The episode originally aired on August 26, 2009 . Cast: The scene features Tessa Taylor and Tony Rubino .
The panther didn’t run. It rubbed its head against her hand and then darted into the sawgrass. As it vanished, the token pulsed, and a vision flashed: a poacher’s camp, coordinates carved into a tree.
Tessa Taylor was not a girl who believed in ordinary summers. While other kids her age were glued to screens, Tessa was elbow-deep in swamp water, her messy red braid tangled with duckweed. She lived on the edge of the Florida Everglades, where the air tasted like wet earth and sugar from the distant cane fields.