The Septimus Wave

The Septimus Wave (L'Onde Septimus)
Date	2013
Series	Blake and Mortimer
Creative team
Writers	Jean Dufaux
Artists	Antoine Aubin, Etienne Schréder
Original publication
Language	French
Translation
Publisher	Cinebook Ltd
Chronology
Preceded by	The Oath of the Five Lords
Followed by	Le Bâton de Plutarque

The Septimus Wave is the twenty-second Blake and Mortimer book in the series. The story was written by Jean Dufaux. The book was drawn by Antoine Aubin & Etienne Schréder and was released in 2013.

Plot

This is a sequel to The Yellow "M", and deals with Olrik's past with Septimus.

In London, several months after the outcome of the case of the yellow mark, four admirers of Professor Septimus - Lieutenant McFarlane Lady Rowana, banker Oscar Balley and Professor Evangely - preparing to continue his work in secret. Colonel Olrik found refuge in the Chinese establishment Miss Lilly Sing, where only morphine injections allow him to forget the torments that subjected him to Septimus. Centaur Club, the Captain Francis Blake of MI5 has warned his Millovitch by Deputy Home Office a new unbalanced wanders near disused hangars at King's Cross station, used by the Banks staff team of secret services during the last war. Blake and Millovitch go there and while the police encircle the individual, it is struck by an electric shock. Meanwhile, in a house in Newham, professor Philip Mortimer puts the current in his laboratory. There rebuilt the invention of Septimus, the télécéphaloscope, he hopes to master to put it at the service of psychiatry. His faithful servant, Nasir, who disapproves of his research, press to talk to Blake. After the departure of the professor, the machine returns alone on and Nasir sees a disturbing shape emerge.

The next day, Blake is furious to learn the nature of Mortimer research. But busy with another matter, he asked the teacher to accompany him to the interrogation of the first unbalanced found near King's Cross. They discover that the latter escaped from Bedlam Hospice cared where the Major Banks and his men. The tramp begins to recite a litany Mortimer recognized as one Septimus was telling his victims. In the street, Blake and Mortimer are victims of attempted murder by a car driver whose lifeless body was found surrounded by arcs before catching fire. Plagued by a bad feeling, Mortimer returned to his laboratory, where he says Nasir seeing the Septimus spectrum out of télécéphaloscope. Meanwhile, the Professor Septimus, yet died, quietly walk in a district of London in search of her guinea pig (guinea pig). At Miss Sing, Mr Kim Ku-Dum, former interrogator of the Yellow Army hypnotizes Olrik to help him break free of his demons. The criminal then sees a crowd of Septimus demanding his return and Professor Mortimer reactivate télécéphaloscope. Buoyed by these visions, Olrik tries to escape but Miss Sing is waiting outside to present him to lieutenant McFarlane.

At Bedlam Hospice, Blake and Mortimer discover that the Blanks Major and his team are immersed in a frenzy as they prepare for enemy attack. Blanks told them he sent two of his men to abandoned hangars King's Cross to find a mysterious machine. Upon leaving, the two friends find themselves Team Blanks knees reciting the litany of Septimus. Blake decides to explore his men immediately the basement disused warehouses in search of the machine. They discover a huge unknown craft resembling a spaceship. Inside, Blake finds himself first in the British Museum reading room surrounded book The Mega Wave Septimus, then face a scuba individual trapped in a glass column.

For its part, Mortimer was invited by Lady Rowana to attend a private party of four admirers of Septimus. He discovers that they too have rebuilt a télécéphaloscope and have recovered Olrik as a guinea pig. Including their evil intentions, Mortimer damage the machine before being knocked out. Meanwhile, a host of Septimus press outside the warehouse. Oscar Balley, who was hit by one of them disappears in a cloud of smoke and Septimus appears in its place. In their cell, Olrik and Mortimer decided to ally temporarily to be able to escape, but Lady Rowana releases and expose their whole situation. The teacher makes the assumption that there is another wave generator mega both télécéphaloscope stimulated and that the image of Septimus, kept in memory, replicate indefinitely. Olrik and Mortimer join with sewage professor's lab in hopes of finding a way to end the phenomenon.

At 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister tells Captain Blake that the mysterious craft, Orpheus, was discovered by Major Blanks team during the last war and that its existence is kept secret in order to be studied by scientists. Without orders or against-orders of his superiors, Blake decides to destroy the Orpheus and makes himself inside with explosives. In laboratory Mortimer, professor uses télécéphaloscope Olrik on giving him this time control of the mega wave. Colonel Blake joined and enjoined from, then, managing to resist the orders of the mysterious diver triggers the explosion. Orpheus disappears in a column of light. A few days later, Blake and Mortimer discuss their adventure while qu'Olrik, which is not free income of his experience, finds himself interned in Bedlam Hospice with Blanks staff team. All repeat the same word as the diver: 'Asylum.'