{DISCONTINUED} Marvel's Runaways

S2 EP6 - Bury Another

Tina went to check on Robert who was unconscious on the table.

Tina: What have you done to him?

Jonah: I simply defended myself against another one of your pathetic attempts to kill me.

Dale: Uh, j-just so we're on the same page, this particular attempted murder was all Robert going rogue. I mean, you know him He's a loose cannon.

Jonah: It doesn't matter, because the day after tomorrow, I'll never have to see your faces ever again.

Dale: Because you're gonna pull off our faces?

Jonah: Do you think I chose you because I enjoy your company? I chose you because of your capability to perform specific tasks, so I could get my ship out of that damn hole and get the hell outta here! Day after tomorrow, all of you are going to show up at the dig site. Tina and Robert, once he's recovered his senses, will repair my ship's computer system. Dale and Stacey will run diagnostics on my ship's biomorphic shell. Eva will not only provide a media black-out she will use what she knows of her husband's research to help me contact my ship.

Eva: What makes you think I can do that?

Jonah: Oh please, you've memorized every piece of his work trying to find out why he died.

Eva: Can I have an answer?

Jonah: No... Where was I? Oh yes, Victor will be roused from his slumber to oversee any engineering issues. The Deans, of course, will provide security so that we're not disturbed.

Tina: And if we don't go along with it?

Jonah: I'll kill your children. You know I wouldn't hesitate.

Stacey: If you launch that ship, our children will die anyway. Gene and Alice said that it would cause a massive earthquake.

Jonah: The Hernandezes understood geology. They didn't understand my ship. There will no earthquake. As an added incentive, I'm going to leave behind a parting gift. My Abstract.

Geoffrey: Your book of poems written in alien code? Not much of an offer.

Jonah: It contains all the knowledge my people possess. If I decode it for you, then PRIDE can use it to finally do what it advertises... and save the world. And I'll tell you where your children are. You can retrieve them and go about your lives as if we never met.

Geoffrey: You forget something? Didn't give us a job on launch day. Want us to make you a goodbye banner or some shit?

Jonah: You've already fulfilled your purpose. I have no further use for you.

Jonah walked out.

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Stacey and Dale patched up Robert on the table.

Tina: All of the money and power in the world, and somehow we always end up with these two playing doctor.

Stacey: "Playing doctor" implies we are not trained medical professionals.

Dale: You know, technically, we're not.

Robert slowly gained consciousness and got up.

Tina: Robert? Are you all right? What do you remember?

Robert: The inhibitor. It was working and... then... I don't know, everything went black.

Tina: You should never have gone alone.

Robert: I didn't want anyone else to get hurt.

Catherine: Well, it must have had some effect. Jonah did look pretty sick. Maybe we'll get luck and he'll just die.