- Liam sent you. - Who is Liam?
He tricked me into making him superhuman, but I escaped,
and I have been trying to figure out how to stop him ever since.
And now you have to. You're the only one who has a chance.
You're getting married tomorrow.
And nothing is gonna stand in the way of that, okay?
Right now, quickly! Go!
- Talk to me. Are you okay? - Where'd he go?
He's gone.
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Hey.
- Did you get any sleep last night? - Barely.
- You? - No.
- Want some coffee? - I'd love some.
- Are you gonna get stitches? - No. No, I don't really need them.
Come on, you going to work today?
Yeah. Yeah, Tess is under fire trying to explain why
Julianna was murdered at our wedding, so...
Right. Which is why we need to track Liam together, and fast.
Vincent, I meant what I said last night. I don't want to go after him.
- This isn't our responsibility. - How can you say that?
Not only did he kill Julianna, he completely destroyed our wedding.
And he needs to be caught and brought to justice,
just like every other murderer.
He's not just like every other murderer, okay?
You know it. You have seen what he can do.
Yeah, I saw that he almost killed both of us,
and I'm not willing to risk that anymore. This isn't our fight.
How come you've been saying it is for the last few months?
Okay, and now I finally believe it, so, come on, what's changed?
What's changed is that I know what we're really up against now, and...
I'm scared. This was a huge mistake.
Okay, yes, I get it, okay?
But those DHS agents...
Were wrong to ask us to get involved in the first place.
I didn't see it then, but you did, Vincent, and you were right.
We fought Muirfield, beasts, Gabe, and it should've stopped there.
This is... This is too much.
Okay, well, try telling that to the innocents that we've saved,
okay, because DHS put us on this case.
- Isn't this what we do? - Yes.
We save innocent people every day, you as a doctor and me as a cop.
And in order for me to keep doing that,
I've gotta help Tess solve this like a regular police case,
so we can get back to helping the people we can help.
Hey, what did you say to me when I first proposed to you?
That you thought that we were part of something bigger.
- Something just like this, right? - I was wrong, okay?
Maybe... Maybe I just wanted to make a difference so badly
that I was willing to believe whatever it is DHS wanted me to believe.
That this was our fight. And it's not, Vincent.
This is way over our heads.
I'm done.
What do you mean, she's done?
Done, like, you mean, with Liam? Or done, like, with everything?
With everything.
If it's anything other than a police case,
Catherine doesn't want to have anything to do with it anymore.
Yeah, well, can't really blame her.
I'm just saying, you guys have done a lot, you know? For a long time.
Lucky we're all still alive.
Yeah, well, that's exactly her point, you know?
She doesn't want to risk it anymore,
especially after what happened at the wedding.
Again, you can't really blame her.
Come on, man, whose side are you on?
Your side, our side, but, you know,
it's not like her argument doesn't have merit.
Yeah, I know, I know, it's just...
Julianna turned this Liam guy into some kind of superhuman,
and then she died trying to stop him by experimenting on other innocents.
It's crazy. If we're the only ones who know about it,
- then we can't just walk away, right? - I know, I'm on your side, I get it.
The only thing I don't get is what changed for Cat.
I mean, I didn't buy into this whole destiny spiel of hers at first, but...
- I do now. - Yeah, well, so do I.
- Problem is, now Catherine doesn't. - She's probably just overreacting.
It's understandable. She'll come around. She has to.
Yeah, well, I can't wait. You know, I gotta try and find Liam
before his trail goes completely cold.
You try beast-tracking him from the church?
Yeah. Obviously he knows how to cover his tracks.
How's this serum of Julianna's coming along?
Well, I'm not having much luck separating the superhuman parts
from the "you'll go crazy and die" parts.
And if I can't, it'll be too risky to inject into you.
Well, maybe I won't even need it to stop Liam, right?
- Julianna said you would. - Julianna didn't know me.
Besides, I'm still here. I haven't lost a fight yet, have I?
Not with Cat by your side.
Yeah, well, let's hope she does what you say and she comes around.
Where are you going?
To try and figure out another way to track this Liam guy.
No, we haven't found any suspects yet.
But it's only been 24 hours since Julianna was murdered.
A half dozen chiefs and assistant chiefs were at that wedding. Understand?
- They want answers. I want answers. - And I will get them for you, chief.
- But it's gonna take time. - You don't have time, Tess. Captain.
A fugitive was murdered there, your fugitive.
In a minute, the press will be all over this.
If the department doesn't have suspects...
We have a board going.
I'm filling it with anybody who might've had motive to kill Julianna Keaton.
That's not good enough, damn it.
I know you vouched for me to get this job. I appreciate that.
I appreciate the pressure that we're all under to solve this,
but give me time to do the job you hired me to do.
I will, Tess. I'm trying.
But you're better than this. You should have had a working theory by now.
Makes me wonder if something's going on here
- that I don't know about. - Listen, Tess, I figured out...
- Figured out what? - What are you doing here?
- You should be home. - It's okay. I'm okay.
You asked me to look into suspects in Julianna's murder, right?
Yeah, but not the day after your wedding.
Still, you were pretty insistent, captain, and so I got right to work.
I might have figured out who killed her.
Why don't you give the chief and I a second...?
- Who do you think it was? - The Interpol terrorist
who escaped from JFK before my wedding.
- Liam Cullen? - Yeah, Liam Cullen.
Cat, I was doing everything I could not to connect Liam to Julianna,
to keep the superhuman crap out of it.
You don't understand, that's the point.
I don't want you to cover anymore. Why should you?
Why should I...? What the hell are you talking about?
- We don't have a choice. - Yes, we do.
This isn't about beasts, right?
Or Vincent or me.
So why should we have to lie to cover for whoever this Liam guy is?
Did you get hit in the head when he attacked?
I mean, obviously you are not thinking clearly.
I was wrong to think that this was all my responsibility, okay?
And since every person that I care about
has been put in danger because of it,
it's my responsibility to fix it.
Look, we have a victim, right? We know who did it.
So why hide it? Let's just build a case.
Prove that Liam's the one that killed her, and move on with our lives.
- You make it sound so simple. - It is simple.
This is our Get Out of Jail Free card.
This is our golden opportunity to get out from underneath all this.
So, what, we treat a superhuman monster like a regular perp?
- Arrest him? Then what? - I don't know.
I don't know, but I know that we can't keep doing this by ourselves anymore.
There's a limit to what we can do.
I think that if we can get together enough cops to corner Liam,
he's not gonna use his powers. Not in public, anyway.
The one thing that we know that all of these people have in common...
Beasts, Julianna, Liam. - Is that they don't want to be exposed.
Besides, do you have a better idea?
Excuse me, captain, somebody just got caught
- breaking into the morgue. - Give it to the lieutenant.
He got caught trying to steal Julianna Keaton's body.
Liam. I'll need backup.
Check the north staircase.
You?
It's just a little misunderstanding.
- I got this. - Okay, we're good here.
What are you doing here? Why would you want to steal Julianna's body?
I didn't try and steal Julianna's body. I was just trying to track Liam off of it.
- Anyway, it's a good thing I came... - No, it is not a good thing.
This is a police case, I told you. One that I am handling.
This is not a police case, and you know it.
- We have had this conversation. - No, you had this conversation.
I didn't agree to anything.
But once you see what someone's done to Julianna's body,
I think you'll agree with me.
- What happened? - All the blood was drained
from her body, postmortem. Even from her lymphatic system,
meaning there's not an ounce of blood left anywhere.
- But why? - I don't know.
I guess Liam thought she was enhanced too.
Either wanted to get the serum for himself,
or make sure no one else gets their hands on it.
Or he wanted to destroy any evidence that could conceivably link him to her.
- Superhuman evidence, right? - Only we know that.
As far as anyone else is concerned, he's a creepy guy with a creepy motive.
- This city is full of them. - Catherine, you can't cover this up.
I don't plan on it. I'm going to interview witnesses
and see if I can prove that Liam did this.
- That's never gonna work. - Where are you going?
To try and track whoever took Julianna's blood.
No, you can't, Vincent. I have to bring you in for questioning.
You're serious?
Don't make me arrest you, honey.
Listen, if you have to subpoena tapes, do it.
Gas stations, ATMs, Metro. I'll take every camera I can get.
- Cat. - 39th is sending us more surveillance,
see if we can spot Liam near the morgue.
Tell me you didn't bring Vincent in for questioning, please.
Yeah, I did.
- Cat... - Relax.
It's not really for questioning. It's just for show.
With Command breathing down your neck, I didn't want to cut corners.
- It's for your own good. - It's not for your own good.
- Vincent's pissed. - He won't be when this is behind us.
When we get our normal lives back, which is all he ever wanted.
Normally I'd be the first to applaud you getting back in the fold, being a cop,
but I don't think you're really thinking this thing through.
Tess...
You arrested Julianna.
She escaped and broke into your precinct,
then she got killed on your watch.
That's not the way I'd look at it, but it's the way that Chief Ward does.
You need to stop covering. You need a plausible explanation.
And the only way to get that is Liam.
This is Detective Chandler.
I'm telling you, okay? Catherine is losing her damn mind.
Okay, let's calm down. We'll figure this out.
What's there to figure out? We gotta get her back onboard.
Catherine knows that we work better together.
- What the hell is she thinking? - She's not thinking. She's afraid.
She's afraid she made a terrible mistake,
putting us all up to this. She feels responsible.
She was right to get us involved in this in the first place.
Maybe we didn't see it at first, but she was. She was right.
Except now she's not so sure, which is why she wants to stop it.
The danger, the cover-ups.
Okay, in her defence, it's not a great way to live.
I know, believe me. I spent 12 years of my life
trying to cover things up. It's not the solution.
But it won't catch Liam, either. Tess, we gotta stop him, okay?
Otherwise, God only knows what he's gonna do next.
I know, I know, but I also know
that bad things happen when you and Cat aren't in sync.
So, what do you suggest we do?
Something a little drastic.
Yeah, Tyler Zane. We arrested him three months ago.
He was put into a psychiatric hospital. I can't remember which one.
Oh, yeah, call me back. Okay, thanks. Bye.
What are you doing here?
- What is going on? - We need to talk.
What is this, an intervention? I can't believe you're ganging up on me.
Just trying to make you understand that you are making a huge mistake.
No, I am trying to rectify one. And, by the way,
the position that I am taking is the same one you all used to take.
So, what, you don't want normal lives anymore?
Of course we do, but we can't pretend
this isn't happening, that Liam's not out there, can we?
We're not. I told you.
We're just not gonna handle this by ourselves anymore.
Hey, guys, what's going on?
Heather, why are you here?
Bringing the presents from the church. I assume you'll return them?
Cat, of course we all still want normal lives. That hasn't changed.
But what I'm trying to figure out is why you changed.
Weren't you at the wedding? Didn't you see what happened?
Yeah, but frankly that stuff happens to us all the time.
Not like that, it doesn't. And not anymore.
- Does anyone wanna fill me in? - Look, maybe
it was part of the bigger purpose,
All right? Something that you used to believe in.
And something I was pretty sceptical about at first,
- but now I'm not. - Ditto that.
Look, Cat, all I want is a normal life. You know that, okay?
But we can't have that until we finish what we started,
which is to stop whoever is behind all this.
But we can't stop them.
Don't you understand? We are not superhuman.
We can't fight every fight. No one can. And I don't want to die trying.
- I agree with Cat. - Heather, please. Not now.
Look, I know that I am relatively new to this whole beast/superhuman thing,
but I'm not new to being a sister. She's the only family I have left.
And I don't want to lose her, or any of you.
Or me. I get her argument, but I don't get any of yours.
Well, either you buy into the destiny of it all, or you don't, but...
Who says? I mean, how can you prove it's her destiny?
Or yours or mine? I don't even know if I believe in destiny, anyway.
Okay, what about responsibility? Don't you believe in that?
It sounds to me like Cat's being very responsible,
wanting to handle this like a cop, and not risk our lives by doing it alone.
It makes all the sense in the world.
What she said.
Look, I appreciate your concern, I do.
And, more importantly, I appreciate everything
you guys have done so far, but I... I am not changing my mind.
I was wrong to put us on this path,
and I'm not gonna stop till I get us off it.
- I'll go check on her. - Mm-hm.
- Do you realise what you just did? - What? I was just saying how I feel.
Mm-mm. You just put a whole lot of people's lives at risk. Innocent people.
- Vincent... - You think I like doing this, Heather?
You think I like the fact that my wedding just blew up in my face?
I'm sorry.
Yeah, because if Cat doesn't turn it around, and quick,
Liam is gonna be out there,
and a whole lot of innocent people are gonna die.
It's not just our lives at stake here. You get that?
Yeah.
I'm gonna go and try and track Liam.
Mind if I join you?
Depends. Are you gonna yell at me too?
- Never seen Vincent that mad before. - You've never seen him beast out?
Okay, other than that. Just... not at me.
Didn't realise what I got myself in the middle of.
Yeah? Well, welcome to the club. It ain't easy.
And I don't think Vincent meant to get that upset.
He's just worried about Cat, and he knows how important you are to her,
and how much she values your opinion.
Well, if he's so worried about her, why is he so willing to risk her life?
What's this?
The reason Cat's willing to risk her life.
- Well, at least up until today. - I don't get it. It's a journal.
- And it looks old. - It is old. About 170 years old.
It belonged to Cat's great-great-great-great aunt, Rebecca.
Cat's father's line, but not yours.
And bottom line is, Rebecca fell in love with a beast too.
- What? - It's a long story, but the point is,
Cat never believed in any of this destiny stuff, either,
until she read this.
And then she saw that she and Vincent were following in the same footsteps
as Rebecca and her beast, decades ago.
This is the first I've ever heard of any of this.
Okay, so, what does it mean?
Um, as far as Cat's concerned... Was concerned.
- It means she and Vincent are destined to do more.
Okay, I know, but when you read it, and then when you think about
all that Cat and Vincent have been through,
why they're together...
It's hard not to believe.
Oh, asylums creep me out.
Too bad, because we might be here a while. Did you bring a pee bottle?
We're staking the place out? You just wanted to talk to Zane.
No, I want to wait till Liam comes after him.
- To get Zane's blood. - If I'm right, yeah.
He went after Julianna's blood thinking it was enhanced.
Why not go after her first experiment too?
- What about the other experiments? - Bob and Carol are already dead,
and so is the mercenary who came after us at the Falls.
And J.T. And Alton are already cured.
Okay, what do we do if Liam attacks Zane?
Tranq gun.
- What if that doesn't work? - Then we make a big-ass scene.
We get every alarm sounding, every surveillance camera shooting,
and expose him.
Or we could just call Vincent and get a little beast help over here.
We've already gone over this.
It's not gonna help you or us move past this mess.
Okay, call for backup.
Dispatch, this is Captain Vargas. Shots fired.
Freeze!
That's not Liam.
- You check on Vincent. - Okay.
N.Y.P.D. Back me up.
- Are you all right? - Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
I tracked him here to Zane, but I was too late.
Zane's dead.
We need to talk.
- Is he gonna live? - Not if he keeps ending up in here.
You've been more patient than doctor lately.
- I guess I'm just accident-prone. - Oh, yeah, that's the problem.
Okay, well, there's no signs of a concussion.
A few minor abrasions and bruises. You're lucky you didn't break anything.
- Next time, should take the elevator. - Yes.
- Elevator? - What?
- What did you say you did? - Just that I fell down some stairs.
- That's not what happened. - What am I supposed to tell him?
That I jumped out of a fourth-storey window to avoid machine gun fire?
That's the truth. We have to explain what happened somehow.
How do I explain that with a few bumps and bruises?
Come on. You want me to expose myself too?
Look, if I hadn't beasted out on the fall, I'd probably be a dead man right now.
Well, if the hit man was a better shot, you'd be dead too.
Which is exactly why I want to stop doing this.
How was I to know that Liam hired somebody else to do his dirty work?
All I tried to do was track whoever took Julianna's blood.
And you almost got killed in the process,
by somebody who's willing to do anything and everything
- to get what he wants. - See what this means?
It means I'm getting closer. It also means we now know
that Liam wants anybody who has the serum in their bodies.
Which, as far as we know, is nobody else.
Nobody that we know of.
Either way, all I have to do is pick up the trail of the hit man again.
And hopefully he leads me back to Liam.
So that he can, what, toss you around like a rag doll,
- like he did at our wedding? - Well, what's your solution?
Track him down your way, by the book?
What, you don't think he's gonna kill cops?
Exactly. You can't take that chance.
Which means, like it or not, Catherine, this isn't a police case.
You're right, it isn't.
It's Homeland Security's case.
Give me a break.
No, they deal with the worst Terrorists, assassins.
- It's their job. - Okay.
Besides, they gave us this case. I'm gonna give it back to them.
- J.T? Jeez, are you okay? - Yeah, fine. Just my ego is bruised.
- Well, what are you doing? - I was trying to separate the good part
of Julianna's serum from the bad, but it's obviously not working.
Yeah, well, neither is this.
It's a terrible story, what happened to Rebecca.
If you think reading it would change my mind about Cat, forget it.
Wait, didn't you read what happened to Alistair?
Yeah, he was burned at the stake by an angry mob.
J.T., he died.
So if anything that just supports what Cat is doing,
so that Vincent won't die, either, fighting beasts or superhuman crazies.
But that's just it.
Vincent didn't die.
An almost identical situation happened to Cat and Vincent last year,
but because Cat read Rebecca's journal,
she learned from it. She didn't make the same mistake Rebecca did.
And that's how she saved Vincent.
Okay, that doesn't prove that Cat and Vincent have a destiny.
Except why would Rebecca have written it all down
if she didn't believe that somebody down the line
- was destined to fight the same fights? - What?
You think it's coincidence that almost 200 years later,
Cat met Vincent just like Rebecca met Alistair?
And they both had to fight beasts and monsters like Liam?
- Yeah, it could be a coincidence. - Or it isn't. And if it's not,
if it is fate, or destiny, or whatever you want to call it,
then Cat could be making the biggest mistake of her life by quitting.
Because if she and Vincent are meant to be together, and not just for love,
then they do have a greater purpose, one that they can't quit.
I'm sorry, it just all sounds so far-fetched.
Like beasts and superhumans aren't?
Okay. There's somebody I want you to talk to.
Somebody that knows more about this stuff than anybody.
- Who? - Cat's father.
I know. Trust me.
- Didn't start without you, captain. - Thank you.
Detective Chandler said you discovered a break in the case.
- I'm kind of short on time, so... - Right, okay.
So, DHS approached Captain Vargas and I
to help investigate a dangerous new street drug,
hoping that we could track down its distributor.
DHS approached you directly? Why didn't they use the proper channels?
- Well, actually... - It was before Tess became captain.
- Right. - Anyway, we followed
a couple of leads to two users, Tyler Zane and Alton Finn.
Zane? Isn't he that Vic you found dead in the psychiatric hospital?
Exactly. And I think... We think that he was killed in a cover-up.
The same cover-up that cost Julianna Keaton her life.
Wait, what's Keaton's connection to all this?
Well, she was the one responsible for making the drug. Right?
And distributing it, which is why we arrested her.
And then she broke out of jail,
she tried to steal all the evidence that we had against her,
and then she tried to get revenge against me at my wedding.
Okay, so, what are you suggesting?
I'm suggesting we give this case back to DHS.
I mean, if we're dealing with an Interpol terrorist,
this is way over our heads. This guy is a monster.
- You agree? - It's her case.
Okay, give it back to DHS.
Tell them we'll cooperate in whatever way we can,
but that it's their case.
Which means it's no longer our problem.
Looks like you're off the hook, captain.
Thanks.
Oh, Cat, I sure hope you know what you're doing.
I am getting our lives back, that's what I'm doing.
Come on, let's go finish this once and for all.
So why did my agents approach you with this, again?
I don't know. Actually, I think they were looking for some help.
- Help in finding Liam? - No, Julianna.
We don't know how Liam's involved, exactly.
Well, other than the fact that he murdered Julianna.
Well, if this Liam Cullen... If that really is his name.
If he is involved, then this case should never have left DHS,
especially if Interpol wants him too.
Are you sure that you ID'd this man at your wedding?
- Positive. - There is no question
that he killed Julianna Keaton, Agent Russo.
- Do you have any idea why? - Theories. They're all in the file.
You might want to look at Thomas's and Barnett's files, though,
since they're the agents that contacted us originally.
Well, this is obviously not a local case, so we will be taking it over from here.
I would like to apologise for any inconvenience
that this may have caused you or your precinct.
Thank you.
- So that's it? - Yes, that's it.
If you just send over the rest of your files, you'll be done.
- So? - What?
How do you feel? You got what you wanted.
- You're finally free from it all. - Feels good.
Doesn't it? I mean, you don't have to cover for us anymore, right?
- Right. - Then what's the matter?
- I thought you'd be happy. - I don't know. I mean, I am.
This whole thing's been one big mess for a long time now. I just...
I hope we're doing the right thing.
What do you mean, she gave up?
Catherine can't give up. What happened?
Look, I don't even know what I'm doing here.
- I don't even know you. - Well, for what it's worth, I know you.
I mean, I know of you, Heather. I mean, your father was a good man.
I don't need you telling me that. From everything I've heard, you're not.
Cat would kill me if she knew I was here.
- Let's go. - Look, look.
We need to know what happened to Rebecca.
- Rebecca Reynolds? - Yeah, after Alistair died.
What did she do? Did she give up?
She died. Actually, she was murdered.
- What? - Oh, yeah. It was about a year or so
after Alistair was killed. It was probably the same beast.
- Does she know? - Yes.
But I don't think Heather fully grasps the unique...
...Reynolds family connection, if you know what I mean.
He's right. I don't.
Well, you should, because your sister's life could very well depend on it.
Look, I'll admit, I didn't believe in any connections to the past, either.
- In fact, truth be told... - He tried to have Vincent killed.
But that was before I understood
that he and Catherine were meant to be together.
All right? I thought he was just like the other ones, a threat to her,
- but I was wrong. - So, what does this have to do
- with Rebecca and Alistair? - Rebecca and Alistair? Everything.
A hundred and seventy years ago,
they were fighting the same fights, but they lost.
I believe that Vincent and Catherine are meant to pick up where they left off.
But if Catherine quits...
Well, the same thing that happened to Rebecca when she quit,
that could happen to Catherine too.
- This is crazy. - No, it's real.
It's in Catherine's blood, the same way it's in Vincent's blood.
Alistair and Rebecca failed.
Vincent and Catherine, they can't, don't you see?
I can't explain it, but I have seen it. She's connected to all of this.
Which means that they are gonna come looking for her
whether she is looking for them or not.
Help me.
- Okay, hang in there, buddy. - Please.
- Okay, don't move. It's gonna be okay. - Help me.
Alton Finn.
Hope DHS doesn't ask too many questions about these.
- Like what? - Oh, you know,
like what really happened with Bob and Carol,
how we really busted Julianna, what we really know.
We already told them what we know. This is their case now, remember?
Which means maybe I can start focusing on salvaging my wedding.
- Hello. - Hey.
Liam is going after more victims.
What are you talking about? There aren't any more victims.
Yeah, well, try telling that to Liam's hit man.
Get this, I just tracked him to Alton Finn.
Alton? But the serum isn't even in him anymore.
His tumour was removed. He was supposed to be cured.
I know, which means Liam's now going after anyone
who's had the serum in them.
J.T.
- So, where are we? - You mean, am I on the destiny train?
- Uh, yeah, that. - I don't know, J.T.
I mean, I'm still getting used to the whole beast thing, so...
Yeah, I mean, I guess anything is possible,
but you're asking me to believe
that Cat is somehow connected to all of this, and that it's her destiny,
and then you want me to talk her into it.
On the other hand, if you don't believe there's a reason for all this,
then it has to be just one big fluke, which is harder to believe.
- Hello. - Are you all right?
Am I all right? Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?
- Is he okay? - Liam attacked Alton.
What? Alton? Wait, why? He's cured.
- Who's Alton? - Wait, is that Heather?
You need to get out of there now.
- Get down! - J.T?
- What's happening? - J.T., are you all right?
This look like a fluke to you?!
- I don't understand why they want you. - They don't. They want my blood.
- Wait, why? - I don't know.
Apparently they don't know there's no serum left in it.
- Move, move! - What?
- Come on, come on. - All right.
We gotta make it to the vault.
- Should we try and get out of here? - Something tells me they won't let us.
Come on. Stay low. Go, go.
Go, go, go. Stay low.
Go. Now, now. Go, go.
- Hold your fire! Hold your fire! - Nicely done.
Yeah, I'm getting good at being attacked.
- Now you know why I like Scotch. - Yeah.
Get the bag.
- Any luck? - No, no J.T. Or Vincent.
- It's all my fault, damn it. - How is it your fault?
I should've known what was going on. I just wanted it all to stop.
Nobody saw this coming.
J.T. And Alton are cured. Who'd have thought Liam wanted them?
I would've, if I hadn't been hell-bent on putting this all behind us.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Unless we're in too deep and can't get out.
- Or we're a part of something bigger. - Okay, call Vincent again.
Where the hell is he?
Why do you have a vault in your home?
It came with the place. Used to be a bank, and then a gentlemen's club.
- Can you shoot a gun? - No. I mean, I never have before.
Learn.
Okay.
Come on, come on, come on.
Old security system came with the place too.
Hopefully we'll see what's going on out there.
It's awfully quiet. Maybe they left?
Not the way they came in.
- Wait, what are those? - Plastic explosives.
- What does that mean? - It means the gun won't help.
- Let's get down. - What?
Get back.
I said, get back.
Brace yourself.
Vincent!
Cat.
- Oh, my God. - You believe in destiny now?
Look at this place.
Stand back, folks. Keep this area clear.
We have to collect everything, every shell casing...
I'm still not clear why Professor Forbes was a target,
and how any of this is connected to Liam killing Julianna Keaton.
We don't know.
One of the many reasons why we gave the case back to you.
And I appreciate that, detective, but, still, this doesn't add up.
What could possibly be the connection?
Well, that's the million-dollar question, right?
Yep, I guess it is.
We'll be in touch.
Well, that was fun. Thank God you covered.
- I didn't have much of a choice. - Actually, you did.
Does this mean you're finally back onboard?
No, it means that I don't know what's right anymore.
Which is why I told Vincent to leave before everyone got here.
Didn't wanna raise any flags that I couldn't take down.
Sounds like the old Cat to me. Just saying.
- Hey, everything all right? - Are you all right?
Yeah, I think.
Although I can't figure out why Liam was after my blood.
- Shh, not so loud. - Where's Heather?
Uh, she went for a walk. You might want to join her.
Looks like they shot out the windows from the outside...
- Hey. - Hey.
Are you okay?
Define "okay."
Oh, crazy life you lead, Cat. Really crazy.
Yeah, I know. Keep trying to figure out ways to change it.
- I don't think you can. - What do you mean?
Guess who I met today. Your father.
- In prison? - Yeah.
He had some pretty interesting things to say about you.
And about Rebecca.
- Did Vincent put you up to this? - No. J.T. Did, actually.
He cares about you too, Cat. Everybody does. You're lucky.
But I don't think that you can just quit this, Cat.
I mean, look at what happened today.
It all comes back around to you, whether you want it to or not.
Where is this coming from?
Vincent, your friends, your ancestor, your...
Your destiny. I don't know.
Don't ask me to try and explain it, because I can't. It's just...
The more I think about it, the more I realise that...
...maybe this is your path, Cat, yours and Vincent's.
For whatever reason.
All right, spill. What's the matter?
- You following me? - Don't flatter yourself.
- What can I get you? - Hi. I'll have what he's having.
Sure thing.
So?
So, what?
Doesn't matter. It's not your problem anymore, okay?
Right, because the only reason I listened to you
before we broke up was for sex.
Hey, keep your voice down, will you?
I thought I was cured. I really did.
Thought I was past all this serum stuff.
J.T., just because Liam went after you doesn't mean you're not cured.
He was also after Alton, and Alton's cured.
Is he? Do you know that for sure?
Because Liam wanted both of us dead for some reason.
And he sure went to a hell of a lot of trouble to try too.
Still, you haven't had any symptoms, right?
Maybe he was just making sure, trying to cover his bases.
- Maybe. - Look, bottom line is,
just because the guy's a maniac and went all scorched-earth on you,
it doesn't prove that stuff's still in you, okay?
Maybe not, but as long as he thinks it is, he'll still be after me, right?
You realise, if we ever move,
we're gonna have to get another place with a rooftop.
Spend enough time up here, don't we?
Or not.
Well, we've been shot at up here, attacked, attacked again.
Yeah, but we've also had romantic dinners,
talked, kissed, made love. It hasn't been all bad.
Well, hopefully it's more of the latter and less of the former.
- That's the goal, right? - Definitely.
So how do we get there?
I don't know. I don't have an easy answer.
I thought I did. I thought that by quitting the fight,
handing it off to Homeland Security or somebody,
that that would be the answer, but clearly it is not.
Really? Because after seeing how far Liam is willing to go,
after everything he tried to do to Heather and J.T.,
I was beginning to think that you were right.
Now, maybe, maybe we can't stop him by ourselves.
I know. It's scary. That's why I wanted to quit,
to make sure that everybody we care about isn't put in harm's way again,
- including ourselves. But... - But we're in danger anyway.
Just like Rebecca was.
- I'll fill you in later. - Okay.
Look, the point is that even Heather is behind
this whole greater-purpose thing, despite what almost happened to her.
Actually, everyone's behind it, despite everything.
Does it really matter?
Because if you're not onboard, then I'm not, either.
I just... I want it to end.
I want us to be able to go back to our lives and get married.
Now, I think what you originally said,
that we have a greater responsibility, is right,
but we also have a greater responsibility to ourselves too.
Look, what I'm trying to say is...
I'll do whatever you want, okay, as long as we do it together.
Then let's go get Liam.
Together.
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