Season 2 - Episode 15: Invasion of the Body Parts Snatcher

## Synopsis

After looking at the runes, Sammie experiences another vision. After talking it over, Bjorn realizes it must be one of Jadis' memories. Sammie emphasizes that they need to get the knife shard out of her as soon as possible but Miguel and Bjorn remind her they don't know what's going to happen if they do that. They turn back to the mystery at hand. Miguel has begun to translate the runes in the circle and Henry realizes the warlock must be building something. Looking back at the articles on the murders, he realizes they are building a dullahan.

## Episode Description

Our heroes do more research into the heinous crime they were called in to solve. Sammie looks too closely at the case yet again.

## Key Events

* Bjorn asks Holland if there is any security footage at the community center and Holland tells him she'll get back to her whenever she finds anything.
* Sammie looks at the runes too closely and has another out-of-body experience. She sees Jadis painting another one of these circles in a stone room. They realize the runes must be triggering Jadis' memories that are somehow connected to the shard in her chest.
* Henry realizes that the warlock doing this is creating a dullahan - a creature from Irish folklore that carries its head in its hand and a bone whip in the other. The creature has a fear of gold.

## Summary

Henry asks MonsterHunter69 the same question they asked him just a little bit ago - who they are. They just respond that they are a friend. Henry asks how long they have been following this and they respond that the first murder happened a year ago but they've been following it for a few months since they noticed the pattern.

MonsterHunter69 tells Henry their theory that this is one person, traveling around the country, doing all these murders. That it's a magician serial killer of sorts that is collecting body parts to do something with. Henry responds that this serial killer has arrived in his town. MonsterHunter69 sends him the latest article from Thornvale and pushes him on being from Thornvale. Henry starts to clam up and asks how he can trust them. They send back a shrugging emoji.

Henry tells Sammie what he's discovered. Sammie and Henry agree that they have a limited window to catch this guy and Sammie guesses that if the person doing these murders is the same man that she heard in her head, than he's probably been tipped off to their presence.

While Henry was researching, Stanley went back to talk to Miguel and Bjorn. He tells them everything Sammie told them about the weird occurrences. Bjorn is upset at first and then calms down. Bjorn and Stanley decide to leave Miguel to their research and go back out to talk to Henry and Sammie. Henry tells them what he's learned and Bjorn surmises this must be a witch or warlock of some kind. Sammie says that she heard a man's voice in her head, so she's guessing they're a warlock. Henry asks Sammie about what she saw in her vision whenever she interacted with the witch circle. Sammie shakes her head and says that it was just a forest, it could have been anywhere.

Sammie suggests that they go back to the circle and let her interact with it so they can get a lead on whoever made it. Bjorn objects, saying that if this is someone transitory they should loop in Holland and get her looking for any out-of-towners that have come in recently. Bjorn gets his phone out to call Holland. She answers quickly and Bjorn tells her that this is probably a witch or warlock and there have been other murders like it. He asks if there is anyway to track who's been coming in and out of town or if there is security footage at the community center they can look at. Holland says she'll let him know if she finds anything.

Sammie and Henry go into Miguel's room to see if he's found any information on the witch circle. Sammie leans over Miguel's shoulder to get a look at the circle again and quickly feels herself conk out. She sees the same, feminine, manicured hands drawing the symbols of the witch circle. She catches the edge of a long, dress in front of her. The woman stands up and looks around, seeing more and more symbols. A familiar voice says, "that'll about do it." Sammie blinks and finds herself back in Miguel's room, green light fading from her eyes. Miguel and Henry are looking at her and Miguel asks, "what'll about do it?"

Sammie steps backward, panic washing over her face. She says that it happened again and asks if she did anything. Miguel says her eyes flashed green and she spoke in a voice that was her own, but somehow completely different. Sammie suddenly realizes who she saw, whose voice it was, and her breath quickens as more panic rises up into her chest. Sammie explains that it was Jadis, and that she saw Jadis drawing another circle in a concrete room.

Bjorn walks in and asks what's happening and Sammie tells him what she saw. Bjorn tries to reassure her that it can't be that Jadis is out there now, drawing a new circle. She must be re-living Jadis' memories that are trapped in the knife shard and being triggered by the runes in the circle. This eases her fears somewhat but she then decides that it's time for the knife shard in her chest to come out. She explains that if what's happening is Jadis' spirit taking control of her, they can't risk it getting any worse.

Miguel asks if she wants to do it now and Sammie says yes. Bjorn points out they don't know what will happen when they take it out and this might put her out of commission for a while, they can't risk being a man down for this mission. Miguel points out that this seems to only happen when she looks at the runes and tells her not to look at them anymore so that it stops happening. Sammie agrees and sits in the corner where she can't see Miguel's computer.

Miguel shows them what he's translated so far. He says that the circle is designed to build things, that it takes one item and bonds them to other things. Henry notices that every time, the person killed has had their head removed - except for the first murder. Each time it seems they have been collecting a different body part to construct something - the only thing it took two of was the spine. Henry realizes whoever it is is constructing a dullahan - a creature from Irish folklore who carries its head in one hand and uses a spine whip in the other. The dullahan is essentially the grim reaper of Irish myth, whenever it comes to your door and says your name it's your turn to go. Henry also remembers that the dullahan has an intense fear of gold.

## List of Appearances

* Henry Marlowe
* MonsterHunter69
* Sammie Overbrook
* Bjorn Olafson
* Stanley Marlowe
* Miguel Rodriguez
* Jolene Holland

## Roll Tracker

 Hannah/Sammie
 Wesley/Henry
 Wesley/Henry
 Wesley/Henry