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Episode 12: A Lost Odyssey

Summary: When Dr. Rough steals the alien technology, he requires Opal and her information to crack the language needed to operate everything. What starts out as an interrogations leads to something far darker…

We begin with Opal’s funeral. It’s pouring outside as those who knew her (both CIA and HimTak) mourning the loss of her. Pearl, K, Red, Jay, Nick, Styx and Leo are those who show from HimTak. K goes to try and comfort Brian. Brian, angry and bitter goes…"Save it, I don't want to hear it. You didn't do a damn thing to try and save her, so you're as responsible as the rest of them." Then he walks over to Nick and says "You were right, the government is fucked. You don't realize that your precious organization is just as fucked as them." He walks off angry and upset, lightening and flashing across the sky.

Backtracking to Brian and Opal, a few days before. Opal’s complaining about the FBI and how they’ve been negotiating with terrorists when they should be bringing them down. She says stuff like…"you have the right idea working WITH HimTak rather than against them. If we'd just UNITE with HimTak we could shut down terrorists completely." Or "I'm starting to see what Nick does about our government. He's not deluded like you think he is..." – Rose

Opal quits her job at the CIA, having had enough and actually telling her boss how "I can't work for an organization that makes deals with terrorists but puts down the group actually trying to stop them.". She and Brian get in an argument over it; he’s confused by her actions and senses she may not be saying everything.

Brian calls Nick and tells him Opal quit the CIA. Nick is surprised, but happy with Opal's decision. This annoys Brian. The phone call ends when Nick is called to a meeting at HimTak to discuss the break-in and theft of the dream machine in Pearl's lab. Only the 00-Agents (plus Pearl obviously) are at this meeting, because of how serious the situation is. – Gozde

Nick is in his room a couple days later drawing, when he gets another call. He thinks it’s Brian again, and is surprised to hear Opal’s voice. She’s only able to get out the world “Hello?” before he hears a gunshot fired. He yells hear name repeatedly to no answer.

Brian gets the call from Nick while he’s at work at the CIA HQ, panicked when he tells him what he heard. Brian rushes out to find Opal…only to find her dead in their home. The place is trashed a bit, and her laptop is missing, to allude to a robbery gone wrong. To Brian though, with the accuracy of the shot, he feels it’s clearly a government hit. – Lore

Back to the funeral, this time, we see it from Dr. Rough’s perspective, who’s watching from his temporary lair in DC thanks to the camera planted on his mole (Styx) in HimTak. He muses on the events and the successes and failures that have come from them. As well as the possibility of recruiting Brian, now that he’s officially cut ties with the CIA himself.

Backtracking yet again, this time…it’s Dr. Rough watching his computer monitor with Mulder and Scully at the FBI…blackmailing them about the alien technology. He threatens to go public despite their protests that they don’t have the complete information on the alien language. He shuts off the computer, slamming a random piece of art to the ground in fury. – Mel

Drums walks in, holding out the phone to Dr. Rough, telling him it’s their informer. Styx (Well, we say it’s a voice) tells him that Opal and Pearl have successfully decoded it together. Dr. Rough muses on which one to use, when Styx tells him that Pearl’s too well protected within her lab. Drums confirms this, and so he puts out the order for Drums to kidnap Opal so that they can get what they need from her.

Kidnapping scene where Drums takes Opal from her home while Brian is at work. Forces her to leave a note saying she went away for a few days to think on things. This way, while Brian may think it’s odd, he won’t be on a manhunt for her just yet. – Sarah

Interrogation scene with Opal, she tells him nothing. As they keep trying, Styx checks in with Dr. Rough via his communicator, and Opal recognizes the voice. You can write in Styx's dialogue to Dr. Rough without identifying the speaker, and just have Opal realize the voice sounds familiar and accuse Dr. Rough of having a mole in HimTak - do not say who the mole is, so the readers will continue to wonder (and suspect Leo).

Dr. Rough knows he can’t let her live now. But pretends he can, and lets her go. Opal is afraid and doesn’t feel safe. He has Drums track her and spy so that the minute she picks up the phone to call Nick at HimTak, he puts a bullet through her brain and takes her out. He ransacks the place and takes what he needs. End the scene with Nick’s voice yelling her name over the phone. – Julie