As Thomas (Jay Paulson) is rushed to hospital, they can't have the gunshot being reported to the police otherwise they'll check the hospitals, however a neighbour's already reported it. Which must be a first cos that doesn't really happen. Maria (Catalina Davis) refuses to help at first when she sees Sean (Mila Ventimiglia) and Claire (Lily Rabe) tells him he got his memories back and he's her husband. As the police arrive, Wes (Barry Sloane) takes the blame and he's owed favours but Lena (Kristen Connolly) wants to go with him. Jessup (Derek Webster) says he'll stay and tells Sean and Claire to leave but they're arrested outside. Of course Frommer (David Andrews) had to be on the case and Claire convinces him Thomas is the only one who can tell them how to kill Drill and Drill is the second one of its kind here. There was another one thirty years ago. He gives them 24 hours. First off let me say, it was very crazy of them to trust Frommer cos of who he is and how he's really out for number one. To think they wouldn't have someone watching them and he demonstrated that with Jessup.
Flashback to 1982 with Thomas and his father finding him in the woods. Claire thinks Thomas may have told someone else about this and they go back to the house to search it for clues. Wes notices the model of the woods Thomas made and Claire finds his journal with a photo and a message written on the back about only one candle lighting the way. She needs to find who wrote it and they head to the psychiatric hospital. Everyone who worked there doesn't any longer but the receptionist directs them to the childrens' wing.
Sean returns to the hospital and Jessup asks to see the childrens' wing, where he sees a girl wearing a paper plate mask sitting by a boy's bedside and she looks at him. Now that mask alone should've sent a chill factor down his spine but he just doesn't register it at all. Oh and they've stashed Henry (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) somewhere cos he wasn't seen nor heard this ep. Sean asks Jessup if he has children, not through lack of trying and he checks out the hospital. Sean tells Maria they need to go somewhere they can control the electricity, which wasn't much use. Since a war being renovated should be the last place anyone would feel safe. He turns off the electricity via the circuit breakers but didn't think about locking the box afterwards.
Jessup gets into the lift with the girl. what was strange also, how these children could just roam the hospital without any supervision or being allowed to do it in the first place. She tells him about her brother's heart and again another clue that Drill would use her with the promise of making him better. She injects him and Maria finds it was only sodium pentothal but not a lethal dose and Sean asks where he was injected cos it could only have been done by a child. Thomas goes into arrest and Sean must get the medicine, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd gone for it instead of him. So much for standing by her patient, she goes to find out what's happening as Michael (Spencer Drever) gets better and comes for Thomas.
At the psych hospital they can't find the right room and split up with Lena going upstairs. Claire finds the room with a patient there and then sees something in the mirror, a reflection showing there was something on the opposite wall. Lena comes to the chapel and meets Rabbi Ezra (Jay Brazeau) who tells her she can't go back to what she's done and must live with it. Then says the line from the photo about the one candle. He's the one who Thomas spoke with and as Wes and Clarie tear back the wallpaper, the women patient tells them to stop otherwise the voices will start again. There's a drawing of a boy carrying an eerie figure. The Rabbi tells them it's a dybbk, as from Jewish folklore, which takes peoples' souls. Another flashback to Thomas in the woods and the tree, Wes recalls the model of the tree and they head back to his house and find it there, showing them how he must've killed Drill.
Sean tries to turn off the elctricity and can't break the lock so tries to open the door. Michael tells Thomas Drill wants to ask him a question, how did he kill the first one. Thomas won't answer telling Michael not to do it cos there's no going back for him and he'll lose his innocence. Thomas doesn't tell and he dies. The others find the tree in the woods and in flashback Thomas is shown killing Elliot who was taken over by Drill. He waited for the electricity to get him. Claire screams and says that Elliot was doomed and dead as soon as Drill went into his body. But Frommer must never know. Too late as Frommer hears every word they say. He heads to the president (Martin Cummins) and tells them he doesn't know if the president's able to make the decision: one child for a sacrifice, as he watches his daughter. Apparently Drill hasn't found the right child yet so he hasn't entered their body.
Finally some excitement in this ep as they seem to think they know what his endgame was. As I said in the previous ep I didn't think Thomas would kill Elliot without good reason and thus far, we've seen that Drill hasn't asked children to do any killing, except for Michael in this episode. And of course there was Harper in the pilot episode, but that was just so he could use her with the promise of making her mother well. Here he wanted Thomas dead cos he couldn't have his secret getting out, but they already discovered what Thomas did. Anyone guessing Henry might be the right child but he's just waiting to make his move with him, or will Henry be the one that saves them? Actually I'm thinking it's the president's daughter cos she's more in a powerful position, at least as far as manipulating her and the president at the same time.
Maria telling Sean she hasn't been able to eat or sleep since the reactor incident.
Sean: "I know, imagine living with that feeling everyday for the past three months. That was my life." Well she was selfish wasn't she, imagine what everyone else was going through here and all these children being used in that way, not to mention Lena shooting Thomas.
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