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Journals: Book 1, Entry 18 “Blind Witness” Quatrain 12, Century 5. "Where angels touch grace / One without sight sees the dark enemy / At the right hand of the twice-blessed man / The ally leads him to the summit" I’m fighting against an enemy nobody sees or wants to believe exists. I'm getting to the point where I’m not sure why I was doing this – waging a war that I seemed doomed to lose. I was thinking of giving up the fight. Nostradamus predicted I’d find an ally where angels touch grace. Eddie and I thought that might be a reference to Grace General Hospital in Los Angeles. I needed to find that ally. This desperate quest drove me to a desperate act – I faked insulin shock to get into the hospital to look around after hours. They put me in the 23-hour hold for observation. That night I stealthed my way through the empty corridors and picked up some O.R. scrubs to pose as a doctor. Looking good enough to fool another doctor on staff, I checked the patient clipboards to find the ‘one without sight.’ In ophthalmology, I found a patient scheduled to undergo eye surgery to correct her blindness. I knew I was on the right track when the nurse told me that her chart must be mistaken -- no patients were housed in the abandoned wing of the hospital. If the Gua were here in the hospital, I was betting there was no mistake… The abandoned wing of Grace General was a disaster area. But I found Alikah Aldredge in the room – her ghostly white eyes staring back at me. She said she could see me, that her preliminary eye surgery had been successful. She didn’t believe me when I told her she was in danger. She hit the alarm and called the nurse, so I got out of there. Alikah used to be blind, but her eyesight had somehow been restored. That much matched with the quatrain. “One without sight sees the dark enemy” – I wondered if she could actually see the aliens… Alikah found me the next morning in the 23-hour ward. I told her that Nostradamus predicted she and I would meet and she would be an ally to fight the Gua. Alikah was less than convinced. But she did say that some people looked strange to her…and she told me about when they took her to surgery. She said the place they went was all wrong – that it smelled like rotting meat. Alikah gave me the audio map of how to get there. It led me through a freakish part of the hospital to a putrid and bloody operating room. There were several surgeons inside working on a young man, and I watched as they lifted the sheet to reveal their horrible handiwork – they had grafted a large tentacle in place of his leg. There was no doubt – the aliens were here. I had found my ally in Alikah. She made me want to stop the aliens’ heinous experiments. I realized I wasn’t fighting the Gua to clear my name or avenge Hannah’s death anymore. I was fighting the aliens because that’s who I am. Alikah taught me that. I vow to take the aliens down…every last one of them. “Blind Witness” Writer: Daniel Howard Cerone Director: Holly Dale Executive Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Larry Sugar Created by: Chris Brancato Guest Stars: Enuka Okuma, Andrew Airlie. |
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