- Eph and Fet recon for an all-out assault that Setrakian assures them will finally kill the Master. Gus aligns himself with a strange new force, one that may swing the fight in an unforeseen direction.
- Palmer asks Fitzwilliam to take Setrakian's belongings in the pawnshop, including his wife's heart, to Stoneheart. Later Fitzwilliam decides to leave Palmer after becoming aware of what is happening. When Maggie Pierson and Barnes visit Palmer and she tells that she would recommend Martial Law in NYC, Palmer invites her to go to the terrace and throws her off on the street and Barnes soon agrees with Palmer that Martial Law is not necessary. Gus meets the Ancient Vampires that are sleeping but need a human that can move in the daylight to help them in a war. Meanwhile Eph, Fet and Setrakian plot a plan to hunt down and defeat the Master. Fed leads them through the tunnels and they need to fight the vampires and soon Setrakian meets the Master. The showdown will begin.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A rejuvenated Eldritch Palmer and a reticent Reginald Fitzwilliam arrive at Abraham Setrakian's deserted pawn shop. Palmer tells Fitzwilliam to box up all of Setrakian's research, but to leave Mrs. Martinez's decapitated body.
He tells Fitzwilliam to "take special care of this valuable item," when he sees Mrs. Setrakian's heart.
Thomas Eichhorst appears. Palmer is feeling great, but wondering when his tentacle will appear. Palmer clarifies that the Master didn't feed Palmer the worm. He gave him health, but not immortality. Palmer is disappointed, and angry, especially when so many other people are being turned. Eichhorst explains that's different than what Palmer wants. But first the Master has "another test for your everlasting devotion."
On a bright sunny day, Zach is excited to try out his new bike. Kelly films him for Eph, who is out of town. Zach wakes up to the sound of gunshots at Dutch Felder's loft in Brooklyn.
Downstairs, Eph, Fet and Setrakian make a plan for going back again at the Master. Fet suggest he and Eph do recon in the daylight.
When Zach comes downstairs and asks if they're attacking the Master again, Setrakian answers affirmatively for Eph, who is annoyed. Zach asks if they're going back home, and Eph says they can't ever again.
When Zach goes back upstairs, Setrakian argues against Eph sheltering Zach, including from the truth about what happened to his mother.
Meanwhile, in a dark cavernous room, the good vampire removes the hood from Gus. They're deep underground. Gus is understandably very nervous, but acting tough. The paratrooper vampire explains he didn't bring him down there to drink him, and cuts him free. Gus takes his opportunity to try to strike out, but the paratrooper vampire quickly knocks him down, chastising him like he's a misbehaving puppy.
Back at Stoneheart, Palmer adds Mrs. Setrakian's turned heart to his macabre collection of his own failed organs in jars. He's recently learned about Eph's emergency broadcast last night and the fact that the Secretary of Health and Human Services Maggie Pierson is considering quarantining all of Manhattan. Palmer wants to go talk to her, but Fitzwilliam calmly refuses to bring the car around.
Fitzwilliam coolly explains that he's done looking the other way and that Palmer's return to health is an affront against nature and god. As Palmer rages at him for his betrayal, he asks who will protect him.
"The question is, sir, what will you do without me to protect you?" Fitzwilliam says, then he boards the elevator and leaves.
Fet and Eph arrive in Tribeca in broad daylight. Eph immediately recognizes the structure above the location where they found the horde of vampires protecting the Master. "That goth douchebag," he says, looking at Gabriel Bolivar's concert hall and lair, the Vestry.
While that makes it likely the Master is inside, Fet says they have to make sure. He knows the theater's history, and the history of the restaurant across the street, including that a gangster built a tunnel to run booze between the two.
Eph and Fet explore the restaurant, which seems completely empty. They find the door. Eph doesn't love the idea of going in, but Fet argues for recon.
They enter the tunnel with flashlights and find the connecting old sewer tunnel. Fet finds a ladder and follows it up into the basement of the Vestry.
They see the Master's smashed coffin inside and a group of napping vampires nearby. Then they begin to wake up and Eph declares the recon over.
Back on the street outside, Fet opens the sewer tunnel cover to flood it with sunlight and prevent other monsters from flooding to the Vestry.
Back at Dutch's house, she's annoyed she can't get any TV channels, but Eph thinks it's a good sign in response to their broadcast. She's drinking, but he pours out her booze, saying they have work to do.
Eph finds Nora on the roof, exhausted and grieving over her mother. He tells her what they found, but says he can't go, because of Zach. She says Eph should bring him. "You do not have the luxury of choice anymore. All we can do now is fight. If you want to protect Zach, keep him by your side, always, and we'll see this thing through," Nora says.
Maggie Pierson meets with Everett Barnes, the head of the CDC, making plans to quarantine Manhattan. Eldritch Palmer and Thomas Eichhorst arrive. She says someone lied to her, or he lied to her. She's talking to the President in an hour and recommending he declare martial law in New York City. He says she'll be ending her career, but she knows people are being turned and says her loyalty is to the American people, not him.
He asks to speak to her alone on the terrace, leaving a nervous Barnes with a creepy Eichhorst. Barnes tries to make small talk. Then they see Palmer hoist Pierson over the railing and toss her off the building.
Palmer asks Barnes what he would do if he got Maggie's job in the wake of her untimely suicide. Barnes very quickly toes the vampire line, saying they'll stay the course and arguing that he was the one who fired Eph and had him arrested. "I think we'll keep him," Palmer tells Eichhorst.
Back at Dutch's, Eph and Setrakian sit down with Zach. Setrakian gives Zach a silver sword, saying it's very dangerous. Eph explains how to use it, choking back tears as he tells his young son how to kill.
"Since the beginning of Creation, boys have hunted beside their fathers. This is no different," Setrakian says.
"This is very different," Eph says, but says they'll get through it. And win.
Later, the group heads back to the passageway in the restaurant. Setrakian reminds them not to fall for the Master's mind games.
Fet leads the way into the tunnels, where they find dozens of vampires stopped by the light streaming in the open manhole cover. Setrakian explains it won't hold, they'll push through. Fet takes out the dynamite he retrieved from his place and blasts them.
They head on into the Vestry, where they face off with a dozen vampires. They attack. Nora slices off heads with abandon, Dutch is about to fire at a vampire, but she recognizes her as a friend. Then she psyches herself up to stab her and Eph finishes her off.
Fet, Dutch and Nora fight off the vampires who continue to advance while Setrakian and Eph, holding Zach by the hand, go look for the Master. When a female vampire rushes the Goodweathers, Eph fires, but she keeps coming. Zach lifts his sword and impales her.
Eph thinks it might be Kelly, but is relieved when it's not.
More vampires come into the hall's first floor, where Fet has run out of bullets. Eichhorst joins the fray, planning to drink Dutch first. Fet grabs him from behind and is grappling with him as Bolivar slings his tentacle at Nora, who slices it off.
Upstairs, Setrakian reaches the top level of the Vestry. He hears his wife Miriam's voice and sees the Master swoop by in the darkness. Suddenly, he feels the Master behind him and turns to face him. Eph and Zach creep up the stairs, and begin breaking the windows, letting the sunlight burn the Master as Setrakian swings at him. The Master flings Setrakian to the ground like he's rag doll, but the Master is hemmed in by the sunlight.
Downstairs, Fet gets clear of Eichhorst and Dutch fires silver bullets at him, then Fet launches a few silver nails into Eichhorst's face, which succeeds in making him very angry.
Back upstairs, Setrakian is back on his feet and advancing on the Master, telling him it's over. But the Master knocks the sword out of his hand.
Seeing what's going, Eph raises his own sword and advances on the Master, who turns and jumps through a wall of windows out onto the roof and full daylight.
Downstairs, Eichhorst has Fet on the ground and is ready to strike, when suddenly he and the other vampires are called backward, silently.
Upstairs, the Master sizzles in the sunlight. Setrakian raises his sword "in the name of all that is holy" and advances yet again. But the sizzling Master runs down the side of the building, scorched but alive. He makes it to the ground below and disappears.
Back in the building, Setrakian is stunned that the Master survived. "If sunlight doesn't kill him, what does?" Eph asks.
"We're lost," Setrakian says.
Meanwhile, back with the paratrooper vampires, Gus again tries to take one on and is almost politely put down. The paratrooper knows Gus drove the coffin into the city and wonders if he'd like some revenge. Gus takes advantage of the open door and runs. He's deep into the sewers when he notices he's on a puddle of something -- a lake of blood.
Lights come up and Gus sees three naked vampires on stands, resting. The paratrooper explains they're the ancient vampires and they're asleep. He speaks for them. "An ancient truce has been broken, and act of war has been declared. We need a human soldier who can move freely in the daylight, someone who can use the power of the sun to massacre the unclean," he says.
He offers Gus payback and a rich payday.
In the bread truck on the way to Fet's, Zach is having trouble breathing. They swing by Kelly's house to get his extra inhalers. Zach and Eph go inside. Eph gets the inhalers while Zach goes to get a photo album. When he comes back with it, he's not wheezing. Eph realizes he faked it just to get the album, because Eph said they were never coming back.
When Zach asks how his mom will find them at Fet's place, Eph says she will, still not telling him the likely bad news.
They're getting ready to go when they see a woman's figure outside. They look on the patio and see Kelly. She calls to Zach, but Eph holds him back, saying it's not her anymore. He shoots, but she's only wounded. She runs off.
The rest of the group comes inside and Setrakian explains the Master will use Kelly and his love for his son against them. Eph goes to the cupboard and pours himself a drink. "Let him try," he says.
At night, in the truck on the way to Fet's, Setrakian's voice over wonders if the war is already lost. "Or now that the enemy has finally shown his face, do we have a fighting chance?"
Eph watches the smoldering wreckage of Manhattan as they drive on.
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