Photographic

**"Photographic"** is the first episode of the first season of *Nobody*. It is the first episode of the series overall.

## Plot

*Years after sustaining a traumatic brain injury, a young man with a photographic memory struggles to control his violent urges.*

## Synopsis

In 2017, NYC student Michael Keene temporarily leaves a party to buy more beer. He heads down to a local liquor store and buys two six-packs. While he does so, three masked men enter the store and hold the owner at gunpoint, demanding the money. An old man tries to stop the robbers but they begin to assault him. Michael decides to step in but one of the robbers smashes a glass over Michael head. As Michael falls to the ground, all three robbers begin kicking and stomping on Michael, crushing his skull. The three of them leave with the cash as Michael stops breathing.

Three years later in 2020, Michael snaps out of his daydream. His therapist, Minerva, then asks if he wants her to repeat her question. She asks him if he is still having fantasies of assaulting random strangers on the street and killing them. Michael confirms that he is, but the fantasies are not lasting as long as they used to. He adds that such fantasies are now mostly confined to his dreams, before saying that all he has is violent thoughts. Minerva tries to reassure him that he is improving but Michael dismisses her and says that he is worried that the day will come that he won't be able to stop himself.

After the session concludes, Michael walks through the streets of New York City and grabs a bus. When on the bus, he takes a battered journal out of his pocket and begins listing everything that he saw while walking down the street in incredible detail. He notices a group of five thugs bothering and threatening people on the bus and clenches his fist. Returning home, he makes a cup of coffee while his roommate, Joseph, tries to ask Michael about his day. Michael ignores him and heads up to his room, where he starts watching *Enter the Dragon*. That night, he dreams of the day that he woke up from a one-year-long coma following his assault and wakes up in shock, brushing away his hair to reveal the scars left over from the surgeries that rebuilt his skull.

The next day, Michael heads to work at Home Depot, where he carefully and methodically prepares each order of wood. He is approached by a cop in his late 40s named Adrian Sheppard, who asks Michael to retrieve a shipment of wood; Michael remembers the order number from heart and takes payment from the cop. Adrian thanks him and loads the wood into the back of his truck before returning home. He says hello to his wheelchair-bound daughter, Hailey, who is watching the news cycle surrounding the disappearance of Cassidy Lynn, the daughter of Manhattan City Councillor Thomas Lynn.

## Trivia

* First appearance of Michael Keene
* First appearance of Adrian Sheppard
* First appearance of Minerva Hardy
* First appearance of Patrick Hayward
* First appearance of Hailey Sheppard
* First appearance of Deacon Shaw
* First appearance of Archie Shaw
* First appearance of Joseph Hertford
* First appearance of Cassidy Lynn *(photograph)*
* First appearance of Thomas Lynn