The next morning, Cassie is woken suddenly by the feeling of Pop Girl
tracking them down. Her and the other three pile out of there just in time,
and Nick tells the others to run ahead while he tries to make a better
future.... by blowing Carver's head off. Cassie follows him but on the way
is stopped by Pop Girl, who threatens her and asks if she's seen her death
yet, asking what the tiger Cassie keeps drawing about that means. Cassie
runs off just as Nick tracks Carver to a restaurant. He goes in with two
mentally controlled guns but instead of being frightened or even surprised,
Carver talks Nick down and asks how Kira is and if she's started bleeding
guts yet, since apparently the drugs make everything in your system come out
of your body without constant injections. The guns Nick is telekinetically
holding on Carver and Victor start to waver, and Victor takes advantage and
starts moving stuff of his own, resulting in a TK gunfight as Carver walks
out and finds Cassie on the steps with her drawing pad. He leafs through it
while she begs him not to hurt her, but he just says, "If I kill you, I lose
him," and walks off. Meanwhile, Nick and Victor have run out of bullets
(thanks to TK shields) and Nick is trying a light brigade charge when Victor
grabs him and starts bouncing him up and down and every other direction
before following his boss. Nick comes out after a while and a concerned
Cassie tells him that he looks like shit (yes, Dakota Fanning said
shit...throw a party). He calls Emily and tells her about the key as they
head back to the hotel. Back at the hotel, though, Kira is progressing into
the degenerative stage, where her guts and blood are starting to come out.
Nick gets the key and after Emily and Hook arrive they find that the locker
is...shadowed, although they do get that it's in a building. Cassie sketches
the skyline from their hotel, which has a good view of downtown, and one of
the buildings is missing.... the one they need to go to. Nick asks Cassie
about the case and she says that it contains a drug that can be used to
enhance their powers. Unfortunately, they still have the problem of the
watcher, which they solve by Nick writing a letter with specific orders to
each of them, but they don't open them until he says so. As for him, he'll
head to the wiper working on the docks that Kira woke up near and get that
time erased, and that way everything can just be random and harder for Pop
Girl to see. Nick quickly grabs a pen and some stuff to write on and starts
writing the letters while Cassie works on sketching the case and the syringe
containing the drug, along with five or six false leads for each just in
case.... which is just as well, since Pop Girl is sketching merrily while
they talk as her father and his "associates" do business in the background.
That night, Nick is putting Kira in a cab and telling her to find
somewhere safe. She asks when she should open her envelope, and he says,
"When you're ready to tell the truth." She gets in the cab and after being
told by Cassie to get an umbrella since it'll rain, he and Pinky head to the
docks where they find the old man who wiped Kira. As Pinky leaves him there,
Nick pays the man to wipe the last two hours from his mind, although he's
clearly nervous about the procedure, but everything goes fine. Meanwhile,
Carver and Victor are on a bridge when Pinky shows up before them with a
bound Kira, who he hands over without a second thought. At the same time,
Hook is riding an elevator up the invisible building and pretending to be an
agent of Division who has come to retrieve the case, which he pulls off well
enough. He takes the case back to the room where Cassie and Emily are
waiting and makes a plain red suitcase look like the case in question.
Cassie takes the case and exits while Emily does the same with the
other Back on the boat, Nick wakes up and reads his note, which says simply,
"Go home." He does and finds the case sitting on his bed. He goes to open it
but is attacked from behind by Teresa, who renders him unable to move. He
manages to see a gun underneath his bed and convinces her to fix him so he
can take her to the real case (no drug in this one), and she reluctantly
does. As soon as he's healed, though, the bleeders show up and take the drug
and the case back to their father. After they leave, Cassie shows up and he
puts on his brave face, but she's not having it. She cries to him about
everything and he comforts her and tells her that she can just go in a
straight line away from all this and everything will work out, so long as
she doesn't make any decisions the Division people can track -- random
choices, and other stuff. She follows his advice as he goes to make a phone
call, heading down into the subway and coming to an intersection. She turns
around until she gets dizzy, stares at two signs, puts her hand over her
eyes, does another spin, and runs...right in the direction Pop Girl said she
would. Speaking of Pop Girl and her family, the brothers return with the
case right then and show their father what they've acquired -- a bottle
of soy sauce that had been charmed to look like the needle. Enraged, the
father rallies the troops and they prepare to head out.
Back with Kira, we find her in an office at Division headquarters. She
asks why they're doing this and Carver calmly replies that she volunteered
for it before flipping her a badge that identifies her as an agent of the
division. Carver states that she was undercover and he had been her partner
for years, but when she volunteered to have the drug injected into her
something went wrong and she flipped out, neutralizing (with her agency
trained skills) anyone who tried to get in her way. Back with Cassie, she's
still moving and eventually ends up in the attic of a Chinese restaurant.
She turns around and sees a tiger on a box in front of her, in exactly the
pose it's in when it's standing over a dead body in her sketchbook. She
turns around and sees Pop Girl there with a gun pointed at Cassie. She
smiles but is shot by Hook, who had apparently gotten tipped off. Cassie
looks at the picture again and sees that Pop Girl has fallen in the same
position as the girl in the sketchbook. Meanwhile, we see Nick walking
through a hallway as a conversation between him and Carver discussing curing
her for getting him plays. When Nick enters the room, however, he finds Kira
the agent, who he has never been to Coney Island with and didn't even meet
until yesterday, and is cuffed up and dumped into a trunk while being taken
to the location of the case. The three agents head to the locker and Victor
rips the door off, revealing the case within. Just as Carver takes it out,
every Chinese gangster in the world shows up, including the bleeder
brothers. A huge fight breaks out between the three agents with powers and
everybody else with guns, the highlights being Carver taking care of the
bleeders, Kira pushing five guys to surround and defend her against any
threat, and Victor getting rid of every bullet in the world and sending it
back where it came from. At some point, the father of the bleeders and Pop
Girl shows up and he screams.... turns out he's a bleeder too. Carver covers
his ears as Victor comes up from behind him. They struggle and are
ultimately buried beneath a huge heavy pile of bamboo logs, crushing them
both. As Kira and Carver stare at this, Nick comes running up the steps,
having broken out of the trunk, but is deterred by the squad of guns pointed
at him. Not thinking, Nick grabs the case and the drug and threatens to
inject himself. Carver tries to call his bluff, but Nick injects and within
seconds is choking from the inside out before lying still. Carver sighs and
says, "What a waste." He turns and leaves with Kira just as the sprinklers
come on.
Some time later, someone is approaching Nick's body. The feet kick him
and Cassie says, "I thought I told you to bring an umbrella." Nick smiles
weakly and replies that she said it was going to rain, but she shrugs and
admits to getting things wrong sometimes. She helps him up and they head
downstairs where they move a stack of packing crates to reveal the real
case, which had been just outside the building the whole time. Nick asks
just what he did get injected with, and Cassie smiles and says, "Soy sauce",
prompting Nick to say, "That's gross." Nick tells Cassie that her mother is
probably real proud of her, and Cassie asks what they do with Kira. Nick
isn't worried and says that the watcher should tell him. At that moment, on
a plane headed for the U.S., Carver and Kira are enjoying the ride.... or at
least, a sleeping Carver is. Kira is going through her bag when she finds
the note from Nick. She opens it and there is a picture of a slightly
younger Nick and Kira smiling at a camera with the Coney Island entrance in
the background. On the photo are written the words, "Kill him. See you soon.
Nick." She stares at the photo in shock, and then her eyes narrow as the
screen fades to black.
"Put your gun in your mouth. Close your eyes. Pull the trigger."
BLAM!
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