TRIGGER WARNING: cults (implied), GRAPHIC violence and character death
Susie slowly opens her eyes...she's alive? Didn't Joey kill her before? She slowly stands up and notices that she's in Alice's dedicated room, in a recording booth. She looks up and notices Joey standing right outside the room with a mirror in his hand. "Joey...is this real? What am I doing here?" Susie asked, noticing her voice kind of sounds different or maybe that was just her. "Yes, you're alive but different. This mirror will prove it," Joey said, holding up the mirror so Susie could see herself in it. She does so and notices something very different...she's Alice? Except, this Alice also looked imperfect, was this real or was this a dream and she's still dead? "This feels surreal," this is all that Susie could say. "Well, this is real," Joey said, putting the mirror down, "don't worry, it might not look perfect right now but trust me, you'll be right back to normal at some point." Susie accepts it, she might've felt like she was left for dead and currently feel weird but as long as this is the way to make her Alice again, it's the risk she's going to take.
One of the ink creatures had successfully turned into Boris somehow but Henry didn't question it, this gave him a new pal to stick with while he was animating. He didn't know how this ink creature had a successful transformation but at least he had a real life Boris standing with him now, unlike the other ones that haven't found their transformation yet, this one was adorable.
Wally's busy cleaning up in the music department when he hears noises, he first assumed that it was Sammy composing some more music but this didn't sound like any sort of instrument, this sounded weirder than that and the direction of this sound was coming from the staircase, making him decide to go down. Walking in the room, he sees the rest of the creatures were practicing something in a circle, something that was already not normal. As he walks closer, he notices they're circled around a pentagram, they were practicing rituals. He doesn't know what happened to them that made them do this but he didn't want to question and stay in this room anymore. He just quickly leaves the room, slamming the door behind him, there's only one thing he really knew for sure and it was that these weren't just regular old ink creatures anymore, they were ink abominations, and the only one innocent in the end is the real life Boris.
Norman and Jack are sitting up on the projector booth with the real life Boris showing him previous cartoons, mainly to see if he remembers his friends outside of the cartoon world but he doesn't respond. "Probably due to originally being an ink creature," Jack said, "things made out of ink aren't supposed to talk." Norman's head perked up at Boris and a couple of seconds later, Boris is looking at Norman as well. "He probably can't understand English, to be fair," Norman said, eyeing away from Boris as Wally decides to come in, obviously hearing the conversation from prior. "Why does it matter? The point is, we have even worse going on behind the scenes," Wally said. "Wally, is everything okay?" Jack asked, clearly not buying what Wally said, mainly because both him and Norman haven't seen it yet. Wally looks down for a second before staring right back up at them to explain a long story.
Sammy is walking back to his office when he hears an instrument playing, which reminds him to check on someone he hasn't in a while. He opens the door to see someone playing the organ except it wasn't the happy type of music one would find on the cartoons as if he was doing it to express the feelings of sorrow. "Hey, Johnny. Long time no see," Sammy said, slowly walking towards the man playing the organ. Johnny just sighs in advance, waving as a 'hello' back. "Everything okay? You're acting a bit strange," Sammy said, which makes Johnny stop playing the organ to look up at him, tears forming in his eyes. "Nothing...just heartbreak," he replied, making Sammy pat him on the back. "Okay, listen. I know the feeling. I just ignore the feelings by doing a hobby I love, maybe continuing to play your organ will help," Sammy told him. "Well," Johnny says at first, sniffling in the process, "I suppose maybe it could work, but I've been playing this for 20 minutes and nothing's changed." Sammy shakes his head because he knew Johnny was doing something wrong. "That's because you're playing it in a sad tune, play it in a happy one and that should make you feel better," Sammy told him, making Johnny look back at his organ, wiping the tears off his face. "Alright, I will do that. Thank you very much," Johnny said, staring back at Sammy with a slight smile.
Susie, who now prefers going as "Alice", practices her song that Sammy and Jack have thought of before with Joey standing in front of her to watch. When she's finished, Joey claps in happiness and amusement, making her feel as happy as before except it was special this time...she literally was this character now. "Alright, so! In the future, this will all be sorted out. For now, we have to figure out how to make you perfect, it's a little bit busy as we're still trying to figure out what to do with Allison, but.." Joey was going to continue but he notices "Alice's" eyes light up - and not in a good way. "Did you just say Allison?" She asked, making Joey back up a bit, all he can do is stutter. "I-it's not what you think, Susie, I c-" Joey gets cut off by "Alice" looking angrier, which only makes him even more nervous. "Since when was she Alice? I'll have you know one thing, I'm the only angel here, I'm obviously here for a reason, right Joey? Did you lie to me? She's not Alice, I'm Alice! Is that not enough proof?" She ranted, at this point, Joey couldn't do anything but try to calm her down. "Susie, list-" Joey gets cut off once again by "Alice" breaking the glass of the recording booth. "I'M ALICE ANGEL!" She screams as Joey suddenly finds himself at the door, his vision now darkened, but it wasn't his consciousness, the room itself had no light anymore.
After a few minutes, Joey, thinking it's okay, tries to open the door with the little vision he had but the lights start flickering. "I see you there," one second "Alice" is at her recording booth, intensely staring at him through the shattered glass, making him feel tensed up, and then the next second, she was right in his face making him jump and fall down next to the locked door. "You lied to Alice...she doesn't like liars," She said, in a low, menacing voice, this voice was a lot different than how it was just a few minutes ago. "Okay! Listen! I'll call you Alice from now on, just let me explain when we have lunch together!" Joey exclaimed, trying to calm her down. "Allison needs to go," "Alice" said, still with that menacing voice. "I-I don't know what I'm supposed to do about th-" Joey gets cut off by "Alice" lifting him up by his collar shirt. "I'm the only angel, no other angels," She tried telling to Joey, the only thing he could do at this point was nod his head. "Alright..no other angels," Joey told her, as she finally lets him go. "Alright, now when the time comes, explain at lunch," "Alice" says with a smirk growing on her face.
In the infirmary, Johnny is sitting on the infirmary bed with Norman standing in front of him. "What do you want?" Norman asked him, clearly annoyed because knowing him, this was most likely for a useless reason. "You know how Susie's been having some strange behavior lately?" Johnny asked. "Yes, Joey said just call her Alice," Norman told him, but Johnny stands up, pointing one finger up like he wasn't done speaking. "I want you to reassure Joey and Allison on something, without...Alice finding out," He told Norman, making him roll his eyes. "Go on," Norman said, not looking at him. "So, I told him to go ahead and have lunch with Allison, what I want you to do is go over there and convince him about maybe two Alice's to test," Johnny tried explaining to the best of his ability. "And how am I going to do that? Who knows if "Alice" i-" Norman only gets cut off by Johnny. "I just think the more the better, and maybe Susie will grow into this better," Johnny said, with Norman sighing right after. "Again...she wants to be called Alice," Norman said. "Well, she's still a Susie to my heart...to my broken heart," Johnny said, running out of the infirmary to avoid tearing up in front of Norman.
At a cafeteria type place, Joey and Allison are sitting at a table, both confused, mainly Joey wondering as to why Johnny wanted him to do this with her. That's when Norman walks in, not liking the fact he has to do whatever this is, first he has to deal with whatever rituals these ink abominations are doing and now this, Allison quickly noticing his presence. "Oh, um..hey?" Allison asked, shyly, which makes Joey look over and see Norman as well. "Oh, hey! Didn't expect to see you here! Anything bugging you?" Joey asked, noticing the disappointing look on his face. "Nothing, I kind of just wanted to check on you guys," Norman said, letting them talk to each other for a bit before bringing up the main question. "Um...Joey where has Lacie been? I haven't heard from her being here in a while, did you...fire her like you technically did to Susie?" Allison asked, unaware of what's currently ongoing with "Alice". "No, none of them were fired. Susie's just...uh, taking some time off, while Lacie was called by someone for some unknown reason. I don't know who called or why they did, but she's also going to miss a couple of work days," Joey told him. "You know, speaking of Susie, I had something on my mind," Norman said, finally deciding to ask the question. "Oh, and what's that?" Joey asked. "What if we used other people to test Alice, or make some clones before just going with one physical walking around already?" Norman asked, also trying to explain it as much as he can. It turns out "Alice" has been listening all along because suddenly, without having their attention, they all hear her say, "I thought I said no angels." Joey slowly gets up from his chair without looking at her. "Norman, Allison, I'll decide later, I have to g-" Joey gets cut off by "Alice" now behind him. "Who's that you're having lunch with?" She asked, making Joey's eyes light up in disappointment. "Was Johnny in on this entire thing?" Joey asked Norman, but just before he could answer, "Alice" goes over and pushes Allison off her chair. " I hope you two are happy for lying to me once again. Joey, you're going to regret messing with that Allison," She said, storming out of the room. "We can settle this!" Joey exclaimed, but "Alice" has already stormed out of the room. Allison slowly gets back up as Joey sighs and looks back up at Norman. "Yes, I suppose this was Johnny's doing," Norman told him, eye-rolling in disappointment because not only was he pushed into something stupid, this stupid thing also failed.
A couple of minutes later, Johnny is playing the organ, song sounding like sorrow once again, when Joey walks in, looking both annoyed and cheeky at the same time, because of the same old cheeky smile as before, and Johnny looks up. "Hey, Joey," Johnny greeted, but he doesn't respond, "Joey...I know you c-" Johnny gets cut off by Joey pulling his hair. Before he could say anything, Joey starts violently smashing his head into the organ, blood and bones slowly going everywhere, each smash ending with a scream until the fifth one, when he completely dies, all that's left of his head is an incomplete skull, Joey kind of felt bad but he knew it had to be done. "Now you will see how it's like to get punished for doing stuff that are bad," Joey whispered into his ear, despite being dead, and throws the head back down onto the organ for one more quick smash.