It rather hilariously tells you how little plot-relevant
things happened in the last episode that the recap-thing at the beginning of
this episode barely mentions it
Feraldo’s war continues - and the mayor has got his way –
the next stop on her vampire killing tour is the rich people area of Manhattan.
He makes a big speech about it while she watches him with serial-killer eyes.
Ferraldo’s speech contains a snarky reference to how rich and expensive the
area is and how her backgrounds wouldn’t let her close to it. She also
emphasises that they’re saving all of New York – and since they’re coming here
first she expects the rich folks to dip into their vast pockets to fund the
fight. The mayor is not happy about this. Nor are the rich people to which
Feraldo points out the people of Red Hook came out of their houses and fought
and died against the vampires – which she’s pretty sure these people are not
going to do that.
I like her.
Eldritch goes to find Coco in her less than salubrious flat.
He’s trying to win her back after she stormed off, making a plea for romance
and her coming back to him, waving his tragic life as a flag. Coco isn’t buying
it – he caused the break up by not trusting her and he isn’t the only one who
has had a hard past, that doesn’t mean he’s entitled to her.
Dutch and Ephraim are setting up techy things in a
sky-scraper to look at Eldritch Palmer were, possibly, in several episodes,
they may do something. But probably not. While they’re there Dutch discusses
the downsides of monogamy with Dutch referencing Ephraim’s multiple
relationships and her caught in her love triangle.
They’re there when Coco and Palmer return, it looks like
he convinced her. They mayor arrives before they can discuss their relationship
more and he’s super shocked and horrified about Ferraldo’s tax and how it’s
going to destroy him. Rather than talking to Ferraldo himself, he’s pleading
with Palmer to appeal to her. So Palmer is going on a field trip which will
give Ephraim chance to set up his sniper ambush. Yeah… last week proved that
Ephraim isn’t actually good with that rifle… has he practiced a lot since then?
He decides to drink while waiting instead. Because that’ll
work.
Feraldo is facing push back from the rich people but she
has the best “I’m not impressed” face. She’s quite happy to take her people back
to Brooklyn. She is so awesomely not impressed by their threats.
Palmer arrives and Ephraim finally takes the shot – he and
Dutch flee the scene. But Palmer is alive… Ephraim has shot Coco instead.
You had one job Ephraim!
Their escape route is also blocked. However they manage
to leave by cunningly removing Ephraim’s hat so he doesn’t look suspicious. It’s
New York, apparently in the winter. Everyone in this scene has hats – including
Dutch. Ephraim’s lack of hat, especially since he’s bald, makes him stand out
and look weird. Police are still running around everywhere. I’m not sure what
they’re doing since they have no idea who took the shot. They would have easily
got away if Ephraim hadn’t bumped into a policeman and showed off his shiny
gun.
They’re both captured.
Abraham, Nora and Vasiliy are out looking for the Occido
Lumen, which is also cursed and brings disaster as well. Apparently. Abraham
could have mentioned this earlier. They’re looking for a guy called Fornescu
who has his book (a guy Abraham knew as a kid in one of his many flashbacks).
Unfortunately there are a few of them in the phone book.
While checking many many books they hear of Ephraim and
Dutch’s epic failure. Abraham is not impressed – he’s quite happy if they’ve
succeeded in killing Eldritch. Abraham is furious that they’re running off to
save Ephraim rather than finding his all important book
While in the car, Nora is not happy that Ephraim has crossed the line to killing people.
Ephraim watches Coco in surgery and he demands that
Eichorst gets the Master help or he will desist all help. Eichorst is duly
mocking and unimpressed. She is stabilised but the surgeon doesn’t know what
condition she will be in – or I she will ever wake up.
In the police station, Ephraim and Dutch are separated and
Ephraim is visited by Palmer to confirm just how much he has failed and trying
to make Ephraim feel guilty about being a terribad man. Palmer tries to mock
Ephraim for daring to resist and not lying down and dying. Ephraim tries to
throw it back but Palmer just sees it as basic evolution. More powerfully,
Ephraim mocks Palmer for thinking even for a second that Palmer is the Master’s
equal
But Palmer has an epic come back – when Ephraim says the world would have thanked him for killing Palmer, Palmer points out the world won’t even notice Ephraim’s death.
The Master does visit Coco and Eldrith and give her some
of his silver blood. She wakes up and sees a monster lurking over her before he
vanishes. This means Eldritch now gets to give Coco the big reveal. She doesn’t
look very happy about this.
Ephraim is in prison when a whole wave of angry vampires
attack killing an entire room of cops – then Vasiliy and Nora come in and
manage to kill a the whole room of vampires. Yes the whole room of vampires
that just killed a room of armed police. Ephraim is now rescued, alas. Now it’s
time to find Dutch.
Abraham is still looking for this fecking book and getting almost as frustrated about it as I am. At last, in the last minute of the episode, he finds the damn thing. Then is knocked out and it is stolen.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH?!
Dutch has been captured by Eichorst.
So we have another episode in which Coco – a side
character who wasn’t moving the plot forward – is briefly injured before coming
back. Thereore not actually advancing the plot unless you actually think Coco
is integral to the story.
Abraham spends the whole damn episode going door to door
before finally finding that damn book and then loses the wretched thing, so
that’s another plot line doing nothing Ephraim was arrested and then
conveniently released in the most ridiculously timed vampire attack ever (with
vampires who completely ignore the humans beheading them in favour of waving
their suckers at Ephraim in a cell). I also kind of want to know if this is
really how police departments are laid out in the US? I mean, where an
imprisoned man can see into the whole office, check out whatever information
you have on your computer screens, overhear your conversations et al? And Feraldo
is now stuck in political sniping rather than vampire killing.
Dutch is kidnapped. That’s it, I could delete this whole
recap and just replace it with that line.
The mayor is not only pathetic, useless and appalling representation
– but he can’t even be a decent villain. Honestly, appealing to Palmer to real
Ferraldo in? If he’s going to be the self-interested bad guy at least give him
a little spine! He’s not just evil, he has to be pathetic as well.
