- After discovering the potency of ultraviolet light against the strigoi, Setrakian gains a new and unlikely disciple. A quick trip to a Brooklyn convenience store turns into a deadly all-night siege.
- Eph, Nora, Jim and Setrakian go to a pharmacy depot seek out ultraviolet lights to fight the vampires but the place is closed. Eph decides to break in and surprisingly there is no activation of the alarm system. They stumble upon the looter Vasilly Fet that has already taken the lamps. They negotiate to split the lamps and they go to a convenience store to buy some supplies. Out of the blue, the place is under siege of the vampires and they team-up also with Dutch Velders, who is shopping with her girlfriend, trying to flee from the place.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Below Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan
Ephraim Goodweather, Jim Kent and Nora Martinez pick Abraham Setrakian up off the subway platform. He explains that Eph wounding Eichhorst with a shot to the leg won't slow him down much as he'll heal quickly, but it will send a message to the master. "Really, really don't like the sound of that," Kent says.
They realize the tunnels are the perfect habitat for the creatures that are destroyed by sunlight and now that it's night time in New York, the city is an open buffet. Unless they can simulate their own sunlight, Eph suggests.
In the tunnel at E. 77th St Station, Manhattan
Eichhorst limps down the tunnel and hops onto the platform, angry and in pain.
Eph, Kent and Nora pull up to a medical supply store but it's closed. Their cabbie drives off, stranding them. Eph sees a window and breaks in. In the warehouse in back Nora thinks she hears something. They come around a corner and run into Vasiliy Fet with his gun drawn.
He thinks they look like looters, but Eph explains they're from the CDC. Vasiliy says he's a looter, but puts his gun away. They find the location for the UVC lights, but Vasiliy already has all 12 of them and has figured out how to use them.
Nora demands half of them and Vasily agrees.
Outside, Nora, Jim and Eph head to a gas station across the street to load up on supplies. Setrakian is curious about Vasiliy, especially when he says he knows the subway tunnels very well.
Jim tries to pay for things, but the credit card machine is slow. In the shop, Dutch, the hacker, responsible for the internet and phone outages gives an acquaintance some cash and takes responsibility for the technological issues. (As a side note, creature master Rick Baker waits in line behind Kent.)
Outside, Vasiliy doesn't think the creatures are vampires, but more like "rat people." Setrakian excuses himself to go hunt down a strigoi across the street.
In the shop, Nora tells Eph she expects looting and panic to follow. They see the strigoi come up to the window and watch as Setrakian lops its head off and confronts another one.
He hears the Master's voice, then shoots the approaching thing with a nail gun before taking off its head. Another comes up behind him, but Vasiliy takes care of it. Inside, Dutch freaks out.
Strigoi quickly surround the shop and Rick Baker dies a gruesome death at the tentacle of one of his creations. Kent goes inside to plug in the UVC lights as Eph, Nora and Setrakian try to fend off the approaching horde.
Inside the store, Kent fumbles with the lights an extension cord and makes his way outside in time to fry one of them as it charges. Another gets close and knocks Jim down. The group collects him and makes their way inside the station as the strigoi continue approaching. They can't use the UVC lights through the glass. The clerk and a bread truck driver aren't sure what to make of the fact they've just been locked in by a bunch of gun wielding strangers.
Kent goes to the bathroom to wash out his cut. It's unclear if he's infected or not.
Dutch asks Setrakian what's going on and thinks he's kidding when he says vampires. "Does he look like he's kidding?" Vasiliy asks.
Inside the convenience store, Nora is having pangs of guilt over what they're doing. Eph races to charge the lamps so they can walk out of the store.
In the bathroom, Kent tends to his cut, which still seems to be just a cut.
In the garage bay in back, Setrakian explains to Vasiliy that the strigoi are waiting for reinforcements. Vasiliy asks for the rules on how to kill them.
The brain stem must be destroyed or severed; only silver works from guns. The nail gun he got rom Home Depot.
Vasiliy introduces himself and says good-bye.
In the convenience store, Eph tries to convince everyone to pitch in. But Dutch's friend Nicki is freaked out and angry at her. She unlocks the door and runs for it over the objections of everyone. She's able to dash and dodge her way through the slow moving strigoi.
Eph realizes they're not following her. They're not here for her.
The bread truck driver and hacker are ready to make a run for his truck, but Setrakian lectures that the strigoi thrive on discord and dissention and they need to work together. But Dutch and bread truck driver don't listen and head for the door.
The bread truck driver gets attacked before he makes it to his truck. Dutch falls and is about to be easy prey when Eph runs out and saves her. Inside, he announces that no one leaves until they all leave.
Setrakian says they won't make it til morning, more vampires will be coming, sent by the Master, who can see through their eyes. This is not welcome news to Eph.
Vasiliy decides to buy $50 worth of lottery tickets from the clerk Hassan, figuring his luck can't get worse.
Nora catches a glimpse of Kent's small cut on his face and is concerned. She holds a UVC light to his face and she and Eph watch as something slithers beneath the surface.
Eph starts preparing to cut it out of him. Setrakian watches warily.
Eph and Nora lay him down and race to cut him out as Vasiliy notices the vampires are on the roof.
They're looking for multiple points of ingress, just like any other vermin.
Kent starts to get frantic as Eph warns him the box cutter he's about to use on his face is going to hurt. Kent doesn't care.
In the garage, Dutch suggests they take the wheels off the truck with no engine and put them on the truck with no wheels.
Eph slices open Kent's cheek and waits as the worm slithers to the opening. Then he removes the worm and fries it with the UV light. He stitches up a grateful Kent, who realizes they saved his life and his soul. Kent and Nora take a moment to realize they may have an early intervention protocol.
Then they hear Hassan screaming for help as vampires start breaking through the front glass walls using tools. Kent uses the UV light and Setrakian shoots one with a nail gun. Setrakian realizes something is up and they go outside to see a vampire scampering up a pole to take out their power. Setrakian shoots at him but doesn't hit it in the head soon enough. The power to the store goes out.
Inside, they set up the charged UV light but hear screams from the garage. Vasiliy and Dutch are being attacked. The garage is being surrounded. Setrakian announces the bread truck is their only hope, even though the keys are still in the dead bread truck driver's pocket. Dutch doesn't like the idea.
"Fine. We'll put it to a vote: Who wants to stay and die?" Setrakian deadpans.
He asks Vasiliy for suggestions for getting to the truck. They start grabbing lighter fluid and rags. Eph notices them trying to get in through the HVAC ducts. Setrakian says in one month they'll be fully mature, not like Eichhorst -- he's one of the chosen that was allowed to retain some of his former self.
Vasiliy tries to convince Hassan to leave his protective glass bubble, but he's more concerned with who's going to pay for everything. Vasiliy gives him his $250 winner.
Eph mixes Molotov cocktails as Jim Kent wallows in remorse and gratitude. But as he's talking, Eph sees another worm slither across Jim's face. They peel up his shirt and notice he's crawling with them.
Eph tries to convince him they can take him to a hospital and try to treat him, but Jim says they have to kill him. "I'd rather be dead than turn into one," Jim says.
Setrakian confirms for Jim that once he turns he'll go after the people he loves. He urges Eph to "release" Jim before he turns. Setrakian starts to draw his sword, but Eph stops him. Vasiliy steps him, grabs the gun with silver bullets from Eph's pocket and shoots Jim in the head.
Eph attacks Vasiliy, who says he did it because Eph couldn't. "You were arguing when we need to be moving. I did your friend a favor," he says.
Nora cries over Jim's body and Setrakian says a prayer.
Suddenly the noises in the roof get louder and the group makes its way outside -- Hassan refuses to go with them.
Outside, they huddle in a circle, holding up the UV lights and tossing Molotov cocktails. Vasiliy heads for the gas pumps, asking to borrow a credit card in the chaos. (He's currently in a dispute over his credit limit.) He punches in Eph's zip code and then awaits authorization.
He announces he's approved then fills up buckets with the gas as they make their way to the bread truck. Eph gets the gruesome task of digging through the bread truck driver's pockets for the keys. When he sees the driver is still alive and muttering in pain, Eph contemplates and then shoots him in the head.
Vasiliy hurls a final round of flaming bottles at the vampires as everyone jumps into the bread truck. Vasiliy flattens one on his way out of the lot and they head down the street and into the night.
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