Episode 40: The Mourning After

## Synopsis

Henry and Sammie are still recovering from their encounter at the country club. No one seems to be able to get a hold of Bjorn. They go to a scene on West Thornvale where an entire coop of chickens has been slaughtered, seemingly for sport. They meet a reporter, Shemar D'Apollo, who begins to follow them around, before heading to the scene of a new attack.

## Episode Description

It's the morning after the nightmare ended, and our heroes have been changed forever... some more than others.

## Key Events

* Sammie is ordered by Blue to send him a foot of the creature responsible for the attacks.
* Shemar D'Apollo, a freelance journalist, begins to follow the crew, recording them and the scene.
* Whatever creature is responsible seems to be killing the animals, but not eating them.
* A new attack is reported, this time a human and not an animal.

## Summary

Sammie is still snoring into the kitchen table when Stanley shakes her awake. He says that there's been an incident on West Thornvale that needs looking into with a mass slaughter of chickens. Stanley can tell something is wrong with Sammie, but Sammie doesn't explain. He asks if they've seen Bjorn because he can't get a hold of him and Sammie says no.

Henry visits Miguel to get some healing for some of his more nasty wounds. Miguel asks him what happened and Henry says he'll tell him when they have time. Sammie enters soon after and asks Miguel if they have any spare clothes that will fit her so she can clean up. Miguel takes her to his room and gives him some of his wife's clothes that he thinks will fit her.

After they are healed and freshened up, they start heading over to West Thornvale. On the way, Sammie gets a call from Blue. Blue lets her know there is some kind of beast loose on West and she needs to take care of it. He asks her to send him a foot of the beast so that he knows its dead. Sammie agrees.

When Henry and Sammie arrive on the scene, they see Holland standing out front. Holland sees them arrive. Henry dodges her and heads straight to the scene. He notices that the chickens have been absolutely slaughtered. He notices some tracks that lead him to believe it is a large creature with claws. Sammie notes the tracks as well and can tell it made a large jump over a nearby fence and into the woods.

Holland comes over to talk to them. She says the only thing they can think of is that it's a bear, but she's never known a bear to jump over a fence. She also says that the chickens weren't eaten, just torn apart. She also lets them know there have been reports of other animals in the woods getting torn apart, like they're just being hunted for sport.

Holland asks if they've seen Bjorn. Sammie looks at her phone to see if she's gotten any kind of response from him and sees there is nothing. She plays it off to Holland saying something must have happened to his phone. That is when they see a man by the fence. He's a large, muscly African American man. He's holding his phone, taking video of the scene. He shouts "did you say it's killing for sport?" at Holland. Holland demands to know who he is and why he's here.

The man is Shemar D'Apollo. He is a freelance journalist from the mainland who's heard strange reports coming from the island and has come to investigate. Shemar doesn't give Holland that kind of an answer though, telling her that this is public property and he's allowed to be there. Holland turns to one of the officers and tells him to tape off the section of woods behind the fence, forcing Shemar to leave. Shemar looks down at the tracks on his side of the fence and starts to follow it. He notices a long, white hair in the mud. He pulls out a recorder and starts to talk to it about what he's seen.

An officer runs on the scene to tell Holland that there's been another attack, that it's a human this time not an animal. Henry and Sammie ask where the attack is and she lets them know its at a basketball court near downtown. Sammie attempts to race the cops and Shemar down to the basketball court, Sammie in her Jeep and Shemar on his motorcycle. They arrive at roughly the same time. Sammie begins to yell at Shemar that he needs to leave and flashes her FBI badge. Shemar refuses and begins to take video of them, making accusations about the weird happenings on the island, that things aren't adding up, and he's not sure why the federal government would be involved.

Henry makes a grab for Shemar's phone. He manages to grab it out of Shemar's hand and quickly deletes the videos he's taken so far. Holland then arrives on the scene and asks what's going on. Henry hands the phone to her, saying Shemar was taking pictures of evidence and Holland immediately hands the phone back to Shemar, telling Henry he can't just take people's phones. Shemar starts demanding to know who Henry is and saying he'll be including this theft in his report. Shemar starts recording them again on his phone.

Sammie says they can deal with personnel issues at a later date and walks away toward the attack scene. Henry follows her, avoiding giving Shemar his name.

The basketball court is covered in blood and paramedics are loading a man into an ambulance.

## List of Appearances

* Sammie Overbrook
* Stanley Marlowe
* Henry Marlowe
* Miguel Rodriguez
* Anthony Overbrook (Blue)
* Captain Jolene Holland
* Shemar D'Apollo

## Trivia

Hannah gets a -1 to Cool, Tough, and Charm for this arc because of her hangover.