Them That Chase

Rex The lights flipped on in Rex's lab. The team started out cleaning a dead agent's home of evidence. This time the dead agent was one of their own. A spider sadly watched from a terrarium as Wren and Malachi bagged up Rex's souvenirs from his nights at the opera. Clyde Baughman's spray bottle of colorless fluid; Marlene Baughman's severed finger, the nerve endings grown and branching out to the walls of its jar; multiple vials of ai-apa's gray sludge; and Audrey III, the marijuana plant recovered from Dakota Knight's apartment. Malachi spoke first, suggesting they burn all of it. He flicked a lighter open and shut while he said it, but he didn't seem to know he was doing it. Wren, concerned, thanked him for saving her life right before Doug found them. Doug resisted understanding what they tried to tell him. They must be wrong; Rex couldn't possibly be dead. He tried to prove it by calling Rex's phone... which Malachi held out to him, the scree...

From the movie Smile .   (See the previous post, The Knight of the Round Table , for a map of Avalon Gardens.)   The fire engine pulled into the Avalon Gardens parking lot and plowed up the gravel drive alongside the building. Three firefighters jumped out, but a group of employees had already extinguished the brush fire they'd been called to deal with. Confusion abounded. Voices started rising.   And then the employees stopped, stupefied by a rustling only they could hear.   One of the gardeners smashed his fire extinguisher into a firefighter's head. A second firefighter screamed, but John Bellamy silenced them with a gunshot to the face. The third firefighter ran to grab a fire ax from the truck, but a second gardener tried to pull it away from him. They struggled on the ground, the firefighter raised it high, prepared to slam it down into the gardener's face... and then John Bellamy shot him twice in the back.   While the gardeners dismembered their victims,...