The Power

Jocelyn is taking pictures when Darrell appears next to her. She tries to pretend she’s a tourist, but she’s in army fatigues. She explains, then, that she’s off duty. Darrell reaches out his hand to offer to help her and then kills her radio with a jolt. Jocelyn realizes that he has a skein.

Darrell and Jocelyn start to circle each other as they prepare to fight. Darrell realizes that Roxy’s skein has loads of power left. Jocelyn, too, has more power than she’s ever had, thanks to Eve’s cure. Jocelyn maneuvers defensively, avoiding his blasts. She collapses, feigning that she’s hurt, so that he crouches to attack her. She quickly rolls out from under him and kicks him in the side of the head. But when she reaches out to jolt him, she cannot find her power.

Darrell kicks Jocelyn in the jaw with his heel. He kicks her over and over, then pushes her head down  and gives her a charge to the  base of her skull. She sinks to ground. He waits until she’s stopped twitching. He looks up at the women in the window, smiling.

The women inside the factory are not glad to see what Darrell has done. They stare at him, then march toward him together. Darrell starts to run: he knows they know what he’s done. But Jocelyn has injured one of his legs, and the women catch up to him  easily. He begs them not to hurt him, apologizing for what he’s done. They rip him limb from limb, shocking him and burning him. They pull the skein from his chest just before they tear his head off.