"Brown Sugar and Butter"

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***"Brown Sugar and Butter"*** is the eighteenth episode of KOllOK 1991.

## Synopsis

Marcus reunites with his family. His whole family. And his mother needs to account for what she's done. Meanwhile, Mickey searches for her father and makes some discoveries that tears her family apart.

## Plot

**Wednesday, 8pm March 16,**

A squirrely man covered in sweat barges into the office of Clarity Anah, to tell her that the President’s people are calling for her. She continues to look out at the burning Kollok and tells him that she isn’t in. The man leaves and she gestures to a figure in the room to tend to her stiff neck. She locks eyes with the figure’s reflection, the same man that Mickey had killed in her apartment the day before. Clarity warns him that he will meet resistance but orders him to retrieve the other Clarity’s from their partners around the world, claiming that it is time to cash in on their insurance policies. Clarity mentions using them as bargaining chips for Director Bunny, after having travelled here and she laments letting him leave without taking his head after his announcement. She opens a folder in her lap and informs her bodyguard to also retrieve Billy Baker and not let the others escape; if he has to kill them than they will bring them back as she has done for him. Clarity threatens him that if he fails, she will not do the dame for him again and the bodyguard leaves. Clarity stares once more into the smoke rising from the town contemplating her own fears that these events have shown that she is insignificant to her father

**6pm, Kollok High School**

Laura Bennet walks through the halls of the school, now serving as a relief shelter, after having been picked up and brought here. Combing through the rooms she finds Marcus; he doesn’t know her face but some part of him recognises her as family. Laura runs over and hugs him, and Marcus gains access to her memories. He learns who she is and sees the years she spent confined, only visited by his mother and tests being done on her. Marcus also sees her past in a different universe, moments she shared with her Marcus and the moment when she was seventeen that her ego was stolen and placed within a 10-year-old version of the body she currently inhabits.

           Their hug ends and Marcus reveals what he learned from her memories and talks to her about though seeing her makes him happy he is conflicted as she isn’t his Laura. His words bring up the dreams she had of her old life and the truth that she has known for a while about who she really is, but they bond over having each other even if they are not the ones they wanted.(22:00) Laura brings up what happened to their mom and mentions the powered boy that saved her, that Marcus mentions that he knows who she means. She helps him out of the makeshift hospital bed, his broken leg seemingly almost recovered. They take note as Ms Wu’s press conference appears on the tv in his room and he is shocked by the mention of his and his friend’s names and of Director Bunny’s statement.

**8pm, Portland**

Mickey arrives in a taxi outside a bar underneath an overpass, the location of her dad. The driver helps her with her wheelchair and she heads inside. The bouncer stops her but she mentions that she is here for her Mike Jones. The bartender overhears her and tells the bouncer to let her in so she can get her dad out of his bar. He points over to one corner where her dad is nursing an injury to his head among a turned over table and several smashed bottles. Mickey wheels over, smelling the alcohol on him and she asks what happened to him. The bartender answers that he got into a fight with the bouncer, Frank, and he gets him to help Mickey get her dad out of the bar and calls them a cab. Mickey’s dad, hovering between drunk and consciousness tells Mickey that he was drinking because he’d had enough of her mother calling Mickey a freak and comparing her to him.

           He mentions having followed Rachel and the other girls, and Mickey encourages him to remember more; he remembers being paid by a scientist to help find them and recalls what happened to Rachel. Mickey tries to console him that he was trying to help people even if he believes he was only doing it for money to help her though college. Mickey tells him about her plan to get him back to Kollok and to the people who can protect him; and he speaks of the regret of wishing he could have helped raise her sister, Emily as well. Their taxi arrives and she had the driver take them back to the Portland Suites.

Billy dreams of being back in school with everyone happy to meet him and the girls blushing as he passes, but he knows this seems wrong. He sees Tibby who tells him they are running out of time, then the bell rings and they are then in a classroom with Tibby drawing a picture of a mushroom cloud over Kollok. Tibby tells him they are all going to die and his skin starts to melt and then reform, he asks Billy if he thinks he can live forever and if Skye can, pointing over to where her body lies dead. Tibby asks if Billy thinks they can bring her back, and then points to Laura holding the skeleton of Marcus’ mom. Billy feels himself take Tibby’s hands and puts them on the skeleton and Tibby is pleased to be able to do what he asks.

           Mrs Bennet revives and mentions that he is not Billy Baker and he is then in the locker room where he is confronted with a dead body of Mickey in a wheelchair wheeling towards him and asks if Billy can help her before telling him that he’s not Billy and rolling away. Another Tibby appears and repeats that they are running out of time, and they appear next to the lake, a large mushroom cloud frozen above the town. A pulsing light gets their attention and Tibby and Billy head underneath the lake but Billy finds himself in a hallway with Scott. Scott tells him that Billy’s forgotten a lot of the things he used to know and sates he’s run out of time.

**Portland Suites**

Billy wakes up to a knocking at the door to the room, he calls out who it is and Mike responds asking to be let in. Billy sees that Tibby, Agent Bucket and Lexi are still sleeping, gets up and opens the door. Mike hands Billy one of the cokes he snuck out to retrieve and they talk about bad dreams that they’ve been having, though Mike says he isn’t sure he’s even slept. Mike apologises for not telling anyone about the knife, as he doesn’t remember stabbing Tibby, but Billy tells him that if no one can remember what happened that it doesn’t matter. Billy tells him that they are friends having gone through all of what they have, Mike tells him that he’s never had friends before not like how Billy had being popular. Billy reveals his use of powers to have done that, as well as the sign and not feeling anything about the cost to the universes destroyed to do so.

           Mike brings up if it was Billy’s powers that made them forget, and he counters with possibly only to stop Tibby from trying to kill Mike. Mike brings up Lexi almost killing someone and Billy asks if he and Lexi are friends, to which Mike realises he is having also gone through a lot with her before they encountered the group. He mentions being a Tibby for her as Tibby is to Billy, being there for them so they don’t hurt people with their powers. Billy and Mike come to an understanding that Mike and Lexi need to leave to protect them and everyone.

**6pm, Kollok High School**

The broadcast ends and Marcus and Laura decide to leave before anyone can recognise him. One of the nurses steps into his room and closes the door behind her, offering their help to get Marcus to safety. The nurse mentions owing his friends to help, and in a moment turns into a puddle of flesh and then reforms into Clarence. He introduces himself to Laura as his ability has her spooked and warns them of the military protecting the school. He apologises to Marcus for killing Sammy and asks about the man that shot him. They come up with a plan and Clarence takes the form of Agent Bucket to “take them into custody,” and they manage to leave the make shift hospital without issue. Laura warns Marcus about trusting his mother as he recalls where to find her at Dept. C. Clarence “secures” them transport and they off to meet her

**9pm, Portland Suites**

Mickey and her dad arrive back and make their way to his room, Mike Jones reluctant to see her mother. The sound of his knocking wakes the rest of the group and they leave their room to meet them as Mickey’s mom let’s them in. Mom confronts her mother with what her father said, and tells her to go back to New York and to her sister. Overhearing the conversation Bucket inquires if Mickey is okay and she decides to leave her parents to sleep and bunk in the other room with the others. As Bucket goes to push Mickey’s chair away her father shouts out in panic, in his drunken sate believing Bucket is taking her away. He scrambles for his gun and fatally shoots Bucket.

           Billy calls out for Tibby as Mike runs to grab the gun from Mickey’s dad, the ring of the gunshots causes the rest of the motel to come out and investigate. Tibby and Lexi arrive, her hands already beginning to burn and shake as the gunshots trigger her previous trauma. Mickey’s dad let’s out another two gunshots into the ceiling, yelling for people to leave Mickey alone. Tibby goes to reach for Bucket as Lexi raises her hands on instinct. A flash of white-hot flames reduces Mickey’s dad to ash, his gun charred amidst the remains. Flames lick at the back of the room as Tibby is frozen with indecision as Bucket is dead. Mickey asks Tibby to help her dad and he runs into the room, but without a body he can’t help her. Shaking, Lexi apologises again and again before running Mike following to catch up.

           Mickey repeats her request for Tibby to help, but says he can’t; she then demands to know where Lexi is. Billy lies about having them got away and ask Billy and Tibby to give her a reason not to stop her. Tibby falls to his knees and places his hands on Mickey’s knees begging her not to, that Lexi had panicked. Billy asks Tibby to go outside and he asks the assembling watchers to call 911. Billy tires to comfort Mickey, as she hopes there is a universe where her dad is at peace and happy. The sound of sirens reaches them as Mickey’s mom turns the charred gun on her daughter and Billy, she demands they leave denying that Mickey is her daughter. Billy uses his power to make it seem like the room is empty and Billy pushes Mickey out leaving her mother crying in the partly burning room.

           Tibby still torn on what to do about Bucket asks Mickey and Billy what to do, but they let him make the choice. Tibby backs away from the body unable to kill a bucket to save theirs; he apologises to Mickey and they leave. Billy leaves Tibby and Mickey a moment to try and fine Lexi and Mike, though unable to catch up to them he sees them fleeing in the distance and uses his power hoping, that he has given them fake passports. He returns to the others and they make plans to find the helicopter Bucket used to come to Portland and return to Kollok. Mickey spots it and the waiting pilot parked down the hill and they head towards it.

**8pm, Dept. C Facility**

Marcus, Laura and Clarence arrive and Larson meet them. He and Laura bond, and Larson tells “Bucket” that his mom wants to see him. Marcus attempts to prevent it, saying Bucket needs to take them elsewhere but Larson crawls through the open car window and get’s into Marcus’ face, repeating that Bucket needs to see his mom. Marcus relents and Larson gets out of the car, Marcus gives Clarence warning that the agents may know he’s not Bucket as the real Bucket has powers. Larson guides Marcus and Laura to meet up with the Bennet’s, telling them that they’ve had to evacuate a lot of people from Kollok. Marcus and Larson get into an argument about who to blame and the responsibility of Department C as they walk, and after an awkward interlude, they arrive at their destination and Larson leaves.

           Laura is faced with several emotions at seeing her version of her father for the first time in years as they enter the room. Marcus’s Dad embraces him, relived that his son is alive and Lela Bennet, tells him who Laura is. Marcus’s dad demands answers from his wife, as Marcus realises, he doesn’t know about Rachel or anything else, something his mom confirms. She comes clean to her family about making Laura after being responsible for their Laura’s death. Laura corrects Lela’s statement saying that she wasn’t made, but stolen and trapped for eight years being lied to. Marcus explains to his dad about Synchroneity and the real reason they moved to Kollok. Laura and Lela reveal how this universes Laura died in a car crash, and Lela further reveals how she was approached by Clarity Anah and took her offer.

           Lela tells them that she had to use some of Marcus DNA in order to create a clone and alter it to create the body Laura currently inhabits and when it was old enough made the Contract that brought her ego over. However, due to the age difference, Laura began to remember her life back in her universe instead of what Lela thought would be a Laura that wouldn’t know the difference. Lela pleads that she did it for Marcus so he could have a sister but Marcus brings up the cost and she says it wasn’t fully paid. Marcus’s dad has trouble processing the truth of Synchroneity and Lela explains the arrangement she had up until they were let go and she took Laura from the lab to keep her safe. Marcus tells them about the announcement and everyone being hunted now. Mr Bennet apologises to Laura for everything that his wife has done and confronts Lela with her actions.

           Laura takes her father’s hand and Marcus takes his mothers, using his power to see into her memories. He sees the moment Clarity offered his mother the deal, Lela convincing Sam, Marcus’s dad, to head to Kollok and her comforting younger him that he would see his sister again. Marcus reaches out and puts a hand on his dad’s shoulder connecting the family and connected to everyone reaches into his parent’s memories and alters them. He changes them so after the argument with her mother, his Laura returned and using Laura’s memories of her life, slips them in alongside it, making it seem as the family never experienced her death though the past eight years since she was trapped remain fuzzy to them. The cost places the memories of his parent’s pain and loss as well as Laura’s feelings towards being ripped from her world within himself.

           Marcus tells Laura that his actions are for the best, so if he has to go at least she and his parents have each other. Laura refuses to accept his actions, to be trapped with his mother after all Lela has done to her and leaves. Marcus calms his parents down at seeing Laura upset and asks one of the FBI agents to take his parents’ home before running after Laura. However, as he begins to run a sharp pain in his mind brings him to a stop as he feels Bucket’s death. Larson finds him and confirms Bucket has died and tells him they have Clarence locked up, and who he was in relation to Clarity. They discuss what Clarity’s actions may be and if the chaos around them will draw her out. Marcus voices getting involved if that’s the case and Larson tells him that they will help do that as his mother has requested to see him.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Andre Meadows as Marcus Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

## Rumors

1. Clarity is alive.
2. The Clarities Know what Happened and are Coming.
3. Clarity Prime is on the way to the farm. (winner)
4. The Farm didn’t just raise clarity, they took her essence and put it into everything they grow.

## Notes

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