Midnight Dusk

Midnight Dusk is the ninth episode of A New Frontier and marks the first epsiode where a major character can die.

Summary
Connor and Markus arrive at a dinner hosted by their friends, but are faced with the challenge of eating at the same table with a dangerous foe.

Plot
The episode opens with Lucoa Quetzalcoatl and Shouta Magatsuchi arriving home after a late night out together, where Shouta confides in Lucoa to how hungry he is. Lucoa then agrees to make Shouta dinner while hungrily kissing the boy.

A small make out session between the two ensues, before Lucoa places Shouta up on the kitchen counter while giving him her phone, tasked with calling Connor who is at Hank Anderson 's residence, as is Markus. After Lucoa begins to prep the meal, but is interuptted by a knock at her door. While Shouta at first is eager to answer, he hears the deep tone of the man asking to come in and is spooked without his surrogate mother's help. Lucoa gives a gentle giggle, explaining it is only her friend and opens the door for Dabi. The two have a short conversation before Lucoa describes how she was just about to make dinner, and proposes Dabi eat with them. Dabi agrees, seeing as Lucoa is a close friend of his, and has nothing better to do.

When Connor and Markus arrive, Markus glares at Dabi, as does Connor but of course, more subtly. Everything turns into an awkward tension as Lucoa struggles to make conversation. Moments end and Markus slams the table as she is served her food when Dabi gives a grin of taunting, as an arguement ensues. Eventually, they begin to scream in eachothers faces as Dabi tries to light Markus on fire, but Connor, with his fast reflexes and interstellar processing, pushes Markus away and takes the fire itself, in which he combusts. The scene ends with everyone drenched from the ceiling sprinklers and Markus chasing Dabi out of Lucoa's house, much to Lucoa and Shouta's anger.