The StoryTinker

This is it. Season finale and it's gut-wrenching. Prepare yourselves. Goliath meets Poppy over the phone and it's bittersweet. We learn about Tora's fear of spiders, and Poppy asks if they're brothers. Turns out... they're TWINS. This explains so much. Dawn has arrived. Goliath's captor comes. Tora and Poppy clutch each other as the worst happens. Goliath goes out happy tha...

As Poppy showers, Tora receives a call. IT'S GOLIATH. Tora is in shock and asks him where he is. Goliath says he's in Malibu, but it's clear he's very far away and in a dingy jail cell. He looks out the window and sees the incoming dawn. We can all guess what that means. Tora wants to come get him, but all Goliath wants to do is say he's sorry. He is moved to learn that Tora ca...

Poppy and Tora travel on the train, a heavy weapons bag between them until it conks Tora in the head. Poppy then nestles into Tora and continues with her memory of watching the GoPro footage in her helmet of the night before Agnes left. Agnes tells Robert that she's given Robert 6 years to figure "it" out, and that she's leaving Moonbright tomorrow, AND also that Robert can keep...

Turns out Agnes has another whole family! Poppy finds the conversation too hard to handle, and hangs up. Tora lets it go and dresses Poppy, telling her they're headed to a safe place - his hometown. He charms the security guard into letting his bag go, for which Poppy punishes him by sitting with the bag sandwiched between them. As she dozes, she recalls a memory of finding her helmet with a secre...

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Tora and Poppy "borrow" one of the Altan guards' car, having left their disposable car in a bush. Quincey is uber relieved at Ivan and Oyuu's presence. Tora and Poppy eat breakfast at a diner, where Tora finally confronts Poppy with the real question: Who is she, and why is everyone after her? To get the answer, Poppy calls..... HER MOM!!! 🤯 ❓𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛❓Do you think Pop...

Quincey waits nervously for Tora and Poppy, only to notice several armed people ambushing them outside the elevator. Faced with no other choice, he revs his car and slams into them, just in time for Tora and Poppy to step innocently outside the elevator. He panics, wasting precious moments as more armed people swarm around them. Quincey once again uses the car as a weapon and then hightails it out...

𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒: 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑒. 𝐴𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ, 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑓. 𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑛. As Poppy packs, she sees her lingerie in her bag. Daddy Tora yells at them to hurry up, and we see Quincess busy applying face cream. Poppy asks Quincey where all the lingerie came from, and Tora, overhearing mention of Poppy's d...

Quincess hears a buzz and first think it's his phone, then a BOB. Nope, it's the chopper that has got Poppy paralyzed, about to get blown to bits, until...Tora to the rescue! He snipers the machine gun so that it blazes the heck out of there, and also manages to instantly vanish and swing back into Quincey's apartment. For all his efforts, he is rewarded with Poppy smacking him in the...

Poppy knows Tora is lying to her and slams her way out of the room. Tora thinks back to his memory of his mother after learning his father died to save her. We learn that a Congressman who was a descendant of Narin's last monarch was killed and Tora's dad took the fall for his mother. His mother tells Tora about the curse we know from Asura's Bride, a curse he now remembers when faced...

Tora shocks Poppy and readers with his guitar playing and singing skills. He lets his feelings show and Poppy sees them, reaching to comfort him. He asks if Quincey told her what he does, and she says she does. Tora is incredulous that she is still there. So incredulous that he traps her underneath him and proceeds to kiss her senseless. Poppy thinks about Tora's potential punishment and begin...

Quincey shows Poppy her room, which is also where Benjamin slept. Quincey avoids talking about the day's events, and we learn that today was actually not D-Day. So what is? He urges her to check on Tora, which Poppy does, tripping over Tora's weapons on the way. Tora is rude but Poppy is patient. She plays with Joe's guitar and notices her old strawberry hair tie, which Tora reclaims....

Gyu leaves and things get awkward in Quincey's apartment - for Quincey, at least. Every move is filled with innuendo and poor Quincey does not stop blushing. Quincey has also been tasked with the difficult job of telling Poppy that Tora is a hitman - but a "good one." Just as Quincey's limit is reached, Tora comes in with the bad news - he found Vincent's DVD... but not his....

To get out of a sticky situation, Kieran decides to go for the jugular and tell Will and Kym that he and Lauren are... DATING. Kieran pretends to be bashful but isn't pretending when he says he couldn't forget her eyes. The two then taunt each other with increasingly embarrassing "admissions." They split up, and Will heads to his parent's comfortable home, where he is kind as...

Ghoa is overcome with emotion upon hearing from Oyuun about how the meeting went. Quincey returns to his apartment where Poppy and Gyu are waiting for him expectantly. Quincey is at the beginning of an emotional freakout. Tora, meanwhile, has received pages from the notebook from Gyu, and knows where to look for Balthuman garbage. He finds the CD and destroys it, cutting off ties with Vincent as h...

We find out that Scharch is Martin's son. Quincy and Tora try to prove that Scharch is working against the clan by showing a picture of Scharch with Mr. Lam, which causes Scharch to accidentally self-incriminate. Tora, holding a gun to Scharch's head, flashes back to Martin holding a gun to his own little child head, taunting him for thinking that Vincent is his father. We are heartbroken,...

We learn more about Quincy's family tree, where Oyuun, his grandmother Khulan's sister, marries Vincent's Uncle Ivan. So a double marriage between the Altan and Balthuman families. Oyuun and Ivan do their best to subtly patronize Vincent, and we hear about the first Ivan Balthuman, who may come into play later. Quincy takes the momentous step of becoming clan leader. When Vincent prote...

Word is out on the street - Poppy's numbered. Uh-oh. Vincent realizes he's been played and is furious at Tora. Scharch leads in Nicholas and Yadori to show Vincent proof that Tora is involved in the notebook. The geniuses are about to take out their photo when Quincy walks in, trying to save his friends. Martin protests and Quincy reminds him who he works for. Vincent shames Quincy, who st...

Lauren begs Will to go on shift but Will refuses, so she spends her time in the office ruminating over the information she heard about her parents' driver. She goes to the archives to investigate. Kieran is there and wants to help her (definite guilt there). Hermann enters, praises Kieran, and searches for Lauren. Kieran is a dumb-dumb and gives away her location but luckily Hermann thins he&#...

Lauren contemplates their night in the closet and the information they learned, never noticing that someone is trailing her and snapping a picture. IS IT DYLAN??? At the office, Kieran is scoring points by sweetly serving coffee. Kym shamelessly flirts with him and irritates Will. Lauren arrives and cannot compute. March calls Will and Kym out to instruct them to try to uncover Lune's identity...

Lauren and Kieran realize they will have to wait until 3 am to leave the closet. They snipe at each other until Lauren realizes that Kieran too, planted a bug in the room and goes crazy. Surprise surprise! Lauren starts thinking about Kieran choking her, shakes it off, and tells him to stay away. Kieran feels bad. Lauren takes notes while Kieran does his best to be inconspicuous. They discuss the...

Lauren and Kiera discover that great minds think alike, and that they have more in common than they'd like to admit. They both creep next to the door to listen in on the meeting, hilariously pantomiming to each other. They learn about an immense shipment of nitroglyceride and a hideout for its storage. As the messenger leaves, Lauren spots a tattoo on his wrist, and also his sudden disappearan...

A young lady knocks on a door, only to met by Brian's crazy eyes. She realizes that she DOES have the right house, only to watch a helmeted Poppy crash into the bushes. She calls for help and Tora geniously kidnaps her into the house, where Jacob and the thuglets are partying their little hearts out. Meg chastises Jacob while Gyu uncorrupts the SD card. Poppy role plays with her phone, and Tor...

(Apologies for the audio quality) We flash back to Louise in the basement, watching Gil use the code name “Shane” to get rid of her body. Shane, of episode-5-hire-thug-to-break-into-Goliath’s-apartment fame. We also learn that Gil and Scharch intercoursed in the basement with LOUISE’S BODY BAG RIGHT THERE. Louise tries to escape and then decides to play dead, using a rat for the stench. We hear he...

Louise recovers in the boat with Poppy and Tora. Louise asks if they are dating but Poppy denies it. Lousie remembers Tora’s tattoo and freaks out, because he is associated with the people who tried to kill her.  Tora stops Louise in her tracks, defending Poppy’s honor. Poppy comforts Louise and tells her who she is, reassuring her that she isn’t on Gil’s side.  Tora gives Louise the purple dino a...