Episode 98 — The Man Nobody RememberedThe lights went out.Complete darkness swallowed the facility.For a few seconds, Ethan heard nothing except his own breathing.Then—Click.A gun was cocked somewhere in the darkness.Ethan raised his weapon.“Who is there?”No answer.Then the emergency lights returned.The older Ethan was gone.So were Lily and the hundreds of people who had stood behind her.Only three people remained.Ethan.Elias.And Mara.Ethan turned in a slow circle.“Where did they go?”Elias stared at the empty corridor.“They were never here.”Ethan looked at him.“I saw them.”“I know.”“Lily spoke to me.”“I know.”“Then where are they?”Elias pointed toward the floor.“They went where they were always supposed to go.”A small vibration passed through the room.A hidden screen opened in the wall.A single sentence appeared:MEMORY RESET IN 12:00:00Ethan stared at it.“Twelve hours?”Mara shook her head.“No.”Ethan looked at her.“What?”“It's not twelve hours.”S

Episode 100 — The First DisappearanceThe words on Ethan's hand were still burning.I AM NEXT.He stared at them.For the first time since entering the house, Ethan wasn't afraid of the machine.He was afraid of what the machine knew about him.“Where is Noah?”No answer.The chamber was empty.His father stood near the doorway, motionless.Mara was staring at the floor.Elias was watching Ethan.Then the machine spoke.MEMORY RESET: 06:58:41Ethan turned toward the screen.“Bring him back.”The machine remained silent.Ethan slammed his hand against the control panel.“BRING HIM BACK!”The screen changed.A single sentence appeared:HE NEVER LEFT.Ethan froze.Elias whispered,“Ethan…”“I know.”“No. You don't.”Elias pointed at Ethan's hand.“The scar.”Ethan looked down.The mark was spreading slowly across his wrist.“What is it?”“A memory seal.”“What's sealed?”Elias hesitated.“You.”Ethan stared at him.“What does that mean?”“It means Noah isn't trying to enter you.”Elias l

Episode 102 — The One-Hour TrapThe clock showed 11:03 p.m.Ethan stood alone inside the ruined house, staring at the photograph on his phone.Lena was tied to a chair.Her face was bruised.And behind her stood the man Ethan had believed dead for twenty-seven years.His father.The message remained on the screen.COME ALONE, OR SHE DISAPPEARS FOREVER.Ethan's hand tightened around the phone.A second message appeared.ONE HOUR.Then the location arrived.An abandoned railway station.Blackwood Station.Ethan knew the place.Nobody had used it in almost fifteen years.He slipped the black key into his pocket.Then he looked at the photograph lying on the floor.The words written on its back kept repeating in his mind.You weren't his son.What did that mean?If the man upstairs really was his father, why had he said Ethan wasn't his son?And if Ethan wasn't his son...Who was he?A sound came from behind him.Ethan turned.Lena's phone was lying beneath a broken table.He picked it up

Episode 104 — The Fourth FaceWritingThe room seemed to stop breathing.Ethan stared at the man standing in the basement doorway.The same face.The same eyes.The same scar.For a moment, Ethan couldn't tell which of them was real.Adrian slowly raised his weapon.“No.”The newcomer smiled.“You remember me.”Adrian's hand trembled.“I watched you die.”The man stepped into the light.“You watched a body disappear.”Ethan looked at him.“Who are you?”The man's smile disappeared.“You already know.”Ethan shook his head.“I don't.”“You will.”Behind Ethan, the computer screen flickered again.SUBJECT FOUR IDENTIFIED.Then another line appeared.ORIGINAL DESIGNATION: NOAH VALE.Ethan's heart stopped.“Noah…”The man nodded.“Yes.”Adrian lowered his gun.“You're supposed to be dead.”Noah looked at him.“So are you.”Adrian stepped backward.Ethan turned toward Lena.“You knew Noah was alive?”She shook her head.“No.”Noah laughed softly.“She's telling the truth.”Ethan looked at

Episode 106 — The Man Behind the DoorThe corridor was silent.Too silent.Ethan stood in the underground facility, staring at the man who had just called himself his brother.For years, Ethan had believed his past had been erased.Now he understood something far worse.It had been rewritten.Mara slowly raised her gun.“Ethan,” she whispered, “don’t listen to him.”The man smiled.“You still call her Mara?”Ethan’s eyes narrowed.“What does that mean?”The man stepped closer.“It means she knows who you were before you became Ethan Carter.”Mara’s face went pale.Ethan turned toward her.“You know him?”She didn't answer.That silence was enough.“You lied to me,” Ethan said.“Ethan—”“You knew about the facility?”“I knew pieces of it.”“You knew about me?”Mara lowered her weapon.“I knew they had taken you.”“Who?”Before she could answer, every light in the corridor suddenly turned red.A mechanical voice echoed through the walls.“SUBJECT 27 IDENTIFIED.”Ethan froze.The man lau