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	七	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