“Wednesday’s Child” is episode eleven of season three of First Wave.
Mabus is saying that the days of the human race are dwindling in number and it 117 thinks he can stop it, Mabus invites him to make the attempt. Mabus states to whoever he is talking to that they must work together.
Cade and Jordan are searching an alley; Jordan thinks it’s a setup. He reminds her that Raven Nation soldiers are on the lookout. This is the last place to check. If it’s real, it will be a front-page national disaster. Eddie tells them to check further down and to hurry before they are blown to kingdom come. Cade says he’s found it; a briefcase in a barrel. Eddie says they have less than a minute until the planned detonation, according to the email. Inside the case is a bomb, obviously not one with a mercury switch. Eddie is talking Cade through disarming it, but Jordan has to help when the bomb attacks Cade with a cable. Once disarmed, it vanishes.
Mabus says he has taken the first step. That which 117 holds dear will soon be his.
The Paranoid Times received an email about a Gua bomb and the email has been traced to the address Cade is currently arriving at. There are Raven Nation operatives watching out. Cade knocks on the door and a woman answers. Cade says he is from the ISP and understands she has problems with her modem. She doesn’t use it, isn’t married and this isn’t a good time because her little girl is sick, and she’s the one who uses the computer. The girl, Emily, appears and calls the woman Aunt Ann.
Eddie doesn’t believe a 9-year-old girl could have sent the email. Cade tells him that Emily is the only one who touches the computer. Eddie isn’t convinced, but he’s hacked Emily’s school records. She has an IQ of 189 but has been in trouble lately, suspended twice for fighting. Jordan was kicked out of school three times before junior high; a year in military school worked wonders. Emily is scheduled in the home study programme. That’s Jordan’s in.
Jordan heads there and claims to have taken over the case. Emily is Ann’s niece; Emily’s parents were killed in a car accident last year. Jordan went through something similar, but she was older. Emily apparently handled it well at the beginning, but she’s started getting into fights, showing hostility to teachers and having nightmares. Jordan suggests a delayed reaction, but apparently there’s more to it than that. Emily has seizures; she goes into a trance and sees something inside her head, something horrible. Could it be Emily that Mabus is talking to? There’s another problem. Emily’s white cell count is dropping. The doctors have never seen anything like it and she will be dead in two months.
In her room, Emily is staring at her computer. She tells Jordan her name isn’t Helen. And to stay away. The house starts to shake. According to Emily, he says they’re going to die. All of them. Jordan asks who says this. Mabus.
Eddie and Cade are talking. Emily isn’t an alien, nor is her aunt. Eddie suggests Emily is mind melding with Mabus. Cade wonders if it’s the other way around. Eddie points out that they have met psychics before, in “Susperience”; why is this so hard to believe? Emily could be key to stopping the Gua.
Jordan is with Emily at a craft fair. She gets Emily to talk about fighting, then asks about the email. Emily doesn’t remember. Sometimes, she gets on the computer and, when she’s done, she can’t remember anything. Jordan wants to know more about Mabus. She knows who he is. Jordan tells Emily she can trust her, and Emily does.
Whilst they are out, Eddie and Cade arrive at the house. Eddie can’t find anything on the computer but Cade finds a strange symbol in a number of drawings. Jordan is getting attached to Emily; she sees many similarities between them. This isn’t a coincidence; Mabus is plotting and using Emily as a tool. One who will die soon if Mabus isn’t stopped.