Episode 49: Last Refrain

## Synopsis

The crew fight the sirens. Henry takes out one and Bjorn and Sammie take out the other. They manage to save every missing man and reverse the curse placed on them. Then, they have a chat with Oliver, who gives them a warning from Helena about a coven of witches planning something big. He then disappears in a flash of light. The next day, Sean and John go to a meeting with a group of people called "The Blackout Society."

## Episode Description

It's the finale of the siren arc! The remaining heroes (and Oliver) have the means to incapacitated the sirens' army. But can they take down the monsters themselves?

## Key Events

* Bjorn, Henry, and Sammie manage to kill the sirens.
* Through a purification ritual, they are able to reverse all of the effects the sirens put on the men and Sammie.
* Bjorn Henry, and Sammie have a chat with Oliver who says he was sent here to warn Sammie that a coven of witches, led by Jadis and Molly, are planning something big. He disappears in a flash of light when Bjorn tries to take his camera.
* It is revealed that a group of people, which seems to consist of people who have been mind wiped, are meeting and calling themselves the Blackout Society.
* Sammie receives a call from the Order letting her know she's been excommunicated.

## Summary

Bjorn, Henry, and Oliver burst out over the clearing. Their initial plan works. The heavy metal music breaks the hold over the men below, including Sammie. Sammie comes to herself standing directly in front of the sirens. One of the sirens quickly grabs her by the neck. Sammie shoots a fireball at the siren, but the siren grabs her hand and twists it, breaking her wrist. Sammie makes one last attempt to stab at the siren with her knife, but the siren creates a bubble of water around Sammie's head so that she can't breathe. The siren tosses Sammie's knife away from her.

Henry makes a shot at the blonde siren. The bullet goes straight through her head and she drops to the ground, dead. The bubble around Sammie's head bursts and she's able to breathe again. The red haired siren leaps into the air and bats Henry down to the ground. Bjorn attempts to knock the red haired siren to the ground. He succeeds, but drops Oliver, who falls to the ground and breaks his leg. Oliver also drops the bullhorn and the music stops.

Bjorn shoves the siren's face into the dirt to stifle her cry. Henry rushes to help keep her pinned. The siren sings into the dirt, but it doesn't effect anyone around them. She kicks herself free of Henry's grasp and hits him in the head, knocking him unconscious. Bjorn calls for Sammie to give the bullhorn and music to Oliver and get Henry out of there. Sammie runs up to Henry and moves him out of the way to heal him.

Bjorn puts his gun to the back of the red haired siren's head and pulls the trigger. The siren is able to move underneath of Bjorn and the bullet goes through her chest. The siren reaches up and digs her fingers into Bjorn's eyes. Sammie pulls out one of Henry's knives and throws it at the siren. The siren is able to put her hand up at the last second and it slashes her across the hand and wrist. The siren forms another bubble of water around Sammie's head so that she can't breathe.

Bjorn attempts to shoot the siren again, but she's able to slash across Bjorn's stomach and pull herself out from under him. Sammie, despite being unable to breathe, shoots a desperate fireball at the siren. The siren reaches out a hand and magically forces some of the water from the bubble through Sammie's nose and down into her lungs. Bjorn manages to get a shot off directly in the siren's face. The siren is finally dead. The water around Sammie's head bursts and falls.

Sammie tries to get the water out of her lungs, but the water suddenly pours out of the gills in her sides. Even now that the sirens are dead, Sammie still has her gills. The other fishmen are not transforming back to themselves either. While Bjorn calls Stanley and Miguel to see if they know what to do to help turn everyone back to their normal selves, Sammie runs over to Oliver and attempts to heal his leg. Stanley and Miguel aren't sure what to do. Bjorn hangs up and goes to the mostly human men and orders them to get the fishmen into the water.

Sammie realizes that both Henry and Oliver need help getting to shore. She wills magic into her limbs and is suddenly filled with a strength she's never felt before. She's able to carry Henry and Oliver with ease. Oliver, holding onto her back, and Henry in her arms. Sammie starts to feel a bit odd. Everyone gathers on the shore. Once the fishmen are in the water, they seem to come back around. However, they soon realize they're stuck on an island in the middle of this storm with no boat to get them to safety.

Bjorn calls Stanley and Miguel again now that the situation is more stable. He says they have about 15 people that need their minds wiped, 8 or so of them being complete fishmen. Sammie interjects and says that she doesn't feel right, like part of her is changed. Miguel says he thinks they can reverse it, but he'll need to bring everyone to the Fort.

Bjorn tells everyone that he can get everyone to safety, but they have to swear to absolute radio silence on their way. Everyone agrees. It takes several hours for the storm to break enough for them to get the boats to shore and then sail to the Fort. At the Fort, Miguel tells everyone to follow him and asks Sammie if she's ready for another purification ritual.

Miguel leads them all to a large room with a pool in it. Everyone affected by the siren song gets into the pool. Miguel instructs everyone in the pool to focus on what feeling human is like. Miguel says he's gonna need Bjorn and Henry's magical energy as well as his own and that they'll use Sammie as the conduit. The three of them will pump magic into Sammie, who will then add her own magic and project it outwards into the pool.

The purification ritual goes flawlessly. The three men pool their energy and Sammie channels it out. The fishmen return to their human forms. Sammie and the others lose their gills. Sammie is exhausted by the amount of magical energy she had to contribute to the ritual and she passes out. The men in the pool catch her and get her out. Miguel is able to mind wipe all of the men, giving them all a false memory of the crew of the Pride finding the lost men stranded on Christmas Tree Island and that they rescued them and rode out the storm back to the docks and that, exhausted from their search, they slept it off beneath the deck.

Sammie comes to a couple hours later. Once she's conscious, Bjorn, Henry, Sammie, and Oliver meet in the kitchen. Sammie makes him a cup of chamomile tea, knowing that it's his favorite.

Bjorn starts by saying they still need to know why Helena sent Oliver here to find Sammie. Oliver rehashes the story he had previously told Bjorn. That he was researching Thornvale and tried to go to Texas but was abducted. He was knocked out in front of the house and woke up tied to a chair with Helena interrogating him about why he wanted to know so much about Thornvale. Oliver showed her all the video on his camera. Helena and Oliver started to meet every day for months, discussing Thornvale and all its weird happenings. Eventually, Helena asked Oliver to go to Thornvale and find Sammie and tell her that something big is coming. That there are witches planning something big, she doesn't know what it is, but Oliver is to serve as a warning and keep an eye on Sammie.

Sammie asks if Oliver has any other information on who these witches are. Oliver says the leaders of the coven are named Jadis and Molly. Bjorn begrudgingly admits that he can't make Oliver forget everything that's happened. Bjorn asks Oliver if he has any fail safes in place to keep any of the footage he's gathered today. Oliver says he just has one. Bjorn says that because he's been helpful to Oliver today, he would appreciate if Oliver deleted the footage. Oliver refuses. Bjorn tells him he has two options, either give them all of his footage and keep his memories, or do a risky mind wipe spell on him and take the footage anyway. Oliver nods and says he understands, but he's keeping the camera and the footage. He then reaches into his pocket and grabs hold of something. That something explodes. There is a bright flash of light and Oliver is gone.

The next day, Sean and John knock on a door that says 'newcomers welcome.' Sophia Foster answers the door and welcomes them inside. Sitting in the corner is her daughter, Annie, the one who'd been possessed by the banshee. Shemar D'Apollo is also sitting in the room. There is an odd collection of other people in the room as well. Sophia then stands in front of the group and says "Welcome to the Blackout Society, we're happy to have you."

Sammie gets a call. Her phone says that it's Blue. She answers it, but someone else is on the other line. It's Red. He tells her that she has been excommunicated from the Order. She will receive no more funds and that if she tells anyone about them, they will come for her. Sammie is shaken to her very core, starting to having flashbacks to when she saw the illusion of the Order guards shooting Elise. Sammie goes to the kitchen, looking for a drink. Sammie finds Stanley sitting at the table with a bottle of whiskey. He gets out another glass and wordlessly pours one from Sammie.

The two drink in silence for a while before Stanley finally asks Sammie if she's okay. She admits that she hasn't been okay for a while. She feels like every decision she makes is wrong and that everyone she cares about is going to get hurt or die because of it. Stanley admits he felt like that a lot when he was her age. Loosened up by the whiskey, Sammie unloads on Stanley. Stanley tells Sammie that it sounds like she needs friends to help her through this. Sammie actually agrees.

## List of Appearances

* Bjorn Olafson
* Henry Marlowe
* Sammie Overbrook
* Oliver Allen Evans
* Sirens
* Captain of the Pride
* Miguel Rodriguez
* Stanley Marlowe
* Sean
* John
* Sophia Foster
* Annie Foster
* Shemar D'Apollo

## Roll Tracker

**Hannah Level Up:** Took "Practitioner" from the Spell-Slinger for "heal 1-harm" and "do something beyond human limitations."

## Harm Healed

 Hannah/Sammie
 Hannah/Sammie
 Andrew/Bjorn
 Andrew/Bjorn

## Trivia

This episode and Blood and Thunder were recorded together in one long session. When recording started, the crew thought Blood and Thunder was going to be the finale, but so much went wrong and the episode dragged out so long it ended up being cut into two.