Helena Avenges One of Her Students

In an arc that spanned two issues, Helena Bertinelli’s love of children is once again, on display, as she investigates why one of her charges (David Stone) came to school with a black eye and bruises all over his face.

It turns out these bruises were administered to David by his father, Walker, a man who also happens to be a survivalist in the Timothy McVeigh vein. After David is beaten to death by his father and Helena comes across his lifeless body (in a scene that eerily mirrors her own, tragic origins), Helena vows to avenge the boy.

And she does so while learning her own lessons, and more about herself in the process. In the end, she gains wisdom out of this tragic episode, and then passes it onto their students, in hopes that they can somehow avoid falling into similarly cataclysmic fates.