On Wednesday’s The Tomorrow People (The CW, 9/8c), John Young trades one evil caretaker for another when flashbacks reveal his troubled past and the unlikely savior who “rescued” him.

In the following exclusive video, Jedikiah arrives at the home of a teenage John (played by Mitchell Kummen) with a spiel about helping him hone his gifts and a wad of cash to pay off his abusive foster dad.

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“There’s very clearly a surrogate/mentor relationship that existed between [John and Jedikiah] back in the day,” previews executive produce Julie Plec, “and it obviously went very, very wrong.”