Death Goes On (Blade: The Series episode)
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| “Death Goes On” | |
|---|---|
| Blade: The Series episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 2 |
| Written by | David Simkins |
| Directed by | Michael Robison |
| Original airdate | July 5, 2006 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "Pilot" | "Descent" |
"Death Goes On" is the second episode from the first season of Blade: The Series.
[edit] Plot
The episode opens with a truck driving through, what signs tell us is, South Dakota. The camera cuts to a view of the newly turned vampire, ex-detective Brian Boone, who has been shrink-wrapped in plastic. Groaning, he pulls out one of his fangs and uses it to cut through the plastic that is wrapped around him, and then escapes. He is out of sight when the truck driver appears and sees that a vampire has escaped. The truck driver goes to press the emergency UV detonator to get rid of the remaining vampires, when Boone appears and kills the truck driver. Boone then detonates the UV bomb that ashes the other trapped vampires.
Krista is pacing around a beautifully panelled room. Her mother walks in with a tray of food. She screams at her mother to leave, telling her that she shouldn't be there. Her mother appears not to understand, and tries to calm Krista. With "the thirst" overtaking her, Krista jumps on her mother and rips her throat out, then screams "Noooo" as she realizes the enormity of what the thirst has just made her do. Fortunately for her and her mother, this is just a dream.
Blade and Shen are in their hideout. Shen places pictures of Chase, Marcus, Krista, and Fritz on a bulletin board. He labels Fritz with a post-it: "A new breed of vampire?" Blade asks "what is different now?" and Shen points out that "ashers" are a relatively new development on the scene, and they may be involved somehow.
A preacher is comforting a junkie girl, whom we soon learn is an "asher"--one addicted to using vampire ash as an inhalant drug that gives users vampire powers, albeit temporarily. The drug also gives the "ashers" the thirst for blood - some of whom end up chewing their own fingers off to satisfy the thirst. She promises not to use ash again, and leaves. Blade comes out of the shadows and demands to know where people are getting their ash. The pastor, who appears to have been recently defrocked, tells Blade to ask "Cain".
Right outside Krista's door, Chase and Fritz are listening to Krista scream from her dream of killing her mother. Krista is begging to be let out of the room, but the door is locked. Chase remarks to Fritz, that Krista is dead the first chance she gets.
Blade chases down an ash junkie, beats him up, and takes him back to his hideout. The junkie refuses to tell Blade where to find Cain. Blade lets the guy go after a while, because he thinks that the junkie will lead him to Cain if he follows him.
Marcus is entertaining a distinguished looking vampire named Winston, and they are discussing business in the House of Cththon. Apparently, the board is interested in what Marcus has achieved in the vampire garlic immunity program, and Winston has been sent from Prague to get a progress report. They walk in on Chase and Fritz in a laboratory. Chase has inserted a silver stake into Fritz's abdomen. She asks him if it hurts, and he says "it tickles". Winston is impressed that Fritz's body is not affected by the silver.
Krista is now in the shower, where she opens the drain and pulls out a chain of vials of the serum that Blade gave her to fight the thirst. She injects herself, and then opens the door of the shower. Marcus is waiting for her with a towel; she is surprised, but he appears not to have noticed what she was doing in the shower. He offers to take her to dinner so they can talk.
Winston leaves the mansion of the House of Chthon, but instead of going straight for the airport, he asks the driver to stop at "Mina's house". This turns out to be a vampire restaurant, where attractive young humans have been tranquilized and are available for snacking purposes. He asks for something cornfed, and is led to a backroom to feed.
Outside, a man is sniffing a vial full of vampire ash. He demonstrates to the viewing public that it has temporarily given him vampire-like powers by bending a sign post. He goes to Winston's limousine. Winston returns to the limo, and settles in for his trip to the airport. The window dividing the driver from the passenger rolls down to reveal the fake driver, whom we later learn is Cain. Cain pulls out a crossbow with a silver bolt tells Winston "Next stop, hell!" as he shoots him at point blank range. Winston explodes in a burst of flame and is ashed. Cain drives the limo back to a seemingly abandoned building which contains a fairly sophisticated laboratory for grinding up vampire bones and ash and putting it into crack-vial-like containers. Cain delivers the ash to his subordinates and then drinks some blood.
Marcus takes Krista out for dinner and tells her that they can still eat food as vampires, but it has little nutritional value. However, eating food is one way to test her newly enhanced senses. He reveals that there are 12 vampire houses. Krista takes two bites of her food, looks ill, and gets up to go to the ladies room. Blade steps out of the shadows and tells her that the serum to reduce the thirst causes nausea when it is mixed with food. He asks her to find out why Fritz was immune to garlic, and then disappears right as Marcus comes back to check on her.
When Krista and Marcus return to the House of Chthon, Chase comes in and reveals that Winston never made his flight back to Prague. She knows that he went to Mina's house, however, and Marcus asks Chase to come with him to check on what happened. At Mina's house, Mina reports that she has had several vampire clients killed by ashers recently. Marcus kills Mina and shuts down her operation.
Marcus orders Fritz to fly to Prague to demonstrate his newly acquired immunity as a result of the Aurora Project. Fritz is unhappy at not being able to finish his fight with Blade, but agrees to go. Marcus is worried that if Fritz faces Blade now and loses, Blade will dissect Fritz to find out what's made him immune and could learn the secrets of Aurora. Krista finds Fritz beating up a shrinkwrapped vampire, and takes the opportunity to ask him why he is so special. He reveals that he was a test for the Aurora Project.
Chase finds a clue to the location of the warehouse where Winston's limousine was taken. She offers to go investigate, and suggests that Krista go along for the ride. Marcus thinks that is a great idea. When they show up, the lab has already been cleared because Cain was warned by his junkie client. Cain leaves the junkie tied up in the warehouse as a greeting to Chase and Krista. When one of their vampire henchmen start to unwrap the junkie from his bonds, a bomb is triggered, and several vampires are destroyed. Krista manages to shove Chase out of the way, and both avoid the explosion. Fritz, against orders, has his driver take him to the warehouse so that he can finish his fight with Blade. Blade, following the junkie, also appears. A fight ensues, and Chase tells Krista that she must not let Blade get his hands on Fritz. When Blade is about to capture Fritz, Krista cuts his head off from behind, killing him. The resulting explosion of Fritz's body throws Krista backwards onto a broken piece of wood, which narrowly misses staking her through the heart. Blade, frustrated, leaves.
Krista is taken back to the House of Chthon, where vampire emergency services are rendered. Chase is confused by Krista's actions - knowing that Chase hates her, she still saved Chase from the explosion at the warehouse. Blade, back at his own hideout, is pulling bullets out of his chest from the fight. Shen wonders if Krista has "gone native"; Blade thinks that she did what "she had to do", and that she is "the key, the way in."
Meanwhile, back in the midwest, a Kansas police officer finds an abandoned car. While she investigates the car, she is attacked by ex-detective now vampire Brian Boone and the screen fades to black.
