ISSUE 206: 36 Good Hours

**ISSUE #206: 36 Good Hours** is the sixth episode of *Season 2 of* Raising Dion*.*

## Plot

### Overview

Nicole receives some devastating news and Pat gets a rude awakening. Meanwhile, the Crooked Man takes things with Brayden to a terrifying new level.

### Full Plot Summary

Picking up where the previous episode left off, Dion is fighting Brayden in the woods. By using his ability to improvise new powers, and his knowledge from the last time Brayden let him into his memories, Dion forcefully enters Brayden’s memory of the farm, which catches Brayden off guard. In here, Dion finds the young Brayden from the memory, who is trapped under the porch, and frees him so he can reunite with his mom. This act calms Brayden down in the real world, and he flees. Tevin tries to stop him, but is too late. Tevin cancels the trip and returns to Atlanta with Dion and Kat.

At Biona, Suzanne informs Nicole that her infection will fully transform her in 2 days’ time. The best serum that Biona came up with so far can hold the infection off and ensure that Nicole won’t infect anyone, but it will ultimately kill her, giving her only 36 hours. Nicole chooses the latter so she can spend some final moments with Dion

Dion and Tevin warn Biona about Brayden. Suzanne dispatches a team to the house Brayden is staying at, but all they find there are the man and woman that Brayden mind controlled into driving him to Atlanta, both completely catatonic. The agents take them from the house. Brayden is hiding in a shed behind the house. He has enough of the Crooked Energy’s revenge scheme, but the Crooked Energy has grown powerful enough to fully take over Brayden’s body. Dion also tells Nicole all about Brayden, but states he does not believe Brayden is entirely evil based on seeing the memory of young Brayden and his mom.

When they return home, Nicole confesses to Kat about the choice she made. The news that Nicole is dying reminds Kat why she wanted to be a doctor, and she volunteers to work alongside Pat to find a permanent cure. Pat’s research proves that the isolated P-DNA of various powered people can be combined into new DNA, and actually be transferred to regular humans, potentially giving them powers; something that surprises Suzanne and delights David, who again only sees the monetary value. Suzanne plans to bring in more experts to help speed up the work.

Meanwhile, Nicole tries to give Dion the best day she can, starting with her teaching him how to make her special pancakes. Esperanza also drops by at the house to ask for Nicole’s help to deal with Kwame and his high demands. Nicole gives her advice about how to put her own emotion in the song. Since the school has reopened, Dion has to go to school, so Nicole next goes on a date with Tevin, during which she confesses her situation and asks him to look after Dion along with Kat when she is gone.

While Dion is in class, everybody except him and Esperanza suddenly falls asleep, after which Brayden enters the class and attacks Dion. As Dion and Brayden fight, Esperanza wakes up Jonathan, who helps out Dion armed with a fire extinguisher. Brayden attempts to get Esperanza to join him, but she shrugs off his mind control, forcing Brayden to run again. The three friends clean up the mess before everyone else wakes up.

When the specialists that Suzanne called in arrive, she relieves Pat from duty and has him taken back to his cell. This angers Pat, who believes he has proven himself redeemed by now, but all he does is proof he still can’t take rejection; the same flaw that put him on the bad path before. Once he is back in his cell, Pat takes a syringe with P-DNA that he smuggled from the lab and injects himself with it.

After school is over, Tevin picks up Dion and brings him home, where Dion finally learns of Nicole’s condition. Dion’s healing powers can’t help, and the boy can only embrace his mother, sobbing.

## Cast

### Main cast

* Alisha Wainwright as Nicole Warren
* Ja'Siah Young as Dion Warren
* Jazmyn Simon as Kat Neese
* Sammi Haney as Esperanza Jimenez
* Ali Ahn as Suzanne Wu
* Griffin Robert Faulkner as Brayden Mills
* Josh Ventura as David Marsh
* Jason Ritter as Pat Rollins

### Guest roles

* Rome Flynn as Tevin Wakefield
* Gavin Munn as Jonathan King
* Suehyla El-Attar as Ms. Burnett
* Kimberly Maxwell as Brayden's Mom
* Emerson Bennett as Young Brayden
* Emily Dunlop as Cindy
* Scott Daniel Johnson as Joe