I Will Mend You

Amethyst's dead mother and a twin she never knew existed

After a fabricated video convinced Amethyst that Xero orchestrated her gang-rape, she knocked him unconscious and set his underground hideout ablaze.

Amethyst's dead mother and a twin she never knew existed

After a fabricated video convinced Amethyst that Xero orchestrated her gang-rape, she knocked him unconscious and set his underground hideout ablaze. Fleeing to her mother's house, she finds Melonie dead on the kitchen floor, Uncle Clive shot in the chest, and standing over the bodies — a woman wearing her face. The doppelgänger calls herself Dolly, claims to be Amethyst's twin sister, and accuses her of stealing the life that should have been hers. Before Amethyst can process the horror, two men — a hulking brute named Fen and a blue-eyed blond named Locke — tackle her in the garden. They wrestle her into a straitjacket, gag her, and load her into a truck. Dolly orders them to the airport, wanting Amethyst conscious for every second of her destruction.

The man she left burning discovers two women sharing one face

Xero wakes choking on smoke in the crawlspace beneath Amethyst's old house. A sprinkler system neither of them knew existed kept him from burning alive. He escapes through underground tunnels to the catacombs, where his hacker Tyler and best friend Jynxson find him. His sister Isabel treats his smoke-damaged lungs at an infirmary while his team investigates. Tyler discovers that Amethyst's mother and uncle were murdered, two operatives killed by sniper fire, and an EMP blast knocked out all surveillance. Airport footage reveals two contradictory clips: a woman willingly boarding a private jet with a blond man, and another woman in a straitjacket being tackled on the tarmac. The impossibility sparks Xero's twin theory — there are two identical women, and the one in the straitjacket is terrified.

Delta scores Dolly's scars into Amethyst's skin at the asylum

At the derelict Saint Christina asylum, Delta — Xero's estranged father and the mastermind behind X-Cite Media's snuff operation — awaits his prize. Dolly strips Amethyst before cameras and crew while Delta suspends her from metal rigging by steel cables. With surgical precision, he carves matching scars into her flesh to duplicate the marks covering Dolly's body. Two crew members, Seth and Barrett, watch as blood trickles down her torso. When the pain becomes unbearable, Amethyst dissociates — her consciousness floating above the horror like a spectator at her own vivisection. She wakes alone in a padded cell, where the TV screen loops the graveyard gang-rape video she believed Xero orchestrated. The footage plays on repeat, an instrument designed to shatter whatever remains of her sanity.