- Vicki's investigation into the disappearance of a homeless woman brings her up against a creature that may be more powerful than Henry. Elsewhere, Mike is approached by a mysterious stranger who knows more about Henry.
- Vicky is approached by a street woman she knew when she was a beat cop asking her to investigate the disappearance of four of her friends. She doesn't want Vicky to call the police and Vicky finds enough evidence in the homeless camp to believe there has been foul play. She needs Henry's help but he is working against a deadline to get his next book completed. When he visits the site, he senses there is a creature there praying on the people in the camp. They believe they are dealing with a Windigo, an aboriginal flesh-eating spirit. Meanwhile Det. Celucci investigates the case of a street walker who is found dead, drained of all her blood. The case strikes him as the work of a vampire and Henry is still his prime suspect. He gets some interesting information from a stranger.—garykmcd
- When a fourth homeless person disappears and is presumed by the homeless community to have been murdered, her friend Annie takes up a collection and offers the proceeds ($98.56) to Private Investigator Vicki Nelson if she'll help find Francine's killer. Francine's body hasn't been found, so Vicki snoops around the park where the homeless live and finds drag marks that lead to a storm sewer where she recovers Francine's bloodied purse. She asks Henry to also snoop around the sewer to see whether he can find anything that she might have missed. What Henry finds is a torch of fire waved at his face by a Native American named Peter, who claims to be hunting the wendigo who killed his father years ago. A wendigo, Peter explains, is a cannibalistic spirit who drinks the blood, eats the flesh, and sucks the marrow out of the bones of humans. And if a wendigo sees you, he adds, you are marked for death.
Meanwhile, Vicki takes Francine's purse to Mike Celluci at the TPD and asks him to have the forensics team bag and log it for her. In return, Mike asks for Vicki's help on a case he's been working on...a "working girl" found murdered, drained of blood, and with bite marks on her neck. His only lead is a strange-looking man he noticed in the crowd surrounding her body and who disappeared when the police photograph turned to get a picture of him. Chief Crowley thinks that Norman Bridewell, the "Vampire Killer", may be back, but Mike is placing his suspicions elsewhere...on Henry Fitzroy. Mike wants to talk with Henry and needs Vicki to set it up for him.
Mike's case against Henry gets a shot in the arm when he is visited by the strange-looking man that he saw in the crowd amassing around the body of the "working girl." Javier Mendoza [Julian Sands] introduces himself as a church official who is also hunting for Henry. Mendoza produces photos of a young girl named Delphine Guillaume that Henry killed some 60 years ago. Mendoza asks for Mike's help stopping the vampire, but Mike isn't sure that would be ethical on his part and prefers to go about it legally. Unfortunately, the meeting between Mike, Henry, and Vicki doesn't go well. Not only does Mike present Henry with photos and questions about the recently-murdered "working girl," but he also slaps him with photos of cold case murders from over the years. Henry denies knowing or killing any of those girls, but when Mike shows him the photo of Delphine Guillaume, Henry admits to killing her back in 1944.
Although Henry is now super POed at Vicki for the grilling he took from Mike, he and Vicki decide to take another look in the sewer. They pass pools of blood, piles of human bones, and torn clothing, and when they get deeper inside, they hear growling. Before they can determine where the growling is coming from, Peter shows up with his burning torch. Suddenly, the three of them are attacked by a tall, thin, humanoid figure with huge teeth and ghostly white skin and hair. Henry goes after the wendigo, but it knocks him to the ground, grabs Peter instead, and runs off with him. Vicki notices wounds on Henry's neck that don't appear to be healing. He says that he's lost a lot of blood, so Vicki rolls up her sleeve and offers him her arm. Henry refuses and walks away, the intent being that he'd rather get it from someone else.
Backed into a corner because of his knowledge of Henry's vampirism, his belief that Henry is a serial killer, and the fact that he won't be able to get Henry prosecuted anyway, Mike finally determines that his primary goal is to get Henry off the street and decides to go along with Javier Mendoza. He meets with Mendoza, who assures him that he's doing the right thing. Once a vampire has tasted a lover's blood, as Henry has tasted Vicki's, he will eventually kill her, Mendoza says. He asks Mike to help by placing an eight-rayed, gold medallion, which he calls the "illuminatione del sol," on Henry's chest. It will sap him of his powers so that I can cure him of his urges, Mendoza explains. Mike agrees to do it, even though he knows that Mendoza will be acting outside of the law. In actuality, Mendoza is currently holding Delphine in chains, after making her confess that it was Henry Fitzroy who turned her. Mendoza removes the illuminatione del sol from Delphine's chest, and she reminds him of his promise to free her. The rising sun will free you, Mendoza assures her as he pulls open the curtains.
Meanwhile, Coreen has been googling information about the wendigo and discovered that each American Indian tribe has their own version of the wendigo and how to kill it. Silver bullets and fire seem to be the most common, but without more information about this wendigo, it's going to be difficult to determine which method will work. Then Vicki remembers Peter's story about his father's death. Peter was sitting near the campfire, and the wendigo didn't come near him. In the sewer, the wendigo grabbed Peter, but only after Peter dropped his torch. "It's afraid of fire," Vicki concludes. "All we need is a flame-thrower." Coreen just happens to have one!
Once again, Vicki and Henry descend into the storm sewer, this time armed with Coreen's flame-thrower, which they tested before going down. When the wendigo appears, however, the flame-thrower doesn't work, so Henry is forced to wrestle with the wendigo while Vicki pulls down a live electrical cable and tosses it in the water in which the wendigo is standing. The wendigo is knocked for a loop, but he amazingly gets back up and starts advancing on them again. Suddenly, Mike appears and fires several bullets into the wendigo, causing it to explode. They were silver bullets, he explains, given to him by Coreen.
When Vicki asks Mike what he's doing there, he says that he has something for Henry. Before anyone can stop him, Mike whips out the illuminatione del sol and slaps it on Henry's chest. Immediately, the medallion digs its rays into Henry's chest and embeds itself. As Henry slumps helplessly to the ground, Mendoza appears. "Time to pay for your sins," he says to Henry. When Vicki attempts to intervene, Mendoza calls her the "vampire's whore" and forces Mike to hand over his gun, lock himself and Vicki inside the sewer gate with Mike's handcuffs, and toss Mendoza the key. While Vicki looks on helplessly, Mendoza drags Henry away. [Full synopsis by bj_kuehl]
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