#SOOTIFY WHY ARE YOU OLAYING WHENBHE DIED HE DIDN’T DIE YOU KNOW THST

[get-your-fuckin-star-bitch]

Right. They got sent to interrogate “Sarah” by Elias. Michael would probably still be recovering at that point, and there’s no way Jon could do anything like that alone. So what’s Elias supposed to do, feed him another statement? Tim and Sasha wouldn’t exactly be cut out for that sort of job, nor would Martin, and Basira’s not working at the institute.

Melanie, maybe?

Nah. That’s a recipe for disaster. Although… Elias would be desperately trying to hold onto his plan at that point, so. He might pair em anyway.

And so Nikola threatens Jon, etc, etc, but he’s not really the archivist-

Hang on.

Why would she even bother messing with him? He was never Gertrude’s assistant…

So michael gets bothered by a mannequin, which must be super not-fun to have happen while you’re still not finished recovering from having been shot.

He doesn’t know shit about the gorilla, and is just really getting fed up with the questions about Gertrude, so Nikola just says she’ll “let him think about it” or something.

And then the moment he gets let out of the hospital, B&H nab him.

Nikola plans to find some way to either get information out of him or at least carve him up in a way that’ll make sure the skin fits.

Elias… does nothing, obviously, cause he doesn’t give a shit.

It’s Yasmina who finds him and gets in touch with Jon to get him out.

This winds up with Jon nearly getting flayed and Yasmina being a fucking badass.

I mean, she does work in retail. Specifically in a clothes department at a department store. So she already very much hates mannequins. Kicking their plastic asses is an incredibly satisfying experience for her.

Michael is… almost on death’s doorstep when she gets to him. Nikola hasn’t even been torturing him or anything, he just… hasn’t been able to feed or anything for DAYS, and it’s slowly draining the life from him.

He’s going to die if they don’t get him to a mirror or something.

Which Yasmina knows, because she’s seen this happen with him before.

She orders Jon to go get a mirror. He does. Michael doesn’t wake up at first, but after a few moments, he reaches out for it and goes through.

They stand guard by the mirror, which ends up being a very good idea, cause Nikola — who’d run away instead of getting caught in Yasmina’s mannequin murderfest — comes back, very pissed off, and tries to smash the mirror. Probably has other mannequins with her, too.

Only retreats when Michael comes back out of the mirror and fucks her shit up.

He’s not fully ok, simply cause he hasn’t had any statements recently, (Elias cut him off), but he almost tears off Nikola’s face, which is awesome.

He’s extremely worried about Yasmina being there and seeing him like this, but she’s beaming. And basically informs him that he’d been incredibly badass just then.

“You saved our asses.”

“I- but i look like-“

“You? You look fine. As long as you’re not wearing somebody else’s skin, I don’t mind whatever you want to appear as. Come on, I want to get out of here as quickly as possible.”