“Night Falls” is episode twelve of season two of First Wave.
Cade is fleeing down a fire escape from a building where an alarm is sounding. He’s being pursued by a cop, but Cade knocks him down and takes his gun when they get to the bottom. Another cop arrives on foot and both chase Cade as police cars arrive on the scene. Cade heads down an alley with a fence at the end; one of the officers chasing him tells him to stop or he’ll shoot. Cade climbs over the fence as the officer opens fire. Cade’s been hit and, when he sees a car approaching, pulls the gun he took on the woman and tells her to drive to her place, not noticing he’s dropped his phone. At the building, the woman’s neighbour tells her that there’s a madman on the loose. Inside the woman’s apartment, Cade discovers he’s dropped his phone.
Cade ties the woman to a chair and gags her. He’s in Pittsburgh following up a quatrain but made a mistake. The Gua have probably joined the hunt by now. He cuts the woman’s hand to see if she’s human; she is. Cade asks her if she’s got a bandage or something and treats the cut.
There’s an increasing police presence outside and Cade’s hostage is working on her bonds. On the TV, the news is saying a six-block area has been closed off for Cade, now number 9 on the FBI’s Most Wanted. The news is hardly reassuring the woman, given it’s saying Cade killed his wife. He tells her that’s not true.
Outside, one of the cops asks for ID from a man. Hatcher; a bounty hunter. He notices Cade’s dropped phone and takes it.
Inside, Cade calls Eddie from the woman’s home; Eddie sees the caller ID as Lena Hansen, who he definitely doesn’t know. When he hears Cade’s voice, Eddie asks him what he’s doing calling from a landline. The call can be traced; there’s no scramble protect. It’s not secure. Cade tells him he has no choice. Eddie is right to be worried; Hatcher is tapping into the line. Cade tells Eddie it was a setup and he had to take a hostage. Eddie will be able to tap into police dispatch so that Cade can get out after dark. That’s 5 hours away. After the call, Lena gets free but Cade catches her. He says he will be there until dark, then leave.
Lena asks Cade why he killed his wife. He tells her he didn’t; he was framed. He doesn’t expect her to believe him; doesn’t care if she believes him. Cade is sick and tired of telling people he didn’t do anything. Lena answers in a way that is clearly ‘reassuring the dangerous crazy man.’ On the news, there’s something about Cade robbing a jewellery store and injuring the proprietor. That puzzles Lena, because Cade was in her car well before then. Cade says he’s a convenient scapegoat. People believe what they see on the news but the authorities lie, newspapers lie.
Joshua has arrived on the scene and he’s filled in by another Gua, Terrence. Terrence says Subject 117 took the bait, but why don’t they use the direct approach and send aco0lytes in, given they know Cade’s location? Because that’s been tried before. Use a human to catch a human.
Hatcher, meanwhile, is calling someone to get a trace on the last number called from Cade’s mobile.
Lena tells Cade that he will pass out if he loses any more blood. She offers to treat the wound; her mother was a nurse. He should go to a hospital, but she didn’t expect him to agree. Seeing the clearly false, to her, item on the news appears to have changed Lena’s mind a bit. Lena asks why Cade cut her hand. To see if she was human. What else would she be? Not human.
Hatcher is closing in on Eddie and plans to find out where Cade is, which is a problem. Joshua has a plan, and it’s a good one, which is another problem. In “The Purge”, Joshua, through some machinations and duplicity, became head of all Gua operations on Earth. He’s still in charge, but some of his people have problems with his methods. Lena appears to be coming around to believing in Cade.