No, get… Get off!
Brayden, what are you doing? Brayden!
Hey, Brayden, looking for someone?
How did you get in here?
I remember the way.
-You can't do that. -Sometimes I make up a new power.
No! Dion! This is my place!
You can't come here unless I bring you here!
Dion!
Brayden, is that you?
Brayden?
-I want my mama. -We gotta get you out of here!
Brayden?
You're scared. That's why Brayden's acting like this!
-Let's get you to your mom. -Brayden, where are you?
I want my mama.
We've gotta get you out of here!
Get away from him! You can't be here!
-Stop it! -Come on!
-Stop it! No! -Come on.
-Let's go. Run! -No!
Where are you?
Mommy!
-Brayden! Come here. -Mommy.
-Thank goodness. -I was scared, Mommy.
Stop it! Stop it!
No!
Get out!
Is he gone?
Dion. Come on. We gotta go.
Stop, Brayden! Come back!
Don't go! Stop! Wait!
Wait, stop!
Brayden!
-Stop!
What the hell is going on?
Vacation's over.
I have a choice to present you.
Our best estimates.
At the rate your infection is moving,
your body will be completely transformed in less than two days.
Okay.
So what's my choice?
I had a lab run further tests on the serum,
and we've realized that… well, among other things,
it suppresses the parasite's ability to reproduce.
And by "among other things,"
you mean that the last time you put that stuff in a guy, he died?
Yes. It's toxic to the parasite, but also the patient.
We think that in a case like yours,
where the infection hasn't fully transformed you,
that if you were to administer very small doses,
it would suppress its ability to make spores.
You wouldn't be contagious.
As long as I keep injecting myself.
It's a limited proposition.
The serum will be killing you.
But you could go home.
Spend what time you have left with Dion.
How… How much time?
Three doses, 12-hour intervals.
Thirty-six hours?
More or less.
-What? -I'll be back.
Sure.
-Is everyone okay? -Yeah. Thanks to Dion.
How many rogue Powered people do you have running around?
No idea.
Where's my mom? I wanna talk to my mom.
Your mom isn't feeling well. We're making sure she's okay.
-I want to see her! -Of course.
I'll take you in a few minutes, but first, about this kid--
-His name is Brayden. -Okay, Brayden. Let's game this out.
BIONA has a team that could approach Brayden.
Like a SWAT team?
A team that could maybe convince him to come in and--
He's just a kid.
Who tried to scramble Tevin's brain and make him hurt you.
It's not SWAT.
It's just scientists trained in de-escalation
who could explain what he's going through and maybe get him to come in.
So any information you have about Brayden--
Yeah, I was able to see the license plate before they drove off.
That helps. What about his parents? You know their names?
No, but he goes to my school.
We'll call, get an address and approach him.
I'll go. I know what the kid looks like.
I know what the car looks like. I can protect the team.
Let's go see your mom.
Now they're gonna send this team to his house.
Like a SWAT team?
They said no, but I'm worried.
Di, that kid tried to hurt you.
That doesn't mean he's bad. I went into his memory palace.
M-Memory palace?
This place in his mind.
I saw him. He was little and crying out for his mom.
She died when he was four.
I don't want them to hurt him.
Di, you're such a kind kid, but--
I… I can feel him, Mom.
I don't understand it yet,
but I went into his head and now I can feel him.
He's really scared.
How long do you have to stay in here?
Until they can be sure I'm not contagious.
I wanna go home.
So do I.
Hey, do me a favor.
-Tell Auntie Kat I'm coming home. -Yes!
-I'll go meet you outside. Okay? -Okay.
You said we were going home! You didn't say I'd have to do homework!
I got a text saying school's opening tomorrow, Di.
You're gonna have classes and a show to rehearse for, so go on.
Now do you want to tell me what's going on here?
I have two more shots.
It'll slow the spread.
And I won't be contagious for 36 hours.
And what happens after that?
It's all over.
What?
No!
BIONA has all that technology and this is the best they could do?
It's a miracle I'm even alive.
And they gave me 36 good hours.
No! I'm gonna go down there. We're gonna figure this out. I cannot lose you.
And find a cure by tomorrow?
I'm not going down as a lab rat.
Dion has healing powers. Maybe he can fix this.
Last time he did it, it almost killed him.
He's older.
Nic, h-he's strong. He's stronger than he was.
I'm not gonna risk my son's life for my own.
Why are you just giving up? Why aren't you fighting?
I'm… not.
Don't you get it?
This is the end of the line.
Because I messed up, Kat.
I should have never gone down to that sinkhole, but I did.
And now I won't get to do the thing that I want to do more than anything else,
and that's raise my son.
If you… If you take that, then you die?
I can't…
But if I don't…
I'll become a thing.
A mindless, not even human thing.
No.
I-I am choosing to give Dion the perfect day.
Okay?
And he's gonna go to school, and he's gonna have his musical.
And we'll be in the audience,
and he'll look out and he'll see how proud I am of him.
I can't lose you.
I can't.
We're gonna go around back. Gonna check the perimeter.
That's the car.
Hello? Anybody home?
Can we come in?
Sir?
Ma'am, can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Let's get 'em in the van.
No! I don't wanna see you! I don't wanna hurt anybody else!
What you want is irrelevant.
No! You need me or you will die!
You fed me well, and now I am strong.
You are lying!
Use your mind control and you will finish what we came here to do!
No!
I wasn't asking!
Wait, so you wanna make a cloud out of Legos?
Yeah, so our Bermuda Triangle has a storm that eats ships.
What kind of storm are we talking about? A hurricane, monsoon, tropical depression?
Hey, Di? Hey, buddy, are you okay?
He's gone.
-Who's gone? -Brayden.
It's like he just vanished.
But it hurts like he's--
Is he dead?
I don't know.
He's just…
gone.
Come here.
Aw.
Gone to BIONA. I finally remember why I wanted to be a doctor. Love you.
Mom?
Hey, Bug.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
You know those famous pancakes I make that you love so much?
-You're gonna make pancakes? -No, you are.
-I'm gonna teach you. -Really? Race ya.
After an avalanche of complaints from busy working parents,
the district superintendent has cleared McKoy Elementary to reopen.
A gas leak caused by a nearby sinkhole closed the school--
-Morons.
Thirty-six hours. That's the best you could do?
Send Nicole home with a death sentence?
-We are doing everything we can. -Did you try neutralizing the disease?
-With antibodies from the creature? Yeah. -What about antibiotics?
Try the metallic complexes?
I have lab teams working every medical avenue.
Everything you've suggested and more.
I promise you, our best people are on it and more are on the way.
-I can't lose her. -We are not going to.
Now you're gonna fluff up the flour.
-Fluff it, grab it, level it, drop it.
On the table.
Nice and light.
Sorry! All the way filled?
-Now give me two of those. -Okay.
Good job.
-My Mind Mover breakfast!
It's Esperanza.
Hey, what's up?
I need help.
What's going on?
It's Mr. Kwame. He's a lot.
Any chance your mom could help me?
Hi, Esperanza. I can help.
-Go get changed. -Got it.
Mr. Kwame cannot know that I called you.
He says that the show is his vision.
Kwame wouldn't mind. He knows you guys are just supposed to be having fun.
Does he? Please don't tell him.
Okay, I won't. Well, when do you want to get together?
-Now. -Now?
Let's do this thing.
This is an exposure radius of patient zero's whereabouts
before he was brought in.
We're monitoring local hospitals for any uptick in symptoms.
The hospitals haven't reported anything yet, but it's only a matter of time.
Time's up.
He was my patient.
So whatever this infection is, it's out there and it's multiplying.
I called the top epidemiologists who specialize in outbreaks.
They're on their way.
Do any have medical experience
-working with Powered people? -No.
How many have tracked the progression of this infection in real time?
I need to be in that lab.
Oh, uh, Kat, you're… here. Uh…
Uh, sh-shake hands or
hug it out?
Tell me what's going on.
So it looks like this is a protozoal infection
that infiltrates the bloodstream and multiplies fast.
The serum we made stops the infection,
but doesn't stop the patient's immune system from breaking down.
-We still don't know why. -So what's your new strategy?
Well, we were able to isolate Powered strands of DNA.
You isolated Powered DNA?
No. A young woman named Janelle did.
She has the power of breaking things down into their elemental blocks.
Okay, whatever.
So I thought, if this parasite is infiltrating cell walls
and disrupting its functions,
what if we targeted these cells and replaced them with Powered strands?
Like super-powered gene therapy.
Whoa, "super-powered gene therapy." I like the sound of that.
Yeah. And so would my sister. You know, the one who's dying.
Sorry. Please, carry on.
So, the Powered strands could give a regular human the ability
to fight a super parasite on a cellular level.
Now, it's just a matter of finding the right combination of Powered DNA.
Reproducible gene therapy made from strands of Powered DNA.
This could be the growth industry of the century.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Suzanne, could you ask him to leave, please?
No, she can't.
She no longer has authority over me. Isn't that right, Suzanne?
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Well, while you're counting dollar signs,
I'm counting the minutes I have left with my sister.
We're running out of time.
I'll take a step back.
Okay, I asked Dion to give us some privacy.
Tell me what's going on.
Mr. Kwame expects me to sing this huge song
and it's all gonna be garbage.
No, it's not.
Why don't you show me what you got so far?
Okay.
Let's pause for one moment.
I told you it was bad.
Hey, I didn't say that.
You got some pipes on you, girl.
It's just the song doesn't sound like you yet.
I don't know what to do with my hands.
Your hands, they're not the problem. Well, not the main problem.
-Do you know what this song is about? -No.
Okay, well, you're playing Effie, who is really talented,
but really difficult, and so she ends up getting kicked out
of her own singing group and her fiancé breaks up with her.
Why are we doing this musical?
That's a great question.
But that ship has sailed.
So,
some of the best performances are when you use the song
to tell us about you.
I'm ten years old. I don't have a fiancé.
See, but all this emotion here, you need to put that into the song.
Just don't even think about the words. Just let that emotion come through.
I'm gonna be terrible. Everyone's gonna laugh at me.
Hey, no.
When you share your feelings with the audience,
they'll feel it too, and they'll love you for it.
What am I supposed to do?
Don't think about anything but the moment. Okay?
Just show your heart.
Try again?
-Thanks for the coffee. -Thanks for meeting me.
Dion's school is just down the street,
so I wanted to be there today for when the bell rang.
-Thank you. -Thanks.
Well, uh, I'm flattered to be your coffee…
Date. You can call it a coffee date.
So… So this is a date?
Sure.
So, all things being normal, you would say that this is a thing?
Usually it takes a few dates before you can call it a thing,
but sure.
I think it would be.
So, about Dion…
I know you just started coaching him, but he has really taken to you.
All he ever talks about is your training sessions.
I know Kat will take care of him…
but she's not Powered and--
Nicole. You don't have to ask.
I will protect him.
I will be there for him, no matter what.
I promise.
Thank you… so much.
We should do something to commemorate the moment.
I don't think I'll forget it, but what'd you have in mind?
Well,
um, these donuts are incredible.
And the fact that I'm sharing it with you, I mean, that's a moment in itself, so…
Wow.
-Cheers.
Next trial, healing power chromosomes
with added strands of mental manipulation DNA.
Side note, that's probably one of the coolest things I've ever said.
Pat?
Yeah, no. Uh, right. Focus.
-Damn it. -The parasite cell is too aggressive.
Whoa.
Wait a second. It looks like the healing and mental manipulation powers are
bonding?
That's impossible. Those chromosomes shouldn't match.
It's like the P-DNA strands are able to adapt
and bond with each other, no matter who they came from.
Does that mean we can fuse different powers together?
-Create new ones that could be-- -Injected into the body.
Yes.
Theoretically, you could give someone powers they didn't have,
or-or change the ones they have.
Will this help Nicole?
Keep running as many trials as you can.
I'm gonna go back to the drawing board on Pat's antidote.
-Pat? -Yup. Yes.
What were you like in school?
Uh, middle school, okay.
High school, hot mess.
-No. -College, so much worse.
-Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, what about you?
I bet you were on the honor roll, and president of the student body.
Uh,
nah.
I was way too nervous for that kind of thing.
You, nervous? Really?
Yeah.
The, uh, proper diagnosis is anxiety disorder.
But we didn't know that then.
My parents worked a lot.
I had younger siblings, so when I was old enough to take care of them,
I, uh…
I would… I would be so scared that…
that they would just get lost or hurt.
I had this overwhelming fear that I would let them down.
To the point I had this tightness in my chest where I couldn't even breathe.
It sounds like a panic attack.
I'm sure they were.
Mental health really wasn't a conversation in my family.
I sort of had to learn how to internalize it,
convince myself that it wasn't there.
By putting up walls?
Yeah.
It's actually the reason I started running.
Because, you know, out there, it's just…
It's just me, and I get to clear my head.
And it worked for a while.
Until I got my powers.
Yeah, well, that couldn't have helped.
No.
No, it, um…
It set everything off again.
You know, the fear, the…
worry.
The scariest part was that I didn't know what was happening to me.
I didn't know what to do.
Literally, it felt like I was drowning, and I didn't know how to ask for help.
Not even from my wife.
Ex-wife.
Hmm.
I shut her out.
The relationship just fell apart.
But it did lead me to get help.
Too little, too late.
I just want to make sure I don't make the same mistakes again.
No more walls.
I like that. No more walls.
-No more emotional walls.
Where, force fields… I can do that all day long.
I wish we had a few more of these, because…
it definitely would be a thing.
I mean, we could just, you know, go ahead and…
Call it?
Why not?
-Are you okay?
Yeah.
-Oh. -Oh.
-Uh… I need to go home. -All right, let's go.
A lot of Atlanta's Civil War battlefields have disappeared
because buildings were built on top of them.
-Like our school.
But just because we can't see something doesn't mean it's not--
Jonathan?
What's going on?
Brayden? I thought you were gone.
Not until I take out everyone you care about.
No!
Jonathan, the TOJ needs you. Wake up!
Dion! You can't get away from me!
What?
Am I really here, Dion? Or am I inside your head?
You can't fight us if you don't know which one of us is real.
-Why are you doing this, Brayden? -You have everything.
A home, a mom, friends.
Now you're going to know how it feels to be all alone.
Triangle power!
Give it up, Brayden!
-You. You're on my side now. Nope.
I said, you're on my side.
Oh, I heard you. I'm just not listening to you.
You can't beat the Triangle of Justice.
This isn't working.
We just haven't found the right combination of Powered strands yet.
So I'm throwing them all in. One of these has to work.
-That's way too many variables. -Well, we have to try.
Guys, I think I found something.
I figured out how Pat's antidote works.
You mixed healing P-DNA with an inactive pathogen contained in the parasite, right?
Yes, to trigger the immune system
into recognizing and destroying the invading cells.
And the healing DNA is able to revert the mutated cells
back to their pre-infected form.
But they continue to attack those cells, even once they're healthy again.
Attacking healthy cells, like really aggressive chemotherapy.
Right. The body is turning on the cells that were previously infected,
so the more infected cells the patient has--
The faster they die. That's what's happening to Nicole.
And that's why our patient died so quickly.
The P-DNA isn't working. We need a different strategy.
Specialist team is here.
But before they come in,
you and I need to have a private conversation.
In a minute. Uh, please escort Pat back to his cell.
-Yes, ma'am. -What? No, I'm working lead on this.
You helped us during a crisis, but now the experts are here.
Wait, y-y-y-you can't do this. This is my research. That's my antidote!
Hold on. Just everybody calm down.
Didn't you say this was an all-hands situation?
Pat's trials have failed.
-Uh-- -The experts can explore his ideas.
But we are working with highly sensitive information.
We need to be able to trust our team.
Are you… Are you kidding me?
How much more do I need to do?
I mean, I… At some point, I deserve to be forgiven.
Deserve?!
You haven't changed one bit.
You killed a lot of people, Pat. What did you expect?
That you would find a cure and suddenly be the hero?
So you're just gonna keep me locked in L5 forever?
We are going to do what we were always going to do.
Find a way to extinguish every last spark of power inside of you
so you can't hurt anyone else.
But until then…
Okay, let's go.
You just took a valuable asset off the team.
Cutler is gonna be pissed.
I don't care.
Look around.
We are all trying to stop a parasitic outbreak that could end all of us.
So stop worrying about your career and show the specialists in.
I'm sorry.
Listen up. This is what we know about the infection.
-Dion. -No sign of Brayden anywhere.
It doesn't seem like anybody saw what happened.
We're lucky we cleaned everything up before they woke up.
Sorry I didn't tell you guys about Brayden having powers.
Dude, sorry your friend turned out to be a demon.
We've been through a lot, but the Triangle stayed strong.
Invisible Girl.
Mind Mover.
Admiral Annihilation.
-Okay. Yeah. -Yeah, he's earned it.
Three become one. We're stronger together.
Triangle of Justice!
There you are.
Tevin.
Brayden came back, but we defeated him.
We gotta get you home. Come on.
What… Mom?
What's going on?
Dion, your mom is sick.
-No-- -She didn't want you to worry, buddy.
-Didn't want you to worry. -Let me--
Okay.
Mom?
Why didn't you tell me?
I can heal her.
Mom, wake up. Wake up!
Dion, please back away from her.
Dion… no.
I'm older now. I can heal you.
Oh.
Dion, stop!
-Come on, please.
Mom, no. Are you…?
You can't heal me now.
No!
No, no, no, no.
No.