diner across from the hobo camp.  While Bloom is on the phone, he finds a bunch of bloody fingerprints at the front door and tells Balto that he must go.
Bloom then gets an anonymous ping to the beach nearby where he finds a man who has been shot.  The man just repeats Lily Pond and that the devil told him to say that since the last thing he remembers is that he was in front of a cave then shot.  When asked his name he says that is Gregory Gribble (last name found out later) and that he saw a person walk into the ocean, which Bloom confirms that he also saw someone walk into the ocean.  Bloom then requests medical for Gregory, then the HWM calls Bloom and claims that the man helped him kidnap Pond.  He also claims that he has River then abruptly hangs up.  Bloom checks what is on Gregory seeing River’s leash he calls off his medical request saying that he is fine.  Bloom then questions where he got the dog from, but the man questions who River is.  When asked how the man got to the beach, he answers by saying that the preacher brought him there.  Gregory then says that he had been shot and the man that had walked into the water when Bloom had gotten walked down from the hill.  That man told him that he is a very unfortunate man and to tell whoever goes to him the name Lily Pond.  Bloom then asks for his last name and looks him up in the MDW.  The HWM calls again saying that the man does not know what is going on, then the HWM says that he does not know what is going on and the people who work for the ministry are not easy to manipulate.  Bloom then questions what the ministry is after seeing it on Gregory’s employment, the HWM says that they brainwash people.  The HWM inquires how River is, to which Bloom tells him that she is burnt.  The HWM then says that the man lying there is the one that dragged her out of the cave since he cannot physically hurt people and then tells him to look after River.  Bloom asks if Gregory has been to any mineshafts recently, Bloom then asks about the cave he had mentioned earlier.  Gregory then said the man told him that they were going into a cave then shot him, Bloom goes out looking for a cave and answers a call from Knight.  Knight calls to apologize for what he had said earlier and asks if he needs any help, Bloom then declines his offer of help.  Knight asks if he knows anything more which Bloom does not respond to, then he asks where he is to which Bloom just hangs up on him to look for a cave.  Bloom moves back to the beach and calls for EMS once again over 911 and sees the HWM walking across a wooden bridge on the beach.  Bloom then gets on his motor leaving Gregory to look around the area behind the bridge and finds a car belonging to Waylin Grey and a drainage pipe.  Bloom looks him up on the MDW which confirms his suspicion that he is the preacher that Gregory had been talking about.  Bloom then calls Waylin and asks him if he has been to Paleto, which he confirms that he has and that his car had gotten stuck.  Waylin claims that he had been looking for houses then got sidetracked and went back to Burger Shot.  Bloom asks if he knows Gregory, which he confirms that he does know him and that he was with him and a few others earlier.  Waylin asks where Gregory is, but Bloom does not answer him saying that the police officers are there and hangs up.  Bloom returns to Gregory with his throat now slit with Knight now with Bloom and EMS landing in their helicopter.  Bloom asks Knight where a cave is nearby, then the HWM calls Bloom and says that Bloom knows that he did not do anything.  HWM confirms what Bloom was questioning, which is that he was trying to get Bloom to kill Gregory, but when he did not the HWM killed him instead.  When asked why he did it he responds by saying that it is fun and when Bloom does not play his game people get killed then hung up, Balto then states that Gregory is not dead.  Bloom gets back on the motor looking for a cave in the nearby area which he has no luck with, Bloom then notices that Knight drives away and that EMS have left.  Bloom checks his texts and sees that the HWM texted him saying that Gregory did not look too good and responds to a text from Vincent Cannoli that he is not good.  Bloom calls Knight asking if he knows of any caves then telling him about the fingerprints that led him there.  Knight reminds him about the cave under the nudist colony, a bridge by the river and saw the HWM then.  Knight then says that he must go to bed then hangs up, Bloom then calls Shelby after missing two of her calls asking about caves in Paleto.  Shelby asks if he is all right which Bloom unnerved answers that he is fine then asks again if she knows where a cave is.  Shelby says that she does not and offers to help him and asks for him to take a deep breath, to which he responds by hanging up on her.  Shelby calls again with Bloom unnerved, saying that he is taking a breather and asking where a cave is at again.  Shelby asks why he is looking for a cave since he is sounding like he is crazy; Bloom says that he is not crazy.  Shelby asks again why he is looking for a cave to which he says that is where Pond is at and that he now has River saying that the HWM had left him with a man on the beach.  Bloom then admits that he almost murdered the man after the HWM tried to convince him to, Shelby then says that there might be one by the islands with a hut.  Bloom then devolved into answering in humming when she asked if he was by himself and if he should be by himself.  Bloom then hangs up on Shelby and puts on a scuba tank to look for a cave in the ocean, while in the water he follows a wild orca to a rock thinking that it is a cave where Pond is being kept.
When Bloom comes back up for air there is a boat with Wrangler, Cannoli, and Peach in it.  Wrangler retorts if he was looking for where he had dumped Pond, which Bloom replies by telling him to shut up and that he did not dump Pond.  Bloom is asked what he is doing, Bloom explains everything that happened once they got to the shore.  Shelby calls Bloom as he is running to the place where Gregory had been shot on the beach and thinks that he is going to get a psychological evaluation (51-50) due to the EMS request over 311 but is not sure about it.  Shelby tells him to get out of there, Bloom frantically then says that he will not since Pond is there.  As Bloom is taking a picture of Waylin’s car Wrangler pulls up to him in his CPVI telling him that he had gotten a clue from an anonymous number.  Bloom reluctantly gets in the car ditching the motorcycle that he had been on to join the three of them.  While Bloom is explaining his story again to Wrangler after he had asked him to, a 911 call comes in saying, “HELP I KNOW THE LOCATION OF LILLY POND.”  The HWM then calls Bloom saying that he is doing things the old way and that he had left him a little present then disconnects from the call.  While on their way there with Wrangler questioning Bloom about the dog he got being River or not he gets a call from Lucy.  Lucy asks if he has heard from Norman, Bloom replies that he has only heard from the HWM and that he had River the entire time.  Bloom then tells her about the 911 call and that it is the same place that River had been burned (Hookies).  The HWM then calls and tells him that the guy is not looking very good (referring to the person who was forced to make the 911 call), and that the officers on scene are going to suffer the same fate.  Bloom picks up the note that was left next to the man saying, 
“THIS IS HOW IT USED TO BE DONE
THE SCREAM FOR HELP
THEN FIRE
THEN SILENCE
IM SURE LILY WILL FEEL THE SAME THING IN HER FINAL MOMENT
ONCE DEATH UNBINDS ME, THIS WHOLE CITY WILL BE MY HIGHWAY”
Dan sends for the K9 unit for a scent that leads him up the hill where there is no one to be found, then the K9 guns back down the hill.  The HWM then calls saying to look at all the people down at the bottom next to the propane tank, he then asks how much they mean to him.  Bloom then warns Wrangler to get away from the tank, the HWM then counts down from three just to see how much Bloom would panic.  As Bloom descended the hill Shelby screams over the radio that someone is up in the hill telling her that she is going to die, but she does not know where they are.  Dan then takes a GSR test of Bloom, which comes back negative.  While Bloom got a GSR test Peach heard the HWM asking her what she had been looking at.  Peach then says that she had heard the voice once again.  While Bloom was smoking a joint the HWM asked if he was on edge, which caused him to start trying to punch the air around him.  As they are leaving to make an arrest the HWM calls Bloom saying that he is seeing a connection between all of them since they are trying to make deals, which is Norman’s thing and not his.  The HWM then says that Dan will deliver the head of Pond to Bloom if he kills Peach, which Dan denies when asked on radio about it.  He then tells Bloom to keep an eye on Peach, so he does not get to her first.  Later they go to arrest Joey Toes, in the process of which Bloom beats him since he has convinced himself that he has information about Pond.  Wrangler corrects him saying that they are going to look for Pond after arresting him, which leads them to Georgina Williams’ (Windsong) house where they plan to use Toes’ body for Pond to inherit.  After dismissing the idea, they go into Windsong’s house where Bloom starts giving the backstory of what has been happening.  After Bloom is done explaining his story, he gets his tarot cards read, which during the reading Pond’s voice can be heard multiple times.  The tarot cards say to shut out everyone from influencing his ideas or to give up his happiness for others.  Bloom leaves the group taking the cruiser and gets a phone call from Balto, Bloom explains that they had been telling him that Pond is dead and to stop looking for her.  Bloom then contemplates aloud to Balto saying that they might be right and the HWM might just be fucking with him.  Balto then points out people have been missing for longer than Pond was currently missing and found later including Pond herself, Bloom is then interrupted by talking to Siz and hangs up on Balto.  While Bloom and Siz are talking it is revealed that he had seen the HWM after what they had done to Lizzie in a puff of smoke.  Bloom calls Balto back to get lunch with him at Rooster’s Rest.
After leaving SDSO Bloom heads to the city to meet with Balto at Rooster’s Rest in a towel still from a small situation at Windsong’s house.  The two of them leave to go to the animal hospital, on the way Bloom reveals that he has not been eating or sleeping much since the disappearance of Pond.  Balto offers him a place to stay but is turned down on his offer.  Balto gets River and gives her back informing him that the fur will grow back except a few places on her legs (the earlier River situation was turned into Gregory having just her collar).  Balto says that he should not listen to what the other people are saying since they are known to lead people astray and are unaware emotionally.  Bloom does say that Wrangler did point out that he still needs to care for the people around him or he will lose those friends too.  Balto points out that Bloom also needs room to grieve since Pond might not be dead, but she is missing, which is a big part of his life.  Bloom says that he keeps thinking about the fact that she might be dead, Balto says to not worry about the what ifs especially the worst one of them all.  Balto then says that he had been kidnapped for fifteen days and Pond had been kidnapped multiple times for many days, but Bloom then asks how many times it can happen before death.  Balto says that since she has lived through so much this is nothing for her.  Balto then talks about how Bloom should be better to himself and to give himself time and space sometimes.  Bloom brings up the tarot card readings and Balto says that those can be self-fulfilling prophecies since people keep them in the back of their minds.  Later Balto tells him to do what the HWM tells him to do like answering a phone call, but not to do things that would inflict harm upon others around him.  Bloom and Balto then drove back to the city and got a call from Shelby asking where he was then joining him in front of Rooster's Rest.
Shelby then hugs him telling him that she is there for him, Bloom then tells her about everything that happened that day.  Bloom then says that he does not want to drag people into his situation, but Shelby says knowingly or not he has done this in the past when he had PTSD.  While Bloom was distracted Bloom missed a call from the HWM and was followed by a text that said, “Another finger.”  When asked why he texts him back telling him to answer the phone call the next time, which causes him to spiral slightly.  Bloom later gets a phone call from the HWM, Bloom says that he had been convinced by other people to silence his phone which is why he missed the call from him earlier.  HWM then retorts that someone had convinced Bloom to not care about Pond and that she can hear everything that he is saying, making him look like a bad boyfriend.  The HWM then says he needed to give Bloom a message from Pond saying that he meant to be the one that stays.  The HWM then says that he will give him peace and quiet, Bloom retorts that he did not say he wanted that or her screams.  After the call disconnects Bloom frantically runs in the neighborhood behind Bob Smith PD and punches the HWM then picks up his hat.  Bloom signs off duty to try and escape from Shelby and Balto, in response to this the two of them team up to arrest him so they can help him.  While they are trying to arrest him, Bloom screams out that doing this will get Pond hurt again.  After getting arrested the HWM appears and disappears approaching the three of them, to which Bloom says that he would give him back his hat.  Neither Shelby or Balto see him saying that he is not there, to which the HWM says that he then stabs Shelby in the back then walks away still appearing and disappearing.  Bloom then blames himself for everything saying that he should be put into prison for this, Balto then checks after Shelby who has no injury.  After Shelby gets up Bloom loses the hat and Balto injects him with a sedative to calm him down.  They take Bloom to the hospital since Balto had hit him with a sledgehammer while trying to fight the HWM then repair the charger and take him home.  While on the way to get the charger repaired, he reads the texts that he had received from the HWM saying that Pond had looked betrayed that a peaceful moment was more important to him than her, as well as a text saying that the bits that Bloom gets of her will not be happy.  Shelby is telling Bloom to be in a better mental place since the one that he is currently in will not help her, which Bloom says that he is hurting her then sends the texts he got from the HWM.  Shelby then points out that he is not the one that is doing the damage to her, and that Pond would not want him to blame himself for the injuries with which she is inflicted.  The night ends with Bloom running away from the two of them screaming that they are trying to 51-50 him and that he will not go to Parsons.  Balto then hits him with a sledgehammer twice where he is taken to the hospital for the night.
The next day in the middle of his shift Ashley approaches Bloom and asks if he wants to blow up a mine with her, Bloom immediately says that he thinks that it is a dead end and pulls her off to the side.  Bloom talks about the diner and how he had found fingerprints that belonged to her there as well as the events at the beach.  As the two of them talk they decide to drive up north to look for Pond again, on the drive Ashley talks about a water cave, a few drainage pipes/outlets, and the house at the hobo camp.  Bloom arrives at the diner that he found the prints at and where he had gotten the ping going through his day in chronological order, after which they head into the hobo camp.  They look at the drainage pipe as well as the house by looking through the windows.  Bloom then talks about the 911 call from Hookies that they had received and what happened after yesterday.  Ashley brings up after that it might be related to a hint (she went into the darkness willingly), so it might be near the mine that she had been pinged to.  The two of them go to the PBSO to grab a det cord while talking about different theories about where she might be such as the desert or that she might be dead due to exposure conditions because the HWM cannot physically hurt Pond.  They drive to the mineshaft and blow open the door that had been locked to them, but it had led to a dead and with no clues about Pond.  When they leave the mine, the car has been moved to the beach, as they move to get the HWM asks if they think that he did not see them go along.  Bloom swears at him saying that he will get his hat back from him, he responds by saying that the hat is important to him.  Then he asks if they had found what they had been looking for, and when they responded with no, the HWM said that there are a lot of nuts and bolts around.  After Bloom threatens to shoot him the HWM apologizes for taking the car.  After getting the hint the two theorize about factories and other such things but pass it off since they are hot instead of the constant hint that they are getting that it is cold.  As Bloom is separated from Ashley while she is looking for her car the HWM tells Bloom to go to the highway where he appears next to it a brief time later.  As Bloom gets closer to him the HWM tells him to stop where he is, then a crow shows up and as Bloom is trying to grab the crow for Balto the HWM tells him to count his blessings since the crow had saved his life.  The HWM says that Bloom is under Norman’s protection, Bloom quips back that Pond is also under that protection.  The HWM says that Bloom is lucky then slowly walks away from the two of them, Ashley asks what had been said to Bloom.  Bloom lies saying that they were talking about the weather but says that it was nothing important or anything that could have been construed to be a hint.  They commandeer a car from a local and they go back to PBSO to grab a new cruiser to look for Pond.  They drive to the cement factory that is in Senora Desert, and while Ashley was looking the HWM threatened her by saying that she was not under Norman’s protection to which Bloom reveals that he was safe because he was under Norman’s protection.  As Bloom is trying to eavesdrop on Ashley’s conversation with the HWM he asks Bloom why he is hiding since he can see everything.  The two of them leave the cement factory and go into the scrap yard near Bolingbroke Penitentiary, where there had once again been no signs of Pond anywhere.  While driving back into the city Bloom explains both Pond’s deal as well as his own deal that canceled her deal.  After getting sidetracked to the prison Bloom gets a call from Dan, in the call he said that the HWM claims that everyone that had been stabbed has been marked for death and he will go after them once he is free from Norman’s grasps.  The HWM is talking to Dan saying that Bloom is safe because he had killed someone, but Bloom swears otherwise then eventually says that he is protected because he has a deal with Norman that the HWM does not know about.  When Dan tries to ask for more details about Bloom’s deal, he refuses to tell him and to not make a deal with him since it would be better for him.  Dan tries to get the knowledge to contact Norman so he can make a deal that would protect Patty, but till the end of the call Bloom refuses to help Dan with contacting Norman.  After the prison they move to the quick fix that the Lost MC used to own (next to the casino).  While they are there, they talk about how some of the hints are correct while others might just be tricks to lure people to places, Ashley then talks about an underwater ship that they could go to.  While in the water looking for the ship and avoiding sharks that could hunt them, they commandeer a boat saying that she is not in the sunken ship since she would be dead, and her voice would sound different due to it being in or around the ocean.  
They returned to shore, parked the cruiser, and went their separate ways, Bloom then talks with Orabelle Winchester about a separate situation where she had heard a ghost calling someone a piece of shit.  She also mentions a “wall of death” that has crosses all over it.  Bloom then gets a call from Dan to go next to the locker room where Bloom finally sees the wall.  After seeing the wall Bloom calls for Ashley over the radio to see the wall for herself, and Dan explains that he had been doing paperwork when all of it happened.  He explains that he did not notice anything until Orabelle had told him to run.  They decide that Orabelle should clean all the symbols and things since she is a cadet, then Bloom gets on motor with nothing else with the HWM occurring that day.
The next day shortly after announcing that Bloom was 10-41, he got a call from Ashley saying to go to the PBSO office because they might know where Pond might be.  When arriving at the office he met with Odessa and Ashley and was very frantic.  Odessa explains how she had been talked to by the HWM, saw someone get shot, and how she had been stabbed with the wound continuously bleeding.  They had then told him that Norman had not known about Pond going missing/taken, also that the HWM is now more dangerous.  The three of them leave the office and go to the house that is in the hobo camp, where Odessa had been told that is where she was located.  Before Bloom breaches the house, a large smoke cloud appears in front of the garage and shortly after Ashley had been stabbed in the back then disappeared.  When the HWM appears again he steals his hat and threatens to damage it if he tries to attack either of them again.  Marked for death is then written in her blood next to where she had been stabbed, and Bloom threatens to shoot his wife’s hat that is on a propane tank if he does not say where Pond is.  The hat is taken away from the propane tank, so they enter the house where there is no sign of Pond.  They go to the diner that is located across the highway from the hobo camp and the sewer outlet nearby.  They decide to go up the mountain that is next to the hobo camp then check the trailer home in the hobo camp, after they had sat down and started thinking of where she could be.  Odessa then says that the HWM will kill her if she does not give him a name of someone that she hates, so she proposes that she offers a name in exchange for Pond.  When shooting another window in the hobo camp Odessa got hurt from ricochet, Bloom went into it finding nothing inside.  While they were tending to Odessa and calling for EMS the HWM blew up the car then said that they should stay and play more.  Ashley told him what she wanted and asked what he wanted, to which he responded by saying he wanted names of people they hate.  Bloom says that it is easy to name a few people Sai Carter, Lizzie, Juan Carlos Hernandez, Rudi Rinsen, and Bundy as well as a few gangs.  The HWM then said that he had made seven deals that day and that Ashley’s name had been brought up twice and that she should keep her guard up.  When Ashley asked to clarify if it had been criminals or police officers that had said it, he refused to answer.  The two of them go back to Odessa to check up on her where Bloom receives a text message from Norman saying that Norman will put the HWM in his place if he continues and that the HWM cannot do any permanent damage.  Norman also stated that he will help Pond soon, after Bloom openly taunts the HWM after reading the message aloud.  The EMS fails to help Odessa properly and another EMS shows up later to help them with a ride to the PBSO office, while they are looking for Odessa, they find her on the phone.  Bloom gets picked up by another PBSO deputy and dropped off where he grabs his personal bike that he had driven there on.
While on his way back he gets a phone call from Andi but must cut it short since the HWM tells him to, then the HWM tells him that it is a game of hunt since Pond escaped her binds.  The HWM then says that her wounds are not healing when he is rejoined with Ashley, and they start looking for her.  While thinking of places that she might be at, Bloom becomes increasingly frantic, the first place that they visit to see if she is there is the lighthouse.  Bloom then informs Norman that Pond has escaped and that Norman is looking to kill her, after a short look around they leave to pick up Odessa at the hospital.  After learning that she is in surgery and is still not doing well they left her to look around Bloom’s house where she had not been.  While going back to MRPD to get a car repair an unknown number of calls with Pond’s voice crying followed by the HWM saying that he got her first, when asked where she was the HWM says that she is next to the highway.  Bloom then reluctantly picks up Odessa, Odessa then says that it is cold as they are driving up Great Ocean Highway.  They stop at Hookies where Odessa just starts walking around saying cold and not there, and Ashley is debating if she knows where Pond is through her cold/hot feeling or just loopy due to a lack of blood.  When they mention that they need gas Odessa says that Paleto gas is nice, when they start filling up, she is asked about the few places to which she answers that only the hobo camp is warm.  Odessa then says that they should not go there but leave after being there briefly to get a det cord into the mineshaft.  Instead of going into the mineshaft they suggested going to the location where Pez had been buried, when they went into the church off Route 68 Bloom got a call from an unknown number with Pond crying and the HWM saying do not worry Bloom is coming.  Bloom replies by saying that Norman is coming and that he is pissed at him.  The HWM then claims that he is doing what Norman asked of him and mentions that he is holding a knife and that Pond had passed out without her wounds healing.  To get the HWM’s attention Bloom said that he was dessert, and it was time for desserts, but he responds by saying he is about to eat the appetizer since Pond did not have long left.  When asked where he was Bloom said that he was at the church, the HWM says looking at Pez’s grave is not going to solve anything and says one last word Highway.  The three get in the car and Odessa mentions the GPS and says that she just knows when asked about it, Ashley connects the spot where past incidents with the HWM had occurred.  Bloom passed the ping and kept driving north since he had seen nothing, but Odessa told him that it was south where they stopped at a house near where the GPS was.  They could not get inside the house, so Bloom goes to the scrap yard as Odessa talks to Lucy on the phone and Ashley looks over her as Bloom is gone.  Bloom returns to them where Odessa is under the HWM sign, which Blooms believes that she is only hindering them, so out of frustration he gets out of the moving cruiser and shoots his shotgun into the air.  Bloom gets back into the cruiser and drives along the railroad tracks next to the highway, as Bloom is heading back to pick up Ashley, Odessa says 1936 over the radio.  After stopping at a few houses Bloom picks them up after discussing that it is unlikely that it is Peter’s birth year, as Bloom is waiting for them to get into the car Ashley mentions that there had been a bird near them.  Bloom gets out of the car and shoots his shotgun at it, but immediately stops after remembering that they are trying to save him then they start following where the raven is going.  Bloom starts following the bird which heads in the direction of Peter’s grave.
Bloom receives a call from Pond asking for his ping, and she tells him that only he can come as well as her wounds are not healing.  Bloom tells them to get out of the car, Ashley refuses so he tases her and drives to the ping.  Bloom stops by the SDSO office to repair his car and tells Ashley that he is sorry and that he is going to turn off his radio.  Ashley says that he does not have to go alone since that is the same reason that Pond had gotten into the situation, to which Bloom ignores her and turns off his radio.  Bloom finds Pond and must fight off the HWM to get Pond into the car until a crow comes and saves him by surrounding the HWM in a ring of fire.  The HWM then says that the fire will not hurt him, and that Bloom can have the “broken girl,” then turns around and walks away saying that Norman will not protect him forever.  Bloom gets back on the radio to tell Ashley that he has her and is going to Viceroy, Ashley only replies that her and Odessa are still at the quarry where Bloom had left them.  Bloom switches to the doctor radio as he is speeding down Great Ocean Highway to let them know that she is on her way and to prepare a room for her.  Bloom then tells Pond that River is all right to help distract her and to keep her talking.  Bloom takes Pond out of the car and hands her off to the doctors, Luna Rivera and an unknown doctor, who take her to operating room three.  Bloom is not allowed in at first but is allowed in after Pond allows him to.  While the doctors are working on Pond a puff of smoke appears as well as the HWM appearing and disappearing near the doctors, which Bloom tells them to keep working despite what they are seeing.  The HWM then says that none of them are safe while Balto and Ashley enter the room.  Ashley asks what the HWM wants but is ignored then Ashley tells him to only worry about Pond since he was frantic trying to worry about everyone else.  Midway through the surgery Bloom feels a lot of pain as well as Ashley at the same time, Lucy walks in to observe.  The doctors knockout Pond to stop her from feeling pain, Bloom later texts Norman saying that the HWM is taunting him and causing Pond pain in the operating room.  The doctors reveal that she is missing a finger and blames himself for it despite Ashley saying that it is not her fault.  After the surgery, the doctor says that she will be alright and just needs to rest after getting some nourishment, liquid, and blood into her body.  They also tell him that she can be discharged from the hospital if she is with someone, and Bloom says that he will be with her.  As Pond wakes up Bloom walks over to her to hold her hand, the doctors tell her that she must go home in a wheelchair.  The doctors only recommend Tylenol to Pond since they had already given her a lot during surgery despite Pond asking for something harder.  Everyone leaves the two of them in the operating room alone where they tell each other that they miss the other one and that Bloom did not listen to other people.  Balto comes in to drop off River for Pond then leaves, once he is gone Bloom says that he is sorry that he did not find her sooner.  Pond says that she does not blame him for not finding her since she had been in a new place every day.  Pond says that there was something that she meant to tell him but cannot think of what it was that she was going to tell Bloom.  All she knows is that it had been about Lilith Ailhart and that Bloom must tell Siz that Lilith is next.  Bloom texts Lilith to tell her to be with someone and somewhere safe as well as to let him know that she sees it.  The doctor comes back in to check on her to which she notices that she is still bleeding from her knife wound.  Bloom says that they will be fine, while Pond retorts that they cannot be fine against an entity that they cannot kill.  Bloom points out that her deal with Norman will protect them and that Norman is upset with the HWM, which Pond questions since only she had a deal with Norman to protect Bloom.  Bloom lies about that it might be because he wants to see Pond’s deal go through knowing that he has a deal with Norman that he has hid from her.  The doctors come back in to check the wound again and look to see if her blood will clot or not, while they are working on her Bloom calls Lilith to warn her.  Lilith tells Bloom that she had already been stabbed by the HWM, but it had magically healed itself.  When asked more about it Bloom says that he cannot talk about it since he had found Pond and she is in surgery then hangs up.  When he comes back to the table the doctors are trying different methods to try and close the wound then ask what they are dealing with.  Odessa says that Pond will not bleed out since she has one in her back as well, so Pond will not die from it.  Odessa explains to the best of her ability what they are dealing with, Luna says that she will send Pond home with blood and gauze.  Odessa asks Pond if the HWM had asked for a name of someone that she hates then walks out of the room after Pond tells her that she has not had that asked of her.  Pond says that the HWM has made deals then Cody comes in to talk to Pond and make a few jokes about the situation.  Luna comes back in to check Pond’s vitals and after Lucy and Ashley talk to Pond.  Bloom then takes Pond to the back to take a shower and gets a change of clothes, while Pond was taking a shower Bloom talks with Andi to warn her about Lilith and how Pond went missing.  When Pond mentions that she is going back to wearing gloves due to a lack of a finger, Bloom apologizes since he says that it is his fault because he missed a call from the HWM.  Pond does not blame him saying that it was his choice to take her finger, but Bloom says that it was since he silenced his phone.  As they are about to leave both Lucy and Ashley let them know that they are going to bed and will see them later as well as leaving a CVPI outside for them to take.
Bloom helps Pond into the CVPI and starts to head towards Mirror Park, and on the way, Pond apologizes for running off on her own since she thought he would hurt Lucy.  Bloom says that the only important thing is that he has her now, Pond mentions that she is freezing without it being that cold.  Bloom gets a call from Andi asking about how to contact the HWM to talk to him, and while he is answering her call, he has Cody help Pond inside the house.  Bloom says that the HWM used to go after corrupt police officers, but now thinks that he is just going for chaos instead since that is what Norman wanted him for.  The only thing that Bloom could produce is that she could piss on his grave, but that did not bring him out whenever he did it earlier.  Cody comes out saying that Pond needs him, so he hangs up the phone to help Pond who fell out of her wheelchair then helps her.  After helping Pond, he answers Andi’s second call to him and after explaining what happened she states that he should not trust Cody since everyone around him gets hurt or dies and he does not care about it then hangs up.  Bloom returns to Pond with her saying that it was nice to be in a bed after being on hard surfaces since she had been gone, after Bloom apologizes, he cost her a finger and could have found her sooner.  Pond once again says that he did not cost her a finger and says that she refuses to let him think that, but internal Bloom will still blame himself for it.  Later Pond says that she was glad to give treats to Noxee since it had been the crow to save the two of them from the HWM.  Bloom says that he is still on edge from everything, and Pond says that she feels the same and that it might be that she is just sleeping.  Pond asks what is next, which Bloom says for her to focus on her health and to see what they can do to make the wounds that will not heal better.  Bloom mentions that everyone that had been stabbed is marked for death, so Pond believes that nothing changes because she has been stabbed.  Bloom states otherwise since she has a deal with Norman, but she does not understand why so Bloom tells her about the texts that he and Norman had with one another.  Bloom then tells Norman that he has Pond and that she is still bleeding, but the HWM is going after someone else who has a deal.  Pond says that she might have to make another deal to get healed, to which Bloom responds by saying that she will not be getting any more deals from him.  Pond then says that Bloom will not be making any either, Bloom then says that he will not need to because the HWM already overstepped, and that Norman wants Pond to be alive to fulfill her deal.  Bloom says that he will make a deal as a last resort only, then goes on to say that he has a locker full of her things that the HWM had given him.  They leave the house to get food for Pond, Bloom drives slowly towards the UwU Café.  Bloom leaves Pond in the car with River and Petal to order food for both.  After getting food they drive around the city to look at a few Halloween decorations that are around the city since Pond loves Halloween.  After getting back to the house Bloom helps Pond to get to bed so that she can get some rest, but before she goes to bed, he informs Pond about the situation that occurred at Windsong’s house.  Bloom also talks about Ezra Funkhouser’s death, Siz being in jail for it, talking to Lilith after her being kidnapped, and Andi looking to talk to the HWM.  After putting Pond to bed Bloom went back on duty without any more instances of the HWM.
The Firing of Bloom
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