What will Claire and Wes do in the aftermath of “Meltdown”? Where will The Whispers go next? Find out in our recap of tonight’s episode.

‘The Whispers’ season 1, episode 5 recap

Claire and Henry are both scanned and checked out after the meltdown, and are separated, which is painful for both after the near disaster they just experienced.

The power of the meltdown contained the same power as four Hiroshima-level explosions. It is now the most powerful potential weapon out there, and it doesn’t need to be launched to be used.

Claire and Henry are cleared of all possible side effects of the radiation they were exposed to, and when Henry comes in Claire starts to ask questions about Drill. Henry tells her that he can’t see him and that Drill uses magic to accomplish everything from restoring his hearing to controlling the explosion at the plant.

Sean Bennigan doesn’t know anything. He doesn’t know a thing about his past, about the future, and he barely knows what’s happening in the present. Wes questions him and decides to focus on what he can remember. Sean tells Wes about how he felt finding himself crashed in the desert, and saving his own life. He then tells Wes that one thing he does know is that he feels that this isn’t over. Drill has more surprises in store for them.

Lena Lawrence is keeping a close eye on Minx to be sure that she doesn’t have any more interactions with Drill. Wes comes home to tell Lena that she and Minx are going to her mother’s to try and keep them out of Drill’s reach. Lena refuses to leave. She and Wes kiss and make up.

Claire has a security system installed in their house to protect her and Henry. Henry’s a little upset, thinking that she is installing the security to watch him and keep him from Drill. She insists that’s not the case.

Lena drives Minx to school, and when Lena catches Minx smiling to herself, she asks what’s up. Minx tells her that she asked Drill to make them love each other again, and she got her wish.

Claire convinces Wes to let her talk to Sean and see if she can get some sort of answer from him. She talks to Sean, and brings him photos of their family from before they thought him dead. Sean looks at them, and admits that they look happy.

Wes leaves the room to think and the heart rate monitor read outs come back from the lie detector test. The results look absolutely impossible, but when Wes takes a good look at them, and changes the orientation to vertical rather than horizontal, he sees the shape of the mysterious rock formation he found in the desert along with Sean’s plane.

Sean asks Claire how they met. She tells how her father met him on the side of the road when his car broke down and Sean showed up to save the day. Her father then brought him home for dinner and tried to convince Claire to give him a shot. None of it has triggered any memories for Sean, despite all her attempts.

Lena takes Minx to a play place after school to hang out with some friends. When one of Lina’s mother friends tells her that the therapist they took Minx to died in a freak accident, Lena questions everything. Minx walks off to ‘talk to a friend’ and Lena starts looking frantically.

Wes is trying to figure out the significance of the fulgurite, the rock formation, and when he overhears the secretary talking about how what’s underneath is what causes things above, Wes has an epiphany. He needs to go see what’s under the fulgurite.

Sean starts showing Claire his tattoos. He explains how they keep appearing to him, and that each symbol represents a tragedy. Claire asks about one that just says AS 33, and Sean says he hasn’t solved that yet. She thinks it has something to do with the reactor explosion, and involves Arsenic, which has an atomic number of 33.

Claire stands over a pair of researchers as they search for any missing stores of Arsenic. When they clear the United States without finding anything, she asks them to expand their search worldwide.

Lena talks to the other mom about the situation. When the mom tells her that when it comes to family you do what you have to do, Lena seems reassured.

After finding no results, Claire goes home, and while she’s putting away clothes and picking up, she puts together that the AS 33 does not mean what she originally thought. It’s in reference to a baseball jersey number, on a little boy that looks like the one that was assembling a bomb earlier in the episode.

When Wes talks to the African leaders, insisting that he go underground the leader insists that he may look, but cannot take. That what’s down there belongs to his country.

As Wes watches a pair of bulldozers destroy the fulgurite to get at what’s under it, Claire goes to the home of the boy from the picture. She asks him if he knows Drill, then she sees the volcano, and he explains how the volcano works. When she asks if Drill asked him to build that, he says yes, and that if it didn’t work, he was supposed to call and ask his mom for help. Drill used Ethan to manipulate his mom, Wes’ secretary, into inspiring Wes to go look under the fulgurite. Wes watches as the bulldozers unearth a blue glowing hunk of rock.

Sean has a physical reaction to the uncovering of the blue substance, and then he knows when they discover it. He can feel it, just like he told Wes earlier.

As they dug, Wes watched as tribesmen assembled at the top of the ridge. He orders them to dig it up.

Lena is hypersensitive to sound in her dark house at night, and the slightest noises have her on edge. She fights to ignore them. Claire Bennigan calls to let Lena know that she thinks Wes is a target, and that Drill’s manipulations of Minx, Henry, and Ethan were to get to him. Lena calls Wes, and then gets a gun out of the safe and puts it on her bedside table.

Wes watches them lift that mass of rock out of the earth. When they do, all electronic devices short out. The glow gets more intense, and the African leader tells Wes that it’s his and to take it away.