"Paralysed"

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**"Paralysed"** is the twenty-fifth episode and finale of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

The Radar deals with the aftermath of their time with Tilly.

## Plot

**Act 1**

**August 27, 11:30pm**

Tilly’s body turns to dust in Laura’s hands without Hera to keep it alive. The Radar’s awareness of everything they did and didn’t feel come back to them. Isaac proposes that they should leave after Laura has killed someone, but Laura checks on an unconscious Em first and wakes her up. Em awakens realizing what they did, but Isaac just tells them they were just trying to rob the shop. Mickey just wants to go home, as the truth about Tibby’s fate dawns on the group. However, Mallory doesn’t believe it and Isaac agrees with him. Em argues with Mallory with Billy siding with Em. Isaac tries to persuade them that people don’t just disappear. Isaac decides to take the boat and offers to drop the others where they want to go.

They ride in silence as each of them think over the emotions and events of their time under Hera’s influence. Mickey goes home to check in on her dad. Laura goes to find her parents. And the others to go home. Isaac drops Mallory off last and asks if he can crash at his place, and if he can have a pair of his dad’s shoes, to which Mallory agrees. All across Kollok the Radar stand before a door, with choices to make. Em pauses outside home, dreading confronting her parents after worrying them. Billy stands before Tibby’s home, thinking over the fun times the two of them shared and what he has to do. Mickey doesn’t hesitate as she heads inside the apartment complex to check on her father. Laura finds herself before the Bennett home, for the very first time.

**Mickey**

The ride in the elevator gives her time to think until she finally reaches her home and finds her father on floor. She rushes to check if he has a pulse and after a moment feels it. She calls for an ambulance but the call doesn’t pick up. Mickey finds her dad’s car keys, picks him up and starts taking him to the car as fast as she can. She apologizes to him, pleading for him to stay with her. She gets him in the car and speeds to the hospital, one hand holding his. The car spins out on the road and she comes to a stop on the side of the road, the engine no longer working. Mickey gets out and starts to half drag, half carry her dad along the road the rest of the way. His eyes flutter open at one point, recognizing her.

**Em**

Em steps inside and Jay confronts her about her absence. Her mother is out in the flooded town looking for her after hearing about Tibby’s mom getting a search party together to find Tibby. Em says that she can’t explain. That he knows what they’ve been going through after the incident at the Psychiatric hospital, but Jay is uneasy and he sits Em down to talk. Em tells him that they won’t find Tibby as he chose to stay behind, and Jay refers to the Black Rock and that he has been dreaming about it since the hospital. Jay admits that he and her mom have been meaning to have words with Em, as both of them have been feeling unwell as of late. After going to a doctor, they have been told that it seems they have both aged 10 years since their last visit. The horrible truth hits Em, as she realizes the cost of her power has been paid by her parents all this time. Em promises that she will fix it, and admits to her father that her and her friends are the cause for everything and they have to be the ones to fix it. Em resolves to do something to help after relaying what happened to Tibby and the message he gave them. Jay tells her that if she is set on that goal, she should leave and he won’t tell her mom she came back. Em mentions that her mom would understand after being Mallory’s therapist, and Jay lets slip that her mom and him have been discussing the things Mallory wrote and starts to realize everything he wrote was true. Jay asks Em to go so his heart won’t be broken by not seeing her the next morning and she tells him she loves him before she leaves.

**Billy**

Through the front door, Billy hears Tibby’s mom making phone calls asking for help to find Tibby. He knocks on the door and announces himself. She rushes to the door hoping to find Tibby but is crestfallen at only Billy standing there. Billy asks if he can come in and she lets him, the floor of the living room covered in notes and the town map. He asks about her progress and she admits she has not had any. She says that Tibby is all she has left and asks if Billy knows anything. Billy uses his power to turn a napkin in his bag into a note from Tibby saying he is leaving town, (Europe is the cost of using his power) and offers it to her. She takes the note and she asks what it is supposed to mean, but Billy only tells her that he will find Tibby. His words don’t comfort her and she gets a larger map of the states around Kollok. Billy apologizes and leaves, hearing her sob as the door closes.

**Laura**

Standing outside, Laura imagines Marcus’ life and wishes it could have been hers as a dog barks from inside. She sees the lights switch on and someone comes to the front door. Mr. Bennett flings the door open with a shotgun in hand, but lowers it as he sees Laura. He doesn’t recognize her but says she looks familiar. Seeing her nerves, he puts down the shotgun and Laura introduces herself. He is disbelieving but Laura convinces him to turn on the porch light and he does so, revealing her familiar looking form. He closes the door behind him and steps out onto the porch, asking if she knows Marcus and can get a message to him. Laura asks if Lelah is home, but Sam Bennett gets angry and annoyed. She prompts him to recall the events at Synchroneity and his eyes go wide. He embraces her and Laura tearfully hugs him back. He has several questions and Laura asks if they can go inside and they do, a small dog happy to see her. She takes note of the pictures of Marcus and the destroyed photos of the family, all missing Lelah.

He makes her some coffee and as they talk he tells her that he is now divorced from Lelah. He offers to take Laura home but she tells him they can’t now. He apologizes for the things she has gone through at the hands of Lelah and Laura asks where she is. He tells Laura that she is with Marcus at Synchroneity and hasn’t heard from either of them. He asks about how old she was when she was pulled over, and she answers 17. Then he starts asking about her life in that universe. Laura happily answers and he apologizes again for taking her from that life. Laura brings up her plan to try and get to Marcus and Sam offers her a room in the house for as long as she wants it.

**Mallory**

Mallory watches the lights of passing cars on his ceiling and Isaac asks what is on his mind. Mallory brings up thinking about his friends and their powers but Isaac assures him that they don’t have any. The conversation turns to Mallory taking therapy and how it started as something he had to do, but he began to enjoy it as it gave him someone to talk to. Isaac points out that if his friends don’t talk to him then they can’t be his friends at all. Mallory starts to doubt that he even has friends.

Eventually, each of the Radar find their way to sleep as the Black Rock spins and the message repeats. "Together our bond breaks through the Black Rock." Meanwhile, the world responds to the great disasters of the loss of Australia and mainland Europe, as panic sweeps across the globe.

**Act 2**

**August 28, 8am**

Mickey wakes in the chair next to her dad’s hospital bed, saying that the world is ending as he brings her attention to the tv on the wall. The news reports the continents of Australia and Europe are gone, and shows images of empty ocean where they should be. Mickey hears people crying at the news elsewhere on the floor. She turns back to her dad, who tells her that he had a heart attack as she slept through the doctor’s diagnoses. Mickey turns off the tv and tells her dad that she needs him, and doesn’t want him to have another heart attack, worrying. He voices needing her now that he probably won’t be able to work, and that the doctor told him that it was like the hand of God reached in and stopped it. Mickey says that she will make sure it won’t happen again.

The noise of the tv wakes Laura, as her dad watches the news. Laura asks to use his phone and she calls Mallory, which wakes him up. She tells him about the news. but he doesn’t believe her. He confronts her about her not caring about him and Laura apologizes and asks him to turn on the tv. Mallory does so, waking up Isaac, and they both watch the news. Em awakes in the back of Major Video, where she had set up a place for Ven, to muffled voices. Getting up to see what’s going on she sees a bunch of children with arms full of videos. She grabs the bat from behind the counter and she confronts them with their lack of taste. As they run out, Em sees dozens of children looting the local stores around town. She goes to ring Mallory’s and he changes the line to pick up. Em asks to speak with Laura and he tells her she’s on the other line. Mallory tries to connects them but ends up hanging up on both of them.

Taking Isaac’s advice, Mallory tries to call the operator but no one picks up. Instead, Laura calls back and proposes that they get everyone together. He agrees and calls Em’s house to confirm the plan with her, but Jay picks up and tells him that she isn’t there. Em tries calling Mickey’s but gets no response. Mickey calls Billy’s house from the hospital, and hears screaming from somewhere in the hospital. Woken up by the phone and going to answer, Billy he sees his little sister by it. She cuts the phone line, and he watches his younger brother start pouring out milk on the floor. He punches Billy in the groin as he goes past. Mallory uses the walkie-talkie to speak to Billy and catches him up on the news. Confused, Billy goes to turn on the main tv to confirm, but sees his sister going for the TV with the scissors before she throws them at him. He avoids it and threatens to tell their mom. She runs off and his brother knocks him to the floor with a milk jug and pours the milk on him. His younger siblings run out the house and Billy follows to the front door to see the other young neighborhood kids causing mayhem. Billy plays along with their chaos as he heads for Mallory’s, taking note that the kids seem possessed.

Em calls Mallory back to confirm everyone meeting at his house and she tells him about the kids running rampant around town. She asks him to make sure Laura is there so there is someone she can talk to that isn’t him or Isaac. Mallory hangs up on her. Billy radios ahead about his imminent arrival as children on the street start breaking Mallory’s windows. Billy arrives as Mickey calls the house and brings up the news, and the situation with her dad . Mallory invites her to come over and talk about everything. Looking at the news, Billy can’t believe what he is seeing. Mickey hangs up and Laura calls confirming that she is on the way as well. As Mallory hangs up, the power in the house and all over town goes out. Isaac brings up the strange situation as Em arrives to see his house spray painted with graffiti. They decide to go out in the backyard to talk, as the rains have stopped. Mickey soon arrives as well in her dad’s car, something that was at the hospital as she left, and heads inside to finds the others.

Laura shows up having walked and seen the destruction by the children, but she was left alone by them, as they looked in awe of her as she passed by. Laura brings up the kids, and Billy and Em bring up what they saw as well. Laura apologizes to Mallory about ignoring him. Something Isaac says about meeting them with Tilly causes Laura to put together that the children could be under her influence like they were. Mallory offers to let Laura use her power on him to see if she is still connected to Hera. Instead, Laura touches Isaac and gets the similar sensation from before. Em and Mickey warn Laura about using her power without knowing her cost, so Laura heads out to the front to see if she can control the children. Laura watches as a group of children run past, one with a burning branch, as another group runs onto the street. As she shouts out for them to stop, the groups stop and turn to her. Then one proclaims that Laura killed “her” and the burning branch is thrown in her direction. Laura tries to use her power. Hearing Isaac join her, she jumps out the way instead and it hits him, setting him on fire. Laura leaves him to help himself and goes over to the child who threw the branch and smacks him across the face. However, empowered, her strike snaps his neck. The children begin to point and close in on Laura, chanting “she killed her” as Mallory and Em put out the flames on Isaac.

Billy puts together that the children are being influenced by “Tilly”, and he asks Isaac to tell them to stop as he wasn’t affected by her. Convinced to try, he goes up to the group and tells them to stop with Mallory, Em and Laura backing him up. His command works and the children return to normal, some crying, others running back to their homes. Billy checks on the dead child and recognizing that Isaac has an ability. Em tries to see if he can fix the child but it doesn’t work and Isaac gets angry at them for still believing that they have powers. He tells them that they don’t and as he speaks, all of the group, but Em, truly believe what he says.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Matt Sohinki as Mallory Jenkins
* Mika Midgett as Embeth Pegg
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

## Rumors

1. Delinquent kids burnt down the school.

1. Three different families have been found murdered, but the kids were OK.

1. A group of mad teenagers broke into homes and smashed people’s computers.

1. Little shits cut the power to the town somehow. (winner)

## Notes

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