This week’s episode jumps right into finding out what “Thanatos,” the message Stephen got from his father while he was unconscious last episode, means.

Although the Tomorrow People are eager to find Stephen’s dad, John is skeptical this word even means anything, considering Stephen did get the message while he was unconscious. Stephen tells John, Cara and Russell that he looked into it at Ultra and all the folders were empty proving his Uncle Jedikiah may indeed be hiding something. Cara comes up with a plan to get the information out of Jedikiah by reading his mind while he’s asleep.

Despite John thinking it’s a bad idea, she and Russell, with the direction of John from the station, break into Jedikiah’s home. Just when Cara is in the middle of reading Jedikiah’s mind Russell knocks something over waking him up. Cara teleports out before he sees her, leaving Jedikiah with Russell. They battle it out while Jedikiah’s men are on their way. Russells manages to switch off Jedikiah’s chip source that was disabling his powers. As luck would have it Russell teleports out right before Jedikiah’s men show up. The only problem is he brings Jedikiah with him when he teleports back to the station. The first order of business is making sure Jedikiah doesn’t figure out where he is, since Stephen made his uncle think he stripped Cara of her powers she can’t let on she still has them. Jedikiah asks to speak to John alone. Their conversation leaves us wondering what else John has been hiding — besides killing of course.

In a flashback, we see the first time Jedikiah tests out whether John has the conviction to use his new ability to kill. John pulls the trigger only to realize the gun wasn’t loaded and it was just Jedikiah testing him. Jedikiah then gives John a real kill mission. The target, apparently, is the person who trained him. It’s clear John doesn’t want this mission by his questioning of it.

Meanwhile, Stephen goes into Ultra where everyone is focused on finding Jedikiah. While at Ultra Stephen finally comes face to face with the head of Ultra, who they call the Founder. Realizing how dangerous the Founder is, Stephen goes to warn Cara that they need to return his uncle. Cara pleads with him saying she just needs some time and asks him to stall. Stephen uses the information about the woman Cara saw while reading his uncle’s mind to distract Ultra. They determine the woman is a breakout and storm her apartment, which she luckily teleports out of before they see her. Stephen handcuffs her outside and question her relations with his uncle. Stephen finds out they’re in love and lets her go telling her this wasn’t his uncle’s doing.

Meanwhile Cara tries to get Jedikiah to tell her the meaning behind Thanatos. Jedikiah gets under Cara’s skin by bring up painful things from her life as a human, prompting her to start punching him. John steps in stopping her from harming Jedikiah further. Cara tells John that every time she’s in Jedikiah’s head there’s something about him he’s holding onto and protecting. Cara warns John that if there’s anything else he’s hiding he should come clean, because she won’t forgive him again for lying.

Cara, John and Russell get answers about Thanatos when they threaten to reveal the location of Morgan, the breakout Jedikiah is in love with, to Ultra. Jedikiah tells them Thanatos is a nickname for an old Princeton physics professor he and Stephen’s father worked with. He earned the nickname Thanatos, which means death, after many of his experiments proved to be deadly. Jedikiah gives them an address of where to find him. John, Stephen and Irene — the science genius among the Tomorrow People — go find the professor. They find the professor and learn Stephen’s dad also had the ability to stop time.

Jedikiah pretends to be choking on his dinner prompting Russell to help him, which is when he puts Russell into a choke hold. Cara, seeing this teleports and stops Jedikiah revealing her powers to him.

With the founder tracking Jedikiah, Ultra begins to zero in on his location. Sensing this, John teleports with Jedikiah out of home base. John points a gun at Jedikiah and fires several shots, but doesn’t kill him. When John attempts to teleport out as Ultra closes in, Jedikiah reveals they’re in an Ultra safe house and his powers are blocked. John is taken into Ultra custody.

Then the big reveal comes when we found out that the person Jedikiah ordered John to kill years ago was Roger, Stephen’s dad (talk about a bad friend, assuming he’s actually dead an there was no trickery involved), explaining John’s doubts when Stephen claimed he saw his dad alive.

Will Stephen and the Tomorrow People ever find out John’s biggest secret yet? So many questions left to be answered.

This week’s episode stirred up a whole lot of drama, and created a definite love triangle between Cara, Stephen and John. After weeks of origin stories and intrigue about the power structure at Ultra, this episode was almost entirely about teenage drama. So are you team Stephen or team John?

The show opens up with this week’s latest breakout, who, unlike the typical “Tomorrow People” breakouts, isn’t an innocent bystander. He turns out to be responsible for several attacks on innocent women.

The morning after Stephen and Cara’s hot night together is far from the romantic happily ever after Stephen expected. Cara instead is cold and not receptive to Stephen and quickly teleports out of the hotel room back home where she runs into John instantly. John brings her a stuffed animal as a peace offering from Russell and his trip. Things go straight to business as they learn about the recent breakout, a man who’s been using his  powers to get away with late night attacks on women. When John suggests Cara use telepathy to contact Stephen to help with the case it’s very clear by her weird response something happened while John was away.

Back at Ultra, Stephen is feeling not so welcomed as the rest of the agents blame him for Darcy’s death. Stephen already feeling down on himself decides to take some time off from Ultra with his Uncle Jedikiah’s permission. While at a Chinese restaurant dealing with his worries, Stephen is caught off guard when John joins him. Stephen spends the whole conversation being a little weird considering he knows what happened while John was away.

Astrid suggests Stephen have a little fun with his power, which is exactly what he does during a gym class basketball game he wins with a little unfair advantage. The win ends with the coach volunteering Stephen to be a replacement on the school basketball team.

John has an honest talk with Cara — apologizing again about not telling her he could kill. He ends the conversation telling her — in his way — he loves her and wants to work through things.

After teleporting home with Astrid, Stephen and her go up to his room where they find Cara waiting. Astrid, clearly seeing that the two have some things to discuss, leaves. Cara tells Stephen they need him back at Ultra so they can track down the breakout, but he changes the topic to what happened between them. Cara teleports out avoiding the drama of it all.

Stephen hosts the basketball pregame party, which gets wild, especially when Astrid catches him making out with a girl in his room. Things go from bad to worse when Stephen reads Astrid’s mind and finds out she’s in love with him. When she realizes this, she storms out.

Cara finally comes clean to John about what happened while he was away and he is justifiably hurt. Russell and them go after the breakout and prevent him from getting away with another attack. Meanwhile, Stephen’s night continues to go from bad to worse when his uncle puts a bracelet on him that takes away his powers.

Stephen is relieved when John offers to help him during his basketball game not knowing he knows about the Cara situation. John has a great time helping Stephen win while simultaneously making him look like a fool. The two have it out after the game and Cara has to break up the fight.

After the fight Stephen figures out the breakout takes his victims to the sewer so he goes after him despite being powerless. Without his powers Stephen is unable to fight the breakout, but somehow manages to telepathically connect with Cara. John, Russell  and Cara come just as the breakout pushes unconscious Stephen into the sewer water system. While unconscious, Stephen sees his dad, who urges him to go back and lead the Tomorrow People. His dad also mentions Thanatos what could this mean? John pulls Stephen out and saves him.

Stephen brings the breakout back to Jedikiah at Ultra and gets his powers back. Cara and John have an honest conversation where John tells her Stephen is in love with her. Cara admits there is something between her and Stephen, but tells John she’ll lie to him to keep the peace. She also tells John she loves him too and he responds saying that’s all that matters.

The episode ends with Stephen making amends with his best friend Astrid, where she tells him that despite what Cara is saying she has feelings for him too. Stephen makes one last appeal to Cara telling her he knows they’re the end game and are connected. John comes in, which is when Stephen tells them he saw his dad and they need to save him.