Episode 20: Stop in the Name of the Lord

## Synopsis

Bjorn and Sammie try to wrestle the priest into submission, but it doesn't go well. Eventually, a knife appears from seemingly nowhere to sink into the priest's chest. The priest collapses and Bjorn sees a wisp leave his body. Bjorn also finds another silver card in the alleyway. Bjorn and Sammie head to Fort Lagarto to inform the rest of the crew about what's been going on.

## Episode Description

Bjorn and Sammie fight one of their most formidable foes yet, a... local priest? And Keeper Susannah strings together her longest list of things-she-never-expected-to-say.

## Key Events

* The possessed priest shows superhuman strength, managing to fight Bjorn and Sammie off.
* Whatever is possessing the priest identifies Bjorn as a Dragon Knight and says he doesn't know what Sammie is.
* A knife flies out from the alleyway and sinks into the priest's chest. The priests eyes flash white and Bjorn catches a glimpse of a wisp leaving the priest's body.
* Bjorn finds another silver card in the alleyway where the knife came from with "keep her safe" written on the back.

## Summary

A police officer tries to calm down the priest, but the priest hits the cop with a book. The police officer gets fed up and gets out his handcuffs to arrest him. The priest picks up the cop with one arm and throws him across the street. Bjorn and Sammie notice each other are there and give each other a nod of acknowledgement before Bjorn goes to tackle the priest. Bjorn manages to pin the priest to the ground.

Sammie grabs the handcuffs off the ground that the cop had dropped and runs to try and help Bjorn with the priest. The priest kicks Bjorn off of him great force before ripping up a stop sign and threatening Sammie with it. Sammie keeps the priest distracted while Bjorn sneaks up on him. The priest smacks Sammie out of the way with the stop sign while Bjorn puts the priest in a choke hold.

Elise rushes up to help Sammie and Sammie tries to get Elise to stay out of danger crouched behind a nearby car. Elise notices that Sammie shouldn't be as okay as she is after getting thrown across the street and insists she stay by the car too. Bjorn still has the priest in a choke hold, but gets stabbed through the leg with the stop sign. Sammie insists she has to go help. She tries to threaten the priest into giving up with her knife, but the knife doesn't seem to bother him. He kicks Sammie off of him and pulls himself out of Bjorn's hold.

The possessed priest stands up and turns to Bjorn and talks in a voice that isn't his. He remarks that it's been a while since he fought a Dragon Knight and that he doesn't know "what" Sammie is. Bjorn rolls out of the way from another attack. Sammie grabs her knife and goes in to try and disable him. She gets a hit in, but the priest swats her out of the way with a blow to the head. As he goes to attack Sammie again, a knife seems to fly in from nowhere and sink directly into the priests' chest. The priest's eyes flash white and Bjorn catches the glimpse of a wisp of some kind behind him.

Bjorn realizes the knife must have come from a nearby alleyway. Bjorn walks over to the alley, but doesn't see anyone. He finds a small silver, shimmering card with a dove on it. This time, "Keep her safe." is written on the back. He puts the card in his pocket and then goes back to attend to the priest. He's able to pull out the knife and stabilize him so that he'll pull through. The cop that was thrown earlier calls for back up and an ambulance.

Bjorn and Sammie back away as the cop and his back up take control of the scene. Sammie asks if Bjorn found where the knife came from, but Bjorn says he didn't see anyone. She makes sure that Bjorn is okay and Bjorn says he'll go to the hospital for medical attention. Elise pulls Sammie away, scared that she's hurt. Sammie insists she's fine, but Elise takes her to a paramedic on the scene to get checked for a concussion. Once Elise is satisfied Sammie is okay, she takes her to her apartment where Grandma Fran makes her some soup.

Bjorn goes to his car and texts Sammie to meet him at the Fort when she can. He then calls Indigo. He tells Indigo that there is another "presence" in Thornvale he needs to take care of. He also brings up the issue that Captain Holland keeps asking him for information about the incidents and that she wants information to be able to close her cases. He asks for authorization to give her limited information. Indigo says that he'll need to get back to him about the issue. Bjorn then drives himself to the hospital for some medical attention on his leg. After getting fixed up, he heads to the Fort.

Once Sammie arrives at the Fort, Bjorn fills the crew in on the details of what he's learned so far and that it seems to be an incorporeal creature that possesses people. He also tells them that it seemed to know he is a Dragon Knight, which especially alarms Stanley and Miguel. After covering the details of the monster, Bjorn talks about how the priest got taken down by someone throwing a knife from an alleyway and that all that was left behind was a silver card. He remarks that someone must be trying to keep Sammie safe. Sammie pulls out the identical card that she found earlier and remarks that she agrees someone is watching her.

## List of Appearances

* Bjorn Olafson
* Sammie Overbrook
* Father Michael Sanford (Possessed Priest)
* Elise Romano
* Grandma Francesca
* Indigo
* Henry Marlowe
* Stanley Marlowe
* Miguel Rodriguez

## Harm Taken

\*Based off note in Ring of Fire, Bjorn's armor was adjusted from 3 to 2 between arcs.

## Trivia

Susannah's infamous "cop jangly things" comes from this episode.

The one and only time Bjorn calls Sammie "dude."