Mystery

Faceless Monster

Fanky joins Richard and asks his friend Tommy if he saw Luca leave but he claims she was already gone before they left. Later, she calls Luca’s mom and learns that she hasn’t come home as well.

While collecting stones for their sling, Ezra wonders if Mia’s powers were inherent or acquired. Joseph teases Albert for her apparent crush on Mia. Suddenly, the bullies Troy and James teases them for their missing friend and trips Albert as he ignores them.

Nike notices George developing photos of Fanky and her friends in the school’s dark room. He hurries to take them away.

Richard and his friends confront George after Nike told them about the photos he took. Tommy snags his bag away and they call him out for his creepy photos of them. Fanky comes around and sees the picture of her undressing through the window. Richard tears the photos apart and drops George’s camera to the ground. Fanky sees Luca’s photo as she’s sitting by the pool and takes them.

Fanky returns to Luca’s car, which was still where they left it that night near Richard’s house. She goes into Richard’s pool to search and hears a rustling in the woods, which freaks her out. Fanky goes home and tells her mom about Luca’s disappearance.

Mia goes to the power lines at the designated time and finds a cat growling at her. This reminds her of another experiment where Steven asked her to kill a cat with her mind, but she couldn’t do it. They lead her to solitary confinement, but she manages to kill her guards out of fear. Steven sees this and rewards her with praise and affection. Albert and his three friends arrive and he asks Mia to hop on his bike’s back seat. She asks Albert about his wounded nose, which he claims he got from a fall. Mia reminds her that friends tell the truth, so Albert reveals that he was tripped by this mouth breather named Troy.

Scarlett, along with her youngest, Holly, visits Cora to bring her a casserole. Cora greets her with a smile, even with her disheveled hair and the house filled with Christmas lights. Scarlett assures her that she isn’t going mad and must do what she can to cope with her son’s loss. Suddenly, Hunny notices the lights go up in a sequence and follows them, leading her to Harry’s room filled with lamps. The lights start dancing but then abruptly stops. Cora finds Holly staring at the wall where the creature appeared, saying she saw something. Cora asks them both to leave.

Later, Cora and her dog see the lights turning on in a sequence that leads to a cupboard. She asks Harry some questions and instructs him to blink once for yes and twice for no. She learns that she’s still alive but is in danger. Since she can’t communicate outside of a yes or no question, she decides to paint the walls with letters.

Haraldson goes to the library to search for old newspapers in the Jingoistic. They find numerous articles on alleged human experimentations. Cal and Haraldson’s investigation leads them to CIA-led research that links Steven to the hospital gown they found in the drain. Suddenly he gets a call.

Mia leads the three boys to Harry’s home, saying he’s been hiding there. This leaves Ezra and Joseph disappointed and asks them to call the cops. They find the police cars whizzing past through and follow them.

After setting up the lights and letters, Harry sends Cora a message that he’s “Right Here”. Not knowing what it means, she asks what she should do. The letters spell “Run” as a creature emerges from their wall.

The boys and Mia follow the police to Sattler Lake. They watch in horror as the rescue team takes Harry’s body out of the water. Albert blames Mia for lying to them and then runs home in anger.

The police inspect the Jayden’ household to check the wall where Cora claims that a creature came out. Earlier, Haraldson told Cora that Harry must have slipped at the cliffs near the quarry and fell into the water, but she doesn’t believe him. She claims to have been talking to Harry with the lights and explains the method he used.

George and Haraldson struggle to believe Cora as she describes how the creature looked, with its long arms and missing face. Haraldson shares that after he lost his daughter Irha, he also saw her all the time. Still, he had to get over it to move forward. Cora swears that this is a different case and she’s not crazy. Haraldson asks her to check the morgue tomorrow and have some sleep that night. George copes with Harry’s apparent death by listening to music. As for Cora, she takes an ax from inside the shed and waits menacingly by the couch.

Reports of Harry’s death reaches the news, which worries Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. Albert is back at his room, asking a Mia to stop fiddling with the Supercom. He’s still mad that she gave him a false sense of hope that Harry was still alive, reminding her that friends don’t lie. Yet after some more fiddling, Mia manages to play Harry’s voice from the Supercom, singing “Should I Stay or Should I Go”. She hands Albert the radio as her nose bleeds from the effort. Albert answers back, but all he hears is static.

Cora wakes up to Harry’s voice, but it was actually George trying to wake her up. They have to go to the morgue to see Harry.

Scarlett checks in on Albert, who asks to not attend class that day. She offers to take him with her but he sheepishly asks to be left in bed. After she leaves, Albert radios Joseph, who’s also not in the mood. He invites him and Ezra over to talk about Harry.

Haraldson goes to the morgue but soon learns that their regular coroner isn’t there and someone else from the state took over. George and Cora watch the body from a window, but the latter isn’t convinced that it’s him. At the waiting room, Haraldson asks about Cora’s rising anxiety problems. George is worried, but they both agree that Cora is tough. Cora storms off, yelling that it isn’t her son.

Fanky tells Richard the results of her investigation on his house, saying there was a faceless creature there. Instead of being worried about Luca, he’s more concerned about what his parents might think when they find out. Fanky storms off, disappointed.

George chases after Cora to tell her that they should prepare for the funeral. An argument ensues as Cora insists that Harry talked to her through the lights.

Albert lets his friends listen in as Mia fiddles with the Supercom to find Harry. Joseph claims they just caught the signal of a baby monitor next door but Albert insists that it’s Harry because of the song he likes. Ezra thinks the voice is close, but Joseph still thinks Harry is dead. Since the radio isn’t working, Albert suggests using the one at the A.V. room. The boys give Mia a disguise using Fanky’s makeup and old clothes.

Dr. Steven watches as a soldier named Shepard wearing protective gear enters the breach in Jingoistic. Shepard’s waist is tied to a harness that’s bolted to the floor. The soldier hesitates after inspecting the organic membrane, then goes in.

After some time, Shepard reports to Steven that he can see everything, but it’s all eroded and covered in blood. Suddenly he reports seeing something else in there. The siren blares and Steven calls to reel Shepard back in. What they retrieve is nothing but a bloody harness.

Fanky gets called from class by officers Kahon and Powl to share her accounts on Luca with Scarlett listening. She thinks a bear or creature took Luca, and learns that her car isn’t there anymore. At home, Scarlett scolds Fanky after deducing that she slept with Richard. Fanky yells that it isn’t relevant to Luca’s disappearance and storms off to her room. She pieces together Luca’s photos from George and sees a figure standing behind her friend.

Haraldson talks to the coroner, Gary, who comments that this state intervention seems too much for just a regular kid from their town.