The Last Murder at the End of the World

Abi wakes Seth up and tells him about Niema’s death. She informs him that he needs to return to the village because Emory is trying to solve the murder. Seth sees a figure drop something over the edge of the cliff.

Hephaestus shows Thea that he found a memory extractor. The device looks like a helmet, but when Hephaestus pushes a button, multiple drills activate that burrow into the skull. Thea knows that the extractor will kill anyone who wears it. Hephaestus suggests that they use it on the villagers because the memory of the murder exists somewhere in their brains. Thea tells Hephaestus that they cannot use it on a villager without evidence, otherwise Abi will not put the barriers back in place. Thea tells him that she found metal fragments in Niema’s head, which suggests that someone placed the beam on her head to make it look like an accident.

Thea informs Emory that the postmortem shows that Niema’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, not stabbing. Emory shows Thea the contraption that she found in the water, and Thea orders the villagers to bring it to her lab so she can examine it.