- Sent to L.A. to interview a controversial guru, Kolchak's more interested in tracking down and stopping an extremely vicious female vampire.
- After Kolchak put a stake through the heart of vampire Janos Skorzeny and all his victims were cremated, that was thought to have been the end of the line for the vampire. However, one victim, a call girl named Catherine Rawlins was not found and after a road crew unknowingly freed her she resumes her "career". However, instead of turning tricks she uses her job as a way to meet unsuspecting victims of her own and begins a murderous rampage of her own and eventually makes her way to Los Angeles. Kolchak heads for L.A. to hunt her down and try to stop her before the City of Angels becomes the city of the undead.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>
- In this sequel to the original "Night Stalker" telefilm, a road crew accidentally unearths the grave of a vampire in Las Vegas, a female victim of Janos Skorzeny. Kolchak gets word of the recurrence of vampire-like murders and flies to Las Vegas under the ruse of interviewing an Indian guru, but soon enlists the help of a friendly real estate agent in his hunt for the home of the rampaging vampire.—acidxian
- In Las Vegas, a woman (Betty Endicott) traveling along a lonely road has a terrifying experience when she gets a flat tire. Emerging from the car to survey the damage, she cuts her finger on a tire iron and dribbles blood in the area. Suddenly she is startled by a pair of human hands that begin to emerge from the earth, as if it were a body rising from the grave. She runs off into the night and reports her experience to local police, who return to find only an area of freshly disturbed ground.
When Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is visited by a Las Vegas contact (Larry Storch), he gets a tip about a series of deaths where the bodies were completely drained of blood. Immediately he understands the implications, having once faced a vampire in the Las Vegas area. The strange deaths form a pattern moving away from Las Vegas toward Los Angeles; coincidentally, Vincenzo (Simon Oakland) starts to shop around a story about transcendental meditation, and wants to send someone from INS to interview a famous Indian guru in the LA area. Although Updyke (Jack Grinnage) is eager for the story, Carl manipulates Tony into assigning it to him, with the real intention of following up on the suspicious deaths.
In another flashback, we see a double homicide committed by the vampire, a darkly beautiful young woman named Catherine Rawlins (Suzanne Charny). She bumps into a male friend on the street in LA and he takes her back to his apartment; when she kills him, her feeding is interrupted by the man's female roommate, who also winds up a victim of the vampire.
Carl's first stop is with the sheriff of a small town where a man was found dead in his car; the sheriff is cooperative until Carl points out that the man's car had the windows taped up with black paper--on the inside. When he makes an educated guess that the body had two puncture wounds on the throat, the sheriff abruptly dismisses him.
Due to his obligation to follow up on the transcendental meditation story, Carl goes to the home of the reknowned guru he has been sent to interview only to find that the man has moved out. Instead, Carl finds a real estate agent named Faye (Kathleen Nolan) showing the house to a potential buyer. At first, Faye mistakes Carl for the exterminator, then thinks he's a potential buyer, then thinks he's a tax collector when he identifies himself as being with the "INS". Finally she understands that he is a reporter, and when she reveals that she knows a lot about transcendental meditation, as well as the famous guru, Carl drafts her into ghost writing his article so that he can chase after the vampire story. Whisking Faye to his hotel room, he leaves her there to write and rushes off to a press conference about the recent double homicide.
Carl immediately irritates the police lieutenant in charge of the case, Mateo (William Daniels), and he discovers that of course, no aspect of the supernatural is being considered in the pursuit of the case. The fact that the police have taken into custody two members of a "devil cult" doesn't help matters, since they think they have identified the culprits.
Meanwhile, Catherine Rawlins sets up with Ichabod Grace (Jan Murray), a pimp who runs a high-class prostitution service under the guise of a catering business. Grace begins sending her on calls, not realizing Catherine's true intentions.
Kolchak visits the apartment crime scene and finds Mateo there pondering the dead woman's closet, which is mysteriously empty. He angrily rebuffs Kolchak but admits that there is something unsettling about the case. Kolchak brings up the fact that he believes the murders are the work of a vampire, and Mateo immediately dismisses his idea as fantasy and chases Carl out of the apartment. In the hallway, Carl finds the building manager and craftily gets information out of him; it turns out that the dead woman was the sister of Catherine Rawlins, who seems to have killed her and then made off with most of her wardrobe. The building manager also mention's Grace's Catering, linking Carl to Catherine's whereabouts.
Carl calls Grace and tries to make a date with Catherine, telling Grace to send her over to his hotel room that night; he draws a cross on the door (using poor Faye's borrowed lipstick) and plans on either keeping Catherine at bay until dawn, or staking her. However, Grace sends another girl instead of Catherine, thwarting Carl's plan. Carl goes to confront Grace and demands to know Catherine's whereabouts, and Grace admits he sent her on a call to the apartment of a reknowned football player.
Carl arrives at the scene to find another attack in progress--Catherine is feeding on the football player when several of his teammates make a surprise visit, planning on catching him in the act. What they find is Catherine at work, and she lashes out at them, hurling them around the apartment. Carl arrives in the middle of it and before Catherine can kill him too, he forms a makeshift cross and fends her off. When the police arrive, she is gone from the room. The cops admit they chased her for blocks, but will only admit that they saw a figure with long hair, not that it was a woman. Since the coven members all have long hair, Mateo still thinks the murders are the work of a cult. Finding Carl at a murder scene puts him in the position of being able to pursue him as a suspect, but Mateo would rather Carl immediately return to Chicago. Vincenzo talks to Carl and berates him for abandoning the guru story and chasing after the murders.
Under strict orders to leave town, Carl only has 24 hours to find Catherine and stop her. With Faye's help, he goes through all of the recent rental properties until he finds Catherine's lair: a decaying mansion in an isolated location. Forced to confront her in the dark of night, Carl goes out to her house and pokes around trying to find a way inside, until finally she appears, snarling at him. Carl fends her off and runs, with Catherine right behind him the whole way. Leading her into a trap, Carl runs to a location that he has already prepared: a huge crucifix that he sets ablaze, trapping Catherine in a ring of fire. Forced to stay in the shadow of the cross, Catherine dies or is possibly just rendered unconscious, and Carl stakes her.
On the plane ride home, Carl narrates into his tape recorder that Mateo wanted to charge him with murder, but released him after reading the coroner's report, which stated that Catherine's tissue structure revealed that she had been dead for three years.
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