He delivers some final words from Caleb he was asked to pass on and when he goes to leave, mother Laura (Sheila Kelley) insists he stay at least one night.
One night turns into several and he begins to have a positive effect on the family's fortunes. Even Paula's initially sceptical daughter Anna (Maika Monroe) begins to warm to this handsome macho stranger.
No good will come of this.
CW: some action movie violence
Frustrated at recycling stock sounds, the director of "Co-ed Frenzy" sends Jack out to try and record some more environmental sounds.
While recording in a park late in the evening he witnesses an incident where a car suffers the titular 'blow out' and goes over a bridge into an ornamental lake.
Jack dives into the lake and rescues a young woman, Sally (Nancy Allen) from the rapidly sinking car but fails to rescue the driver.
Later in hospital he finds out the driver was a prominent Congressman tipped for a run at the Presidency. The Congressman's aide persuades a reluctant Jack to pretend that Sally was never there in order to prevent a scandal. Reviewing the tape he had running when the car went over the bridge, Jack concludes something more sinister happened and tries to get people to listen.
No good will come of this.
Now a young man working in a very progressive HR department, Adam still yearns for the life he knew as a child and searches for the Sword of Power. He makes no secret of this and recounts his stories to anyone he can: obviously this makes him be seen as something of a weirdo.
One day the sword is found and almost as soon as he touches it this brings Eternia back into his life.
It is the first case of its kind.
Kelly-Anne doesn't need to do this, she lives a high end but austere lifestyle funded by modelling and high stakes games of online poker. She has highly automated her life and is slightly paranoid about surveillance. Kelly-Anne is well versed in OSINT and the information economy of the dark web so is seemingly doing this to avoid identification.
The case is a sensational media circus and Chevalier has "fans" who protest his innocence. Kelly-Anne befriends one of these, Clémentine (Laurie Babin) who is also sleeping near the court.
CW: reference to and audio from torture/snuff videos with upsetting themes of sexualised crimes including murder