Last episode we saw Ephraim deciding to screw everything
in the name of his son. So time to catch up with said son who is breathing much
better now with vampire goo in him. We get an unnecessary flashback to his
birth and him being born with a caul, which Kelly thinks means they’re totally
super connected. There are many superstitions about babes born with the caul –
but I don’t think “vampire mother connection is one”. She also wants him to be
totally team Master which is a hard sell.
Ephraim is finally deciding that maybe selling out the
whole world for his son may be a bad idea, but he can’t develop that (and it’s
a bit late anyway) because Quinlan steps in with his own much more fascinating
back story
He was born after his pregnant mother was infected by the
Master, way back in days of yore (we know this because Ephraim asks personal
questions about vampire reproduction). In 58AD he was being dragged around in a
cage by humans displaying him (who apparently knew about vampires and even
respected them and didn’t recognise Quinlan as one. Ok I want to know way more
about vampire society way back then). He is found and rescued by Ancharia, a hunter,
who quickly nurtures his humanity and forms a really good maternal bond with
him, while they run as far as they can from the Master
Quinlan is known as the Invictus, the one prophesised to
kill the Master
The Master seems to know this as well because he hunts
them down – he does try to recruit Quinlan, first by appealing to him, then
when he sees Quinlan is too human he seals him in a cave with Ancharia, relying
on hunger to make him eat her. Which he does – but only when she asks him to,
professing her love for him as a son
This doesn’t make him very enamoured of the Master. Nor
does it making him less human. But he’s not ready to bring down the Master so
he runs instead to come back in the future (about 1,000 years in the future).
So back to the present where Vasiliy and Abe have
realised that the book is missing. Thankfully, Vasiliy is a suspicious man and
put a tracker in said book, allowing them to gatecrash Ephraim and Quinlan’s
book exchange, which is lucky considering the Master has, as you’ll not be
shocked, doublecrossed them.
He has a lot of vampire soldiers ready to shoot Quinlan
in the head, almost incapacitating him. Also they didn’t even bring Zach; they’re
just going to take the book off Ephraim which they can do quite easily because
he’s only human and not even really armed
Thankfully Abe and Vasiliy are not unarmed. They have UV
bombs which both take out the soldiers and incapacitate the Master. With him
helpless, Quinlan manages to cut off the Master’s head before collapsing
himself
This could be because he has been shot. Or because that
same Prophecy means he will die when the Master died
Since this is only episode 3 I can guarantee the Master’s
not dead. Especially since a worm crawled from the Master’s body into the sewers.
The Master is so not dead.
Seriously does anyone buy this?
Anyway, let’s catch up with Gus who is still bleeding
himself half to death trying to feed his vampire mother. This is when Angel
comes in and tries to intervention him. Gus is utterly unwilling to listen and
is willing to actually fight Angel to protect her. Before they come to blows,
the police arrive
It’s a mess as Angel tries to help, against his better
wishes, and they both end up arrested. I’m assuming Gus’s mother is killed
This ends up with them not imprisoned – but drafted into
the troops clearing at vampires. They’re at war and New York is drafting in
prisoners rather than locking them up. I wonder if we're going to analyse this further... the implications of this drafting of prisoners and basically sending them into a suicidal situation
