Metamorphosis

**Metamorphosis** is the second episode of the first season of The CW's superhero drama *Mighty-man*. It aired on January 18, 2022.

## Synopsis

Greg Arkin has a passion for insects and Nelly Watson. When Template:Meteor rock-infected bugs swarm him, he takes on insectoid characteristics. Template:Sam wakes up to find himself floating above his bed. Template:Alex tries to help Sam woo Lana by giving him her necklace. Sam discovers that he can protect himself from its effects with lead. Greg kidnaps Nelly, and Sam battles Greg to rescue her.

## Plot

Template:Nelly is dropped off after the homecoming dance. As she prepares for bed, she finds a box in her bedroom. When she opens it, butterflies surround her. Outside in a tree, Greg Arkin, a boy from school, is watching her through a window and recording her with a video camera. When he goes home, he fights with his mom, who found another videotape of Lana. She threatens to ship him off to military school. Greg is an avid collector of insects.

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He loads up part of his collection into his car, presumably to release them, but he hits a bump and the jar containing the insects breaks. They swarm around Greg, apparently biting him, until he crashes his car. He screams as they continue to attack.

The next morning, Mrs. Arkin enters his room to find all the cages are empty. She doesn't notice her son stuck to the ceiling with a web-like material.

Sam is dreaming of flying. He flies into Nelly's house and floats over her bed; she wakes up and tells him, "It's all your fault." Sam wakes up in his own house, floating above his bed. He tells his dad he woke up floating, but Jefferson says he can't provide any explanation, but they will deal with whatever comes their way.

At the farmer's market, Sam confronts Derreck, who tells him the Scarecrow incident was a joke. Derreck asks for Nelly's necklace, but Sam doesn't have it. Meanwhile, Nelly runs into Greg, who asks her for help on a school assignment. Alex Balthor is also at the market. He notices Sam's interest in Nelly and asks him about the previous night in the cornfield.

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Greg ambushes Derreck in his truck on his way home. The Jacksons drive up on the accident and Sam saves Derreck before his truck exploded and covered the two in flames. Marie and Jefferson were relieved they were safe but shocked to find Sam completely unharmed.

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Nelly is riding at the stables and Alex meets her after she finishes. When he tries to introduce himself, she says they've already met. She explains that when she was ten she went to Metropolis for a riding competition. Alex's father invited her and her aunt to stay with them and use the indoor pool, where she found Alex and another girl skinny-dipping. Alex sees a photo of Nelly wearing her necklace. He finds out that she gave it to her boyfriend Whitney. Alex knows that it ended up around Sam's neck in a cornfield, so he suggests to Nelly that she ask Whitney where he was before the homecoming game.

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Greg's mother comes home to find the thermostat set to 103 degrees. Some of the walls are covered with webs. Greg explains that he is planning to eat, then molt then mate. Then he explains that the pharaoh spider kills its mother after it hatches.

Alex gives Sam Nelly's necklace. It makes Sam sick, but Alex shuts it up in a lead box and Sam doesn't feel its effects anymore. Sam doesn't want to take it, but Alex persuades him to use the necklace to woo Nelly. At school, Nelly confronts Derreck about the prank on Nelly and requests her necklace back. Derreck says he lost it, and she walks away. She passes Greg, who reminds her about helping him with the assignment. Nelly tells him she's busy, that she has to see Sam.

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Sam experiments with the meteor rock in the lead box before Nelly finds him in the barn and apologizes for Derreck but he says it's not up to her to apologize . When she admires his loft, Sam says that his dad built and calls it his "Fortress of Solitude". Sam skips this opportunity to return her necklace.

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Greg molts in the shower and then goes to the barn to attack Sam. Jefferson is there and is nearly killed, but Sam saves him. Sam recognizes Greg and Martha remembers they used to be friends. Sam admits to his father that he feels responsible for all the weird things that have happened in Brookcity since the meteor shower.

Template:Katie finds an article about Amazonian tribesmen who take on characteristics of insects after being bitten by them. She deduces that meteor rock-infected bugs must have bitten Greg and turned him into a "bug-boy." Jack and Sam talk about how they used to be close friends with Greg in grade school. He had a tree-house near the foundry but Jack remembers that Sam always got sick when they played there. Sam, Katie, and Jack go to Greg's house to investigate and find a mess: pieces of Greg's skin in the shower, a video of Nelly and the corpse of his mother. They deduce that Greg will come after Nelly next and go to try and save her.

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Derreck tries to apologize to Nelly and Greg appears and throws him across the barn. When Sam arrives, Derreck tells him that Greg has kidnapped Lana and headed off into the woods. Sam deduces that Greg took her to the tree-house. He gives Derreck directions and takes off at super speed.

At the tree-house, Sam finds Nelly in a cocoon. Sam and Greg battle from the tree house to the Creekside Foundry. The place is littered with meteor rocks, which weaken Sam until he realizes that lead shields him from its effects. Sam finds Greg and throws him across the room. Greg then is squashed when some heavy equipment falls on him. Back at the tree-house, Derreck rescues Nelly and they walk away with their arms around each other. That night, Sam leaves Nelly's necklace on her front doorknob.

## Cast

### Starring

* T.J.Williams as Samuel Jackson
* Devenity perkins as Nelly Watson
* Jace Norman as Alex Luthor
* Andrew Caldwood as Derreck Fordman
* Sean Ryan Fox as Jack Diamond
* Maeve Tomalty as Katie Jones
* Angel Parker as Marie Jackson
* Adrian Holmes as Jefferson Jackson

### Guest Starring

* wikipedia:Chad E. Donella as Greg Arkin
* Gabrielle Rose as Mrs. Arkin

## Notes

1. ↑ Naomi: Season One Ratings - TV Series Finale
2. ↑ Recently Added Episode Titles - Various Shows - 22nd December 2021 - SpoilerTV