“You were drunk. You were so happy and proud, because everything went according to plan. At last, you were able to k!ll Tristan Toralba. And then you got rid of the body. That’s what you’ll remember.”
Tristan painstakingly turns to Senator Paglinauan, who hands him a bottle of cleaning spray he had left on his table. Tristan takes it and hurries out. He then heads into the storage room with Leo and the others where they take some photos of the place.
Back home, Betty and Pina are worried sick when Apple hasn’t returned home yet and they’re unable to reach her on phone. During the drive away from the senator’s office, Tristan receives a video of his sister being tortured somewhere.
Malia and the other LLU members also see it too through the hidden camera. Tristan calls the sender of the video, who happens to be Nisha, Paglinauan’s assistant. Before hanging up, Nisha threatens to come for him after they’re done with his sister.
Tristan hurries home to learn of his sister’s disappearance. As he and his family fret over the situation and try going to her school to look for her, Apple suddenly shows up to put on an act. She rambles on about the so-called audition she had done for the theatre club, saying that her performance had been awesome. Her head being dunked into water and all. Naïve and kinda stupid at best.
Anyway, Samantha parts ways with Prof T at the Moonchasers HQ, telling him that he knows where to find her should he need her. At Youtopia, Gilbert (Supremo) makes it clear to Jacinta that she would no longer be handling his campaign. Jacinta asks why he’s suddenly firing her from her job and Gilbert merely says that he’s done with her.
Jacinta takes offense at that. “I left a quiet life and a good job in Indonesia, because you insisted that I come work for you. Now you’re going to fire me and say you’re done with me?”
“That’s right,” Gilbert replies casually. ”You’ll be well compensated.”
“Just so you know, Mr. Imperial. This isn’t my loss.”
Toni (Malia) goes to see Tristan at home. When she fails again to convince him to back out of the mission, she charges him to tread carefully, saying that as partners, they need to defeat Supremo while ensuring each other’s safety. At the LLU base, Baristo scolds Gael and Lemuel when they start making fun of the situation.
He reminds everyone that what they’re watching is a surveillance video and not a løvë story in a soap opera. Tristan receives another mocking call from Nisha and he dares her to face him. As Nisha taunts him, Supremo reflects on his latest encounter with Jacinta.
In a fit of rage, he goes on a random k!lling spree. Later that night, Malia and the other LLU members watch the surveillance video of Tristan being his impulsive self as ever. He walks a park in town and in no time, a bat connects with his head and knocks him out cold. The impact breaks the pin device, and then the connection.
Some scumbags carry Tristan and drag him into the office storage room – the very room the Moonchasers had taken photos of earlier. Senator Paglinauan sits comfortably as Tristan is restrained to a chair in front of him. The miserable old man then begins taunting him, saying that he could suffer the same punishment and end as Miyo.
While the LLU set out in search of Tristan, Supremo closes in on his next target. He’s about to bite the poor defenseless woman when the woman in red suddenly shows up to whoosh her to safety. Senator Paglinauan begins roughing up Tristan and tries to make him reveal the group he belongs to, its leader and backers.
Tristan being Tristan refuses to talk and the miserable old man has his lapdogs beat him up some more. Even then, Tristan doesn’t budge and Paglinauan threatens to finish off his family while he watches. He sends his lapdogs to go get his grandparents and Tristan reveals that he wasn’t alone at the park.
“You weren’t?”
“I planned all this,” Tristan declares. “I have accomplices. Any minute now, they’re going to be here. So I think it’ll be best for you to let me go.”
Malia and the other LLU members hurry to the senator’s office. They show the guard on duty a video featuring the senator and Tristan and urge him to let them in. Turns out the secret camera that had been broken earlier had magically started working again. As expected, Paglinauan doesn’t take Tristan’s bait. Somewhere in a room, Prof T sits comfortably and reflects on his arguments with Samantha about Tristan.
The ever conceited senator admits to Tristan that everything he’s been accusing him of is true. He brings up how he had taken care of Miyo after he had meddled in his business, saying that the public now sees him as a hero. Tristan expresses his disgust over what he had done to Miyo’s family and Paglinauan states that he had to pay a price for his meddling.
“You’re nothing but evil!”
“So what?! You don’t mess around with people like me! You don’t know how powerful I really am. It is a shame that things will end for you here and you won’t get to meet Supremo.”
“Let me face him. Where is he?!”
Paglinauan gets in Tristan’s face and taunts him. “That’s a secret.” Read Next Episode on The Blood Moon Episode 41
