Fountain of Youth

**Fountain of Youth** is the sixth episode of the first season of The CW's superhero drama *Mighty-man*.

## Synopsis

Sam meets Cassandra Carver at the Brookcity Retirement Center. She lost her vision during the Template:Meteor shower, and now she can see the future. When Harry Volk falls into a pond full of Template:Meteor rocks, he becomes young and sets off on a mission to kill the descendants of the jury who convicted him of murder 60 years ago, including Jefferson. Cassandra is able to provide Sam with some insight into his future, but she dies when she sees a vision of Alex Luthor's future.

## Plot

Template:Sam, Template:Jack and Template:Nelly are volunteering at the Brookcity Retirement Center to fulfill a required 30 hours of community service for school. Sam has been assigned to read to Cassandra Carver, a blind woman who believes she can see the future. Although blind, Cassandra is very perceptive, and can identify her surroundings quite accurately. Jack asks to have his fortune told. Cassandra seems to rebuff him, but drops her book so that he will pick it up and hand it to her. When he does, she touches his hand and tells him to check his pockets and he realizes that he has locked his keys in his car. He leaves Sam alone with Cassandra who reveals to Sam that someone close to him is going to die very soon. Later, Sam tells his parents about Cassandra's vision, but they are unconcerned. Nelly visits Harry Bolston. He is listening to classical music. He confesses to being obsessed with the local history of Brookcity after revealing that the Langs came to Smallville in 1938.

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Harry uses a wheelchair and asks Nelly to push him around the grounds and tell him what the Langs have been up to since 1938. She takes him to the koi pond, where Harry asks Nelly to leave him on the bridge and go back to his room to fetch him a scarf. While she is gone, he tries to sneak a cigarette, but drops his lighter. He reaches over to retrieve it, but upsets his wheelchair, falls through a string of decorative lights and tumbles into the pond and sets off a brilliant display of sparks. Harry seems unable to move for several seconds until suddenly he is young again. He stands up and laughs manically. It is then revealed that the pond has been contaminated with Template:Meteor rocks. He then retrieves some old newspaper clippings and lists containing the name Zoe Garfield, a waitress at the Beanery.

At the Beanery, Zoe waits on Harry. Sam and Nelly arrive with Katie Jones. Nelly laments the missing Harry Bolston. Her friends try to console her and offer theories regarding his disappearance. Harry, eavesdropping, wishes them luck finding him.

Sam goes the Balthor Mansion to deliver Template:Alex's produce order. He tells Alex about Cassandra's prediction that someone close to him will die very soon. Lex pretends to be skeptical, but he asks Sam for her name before he leaves.

Back at the retirement center, Harry is playing the piano. Cassandra tries to trick him into taking her hand, but Harry refuses. Nelly notices that someone has removed Harry's picture as a young man from the bulletin board. Sam is there to see Cassandra again. Nelly tells Sam that she has just given a statement to the police. She learned that Harry Bolston's real name is Harry Volk. He was convicted of murder 60 years ago when he was 17. In the 1940s, he was studying to be a concert pianist and was up for a scholarship to the Metropolis Conservatory, but his teacher recommended someone else, so Harry murdered his teacher's son. Cassandra tells Sam that she began having visions at the same time she lost her sight- the day of the Template:Meteor shower. When Sam takes Cassandra's hand they both see a vision of him kneeling in the rain surrounded by tombstones bearing the names of all the people he loves: his parents and his school friends. The tombstones seem to go on forever. Sam runs off, terrified. He tells his parents about the vision and they try to comfort him, but Sam has interpreted it to mean that he will outlive everyone that he loves and is destined to be alone.

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At Jim Gage's house, the power goes out. Just as he's about to call someone, he sees Harry at the front door dressed as an electrician. As Harry checks the circuit breakers, he asks Jim if he's any relation to Randolph Gage. Jim admits that Randolph, his father, died in 1993. Harry removes a length of piano wire from the bottom of his toolbox.

Back at the retirement center, Alex Balthor has arrived to talk to Cassandra Carver. Alex asks Cassandra if she can tell him anything about Sam. Alex admits that Sam is his friend, but he is also a mystery. Cassandra refuses to tell him anything about Sam, but she offers to tell him his future. Alex refuses.

Sam, Katie and Jack meet in Jack's loft. Jack tells Sam that Jim Gage was found blindfolded and strangled with piano wire. Katie says that was the same way Harry Volk killed the piano teacher's son in 1945. Sam thinks it might be a copycat, but Katie has a photo of Harry Volk from the 1940s. It looks just like that guy they saw at the Beanery. Of course, Katie is ready to assume that Harry has traveled through time. Sam suggests they search Harry's room for fan mail of a copycat.

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Cassandra catches Sam on his way to Harry's room. Katie and Jack go on ahead while Sam stops to talk with Cassandra. Cassandra admits that she knows that Sam is not like everybody else. She has seen him many times in the futures of many other people, saving them over and over again from pain, despair, fear and darkness. Sam takes Cassandra's hand again and sees a series of flashes of visions of people in trouble, but Cassandra can't tell him who they are.

Katie and Jack find more newspaper clippings in Harry's room. When Sam sees a picture of Zoe Garfield, he recognizes her as one of the people he saw a glimpse of in his most recent vision of his future. He guesses that Harry might be after her and he rushes off to the Beanery.

It's closing time at the Beanery, but Harry doesn't want to leave. He offers to play the piano while Zoe cleans up the shop. Harry reveals that Zoe's grandmother Eve Garfield helped kill his future, and now he intends to kill Zoe's future. Harry tries to strangle Zoe just as Sam smashes in the door and saves her. Later, Marie reports that Zoe is fine and Harry is in the hospital for observation. When Sam admits that Cassandra might know his secret, his parents say they don't want him to see her anymore.

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Alex summons Sam to the mansion, questioning him about the accident, but Sam says he doesn't remember anything about it.

A sheriff's deputy arrives at the hospital to pick up the unidentified "kid from the Beanery assault," but when they enter the room they find the aged Harry Bolston handcuffed to the bed. At the koi pond, Nelly tells Sam that Harry told police that a kid who was obsessed with his case kidnapped him. When Sam begins to feel ill, he looks down into the pond and sees the meteor rocks. Sam tells Harry that he suspects the truth. Harry seems more interested in the fact that his name is Jackson. He calls the nurse to ask Sam to leave. Later, Harry pushes himself out to the koi pond in his wheelchair and dives in.

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At the *Torch*, Katie and Jack are studying news coverage of Volk's trial. Nelly arrives to announce that Harry is gone. Katie finds a list of jurors that worked on Harry's trial with Hiram Jackson's name on it. Marie Jackson answers her door to find the young Harry Volk impersonating a gas man. Marie doesn't smell gas and figures out that Harry is lying. She tries to call out and finds the phone is disconnected. She hits Harry over the head to get to her car and finds the tires have been slashed. Finally she hides in a grain silo. Harry finds her and attacks her with a knife. Marie pulls a lever and buries them both in grain. Sam and Jefferson arrive just in time to pull her out and resuscitate her.

Alex Balthor arrives at the retirement center to visit Cassandra Carver, saying he's ready to see his future. Cassandra takes Alex's hand and sees a vision of Alex in a brilliant white suit and one black glove in the oval office of the White House. Then he is in a field of sunflowers. When he bends down to smell one of the flowers it dies. Then all the flowers die. A field of dry human bones replaces the flowers. Alex seems pleased. Alex holds out his arms as it begins to rain red blood. When Alex asks what it is that Cassandra saw, Cassandra doesn't answer. Alex realizes that she is dead. He calls for help and leaves the room, visibly shaken. When comes in and sees Cassandra dead, he realizes that the death she had predicted when they first met had been her own.

## Cast

### Starring

* T.J.Williams as Samuel Jackson
* Devenity perkins as Nelly Watson
* Jace Norman as Alex Luthor
* Andrew Caldwood as Derreck Fordman(credit only)
* Sean Ryan Fox as Jack Diamond
* Maeve Tomalty as Katie Jones
* Angel Parker as Marie Jackson
* Adrian Holmes as Jefferson Jackson

### Guest Starring

* Eric Christian Olsen as Young Harry Volk
* Jackie Burroughs as Cassandra Carver
* George Murdock as Old Harry Bolston (Harry Volk's alias)

### Co-Starring

* Lisa Calder as Zoe Garfield
* Alf Humphreys as Jim Gage
* Mitchell Kosterman as Deputy Ethan Miller
* Reg Tupper as Doctor
* Lois Dellar as Nurse

## Trivia

* According to the Season 1 companion book the Working title for this episode was "Cassandra".
* Derreck Fordman does not appear in this episode. This is the first episode in which he does not appear.
* This is the first episode where somebody other than Samuel Jackson defeats the main villain. This time, it was Marie Jackson.
* Cassandra Carver is the first meteor-infected in the series that doesn't use her powers for evil purposes or against Sam.

## References

1. ↑ Naomi Episode Titles - SpoilerTV
2. ↑ Naomi Listing - The Futon Critic