Story 1
Ladybug
Our first scenario, “Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home” finds our agents in Houston, TX, investigating the mysterious suicide of a fellow agent named George Lewiston. This story is our agents’ first time meeting each other, and officially only one agent is read in.
Join FBI Agent Fred Fontaine, DEA Agent Willow Keason, and Professor Dorothy Somerset as they unravel the mystery of George’s death, and his last desperate attempt to save the world.
Content Warnings: suicide, manipulation, mental illness, kidnapping, violence.
Episode 1: Blood in the Water
1993. Three different federal investigators show up at a Walmart to look into the suicide of a senior DEA Agent, who’s in disguise. Each with their own agenda.
Episode 2: Ladybug, Ladybug
What seemed, at first, to be a mindless meltdown is revealed by security camera footage to be a well planned kidnapping, and the victim’s serious illness means the clock is ticking. A pastor of a Church and his pamphlet reminds Dorothy of previous research.
Episode 3: Coffee and Conspiracy
The Church’s motives are highly questionable. Fred, Willow and Dorothy talk with a sympathetic detective, who may be onto them. A loose alliance of convenience must be formed before the investigation can begin.
Episode 4: The Lonely Boat
The investigators are first to George Lewiston’s house, where they discover that he left them a trove of new information, and more questions.
Episode 5: Houses Warm and Stark
After the evening's investigation concludes, the cover-up begins. Dorothy has a breakthrough about the ritual. Willow works to tie up the loose ends by working in her personal lab. Fred has a breakfast conversation with the Judge about the case, and about Willow’s intrusion into it.
Episode 6: Falsifying Evidence
Willow covers the tracks of the Conspiracy, and they get inside the police investigation into the kidnapping of Regina Balfour. The Judge pulls up more information about the Balfours and their church, and cautions Fred about Willow getting too involved in their plans.
Episode 7: Elaborate Stories
The agents head to the Church’s compound in search of answers. Churchgoers speak of a past incident, and Sarah Balfour welcomes the trio in her family’s home.
Episode 8: Echoing Lies
The agents confront Reverend Balfour, ruining their relationship with the minister and his congregation. The local ABC Affiliate crew provides some extra gossip. Dorothy and Willow start to seriously ponder going way too far.
Episode 9: Aligning
The hunt for new leads takes the agents to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to learn more about how George stopped the apocalypse from happening three years ago.
Episode 10: Church Service in Reverse
A shocking discovery at the Social Worker’s residence confirms everyone’s worst fears. There is only one sensible option now, and it has nothing to do with finding Regina Balfour.
Episode 12: The Calypso
The agents find themselves in need of a place to hide a body. Willow decides to introduce them to a ‘family’ hotel that is well suited for their purposes.
Episode 13: Fast Cars and Lemonade
The agents lean heavily on their bonds for help after learning of the location of the missing girl.
Episode 14: Hailstorm
The rush to Louisiana is hindered by an “act of god” and one of the agents is chosen to go ahead alone. That Agent, in rural Louisiana, makes a key discovery.
Episode 16: Cold Chicken
When Fred leaves the motel to get everyone some food, he discovers that the Church of the Passover Angel is right on their heels.
Episode 17: Cherry Red Lipstick
Can Regina be saved? Can Fred find his way back in time to stop the arrival of the cult? Desperate measures are employed when everything collapses around the Agents, amidst the arrival of a plague of insects.
Episode 18: The Sickle
The Passover Angel appears. Agents do the unthinkable in an attempt to survive an assault by the cult, a plague of locusts, and their own mental instabilities.
Episode 19: Fly Away Home
What will be the consequences of the decisions the Agents have made? Can they obscure the horrible truths? How do they live with themselves if they do?
Episode 20: Two Tales Told to Dr. Volkova (part 1)
The Home Scenes for our Agents. One works to recover his mind while the other two delve into their own mysteries.
Episode 21: Two Tales Told to Dr. Volkova (part 2)
The Home Scenes for our Agents. Dorothy and Willow pour over the book, a certain somewhat pays Houston a visit, and Fred begins to tell a story.