Opens with Ava sleeping in a bed. She opens her eyes, raising her hand and staring at her fingers. She sits up and looks around at her surroundings. Birds are twittering in distance as well as a ship horn. From her view, she sees the dock that she and JC walked on the day before and the ocean spread out beyond it.

She exhales in surprise and laughs. With a smile she jumps up and starts jumping on the bed.

Ava (squealing): “Yes!”

Remember Ava wasn’t sure that this was truly real and feared if she fell asleep she would wake up back in the orphanage, paralyzed again.

[END Scene]

View of the outside of the beach house. Ava screams. JC comes running in the bedroom.

JC (panicked): “Ava?”

He runs into the attached bathroom. This is a huge bathroom. Ava is standing there wrapped in a blue bath towel with damp hair. She is clearly agitated.

Ava: “Goddamn it. The goddamn shower just tried to kill me.”

JC laughs.

Ava (scoffs): “What? I suppose you enjoy getting blasted by, like..a thousand jets of ice-cold water?”
JC (smiling): “Well, I don't know what magical land you're from where the showers are the perfect temperature from go, but, um, you gotta give this one a minute to heat up.”

“He's into me.
He busted in like he was gonna slay a dragon to save me.”
~ Ava

JC: “Let me set it up for you.”

JC starts pressing on the panel on the wall.

“And he saved me from drowning.
And from that demon I hallucinated.”
~ Ava

JC is still working on setting the shower settings. The panel beeps as he presses buttons.

“Oh, goddamn it.
There's a pattern here, and it's Ava being pathetic.”
~Ava

JC: “So, it has ambient lighting, mood music, steam therapy.”

“He's not into me. He's just being nice.”
~Ava

JC: “Yeah. Basically, everything you never knew you needed in a shower.”

“I should tell him I can walk through walls.
So what if I can't swim or use a shower?
I rose from the fucking dead.”
~Ava

Ava (sighs): “Why is this so complicated?”

“Oh, fuck. That was out loud.”
~Ava

JC: “It's cool. I mean, You can roll with my preset if you want.”

“Roll with his presets?
Wait, is he flirting with me?”
~Ava

JC: “But I gotta warn you. It's intense.” “Oh, definitely flirting.”
~Ava

Ava smiles.

JC: “Your body mod is badass. Where'd you have it done?”
Ava (confused): “My body what?”
JC: “The scar on your back?”

Ava reaches behind her back.

Ava: “Oh. That was from a car accident. (pauses) I probably have a bunch of scars from it.”

She is clearly uncomfortable talking about this.

Ava: “Can we just leave it at that?”
JC (flustered): “Yeah, of course. (pauses) Sorry. I thought... It's just that it's a perfect circle, so…"

“Wait. What?
That's just bizarre.”
~Ava

Ava turns from him and tries to discreetly look at her back in the mirror. She is holding the towel tight to her body. And still uncomfortable with the turn of the conversation.

JC ( still flustered): “So, uh, breakfast?”
Ava: “-Yeah, sure.”
JC (muttering): “Yeah? Nice. Cool. Um…”

He turns and leaves, still muttering to himself.

Ava waits for him to leave before she gets a good look at the Halo scar on her back. She reaches back and touches in, not sure what to make of it.

[END Scene]

Port of Malaga, Spain.
Mary is walking around the dock where the mercenaries attacked the nuns.

“Now they knew we were coming.
Why else would there be mercenaries waiting for us?
That has never happened before.
What's changed?”
~Mary

She closes her eyes and thinks back to that night, of Shannon screaming in pain,of taking the shrapnel out of corpse, of cradling her head as she died and the explosion.

When she opens her eyes she spies something on the ground under some wood pallets. She picks up a large calibre bullet casing.

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