Season 2 - Episode 48: Missing Moments

## Synopsis

Sammie has been putting off going to Miguel and ends up passing out from blood loss. When she wakes up in Miguel's workshop, things are still tense and neither apologize. At school, Henry and River have another rooftop lunch. River asks what's been bothering him lately and Henry explains everything with the Empty Man. River tells him that she's always there for him if he needs to talk. Bjorn is feeling conflicted after everything that happened recently. He decides to focus on a problem he thinks he can solve - figuring out the origin of all the monsters they've fought recently. He finds out the basilisk is from Greece and it confirms that all the monsters lately haven't been coming through Rifts btu have already existed here. Two weeks later, Sammie arrives back at her apartment after stopping at the hotel to have her back healed again. Oliver tells her about a girl that has been missing for a week and is bothered by it because he was at a nearby bar and should have remembered seeing her. Sammie looks into his memories and realizes they've been altered.

## Episode Description

Sammie and Miguel compete at the Stubborn Olympics. Bjorn investigates the lack of Rift monsters.

## Key Events

* River invites Henry to another lunch on the roof. River asks Henry what's been bothering him and Henry explains everything that happened with the Empty Man. River tells him she's sorry he's going through this and looks contemplative.
* Bjorn realizes all the monsters they've faced recently haven't come from the Rifts and have already existed in the world.
* Oliver tells Sammie he heard about the disappearance of a girl from a man at the Blackout Society they should look into. He says he was at the bar when she disappeared but he doesn't remember seeing her. Sammie looks through Oliver's memories and finds that they've been tampered with.

## Summary

After spending another night at Bjorn's and calming down, she was finally able to release the demonblade. Bjorn, using protective measures, wrapped it and stored it in his closet with intentions on bringing it back to the Fort once it was stable.

It's been 5 days since then. Sammie has been avoiding Miguel. Her back needs magical healing from him in order to stop the bleeding but she's been trying to do it herself. Currently, Sammie is sunning herself on her balcony, Oliver is sitting beside her. Oliver notices that her back is bleeding enough to drip onto the patio and suggests that Sammie go visit Miguel. Sammie says it's fine and that eventually the magical resistances will wear off and it'll stay closed and stop bleeding. She leans forward and her head begins to spin, Oliver catches her before she can fall off the chair. He tells Sammie it's time to go see Miguel, but Sammie still manages to stay no before she passes out. Oliver motions for Elise through the door and Elise comes out with some towels. She puts one across Sammie's back and then Oliver picks her up to carry her to his car.

When Sammie comes to, she feels a lot better. At first she thinks her magic worked and then she realizes what happened. She opens her eyes and finds herself in Miguel's workshop at the hotel. She tries to sit up and hears Miguel tell her to stay still or she'll rip out her IV. Sammie frowns but doesn't move. Sammie and Miguel stare at each other, both with frosty expressions. The tension is thick in the air. Neither say anything to each other before Miguel wheels over to his computer and begins to work on something.

Soon, Stanley and Oliver walk through the door. They are both holding coffee. Oliver helps Sammie sit up and than hands her one of the two cups he's holding as an apology. Miguel wheels out of the room and Sammie relaxes slightly. Oliver asks if she talked to Miguel at all and Sammie says no. Oliver points out that she must feel better now that she's hear but Sammie doesn't answer. Stanley comments that Sammie and Miguel are far too stubborn and Sammie agrees. Stanley reminds Sammie that she'll have to work with him eventually. Sammie tells Stanley he knows what he did to her. Stanley meets her gaze and says he knows why Miguel did what he did and what Sammie did to Miguel. Sammie admits she doesn't know what to say and Stanley suggests she can start with 'I'm sorry.' Sammie says that Miguel isn't sorry though and Stanley points out she hasn't asked him that yet.

Sammie tries to switch topics and ask where Stanley has been recently. Stanley says he had a medical appointment on the mainland that he had to reschedule because of what happened. Sammie rubs her face and apologizes. Stanley says that he's sorry too, he wishes he could have been there to help. Sammie asks if she can ask Stanley a question and Stanley agrees. Sammie asks who the Council is. Stanley explains its the ruling body over the Dragon Knights which consists of powerful Dragon Knights - older men and woman from different countries. Sammie asks if they are good people and Stanley admits he doesn't know how to answer that. Sammie asks if Stanley trusts the Council and Stanley says it depends. Sammie then asks if he trusts the Council won't just come kill her anyway, even if she leaves the key alone, and Stanley says no, he doesn't. Sammie goes silent and sips at her coffee. Stanley continues and says that the main goal of the Council is the protection of Dragon Knights as a species. If someone threatens that, it's not good. Stanley then focuses in on Oliver, who is taking notes on his phone. Oliver looks embarrassed at being caught and then puts his phone away.

Stanley stands from his chair and tells Sammie that he can't force her to talk to Miguel, but he doesn't want their argument to be responsible for getting either one of them killed. Sammie nods and says she understands. Oliver and Sammie sit in the room and drink their coffee until Miguel is satisfied Sammie isn't going to pass out from dehydration. Sammie still doesn't talk to him yet and the only thing Miguel tells her is to come back in three days for more healing.

Henry has been in school the past few days. In his free time, he's been working on research for the Empty Man and experimenting with building some gadgets. At school, in the lunch room, he feels something hit the back of his head. He turns and sees the projectile was a balled up piece of pink paper. He picks it up off the floor and unfolds it. It says, "Hey, egghead, meet me on the roof. -R" Henry gets his lunch and heads up to the roof to meet River.

River is there already, eating her lunch. Her hair is now dyed pink. River seems pleased Henry got her note and Henry says it was hard to ignore. River says she's been trying to get his attention all day but was unsuccessful. River asks what's up with him and Henry makes a vague gesture before sitting down. River asks if he's feeling 'alive' since the last time she talked to him was right after he was bitten by the zombie. Henry says he feels fine, just feeling like school is the 'fake' world and the outside is the 'real' world. River jokes that Henry should write poetry and Henry disagrees, saying if he did write it wouldn't be poetry. River says that poetry is about emotions and it seems like Henry is having a lot of them.

Henry winces and then says that he feels like he's had an anvil dropped over his head and he doesn't want to drop it on River as well. Joking aside, River asks if Henry is genuinely okay. Henry admits that there have been some recent events that are getting to him and River says that if he needs to talk about it, she's here for him. Henry starts to explain, giving River a short recap of who the Empty Man is and what he's done to his family. River looks a little flustered and admits that sounds like a lot. She says that she's sorry he's going through all that. Henry switches topics to River's hair, noting the color change. River suggests that Henry use some conditioner.

River then tells Henry to stop ignoring her in class, that she'll help make classes more fun. Henry admits that braining the zombie is what he considers fun and River admits as well that she thought it was fun. River tells him to be careful and Henry nods in agreement. River then looks away from him with a contemplative looking, seeming to be thinking about what Henry talked about earlier.

Bjorn has been feeling a bit lost. He's feeling conflicted and going over several problems: 1) getting rid of Jadis for good, 2) getting the Dragon Knights on the island to leave because they're becoming a problem, 3) coming to terms with the fact that he deeply cares about his team here and that's why he's been acting in a way that may seem out of character, 4) this is the first time he's run into a situation where what the Council considers 'right' isn't what he thinks is 'right,' and 5) figuring out why the monsters lately haven't been coming from Rifts and are ones that were already here.

Bjorn focuses on the last issue, trying to figure out more about the monsters they've fought recently that weren't from Rifts - like the basilisk, poltergeist, and dullahan - and seeing if there is a way they are connected. Bjorn believes the Empty Man must be the link, he's just not sure how. Bjorn starts to investigate the basilisk more to see if he can find out where it came from, as it's the only monster they've fought that he has a solid lead on its origins. Bjorn finds the daughter of the shopkeeper that died and talks to her. She tells him that her dad had just received a big shipment from Greece and Bjorn assumes that must be where the basilisk came from. He heads back to his townhouse to write everything down about the basilisk and the other monsters to help himself think and try to figure out a connection.

Around two weeks later, Sammie is on her way back to her apartment after a healing session with Miguel. Miguel tells her this should be the last one as long as she doesn't re-injure it in the next three days. When she gets back to her apartment, she finds a perplexed Oliver and asks him what's going on. Oliver explains he has a weird feeling about a story he heard at a Blackout Society meeting. Oliver begins to tell Sammie about a man at the meeting who said his daughter had gone missing. He says that everyone blew it off because his daughter tends to always be out and about with different men and at clubs.

Oliver admits he has no evidence to back up his feeling, but she's been gone for a week now and something just feels off about it. Sammie asks if he wants to go look at the site where she disappeared and Oliver agrees. Sammie asks him a few more questions about when and where she disappeared and Oliver explains she went missing at night, outside of a club on the really hot day they had last week. He says he was out that night, drinking with some friends, and that he was in the area. Oliver feels like he should have remembered seeing her there, but he doesn't.

Sammie asks if Oliver trusts her and he immediately confirms he does. Sammie says that she can look through his memories at that night. Oliver seems a bit flustered at first at the thought of Sammie trolling through his mind but agrees. Sammie assures him she doesn't want to break that trust with him and will only look at the night in question. Sammie puts her hands on the sides of Oliver's head, closes her eyes, and begins to focus. She travels back to the day last week that had been unusually hot for November.

Sammie sees Oliver hanging out at a bar with a group of guys. She recognizes some of them from the pictures of the Blackout Society. Oliver waves goodbye to them and walks outside to pull out his phone to call an Uber. He hears the sound of a car and he looks up to see a dark silver colored sedan pull up. Oliver takes a few drunken steps forward and waves at the car. The passenger window starts to roll down. Suddenly, all Sammie can see is a strange, white static covering the memory. She doesn't see what Oliver sees anymore. She only hears Oliver say, "Alright, dude, see you later! Have a good one!" When the static disappears, there is no car. Oliver stumbles back into the bar. He's sitting inside and sees his own Uber driver arrive at the curb and look for him, but Oliver seems to have forgotten he called for an Uber in the first place and definitely doesn't realize the man is looking for him.

Sammie snaps back to herself, a concerned look on her face. Sammie tells him that something happened to him and Oliver asks what she means. Sammie says she isn't sure but someone or something messed with his head. Sammie explains everything she saw to him. Oliver rubs his face and says that he doesn't remember any of what Sammie just described. He confusedly says he thought he had one of the guys he was with bring him home because he was going to come back early to work on something, he doesn't know why he went back into the bar and waited. Oliver also starts to look concerned. Sammie agrees with Oliver's initial feeling that something weird is going on here and that they need to look into it.

## List of Appearances

* Sammie Overbrook
* Oliver Allen Evans
* Elise Romano
* Miguel Rodriguez
* Stanley Marlowe
* Henry Marlowe
* River Hanson
* Bjorn Olafson