Alchemy

**"Alchemy"** is the fifth episode in the second season of *The Hollow*.

## Overview

Adam, Mira, and Kai deal with a difficult loss, but their search for answers continues. At a scientist's chateau, they tangle with some old rivals.

## Plot

Adam, Mira, and Kai hold a burial for Skeet and hang his hat on a grave marker. Before they leave, Mira grabs his hat and tells him he was a good friend.

They come across a large house named Chateau Carcolh. They knock on the front door but step back when they see Louie, the giant mutant snail who killed Skeet, descending upon them from the roof. He attacks them. A man named Jules Voulcan opens the door and steps out from the house. He orders Louie to stop. He apologizes to his new guests and says that Louie is overprotective. He offers to make it up to them with a gourmet meal. Adam encourages Mira to accept because they might find clues inside that shed light on their situation. As they walk in, Voulcan plucks a hair from Adam's head. When unseen, he folds the hair into a paper and tucks it into his coat.

Inside the chateau, Adam finds a key with a skull design on it and a Hollow Games logo keychain. He puts it in his pocket. Voulcan presents some of his inventions, including an invisibility powder and a gun that turns animals to stone. When Kai asks about an empty container, Voulcan remarks that it used to contain his "pièce de resistance" until it was stolen. He shows his guests to their chambers and announces that dinner will be served in fifteen minutes. In each of their rooms, he has left them something to wear to dinner: a red dress for Mira, a tuxedo for Adam, and a sailor uniform for Kai.

In the dining hall, Voulcan takes a hair from Kai's sailor hat and plucks one of Mira's hairs from her head. Adam asks Voulcan about the Weird Guy, but Voulcan only says, "Later, we talk." The doors open to reveal Vanessa and Reeve who appear to be in some kind of trance. They wheel in the dinner and serve it. Mira tries to snap them out of it but cannot. Voulcan leaves the room.

Adam chases after Voulcan and finds a room with a large, red electrical device. The room contains many locked drawers, one of which is labelled 'Reeve.' Adam tries to open it but gets electrocuted. He then bursts into a room where Voulcan is working and demands to know what he did to his friends. Voulcan presses a button and a chime is heard.

In the dining room, Vanessa and Reeve hear the chime and attack Kai and Mira. A fight ensues, and Kai uses his powers to trap Reeve under a chandelier. Vanessa follows Mira into another room, where she accidentally reverses the effect of the stone gun, bringing the several stone animals on the mantel back to life. She orders the animals to attack Vanessa and they trap her in a closet. Mira tells the animal to go free.

When Mira and Kai find Adam, he is in a trance like Vanessa and Reeve. He attacks them. When they see Voulcan, Kai attacks him, causing him to drop a vial of green liquid labelled Adam. This breaks Adam out of the trance. Voulcan runs away. Adam chases him and knocks him unconscious. Adam begins to lead Mira and Kai back to the room with the bottles, but Louie stops them.

While Mira and Adam seek refuge in a room, Kai enters the room with the locked drawers. Due to his superpower, Kai is uninjured by electricity. He opens the drawer labelled 'Reeve' and within finds a bottle of green serum with Reeve's hair. He breaks the bottle. He then looks for a drawer labelled 'Vanessa.'

Louie breaks into the room where Adam and Mira are hiding, and Mira suggests to Adam to use salt to defend themselves.

Kai finds Vanessa's drawer without a key. He uses a pickle fork he had taken from the dining room to open the drawer and breaks the bottle inside.

Adam pours salt on Louie causing him to recoil.

He and Mira reunite with Kai, who tells them that he broke the bottles, but when they go to find Reeve and Vanessa, they have moved. Reeve and Vanessa, no longer in a trance, begin to attack, but Kai and Adam stop them and explain what happened. They talk and realize the same thing happened to Reeve and Vanessa. Reeve and Vanessa ask about Skeet, and they tell them that Skeet is dead. Reeve disbelieves them on the grounds that Skeet's death would disqualify his teammates, and since they are still there, Skeet must still be alive. Adam explains that they are not players anymore, so that rule does not apply. Reeve and Vanessa are convinced of Skeet's death when Mira shows them Skeet's hat. They realize that Louie is also under the same spell. Voulcan attacks Reeve and Vanessa.

Mira goes to break the glass snail that maintains Voulcan's control of Louie, but Louie grabs her and pulls her through the window. Adam and Kai help free her.

Voulcan uses his invisibility powder and attacks Vanessa and Reeve. They run into a room to escape him, but he follows them in. Vanessa shakes talcum powder around the room to see where he is. The powder settles on him, making him visible. He throws a blue vial at Reeve and Vanessa, encasing them in ice, and runs out of the room.

Outside, Kai and Adam fight Louie. Mira tells Adam to try not to hurt Louie. Adam reminds her that he killed Skeet, but Voulcan arrives to declare that he killed Skeet and that they are next. He throws a green vial at them, releasing a gas that causes them to choke. Louie grabs Adam, Mira, and Kai, and Voulcan orders him to eat them, but before he does, Reeve and Vanessa throw the glass snail at Voulcan's head. It shatters on the ground, releasing Louie from the spell. Mira tells Louie what happened and that he is free now. Louie carries Voulcan off-screen and presumably eats him.

Mira expresses the desire to leave the chateau, since they only wanted clues to find the Weird Guy and found none. Adam declares that he has found Weirdy and shows them a flyer with a picture of the Weird Guy advertising a jazz club.

## Characters

In order of appearance:

* Adam
* Mira
* Kai
* Louie
* Jules Voulcan
* Vanessa
* Reeve

## Cast

* Ashleigh Ball as Mira
* Connor Parnall as Kai
* Alex Barima as Reeve
* Diana Kaarina as Vanessa
* Sam Vincent as Jules Voulcan

## Notable Quotes

Read the full transcript here.

* *"Most guys don't look good in pom-poms, but you really pull it off, pal."* – Adam to Kai
* *"So handsome! So elegant! So, um... naval?"* – Voulcan, about Kai in sailor clothes

## Gallery

 **Season 2** | "Home" • "Hollow Games" • "The Return" • "Puzzled" • "**Alchemy**" • "Dead End" • "Unbalanced" • "Fang" • "Fire" • "Race"