"Truth"

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**"Truth"** is the thirteenth episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

The Radar is interrogated by a relative of a friend. But is HE a friend?

## Plot

Date unknown, The White Room

**Act 1**

The metal door to the cell opens and rises as Tibby returns and slumps to the ground having returned from a strange interrogation by a doctor. Laura is to go next but she refuses and Tibby is afraid that he may have given them what they were after. Billy asks if he learned anything about when they are and Tibby tells him that he recognizes their cell as the one they were all taken to in Prime A, underneath the abandoned school, but says that it seems newer than last time he was here. Tibby describes the sensors being put on his head and being asked questions but he couldn’t answer because they kept his mouth closed. He also reports not seeing Mickey. Tibby tells Mallory and Laura about the last time he and the others were here. Laura recalls their arriving being sedated by gas and waking to Tibby being taken away. She steps onto the platform as it descends and finds herself in another room with a one-way mirror and a single door. She is greeted by a nervous and bedraggled doctor with a shaking cup of coffee in one hand who escorts her down a corridor.

Laura is taken to a room with a single chair and a strange device, she allows an assistant to strap her in. They shave her hair, turn the lights off and place a metal dome on her head and gag her. The doctor, who the assistant refer to as Doctor Omari, takes out a little clapping monkey toy and asks not to be judged as he’s been down her for a week and “Terrence” is his friend. He starts the machine and asks her questions until the process is complete. The doctor looks over the results, Laura’s memory of the car crash her frustration about not dying and her desire to be powerful but only a few things line up with what he saw from Tibby’s memories and nothing for what he hoped to find, anything to do with time travel, Skye, Marcus, the late Rachel Jewell or the death of Clarity Prime. But among the memories the word Clone is spaced throughout. The doctor complains to his assistant about the strange results and pockets “Terrence.” He releases Laura who gets into a confrontation with a guard on the way back to the cell.

Doctor Omari meets with Clarity in a room overlooking the cell and shows her the results. Laura’s results and lack of information confound her and the Doctor asks if they should run her again but Clarity warns of the danger of repeating the procedure. Clarity allows the group to see her and the doctor and talk to the group. Clarity mentions the last time she saw them was 60 years ago when the clones drowned her father. She reveals that she wants to know exactly how she dies and confronts Laura about her results. Henry mentions knowing the answer and tries to make a deal, the answers for the others freedom. She asks the doctor if she should let them go and explains to him that the group kill her and that they time traveled which astounds him. Clarity confirms to Billy that he is still in a coma in this time and to Mallory that his existence means an end to the truce between her and the Council, Mearl’s use of tech he should never have had, since shut down the lab. She reveals that her husband told her of his run in with them and shutdown the cloning program that made Mallory and the 383 failures.

She asks them if they have seen Chaos and Order, the gods of this world, which they do and tries to explain to them how they work. That the stronger their presence in the world the stronger they become and that they can become realized, even physical if either get too strong. She tries to explain to them about the balance describing it like a thread drawn between the two. Ever since Henry told her of killing Phobos she had hoped to escape him but it was a lie, he brought Order to the world but changed nothing. She then asks them who is Marcus Bennett having learned from Tibby’s memories that he replaces her. Laura reveals her connection to Marcus, being both his sister and a clone but Billy then gets her attention by lying to Clarity that Ms Wu was responsible for her death and Marcus replacing her, not Skye. Clarity orders Doctor Omari to take Henry to the machine and he asks in return for the whole situation to be explained to him later. Tibby warns Henry about the procedure seeing into his mind but Henry says he has it under control and will only think about Tibby’s mom to throw them off.

Henry is taken to the same room by the doctor who introduces himself, and Henry recognizes it as the same last name as Sayaka. Billy teases the doctor about in the future being married to her but he takes out Terrence, winds him up to keep him calm but even sleep deprived knows he is lying. Henry is brought to the chair and put through the same process as Laura, however the machine errors and it cannot read his mind, Henry’s plan somehow successful. The procedure leaves him stunned and Doctor Omari and the assistant discuss what to do and decide on putting him through the procedure again. The lights come back up as the doctor looks over the successful results while Billy’s world goes blurry and his feelings and thoughts go to Rachel, to the eye watching them in the tunnel and the moment Marcus smiled after letting go of Clarity. The readouts of what he has gone through intrigue the Doctor and the assistant mentions that they may have caused Henry some brain damage. Henry is taken back to the others and the results go to Clarity who appears to them again. Doctor Omari blames his assistant for putting Henry through the machine twice and she calls for him to be brought to her as the others check in with Henry, who no longer knows the answer to the group’s safety question. As they are talking the one-eyed Alice appears inside the cell sitting in a red chair.

**Act 2**

Clarity and the doctor seem unable to see Alice and when Mallory tries to touch her, his hand passes right through. She explains that they never left 1980, Clarity having caught them somehow and lied to them earlier. Alice tells them that she is further in the future, observing because she was curious as to what happened to them. Clarity notices them talking to thin air and Alice tells them that she is only allowing the group to see her. Clarity fires the assistant who finally shows up. Henry tries to communicate to Tibby about the Doctor and Laura reveals his name and Tibby puts together the Sayaka connection, her dad overhearing this is told by Clarity that the children must know each other and starts to believe what Henry said earlier until she corrects him. He then addresses the group about his daughter. Tibby explains to him about what happened to Sayaka and what she did for them. Laura manages to convince him of Henry’ lie which riles him up and Laura steps up to the glass to make a deal with Clarity who alludes to perhaps being responsible for bringing Laura’s family here just to get to Marcus and Laura. Laura cuts through her words and demands her help in finding Mickey and Em. Clarity reveals to have considered Em her daughter and raised her after she was left behind and Laura is able to convince Clarity to negotiate.

Clarity however uses the fact that she knows about the Rebirth program that created Laura and the fact that because she remembered her past life when she should not have been able to, that they must have already made a deal. She asks that when Laura goes back to her 1991 to mentally hurt Marcus and Laura silently agrees. Clarity voices out loud to let everyone go though she has no power herself to send them back, but only to pluck them out of the time stream and leaves them with Doctor Omari. The group notice that Alice has gone and as Doctor Omari attempts to sterilize Henry after believing his lie, Mallory distracts him and convinces the doctor that he was married to his daughter and Laura knocks him away and headbutts him causing him to drop the syringe. However, in his addled state Henry picks it up and administers it to himself. The doctor calls for the guard to let them out but no one answers. He lets them out himself but the corridor below is empty. As they all walk to the security station they hear over the radio that “she” is here and calls for back up to protect The White Room. Doctor Omari begins to panic and Tibby tells him about his daughter’s sacrifice and convinces him to help them get out. He leads them to an exit with the sounds of gunshots from above and Doctor Omari reveals that Terrence is also a grenade. Laura mentions to the group that it may be high stress that causes a portal to open and Henry pulls the pin on the Terrence grenade.

They get in an elevator and Laura grabs Tibby and puts all the pressure on the situation and the possibility of not seeing Mickey again all on his shoulders. The lift doors open as the lights in the corridor begin to shatter and a portal opens at the other end. They begin to run and Henry grabs Terrence and throws it back into the lift. They jump into the tunnel leaving the doctor as the lift doors explode behind him, but he is safe.

**House at the end of the Universe**

The group find themselves in the dark lit by 7 out of 10 standing candles. They are joined by Kenric Paulse who tells them they are in his room. Mallory asks if he or they opened the tunnel to which he says neither, and that he is nervous to be meeting them. He points to Henry and Tibby and tells them that they are two of the lit candles. Laura asks what he means and if he’s okay. Kenric assures her that he is and that he is renting a room here, from Night and Day. Mallory asks about the 7 lit candles and Kenric points to each and names them: Em Pegg, Mike Mickelson, Sayaka, Nick Blakely, Henry and Tibby. The candles that are out he names, Lexi, Mike Hunt and Marcus Bennett. The reveal stuns Laura and Mallory and Kenric tells them that Marcus’s candle went out months ago. Mallory demands to know who he is to say that Marcus is dead and Kenric answers that he is the Keeper of Truth.

Tibby slowly puts together about Marcus and how he changed when he touched Clarity. Tibby asks about the seventh lit candle that Kenric glossed over and he apologizes, saying that it is Mickey though he can’t see her in the flame currently, like ha can see the others, and that’s why he missed it. Laura asks if she could use another candle to re light another, but Kenric tells them that it does not work like that, the candles go out when they are supposed to and cannot be brought back. Laura asks about what is the truth and he tells them that they all have an important job to do, even if they don’t have a candle he can see them in the flames. Mallory asks who he is but Kenric tells him only Mallory can answer that. Laura asks about the significance of the ten and he reveals that they are the personification of Phobos, chaos incarnate. She asks about what happens when a candle goes out and Kenric answers that the power in those that remain grows and that when Phobos’ energy was scattered he put himself in the ten. Kenric explains that like the other “gods,” as he is the god of truth, they see events out of linear time and that if the 10 candles of Phobos go out, the balance will be lost and Order will reign. Mallory asks more questions about the names of Phobos, to which he replies that it has many names, like Laura does and that he once had a house until the balance and Lies prevailed and Night and Day allowed him to stay here. He thanks them for sharing their time with him as he must go and can’t be there when “she” arrives. He answers two final questions: Henry’s that order is Harmonia and that another name Laura has that she doesn’t know about, is Lucifer. Kenric vanishes and a knock sounds at the door, Mallory answers the door to see a tall woman in black, missing her left arm and a scar trailing down one eye. Mallory asks who she is and in response she hugs him.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Matt Sohinki as Mallory Jenkins
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

## Rumors

1. The Devil is you
2. The Devil is your shadow
3. The Devil is us
4. The Devil is Laura Bennett (winner)

## Notes

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