Meet Mr. Luss, evil lawyer lady Joan’s husband, arriving to
the backdrop of the news reminding us again that Palmer has found some kind of
magical miracle worker capable of bringing down cell phone and internet access
and that his children’s nanny, Neeva took the kids to her house after Joan
scared her with her growing vampiriness.
Neeva is going way above and beyond the call of duty. I
hope she’s paid well, I’m sure protecting kids from vampiric parents isn’t in
her job description.
Mr. Luss heads home- and everything is deserted, scary
and full of vampires! While he does an impressive job of freaking out mightily
and escaping the vampires that kill his foolish taxi driver, his wife still
eats him. Bye bye Mr. Luss.
To our heroes, Abraham shows off his gear and vampire
lore – including silver, with Nora providing some kind of scientific
explanation as to why. Ephraim doesn’t think the one-by-one killing is actually
going to work and he wants to use his video evidence to reveal the threat to
the public. Abraham points out that the bad guys have stopped that being a
viable option with all the phones and internet down – and he goes for killing
the Master which should then kill all the spawn. Ephraim doesn’t buy that because
science. Abraham argues back with his considerable experience and research (and
magic, but we don’t say that because we’re pretending it’s all science).
Besides, Abraham has been right all along – unlike Ephraim; he also adds that
Ephraim’s control issues are why he’s arguing. Accurate, definitely accurate
So they need to find the Master, which means tracking
down his human servants – Nora suggests Jim. Ephraim pouts.
Time for a flashback to young Abraham in the
concentration camp with young Abraham being noticed by the brutal and murderous
commandant, Eichorst. Abraham is conscripted to carve the Master’s giant
coffin.
In the present, Jim is planning on leaving the city with
his wife, Sylvia. His attempts to escape explaining things are interrupted by Ephraim
& co. Ephraim isn’t that convincing since he seems more focused on what a
bad person Jim is which ends up with Sylvia storming off (and conveniently
getting in a bus and out of the writer’s hair). Jim does describe Eichorst
which seems to shock Abraham –
but hasn’t he already seen Eichorst in the present? We have another flashback to underscore how
Abraham knows Eichorst. Including drunken Eichorst rambling on about
government, the terror of democracy and his twisted take on morality – and how
fear makes people do nothing.
Neeva is still looking after the Luss kids but her
daughter, a nurse (and with a better idea of how much an employee should
tolerate) insists on them going home. There they find the abandoned taxi – but the
kids get out and run into the house where they find Mr. Luss on the floor – and
Vampire Joan. They barricade themselves in a locked room.
Over to Augustin – he’s been arrested for murder and
no-one’s listening to his protests of self-defence, white worms or any other
vampiriness. The police just assumes he’s on drugs. His friend, Felix, who got
a vampire worm in him, isn’t doing well. The police are complete indifferent to
his condition.
Evil Palmer, meanwhile, is still evil and still very very
ill. Fitzwilliam still doesn’t trust Eichorst and Palmer is not thrilled
because he’s received a call from Jim trying to blackmail them. Eichorst
correctly guesses Abraham is behind it – and promises to deal with it.
They go to the station where the exchange of the
non-disposed body for money is supposed to take place and Eichorst meets Jim,
demands to know where Abraham (who he always calls “the jew”) is and brings out
8 levels of creepy and threats against Sylvia. He leaves and Ephraim and Nora
decide to follow him into the empty, dark subway tunnels because it’s amazing
how foolish protagonists can be.
It’s not a plan to ambush them with a horde of vampires,
but to distract them so Eichorst can get to Abraham. Eichorst spends too long
taunting Abraham though and the gang arrive in time to drive him off (rather
impressively clinging to a train) before he kills the old man. Still, I do kind
of wonder exactly what they intended to achieve and it’s probably best they
didn’t end up facing Eichorst.
Back to Neeva and co hiding in the room – just before
they’re attacked their vampire hunters all get shot… by a vampire. Another
vampire intelligent enough to talk and use weapons has just saved them. And he
leads a whole masked and hooded commando squad. Good vampire is all nice and
reassuring and examines them for
injuries – he’s a nice vampire!
Until he kills Neeva’s daughter for having an infected
nick on her hand. He calls her corrupted.
So we end with a grand revelation – anti-infected vampire
vampires! Which comes at the end of… a lot of limbo.
Argh, I thought after last episode we were beginning to
see some movement. Everyone knew about vampires, it was time for some vampire
dystopia action!
And we got… slooooow. Sloooowness. Most of the episode was, what, playing ominous wandering with Eichorst through a subway? Augustin is under arrest – we know this – so why are these two scenes here when they didn’t advance anything? The whole episode and the only relevant thing in it was the last 10 minutes – in fact, was it even 10 minutes? Honestly, the rest of it was pretty skippable
I also don’t appreciate Sylvia being loaded onto the bus.
She existed as a plot device to make Jim do something and then when she wasn’t
needed she was quickly shuffled out of the storyline
Also, where has Nora stashed her mother?
