Season 2 - Episode 2: Tricks and Stones

## Synopsis

Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie try to figure out what caused the man to turn to stone, but don't find any creatures in the shop. They find some clues and then find Holland has arrived on the scene. They mind wipe her and leave her in her car. They had back to the hotel to do some research.

## Episode Description

Our heroes have a hard situation on their hands. It should not be taken for granite. Will they be able to find their new quarry? You shale find out soon.

## Key Events

* The crew finds a drain in a back room has been moved, like something went through it. Henry collects some green ooze from the drain.
* Holland arrives and starts asking too many questions. Sammie mind wipes her and Bjorn stashes her in her cop car.
* Sammie finds a photo of the man that's been turned to stone with a girl that appears to be his daughter and an expired driver's license of the man, identifying him as John Wright.

## Summary

The crew jumps out of the car. Bjorn realizes the man ran out of a nearby shop. He says they need to make sure they keep the man's body safe but they also need to check out the shop. Sammie puts her car in park and turns on her hazards as Bjorn runs toward the shop. Henry gets out and confirms the man turned to stone. Miguel, still in the car, tells them he'll keep an eye on the body.

Bjorn says he's going to look into the shop using the camera on his phone, using the screen to protect himself from making eye contact with anything that might have caused this. Henry and Sammie follow Bjorn in after he's done his initial video sweep. Bjorn continues to use his camera while Henry and Sammie cautiously enter the shop. As they enter, Bjorn notices a shattered pot on the floor. He notices a back room and calls out to see if anyone is there. No one answers.

Sammie pops her head into the back room but doesn't see anyone. She sees a large drain that's been pushed to the side. She walks over to it and assumes something small and thin got out of the stop by pulling up the drain and sliding through. Henry comes over to inspect the drain and notices a strange, green ooze. He scrapes some of the ooze into a cup to take it back for examination. Sammie uses the flashlight from her phone to try and see anything else in the drain, but doesn't spot anything.

Bjorn heads back outside and notices a police car has pulled up to the curb. Jolene Holland gets out of the car, looks at the statue, greets Miguel in the back of the car, and then turns her attention to Bjorn. Bjorn, both staling for time to come up with a story that explains the stone man and unsure if Holland remembers the events of the hydra or not, isn't sure what to say. He tries to gauge what she remembers without saying it outright. Holland can tell Bjorn is acting uncharacteristically flustered and calls him out on it, asking what's wrong with him and what's going on here.

Sammie and Henry walk out of the shop and Sammie asks what's going on here. Holland asks again what's going on with the statue. Sammie says that she was driving and just 'found it' here. Bjorn backs her up, saying it it was just there and they should move it back into the shop. Holland agrees and Bjorn emphasizes they should be careful when moving it. As they move it into the shop, a hand catches on the door. The pinky falls off. Henry notices that the finger is not all the way stone. The statue begins bleeding.

Sammie causes a small distraction, allowing Henry to grab the fallen pinky and draw Bjorn's attention to it without Holland noticing. Bjorn angles the statue away from Holland and they place it down so the hands are resting on the counter. Sammie notices that there is a photo of the man sitting on the counter with a young girl. She walks up to try and block Holland from seeing it, trying to distract her by asking why she's acting weird since they've worked together before. Holland notices Sammie block the picture. Holland sees the photo and puts all the pieces together - the photo, the statue, the blood.

Bjorn shouts at Sammie to mind wipe Holland, making her think she fell asleep in her car. Holland tries to dodge Sammie but Sammie is able to place her hand on Holland and wipe her memory. Bjorn catches the now unconscious Holland and directs her to try and heal the man's finger back on. Henry hands over the finger and Sammie is able to attach the finger, however the stone remains cracked. Sammie then places her hand on the man's head, trying to look in and view his memories. Sammie doesn't sense much of a consciousness left. The only thing Sammie can see is a memory of Sammie's car coming toward him.

Sammie passes this along to the crew and Bjorn says they should take care of Holland now. He moves Holland's car directly in front of the shop. He puts Holland in her car and leaves it running. Sammie stops over at the side of the car to talk to Miguel. She tells him what she saw in the man's memories and Miguel tells her she probably couldn't see anything because he's dead.

Henry goes over to the unconscious Holland and starts reaching for her handcuffs. Bjorn asks him what he's doing and Henry says it's karmic payback, going to handcuff one of Holland's hands to the steering wheel. Bjorn confronts Henry about needing to make sure that Holland's memory is consistent with the conditions she wakes up. Henry steps back out of the police car, still holding the handcuffs, and tries to chuck them as far as he can. Bjorn is able to grab Henry's arm and snatch the handcuffs out of them. He puts them back on Holland's belt and then locks the door and closes it so she can't be tampered with. He turns his attention to Henry, harshly telling him they don't have time for this. Henry huffs and tells Bjorn he's wound up too tight.

Bjorn goes back into the shop and puts a heavy object on the drain so whatever did this can't get back in. Sammie does one more sweep, looking for some kind of ID for the shop owner. In a drawer, she finds an expired driver's license. The man's name is John Wright. Sammie looks up and sees the shop is called Wright's Antiques. Sammie looks at the photo of the man on the counter again and realizes the girl in the photo can't be more than 12 years old. Sammie holds the photo out for them to look at and says they need to find out where the man is from in case he has a daughter he needs to take care of. Bjorn says the daughter should be fine for now, and that they need to focus on the monster. Sammie asks Henry if he can find the city's plans for the drains to see where the drain from this shop connects to. They pile back into Sammie's Jeep to head to the hotel that is now their base of operations.

## List of Appearances

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