Transcripts - Forever Dreaming

Gabrielle? What's going on?

Who did you call?

It's me.

I need you to come over.

It's about Sir.

If you turn me in, your
life will be over too.

You cannot tell anybody the truth!

[ETHEREAL ECHOING]

Unconscious of his creed
or race, she cannot see,

but only weighs;

for Justice with unbandaged eyes,

- would be oppression in disguise.

[SOFT UPBEAT MUSIC]

[APPLAUSE]

Thank you, thank you all for joining us

on the final day of school.

As JRR Tolkien once said,
"All we have to decide

is what to do with the
time that is given to us,"

and today, you decided
to dedicate your time

to be best and brightest students

this school has to offer.

And they certainly didn't disappoint.

So please enjoy some refreshments.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

♪

I'm sorry he missed
another presentation.

I get it.

He works hard. It's okay.

[DOOR OPENS]

I'm so sorry, baby girl.
I got stuck on the job.

[LAUGHING] It's okay,
Daddy! You're here now!

Mr. Mosely, you missed an amazing
performance by your daughter.

[GABI LAUGHING]

Okay.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪

[POUNDING ON DOOR]

[MUSIC FADING]

[POUNDING ON DOOR]

[POUNDING ON DOOR]

Got here as fast as I could.
What's this about Sir?

[TENSE DRONING MUSIC]

♪

Gabi.

Gabi, you're shaking.

Did someone find something?

What? G...

♪

[OMINOUS TONES]

♪

[DISSONANT MUSICAL CRESCENDO]

♪

I remember you.

You're the one who followed me that day.

You found me for Gabrielle.

♪

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

♪

♪ Everybody just get out the way ♪

♪ Here comes a new kid with a new face ♪

♪ Ha, yeah, this when history's made ♪

♪ You better sit down, 'cause
you're in the right place ♪

♪ Na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na ♪

♪ Get ready, get ready,
this is legendary ♪

[ALARM BLARING]

What the hell?

[TENSE MUSIC]

[KEYBOARD TAPS]

♪

Okay. Come on, where are you?

♪

There you are.

Please!

[MUFFLED SHOUTING]

[CRYING] Please, please!

- Hey!
- Somebody help!

Hey, if you can hear me, come this way!

Please! Oh!

- Hey!
- Please help me!

Somebody help me, please!

- Please! Please help me!
- Hey, hey, hey.

♪

[LOW TENSE MUSIC]

♪

No. No, you don't get
to look at me like that.

You don't get to talk right now!

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

When your father died, you came to me.

You came to me broken and desperate.

You said you had to find
Sir and make him pay.

You told me that piece
of crap down there

is why you didn't have
enough time with your father.

That you'd been trying to track him,

that you came close a few times,

but couldn't catch him.

Say it back to me so I know
we're on the same page.

- Dhan...
- Say it back.

Yes, nine months ago,
I came to you for help.

You found Sir and lured him
into the farmhouse in Virginia

- where I was waiting.
- [SIGHS]

But you never asked me

what I did with Sir after you found him.

I thought you were going to turn him in.

But when you didn't, I assumed you'd do

what any of us might do
if we came face-to-face

with our own personal devil: k*ll him.

And that would be more palatable to you?

I understand putting
a b*llet in his head

for all the hurt he caused
you, but kidnapping him,

putting him in a cage, torturing him,

becoming the exact monster
we hunt every day!

[POUNDS TABLE] Every day.

That is...

You know...

I was held caged underground, Gabi.

You know what they did to me,

that you would do the same thing...

When my father died,

something...

something in me broke.

I know it was wrong

to chain him up and keep him down there.

I know that.

I wasn't in my right mind.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Why did you call me?

I need for this to be over.

You called me 'cause you want me
to do what you should've done,

what you still can't do.

I won't.

I won't.

♪

'Cause I'm not the same person
I was a year ago, either,

the one who would've done
it and asked no questions.

I'm different, better, because of you.

Because of M&A.

And now, I realize it was all fake.

[PHONE BUZZES]

[SIGHS]

Don't let my mistakes
destroy your progress,

your growth.

You're right.

You are different.

[PHONE BUZZING]

It's Zeke.

Clearly there's an emergency.

And she was just running
down your street?

I think somebody was chasing her.

[GASPING]

It's okay.

- [WHIMPERING]
- I'm Gabi Mosely.

This is Zeke.

You're safe now, I promise.

Can you... can you... can
you get this off, please?

- Okay.
- [SOBBING]

[GASPING]

♪

What is your name?

I... I d... I don't remember.

Do you know what happened to you?

This evil... lizard...

he took me on...

on his... on his spaceship.

A lizard kidnapped you

and held you c*ptive on a spaceship?

May I take your photo?

I might be able to identify you.

♪

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

♪

- Have you been drinking?
- He drugged me.

That, I remember.

We're gonna need to get
you to the hospital.

We don't know what you've been given.

♪

Is your name Aisha?

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Yeah.

Yeah, it's Aisha.

Aisha Carter.

I found your social media page.

Looks like you stopped
posting two months ago.

That must've been when
you were kidnapped.

He has my friends.
He's holding them hostage.

I-I left them there.

- No, Aisha. Calm down. Aisha!
- No, no, no! He's gonna k*ll them!

He's gonna k*ll them!

- Oh!
- Oh, oh, oh.

♪

You've come to k*ll me.

That's why Gabrielle called you.

Isn't it?

Gabrielle loves me, Executioner.

That's why she called you.

Because she can't do it herself.

I know she's considered it.

But she always realizes
how much she needs me.

She needs me to be her partner,
to help her solve your cases,

because you and the others
aren't smart enough.

Your clients would never be found

if it weren't for me.

[LAUGHS]

Isn't that ironic, Executioner?

That the big, bad wolf
of Mosely & Associates

is their savior?

[INTENSE MUSIC]

♪

Do we know anything about
Aisha or her friends?

Zeke found a few things online,

Lacey's back at the ranch
piecing together a profile,

and Trent's looking up missing cases.

What about Dhan?

He's... taking the day off.

[NOTIFICATIONS CHIME]

It's Zeke.

Apparently, Aisha has a criminal record.

- He wants us to call him.
- [DOOR OPENS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Aisha's seizure was the result
of a minor drug overdose.

High amounts of the
anesthetic sodium thiopental

was found in her system.

Oh. Explains the amnesia.

Paranoid delusions can
also be a side effect.

I want to believe Aisha's story,

but the fact of the matter
is, it's not uncommon

for young people like her to end up here

after a night of fun
turns into an overdose.

[COUGHS]

♪

Aisha, this is Margaret.

She helps me find missing people.

Where is he?

The guy that saved me?

♪

Hey, Aisha. How you feeling?

♪

Ish-Zarin, Ish-Zarin!

What is she saying?

I don't know. It sounds like gibberish.

I remember some things. A little.

My friends' names.

They're Estrella and Nova.

And there's this other woman.

I don't know what happened to her.

And what about the kidnapper?

Can you give us a more
accurate description now?

I told you.

It was a lizard with four arms.

Two were hairy and the other two...

is these claws.

- A head full of flames.
- She believes what she's saying.

Look, I know this sounds
crazy, but it's true.

We're going to find your friends.

Is there any family we can call?

No. It's just Estrella and Nova.

♪

- Do you believe me?
- Yes, I do.

♪

Aisha Carter.


in Jersey by her aunt.

- _
- Parents passed when Aisha was a child.

Her last gig was working as a
temp assistant at a start-up

when she allegedly att*cked
a coworker unprovoked

three months before she went missing.

Manager called the police.

Unprovoked? That seems
very unlike Aisha.

I mean, she's gentle, an empath.

Sounds like Aisha had people fooled.

Wouldn't be a first.

What was the outcome of Aisha's arrest?

Aisha avoided jail time, but was
assigned anger management

- and community service.
- My turn.

Wait, that's the coworker that
Aisha fought with on the right.

Well, clearly, they're still
friends after the altercation.

So Aisha had friends, but no
one reported her missing?

And where is this aunt?

Maybe Aisha wasn't missing.

Maybe the dr*gs have her confused.

No, we believe Aisha until
there is concrete reason not to.

Aisha still has two friends
missing and in danger.

We need to move fast.

Now that Aisha escaped,

the kidnapper knows
she is able to ID him.

He will get rid of the friends
and make a run for it.

I'll hit the DCPD, keep trying
to ID the two friends.

I'll take Aisha's anger
management counselor.

Maybe she can fill in the
blanks where Aisha can't.

Margaret, Dhan, Aisha's apartment.

Lacey, talk to Aisha's friends,

especially the one she fought with.

- May I have a word with you?
- No.

[TENSE MUSIC]

Dhan, is everything okay? Is it Ethan?

Don't want to talk about it.

Let's just get to space girl's place.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

So you're like a law
student-slash-vigilante?

- So badass.
- Thanks.

Now about Aisha Carter.

I'm disturbed Aisha's been missing
all this time and nobody knew.

- Is she okay?
- She's on the mend.

Ms. Allen, we need your help.

As her anger management counselor,

did Aisha mention anyone
she was having issues with?

Please understand that I wouldn't
normally violate client privilege,

but lives are at stake
and I want to help.

Aisha is a sweet spirit.

Aisha's a frickin' nutjob, okay?
She att*cked me for no reason.

Just snapped.

What about her altercation at work?

Aisha claims that those young
women were bullying her.

All right, she's quirky, eccentric.

She doesn't fit in with a lot of people.

And she feels things deeply.

♪

Wait.

Actually, Aisha did seem super depressed

when I saw her in the
break room that morning.

Okay, was it family
drama, her love life?

Why would we know?

Weren't you friends with her?

[SCOFFS] No.

Oh, okay. Um...

♪

Isn't this the three of you?

♪

Those photos aren't real.

They're Photoshopped.

I do believe that Aisha
embellishes from time to time.

You think she's lying
about being kidnapped?

I'm inclined to believe her.

Aisha's fibbing is harmless

and as far as the altercation goes,

I think her grief is what
caused her to snap that day.

Aisha's beloved aunt passed away
the night before the altercation.

People act in ways
they normally wouldn't

when faced with deep
grief or trauma like that.

[DOOR OPENS]

♪

Thank you for coming in.

One thing's for certain.

Aisha's belongings are
as eccentric as she is.

She loves outer space, that's for sure.

I'm gonna see if Zeke has any updates.

♪

Let me see that.

- What is it?
- I think that mask is a character

in a book called "Night Jupiter."

Her name is Luminare.

It's a sci-fi series from
over a decade ago.

Taylor begged me to read it,

but I thought it was too
dark for young children.

That's why I recognized all this stuff.

They're costumes from the
other characters in the book.

And the best friends
of the main character

are Nova and Estrella.

So Aisha is blending
fantasy and reality.

But the question is, what is
fantasy and what is reality?

And are Nova and Estrella even real?

They are until they aren't.

We need to all download that book.

If we get in Aisha's head,

we might be able to save her
friends before it's too late.

♪

So much of this story is in the
language that the author made up.

No translation, either?

I mean, maybe that's why this
book has such a cult following.

Leave so much room for
the readers' imagination.

[WHISPERING] Are they okay?

I got something! Page 230.

The villain is revealed as a creature

with a lizard face and human body.

That's how Aisha
described her kidnapper.

- [COMPUTER CHIMES]
- Hey.

Aisha's getting more lucid.

She thinks she might remember
where she was taken.

She was at some party.

It was their first time
hanging with Estrella.

Up until then, they were
just online friends.

They were snatched together.

Did she give you any
detail about the party?

- A location, vague description?
- No,

but she did say Estrella barely
had any family or friends, either.

And that they looked like
they could be sisters.

Okay, so we're looking for similar
facial traits, perhaps, skin tone.

Lacey, call Trent.

Tell him to get a sketch
artist down to the hospital,

work with Aisha ASAP.

I also found an online
message board thread

that claims to translate
the language of the book.

I'm sending the link now.

There's, like, a thousand posts.

A lot of them mention Ish-Zarin.

That's the word Aisha kept repeating.

According to the translation,
it means "celestial."

Described as a beautiful flower field.

A sacred place of love.

I found this fan art.

Zeke, see if you can identify the flower

and narrow down our field options.

This place could be important.

♪

Yes, I'm still alive.

How could you, Gabrielle?
You're imploding our lives!

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

You have an important case.

It's none of your business.

I don't need your help anymore.

Then why are you here?

You've revealed your dirty,
little secret to the executioner.

Now what, Gabrielle?

Trouble in paradise, isn't there?

Your executioner must
not be talking to you,

so you come to see what
happened for yourself.

He doesn't understand what you did.

He doesn't understand why
you've kept me alive, but I do.

I will always be the one that
understands you, Gabrielle.

That has always been our connection.

Shut up! Shut up.

Even your father didn't understand you.

- Not like I did.
- You barely knew my father.

[SIGHS]

At the farmhouse, I told
you that he didn't care.

That he wasn't searching
for you. Well...

that was a lie.

Your father searched tirelessly.

Even when he fell prey to alcoholism,

he was undeterred.

♪

He came to me a couple times

and he'd talk about the
lack of media attention

surrounding your disappearance.

He knew I was your
favorite teacher and he...

he saw me as an ally, I guess.

Anyway, he used to marvel
at how someone like him

could end with such
a brilliant daughter.

See, even he knew.

He often wondered if your kidnapping

was God's way of taking back

what Richard should never have had.

You.

You watched my father suffer,

knowing you had the power
to alleviate his pain

by giving him his daughter back.

One way or another,

today will be your
last day on this Earth

and you will die knowing
your mother was right.

You are broken, unlovable.

♪

[PHONE BUZZES]

_

♪

♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

[FLIES BUZZING]

♪

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

He's targeting Black women.

Aisha's Black, Estrella is Black,

and so is this poor girl.

Whoever k*lled this woman

is not only familiar
with the book series...

Familiar with the message
board and translations, too.

He's preying on women that
are into Night Jupiter World.

At least that narrows it down.

Now we have a target area.

Zeke is still going through
his street cam footage

looking for the kidnapper, but Lacey,

maybe you and him can tag-team

and go back through the
message board threads.

The person is likely to have
engaged with the community.

Of course.

♪

- What do you have?
- Well, uh... it's all preliminary,

but the ME thinks the victim was
likely k*lled somewhere else

and dumped in the field.

Given the, uh, number of s*ab wounds,

this field would've been
soaked with blood.

How long is it gonna take to ID?

Couple hours, max.

♪

Set it up right here.

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

Her name is Shanice Thompson.

She was 21 years old, and
she wanted to be a singer.

She was estranged from her family

and didn't have any close friends.

Shanice was stabbed 50 times

and thrown in the field behind me.

Historically, Black women
have been forgotten,

disregarded, cast aside.

They are invisible in this society,

and this predator knows it.

He is brazen because
he thinks nobody cares.

But I know there are people
out there who do care.

♪

Whoever you are,

take a good, long look at my face,

because I'm coming for you,

and I will not stop until
you're behind bars.

Or dead.

What the hell is she doing?

Why is she taunting him?

Threatening him?

Apparently, reckless
Gabi is a thing now.

- You think this is a joke?
- You see me laughing?

There are still two women being
held c*ptive by this predator.

Here is one of them.
Her name is Estrella.

If this young woman
looks familiar to you,

please call the number at
the bottom of your screen.

♪

The night she was kidnapped,

she and Estrella were at
a "Night Jupiter" party.

Fans pooled their money
together to get wild, I guess.

She said Nova was
already on the spaceship

when she and Estrella
were brought there.

Aisha said Shanice was at the party too,

but she's not quite sure when
she landed on the spaceship.

He k*lled Shanice.

Nova and Estrella are clearly next.

Did Aisha say what kind of party it was?

Like a rave kinda joint.

We went on the message boards

and we heard rumblings of a
rave-like gathering tonight

at an abandoned lot the
community calls Loy.

Book-themed costumes strictly enforced.

All right.

Looks like it's party time.

[BASSY ELECTRONIC MUSIC]

♪

[SINGING IN ALIEN LANGUAGE]

♪

Lots of lizards here.

[LAUGHTER]

Okay, we need to divide and conquer.

Trent, question the bartenders.
They have access to liquor.

They could easily spike the drinks,

so it could be one of them.

Dhan and I will start at
the other end of the party.

I'm gonna go talk to the
loners in the corner.

Wallflowers see everything.

♪

Did you really use Sir
to solve our cases?

God, Gabi, you tainted the one thing

helping all of us, helping me heal.

You gave him purpose.
You gave him proximity to you.

You gave him redemption, for God's sake.

I screwed up, Dhan. I know that.

Have you never made
a monumental mistake?

Know what?

This party's big enough for all
of us to search separate areas.

♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[THUMPING ELECTRONIC MUSIC]

♪

- [PHONE BUZZING]
- Thank you for your time.

♪

Hey, Zeke.

G-Gabi, he's in a white truck.

- Hold on.
- Can you hear me?

- What?
- I-I can't hear you.

[BREAKING UP] I can't hear you.

[GARBLED] Gabi, he's in a white truck.

I still can't hear you. One sec.

[DISTANT THUMPING MUSIC]

Okay, it's quieter now. What's up?

Can you hear me? He's in a white truck.

A white truck...

- Oh, Zeke! Get help!
- Gabi, Gabi!

- Help me! No, no! Help me! Trent!
- Gabi, Gabi!

- Dhan! Help me!
- Gabi!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- When did she come out here?
- Zeke, pull up the footage!

There's no cameras in that area.

No, I need every unit
searching for her now.

Hey, I need an APB out every half hour.

We're looking for a white box truck.

Zeke, what did you hear
when he took her?

I heard her fighting back.

She was screaming for us. For you, Dhan.

How the hell did this happen?
How did Gabi end up alone?

Why weren't you watching her?

You're hiding something, Dhan.

Something about Gabi.
Tell us what the hell is going on.

I swear, I don't know where she is.

Guys, enough with the fighting, okay?

We have to focus on
finding Gabi right now.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[SIGHS] Gabi.

Oh, God. I can't... I can't.
I can't lose you, Gabi.

I can't. I just... can't.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Zeke?

Zeke, are you there? Zeke!

Zeke!

♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

What happened to Gabrielle?

You think if I knew I'd be here?

Release me! [SNARLS]

- Release me!
- She was grabbed outside a rave

in an abandoned lot at the edge of DC.

We're dealing with a serial k*ller

who specifically targets Black women.

Release me! Gabrielle needs me.

Listen to me, you piece of crap.

You are gonna read this file

and help me figure out who took her,

'cause if Gabi doesn't
survive, neither do you.

I will put a b*llet in your head

and won't think twice about it.

♪

[SNARLS]

[ENGINE CHUGGING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

The spaceship.

[COUGHING]

[SNIFFLES]

Are you okay?

♪

- Who are you?
- Estrella.

You're real?

Oh, thank God.

- Nova?
- I'm here.

I'm sorry he got you.

I'm just happy you're both still alive.

My name is Gabi Mosely.
I've been trying to find you.

Aisha's alive. She's okay.

Oh, my God. She's safe.

Thank you.

Can you tell me anything
about your captor?

Yeah, he keeps that damn lizard mask on.

Even when he r*pes us.

Where's his lair?
Where does he take you?

This is his lair.

I'm gonna get us out of this.

There's something puzzling
about Shanice's death.

- What?
- The depth of her s*ab wounds vary.

Two extremes, in fact.

Some are very deep, while
others barely break the skin.

Two K*llers of varying strengths?

One is dominant, while the other
might be... less enthusiastic.

And Aisha describes the
kidnapper as a lizard

with four arms, claws, and
flames coming out of his head.

Even though Aisha was drugged,

in her mind, what she saw was real.

We know. The person wears a lizard mask,

- but the rest doesn't make sense.
- No, no. But it does.

Four arms means two people.

Two of those arms were hairy, meaning...

One is a man and the other's a...

woman.

The claws must be long nails.

Flames on the head.

Person has red hair.

Do you know who took her?
You have to tell me!

Tell me! Tell me!

Gabrielle! Gabrielle! Gabrielle!

[LOUD SMASHING]

Eeen-oo-bray?

Um...

I think you asked me do I have family?

Yes.

Yes, I do. They're looking for us now.

Nova, Ri-a-Az-ca.

I don't speak Tanta. Sorry.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Then why are you here?

Excuse me?

He only chooses victims from
the Night Jupiter World.

I was at one of those parties, too.

I was tagging along with a friend.

♪

Do you know what I just
said to you in Tanta?

"I know who you are."

You're not being held c*ptive.

Nova, what is she talking about?

♪

[POUNDS ON TRUCK]

She figured me out.

- How could you?
- I took vows.

In sickness or in health.
I love him and he needs this.

♪

[CLANKING]

♪

What now?

♪

What you find?

So Jennifer and Ken
are husband and wife.

That's right.

Five years ago, Ken was brought
in as a person of interest

for the r*pe and m*rder of
a young woman in Arkansas.

He was alibi'd, though.

Take a guess. The wife.

They're a k*lling duo.

Jennifer took advantage of the fact

that Aisha was alone and vulnerable.

That's how they found out
about Night Jupiter World

and other vulnerable, Black women.

And Shaker was able
to locate their house.

Found two more bodies in the basement.

Let's go back to what we know.

The field; Celestial is a burial ground.

They're k*lling these woman
somewhere, but where?

There must be a reference
to an execution place

in "Night Jupiter."

We don't have time to comb
through the message board.

I don't think we need to.

Aisha talked about a place in the book

where they do corporal punishment.

It's also called Loy.

As in the name of the abandoned lot

where the party was held last night?

That must be where they're taking Gabi

- and the other women.
- On it.

- [SCREAMS]
- [CHAIN LINK RATTLES]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[GRUNTS]

[GASPS]

Ken!

The police are looking
for us. We need to go.

I'll be fast. Go keep watch
around the corner.

Why'd you have to take her?

Just do what I said.

- They're gonna k*ll us.
- It's gonna be okay.

Shut up and go.

Please. No, no, no. Take me first.

[MUFFLED SHOUTING]

♪

Estrella, run!

♪

- b*tch!
- [SHOUTS]

No!

[BOTH GRUNTING AND STRAINING]

[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]

[SHOUTS]

♪

They're here! They're here!

- Hey! Let her go!
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

♪

On the ground! Now!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Hey, you okay? You okay?

You okay? Tell me you're okay.

Dhan! Dhan! Dhan! Dhan!

I'm okay, I'm okay.

Estrella! Estrella!

We need some help! Estrella, Estrella!

Help!

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

♪ Day by day ♪

♪ Searching for something I can find ♪

♪ Dusk to dawn ♪

♪ Without a reason to survive ♪

♪ All we are is just
a moment passing by ♪

♪ All I need ♪

♪ Someone to make me feel alive ♪

♪ Will you be the one to save me? ♪

♪ Can I have your hand to hold? ♪

♪ When I'm laid out on the table ♪

♪ From barely hanging on ♪

♪ Will you be the one to save me? ♪

♪ Can you catch me if I fall? ♪

♪ Be enough when I have
nothing left at all? ♪

♪ Will you be the one to save me? ♪

♪ Will you be the one to save me? ♪

Thank you.

[SNIFFLES]

Thank you for not forgetting about me.

It was Gabi, Zeke, and their team.

They believed me.

Even when nothing I said made sense.

Thank you.

♪

I'm sorry.

I'm the one who suggested
we go to that party.

- This is all my fault.
- No, no, it's not.

Look, that party brought
you into my life.

And for that, I'm thankful.

I'm not gonna let what
they did to us define me.

♪ Will you be the one to save me? ♪

♪ Will you be the one to save me? ♪

Zeke, are you...

♪

I tried to leave.

I tried to get to Gabi. I...

♪

I couldn't.

I couldn't walk out the door.

It's okay. Okay?

♪

You will.

Someday, you will.

♪ Will you be the one ♪

The wall is full because of you.

And because of us. It's full.

- Time to start a new one.
- [SIGHS]

♪

You do the honors.

♪

[LAUGHS]

Here.

♪ Clear my eyes ♪

♪ Show me the path so I can see ♪

Well, let's toast.

Thank you...

for finding me.

♪ Will you be... ♪

ALL: Welcome home.

♪ The one to save me? ♪

♪

[PHONE BUZZING]

- [SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- _

♪

Hey, Gabi.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[SIGHS]

After you were taken,

I couldn't think straight.

None of us could. All I knew
was I couldn't lose you.

♪

Didn't know where else to turn...

so I sent to Sir,

and he helped me find you.

♪

[SIGHS]

I get it now.

Why you went to him with our cases.

Doesn't make it right, but I understand.

In moments of desperation,

you do what you have
to do to save a life.

♪



is right the past by fixing the present.

As if I could somehow
prevent my own kidnapping,

stop myself from going back
into the school that day.

♪

Gabrielle?

- Hi.
- Oh! [LAUGHS]

- Hi, Mr. Evans!
- I missed you in my afternoon class.

I know it's the final day,

but I had no one to appreciate
my horrible recitation of Poe.

[LAUGHS]

I'm so sorry. I was with my dad.

We spent the best day at the park.

We're going to dinner tonight.
I just came back to grab a book

I wanted to read this summer.

Thank you for everything this year.

I'll see you in the fall.

[LAUGHS]

Gabrielle, uh, wait.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

How would you like to
see first edition copies

of all our favorite books?

Seriously?

I keep them in my favorite place.

A place you'll love.

I can take you there.
I'll make it quick.

But my dad...

Oh, I promise to have you back in time.

♪

- First editions?
- Yes.

♪

- [LAUGHS] I'm in!
- Okay.

Good.

♪

I allowed my trauma to
define me for too long.

Turning me into something I am not.

But I know what I have to do now.

First thing tomorrow,

I am going to tell everyone about Sir

and then turn him over
to Trent for processing.

- Gabi, I...
- I know what that means for me.

But I have to.

It's the only way to
truly start healing.

I am so sorry for dragging
you into this, Dhan.

Am I'm sorry that I allowed
Sir to help with our cases

and taint all the good work
we've done here at M&A.

But hopefully, the work can go on
and you can start healing again.

♪

I'm not ever gonna leave you again.

I'll be here to support you
every step of the way.

♪

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

♪

We built something
great here, didn't we?

Yeah. We did.

Come tomorrow, everything changes.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪