Athens

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## Athens

Cover image for Season 3, Episode 3: Athens, showing the hard drive from Lucita Cadamon's apartment

### Writer

Jonathan Thornton

*Athens* is the third episode of the third season of QIA.

## Summary

While Sarah uncovers the truth behind what happened to her sister two years ago and Enora and Hafiz struggle to control the damage, the rest of the team track down a dangerous associate of Brent Hall.

## Blurb

“She knows, Hafiz. She knows everything.” - Enora Gallou

Two years ago, QIA Agent Sarah Cunnington was forced to hide in the Void to stop the deranged machinations of Brent Hall. Those two years – eternity for her – were hell, but she had no idea what the repercussions would be for her family. Now she has found out, and her world is about to come crashing down. Meanwhile Hall, now a prisoner of the QIA, provides information that could help the team kill two birds with one stone – but there is further tragedy waiting on the horizon…

## Synopsis

Sarah goes AWOL after discovering Louise's fate over the last two years, prompting Enora and Hafiz - who is now, inexplicably, back in the Field Team as Captain again - to return to Cornwall to try and rectify the mistakes they made in 2020.

Flashbacks show what happened: after Hafiz told Louise that Sarah was still alive, she and Enora had to try and convince her that she was in fact mistaken, for if Brent Hall were to learn that he had been duped, it would put Sarah's life into jeopardy. With seemingly no other choice, Enora blackmails a psychiatric doctor to commit Louise to an institution. However, Hall has nonetheless got wind of the rumours after Sarah - from 2022 - visits her, and he too visits Louise in hospital. Despite knowing that Sarah really is still alive, Louise tells Hall that Sarah is with them in the room, which convinces Hall that Louise really is mad after all.

Meanwhile, the rest of the team - acting on intelligence from Hall - go to Athens to arrest Lucita Cadamon and at the same time retrieve Hall's quantum trace program, which could help them locate Sarah. However, during the ensuing fight, Lucita critically injures Hayden by throwing him out of a window, paralysing him from the waist down. Lucita escapes, with the hard drive, but Carlos and Ethan pursue her. By the time Tom arrives, Lucita has escaped and the hard drive has been destroyed.

Enora once again blackmails the doctor into releasing Louise back into Phil's custody. However, Irene calls Sarah and tells her not to contact any of them for a while.

Carlos feels guilt over the fact that, unknown to anyone else, he in fact allowed Lucita to escape in Athens, after she threatened to reveal a shocking secret about him to the rest of the QIA.

Enora receives a report of a new infraction concerning another abducted girl - only this one would, as it turns out, have grown up to be an agent in the Field Team.

Sarah calls on Hall.

## Credits

### Starring

Sarah Cunnington

Tasneem Hafiz

Ethan Taylor

Tom Burt

Hayden Kemp

Iulya Dalca

Carlos Sánchez

### Also Starring

Enora Gallou

Anna Vogel

### Guest Stars

Lucita Cadamon

Róisín Lynch

Oliver Moss

Phil Harris

Irene Cunnington

Simon Cunnington

and Louise Harris

## Jumps

2nd October 2020, Lower Penbridge, Cornwall *(Sarah Cunnington)*

## Trivia

As of this episode, Amy Stoker, who was credited as a Starring cast member for both "Resurrection" and "Missing", is no longer credited.

Mary Bowman, not seen since Season One's "Spitalfields", appears uncredited in this episode as a hallucination.

## Availability

Episode 3 is available for purchase on Amazon. It will also be included in the Season Three, Part I box set.