New Me

**"New Me"** is the first episode of the second season of *Nobody*. It is the eighth episode of the series overall.

## Plot

*One year after beginning his campaign, the vigilante known as Nobody begins a new investigation into a series of murders committed by the "Empire Killer".*

## Synopsis

In an unsettlingly quiet N.Y.C house, a masked man uses his knife to slice the face of a dead woman to shreds. He takes a break and sips some water, starring at the body of a dead man with his throat slit and two children tied together with plastic bags around their heads, dead. The killer cleans the glass and continues cutting the woman's face.

One year after facing Iosef Barnes at the top of the Shaw Building, Michael Keene has continued his vigilante campaign under the alias "Nobody". Out on patrol in early evening, Nobody's police scanner picks up chatter of a drug deal in a Midtown apartment, and he is able to beat the cops there. Breaking through a window, Nobody easily beats up six armed thugs, having drastically improved his fighting style in the past year. He calls Adrian and informs him that the situation has ended before he hears a cry. He enters a bedroom and finds a crying baby having soiled itself a while ago; Nobody then tells Adrian to contact Child Protective Services and leaves before the cops break down the door. Nobody then tells Adrian that he is done for the night and quickly heads back to his apartment, where he gets dressed and meets up with Joseph and his girlfriend, Sophie, for a double date. Michael quickly becomes affectionate with his date, Elise, and takes her home where they have sex.

The next morning, Michael heads out for his day job as a rideshare driver and passes the time by talking to his passengers or listening intently to their conversations, such as a student celebrating getting into college or a soldier about to head overseas. Meanwhile, crime lord Archie Shaw bribes NYPD Lieutenant Patrick Hayward to let Archie's twin brother, Deacon, out of jail, much to the anger of Adrian Sheppard who had arrested Deacon for selling stolen luxury cars. Adrian and his new partner, Mariana Montoya, are chastised by Hayward, who assigns them to the Empire Killer case, surrounding the eponymous serial killer who has been terrorizing New York City for three months and claimed an additional four lives the previous night, sticking to the same M.O: breaking into a family's house; suffocating the children with plastic bags; slitting the throat of the father; and mutilating the face of the mother; all this brings the killer's body count to fifteen. Hayward informs the two detectives that the precinct detectives originally assigned to the case recommended that the case be transferred to Major Crimes, something almost unheard of. Adrian reviews the case with Mariana before heading up to the roof to call Michael, giving him details on the case. Michael uses code to tell Adrian that he has already began looking into the Empire Killer. While Adrian gives Michael the details, he is unaware that Montoya is listening in on the conversation.

Meanwhile, Cassidy Lynn packs up her books as school lunch begins. Before she can stand, she is surrounded by five other girls, who begin taunting and mocking her brooding and quiet persona, brought on by the trauma she suffered a year before at the hands of David Crank. She initially ignores them until one of the girls pours coffee onto her books and prepares to attack them before the smell causes her to have flashbacks to her time in captivity. She begins to cry silently as the girls leave. Later that day as school ends, Cassidy is picked up by Michael, who inquires about how her day went but Cassidy does not answer. Michael correctly deduces that Cassidy is still being bullied and encourages her to stand up for herself. Cassidy snaps back and tells him she would if he trained her; Michael shuts her down, saying that what he does isn't suited for a child, especially one in school.