Will!
This is not good!
Dammit, it's not working.
Boost to full power!
No, no, no, hold on a second.
Please...
Don't do this.
Please, don't do this.
Oi!
Where are you going?
Just keep it in here!
A full stun charge did bugger-all.
Are you sure you've never seen
anything like this before?
This is entirely new.
Abby...
What happened to you?
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Secure isolation room.
Someone needs to stay with her at all times.
Agreed.
It's okay, Deco.
We'll make the place nice for her, mate.
You said this would stop.
I know.
Something's preventing
the DNA inhibitors from working.
Three transformations in 24 hours?
Magnus, she's getting stronger and crazier.
I realize that, Will.
We'll find something, I promise.
Get in touch with Henry.
I'll be in the lab.
We're backtracking from the first incident.
Look, I know things are crazy over there,
but seriously,
it's like working with one hand tied behind my back here.
Uh, okay.
I'm just going to pretend that's your frustration talking--
She's not good.
Another episode?
She's sedated now.
She's under watch.
Dr. Magnus said that she'd be fine.
These things take time, Gavin.
It would be nice if we could find something
to help her out.
Well, I don't even know what we're looking for.
A cocoon? A husk? Excrement?
Okay, will you stop with the list-making already?
Please?
Sorry.
And stop with the constant apologizing!
Sorry.
My mother was...
Canadian.
Mazel tov.
Okay, so, you get the call,
and it's about a...
Super-large gorilla, really?
Well, protocol is we check every tip.
Which began here,
a block by block search.
Which we just retraced.
Now, are you sure you never found, saw,
smelled anything?
No.
Just suddenly Abby wasn't Abby anymore.
I didn't know people could change like that.
Yeah, well, they can.
Some of us more than others.
It's just rare to be able to control it like I do.
S-sorry, you...
You mean you can change into...
Know what a werewolf is?
Close enough.
Oh, my God.
Oh, don't worry, Gavin.
I haven't devoured a Canadian in months.
You've been studying transformations
since the 19th century,
and still we're in the dark about this?
I am trying everything, Will.
Every DNA lock I try, the creature overcomes it.
This is a genetic tidal wave,
and I have no idea how to stop it,
let alone what started it.
It's a virus, she's the host...
I will find a way.
I know what it's like, Magnus,
to lose yourself.
It's happened to me twice.
When your body
is not your own.
I need information,
anything to help us understand what we're dealing with.
I'm going to reduce her meds slightly
just to let her resurface.
It's so risky, Magnus.
You need to talk to her, Will.
You need to try to keep her grounded in this reality
if you can.
Anything, no matter how obscure,
could give us a way to cure her.
I know how close you two are,
and that may be our best weapon at this point.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
We'll fix this.
We always do.
The same?
No seizures, no transformations
for the past four hours.
Get some rest.
I've got her.
I'm fine.
You've been with her for two days, Will.
You need food and sleep.
I'm not leaving her.
Okay, then.
Me neither.
Music?
Yeah, sure.
Nothing too loud, though.
Don't worry, mate.
My Sex Pistols days are long gone.
♪ Where am I? ♪
Abby?
♪ Will, what's wrong with me? ♪
Thank God, we thought we'd lost you.
♪ What? ♪
♪ Why can't I understand you? ♪
Are you--
♪ Don't be like that just speak to me! ♪
I am speaking to you.
Is she--
♪ What's the matter with both of you? ♪
Abby, stay calm.
♪ I can't understand you ♪
What the hell?
♪ Please just speak to me! ♪
She's singing.
Why is she singing? Abby?
♪ Oh, my God ♪
♪ something's very wrong with me! ♪
Of course, right there.
It's fascinating.
The superior temporal sulcus, right?
It's where we process complex aural patterns.
Her synapses are firing like mad.
So when she speaks, it comes out as song?
Because her DNA is being over-written,
she can only perceive
certain harmonic frequencies.
Music?
Music.
Well, explains why she couldn't understand me
when I spoke to her.
It may be the only way
that she can communicate with us.
No.
Yes.
No.
We need to find out what happened to her.
After you.
Hello, Abby.
♪ Abby, can you hear me? ♪
♪ do you know where you are? ♪
♪ You look so worried ♪
♪ you've been here for two days ♪
♪ we've never left your side ♪
♪ there's something you're not telling me ♪
This is insane.
♪ What did you just say? ♪
♪ Do do you recall ♪
♪ anything ♪
♪ before you woke up? ♪
♪ Don't avoid the question ♪
♪ am I going to die? ♪
♪ Magnus? ♪
♪ Your body's been taken ♪
♪ something new and deadly ♪
♪ something we've never seen ♪
♪ Have I become a monster? ♪
♪ We never use that word ♪
♪ You remember nothing? ♪
♪ Some kind of creature? ♪
♪ An alleyway... ♪
In the fifth ward.
♪ Something attacked you? ♪
♪ I don't remember! ♪
♪ I just woke up here ♪
♪ I need to know ♪
♪ to know the truth now ♪
♪ no matter how bad it is ♪
♪ Your condition is grave ♪
♪ don't know how to save you ♪
♪ but we won't give up ♪
♪ I feel so tired ♪
♪ Abby... ♪
Abby?
Okay, so, seeing as how
we can't exactly call in a full forensics team--
your call, not mine--
I say we do a door-to-door canvassing
of the neighborhood.
Someone's got to have seen or heard something.
If someone saw something, it would be headline news.
Most abnormals are pretty good at staying out of sight.
Yes, we're dealing with monsters,
but the basic tenets of detective work
still apply here--
Dude...
Sorry.
I said the "M" word.
Please don't werewolf on me.
HAP.
Hyper-accelerated--
never mind.
Scan the area, full spectrum.
Where are you going?
I'm going to talk to Red List dealers
in the area.
Criminals?
Yes, criminals,
which is why I'm not bringing you with me.
Might as well have a big sign on you
that says "narc."
Call me if you find anything.
Uh, Henry?
I said I'll be back!
I found something.
Thermal residue.
It's coming from...
That is a cocoon, isn't it?
You say you found this against a brick wall?
Behind some garbage.
Actually I found... it.
So, what is it, Red List?
Likely.
It's very similar
to the larval pocket of a galvanic blood tick.
Um, what?
They often partner with parasitical organisms,
ones specifically designed to mutate human DNA.
They're extremely rare.
One would never be found in an urban environment
by accident.
Which means this cocoon
was deliberately placed in that alleyway
in order to test this parasite on a human victim.
So somebody puts the parasite
into the blood tick,
Abby finds the blood tick cocoon...
And becomes infected with a microscopic parasite
we've never even heard of before.
Wait, the cocoon was placed in the alley
by whom?
Hollow Earth insurgents.
We've never seen a parasite
mutate this rapidly.
We can't even identify it.
So all these angry monsters--
abnormals--
from the center of the earth.
They did this?
They're tracking us.
They would have known
that Abby is connected, however discreetly,
to my Sanctuary.
They'd want to know
if I could prevent the mutation or not.
You were totally set up.
Doc, this is very bad.
If that creature becomes fully realized,
then normal human beings will become a means
to populate the surface with Hollow Earth abnormals.
Total foothold scenario.
So Abby is a test case
for a full-on monster invasion.
Excuse me.
I need to go throw up.
My mom used to sing to me.
In fact, when I...
When I can't remember her voice,
I just think of all those cheesy songs
she used to sing to me.
If I...
If I fell down, or if I couldn't sleep,
if I had a nightmare,
she'd sing to me.
And then after she died...
So thanks...
for contracting the one condition
that makes me do something I hate.
Look, I'll make you a deal.
I'll try to sing...
If you stick around a little while longer.
That sound like a deal?
Just...
♪ Stay... ♪
♪ just stay... ♪
♪ Abby, please ♪
♪ just stay... ♪
Hey!
I didn't mean to intrude.
Did you mean to be such a waste of space
that she had to do your job for you?
Okay, I...
Can see that you're in pain--
Maybe I'll rejoin the FBI,
and your girlfriend can become the mutant of the week.
I'm sorry.
Did you keep her in sight?
Did you even know that she'd found that stupid cocoon?
How do I make this right?
You can't.
♪ Will! ♪
Hey--
♪ How are you feeling? ♪
♪ Will. Your name is Will. ♪
♪ Abby... ♪
♪ No, not Abby! ♪
♪ There's only me ♪
♪ and I'm in control now! ♪
♪ What is this place? ♪
♪ This feeling I have? ♪
♪ I want to talk to Abby ♪
♪ Have you felt this feeling before? ♪
♪ Being alive like never before ♪
♪ What have you done to her? ♪
♪ Lightning in my veins ♪
♪ every minute I breathe ♪
♪ Who are you? ♪
♪ I'm the thing you fear the most ♪
♪ I'm here to give you a dose of reality ♪
♪ Don't want to talk to you ♪
♪ I'm only talking to Abby ♪
♪ I'm the sickness without a cure ♪
♪ I'm the loved one who disappears ♪
♪ I'm the thing in the dark ♪
♪ the dream that feels real ♪
♪ the light that goes out the terror you feel ♪
♪ I want to feel so much more than this ♪
♪ come on, handsome give us a kiss ♪
♪ Let's start again a new evolution... ♪
♪ A small warning ♪
♪ it's gonna get bloody ♪
♪ Just stay... ♪
♪ you're gonna wish I was never born... ♪
♪ just stay... ♪
♪ You're gonna wish you were never born... ♪
♪ just stay... ♪
♪ I'm gonna like being born! ♪
♪ stay... ♪
♪ I'm gonna like being born ♪
Hey.
Any, um...
No. The sedation's still holding.
Look, anything you need, bro.
I'm a guy that turns into a giant man-dog.
I'll give you blood, kidney, stem cells, you name it.
Why don't you take a break,
go make a sandwich or something.
For me, not you.
I got her, Will.
You remember that song that you and Erika sang to us
at that pub in Dublin?
The parting glass?
Yeah.
I always liked that song.
♪ Oh, if I had money enough to spend ♪
♪ and leisure time to sit a while ♪
♪ there is a fair maid in this town ♪
♪ who sorely has my heart beguiled ♪
♪ her rosy cheeks and Ruby lips ♪
♪ alone she has my heart in thrall ♪
♪ so fill to me the parting glass ♪
♪ good night and joy be with you all ♪
Greetings, everyone.
Sorry for the delay.
How are you all holding up?
Hello, Helen.
Some problems, I'm afraid.
Complications have arisen.
Need some answers right away--
a few concerns about our direction--
okay, one at a--
the sand Ray's giving birth
in a zone that's not been cleared.
Funds have been diverted
to a traceable account.
People are not safe in the city any longer.
The government's asking for our tax returns.
Fine, let me--
I suggest you switch to gold. It's easier to unload.
Is there something we can give her
to ease her labor pains?
I don't like the use of force,
but we need some more protection.
A dummy corporation won't make this go away.
We need a new accountant.
A shipment of new guns.
I think she's having triplets.
We need to transfer funds.
Risk of intervention...
Risk of losing lives...
Risk of going bankrupt.
Risk of getting hives.
I love money!
Stop!
The sand ray needs some sugar, and keep her in the shade.
Gold's a bold suggestion, but too risky, I'm afraid.
Who cares about an audit? We've been through that before.
Your guns arrive tomorrow. Let me know if you need more.
But--
thank you.
Doctor!
Risk in doing business? Since when is that hot news?
Have we ever shied away
from things that others wouldn't do?
If you think we've lost our way, feel free to step aside.
There's other pressing business. I'm afraid we're out of time.
Magnus?
You okay?
Yes.
Sorry.
Where were we?
Abby?
No.
Abby?
Listen to me...
♪ Abby, come down from there ♪
♪ this is you and me I know you're frightened ♪
♪ No, it's better this way ♪
♪ I don't know who I am ♪
♪ I'll help you through this ♪
♪ you know I've been there before ♪
♪ listen to me ♪
♪ you feel ♪
♪ lost, out of control ♪
♪ like a ship in a storm ♪
♪ Feels like I'm drowning ♪
♪ I'm going to die ♪
♪ We'll find... ♪
♪ It's getting worse ♪
♪ it's taking control now... ♪
♪ a way... ♪
♪ don't you give up hope... ♪
♪ I'm fading away ♪
♪ would you do any different? ♪
♪ a way... ♪
♪ Please just let me go ♪
♪ I've been holding back ♪
♪ you've been holding back ♪
♪ I don't want to lie to you anymore ♪
♪ Please just let me go ♪
♪ Do you think I'm the one? ♪
♪ 'cause I think you're the one ♪
♪ there, I said it ♪
♪ I can't take it back ♪
♪ please just let me go ♪
♪ this is not how it ends ♪
♪ here amongst friends ♪
♪ a future we'll never see ♪
♪ Abby, please... ♪
♪ You were holding back I was holding back ♪
♪ I know it's hard but it's time to let me go ♪
♪ just stay....
♪ It's taking control I'm losing control... ♪
♪ just stay... ♪
♪ I love you, Will ♪
Abby!
How bad?
Completely new pathways in half her cerebral cortex.
You said the singing would help keep her human.
And it did...
Temporarily.
We've tried every musical key,
even subsonic frequencies.
This isn't a virus, Will.
This is a new life form
overtaking her entire physiology.
You think there's no cure.
I think...
We should prepare for the worst.
No, no.
I do not accept that, okay?
There is a way to save her.
We just haven't found it yet.
The timeline is not good.
Well, then put her on ice until we can understand this.
Cryogenics might just kill her outright,
or make the creature even stronger.
We have no idea.
Well, figure it out!
What is the point of this entire place
if we can't save the people that...
Oh, Magnus...
It's not over yet.
♪ I will go ♪
♪ wherever you lead me ♪
♪ on rivers of roses or rain ♪
♪ I will follow the signs that you leave me ♪
♪ the mysteries of joy and of pain ♪
♪ I will search for light in the darkness ♪
♪ though I stumble through shadow and shade ♪
♪ Oh, if you are with me ♪
♪ of whom shall I be afraid? ♪
♪ You have lifted me up when I've fallen ♪
♪ and driven the ghosts from my door ♪
♪ you have comforted me in my sorrow ♪
♪ wiped my brow when I've been sick and sore ♪
♪ you have shared in all of my triumphs ♪
♪ and blessed the crops that we laid ♪
♪ oh, if you are with me ♪
♪ of whom shall I be afraid? ♪
♪ Oh, if you are with me ♪
♪ of whom shall I be afraid? ♪
Of course.
It makes sense.
Do you see it now, sweetheart?
Thank you, father.
Never lose faith.
All right, I'm listening.
Of course there are risks,
but hear me out.
My father had a theory
about the origins of abnormal life,
specifically that
of the most powerful beings amongst us--
vampires, haps, shape-shifters--
that their particular DNA
aggressively sought to define itself.
Which is how those races were born.
Exactly.
Now, she is being consumed by cells
that are determined to become something more.
I've been working on this night and day.
This is the only solution we have, Will.
Tell me.
If we harvest a larval segmented annelid,
and implant it into her stomach wall,
there is a chance
that the invading DNA will be attracted
to the simpler, more malleable life form.
Wait a second, so...
You're talking about creating another creature
and putting it inside of Abby?
If it takes,
the annelid will develop rapidly, within hours,
but Abby's system
will sustain no further damage.
Okay, that sounds positive.
Until...
the new life form reaches maturity.
At which point, it will emerge from her body...
Rather violently.
This is your solution?
Why don't you just bore a hole in her brain,
or use leeches?
Once this new creature leaves her body,
I can save her--
Are you willing to bet her life on that?
Because I'm not.
There will be trauma, Will, I realize,
but if I time this right--
No.
That's not what's happening here, is it?
See, you're so intoxicated by the possibility
of creating
some amazing new "life form"
that you're ignoring other options.
That is not the case, I assure you.
Growing a monster inside my girlfriend,
and then patching her up after it chews its way out
is not an answer!
I've already started an ovulation cycle
on the annelid.
What?
I intend to harvest the larva
within the hour--
Like hell you will.
My only concern is for Abby's well being.
It's my call.
This is what we're doing, Will.
We'll see about that.
Henry, Declan, we have a situation.
Nice work, H. Your finest hour.
Will--
you too, Deco. Hope you're proud.
The Doc is trying to save her life.
If it were Erika down there,
you wouldn't be such a suck-ass right now!
Dude, don't push me.
Oh, I'm just gettin' started!
That's enough, both of you!
As soon as this is over, you're free.
Watch him.
Magnus' orders.
You are sure about this?
Prep the O.R.
You know,
I've done combat medicine, but I'm not a surgeon.
If you'd rather someone else was with you...
We're dealing with a hybrid species, Declan.
If something goes wrong, I need you there.
Upper abdomen for the incision point.
Scalpel.
What about patient consent?
It's not your call.
Doesn't that count for anything?
It'll be over soon, so just take--
She's gonna be dead soon, Henry!
You're letting your emotions run the game, dude.
Oh, and what are you suddenly, huh?
Mr. Stoic?
I trust Magnus, Will.
So should you.
Please, man...
Please, Henry?
I've got to get out of here!
I gotta get out of here!
Don't do it!
534...
534!
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Gestation time, two hours.
Ultrasound shows rapid growth, but no movement.
Blood pressure's crashing.
Six units of blood on standby.
Saline wide open.
We'll need containment.
On it.
This is happening more rapidly than I'd hoped.
Heart rate's in the red.
She's going into shock.
Keep this IV in her!
Magnus!
Keep her still!
I need to give it an exit point!
There's too much movement.
I can't make a clean incision.
She needs more sedation!
Dear God.
Containment, quickly!
One milligram EPI, stat!
Magnus...
Crash cart!
Charging!
Clear!
♪ Just stay... ♪
Clear!
♪ Just stay... ♪
No.
Again! 360!
Charging!
Clear!
We got her.
Hey, you.
Hey.
You okay?
Traumatized.
But too much singing will do that to a person.
From what I heard, it was...
kinda romantic.
I'm okay.
Come here.
I'm okay. Really.
I won't be wearing a bikini anytime soon.
This time I was sure...
I mean, I really thought--
Hey.
If this doesn't disaster-proof our relationship,
nothing will.
I feel like I'm cursed.
I feel like...
Anybody who gets close to me has got a target on their back.
But you didn't lose me.
And you won't.
Okay?
I can handle monsters.
I can handle death.
But I can't...Handle... Singing.
But you're so good at it.
No, I'm not good at it, so just stop, okay?
And I have a mountain of paperwork to do
because of you, so... You owe me.
Go.
I'll be here.
There you are.
Haven't seen you all day.
I just needed some space.
As long as you're not hiding from me.
No.
Will, you obviously have something to say to me.
Besides thank you for saving her?
That's not very sincere.
Out with it, please.
It worked.
It did, but...
That procedure should have
never happened.
But you never met a compromise
you didn't steamroll right through.
This hit close to home...
And...
You shut me down.
You've been a wonderful soldier, Will.
You have done everything I've asked you, and more.
You could run this Sanctuary,
hell, the entire network, brilliantly.
Because you always fight for what you believe is right.
Even when we disagree.
I'm not too proud to admit
that I am very used to getting my own way.
Sometimes to a fault.
Right...
Don't think you're going to melt me
with that...
...British charm of yours.
Perish forbid.
You never compromise, Will,
and that's the man I hired to be my protege.
How am I doing?
Honestly?
I couldn't be more proud.
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