Scene 1:
Frank and Wren from Manchetti’s outfit visit Aster at home. They deliver a hamper of Italian foods, wine, coffee. The bottle of wine enclosed looks rather expensive.
Cut scene shows Benji, working in the restaurant, putting the wrong wine in the hamper.
Aster’s annoying neighbour is there for the start, but Frank ushers her off politely. Frank explains to Aster that Dr Rodd conned them into shipping something very valuable and illegal for him, thats why they won’t give it to him. Now some of that drug is stolen, and Dr Rodd was knew they had it. They want to talk to Dr. Rodd. Aster calls him for them. Dr Rodd begs Frank not to hurt Aster, he’s known her since she was a kid (lie). Dr Rodd agrees to meet Frank.
Scene 2:
Cupid shows up at Sundog’s house – threatens to come in if she wont come out (writes on the window the wrong way around because hes too dumb to reverse the writing). Sundog comes out and chats to him: demands he stop levitating because it’s rude. Cupid looks surprised, but stops levitating. Cupid says that the Mallrats must be pretty smart and sneaky because they figured out about the red stuff so fast, it took the Rogues a month. He claims they didnt know what the red stuff was till it broke, now they think that it was being sent to the prison to start a powered riot and justify a crackdown. Cupid asks the Mallrats to investigate – it’ll get messy if he does it.
Scene 3:
In the resturant, Chef Razeto explains to Benji that he put the wrong wine in the hamper. Patiently, he teaches Benji how to appreciate wine – with a focus on Italian wines being the best.
Scene 4:
The team gather at the library the next day and exchange info.
Benji and Aster argue about Benji being so young – Benji explains he’s been the adult in his family half his life, he’s not a kid. They come to an understanding.
While they are there, the news shows a powered escape from Midtown Prison. From the damage, it looks like someone just ran through the prison wall, leaving a person shaped hole. That would require super strength or speed, and invulnerability. Aster checks who shes knows is in the prison – it doesn’t match any prisoner she’s aware of. Even allowing for a power boost from the red liquid, it seems unlikely to be anyone. The only mutant she knows of that could do that is Seraph. But Seraph could have just flown over the wall.
The team investigates as best they can via CCTV feeds and news media. They only see a blur. They reckon if it *is* Seraph, she might go back to her penthouse tower. So they decide to go there.
Scene 5:
The team go to Seraphs tower – when there, they see Jenny Yoo go in. Benji scouts out the taxi she arrived in to confirm her ID and where she’s come from – and confirms it was her, and that she came from the Angelus Gallery. Eventually, Sundog burns her way into the top of the tower through an “impenetrable” steel door, and confronts Jenny. Security systems in Seraph’s penthouse respond to Jenny’s voice command. There’s a tense standoff, then Jenny invites the team to come up in the elevator.
The Ma*lrats discover that Jenny Yoo is Seraph’s assistant. She also came her to see if the escape could have been Seraph. She lets Aster use Seraph’s computer to track the escapee, but.. they’ve disappeared somewhere in downtown Storm City. Jenny gives the Team communicators so they can keep in touch with each other and her.