Mandela Catalyst

**Mandela Catalyst** is the third episode of Act 2 and a direct continuation of *The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 4*.

## Summary

The text "2009 channel 3 incident (THE ONLY RECORDING!!)" slides on the screen before we are shown footage of a news report on the death of Dave Lee in the parking lot of St. Gabriel Church, which is announced to be closed to the public. The broadcast gets interrupted and the screen goes completely white before briefly returning to the now empty Channel 3 Studio. The screen turns white again and a faceless alternate fades on screen before disappearing and being replaced by the text, "RCI- M\_I -Kv0". The overlay of the news broadcast reappears with the text on the bottom of the screen reading "NO MORE RUNNING [AWAY]". The broadcast returns to normal after this.

We cut to a series of texts between Evelin Miller and Sarah Heathcliff. Sarah asks Evelin if she has spoken to Adam as of recent to which Evelin denies, saying that he hasn't responded to her in weeks. She then asks if something has happened to him, to which Sarah denies. Evelin, seemingly not believing Sarah, tells her that "you can tell me" and that she was "already concerned". Sarah reassures Evelin that Adam is fine. Evelin asks Sarah if he has been acting weird around her as well, but before she can respond we are taken to security camera footage of Evelin's room with the camera facing the door.

Evelin calls out to "Adam". The voice of Adam tells Evelin to "come here", to which Evelin asks what he is doing. "Adam" tells Evelin that he has something he wants to show her. The sound of a walkie-talkie can be briefly heard. Evelin calls out to Adam again and then the lights turn on, showing The Preacher in the doorway. The lights turn off and Evelin starts screaming, asking who *that* was. She screams again after there's no response. The lights turn on again and nothing is seen in the doorway. It is unknown if Evelin survived this encounter.

We then cut to security camera audio in the Bythorne Community Hospital of a conversation between 2 unidentified nurses. A distorted image of Dave, labeled as "POST MORTEM PHOTOGRAPH", is seen on the left. Dave is pronounced dead on arrival with both eyes missing and have not been recovered. Estimated death is shown to be around midnight. After some silence, one nurse attracts the attention of another nurse with the first nurse claiming that "brains aren't supposed to do that", further backing up the official statement from The Mandela Catalogue Discord Server of Dave's brain exploding inside of his own head. At 7:53 P.M, a nurse says that she, "forgot *that* *place* even existed" to which the other nurse responds saying that it's "nothing really worth talking about" and that it "felt kinda weird actually seeing people there, especially the press". The other nurse, to her surprise, asks if "this was on the news" for the first to reply, "I guess so". The second nurse claims the the only time she heard them mentioned was when they were migrating to "what was it, Werksha?"

Footage of St. Gabriel Church is shown on screen with a statue of an angel and a solar panel. We then are shown the outside of a house with Archangel Gabriel standing on top of it on the left side. A series of red texts appear being partially cut of by the house reading, "WAKE UP [THATCHER]" "CAN YOU HEAR ME" "I AM YOUR [INTUITION]" "DO YOU HEAR [THE SCREAMING]" and finally, "GO AND SEE". Footage from inside a moving car is seen, presumably being recorded by Thatcher. A radio is heard enthusiastically saying that it's a beautiful evening in Werksha County, the storms are over and the sun is making its way back in tomorrow. The voice then says, "In other news it looks like the cancelled tru-" before being cut off by loud music. The phrase, "-hear me-" can be made out before the music continues. The radio goes silent after a few seconds. A picture of a BPS van is then shown on screen.

Thatcher enters the house from before and starts recording from his bodycam. He walks around for a bit before a radio starts abruptly playing, startling Thatcher and prompting him to turn around. The radio starts reading chapter one of "The Fate of the Jester" while Thatcher enters a bedroom and turns on the light. The story stops and Thatcher finds Adam sitting on the floor against the nightstand next to the bed. The footage saturates and zooms in on him before the text "SUSPECT IDENTIFIED" is shown attached to Adam's picture. As Thatcher gets closer to Adam, the footage starts glitching before suddenly gaining color while a distorted voice can be made out. Adam’s eyes are glowing and he unhinges his jaw, crying and pleading "please fucking kill me, please fucking kill me, please there is someone-" and then screaming before the text "SUSPECT IDENTIFIED" reappears, glitching all over the footage. The episode ends with a white screen and a slightly pixelated smiley face on the bottom left (from the Toddler Stress Assessment out of The Restored Vol.1), accompanied by muffled, but still audible screaming.

## Trivia

* It's possible Adam attempted suicide by drinking bleach as a bottle bleach is seen near him.
	+ To add to this, whimpering and crying can be heard alongside his own screams.
	+ Adam's Voice Actor has since said that Adam's bones were breaking, therefore meaning that could most likely be the reason.

* The similarities between Adam's case and the reading of the first chapter of "The Fate of The Jester" are undeniable.

* *"As the boy lay there dormant, all of his humanity drained into a murky puddle, milky eyes cut through the thick blackness of the bedroom, a spectator. He was no longer the hero of the story, just a cog in the machine."*

* Part of Evelin's encounter was teased in a now-deleted tweet by Alex Kister on April Fools Day.
* Tootsie and ambient\_2 were listed to be added in Mandela Catalyst but Alex Kister didn't add them in this episode for unknown reasons.
* One thing that Adam could potentially be saying at the end is "Is there someone [else/there]?" before he cuts himself off and screams.
* The nurses examining Dave's body are played by the same voice actresses who play Sophie Walten and Jenny Letterson from the Walten Files.