In April 2019, Alexandra “Alex” Chen (Erika Mori) leaves a foster care team domestic after eight years to reunite with her brother Gabriel “Gabe” (Han Soto) in Haven Springs, Colorado. There, Gabe suggests Alex round Haven, with the townspeople being specially employed by using mining agency Typhon. Subsequently, Alex meets park ranger Ryan Lucan (Eric Emery), radio DJ Stephanie “Steph” Gingrich (Katy Bentz, reprising her position from Before the Storm), nearby bar proprietor and Ryan’s father Jed, flower save proprietor Eleanor Lethe, her granddaughter Riley, Gabe’s lady friend Charlotte Harmon and her son Ethan, the town’s sheriff deputy Jason Pike, taxidermist Reginald “Duckie” McCalister III, Typhon Mining’s mine security supervisor Mac Loudon, and Typhon’s operations director Diane Jacobs.While Gabe suggests Alex his rental and affords it as a present to her, they get interrupted by using Mac, who wrongfully believes Gabe is having an affair with his lady friend Riley and assaults him. The altercation motives Alex’s “emotions” to snap, ensuing in her beating up Mac to protect Gabe. Later, Ryan interrupts to inform them that Ethan has long gone missing. The three search the mountains for Ethan, and Gabe calls Typhon to cancel a blast in the area. Alex rescues Ethan, however the blast goes off anyway and a resulting landslide kills Gabe.
Attempting to locate solutions about the instances round Gabe’s death, Alex makes use of her powers on Mac, who was once working the night time of the explosion and claims now not to have acquired Gabe’s call. She discovers that Mac tried to act on the name but his superiors at Typhon overruled and let the blast go off; Typhon are now actively protecting up their function in Gabe’s dying and pressuring him to preserve quiet. After enlisting the resource of Ryan and Steph, Alex turns her interest to Diane and steals her USB drive, which includes a recording of Gabe’s name and a message from Diane’s choicest coercing her to skip the state of affairs and proceed as planned. Alex is later arrested through Pike for theft and pc fraud however is launched after both signing an affidavit to drop her investigation or casting off Pike’s worry of Typhon with her powers.Jed takes Alex to an deserted mineshaft and confesses that eleven years ago, whilst being a foreman, he was once at fault for the deaths of a number of of his miners, which brought about him to make a deal with Typhon to cowl up the tragedy to shield himself and his family. He shoots at Alex (although the gunshot narrowly misses), inflicting her to fall into the shaft.
Alex survives the fall; badly injured, she experiences flashbacks of her childhood displaying her mother’s dying from cancer, her father’s abandonment, and her time in foster care. Searching for a way out, she finds the web site the place the miners died and discovers her childhood necklace, realizing her father was once one of the guys killed in the accident. Escaping the mine, Alex barges into the city council assembly and displays Jed’s function in each the mining catastrophe and Gabe’s dying as nicely as Typhon’s tries to cowl it up, whilst Jed and Diane strive to discredit her. After Steph, Charlotte, Duckie, Eleanor, Pike, and Ryan either help or facet in opposition to Alex primarily based on her previous choices, Alex makes use of her powers on Jed, ensuing in Jed seeing the fact of his moves and confessing to the police, ending Typhon’s operations. Following these events, Alex visualizes a conversation with an imaginative and prescient of Gabe and subsequently decides whether or not to continue to be in Haven Springs or depart to find a journey as a musician, both on my own or alongside Ryan or Steph.