Mr. Kennedy's search for the prophesied woman fails when Dr. Aetherius' sacred beads don't respond, and with Finn's blood curse set to flare tomorrow someone vows to end him. Lucia faces academic dismissal for absences; she pleads to stay in school and pledges 200,000 for her father's surgery, but one more absence will cost her graduation. At a work site a woman appears, a co-worker sabotages the site, leaving two people trapped, and the attacker snarls she'll 'play with a real monster tonight'—two lives and Finn's fate hang in the balance.