ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY OFFERS SNEAK PEEK ONLINE OF ITS ANNUAL SPECIAL COMIC CON ISSUE TO BE DISTRIBUTED ONLY AT THE SAN DIEGO EVENT: EXCLUSIVE IT CHAPTER TWO IMAGES AND COVER STORY

EW’s Two Covers Align Vertically to Form the Sinister Red Balloon

EW’s special issue covers align vertically to form the sinister red balloon

Entertainment Weekly exclusively shares images and information about IT Chapter Two, the terrifying follow up to the 2017 horror movie, IT.

While a sneak peek of the covers and story is available today at EW.com, EW’s special collectible Comic Con issue will be distributed ONLY at next week’s San Diego Comic Con. One of the covers is an image of the adult cast who make up The Losers’ Club and the other cover features the nightmarish Pennywise. When stacked, the two covers form a key symbol from the IT franchise – the red balloon. The stacked vertical image will be shared on EW’s social channels.

Highlights from the cover story about IT Chapter Two include:

Director Andy Muschietti: “People who love the first one will love the second one. The emotional journey is probably doubled. The stakes are doubled. Pennywise wants revenge.”

Bill Skarsgård, who plays the evil clown Pennywise: “He’s scarier and he’s angrier. There’s a couple of very brutal things in the film.”

For the adult actors who form The Losers’ Club in this sequel set 27 years later, there was some fun to be had on set between the scary scenes.

Jessica Chastain, who plays the adult Beverly Marsh, says that when the characters reconvened at a Chinese restaurant on set in the fictional Derry “We had so much fun (shooting the sequence.) We literally sat, pretending to drink shots and eat Chinese food for two days.”

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Molly shares with Henry all that she has lerned from The Kid about his origins as well as the various universes all intersecting with one another in Castle Rock. She seemingly believes him but Henry can't process much of this information since he and The Kid are arrested as suspects in the ever-increasing number of strange deaths.

The Kid and Henry are reunited in jail, as their cells are near enough for them to talk. The Kid says it makes sense that Henry doesn't remember what happened, since The Kid himself didn't remember everything after spending all that time in the cage. But once he returned to the Deaver home, things began to come back to him until he could make sense of it all. The Kid goes on to explain that they need to go together to Castle Lake before the sounds disappear, since the sounds are a sign that the realities are touching which will allow The Kid to return from when he came.

The most pressing reason that The Kid needs to return to his reality is because by being an anomaly to this universe, he causes all these strange deaths to occur. Even by being in the prison, his presence causes various Shawshank inmates to escalate their violence which results in the death of multiple officers and civilians at the Castle Rock jail.

In the mayhem, The Kid and Henry are able to escape from their cells. The Kid forces Henry at gunpoint to accompany him to Castle Lake. On the way there, Henry begins to recover his various lost memories, including the long-forgotten interaction with Pastor Deaver back in 1991. He had pushed Devaer off a cliff because he had been planning on killing Ruth. Henry manages to overpower The Kid, take the gun back and point it at him instead.

One year later, Henry is shown to be working as a lawyer in Castle Rock. It's Christmas time and he has moved into his childhood home. Wendell comes to visit and the two seem to have a better relationship now than once year prior. Ruth had died peacefully back in February, and was buried alongside Alan. Molly has achieved success as a real estate agent in the Florida Keys, finally breaking free of the baggage of Castle Rock. Henry is revealed to have put The Kid back into imprisonment in the now abandoned Shawshank prison. It's unclear whether he doesn't believe in the existence of the many realities or is simply choosing to ignore it.

In a mid-credits scene, Jackie Torrance tells a friend that she is making preparations to take a trip west in order to research her family's axe-killing history at the Overlook, which implies that season two will incorporate aspects of the famous novel, "The Shining".

Castle Rock is available for streaming on Hulu and will return for season two.

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Finally, after weeks of suspense and intrigue, the origins of The Kid are revealed. He is actually 'Henry Deaver' from an alternate timeline. This alternate universe from which he originates is explored, as well as the life he lived.

Henry lives a successful life in the city until Alan calls him home to Castle Rock. He is Ruth and Pastor Matthew's biological son, but this Ruth had followed through on her plan to leave Matthew back in 1991. She took Henry and fled to Boston where he grew up happy and healthy. Pastor Deaver was not murdered by a twelve-year-old Molly, but did find the twelve-year-old adopted black Henry who had gone missing in 1991 in the episode 1 reality.

Henry is called back to Alan because his father had committed suicide so Henry needed to go through his belongings. While doing so, he finds the young, black Henry from earlier in a cage. This black Henry had been found at a young age by the Pastor Deaver of this universe and white adult Henry and Molly learn more about the events that transpired because of the tapes that Pastor Deaver left behind. He hasn't aged since being found. Twenty-seven years have passed and yet he's still a twelve-year-old boy.

After some time, the deeper explanation is revealed. These various alternate universes all intersect in Castle Rock, and more specifically in the woods about a half-mile east of Castle Lake. Henry and Molly speak to the young black Henry, who shares that the voices he hears are calling him to the woods. When Molly touches his hand, she has a vision of the first twelve years of the Molly and Henry of the episode 1 reality.

Molly and white Henry/The Kid take adopted Henry/The Kid to the woods near Castle Lake where they begin to see visions of people from many centuries of different universes. The Molly of this universe is accidentally killed by a local law enforcement officer. In her dying breath she implores white Henry/The Kid to help the young Henry. He ends up following the young, adopted Henry to his own reality, after which he became The Kid of episodes 1-8.

This entire recap of events is told by The Kid to the 2018 Molly of the show's primary universe. He asks Molly if she believes him.

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Molly finalises her sale of Lacy's house. The new owners, married couple Gordon and Lilith, have their own sordid history that's eerily unveiled. Gordon has one hell of a murderous streak that will only escalate as the episode unfolds. They moved to Castle Rock after Lilith had an affarid with one of Gordon's co-workers, whom Gordon viciously confronted and attacked for this. They decide to turn their new house into a bed and breakfast, but Gordon ends up violently murdering the first couple that books with them. The couple had been having affairs on their respective spouses and Gordon grew increasingly disturbed late at night upon hearing them making love. Lilith walks in after the deed is done, horrified by the gruesome scene.

On that same night, Molly sense through her connection to Henry that something is wrong. She drives out into the woods and frees him from the locked sensory depravation chamber hidden in Odin's camper. They escape the forest without ever discovering Odin's murdered corpse. Molly wonders if she is crazy but Henry assures her she isn't.

Henry returns home and finds his mother sleeping in bed. Upon entering the kitchen he finds The Kid at the sink. Henry wants to know where his son Wendell is, and Wendell returns just then. He seems surprised to see The Kid is still there and Henry tells his son to go upstairs and lock the door. The Kid walks outside and Henry follows him out to the shed where Alan's dead body is still lying in a pool of blood. The Kid informs Henry of Ruth's accidentally killing him the previous night. The Kid proposes that they hide the body in order to protect Ruth, horrifying Henry. Unbeknownst to either of them, Wendell calls the state police out of fear for the well-being of his loved ones. The Kid points out that Henry can hear "them" now. The Kid speaks cryptically about waiting for Henry for 27 years, and having rescued him from "that basement" and not having asked for any of this. The Kid escapes through a back door of the shed, leaving Henry to deal with the police. The Kid becomes the main suspect in Alan's murder.

Gordon dismembers the bodies of his victims while Lilith helps him to cover up his crimes, still determined to repair the state of her marriage. Henry later breaks into their home and discovers Lacy's drawings of The Kid, always the same age and appearance as he now appears despite drawings having dates on them from 27 years prior. Molly tries to call him, saying she will be coming over since she has an unsettling feeling and doesn't want to be alone right now.

Gordon and Lilith discover Henry and Lilith tries to attack and kill him with a knife, out of fear that he will lead to them being discovered for murdering their lodgers. In the ensuing struggle, Lilith accidentally stabs herself in the jugular and falls down the stairs, bleeding out to death. Henry runs outside and attempts to drive away but Gordon attacks him with a knife and forces him out of the car. Jackie Torrance arrives and saves Henry by killing Gordon with an axe.

While Henry must once again deal with local law enforcement, Molly arrives at his house and finds The Kid. He speaks to her, saying that Henry isn't ready yet but Molly can help The Kid, as he believes they know each other. He shares personal information about her to prove their connection, and goes on to say that he has seen her die in the woods.

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The episode opens with Ruth continuing the final scene from the previous episode. She is hiding in the storage shed, but then the scene shifts to other various expositional scenes from throughout the season and Ruth's life in general. Some scenes previously seen are re-told from her perspective, and in general we gain a greater insight into her character, especially past the disease with which she has been struggling.

Some other aspects that are presented are her life with Henry when he was just a child, as well as the introduction of the Kid and his return to her house from his previous stay in the psychiatric facility that is not burning down.

Ruth remembers how Matthew Deaver spoke of hearing "the voice of God" for the first time and the relationship she has with Alan Pangborn.

When she spoke with Wendell to explain her condition, she shares how the chess pieces she has act as totems so she can remember what's what as best she can while she struggles to maintain her cognitive stability. Wendell interprets her dementia using a VR game, saying the Ruth is a "timewalker" who must defeat her nemesis. This foe is Matthew Deaver, whom she sees in the Kid.

In the present, Ruth sends Wendell away for his own protection so she can confront her foe. Molly tries to call in and see if she can help. It's revealed that Ruth always knew that Molly killed Matthew and tells her she did the right thing. But Ruth won't let Molly in and decides she wants to defeat her nemesis, Matthew (whom she thinks the Kid is a resurrected version of him). He knows personal details about Ruth, including the song that played at her wedding with Matthew and the combination to the upstairs safe (it's her birthday).

The Kid makes dinner for Ruth and expresses concern about her wellbeing given her condition. He gives her a sedative so she can hopefully get some sleep and rest but she only pretends to do so. She asks the Kid to draw her a bath and uses the distraction to run off and find her revolver. She struggles to remember where she left the bullets but after various sequences of going through her memories she is able to remember that they are hidden in the suitcase buried outside.

Returning to the point of Ruth hiding in the shed, she is holding her loaded revolver and is prepared to shoot the Kid whenever he comes in. Instead, she ends up accidentally shooting and killing Alan Pangborn when he enters the shed.

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Henry's song Wendell comes to town to visit both his father and his grandmother. He resents Henry for not being around more but reacts positively to being with Ruth again. Henry later brings The Kid to a patient treatment facility where he will be looked after until he can feel secure enough to remember who he is and live on his own. But Henry doesn't know that The Kid has been speaking with Alan Pangborn in secret about plans to help restore Ruth's health. In an ominous display, a crow flying overhead drops dead and falls to the ground right as The Kid is arriving.

Henry begins to recover memories from the time he disappeared as a child. He visits Molly to try to sort through things and she shares how she was psychically connected to him when he went missing and that Henry was afraid and then relieved while he was missing. She goes on to share how she pulled out Henry's father's breathing tube after he was returned and that she did it because it was what Henry wanted. Henry is horrified by this revelation and leaves.

Further signs point to something evil within The Kid because there were wildfires that broke out once he was released from prison. Also, a radio news program states that a fire has broken out in the mental care facility leaving some patients dead and some dangerous ones to escape. Later, The Kid is shown to be returning to the Deaver home where Ruth has just spilled some of her medicine on the floor, while Alan is out robbing a junkyard to try to get an old truck back.

Henry goes out into the woods and meets Odin Branch, an old friend of his late father. Odin has an advanced degree in bioacoustics and psychoacoustics and is with his interpreter/protege Willie. Odin mostly speaks using sign language. Henry seems unsettled by the discussion of this topic but Odin goes on to share that some who are able to hear these signals will experience it like a ringing in the ear (which Henry has been experiencing lately). Henry ends up being locked in a room by Odin and has visions of his father asking him if he can "hear it now" and become increasingly overwhelmed by the frequencies he hears and the visions he has.

Alan returns home and finds The Kid bleeding heavily and muttering about vengeance on all who helped put him in a cage. Alan runs inside and finds the house in a state of disarray and bloody handprints on the walls.

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Facing increasing pressures from the prison higher ups to make the catastrophic situation at Shawshank go away, warden Porter releases The Kid from prison. Henry meets him at the prison entrance and suggests that they reintroduce themselves to one another. The Kid still doesn't know who he is and Henry bring him to a medical facility who suggest that if the context of his life is restored, perhaps his memories will too. But since the medical facility won't look after him since that's not what their primary purpose is, Henry gets Molly to help him find a place for The Kid to stay until they can figure out what to do next. Later that night, The Kid sneaks into a family home where a young couple is celebrating one of their child's birthdays but after he spends some time hiding in the dark the happy festivities turn into angry fighting.

Alan Pangborn speaks at a ceremony to speak on his many years of service to the town but Ruth becomes distracted and disturbed by the sound of a dog barking. She then walks over to a nearby overpass and jumps off the edge into the water below, horrifying everyone present. Henry quickly jumps in after her. She is then taken to the hospital where she is saddened to have seemingly ruined the party and saying cryptic messages about how nothing stays dead in this town.

Molly's friend goes to check on The Kid and bring him some food. They go out to hang out but Molly is called when The Kid goes on to the roof and stands near the edge. Molly goes up to try to talk him down and The Kid thinks to himself that he shouldn't be here and that he belongs in the hole. Molly does her best to reach out to him due to her gifts. Molly eventually talks him down and gives him some Oxy to calm him. She then drives to Henry while The Kid sleeps it off in the car. She warns Henry that there is something wrong with The Kid. Hearing his frequency was like hearing everyone in the town's pain all at once. She shuts down Henry's doubts about her abilities by telling him many things about himself, including the ringing he's had in his ear, the guilt he feels about not being able to help his clients, as well as the feelings he has towards his own son. But when The Kid walks into the house, Henry offers him one of his own rooms to stay at.

After Molly leaves, Henry shows The Kid to a guest house on the property for him to stay in. There is a piano in the guest house, which The Kid begins to play. Henry assures him that more of his memories will begin to return. Later that night The Kid goes out into the woods and comes across a drunk Alan Pangborn in the woods. Their conversations reveals that Alan once came across the warden driving with The Kid in his trunk. He had let the warden go but Alan claims that The Kid is the devil and hasn't aged a day in twenty-seven years. Alan has tried his best to keep the people of the town safe but now is disillusioned about how things have turned out with his life and the woman he loves. The Kid offers to help Ruth and points out that Alan has no idea what's happening here.

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The prosecutor visits The Kid and attempts to threaten him into speaking and giving up his name. Instead, The Kid speaks in cryptic phrases and backs the prosecutor out of his cell before shutting the door on himself, leaving the prosecutor frightened and unsettled.

Henry tells Alan that he intends to bring his mother with him out of Castle Rock and to a senior facility in Texas where she will be taken care of. Alan is angry about the idea of Henry taking Ruth out of her home. He tells Ruth about Henry's intentions to move her out of Castle Rock, sparking a fight later on when she confronts Henry on the matter.

Dennis remains determined to help The Kid get out of prison and tells Henry he intends to testify not only on the mistreatment of him specifically but the general misconduct of the prison/guards against the inmates. Late one night, Dennis begins to draw with a dry-erase marker on the screens of the security monitors in the control room during his shift.

Molly continues to rekindle her friendship with Henry while also working hard to sell more real estate. She attempts to incentivize a couple to buy a particular house by noting that the area is in development so the property value will rise after the work is finished.

Henry visits a house near where he was found and finds an elderly caretaker there, Joseph, whose brother Henry is familiar with due to his criminal record (insurance fraud). When Henry begins asking questions about a boy going missing, the man digs out an old box containing Henry's police file, which had been officially reported as destroyed.

Henry returns home to confront Alan about covering up Joseph's potential involvement. Alan reveals that the day before Henry's father died, he wrote out a message, "Henry did it" that prompted him to interfere with the investigation to prevent any law enforcement from charging Henry. Henry begins to question whether he really did do something to harm his father, and Molly overhears the conversation due to her psychic abilities. Henry visits her to express his self-doubts and that he never should have returned to Castle Rock. She assures him that whatever happened wasn't his fault, as he was just a kid, and invites him in to get some rest. Late that night, Henry calls Dennis to leave a voicemail saying that he can no longer help The Kid with his case and will need to leave town soon.

When Dennis gets the voicemail, he goes into the security room again and begins drawing X's on the various screens before checking out a gun. He then goes out into the prison and begins shooting various guards dead. Henry is waiting in a room where he is supposed to meet with his client to finalize the plea deal but instead is met by a delirious Dennis who again expresses his wish to testify before being shot dead by other law enforcement officers.

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A flashback reveals that a young Molly Strand snuck into the Deaver home after Matthew was found. He was hooked up to a breathing tube which she unplugged so he would die. Her motives aren't entirely clear until further flashbacks insinuate that Matthew was abusive towards Henry. Henry as a child is also shown to be burning a VHS tape while saying "Fuck you, dad."

As an adult, Molly is still haunted by the guilt of taking someone's life and has nightmares about it. She is reunited with Henry again and pretends to not remember him much, becoming quickly overwhelmed by the sound of extra voices due to her psychic abilities.

Molly becomes increasingly anxious while practicing for her upcoming television appearance so she drives off in search of the local drug dealer in the hopes of purchasing something to take the edge off. However, he is out of pills so he refers her to another location where there is another dealer named Derek she can ask to purchase from. When she tracks down Derek, he is acting out a courtroom case with children wearing masks. Derek brings her to a back room but before any drug deal can take place, police arrive and arrest both of them.

Molly has to spend the night in the holding cell at the police station. Henry bails her out and she admits that she remembers him and opens up about her psychic/empathetic abilities and that being around him has exasperated the situation. She is worried about how she'll be missing her scheduled TV appearance but Henry helps rush her to the TV station on time. However, upon getting to the TV station and on the live broadcast she becomes overwhelmed by Henry's thoughts and worried and instead of speaking about the real estate developments, she makes a speech about the injustice of the local prison wrongfully keeping a man imprisoned (in reference to The Kid, whom Henry is still struggling to get access to).

The warden of the prison sees the broadcast and finally relents, allowing Henry to visit and offering a plea deal which will give The Kid $300,000 and his freedom in exchange for his silence on the unfortunate incident of his imprisonment. Henry is able to speak with The Kid for the first time and asks after his well-being. Henry advises him to maintain his anonymity, as it's a strength to getting the best deal possible. Henry says that he'll be able to get him out of prison and then they'll file a civil lawsuit that will get him an even greater settlement amount. During the conversation, The Kid asks him whether "it has begun" and if Henry can "hear it" but their conversation is cut short before Henry can ask anything else about what The Kid means.

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Dale narrate the episode opening, talking about how his younger brother killed himself when he was just a teenager. He also shares about the many other deaths in his family and how there's something wrong with Castle Rock that seems to bring out the worst in people and considerable darkness lies within. A flashback of him as a younger man show him driving to the prison and building the cage that would later hold The Kid. He speaks about asking God for answers and waiting for years for his instructions.

Henry visits Dale's wife Martha in the hopes of learning more about him and the identity of the mysterious inmate. She answers some of his questions but steps away to take a call from a neighbor who tells her that the man visiting her is black and upon realizing that he is Henry, she asks him to leave. However, Henry has already managed to look through Dale's desk for clues and found various items including a file of mysterious newspaper clippings and some calendar dates with quotes about being a jailer.

Henry visits the local church and meets the young pastor who answers his questions about Dale. The pastor is inspired that Henry works with death-row inmates and extends an open invitation to Henry to join the church's visits to the prison where they pray with the inmates who request a prayer-companion.

Molly Strand is the owner of a local real-estate agency in Castle Rock. She suffers from psychic abilities that cause excessive noises in her head from the people around her. She grew up across the street from Henry and seemed to have a bit of a crush or some type of other affection for him. She frequently indulges in drugs to try to drown out the noise that people call. Molly has lunch with her sister to say that she needs $40,000 from the equity on their parents' home in order to afford to appear on local television to talk about the developments she'll be doing in town. Her sisters says no but Molly says she has already filed the papers with her sister's forged signature.

The Kid is put into a cell with another inmate who is shown to be a skinhead with various tattoos indicating his bigoted philosophies. The Kid warns the other inmate not to touch him but it's implied that the inmate won't be respecting his request.

Henry leaves a note for Dennis at a local bar before heading home where he finds Alan digging up the body of a dead dog that Ruth believes might be alive again, as she is sundowning and having problems remembering the dog is truly dead.

In a flashback, a young Molly is shown to be visited by a police officer that is asking about where Henry is and whether he ever spoke about having any negative or hostile sentiments towards his father, as Matthew has just been found.

Dennis calls Henry to say he can't talk to him but is waiting outside for him in his car. He tells Henry about how The Kid has been put into solitary confinement. Henry needs to get proof that this inmate exists or else he won't be able to represent him. Dennis is panicking over the stress and the guilt of trying to help this inmate. Dennis doesn't want to work for the prison but there aren't any better job options in such a small town and he has a wife and child to take care of.

Henry is inspired to get into the prison with the church's prayer group and spots The Kid when he is let out for a few moments of sunshine. The Kid's former cellmate has died under mysterious circumstances involving multiple organ failure. Henry speaks briefly to The Kid through the fence and offers to be his lawyer, also snapping some photos of him with his phone before The Kid is rushed back inside.

In the woods, a dog digs up Dale's head that had fallen off when the rope yanked at it before the car drove off the cliff. Alan is shown to be reading a suicide note that Dale left him, before burning it with his lighter.

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Dale Lacy is the warden of Shawshank State Penitentiary. One morning he says goodbye to his blind wife Marth and drives to the woods where he drives off the side of a cliff with a rope tied around a tree with the other end in a noose around his neck.

A woman named Porter is brought in to replace Dale Lacy as warden. When she learns that her predecessor kept Block F unoccupied for a good thirty years, she sends some of the guards down to investigate, as it seems an ideal space to use for new prisoners that will eventually be brought in. A young prison guard named Dennis Zalewski discovers a tunnel which he goes down using a ladder, where he discovers a mysterious inmate being held in a cage. The man's prints don't match anyone in their records and there are no other ways to identify him. He doesn't speak for some time until he finally relents and says only a name - Henry Matthews Deaver.

Henry is a criminal law attorney in Texas who specialises in capital punishment cases. He grew up in Castle Rock where he had grown up adopted by Ruth and Reverend Matthew Deaver. Matthew had disappeared in the woods with Henry only to be found with his back broken and died three days later. Henry was also found later but with no memory of what happened in the woods and the town turned on him, believing him to have been his adoptive father's killer, possibly due to racist biases since Henry is African-American and his adoptive parents were white.

Henry returns to Castle Rock to visit his mother and learns that her dementia is worsening and she has begun dating Alan Pangborn, the former police officer that had found Henry when he went missing in the woods. Dennis secretly calls Henry to tell him about the new inmate that is asking for him, afraid that the man is not being given the rights he is owed. When Henry visits the prison, the new warden Porter pretends not to know what inmate Henry is talking about. On his way out of the prison, Henry spots Dennis working a shift and seemingly recognises but doesn't say anything to get his attention.

Dennis is working a late-night shift when he seemingly spots the new inmate, who has been named "The Kid", on the surveillance cameras walking around the hallways of the prison and many dead bodies throughout the prison. He sets off the alarm and many guards come running, one of which he almost shoots. But there are no bodies to be found and The Kid is still in his cell.

In a flashback to before Dale killed himself, he visits The Kid in his cage and tells him to ask for Henry Matthew Deaver after he is found.

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The latest Stephen King adaptation comes in the form of a Hulu series, "Castle Rock", which will be combining various King works into a single arc spanning ten episodes which will premiere in 2018. Despite still being midway through filming, series stars and producers paid a visit to New York Comic Con where a new trailer was revealed and they gave a panel and Q&A to promote this anticipated new show.

The show is also particularly notable for having both Sissy Spacek and Bill Skarsgård in their line-up, as both have given memorable performances in prior adaptations of King novels. Spacek played the titular role in "Carrie" (1976) and Skarsgård's popularity has sky-rocketed due to his portrayal of Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 "It" film. Skarsgård received the bulk of the questions during the audience Q&A portion of the "Castle Rock" panel. Originally from Sweden, Skarsgård shared that when researching King's books, he reads them in English as opposed to Swedish. "I like to read, if I can read, the author's own words without it being translated. Swedish books in Swedish and English books in English." Skarsgård was under strict orders to reveal practically nothing about his character or the plot that he will be portraying. This is not only his second time acting in a Stephen King adaptation, but the second time he will be acting in a television series adapted for a streaming platform following three seasons as Roman Godfrey on Netflix's Hemlock Grove.

"We're doing an anthology show, ten hours of one story. I kind of grew up seeing television become what it is today. I remember being 15, watching Sopranos, and that major shift happened to what it is today. For writers, the TV show format is the only thing that can compete with the novel itself. You can really delve deep into characters and developments as opposed to just two hours or and hour and a half movie. I've always been intrigued by it. I especially like the miniseries format because there's a conclusion to this mystery that we've started. Some shows tend to just prolong that misery until they seem very confused to what it is in the first place. It just becomes diluted towards the end. We have something here that, it's a beginning, it's a middle, it's an end. There's a progression, huge character development for my character, I can tell you that much. He starts in one place and ends up somewhere completely different. It really is for an actor, such an amazing format to really delve deep. Two episodes is a feature film so we're essentially making five feature films here in terms of material and it's great."

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Shelley writes a good-by letter to Pryce in which she talks about his funeral ceremony and how she hopes to see him again someday. Roman comes into the institute asking for Pryce to help him with his gunshot wound and is shocked to learn of Pryce's death. No vital organs have been hit but there is a lot of blood coming out of the wound. One of Pryce's subordinates removes the bullet and injects Roman with a clotting agent. Roman buries Peter's body in the wood and texts Annie from his phone to say that the job is done. He returns home and finds the baby is still missing, meaning Annie still has her. He arranges a meeting to try to get Nadia back but when Annie shows up, she sees Roman drives up and leaves without meeting him.

Peter meets Destiny in a limbo state. She encourages him to dig his way out or else Roman will keep killing people. Peter wakes to find several wolves digging him up and pulling him out of the hole. They all gather around his body to check if he is okay. He passes out again and then reawakens to find the wolves have all left.

Roman returns to find Olivia waiting for him but to weak to overpower him and steal his body. She tries to get him to team up with her to take Annie out but he refuses to help her, wanting for her to finally die for all she has done to him. He throws her out of his house and locks the door.

Annie returns to her home and finds an injured Peter sleeping on her sofa. She patches him up and he insists on being the one to take Roman out. She discourages him from turning against the moon and says that he should simply focus on getting his strength back. If he turns against the moon again, there will be no coming back from it. Annie later finds several voicemails left by Olivia, all asking to meet, while Roman discovers Peter is gone from his burial spot in the woods. Peter calls him and Roman tries to reason with him, saying he only defended himself and simply wanted to go home to Nadia. He says he doesn't want to kill anyone anymore and just wants his daughter back, after which they can all go their separate ways. Peter says Nadia would be better off dead than be with him. Peter reminds Roman that he killed Destiny, to which Roman reminds him that if he had just been honest with her about Andreas then none of this would've happened. Peter refuses, saying he will kill him at the next full moon.

Roman tasks the staff at the Godfrey Institute with finding Nadia and killing Annie in the process. Annie visits Olivia and reveals that she tracked down what happened to Dmitri, Annie's father. It's revealed that Olivia had actually killed him, which she excuses by claiming that she killed him as a preemptive move before he could kill her first. She then bites Annie and feeds on her until she passes out.

Roman returns to Godfrey Manor, ready to reclaim it as his own. Annie had left baby Nadia with Shelley, who doesn't know that the baby belongs to Letha and Roman, instead thinking it belongs to Annie instead. Aitor returns to Shelley and the two reconcile their relationship.

Olivia brings Annie to the Godfrey Institute and demands that one of the doctors make the transfer of her consciousness into Annie's body. The doctor manages to sneak a pick to unlock Annie's restraints so she can sneak into a holding chamber. Olivia threatens to kill the doctor if he doesn't open it so he gets to work trying to type in a manual override. While he works, Annie begins putting some gas on and says her goodbyes to Olivia before sticking a scalpel into an electric socket to spark a fire that kills her. Olivia screams in horror at the loss of her opportunity to stay alive. She cradles Annie's charred corpse when the chamber is finally opened and rambles to herself, falling deeper into her delusions, even biting a chunk out of her own arm before collapsing dead.

The full moon hasn't come yet but Peter breaks into Roman's home, changing into a wolf and attacking him. Roman is distracted by a vision of Destiny and as a result, he and Peter fall out a second-story window. Roman finds he can't move due to his body being broken. He begs Peter to kill him and save him a life as a broken man, and ponders how Peter will live the rest of his life as a wolf. Peter tears out Roman's throat and then his heart.

Finally, Shelley and Aitor are shown to be leaving Hemlock Grove with Nadia, ready to start a new life together. On their way out of town, Shelley observes Peter in his wolf form by the side of the road. The camera pans to a body of water in which one of Spivak's surviving offspring is shown to be swimming.

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Olivia has a dream of enjoying a feast but wakes to find that she bit herself while sleeping. Her hallucination of Ochoa advises her to use Roman as the host to transfer into. Olivia seems guilty at the prospect of murdering her sun but Ochoa tells her it is merely a matter of survival of the fittest.

Roman prepares to hunt down Spivak and has Peter coming with him. He senses that Peter is upset about something and Peter admits to having found Destiny's dead body. Roman advises him to learn to live with what has happened and to take comfort in the fact that they killed the man responsible for her death. He promises that when they come back, they will give her a proper burial but first he needs Peter to help him save Miranda and Nadia.

Olivia observes Roman leaving town so her Ochoa hallucination advises her to use Shelley as a temporary fix until she can make a permanent transfer into either Roman or Annie, as their bodies are preferable to her vanity. Shelley had taken some pills to try to put herself out of her misery when Aitor was arrested. Pryce brings Shelley to the Godfrey Institute to look after her in her time of need.

Roman and Peter arrive at Spivak's cabin and head inside armed with guns. Pryce calls and informs them of what he has determined from the research he has been doing into Spivak. His plan is to breed more creatures like himself by harvesting Nadia's eggs and fertilising them. They can kill Spivak by using some Upir venom which Peter has to extract using a needle injected into the back of Roman's mouth. Shortly after this they discover Nadia's need body in the basement. They discover that her corpse was home to one of Spivak's offspring. Roman and Peter chase after it and pour a drop of Roman's venom onto it and confirm that the substance is deadly to these creatures.

Olivia goes to the Godfrey Institute and convinces Shelley to give over her body to Olivia. Pryce is outraged by the prospect of killing Shelley but Shelley is too distraught to want to carry on. Pryce uses his last resort - showing Shelley footage of Olivia killing Norman. Shelley goes into a rage and knocks Olivia to the ground, beginning to strangle her and telling her she hates her. But she lets her up and Pryce has her escorted out of the building and forbidden from returning, seemingly unbothered about the leverage Olivia has on him.

Roman and Peter find a man that has been glued into a tub and dies when more of Spivak's offspring come bursting out of him into the pool of water. Spivak then emerges from upstairs and Roman demands to know where Nadia is. Spivak dances around the question and claims that Upirs and werewolves will all be dead soon and only his kind will be the ones to feed on humans. Peter dumps some of Roman's venom into the pool to kill the offspring in it. A fight breaks out in which Peter is forced to chase after the vial of venom when it gets knocked out of his hand and Roman begins shooting at Spivak which does little damage to him. Spivak grabs Roman up using his tail but Peter shoots at him from the side which gives Roman the distraction needed to bite him. The venom gravely wounds him, resorting him to a mere sea slug of sorts that Roman stomps out with his boot. Roman and Peter then find Nadia and leave the facility.

The delivery man comes back to the Institute and Pryce lets him in, trying to help him with the cognitive problems he is having. The man resumes his state of believing himself to be Pryce and attacks Pryce with a scalpel, shanking him repeatedly in the abdomen. Shelley finds him and tries to help but Pryce tells her there is nothing that can be done to save him. He only asks for a small favour, whispering it in her ear before dying in her arms. It's later revealed that Pryce asked Shelley to deliver a message to Randolph, the man Pryce was seeing. It's presumed that he wanted to tell Randolph he loved him.

Annie carves out a bullet so as to tip them with heparin.

Roman hires a new nanny with experience working for high-profile clients that require confidentiality. Peter asks if it's a good idea to bring someone else into Nadia's life but Roman reminds him that they can't look after him all the time without any extra help.

While Peter is out playing with Nadia at a playground, Annie arrives and reveals to Peter that Roman was the one that killed Destiny. She is honest about how things got out of control, Destiny hit him, she cracked her head, then Roman snapped her neck because he knew that Peter would never forgive him. Peter doesn't believe her until she says that she was the one that drew the cross on Destiny's forehead with her blood because there was nothing she could do to stop Roman. She gives Peter the special gullets and gun, along with a knife, saying that two bullets will be enough to put Roman down and then he must carve Roman's heart out to make certain he is dead. He also leaves Nadia with her saying to get them out of town.

Roman is running low on blood so he gets a hooker and feeds from her in an alley. Peter shoots him once but then the gun jams. Roman fights back and Peter tries to pull a knife on him. Roman then stabs him with the knife, asking how he found out. He immediately deduces it was Annie. He then bites Peter who collapses in the alleyway and Roman cries for all he has done and lost.

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Roman digs a hole in the woods and buries Destiny's body there.

Olivia brings Norville Knox to the institute, claiming he's there to help with the research to find a cure for the disease. Pryce is shocked to learn of this, not wanting to deprive the world of such a great mind in the scientific field, but Olivia forces him to go through with it and she must agree to get rid of all the blackmail leverage she has against him.

Destiny's friend visits Peter but is shocked to learn that she isn't there and didn't come home last night.

Roman returns home where he has Annie tied up in the nursery. Annie slips out of her restraints and tries to escape but Roman stops her, repeatedly insisting that he isn't a murderer. He didn't mean for her to die when he punched her back and is insistent that his snapping her neck was only done because she was already dying. He is conflicted and tormented with trying to find his path or knowing what to do. He even admits to having visited a priest in search of absolution. Their conversation is interrupted by Peter, who has come looking for Destiny. They claim to now know where she is, and Annie quickly excuses herself and leaves Roman's house. Roman continues to play the part of supportive friend and talks Peter through his theories of where Destiny might have disappeared too.

Aitor asks Shelly to leave Hemlock Grove with him so they can go on the road together.

Pryce tests out transferring Olivia's mind into Norville's body and she is pleased by the prospect of being in such an attractive, healthy body and mind again. Pryce insists that Olivia get rid of her leverage over him and then they will get rid of her old body and make the transition permanent. Olivia tells Pryce she wants to have sex with her old body in her new body first. Pryce leaves and Norville-Olivia wakes up old Olivia so the two can have sex. But the moment is interrupted when Norville-Olivia notices that Olivia's marking have begun to spread to her face so she's no longer interested in having sex. An argument breaks out, prompting Pryce to return. The old Olivia becomes reluctant to be killed until Pryce shows her the video of the infected rat that attacked its own body after cannibalising its fellow rats. Olivia agrees to the transfer but just as she's about to make the permanent transfer, Norville's body begins to glitch. The match isn't close enough so Olivia must find one that is more suitable.

Peter and Roman track down the leader of the Croatian and Roman tries to plant ideas in Peter's head that he was the one responsible for Destiny's disappearance. He even goes so far as to plant Destiny's engagement ring among the man's possessions in-between rounds of torture of Roman feeding on him. Peter is conflicted about what to do and Roman says he'll take care of it. He manages to get the man to admit that he wasn't really having Destiny followed as he had earlier claimed. After Roman snaps his femur, he still insists that he didn't do anything to Destiny. Peter comes convinced that he's lying so he beats him to death.

Pryce visits Shelly and warns her to run and hide if she ever sees Olivia coming for her. Shelly then admits that she's leaving Hemlock Grove the next day with her new boyfriend, Aitor. Pryce is genuinely happy for Shelly to have found some happiness. Actor addresses the crowd of people and admits to his accidental killing of a man many years ago, how he has now found his soulmate, but now he must say goodbye to them all. The gathering is then interrupted by the arrival of police that have come to arrest Aitor, who wants to turn himself in after being overcome with guilt.

A Detective Israel from Erie, Pennsylvania calls Roman because of his investigation of the death of the family that Spivak killed. The man's phone had been used by Miranda to text Roman, who immediately takes this information to his own personal IT expert to get satellite imagery of the area and determines where the cabin is that Spivak has been holed up in.

A distraught Peter goes into the woods to changes into a wolf, while Annie goes to buy a gun.

Peter uses his enhanced wolf sense of smell to find where Destiny's body was buried and cries in his human form after pulling her out of the hole.

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The previous episode's cliffhanger regarding Olivia attacking Pryce is resolved. She did attack him in his sleep but apart from a bit of neck bruising, Pryce is alive and well. Pryce then stayed up all night to look for research and answers so Olivia can be transferred into another body before the cancer takes her life. Olivia must then decide how to dispose of Ochoa's body. She rolls his body up in a carpet and throws it into a dumpster near her building. After returning to her apartment, she watches as the garbage truck dumps his body in with the rest of the trash. Olivia ponders how they could've been happy together if he hadn't screwed everything up but then she hallucinates Ochoa as a mythical deity called Chango.

Shelley receives a large shipment of supplies at the warehouse, Rooster Poot, she has been staying. It's an apology gift from Roman consisting of including things like toothpaste, blankets, and batteries.

Peter meets with Milan, leader of the Croatians, who has decided to give Peter one last chance to stop Destiny from her vengeance quest or else they'll all be killed.

Pryce finds the Greek delivery man in his room. The aftereffects of having another conscience transferred into his mind is that he was suffering from delusions that he was Pryce himself. Pryce notes that they must continue to monitor him and study what aftereffects he is exhibiting.

Olivia continues to have visions of Chango and also learns that Aitor, Shelley's new friend/love interest has a criminal past. Shelley is enjoying sharing her new gifted items to other people in need at Rooster Poot when Annie comes to visit her and make some introductions. When the two go somewhere in private, Annie reveals that she is Shelley's half-sister from long ago. Shelley learns that Roman only just recently learned about her existence too. Annie appreciates how Shelley has a large collection of books, whereas Roman has none in his house.

Peter berates Destiny for going after Milan, claiming she is acting irrationally and makes excuses to cover up why he has been acting strange. Destiny is determined to get the truth out of Peter and doesn't want lies to destroy the relationship they have.

Olivia visits Rooster Poot to confront Aitor. He had killed someone twenty years ago but now he has been trying to clean his life up and make it worth something, which is why he does things like feed the homeless at Rooster Poot.

Pryce informs Olivia that the only way she can survive on through a host-transfer is to find an Upir that she can have her consciousness moved into.

Destiny gets one of her friends to help poke holes in the story by questioning Baj, another one of the Romani men that was with Peter and Andreas on their night out. Destiny knows that something isn't adding up and the worst part of it all is that Peter is lying to her. She has also been working with police, listening to the recording of the 9-1-1 call placed that led them to finding Andreas' body. It's Roman's voice but he's disguised it to try not to be recognised so Destiny listens to it over and over, trying to determine whose voice it is.

Annie leaves Rooster Poot and Shelley invites her to come back whenever she'd like, wanting her to meet Aitor some day and to not disappear altogether.

Peter calls Roman to meet him at a bar and says he can't keep lying to Destiny. Roman warns him that it's a bad idea and that it will ruin his relationship with Destiny but Peter seems determined that it's the best course of action.

Olivia tries to visit a man named Ben Charles and his wife, both Upirs. She hopes that one of them can serve as a host for her to be transferred into but she learns that Ben was killed by one of Spivak's creatures and his wife suffers from a congenital heart condition that could kill her at any moment. Olivia also learns about a gathering of Upirs that's set to take place in Toronto and takes the information on it so she can attend and find a suitable host.

Roman attends a board meeting at the Godfrey institute. One of the board members arrives and takes a semi-automatic weapon out of his briefcase and begins shooting at everyone. Roman and Pryce are quick to duck and hide beneath the desk but everyone else is killed. Roman then stands up and the gunamn prepares to shoot him until some security man shoot at him instead, forcing him to drop his large weapon. The man then pulls out a smaller gun and shoots himself in the head. Pryce observes a strange worm-lied creature begin to emerge from the man's head wound so he rushes the body to his lab. He removes the man's head and hooks it up to a machine that he pumps super-oxygenated blood into and tries to get a glimpse into the man's short-term memory. He deduces that Spivak got to this employee and uses a new technological program he's been developing to attempt to access the memories but they must hook another brain up to the machine to act as a router to clear the flow of images and Roman insists he be used so they can try to get some answers on where Spivak and Nadia is. Spivak had captured the man and flown him to the cabin but the man's brain goes dead. However, Pryce is able to determine that the man's eye is still working. Pryce scoops it out and realises it's a camera that Spivak is monitoring them from. The man's mouth opens and Spivak's voice begins speaking through as a sort of communication device. He taunts Roman and Pryce about their inability to find him yet and his still having Nadia in captivity.

Olivia attends the gathering of Upirs where everyone is spoken to by an influential Upir, Norville Knox, who has made a mass fortune through his work in the scientific medical field. He gives a speech on the theories he has developed about Upirs fallings sick and feeding on their own. Olivia then considers taking Norville as her new host so she will have his fortune, power, and influence.

Pryce sends orders to his staff to determine where the cabin is that Spivak is hiding in and tells Roman to go home and rest. When he returns home, he finds Annie waiting for him. She wants to say goodbye and part civilly like adults but Roman lashes out at her again. Annie expresses remorse for ever getting involved with Roman. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Destiny who demands that Roman tell her the truth about what happened to Andreas and confronts him about being the one that called 9-1-1. Roman realises he's at least been partially caught so he admits everything in a rage, about how Andreas got everyone at the warehouse killed so he was killed by the Croatian and Peter covered everything up. Destiny refuses to believe that Peter had any fault and continues to blame Roman for everything. She punches him in a rage so he punches her back with his Upir strength. She falls backwards onto a table, badly wounded and struggling to breath. Annie jumps and tries to help her, pleading with Roman to call an ambulance. Roman instead crouches down and caresses the side of Destiny's head before snapping her neck.

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Peter and Destiny are visited by some police officers who tell them that based on the calibre of the firearms used to kill Andreas, they believe that it was a professional hit. Destiny is suspicious that Nik and Bajram, criminal colleagues and best friends to Andreas, haven't stopped by to check on them.

Olivia wakes in her motel room and finds that the black marks on her skin that indicate her sickness have begun to spread.  She's visited by Ochoa who wants to help her like she asked. But Ochoa needs to be paid and so together with Olivia, they search for a way to find funds.

Roman confronts Pryce about his working with Olivia behind his back. Pryce apologises and admits that Olivia had been blackmailing him into doing so. Pryce also warns Roman to stay away from Olivia, as she is very sick now with cancer and may become dangerous as the disease continues to progress. He says they must work together now if they are to find baby Nadia.

Andreas' funeral takes place with Destiny, Peter, Roman, Annie, and few others in attendance. Destiny is perturbed that more haven't come. After everyone else leaves, Destiny cuts open Andreas' autopsy stitches and has a vision of him being beaten before he is fatally shot.

Roman visits Annie but the visit is interrupted by Olivia, who reveals their sibling relationship to Roman who promptly leaves, horrified.

Pryce visits a man that experimented on and butchered children, all claiming it was in the name of science to interrogate him for answers that will help him in his own research and search for Roman's baby. He kills the man afterward.

Olivia lashes out at Ochoa when she becomes increasingly paranoid that he or someone else might be messing with her. She then admits that she has cancer and that it is causing strange marks on her skin. Ochoa asks to see them, then removes his own shirt to reveal some scars he has on different parts of his body as a result from his line of work. The two then consummate their relationship.

Shelley visits Roman, who becomes enraged when he learns that Olivia had seemingly lost Shelley for a week and not told him. Roman then informs Shelley that Olivia is sick and will be dead soon. Roman remains furious at Olivia and throws a tantrum about his hatred for her. Shelley then insists on leaving, realising that roman is not in a state to be giving her the advice she was looking for.

Destiny begins her own investigation into the Croatians that killed Andreas and tracks down the leader, who is shown to be wearing Andreas' watch. She calls Peter and leaves a voicemail, pleading with him to come and bring some men to help her confront him.

Annie visits Roman and tries to apologise for her deception. She shares how she came to Hemlock Grove in search of her mother and that was how she learned of him. Roman will not accept her apology, confronting her for how she had a million opportunities to tell him the truth but never did. He lashes out at her, making perverse comments about how good she was in bed. The two then have angry, hate-sex.

Destiny wants to attack the leader of the Croatians but Peter arrives in time to stop her and intervenes. He tells the man to leave and feigns ignorance when Destiny accuses him of knowing the man.

Olivia wakes and finds Ochoa dead in the closet. She then realises that she was hallucinating him and that he had been dead for some time and hung up in the closet, all the while talking to herself and believing he was with her. In actuality, she had killed him when he had been saying his goodbyes to her because of the cancer impeding her brain's ability to function properly and perhaps also partially due to her not wanting him to leave. Olivia then visits Pryce and chokes him in his bed, demanding that he find a suitable body that she can be put into so the disease won't take her. Pryce then passes out due to lack of oxygen and it's unclear whether or not this is the extent of his injury or if he has been killed.

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Pryce goes to a sex club to meet with a random man for a casual hook-up and after sniffing some drugs, has a flashback to being abused by his father who locked him in a cabinet as a small child. The flashbacks of abuse continue throughout the episode that show him being abused into his teens until he finally fought back and locked his father in the same cabinet he was always forced into himself.

Roman calls Annie to apologise for killing the security worker and pleads with her to call him back so they can reconcile. She's shown to be in her motel room writing "porquois" on the wall with blood she pricked from her finger.

Destiny leaves another voicemail for Andreas, as she hasn't seen him since he left and though she sensed it, doesn't have the official confirmation that he's dead. Peter gets pulled over on the road by some of the Croatians who give him directions on where to find Andreas' body, in case he wants it back.

Roman tells Pryce about his encounter with the creatures and Pryce lets it slip that Spivak was working with the Nazis, but since this is information he had shared with Olivia and was supposed to keep quiet, he quickly covers his mistake by claiming he'll be looking more into it.

Destiny's friends insist she carry on with her plans and go to the bridal shop to try on dresses for her wedding. They presume that Andreas is simply hung over and recuperating from a wild night at his bachelor party. Destiny doesn't stop being worried while trying on dresses and while at the store she begins to get a severe nosebleed.

Ochoa continues to spy on Shelley and report back to Olivia on her comings and goings. He also gives her a charm of his for a spirit called Chango. She later goes to the warehouse to try to force Shelley to come home but Shelley stands up for herself with Aitor by her side. Olivia leaves dejected but Ochoa reassures her that she will figure things out and suggests she reach out to her long-lost daughter. Olivia lists Annie at her motel room and they begin to reconnect as Annie tells her about the daughter she had and lost and the life she has lead over the centuries. Annie had become a combat nurse to atone for all the innocent lives she had taken as a young and out-of-control Upir.

Roman figures out that Ochoa must be working with Olivia so he sets up a trap to prove it and has Peter come with him to spy on his actions. They follow him in the car and confront him. He goads Peter into attacking him violently but Roman stops him. They retrieve Andreas' body and Peter later breaks the bad news of Andreas' body being 'discovered'. Olivia tries to convince Ochoa to stay when he says he'll be no longer working for her since he can't find anything else that's useful and his being a spy has been exposed.

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Pryce is locked into his own quarantine chamber with no way to override the system. He demands that Klaus bring him his meds but there's no way to get them into the quarantine chamber until the system does its full analysis of what's inside.

Peter's relationship with Andreas remains tense due to Andreas not wanting to walk away from the dangerous heist plan he has concocted. Peter is certain that Andreas will get himself killed is he continues down this path and leave Destiny devastated in the process. Peter and Andreas go to meet with some professional colleagues and discover multiple dead bodies at the warehouse. They decide they will investigate and track down whomever is responsible for these murders.

Annie brings Roman to a medical centre full of food bags. The two begin to hedonistically feed on the bags and begin to have sex. They are interrupted by a security guard that Roman kills, despite Annie's objections.

Peter tracks down The Tongue, who reveals that he admitted to discovering some counterfeit eggs to save himself and thus inadvertently caused the deaths of Peter's professional contacts. Peter demands to be set up with a meeting with whomever is in charge. Andreas later reveals that he and the other pack members want to lock up the Croatians in a building and set it on fire but Andreas wants to only go after the leader, Milan. This will send a clear message without casualties of innocent lives.

Olivia is called in to the Godfrey Institute and determines that Klaus locked Pryce into the containment centre to try to get him clean from his rapidly escalating drug addiction. Klaus says that there's no contamination so Olivia orders him to get Pryce out since she needs his help. However, she is called away by Ochoa who has been monitoring Olivia's home and Shelley has come back with her new friends to get some of her belongings and leave once more. When Olivia returns, Shelley is already gone but Ochoa assures her that he has already slipped a tracking device on the man's car so they'll be able to follow her. The conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Annie who reveals that she is Olivia's long-lost daughter. Annie only wants answers on why she was given up and gives Olivia her address, saying to come visit her when she is ready.

Back at the building, Shelley is encouraged to go up and perform during talent show which she does so successfully but collapses in the middle of her poem, seemingly due to a dizzy-spell of sorts.

Pryce is finally able to escape the containment centre and pops some pills as he informs Olivia that she is infected with the disease that involves a creature growing inside of her. There is no way to surgically remove the creature because it so drastically intertwines itself with the brain and spine that attempting to remove it is all but guaranteed to kill the host. The disease doesn't infect humans, as Spivak specifically engineered it to try to exterminate the Upir. Without treatment, Olivia has roughly one month to live. Olivia reminds Pryce that if she dies, her failsafe will be activated and all his dirty secrets will be revealed to the world, ruining his career and making him a wanted man.

Peter and Andreas go to launch their attack on Milan but Milan is already waiting for them. Andreas is taken captive by Milan's men and a sex tape is played in which Andreas was having sex with another woman. The woman is present along with her parents and they are ordered to leave the state. Peter is outraged to learn that part of why Andreas was so determined to go after Milan was because he was sexually involved with Milan's woman. Peter does not object to Milan enacting his revenge and killing him, despite Andreas' pleas that Destiny will never forgive her. When Andreas is shot, Destiny senses the wound and impending death while at her bachelorette party.

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Roman wakes at the Godfrey Institute after Annie brings him there to be treated by Pryce. He seems to be recovering well enough but Pryce warns him to take it easy for the next twenty-four hours. Annie also brought along the body of the creature that attacked Roman and has been hunting Upirs, and Pryce is eager to dissect it. Upon further inspection of it, Pryce finds that it has similar attributes to Upirs but that doesn't make sense because Upirs do not feed from other Upirs to survive. But a tumor in the corpse reveals that some sort of experimentation has been done on the Upir to compel it to feed on other Upirs to survive.

Roman and Annie head back to Roman's home where Peter had only just learned of Roman's injury. Roman welcomes Annie to stay there for some time being and she heads upstairs in time for Ochoa, the private investigator, to turn up prepared to give over some information that will tide over Roman and Peter's search for Nadia and Madeleine while Ochoa continues to conspire with Olivia. Ochoa provides Roman and Peter with the evidence he found that would indicate that Spivak has been alive without aging for at least the last seventy years. Ochoa proposes that there is something supernatural at work here.

Annie comes downstairs and asks Roman about the book she found of Spivak's containing a drawing of a creature called the Omul Negru, also known as the Upir boogeyman. Roman is insistent about learning more and Annie suggests getting in contact with an Upir friend called Nate that would know more about it than her.

Ochoa returns to Olivia and relays another update on what has just happened with Roman and Peter and suggests that Shelley might be staying there, as he had heard Annie's footsteps upstairs but didn't see who was causing the noise. Olivia insists that Ochoa help her to break into the home so she can see if Shelley is there. Once inside, she finds a family photo with her face torn out of it. Ochoa promises to find Shelley, wherever she is.

Back at the Godfrey Institute, Pryce accidentally rubs some of the corpse's blood into his lines and he becomes infected with the virus. Immediately, his eye turns red and it spreads to the skin surrounding his eye till he collapses to the ground and begins gasping for air. Another doctor at the Insitute injects him with an EpiPen that revives him. Doctor Klaus suggests that Pryce get some sleep but Pryce remains determined to keep working.

Roman admits to Annie about why he wants to learn about this creature and how Spivak kidnapped Nadia but only says that the baby was Letha's without admitting that he is the baby's father. They reach Nate's place where other Upirs are there for dinner. Everyone must exchange pleasantries and have dinner before Roman can ask about the answers he is searching for.

Pryce's behavior is growing increasingly erratic, as he begins to set up a drum set out of various equipment from the Institute. He thinks that drumming is helping him to unlock the answers he is after and ignores Klaus' continued recommendations that he get some sleep.

Peter becomes alarmed when he finds out Andreas is planning on not only stealing some guns but some heroin too. Peter doesn't want drug-dealing going on in the family home but Andreas will not be muscled over by him so easily.

Shelley has taken up residence in a run-down building where other homeless people have taken up residence. She meets a kind man named Aitor Quantic who brings food that's past its expiration date that he's supposed to take to the dum but is still good enough to eat so that the homeless won't go hungry.

Nate is shocked by Roman's questions about the drawing of the creature resembling Spivak. He then finds another drawing and shows it to Roman, who identifies it as Spivak in his winged-reptilian form. Nate identifies it as the Jörmungandr, a creature that dates back to 14th century Norway. The mythology states that it grew large enough to wrap around the entire world and bite its own tail. It is also a sign that foretells the end of days - the apocalypse. But the more realistic interpretation of the folktale is that the large-as-the-planet creature is a collective memory of an entire ancient species that was evenetually wiped out. Only Spivak appears to have survived and he is inconceivably vicious. Roman becomes alarmed by the danger that Nadia must be in now and storms off angrily. But the party is interrupted by an attack from more of the infected Upir that intend to feed on all the party guests. Roman and Annie begin fighting them off and Nate then leads them to a barn where they can barricade themselves in.

Destiny returns home and Peter tries to ask if she is rushing into marrying Andreas, having only been dating him for four months. She interprets his concern as nothing more than his inability to move on and let go after losing Letha. Destiny later decides to perform some magic when Andreas takes too long to come home. She has a vision of some children playing together though it's unclear what the deeper meaning is, if any.

Roman attempts to run outside to get help but tries to run back when he is quickly surrounded by more of the creatures. Nate tries to stop Annie from letting Roman back into the barn and while Roman must fight one of the creatures off he discovers that the creatures are disoriented by light. Annie is able to break free from Nate's grip and let Roman back in, who then informs them of the weakness he has discovered. Roman then admits the truth to Annie about how Letha was both his cousin, half-sister, and how Olivia compelled him to have sex with Letha who never knew the truth about what happened to get her pregnant. The creatures break into the barn and Nate runs out to leave Roman and Annie to fend for themselves but he is swiftly killed outside by another one of them. Roman uses a flashlight to disorient the creatures that were trying to attack them but the battery begins to die. But the creatures are called away by the one that had killed Nate so they can all feed on him together. This allows Roman and Annie to escape.

Pryce continues his investigation while high from being infected by the corpse, all the while his online activity is being monitored by Ochoa who relays the information onto Olivia. There was one particular video that Pryce had been watching repeatedly so Olivia watches it and finds it's an infected rat acting in a strange, aggressive manner.

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