After a whole lot of
side plotting last week, we return to the sisters, Vanessa the Honey Badger
(who is surprisingly non-badgery this week) and Scarlett.
They’re studying the
book that their mother left them that apparently contains all the scary secrets
about the first. Only they can’t figure out what these secrets are (though,
amusingly, Vanessa tries to stab secrets out of the book). They do talk about
what their mother wanted or even why they had the elder blood in a vial -
Scarlett even gave some of it to Doc because she just has no other idea
A random vampire
attack spatters blood on the book and it reveals a map!
Sister road trip!
They steal a boat which gets Vanessa shot with a shotgun which is briefly
inconvenient but yeah they’re this immortal. They arrive on an island,
abandoned now the last survivor on the island has committed suicide, and find
it eerily well preserved, untouched since the rising.
They find a projector
and do some random puzzle-game steps to change the map enough for them to find
their X - a cross that needs opening with magical Van Helsing hands just like
the first elder’s home. And inside they find another elder.
Jacob Van Helsing
Abraham Van Helsing’s
brother, vampire hunter, vampire and elder. Which raises so many questions!
What a shame that he speaks nothing but cryptic nonsense
Also this actor plays
Bobo Del Ray on Wynonna Earp, who knew you could be typecast as an insane
rambling vampire? How is there even this many roles for this to become a thing
for an actor?
His babbling is
frustrating to parse, he explains he was turned chasing an elder with his
brother Abraham (and he and that elder fell through a portal into a labyrinth
which could be just about… ANYTHING?!). And he became an elder because he was
chosen to be one. So elders can pass on their rank? Or they can lose it? Do
they just pass on the totem? SO MANY QUESTIONS HERE!? How come no-one asked
about the whole elder transfer process?!
He also babbles a lot
about how he expected siblings - and only one can survive. He basically hints
at a prophecy/fate/destiny that means only one of them will survive. Which also
hints at maybe one sister killing the others
What’s also
interesting is he can drink Vanessa’s anti-vampire blood - something he (and
somewhat leerily, she) seems to find seductive and he comments on Vanessa
feeding on herself to boost her own powers with blood. Because he did the same
thing
Yes we have a huge
revelation here - because previously it had been implied that Vanessa and
Scarlett had their super powers because they were experimented on as children.
But apparently it’s a Van Helsing thing, at least a little.
Oh and Scarlett has
his totem already - it’s the necklace of elder blood.
Vanessa is
surprisingly patient with him and even lets him out so he can help them and
being shockingly calm about his crypticness. Who knew the Honey badger could be
this calm? Of course she does say they’re going to kill him and they’ll just
kindly make it quick.
He does beg for them
to change him back to human - but Vanessa refuses because every time they do
that they change a bit more - presumably this is why Vanessa is becoming more
and more badgerlike. And despite Scarlett having done it so much less, she refuses
to let Scarlett try… which seems… bizarre? Why? One more bite for a relative?
Who wants it?
Apparently not
Eventually he escapes
and makes an attempt to convert Scarlett - who refuses and he knocks out, newly
empowered on Vanessa’s blood. But not before he tells her that, he lied, this
wasn’t forced on him, he chose it because he needed to become this powerful to
do what must be done
Which brings us to
Vanessa: the sisters confront Jacob and he bites her… and it’s really
disturbingly sexual. Really really sexual. And Scarlett is disturbed
And then Vanessa
bites him. And then rips out his neck. Scarlett is more disturbed. Then Vanessa
keeps ripping out gobbets of flesh with her bare hands and teeth and Scarlett
has a quiet utter freak out as Vanessa is utterly covered in blood and
surrounded by gobbets of flesh. She ripped and elder apart with her bare hands
and teeth
Scarlett is really
not happy and I can’t help but agree with her. Scarlett remembers all the times
Vanessa talked about her growing monstrousness and she begged Scarlett to stop
her before she turns into a vampire or something worse.
Which is when Vanessa
escapes, abandoning Scarlett on the island and taking the totems with her. She
explains she’s doing this protect Scarlett because she loves her sister and
believes Jacob’s prophecy
Scarlett is not
pleased
And Vanessa finds the
man who shot her and kills him. Yes she’s definitely gone over the edge. We’re
way beyond honey badger now.
