Children

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## Children

Cover image for Season 3, Episode 25: Children, showing a Barcelona ambulance

### Writer

Jonathan Thornton

*Children* is the twenty-fifth episode of the third season of QIA.

## Summary

Carlos begins investigating his past, while the team must deal with an infraction that has left two children dead.

## Blurb

“Why is it always children?” - Tasneem Hafiz

Just when things are beginning to look up for the QIA, an awful new infraction must be stopped. After Carlos receives surprising news from Esther, he decides to investigates his own past, with the help of Jack. Meanwhile, Sarah makes a startling discovery, and events conspire to reveal a secret that could change everything...

## Synopsis

In 2008, Esther Wilson tells Carlos that she is pregnant with his child. After a heart to heart with Jack Harringer, Carlos resolves to make contact with his real parents.

In 2023, Sacha Bell restores the London Hub, leading Erik Draper to inform him that he will be handed over to the CIA. However, as thanks for his efforts, Erik offers Bell a suicide pill. Later, after Jack takes the two of them, along with Enora, to Washington, Bell takes the pill and dies of supposed heart failure.

A new infraction occurs, involving the hijacking of an ambulance in Barcelona, 1999, which leads to the deaths of two young children following a car accident.

In Bronzefield, Sarah - in Segregation again and having learned that Maryam Razavi, the inmate she had been translating for, has been found guilty - panics when she discovers she can somehow Jump, though she is unable to control it, despite the constant injections of prohiberazin. Later, she begins experimenting.

Jack and Carlos Jump to Barcelona, where Carlos attempts to make contact with his parents - only to find out that they have no idea who he is, and claim to have never had children. They continue their investigation, leading them eventually to the hospital where Carlos was abandoned as a baby, supposedly by Fran Grenouille.

However, their presence is picked up as an infraction, and so while on the Barcelona mission, Hafiz confronts the two men. The three of them then witness Carlos, as a baby, being left by Claudia Horne, revealing that it was not Fran who abducted him, but Claudia and the Circle.

In Washington, Erik arranges to speak with Will Bradley regarding Brent Hall's plans, but he soon finds out that Will's mind has already been lost, thanks to a month in the Void.

In 1999, the team prepare to confront the two Reclaimers before they hijack the ambulance, but an unknown assassin kills the two quantum terrorists before the team can even act.

On the plane back from Washington, Enora comes across a disturbing passage from Danford Scott's QIA parody novel. Meanwhile back in his hotel room, Erik is shot in the head by an unknown assailant.

After Carlos tells Jack that he intends to quit the QIA and live in 2008 with Esther, Jack goes back to 1999 and confronts Arvin Costlemach, who reveals that Carlos is his son Noah.

## Credits

### Starring

Sarah Cunnington

Tasneem Hafiz

Ethan Taylor

Tom Burt

Iulya Dalca

Carlos Sánchez

Zoey Hallett

### Also Starring

Enora Gallou

Anna Vogel

and Jack Harringer

### Guest Stars

Josh Hannigan

Sacha Bell

Charlie Beck

Esther Wilson

Cindy McQuean

Jennifer Baldwin

Maryam Razavi

and Arnold Kobinsky

## Jumps

22nd July 2021, Dubai *(Carlos Sánchez, Esther Wilson, Jack Harringer)*

15th June 2023, Washington *(Erik Draper, Enora Gallou, Sacha Bell, Jack Harringer)*

16th June 2023, within HMP Bronzefield *(Sarah Cunnington)*

16th June 2023, Barcelona *(Carlos Sánchez, Jack Harringer)*

5th October 2020, Barcelona *(Carlos Sánchez, Jack Harringer)*

2nd October 1999, Barcelona *(Tasneem Hafiz, Ethan Taylor, Iulya Dalca, Zoey Hallett; separately, Carlos Sánchez, Jack Harringer)*

## Trivia

*Children* marks the death of Sacha Bell. Appearing uncredited in this episode are Will Bradley, Claudia Horne and Arvin Costlemach.

## Availability

Episode 25 is available for purchase on Amazon. It will also be included in the Season Three, Part III box set.