She didn't answer. She was staring at a photograph of a woman she didn’t recognize, found tucked into her jacket pocket after the landing. The woman in the photo was crying.
Just as he reached to touch the screen, the monitor went black. A new message scrolled across in stark white text: The manifest is incomplete. Return what was stolen. TurbulenceManifest : Season 1 Episode 3
Inside was a single, flickering monitor. On the screen, a live feed showed the cargo hold of Flight 828. But the plane was supposed to be a charred wreck in a government hangar. On the screen, the luggage wasn’t moving, but a rhythmic pounding was coming from inside a wooden crate labeled Property of Vanguard Systems . She didn't answer
As he reached for the handle, his hand began to glow with a faint, flickering blue light—the same hue as the storm that had swallowed their plane five years ago. He turned the knob, and the air pressure in the room plummeted. Just as he reached to touch the screen,
The thumping grew into a deafening roar. Ben followed the sound to the back of the basement, tearing away a heavy velvet curtain. Behind it stood a door that hadn’t been on the blueprints.