"Breadcrumb Trail"

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**"Breadcrumb Trail"** is the first episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

# Synopsis

The Kollok Radar spends a day at the beach. What could go wrong?

# Plot

**3am, August 1, Undisclosed location, Kollok**

A group of former Synchroneity scientists extract a large bone from a new portion of the Flesh, and begin the careful process of turning it into a fine powder, a drug they call Tears.

**11am, August 1st**

Mallory, at his house, turns away Aran Cedar a member of the Council who offers his help with his father’s things. Mallory firmly tells him no, the same he has told the other Council members who have come over and asked the same over the past weeks and Eren Cedar leaves. In the living room an anxious Tibby reaffirms that they are hanging out with the others at the lake today but Mallory says they have time before that. Tibby explains that he came to tell him that they can’t keep having Mallory harm himself so Tibby can heal him. Mallory ignores him and uses a paper fortune teller with different options of injury and picks food disposal. Tibby tries to stop him, telling him that he won’t help, that he will leave, but Mallory locks the door and goes to the kitchen. He puts his hand in the food disposal and counting down Mallory flips the switch.

He screams in pain and falls unconscious. In the sudden silence Tibby heads into the kitchen, flips the switch off and heals him. Mallory feels the high of being healed and sighs in satisfaction as he comes to. Tibby punches Mallory in the groin for making him heal him and says he won’t do it again but Mallory blackmails him that he will tell the others that he has been using his powers when they all promised not to. Tibby tells Mallory to talk to his therapist and not keep doing this, but Mallory is more interested in repressing his feelings instead. Not getting through to Mallory Tibby asks that they leave and pick up Mickey so they can all go to the lake and spend time with his friends and his girlfriend.

**11 am, Billy’s house**

At Billy’s house he has been working out over the summer and checks himself out in the mirror after doing nine push-ups. He zones out and begins to write on himself in black marker, BORROW OR ROB. His younger siblings burst into the room snapping him out of it and quickly leave. He quickly gets dressed for work as a life guard at the lake and has breakfast with his mom. He is reluctant to drink the water as of late the town’s water supply has taken on a brown tint to it. As his mom rushes him out the house so she can drop him off at work, Billy swears and she makes him wash his mouth out with soap and water from the garden hose. Billy swears a second time after his mom points out that the plants are dying in the garden because he hasn’t been watering them when he has been. He washes his mouth again and tries to explain that all the plants are dying in Kollok not just theirs. He waters the plants anyway and during the drive Billy asks his Mom about the coma and if she ever signed a contract. She seems cagey but she puts his waking from the coma as a miracle that she is grateful for.

**11:30am, Kollok Motel**

Laura is packing for the day at the lake with her friends joined in her room by Lelah Bennet. Lelah is concerned that Laura has told the others about her being a clone and is eager to learn what they have heard, if anything, about Marcus. Lelah voices her frustration to Laura about Marcus helping the family with money but firing her and her own feelings of being trapped which angers Laura and she points out the hypocrisy after what she did to her. Lelah apologises and Laura accepts it saying that though she understands that she is supposed to be letting her know what the others do but that they are her friends and that Lelah will have to be patient. Laura brings up needing a car so she can have some freedom but though Lelah could forge documents so Laura could get a job a driver’s license is far more difficult. Begrudgingly Laura accepts Lelah’s offer to take her to the lake to meet with the others.

**11:30am Twin Pines housing complex**

Mickey is in her cramped room, made to accommodate her twelve-year-old sister Emily, getting ready to go as she knows Tibby is on the way. Emily sits on her bed and shows Mickey a picture she drew of Tibby dead with knives sticking out of him. Emily calls her an idiot for dating him, and after Mickey tells Emily her plans for the day asks to go with her as their parents are still fighting and doesn’t want to stay. Emily wants to leave and go back to her happy life in New York, and Mickey encourages her to keep them arguing then if she wants that to happen. Emily tries to do so blaming their dad for something but Mickey calls her back in the room. She learns that Emily hasn’t made any friends yet at school and that at least them sharing clothes means she gets to wear Mickey’s dresses, but Mickey doesn’t have any as she takes from her dad’s clothes.

Mickey tries to comfort and console Emily by promising that she can watch any movie at the theatre for free if she tries to make more friends and give their parents a chance. Mickey senses that Tibby is at the door which makes Emily curious as how she keeps knowing when people are there but Mickey leaves and opens the door as Tibby is about to knock. He seems surprised but he is happy to see Mickey and they join Mallory in the car to take them to the lake to meet up with the others.

**11:30 Embeth Pegg’s home**

Jason “Jay” Pegg and Em Pegg are playing DnD in their garage but Em bemoans the fact that she just wants to play a normal campaign instead of her dad using it to try and prepare her for using her powers. Em recalls their acronym S.L.A.P (Stop. Look. Assess. Perform) as they play but are interrupted by her mom, Tiffany, to take her to the lake. During the drive she shows concern about the heatwave hitting the town and though she’s supportive of Em’s fashion choice to wear all black asks her to be careful and take some bottled water with her. Tiffany also asks Em to take it easy on Mallory as he’s been going through a lot during their therapy sessions and not call him a douchebag. Em agrees not to but during the conversation invents a new word instead.

**12pm, Crater Lake**

They all arrive at the lake that has been made safe by Synchroneity after they dredged it before the summer and meet up at their usual spot near the beach and Billy’s lifeguard station. Laura intimidates some people who have taken their spot and they find Mike Hunt waiting for them badly sunburnt as he’s sunbathing. Mallory and Laura play with Mikes sunburn but he can’t feel any pain as Tibby carries Mickey into the lake. Tibby accidently puts his foot in it when he makes fun of Em for coming to the lake over the summer to hang out with them and not swim because they are her only friends. Em uses the word her mom invents by saying Tibby is the best douchenozel she knows to insult him but Tibby doesn’t understand the meaning. Billy leaves his post and misuses the power of the whistle to get attention for everyone on the beach to make a joke about Mike and Tibby.

Billy turns back to his chair but sees someone else sitting there, someone who looks exactly like him but without a face. He sees that they also have the same words written on their chest as he does but in red marker. The figure leaves the chair and walks backwards into the lake. Billy asks the others if they’ve been experiencing anything strange but they haven’t, then Mallory’s old boss from Taco Bell, Val Jayden, shows up and asks him out and tells him to bring Billy with him as well. She walks away and Billy teases Mallory about Val liking him but Mallory remarks that she’s too old for him, which Laura goes to hit him for saying that but is stopped by Em. She asks Laura to go easy on him as he’s going through things and they notice that a group of people over the river nearby are panicking. Mallory walks closer to the lake and sees his father walking towards him on top of the water. Mallory talks to him about his friends and the others notice Mallory talking to thin air.

Em and Laura then see energy like red string in the water sweep up the beach across the lake and in between their friends but leave them and Mike unaffected. The screaming starts. Billy sees everyone in the water begin to struggle and drown but they have no faces. Tibby starts to see everyone around him as dead husks and rushes out of the lake, leaving Mickey and tries to heal Mike in a panic. However, his touch causes Mike to feel immense pain. Mickey goes to call out for Tibby but her vision is drawn over to the skyline seeing the mirror from Prime A sprout from the now burning town. An image of her father looms over her until a bullet rips through him and he is engulfed in flame. Em and Laura see their friends and react to Mike as they see his body begin to break from the inside out but nothing break through his skin. Mallory’s dad asks him to help everyone around him and he sees the strings of energy ripple from his dad’s hands into everyone in the water and on the beach, Mallory runs into the water and begins to help people.

Em and Laura attempt to save people as well trying to avoid getting into the lake, dragging them free and encouraging those not in the water to help. Mike can’t break Tibby’s grip and his body starts to compact like a crushed tin can. Laura is able to distract Tibby to stop him touching Mike but Tibby rushes to “save” her and his power leaves her unable to use her right arm. Mickey swims herself out of the lake and begins to crawls towards the mirror, drawn to it, over the dead bodies of Prime A. Billy is frozen unable to figure out how to help when he starts to believe that each of faceless people are his friends, he has killed using his power. Billy starts to float across the water and Em tries to stop him but is unable to.

Some of those not effected by the red energy take note of Tibby hurting Mike and Laura but stay away but watch as Mallory rushes in and pushes Tibby off of Laura and manages to pin Tibby to the ground. The chaos around Em begins to make her panic, but she refuses to use her power, instead trying to figure out what more she can do. Billy sees the faceless gather beneath him lifting him up and the familiar image of the three-eyed man returns to blame Billy for all the deaths. Laura looks around at the sate of her friends, sees Mickey crawl into the bushes around the lake and using some rope begins to try and pull people from the lake and Em joins her. Soon enough the Police and Fire Fighters arrive and begin to help everyone on the beach.

**2pm Police Station**

At the station Em, Laura, Billy and Mallory are asked several questions by Officer Warstone but they demand to know what happened to Tibby after seeing him dragged away. Warstone answers that witness saw him hurt Mike and that he is alive but at the hospital. They mention that Mickey is still missing and Warstone puts a call out for a search party. Officer Warstone reveals that the doctors can’t operate on Mike and another reason Tibby is being held is because he killed a police officer. Laura and Em explain that something in the water made everyone hallucinate and Em blames what happened on the fracking that is going on in the hills above Kollok, something the council allowed to happen since Synchroneity pulled out support from the town. They ask to speak to Tibby but he says they can’t right now, so Em leaves her number so she can be called the moment they are allowed. The group leave and Billy wonders if his power was trigged somehow and is responsible. Once outside Mallory is swamped by people thanking him for saving people at the lake as well as the press who have showed up to interview him.

**Unknown location**

Mickey comes to in a dark room within a cell. A tall man with an Australian accent on the other side of the bars. Someone snickers and Mickey turns to see another version of herself wearing metal exoskeleton braces on her legs enabling her to stand in an adjacent cell. A light flickers on in the room and someone comes down a staircase and introduces himself as Bob Whitney the one that created this trap for people like her. Mickey had crawled to his house apparently and he put her in the cage with her other self, who he reveals is here for Tibby. Mickey realises that the other Mickey is the one who was left behind in Prime A and Mickey A explains to her that she travelled using the Grotto and she is here for Tibby because hers died and she needs Tibby to stop them all from dying. From her reaction Mickey A realises that Mickey doesn’t know what she means but before she can explain, Bob interrupts asking how they know each other.

Mickey ignores the question and asks who Bob really is, but he refuses to tell her anything about him because he knows what she can do having Mickey A show him her power by killing Ronald Regan. Mickey A says that she’s been imprisoned for 47 days, long enough for the others to have died, when Mickey asks her again about how they are dying Mickey A tells her that she will find out soon enough. Bob offer to make a deal with Mickey A saying that he will let her go to grab Tibby in exchange for answers about the multiverse. Mickey A agrees but Mickey angrily tells him that he shouldn’t let her go. She turns to her Prime A self and they argue about her taking Tibby away as Mickey A is angry that Mickey got to have her family back while she was trapped and stuck with the destruction of the town. Bob leaves them to argue as he thinks over letting one of them go. Mickey A turns to Mickey and says that she had hoped not to even see her, to take Tibby and just leave. Mickey calls her selfish for just using Tibby but A responds with that they use each other, she needs him and Tibby needs to feel useful as she sits and they wait on who will be let go.

## 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

### Guests

* Brandon Winfrey as Mike Hunt Jr.
* Reuben Bresler as Mearl Jenkins

## Rumors

1. Kollok gets a cult (winner)
2. Kollok gets a circus
3. Kollok gets an arsonist
4. Kollok gets a new sheriff (winner)

## Notes

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