Episode 23: Flatline

## Synopsis

Bjorn and Henry argue over what happened while Sammie recovers in the hospital. Bjorn has a flashback to Afghanistan afterward and Henry calls his dad. Eventually they see Sammie and fill her in on what's gone on. Captain Holland gets Bjorn to talk to the man shot at the bank and and he tells Bjorn to find Ben Lasky.

## Episode Description

The hunters must deal with the consequences of their actions in this intense aftermath episode.

## Key Events

* Bjorn has a flashback to when he loses his squad in Afghanistan.
* Henry tells his dad that doing Dragon Knight business feels right.
* Bjorn goes to talk to the dying man that was shot at the bank. The man uses his final moments to tell Bjorn that they need to get to Ben Lasky before he hurts his foster father, Guy Hackett.

## Summary

Henry is pacing in the hospital waiting room. Bjorn asks at the front desk about how Sammie is doing. The receptionist tells him that Sammie is being taken back for surgery. Bjorn wordlessly motions for Henry to go out to the car with him.

Bjorn sits in the driver's seat and Henry sits in the passenger seat. Bjorn demands to know what Henry was thinking. Henry fumbles over his words and Bjorn goes off about how they had just talked about doing things as a group and not going off on their own. Henry asks what he was supposed to do and Bjorn presses him either further about how important it is to keep their identity as Dragon Knights secret and how an entire crowd of people saw him shoot Sammie. They promise each other something like this won't happen again. After having this talk, they go back to the hospital waiting room.

Bjorn sits down in the waiting room, steaming about what's happened. He closes his eyes and begins to have a flashback about his time in Afghanistan. He's in a cinderblock building in the sweltering heat playing cards with other soldiers. The men call him Gunnar Knudtson. Suddenly, a chill fills the air and fog fills the room. Something forms in the fog - a bare-chested blue man with burning red eyes. The face looks oddly familiar to Bjorn and the figure starts to shoot lightning at Bjorn's squad-mates. The captain shoves Bjorn out the door. He squeezes his eyes shut as another lighting strike shoots through the room. When Bjorn opens his eyes, he's back in the waiting room.

Meanwhile, Henry calls his dad. James can tell that Henry is upset and asks him what's going on and if Stanley has been dragging him into his "Dragon Knight stuff." Henry explains he chose to help but that a case they were on went wrong and his friend ended up in the hospital. James says that he shouldn't be doing this stuff at his age and just because him and Stanley were doing it, doesn't mean he should be. Henry says that he didn't want to be involved and wanted to get as far away as possible from Dragon Knight business, but once he started doing it, it just felt right. James asks if Henry wants him to tell Stanley to leave him out of cases from now on and Henry says no. He says he understands now why James and his mom did what they did.

A receptionist comes to get Bjorn and Henry to take them back to Sammie's room. Stanley arrives in Sammie's room soon after and Bjorn catches him up to speed on what's happened. Sammie finally wakes up and tells them what happened from her perspective. She asks if they caught the monster and Bjorn tells her no.

Elise and Grandma Fran then burst into the room. Elise is worried sick about Sammie, saying she saw her being held hostage on the news. Sammie passes it off as a coincidence that she happened to be at the bank dropping off a deposit when the bank got robbed. Elise isn't buying it, but Grandma Fran ushers everyone out of the room to let Sammie rest. The crew, minus Sammie, goes down to the cafeteria to get coffee.

Down in the cafeteria, Elise presses Bjorn and Henry about who they are, claiming she knows all Sammie's friends and she doesn't recognize them. Bjorn simply says they're business associates. Henry says he was just walking through the area and noticed what was going on. Elise says she can't believe the cops shot her. Henry stares into his coffee.

Captain Holland enters the cafeteria and then gestures for Bjorn to come talk to her. Holland tells Bjorn there's been another incident that has all the markings of the same 'problem' that's been going on lately. A teenager beat up a kid on the beach and he has no memory of the event, just that something made him do it. Holland also tells him that the guy that was shot at the bank is not doing well and doesn't have much longer to live. She asks him if he wants to interview him while he still can.

Bjorn talks to the dying man in the hospital bed. He says the last thing he remembers is that he was taking his son to a baseball game. Bjorn tells the man that he knows it wasn't his fault and he knows something did this to him. The man thanks Bjorn, saying this isn't him. He's not the kind of guy that would rob a bank, he runs the community center. Bjorn promises to clear his name, but asks him for any other details he remembers. He can't remember anything else.

Bjorn makes one last effort to save the man. He asks Holland to leave the room and puts his hands on the man's chest and tries to pump healing magic into him. The man looks better for just long enough for Bjorn to ask him one more question. He asks if the man has any enemies, but none of the names match their suspects. Bjorn presses him and the man mentions one more name: Guy Hackett, the name of a boy's foster father that was abusing him. He says that he noticed the boy was being abused by Guy, but he didn't say anything. He says Guy broke the boy's arm. His heart monitor starts going crazy and the man grabs Bjorn's arm. He tells Bjorn that the boy being abused was named Ben Lasky, and that if it is him that's doing this, they need to get to Guy Hackett before Ben does.

## List of Appearances

* Henry Marlowe
* Bjorn Olafson
* James Marlowe
* Stanley Marlowe
* Sammie Overbrook
* Elise Romano
* Grandma Francesca
* Captain Jolene Holland

## Trivia

"Samantha" is used for the first time here by Elise as she also reveals Sammie's middle name is Raquel. "Samantha" won't be used again until season 3 for a completely different reason.