Dutch continues making love with Alvis. From out of nowhere,
someone rips them apart, another figure of Dutch. She tells Alvis that it’s
time for him to die now then slits his throat. Dutch then wakes up from her
dream to shock Alvis. She supposes that talking about Khlyen’s plans has gotten
her worked up at night. Alvis places some of the blame on himself for
discussing it, but Dutch maintains that she worries for him. She lets him go
and leaves Leith.
D’avin stands over Sabine’s body as it is drenched in the
green plasma. He quickly runs for backup to John outside Old Town who speaks
with another woman. This woman, he insists, is the designer behind the wall
surrounding Old Town. Although she does not openly admit to it, she reveals that
she was placed behind the wall because of her own questions. John demands that
she reveals the purpose behind the wall, but the woman refuses to answer.
D’avin then interrupts the conversation to request help from John. Once he
looks away, the woman disappears.
John examines Sabine’s body as D’avin explains what
happened. To their surprise, they find Sabine is alive though she is most
certainly a Level 6. John questions whether D’avin’s hook-up with Sabine had
anything to do with the reaction, but the brothers have no idea from immediate
reaction. With no choice, they are forced to stuff Sabine in a bag and
transport her onto their ship.
On Lucy, Dutch also examines the body, being filled in on
the other gory details. However, she questions why Sabine does not attack them
if she is a 6. D’avin admits that he must have done something to her as a
result of them sleeping together. Until they can figure out what happened, they
decide investigate Sabine.
Through Lucy’s scanners, they discover that Sabine is actually
a woman named Jenny Avery who is in fact eighty-nine years old. Despite the
plasma, however, she doesn’t seem to be healing from her contact with D’avin.
Whatever D’avin seemed to have done appears to have broken her connection to
the plasma. Now, John deduces, she appears to be in an anaphylactic shock. With
that in mind, he believes that he can wake her up using electric shocks.
Dutch: We finally have a Level 6 right where we want them.
John: In the bag!
In the meantime, John speaks with Pawter over holophone. He
informs her that he will send the medical scans he found, but he could not
secure the wall’s designer. Pawter requests him to go after, but he reminds her
that he can’t unless he has a warrant. However, with Pawter’s new power, she
can take out a warrant for him to act. Pawter reminds him that his actions
could put his status as a Killjoy in jeopardy, but he remarks that it’s time
for the RAC to work for him for once.
John then injects Sabine to wake her out of her coma. She
sits up normally until Dutch slaps her down. She then orders the men to
restrain her for questioning where they discover Sabine’s mission. Under
Dutch’s watch, Sabine states that she was sent by Khlyen to protect D’avin.
She, like the other people from Level 6, are trained soldiers for a purpose
they do not know. Unsatisfied, Dutch proceeds to shock Sabine through her
restraints to force her to comply. Sabine insists that’s all she knows, but
Dutch insists that they can’t trust her. Although Sabine is still protected by
the plasma, Dutch proposes that the best thing to try is old-fashioned torture.
At this turn, D’avin takes her aside from questioning.
In the back, D’avin talks to Dutch about her methods. While
Dutch insists she knows about torture, D’avin reminds her that they need to act
smarter with Sabine. A wrong move could send her off with no answers. It
doesn’t help that Dutch has an intense desire to punch Sabine in the face.
Since they have no way of dealing with a Level 6, D’avin suggests that they
find someone who does.
The group meets with Turin who has been searching the RAC
for Level 6 spies. Now that they have a spy, he implements his own methods of
interrogation with the help of an assistant named Phil. This method utilizes a
machine with records of people in the RAC. With a device wrapped on her eyes,
she can identify who she recognizes as a Level 6, even if they are a Killjoy.
Before the interrogation begins, however, Phil nearly stabs Sabine with a
silver weapon. Sabine fights back by wrapping him in a choke hold with wire
before finally decapitating him. Despite the severity of the kill, Sabine
apologizes for what she’s done.
Sabine reveals that Phil was a Level 6 who wanted to kill
her before she revealed anything. To do this, she reveals that a Level 6 can be
killed by an immediate execution. In this case, by the execution stick Phil
carried. John examines the remains of Phil and discovers plasma healing the
wounds on his decapitated head, proving Sabine right. Although Phil is dead,
Turin congratulates Sabine on sifting out the mole.
Turin speaks privately with Dutch admitting that he is going
back into hiding. He refuses to take Sabine for fear of the Black Root, which
he calls a police of Level 6, from finding him. Instead, he advises Dutch to
keep Sabine talking. Once that is done, he hands her the execution stick and
tells her to finish her.
Meanwhile, D’avin and John keep watch over Sabine who begins
crying over the death. They question her reaction, and she reveals that this is
the first time in a long time that she has felt the emotion to cry.
Back on Lucy, Dutch attaches a detonation collar onto
Sabine’s neck, preventing her from running. D’avin then speaks with her
privately as he allows her to change clothes. Nevertheless, she still states
that she was sent for protection but quickly points out that most of their
relationship was his doing. She also deduces that this feeling came about from
his attempting to move on from Dutch as most of his actions revolve around her
in some way. Despite everything, however, Sabine admits that she enjoyed the
night she spent with D’avin. Looking
closely, D’avin notices a wound on Sabine’s head that continues to bleed.
Sabine: I was the door-closer, the move-on lay.
D'avin mentions this fact to Dutch, believing that he
somehow cured her of being a Level 6. Dutch, however, refuses to believe it,
reminding D’avin that Sabine was just using him. As a Level 6, she is just a
weapon and cannot sympathize. D’avin argues against this, but Dutch fires back
that they are at war. D’avin only questions who they are at war with in the
end.
John completes an analysis of Sabine and Phil’s physiology
from the effects of the green plasma. From what he can tell, the plasma takes
hold of the body like an infection and shuts down parts of the brain that
exhibit empathy with others. Following her contact with D’avin, Sabine seems to
be experiencing a shortage, explaining her new empathy. Still, John notes that
the residual plasma is reforming inside her. By the end of the day, she will
return to being a Level 6. The only thing they can do then is kill her.
Sabine, understandably, fears being killed by Dutch but also
understands that returning to the RAC could be just as deadly. She reveals that
agents are specifically chosen to become Level 6 in the RAC. Most die from
either the physical or mental transition from the experiments, which she
describes as losing everyone you love at once. As an emotionally distant
candidate, she was among the best qualified. She then offers a deal for the
team. If she can help them identify any Level 6 agent in the RAC, they can let
her go. Otherwise, she reminds them, the RAC will eventually track her down
anyway. For now, the team agrees to the deal.
Meanwhile, John travels to the Leith Bazaar to speak with
Bellus about a warrant. She provides him the warrant to find the wall
architect, something John advises her to not mention the details to D’avin or
Dutch. Bellus stops John in his tracks and demands to know why he is keeping
the warrant a secret from his team. John doesn’t explain the details and only
states that he doesn’t have to mention the details to her. Bellus lets John
leave but states that his team deserve better than that.
On the ship, Sabine helps the team reset the scanner with an
additional feature. Using D’avin’s abilities, she plans to connect to the
Green, the massive list of knowledge of the Quad. That way, she can identify
the Level 6 soldiers she knows about in the RAC. Using their supply of green
plasma, Sabine connects with D’avin, and the scan begins. The process goes off
to a good start until both of them begin seizing back from the pressure. In
their minds, D’avin and Sabine stand outside a snowy forest. Although D’avin
questions why they’re here, Sabine leads him deeper into the woods.
In real life, D’avin tries to pull out, but Sabine insists
they continue to look through the list. The process continues as D’avin and
Sabine return to the dream. At the end of the woods, they spot a large silver
box. With their bodies still shaking, Dutch finally cuts the search short by
ripping D’avin away from Sabine. Although the process was interrupted, John
discovers many names from Sabine’s identification. To his surprise, many of
them were last seen in Old Town. Against Dutch’s better judgement, she and John
agree to investigate Old Town for these soldiers while D’avin keeps an eye on
Sabine.
In Old Town, Dutch goes undercover to find a Level 6
suspect. Using John’s tech, she marks him for further investigation. From what
they see, Sabine’s insights have been proven correct. However, John is more
curious that the Level 6 suspects appear to be doing nothing in particular in
Old Town, as though they are waiting for something. Nevertheless, Dutch
maintains her distrust of Sabine for likely knowing something more. Noticing
the Royale, she suggests calling it a night for finding suspects. At the same
time, John spots his warrant. With her time alone, Dutch begins investigating
Sabine’s old room.
Back on Lucy, D’avin and Sabine wait for the others to
return. Sabine suggests they could have sex again for the chance of permanently
curing her, but D’avin is less sure since the previous time nearly killed her.
However, he does let her indulge in some alcohol to numb her fears of becoming
a Level 6. He then asks her about the silver box. She states that she wanted to
show him her grandfather’s farm, though he remarks that it didn’t look like a
peach farm. Still, Sabine maintains that her connection with D’avin is the
first one she’s had in almost sixty years. He tries to deny it, claiming that
the feelings she has now are only heightened emotions. Either way, she tells
him to indulge her in her feelings since she feels them now.
Dutch: She's Black Root. She's not some Level Six guardian angel with boobs, or whatever the hells you thought she was..
John catches up with the woman and orders her to speak now
that he has a warrant. The woman then admits about the previous test they
conducted with the wall. She was hired to reconstruct the wall with a
technology she couldn’t identify around a city. Shortly after the wall went up,
the citizens inside were slaughtered. Those who survived were taken by the
Company. When she asked the purpose behind the wall, the Company placed her in
Old Town and threatened to send her family there as well should she persist.
However, she reveals a possible glitch: the controls for the Wall are inside
Spring Hill with Jelco.
On Lucy, D’avin entertains Sabine with a story about his
first kiss. Unfortunately, her sentiment is cut short as she remarks that she
will be killed once Dutch returns. In a tearful voice, she asks D’avin to tell
her that she was a good person where it counted, since she will miss the time
she had. He responds by gently hugging her.
Dutch continues to search through Sabine’s room until she is
discovered by another soldier. This one fights off Dutch to locate Sabine in
the name of the Black Root. Using the execution stick, Dutch manages to kill
the soldier by stabbing his head. From this attack, she discovers the truth:
Sabine is a member of the Black Root.
Dutch returns to Lucy only to find Sabine has left. D’avin
admits he disabled her collar to allow her a chance to escape. Dutch rebukes
his action, revealing that Sabine is Black Root. She had lied about working for
Khlyen and instead used D’avin to try and find Khlyen. Now, she escaped from
their grasp. Fortunately, D’avin reveals that he also placed a tracker on
Sabine, understanding that his team is more important. Dutch hugs D’avin for
his loyalty and locates Sabine on Leith. She asks Lucy to contact John, but
Lucy reveals that John had deactivated his comms link. The two are on their
own.
John sneaks into Spring Hill by breaking into the system. Inside
Spring Hill, he finds the architect bound and gagged. When John tries to break
her out, she reveals that she had informed Jelco about John, leading the two to
be surrounded by Jelco and his guards. John tries to explain that he has a
warrant for the woman, but Jelco reminds him that the warrant ended when he broke
into an office. The guards then knock the Killjoy out and take him prisoner.
Dutch tracks Sabine to Leith in the same snowy forests she
showed to D’avin. The two fight as Sabine states she is searching for Khlyen
who would have a safe house somewhere in the area. In that time, she remarks
that Khlyen has changed since he has met Dutch. Rather than be a soldier, he
rebelled from the RAC and erased memory of Dutch from the Green. Sabine then
recognizes that he was preparing Dutch for Level 6, teaching her to murder and
act distant towards emotions. That’s why she is drawn to the Jaqobis brothers:
they feel too much. With that outburst, Sabine realizes that she is close to
reverting to a Level 6 and begs Dutch to kill her. If not, she will be taken
back to the RAC to kill for them. Dutch then obliges by shooting Sabine in the
head and leaves her body in the woods.
Before Dutch leaves, she wanders further and finds the
silver box in the forest. She moves through the box, discovering the safe house
within it. Inside, there appears to be weapons as well as a red box. Dutch
realizes that the safe house was meant for her by Khlyen. Now, he wants her to
take on another mission.
Dutch returns to Lucy to inform D’avin on what happened in
the forest. D’avin asks if Dutch secured Sabine’s body in case she survived,
but Dutch reveals that she left Sabine in the forest. Although the Black Root
eventually dragged her body from the forest, Dutch admits that she left Sabine
to give her a fighting chance. D’avin opens the red box to find the name of the
person Dutch must kill: Aneela, whom Dutch believes is likely her double from
Arkyn.
Level 6 Notes
- The town that the Company experimented with the wall was named Green Wall. Any possible connections?
- The Dutch double is now referred to as Aneela.
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