Stay Away

**Stay Away** is tenth episode of the first season of Syfy's *Van Helsing*.

## Synopsis

Still reeling from the dire events of 'The Farm', Vanessa and the group find refuge among a band of humans who have bargained with vampires for peace. Their leader, however, appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Meanwhile, the true serial killer among Vanessa's group is finally revealed

## Plot

The survivors rest outside an abandoned house until they hear noises, then decide to move on. They are ambushed by several vampires. Vanessa, Sam, and Flesh fight off the vampires as best as they can; however, they run low on ammo, Susan screams as a vampire attempts to take her, but Vanessa manages to fend it off. Just as it seems the vampires will overwhelm them, two strangers appear: one with a bow and arrow, another with a sword named Theo. The two quickly dispatch the vampires and Theo tells them that it's time to go to Eden as more ferals will come.

They say they have food and medicine and they'll be safe, but Susan isn't buying it. She doesn't trust him - as everyone they meet lets them down like John, she doesn't believe that this time will be any different. They are greeted by a man named Micah, who tells them that they were lucky to be found and wonders what they were doing in the woods. Vanessa explains they were moving south, but kept running into one bad situation after another. After getting them water, Beth tells them it's best they move on before they bring trouble to Eden. A church bell sounds like before and this apparently means some kind of trouble. Micah instructs Emma to take them away quickly and to go upstairs and hide.

A group of three vampires shows up. Micah says they're three days early, but that's not a problem because they have their half. A woman known as Magdalene mentions the three dead ferals in the woods, questioning if they're being hunted for sport. Theo says they have to or the ferals will hunt them. Magdalene smells something, she says that she was told there are fugitive humans from the city and one of them is special. The vampire woman demands to know what Micah knows; he claims to know nothing and that after all that time he'd have no reason to lie. She is brought a container filled with blood and tastes it; she is pleased and tells Micah to find the woman for her. However, Micah questions what Julius wants with the woman. She tells Micah that if he questions her again, everything they have will be over.

Micah explains to the survivors that he cut a deal with the vampires as it's better than being murdered or enslaved. Susan calls it a deal with the devil. Micah says that twice a month he supplies Magdalene with a fresh blood, and in return her kind doesn't bother them. Vanessa finds it hard to believe. Beth suggests that Vanessa is the woman that the vampires are looking for; however, she lies saying that Vanessa is only looking for her daughter. Admitting to killing a lot of Julius' vampires, she says that she's lucky to still be alive, but a lot of her people aren't.

Vanessa still believes it to be too good to be true. Theo admits to feeling the same way at first, inside the walls there free from the harms outside Eden. Vanessa says they're just hiding from the truth. She tells him about Axel and how she had a friend like him who thought walls and barricades meant safety, but the real world comes crashing in eventually. Vanessa asks if he follows Micah, and he says it's not like that, but he can’t explain what it is since she isn't staying.

Flesh stands outside near a lake, thinking and reflecting. He seems to be disturbed. As Sam moves throughout the grass, he sees Mohamad's shirt hanging up on the clothes lines. He follows a man into a house, but he ends up getting locked in a cage and the man tells him curiosity killed the cat.

Susan asks Vanessa if they will move on today, Vanessa says they'll leave soon, hopefully because there's something not right about Eden. Susan barely slept last night, but Vanessa dreamt for the first time in a long time. They watch close by as Theo and another guy train, and Susan notices all the pregnant women saying it's weird that there are so many of them but no children. They hear a woman scream; inside, they find a woman in labor but there are complications. Doc will have to perform a c-section. Although Doc explains that she's not a surgeon, Beth informs her that if she doesn’t do this then the baby dies, maybe both of them. Vanessa talks Peggy through it as Beth and Doc perform the c-section. They successfully deliver the baby and Doc cuts the cord.

Afterwards, Doc sits on the bench with her hands covered in blood. When she sees Vanessa, she walks away. Vanessa asks Micah why there are no children around, and Micah says they'll be reunited with their family when the time is right. The pregnant women that come there are the daughters and wives of the men fighting the war. Susan wants to be clear that the women weren't impregnated by him. He says he's just doing his part to maintain the survival of the human race with a new generation of freedom fighters, but Magdalene isn't aware of this which is why the children are hidden. He says their motives are pure.

Vanessa finds Doc and tells her she did good and saved a life and Axel would've been proud. Vanessa asks what happened down there. Doc says that she waited, but when it was clear Axel couldn't make it, she left him. Vanessa wants her to elaborate, but Doc says that she was scared and what was she supposed to do, get bitten too? Vanessa then realizes that Doc shut the door on him. She's in disbelief that Doc left Axel to die after all he's done for her, but Doc says that she doesn't understand, she did what she had to do. Vanessa says the group is leaving in the morning and Doc can stay or go wherever, but she's no longer a part of the group.

Mohamad awakes in a room with Emma holding a rag to his head. She says a fever came on when he ate that bad mushroom. He explains that he has to go find his sister, but Emma tells him to sleep and that she'll look after him.

Micah tells Flesh the only way to move forward is to let go of the pain. He tells Flesh to place his hands on the table, close his eyes, breathe, and let his thoughts take him back to the time and place where it began.

Theo trains Vanessa in the art of sword combat. Vanessa wonders if he was this good before The Rising, but he was actually a P.E. teacher who also taught fencing. Vanessa says that she never found her calling. Theo had a girlfriend who left for work the morning of the Rising, but that was the last time he ever saw her and he never had a chance to say goodbye. Then they go back to fighting.

Inside the locked room, Sam finds several pictures, but he doesn't know what to make of them. Flesh and Doc make eye contact as he leaves Micah's place, but they don't say anything. Doc wants to know what Micah did to Flesh. Flesh says Micah showed a Flesh a path, nothing more, and Flesh is the one that took the steps, but it sounds like bullshit to her. He wants to know why Doc is so angry all the time, and she says that he doesn't know anything about her. Micah knows that she was a vampire because Flesh told him; Flesh told him everything about the former vampires, Vanessa, and her abilities, so he can understand why she's being hunted. Micah says he's a friend, and that Eden can be a place for all of them. He says Doc can either embrace who she is now, or hang on to who she once was, but she can't do both.

Sam tries to find his way out the room, knocking out a back wall.

Theo takes Vanessa to his parents' grave. He kept them safe during the Rising and brought them to Eden. His dad had a heart attack 6 months ago, and he's happy that his father passed quickly on his own terms. His mom died a month ago; she never got over his father's death. Vanessa feels bad for him and they begin to kiss. He says she bit him, but she didn't mean to - it just kinda happened. She says that she's not a vampire, at least not entirely, and he questions what that means. Vanessa explains how her abilities work: that vampires turn human after tasting her blood or a bite and ferals die. Theo realizes that they're hunting her because they're afraid, and says it's a gift, but she thinks it's a curse. Theo thinks that it gives them a fighting chance, hope instead of fear, and a better future for that baby. She asks where Micah takes the babies. He says Beth takes them to a meet up point with the Resistance, who have a camp in Seattle. They supposedly took the city a few months ago, but Vanessa says he heard wrong and Seattle isn't safe.

After escaping, Sam manages to find Mohamad and the two of them hug it out, happy to see one another. The man from earlier who had locked him the cage enters the room, and Sam grabs him, first putting him in a chokehold, then grabbing him by the throat and ramming a knife into his chest. Mohamad screams at him to stop, but he doesn't.

Beth and Peggy are on a road when they stop to get water for the horse and Beth goes into the woods. Magdalene comes from nowhere, grabbing Peggy and her child in an attempt to take them away, but Vanessa and Theo show up. Magdalene tells them if they get any closer then she'll kill both the mother and the child. They were both promised to her as part of the deal by Micah. Neither Theo or Vanessa were aware of this. Vanessa says whatever sick deal they have, it's over. Magdalene says she takes the two, and everyone else can live. Then she realizes that Vanessa is the one Julius is looking for while gripping Peggy's neck even tighter. Bath runs over, asking what Vanessa has done as they'll kill them all.

Mohamad and Sam try to leave before what they've done is revealed, but they are caught by the members of Eden. Emma says that she cared for Mohamad, and Micah feels disrespected as he offered them homes and that's how they repay him. Micah then orders them to be taken away. Mohamad wants to know what he has planned, and Flesh later suggests that he banish both of them from ever returning. He then hands Flesh the blade, telling him to think like one of them. Micah has all the survivors locked up together, he wants all of them dead.

Mohamad reveals what Sam learned while locked up: that Magdalene used to live there and she was Micah's wife, so now they have some kind of sick deal going. Micah says Magdalene was his love, but when she became a vampire, she would've killed them all, so he arranged a deal. Vanessa and Theo return, demanding to know what's going on. Theo says they don't answer him anymore. Vanessa reveals that the newborns don’t go back to the Resistance, they're given to the vampires. The community feels betrayed and Flesh finds this to be unacceptable. Micah finds this to be ironic coming from the man he says dreamed of killing his family long before he actually did it, when he became a vampire. Vanessa calls him a sick bastard and says it's all over. Micah says that the vampires will come for all of them and kills them all except Vanessa who will be taken to Julius. As he continues, Flesh stabs him in the back of the neck, killing him, saying he believed in Micah.

Flesh decides to stay behind. He says there was something good there once; Micah betrayed it, but he still believed in it. Vanessa reminds him that Magdalene will return and they're not safe, but he still decides to stay. Theo tells them where to find Magdalene, and to destroy her before she can bring others. Vanessa still has a target on her back, and her daughter is still missing, and Eden needs Theo more than ever. They part ways, but not before kissing; he tells Vanessa to keep his sword. Mohamad and Emma also part ways. As he leaves, Sam and Flesh say their goodbyes.

Doc goes out into the woods to tell Magdalene that Theo will come looking to kill her and that Micah is dead. She's angered by this. Doc says that she used to be a vampire, but was turned by Vanessa. She says she can help Magdalene escape, but first she must help Doc. As she gets down on her knees, Doc says that she was never meant to be human again, and begs Magdalene to turn her once more. She welcomes Magdalene's bite, but nothing happens. She tells Doc to stay away or die, whatever she is or whatever she was. Doc finds herself before a heap of baby skeletons, picked clean, and screams in horror.

## Cast

### Starring

* Kelly Overton as Vanessa Van Helsing
* Jonathan Scarfe as Axel Miller
* Christopher Heyerdahl as Sam
* Vincent Gale as Flesh
* Rukiya Bernard as Doc
* Trezzo Mahoro as Mohamad

* Christopher Russell as Theo
* Tom Cavanagh as Micah
* Christie Burke as Emma
* Pippa Mackie as Peggy
* Gwynyth Walsh as Magdalene
* Catherine Lough Haggquist as Beth

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