20: King of WOE.BEGONE

Episode Description
Another revelation fueled by the magical powers of biscuits and gravy. I wonder what it is about that plate...

Plot
Mike begins the episode ruminating on the nature of games, noting that although he is two steps ahead, a good player would be many more than two steps ahead. He also mentions that he's "basically a cowboy" since he is working in the Western United States.

Mike gets a call from Charlie at the front gate, telling him that someone named Ryan has come to see him. She calls him Mikey, and Mike laments that Marissa's nickname for him is catching on. Knowing that this Ryan has to be the gamerunner that tormented him, Mike comes to meet him at the gate and heads to the diner to talk.

Over biscuits and gravy, Ryan reveals that Topher Evans is dead and that he lost control of WOE.BEGONE. Ryan also mentions that it was a future Mike that convinced Matt to let past Mike kill him. Both Ryan and Mike take this to mean that Mike won the game and had access to time travel technology.

Ryan offers to work with Mike in order to take back control of the game. He tells Mike that he can crack any codes that Mike finds in O.V.E.R. Mike realizes he has power over Ryan, and decides to wait on his decision to help him. Ryan also mentions that he thinks either the new gamerunners or a player killed Topher, and that hot sauce is a good way to reorient yourself after time travel.

Back at O.V.E.R., Charlie tells Mike that if people he doesn't want to see keep showing up, then she will keep them out for him. Mike takes a moment to be sad for Topher, before letting himself get excited at the prospect that he may have won WOE.BEGONE. He still has the pictures of the codes he stole from the mailbox in 15: The Bear, and decides he has more to gain from trusting Ryan with them.

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