In Which Stephen Makes Bad Life Decisions
Nick and Claudia have some issues to work out, namely that he kissed Claudia, yet he still loves Helen somewhat. Oh Nick, you're adorable and I love you, but forget your psycho wife who LEFT YOU FOR 8 YEARS.
Meanwhile, the lonelinest security guard witnesses a MYSTICAL PORTAL reactivate.
Off at casa de Abby, Connor and Abby are having their own issues as Abby is trying to teach Connor how to flirt. Connor isn't really a good student mainly because he's an unrepentant geek. He starts a conversation about who would win in a fight between Wolverine and Spiderman and I realize I may love this boy. THIS IS MY HOLY GRAIL OF BOYFRIENDS! Abby doesn't appreciate it though and Connor is crestfallen that Abby doesn't seem to notice her best friend is a really cute, sweet puppy of a genius who is completely hung up on her. Also, he has a dimple. The moment is ended when a lion goes missing from the zoo.
Helen sneaks up on Stephen and wants him to get her a meeting with Nick and Claudia's boss. She also kisses him in a way that is SUCH a breach of student/teacher relations. Then she flirts with him a little. I decide I HATE Helen, as I now feel she not only screwed over Nick, but also Stephen, literally and figuratively.
Abby is concerned as her boss at the zoo has gone missing.
Helen announces that the newest creature through the MYSTICAL PORTAL is FROM THE FUTURE. She fails to mention that she's the reason that it's there to begin with and assumes she can come home to Nick and mess with his head too.
Connor's bothered by the fact that he found bat blood with weird DNA. Stephen immediately recognizes the fact that the future gargoyle is going to attack Abby, so he sneaks up on her and she tries to move in for a kiss. It fails when the future gargoyle nearly attacks them. Nick realizes that the future gargoyle is a highly evolved bat. Connor gets stuck in the car with the bat gargoyle outside. Not for long, as he falls out of the car and is about to wet 'em and get eaten before Abby distracts the bat gargoyle and Stephen shoots it. Abby goes and hugs Stephen while Connor lays on the ground in the dirt. Nice.
Congratulations! The bat gargoyle had babies! Nick gets his badass on by shooting the crap out of it while holding a bat gargoyle baby hostage. Of course they have to get the bat gargoyle babies back so they can find where the MYSTICAL PORTAL is letting through mutant creatures.
Helen tries to get freaky with Nick, who isn't having any of it (as he has a level of dignity still left him). They prepare to plunge back through the MYSTICAL PORTAL and Claudia takes the opportunity to make out with Nick. Suck on that, Helen. Connor realizes that there's another bat gargoyle wandering around and Nick realizes that he's seen his own dead corpse in the future or something like that. The past can apparently take care of itself to a degree as a gorgonopsid (remember them?) kills the bat gargoyle and most of its babies, but not before Captain Ryan gets killed. NOOOO, NOT CAPTAIN RYAN! I JUST NOW LEARNED YOUR NAME! YOU MADE IT THROUGH A WHOLE SEASON! WHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYY! No, really, it's okay, he was sort of doomed from the start.
Nick comes back through the MYSTICAL PORTAL after leaving a few bat gargoyle babies behind. Helen shows up again only to break the news to everyone that she slept with Stephen. HELEN, YOU FILTHY WHORE! How could you do this to Nick?! In the mean time, I'm not as mad at Stephen as I should be, especially since he doesn't seem to feel too bad about it. What is it about the psychos that these guys seem to like? She tries to talk Stephen into going back with her, but he's having none of it either. GOOD, YOU FILTHY COW.
Suddenly Nick realizes Claudia isn't there. It appears that she never was and that sets Nick off to realize that something horrible has happened with the MYSTICAL PORTALS. Oh dear.
Next time: Giant freakin' time warp!