ASHES

When Dr. Chu comes back to, she is joined by 23. The plan worked; During Dr. Chu’s own P.A.T. they connected for a moment and 23 tracked her down to the underground laboratory. Together they unveil that Eden and Emerson have removed 23’s memory, because of her role in preventing them from developing a superior being. She had nearly achieved her goal and shut Eden down two years ago, unbeknownst that there was a back up located at CERN. They have captured 23 and erased her memory during a P.A....

Dr. Chu arrives at an abandoned, nondescript home in a residential area of the Hudson Valley, and is about to leave again, when she discovers an underground laboratory, where an AI named Eden, a sentient supercomputer, oversees a ground-breaking experiment. There are 18 cells and a tank with a gooey mass connected to the AI. Eden can talk and reveals a connection to Dr. Chu, who inadvertently created her moral profile years ago, which Dr. Sermon, the mastermind behind Eden, stole from her.He ...

While skimming through Dr. Sermon’s tapes for answers, Dr. Chu makes the crucial discovery that he invented a method to digitize electronic brain signals of his patients and eventually store them on a medium that was not yet invented at the time of his departure from St. Vincent. Is that what happened? Are Teresa’s, Valerie’s and Aura’s memories digitized and stored somewhere on a hard drive, Jane wonders, maybe even here at St. Vincent? Dr. Chu reluctantly performs a final session with ...

Dr. Jane Chu delivers Tess, 23’s daughter, into Elizabeth’s custody and eases the strained marriage, whereas at St. Vincent the pressure to deliver results for 23 is rising. While searching for more information about P.A.T. on Dr. Sermon’s tapes she discovers his stern warning about conducting no more than two P.A.T. session; the results could lead to total catatonia in the patient. Dr. Chu refuses to conduct any further sessions, but 23 prepared a waiver releasing Dr. Chu and the institution...

We learn more about Dr. Jane Chu and her strained relationship with Elizabeth, her wife, who is desperate to adopt a child. 23’s daughter, Tess could be the perfect candidate, as her mother is emotionally dissociated from her and doesn’t recognize her.Wavering between Elizabeth’s happiness and her ethical obligation to cure a patient, Dr. Chu tries another P.A.T. session with 23, but again, instead of recovering her own memory, 23 slips into the mind of a Valerie Harper, a computer scie...

Patient #23, a young girl suffering from dissociative amnesia is currently one of only five patients at St. Vincent Hospital, a financially struggling mental health sanatorium in the Hudson Valley. She was brought here, together with her little daughter Tess, whom she doesn’t recognize, after being found meandering the streets without memory of her past, lost and disoriented. Dr. Jane Chu, the caring and good hearted head therapist of St.Vincent has tried every conventional treatment wit...

Pulling all leads together, Maddie and Lindsay come face to face with a single possible explanation as to what happened to Ashley, where she is, and who the main suspect behind her disappearance must be.If proven correct in their assumption, the consequences will change their own lives beyond anyone's imagination....including yours!

Some clues may seem irrelevant but prove invaluable and Maddie and Lindsay leave no stone unturned. They ask renowned New York theatre critic BEN BENTLEY about his interpretation of GAST, the play Ashley wrote and tried to stage.In a last ditch effort, they interview a psychic medium, REBECCA ROSE, whose vision may reveal more than both Maddie and Lindsay may want to see but must face.

Failing to trace Ashley, Lindsay and Maddie change course and try to find her closest ally, Drake. Even though nobody seems to have actually ever met him. They find ANGELA FARIA, a photographer's agent who more than just represented him.Convinced that they have a lead, they ask DR. LARK about the fundamentals of the connection between Drake and Ashley, with an unexpected result.Finally, since it all seems to come down to a DNA backup that Ashley and Drake were after, Lindsay and Maddie interv...

Maddie and Lindsay decide on a practical approach and visit THE STATION, one of the sights where Ashley disappeared. They talk to architect JETT MAURI, about a possible explanation and where to find an entrance into the "city under the city."Dissatisfied with the fact that Ashley just vanished, they decide to question a famous illusionist DAVID BURTON, who makes people disappear for a living. He might know the answers.Or was Ashley just a very good performance artist?