Like Pygmalion
Chapter Two: "Like Pygmalion"

When a handful of SLC-Expressives lose their abilities overnight a wave of speculation surrounds their unexpected change and what their ongoing transformation into something entirely different means for the future.
Prologue
Date Scene Description
July 6, 2020 The Ǝvent Something is terribly wrong.
July 7, 2020 Is this hell?
July 8, 2020 Not The First Rodeo Brynn Ferguson asks Abigail Caliban for assistance in contacting her family back in the Safe Zone, and Abby has some words of advice for her.
July 9, 2020 Hollow Following the 'cargo crash' event in Manitoba, its survivors congregate in fits and starts, trying all in their own way to feel less…
Down To Business Frenetic energy and determination to find the answers only makes it so far, at least at this point.
More Than Just Once the initial fire has died down, Asi realizes that without an ability, she struggles to see what she has to offer, and impresses those views upon Jac as well.
Real For two crash survivors, nothing feels like it anymore.
Chicken or Tomato Another pact is made between an unlikely pair of survivors.
Will the Light Still Be On? One survivor reckons with what her ability really means to her, now that it's gone.
July 10, 2020 Of All the Gin Joints in the World Daphne Millbrook and Corbin Ayers reunite, not in the way either of them would have wanted.
July 11, 2020 Unknown Variables When Asi Tetsuyama catches an early flight back to New York courtesy of SESA, Avi Epstein is there to meet her. They both have plenty of questions.
July 12, 2020 Extended Family Nova Leverett checks in on Isa and Shaw Wesley-Khan at the hospital.
July 18, 2020 The Walls (Better Not) Have Ears Asi, Nicole, Yi-Min, and Zachery get together to drink and discuss first steps for solving their mystery. Kara Prince plays designated driver.
July 19, 2020 The Best You Give Asi meets with Kaydence Damaris to tell her the news about her ability loss, but Kay's already aware and ready to bat baseball metaphors at her until she understands it's not the end of the world.
July 29, 2020 With Friends Like These Asi turns to an old friend to find out if what happened to her has also happened to anyone else overseas.
July 31, 2020 Shake It Off Nicole Miller accidentally finds herself off work so she can purposefully track down a lead slipped to her by Noah Bennet.
See It In Your Eyes Zachery Miller pleads with Nicole to not follow up her lead alone.
Inclusion Zone Nicole seeks out Yi-Min Yeh and Kara Prince as partners in heading into the Manhattan Exclusion Zone.
Remember, Trust No One Yamagato Industries closes themselves off in the aftermath of the Event, determined to find answers.
August 1, 2020 It's Dangerous To Go Alone Nicole loops in Lance Gerken on her need to travel beyond the Exclusion Zone walls.
Unlikely Allies Jacelyn Childs invites Zachery over for dinner in the hopes of convincing her mother Gillian to let her in on some otherwise unsanctioned science.
August 2, 2020 Focus on the Facts Asi and Isaac Faulkner get together for coffee and to swap theories on what's happened to them.
Drunk Dial Asi drunk-dials Monica Dawson for a shoulder to lean on and to have another head tackling the mystery of what's happened to the crash victims.
August 3, 2020 A Buried Past, Part II Following Noah Bennet's lead Nicole, Kara, and Yi-Min uncover a conspiracy hidden within the Manhattan Exclusion Zone.
August 4, 2020 Darkness In The Light Of Day Play in shadows leads to tales too dark for any time of day… but Isaac is unexpectedly granted the chance to say goodbye to the ability that's been torn from him in the process.
August 5, 2020 When All You Lack Is A Hammer Isaac struggles his way through the dark, but vows to find a way forward.
Fresh Hell Luckily happened upon by a healer, Isaac's injuries are restored to their former state— but with an unusual side-effect.
Friend In Need Faulkner shows up at Aman's house under strange circumstances that only get stranger when properly explained.
August 7, 2020 Somebody Knows Two of the Sundered put their heads together and come to one conclusion…
…And Now
Date Scene Description
September 4, 2020 Shared Trauma Richard and Asi finally talk about what's happened to her since the Event.
Bittersweet Symphony Two survivors of discuss life after possible alien abduction and other matters.
September 5, 2020 Insight Nicole and Donald Kenner get together over drinks to discuss, in vague terms, what happened to her … and gossip a little about a certain superior officer who turns out to be former DoE in the process.
September 6, 2020 Hypocrisy And Hardballs Agent Marlon Toussaint makes a visit to deliver sympathetically worded inquiries regarding the incident in early July. Zachery reacts poorly.
September 7, 2020 Butterscotch and Theories Nicole finds herself on the opposite end of a different government agency's questions when DoE agent Davis Bright comes calling.
Avoid The Blowfish An curious Agent Castle of the DoE drops in on Yi-Min to check on her wellbeing and ask her some questions after the plane crash.
September 9, 2020 Going Off Script (Again) Isaac Faulkner gets a special delivery, which leads to his own wellness check up— which quickly goes off script. Because the Agent who decided to mail themselves the question is Agent Castle.
September 13, 2020 Answers Abigail Caliban decides to find Lisa Bradbury again in the hopes of findings answers to some questions, even if there's no hope for immediately solving others.
September 14, 2020 Signs Of Wellness Brynn gets a visit from DoE agent Emmeline Sommerfield to check in on her health and wellness.
Sweet Tea And Salty Tears Kaylee gets a mysterious visit from an agent of unknown origins.
September 15, 2020 Grasping For Hope Kaylee confronts Richard Ray about what she needs to start investigating what happened to her on her own terms.
Try Praying On Lisa's suggestion, Abby seeks out Richard. They discuss ability loss, and the White Conduit.
Monkey Speaks Not Agents Bright and Castle show up at Abigail Caliban's doorstep for an attempted wellness check, but it does not go as planned.
September 16, 2020 Let's Do Science Kaylee gathers the Raytech science team of Ourania Pride, Yi-Min Yeh, and Zachery Miller to enlist their help in verifying details about their medical state and whether or not it includes them being clones.
September 21, 2020 Not SESA DoE agents Bright and Reeves of another variety ask the Childs family some curious questions as part of a wellness check.
Intimidation Tactics Kaylee runs the prints of Agent Toussaint and runs into a road block. It's good to know Liz has her back.
September 28, 2020 Basket Of Mysteries Asi's only slightly helpful during the wellness check conducted by Agent Reeves.
August 21 - September 29, 2020 Peculiarity Various experiments run by Jac and Zachery have various results. The final one is a major discovery regarding the Sundered's brainwave activity.
October 1, 2020 Off the Wall Faulkner and Nova are near strangers nearly collide and then discuss the strangeness of their situations, and part as something slightly more.
October 8, 2020 Point of Intersection The paths of two of the survivors of a terrible tragedy cross again by chance.
October 10, 2020 Invasive Maneuvers The Sundered gather to determine what they know, and what their next steps might be.
Say Something After months of estrangement between Nicole and Zachery, the question of where to go from here is finally asked.
October 11, 2020 I'd Like to Speak to Your Manager Representatives from Raytech and Yamagato Industries meet to discuss how they can best put their combined resources to work.
October 15, 2020 !gnaB Zachery returns home to find an unexpected visitor, and Nicole arrives shortly after. Agent Castle's attempt to give them an evening off is not well-received, given it was unasked-for.
October 28, 2020 Pigmalion There are some fascinating discoveries where it comes to the blood of the Sundered. Specifically, the shelf-life on it, and what happens when you put it in something else.
Look to the Shadows Kaylee asks Asi to peer into the shadows of the Dark Web to see who might be buying blood like theirs.
November 1, 2020 One Migraine Later Several victims of the Event resort to a last-ditch measure, hoping to recall memories through the use of Refrain. In the process they receive yet another stinging confirmation they're no longer SLC-E… but not your average SLC-N, either.
November 5, 2020 Electrophysiology Nicole and Yi-Min take a calculated risk without knowing all the variables, performing a single round of electroshock therapy on Nicole which yields catastrophic results and ends in a hospital stay.
November 8, 2020 Metastasis, Part I Gillian wakes in the night to see visions of a Peter hers, but not there. Bleeding from the nose and suffering from extreme head pain, she manages to rouse help.
Metastasis, Part II Kaylee wakes in the night and discovers she's bleeding from the eye, unable to see clearly. When she turns back, she sees a vision of someone… that might be herself. Collapsing to the floor in terrible pain, she hears someone whisper to her in German to sleep.
Metastasis, Part III Faulkner wakes in the night, and attempting to walk to the bathroom overlays him in a place not where he is. He manages to call for help and relay the German he hears before he begins to have a seizure.
Metastasis, Part IV Abby wakes in the night and coming to her window, sees a vision of Paris, and a woman who calls her by a different name. She manages to call for help before collapsing in extreme head pain.
Metastasis, Part V Neither Kimiko nor Eizen are asleep when they receive notice about the ambulance calls ongoing for the Sundered. Kimiko gives the order to rouse Kay and have her investigate just before she begins to feel unwell herself.
Metastasis, Part VI Zachery wakes up after his surgery to discover the DoE and a CDC representative are present, wanting to talk to him about what was discovered in the biopsy of his brain.
November 13, 2020 What Do We Do Now? The Sundered and select guests gather to discuss what happened November 8th. Bridges begin to be built with their DoE contacts in the hopes of securing answers where they've otherwise failed.
November 21, 2020 Signed in Blood Asi brings a special delivery of synthetic blood from Inverse Technologies to the Raytech lab for side-by-side comparisons with the Sundered's blood.
November 30, 2020 Nanotechnology Breakthrough Leaked After an electron microscope at the University of Kansas KC is used to study the Sundered's blood, an imaging assistant leaks the findings to the world, prompting damage control from all sides.
Sandman, Part I Kate Archer and Iov Oblonsky sync up regarding a new assignment— a single-person retrieval within the US… of someone who was involved in the Manitoba plane crash.
December 1, 2020 Get Ahead
Too Late for Damage Control
December 3, 2020 Angler
December 8, 2020 Mutual Interest
January 8, 2021 Till I Can No Longer
January 14, 2021 Crash
December 5, 2020 - January 14, 2021 Fruit Of The Scarlet Tree
January 15, 2021 Paint A Better Future
Catalysis, Part I
January 15, 2021 Catalysis, Part II
Catalysis, Part III
Catalysis, Part IV
Catalysis, Part V
Catalysis, Part VI
Catalysis, Part VII
Catalysis, Part VIII
Catalysis, Part IX
Waiting Again
January 16, 2021 A Thimbleful of Blood
Heaven Will Betray
January 17, 2021 Audible Alarm
Still Blood
Lighthouse Is For Always
TD-037-H
January 18, 2021 Hospital Corners
Cacophony
November 9, 2021 - January 20, 2021 I'm Not Here
January 21, 2021 Mi Casa Asi Casa
January 22, 2021 Fuck 'Em
January 23, 2021 Past Is Prologue
Like A Gift
The Sun in Wonderland
January 24, 2021 Quietest Place In Town
Some Kind of Cinderella
January 28, 2021 Dark Chapter
January 29, 2021 Exercises in Futility
ʎɹoɯǝW uǝppᴉH
Cooldown
February 1, 2021 Venn Diagram
Sandman, Part II
Halls & Doors
The Inside Game
February 2, 2021 1 Unread Message
Sandman, Part III
Till They Can Glue Themselves Back Together
Antiviral
Till They Can Find Their Way In The Dark
For Your Approval
A Long Game of Telephone
December 17, 2020 - February 4, 2021 Written In Blood
February 5, 2021 Meeting Hall
Robot or Alien
The Answer Is...
February 6, 2021 Each Other's Favorite Former Terrorist
February 7, 2021 Cold Call
February 8, 2021 起死回生
February 9, 2021 The Front Lines of Language
February 11, 2021 Legacies
February 15, 2021 Missed Connection
February 16, 2021 Better Off Dead
February 25, 2021 The Wrong Hands
Loose Lips
February 26, 2021 Operation Orpheus
A Fight Worth Fighting
Else Return ␀ Part II
February 28, 2021 Nominative Determinism
Undone
What We're Made Of
What We Are, Is Not What God Made
March 1, 2021 Echo Chamber
March 2, 2021 We Won't Get Fooled Again
And Still Insists She Sees the Ghosts
Non-Zero
Language Without Words
Niban
March 3, 2021 Table Setting
No Good Answers
March 4, 2021 The Cost of Loyalty
March 5, 2021 ご無沙汰
March 6, 2021 Missed Connection, II
March 8, 2021 Of All People
March 10, 2021 Biological
March 11, 2021 Data Mines, Part I
March 13, 2021 割れられない絆
An Escape Into Routines
March 20, 2021 The Body
March 21, 2021 Sandman, Part IV
March 26, 2021 Painted Rocks
Data Mines, Part II
March 27, 2021 Heir
March 28, 2021 An Unkindness
Fragments
March 30, 2021 名前
April 8, 2021 The Cult of Personality
April 10 - April 17, 2021 Whose Blood
April 17, 2021 Existential Cry Sis
April 19, 2021 Anarchy in the UK, Part I
Anarchy in the UK, Part II
Anarchy in the UK, Part III
Anarchy in the UK, Part IV
Of All The Places
Anarchy in the UK, Part V
April 20, 2021 Waffling Over Waffles
International Incident
April 21, 2021 Making Up Is Hard To Do
April 23, 2021 Beneath the Stains of Time
May 3, 2021 When A Mirror Speaks...
...the Reflection Lies
May 4, 2021 We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This
May 7, 2021 The Practice of Patience
May 17, 2021 Drawing A Blank
June 23, 2021 GALATEA
Just Zeroes and Ones
A Path Back To The City
Across the Void
June 24, 2021 Sovereignty
To Protect Our Own Existence
A Little Inquisition
You're You
A Fuckup of Unimaginable Proportions
Company Woman
Wees Veilig
June 25, 2021 Sweet Escape
June 27, 2021 Fall Nine Times
The Devil Has A Face
The Devil Has A Name
June 28, 2021 Right Arm
June 29, 2021 ¿ǝɹɐ noʎ ʞuᴉɥʇ noʎ op oɥʍ
Union
Corinthians 3:16
Runaway
Phoenix
Chop
The Last Resort, Part I
The Last Resort, Part II
The Last Resort, Part III
The Last Resort, Part IV
June 30, 2021 Each Different Version Is A Gift
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