19: Marissa Ng

Episode Description
Who’s down for an all-nighter?

Plot
Mike begins the episode ruminating on the scope of life and WOE.BEGONE, and how small he is in comparison to everything else.

Mike explains how the bear incidents have scarred him, physically and mentally. He's in a lot of pain, he's skittish and jumpy, and he misses the simplicity of the emotional pain with John. He notes that his previous injuries have all been reversed through WOE.BEGONE.

Mike mentions that Hunter doesn't appear to remember their conversation about WOE.BEGONE in the previous episode. He suspects that the Hunter he spoke to was lying about playing WOE.BEGONE, and isn't sure how many Hunters there could be in total. He also believes there's a different reason he was sent back in time, that he was sent back in order to distract Marissa.

Mike decides to get close to Marissa in order to learn why he could've been sent to distract her. After eating breakfast with her and learning more about her, he eventually goes on a patrol with Marissa. She shows him the boulders located on her route, which Mike and Marissa both find suspicious, since they are within Tier 2 and the gate juts out unnaturally to cover them. Mike speculates that they're an underground passage, while Marissa thinks they're giant transforming robots. She also shows him a gate into Tier 2, but warns him not to approach too closely.

Towards the end of her route, Marissa shows Mike where she shot the bear, but she doesn't seem as excited as before. She believes she may have shot a person, but doesn't know why no one has spoken up about it, though she mentions Hunter said something "weird about it." Mike reassures her that it was probably a bear. He is internally relieved that Marissa doesn't know it was him, and doesn't want to burden her with the information.

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