Vampire: Part Two

"**Vampire: Part Two**" is the ninth and final episode of Season 1, the third and final episode of the Blood-born Assault story arc, and the ninth episode of the show overall. It is the second in a two-part finale.

## Plot

*Broken and abused, Lee thinks on the past few months. The police's assault on the catacombs ends in a bloody battle.*

## Synopsis

### Part One

#### Flash-Forward

Lee pants heavily in the same room as the last episode, blood covering his face and hair. Tears start running down his face and he stares into space. Somewhere, The Widowmaker tells him "you see? You can't protect anyone."

#### Present-Day

Outside the Blood-born's base, the members of the book club stand on one of the rooftops. Isiah turns to the others, telling them to "promise me, right now, that you'll do as I say. Nothing less, nothing more." After a moment, they all agree. He then looks back at the scene unfolding below—the Blood-born are holding back the AVD at the entrance and keeping them behind cover—before telling Jill, Heracles, and Nynaeve to go through the entrance at the church. He says that he can hear the fighting going on over there and that it will be easier to sneak past the police that way. Before they leave, he tells them that "I'll stay here. If anything changes, I'll call you." They all put on surgical masks as they go, leaving Isiah watching the street.

In the catacombs, The Widowmaker picks Lee up by the throat, his arms still chained to the wall behind him, before plunging his teeth into his throat and sucking up the blood. Lee's breathing grows ragged as he pulls away, the blood caking his mouth. He exclaims that "you taste...different. It ain't the same as a normal new blood. I don't get it." As Lee slides to the floor, the bite wound heals itself and he tries to tell him that he doesn't know. In response, he is given a kick in the gut that makes him vomit. The Widowmaker says that he knows he doesn't know, but "whatever it is, it's intriguing the hell out of me, and I want to know. Who the hell are you, Lee Gray?" Barely speaking, Lee says "just...wanted... to keep them...safe." Hearing this, The Widowmaker starts laughing when suddenly, another vampire enters the room, telling him that "they're gonna break through, we don't have much time!" He starts to leave the room but turns around for a moment, telling him that "you're weak. I see that in your eyes, Lee."

Harriet and Valerie push through a large hallway with a squad of police. They hide behind cover while they are pelted with bullets by multiple vampires coming from doors at both sides of the tunnel. Harriet asks her what they should do, having to shout over the din. Valerie thinks for a moment and eventually appears to come to a conclusion when someone grabs Harriet from behind. A large vampire with thick arms and wearing a white cloth over his head rounds the corner and throws her down another hallway and into a small room with a wooden table in the middle. She crashes into the table as she lands, kicking up dust. As she gets up, the vampire walks in after her. He goes for her again, only just missing as she ducks out of the way. She takes out her stake and lunges for him, but he stops it inches from his face. As his hands touch the silver—however—his skin burns and he screams in pain. Harriet finally manages to rip her stake free from him and drive it into his face.

At the entrance of the factory, Callahan Gritt orders his men to push into the building. They break down the door, meeting only a few vampires inside. Calahan manages to take down two of his own—shooting one and staking the other—while the others are taken care of by the others. Calahan orders them to keep pushing into the catacombs when they hear a scraping coming from one of the doorways. The Widowmaker appears from the shadows, a complacent expression on his face and a rusted sword in one hand. Calahan swallows, sweat beading on his face, and radios command. He tells them that "we have made contact with The Widowmaker. Repeat. Contact with primary target. Advise?" After a moment of silence, a man's voice tells them to engage.

Jill and the others sneak past a group of police, keeping their heads low and stopping in a small cupboard to take a breather. Nynaeve says that "if we can't find our way around here, we won't be able to make our way out, nevermind finding Lee." Heracles then tells them that they will figure something out when they get a call from Isiah. From the rooftop, he tells the three of them that the AVD have made their way into the factory, but The Widowmaker is there. He says that "if you hurry, you might be able to get him out before he comes back." Jill tells him that they can't find their way around, much less with the AVD and Blood-born going at it, to which he says that "I'm hearing lots of yelling coming from the north. It's different to the others, so maybe try that way." He hangs up and Jill asks Heracles which way north is.

In his room, Lee tries to pull himself free of the chains tying him to the wall and yelling loudly as he does do. Eventually, he gives up, slumping down against the wall. For a moment, he doesn't move, his eyes are shut and his breathing is slow. Then, he hears someone call his name. Looking up, Lee's mother stands in the doorway in the same clothes as when he and Polly left. Lee stands up, free of the chains on his wrists and his face clean of his own blood. He calmly asks what she's doing here, and she tells him that "I'm here to help."

### Part Two

Lee and Kara walk down a hallway, the stone walls of the catacombs have been replaces with dark wood. Lee asks where they are, to which she tells him they're home. They descend some stairs and come out into a warm living room. A baby Lee sits playing with some toys while an older Polly plays with him. Another Kara sits in a chair watching them, a smile on her face. Lee turns to the hallucination next to him, asking her "why are you showing me this?" She keeps looking at them wistfully. The past version of Kara then tells Polly that "he's your little brother, Pols. You must promise me to take care of him, no matter what. No matter what, okay?" Polly smiles at her mother and nods enthusiastically. The hallucination version of Lee's mother tells him that "you were a lovely baby, you know? You never complained once. I loved you both, but then..." the room grows dark and Lee and Polly disappear.

Jill leads the group down one of the tunnels. As they pass an open door, she hears something fall in the room. She stops, telling everyone to be quiet, and peers inside. Gunshots come from the room and a police officer backs out, shooting wildly before a vampire jumps on them, tearing out their throat. The man gurgles on his own blood as he dies, the vampire finally seeing Jill and the others. Before he can say anything, however, he is shot in the head by Boris. He comes out of the room with gun pointed at them—his clothes are stained with blood and he has a cut on his forehead. Finally, he recognises Jill and laughs to himself before asking if she is going to kill him like she promised. Jill doesn't answer, keeping her hands out towards him. She tells him that "we're only here for our friend. We aren't a part of this." A pained expression on his face, Boris tells her that "if you're one of them, you're already a part of this" but he lowers his gun. The others breathe a sigh of relief, with Nynaeve even thanking him, before he tells them that he knows a way out of here. Jill tells him that they aren't leaving, and he says that "the way you're going's gonna put you in front of a load of our men. I can...I guess I can show you a way past them."

The Widowmaker's sword is covered in blood. He breathes in a deep breath and wipes it on one of the bodies on the ground before noticing that Callahan is still breathing, reaching for his gun on the floor as he lays on his back. The Widowmaker approaches, kneeling down, and Callahan tells him that "you've lost. We're already inside. You're gonna lose." He doesn't react and simply grabs his neck tightly, watching as Callahan slowly suffocates and twitches. As The Widowmaker stands, someone enters the room, telling him that "we have them. Where do you want me to take them?" he turns around to face them and orders them to take "them" to Lee's cell.

Sat in their living room, Kara asks Lee why he hates her so much, to which he tells her that "you...stifled me? I wasn't allowed outside, I...you wouldn't even let me go to school." Almost whispering, she tells him "I was only doing that to protect you" and he yells at her saying that "it wasn't to protect me! It was so you could...keep me forever, or something." Kara then asks if he is so sure. Not knowing what she means, Lee looks confused, but before he can reply, the scene changes and they stand in a crowded classroom. In one corner, a younger Lee sits on his own looking glum while the rest of the class talk with each other, laughing and playing. Remembering this, Lee looks at his mother and says that "this is what you did to me, mum. This is what you *made* me. It took me a long, *long* time before I was anything close to normal. It was Polly who did that. Not you, not dad. My sister. And I have to lie to her every day, now. I can't even look her in the face anymore." Tears run down Lee's face as his mother stares at him. She reaches out and touches his face, wiping the tears from his cheeks and saying "oh, son. My brave boy. This isn't the end for you. You're going to get out of this, I know you will." After a moment, Lee breaks down, telling her "I'm so scared." She pulls him into a hug.

Still in the room chained to the wall, Lee weeps. The tears wash away some of the blood on his face, but there is still too much remaining. The door opens and The Widowmaker steps inside, saying "now, where were we?"

### Part Three

Nils cuts down a group of police, revelling in the slaughter and taking random bites out of people's throats. He laughs as he does so, even the other vampires behind him appear shocked. He walks into a large chamber filled with the bodies of vampires. In it, Deacon Min, The Scalpel, crouches down, looking at one of the bodies intently. He hears Nils enter, who stops at the sight of Deacon, but grins widely. He tells the back of Deacon's head that he has "always wanted to have a try at you. See if you're all you're cracked up to be." Deacon rises and turns to face him. He nods, saying "that's an admirable goal, friend. It's a shame that it will get you killed." Nils laughs, extending his claws out as far as they will go and bending forward, ready to lunge. Deacon, unperturbed, raises his right arm out. A long silver sword forms in his hand, the metal nanoparticles clicking into place as they move from the bracelet around his wrist into the shining blade. Nils leaps toward him, yelling maniacally and going to slice at Deacon's throat. His cry is suddenly cut off as—with one fluid movement—The Scalpel slices Nils' upper body from his legs. The vampire's body collapses on top of the ones already on the ground and Deacon whispers "a shame" to himself, the sword disappearing up his arm once more.

The Widowmaker steps into Lee's room and kneels in front of him. He wipes a tear from his face and asks "why do you cry? Don't fear death, Lee. I thought you wanted to keep the people you care about safe? That, my friend, is what you *really* should be afraid of." Lee's eyes open finally and The Widowmaker lets him go, his head dropping, before opening the door and bringing someone in. He tells Lee that "if you truly think yourself strong enough to protect the people you care about, you *will*. This is what I propose, Lee"—he looks up finally, his eyes widening when he sees Polly stood before him, her nose is bloody and her clothes are torn—"you will save your sister and you will show me what you really are, or..." The Widowmaker grabs Polly and kicks the back of her legs so that she kneels in front of Lee. He extends his nails and places them on her throat.

Boris and the others make their way through the catacombs and past a group of AVD members. Soon, he stops at a junction, pointing down one passage and telling them to keep going that way when three vampires appear from another. One goes for Jill, knocking her to the ground and making her hit her head. She resists, but the woman fighting her is too strong and comes close to biting her. Boris then appears, pulling the vampire off and staking her through the heart. Nynaeve and Heracles manage to knock out the second. As Boris pulls away from the corpse of the vampire he slew, however, the third grabs him from behind, biting deep into his neck and tearing a chunk away. Blood sprays everywhere as Heracles slashes at the vampire, cutting open his chest and killing him. Boris falls to the floor and Jill goes to him, calling his name and telling him to hold on. She presses her hands to his wound, the blood seeping through her fingers. She continues to beg for him to keep breathin, trying to think of a way to keep him alive. After a moment, she cuts her arm and tries to give some of her blood to him, but before she can move it closer to him, Boris grabs it and shakes his head, his blood gurgling in his mouth. Jill tries to tell him to "take it, you asshole!" but Nynaeve puts her hand on her arm and pulls it away. As Boris keeps trying to breathe, he smiles at her until, eventually, he stops. Jill closes her eyes and wipes her tears away before getting up. Heracles asks if she's okay, but she ignores him and walks down the tunnel that Boris told them to go down.

In Lee's cell, he begs The Widowmaker to "leave her alone. Please. She has nothing to do with this. Please! You can't do this, she's not a part of this!" but he ignores him. Instead, he tells him that "I want you to break out of those chains—right now—and stop me. I want to see you acting on your most basic of instincts. Any *vampire* worth his salt could break out of that, much less whatever you are. If not, she dies." Lee tries, pushing against the chains as hard as he can, but nothing moves. He groans loudly as he pulls, the sweat dripping onto the floor. When there is still no movement, he looks up to The Widowmaker again, begging him to stop, but he speaks over him, starting to count down from ten. When he hears this, he keeps trying, yelling at the top of his lungs, but when he still can't break the chains, he starts screaming, telling him to "let her the fuck go right fucking now! She's innocent! She has nothing to do with this. PLEASE!" Polly starts weeping silently, looking at her brother as he keeps trying to break free to no avail. Eventually, The Widowmaker reaches three seconds and Lee starts frantically punching the air to try and wrench the chains loose, screaming and crying at the same time. Polly calls out his name and he falls to his knees in front of her, panting heavily. She manages to say "baby brother" before The Widowmaker cuts open her throat. The blood sprays everywhere and Lee looks on in shock as Polly falls into a heap in front of him.

### Part Four

A million miles away, The Widowmaker tells Lee "you see? You can't protect anyone. Whatever you are, you aren't strong." Lee looks at his sister's body, her blood caked on his face. The Widowmaker kneels down in front of him, moving into his field of view. He says that "at this point, Lee, I don't even care anymore. The truth is, I just like the pain. I like seeing it. On you. On her. On the faces of all those people in that cute fucking club you have." But Lee doesn't hear it. He keeps looking at Polly, her voice—and the voices of everyone at the book club—scream in his head. Yelling at him. Begging for his help. His own voice joins the din, calling him weak and a coward. He hears Kara's voice in the doorway and looks up finally, looking past The Widowmaker, who appears confused. Kara tells him that "you weren't fast enough. It's okay. You just need to be faster, stronger, better." Lee agrees with her, nodding his head. The Widowmaker laughs to himself, saying that "it's been a while since I broke somebody like that! I'm gonna enjoy seeing how far I can break you." Lee finally appears to hear him, turning his head to look at him. With one swift pull, the chains fly off and his wrists are freed. He climbs to his feet warily, steadying himself on the wall. The Widowmaker then taunts him, telling him that "you could have used that strength about thirty seconds ago."

Lee launches at him, slashing at his chest and only barely missing. Moving out of the way, The Widowmaker returns by trying to grab him. Lee ducks and scratches The Widowmaker's side, making him howl in pain. Anger in his eyes, he runs at him, moving too fast to see. Lee moves out of the way at just the right time—a complacent expression on his face—and launches at him. He grabs The Widowmaker's legs, making him fall to the floor with a thud that sends dust flying into the air. Before he can get up, Lee climbs on top of him and behins punching him repeatedly. He tries to fight back, grabbing his arms, but Lee twists around and bites down on his fingers, tearing the first two clean off and taking a chunk from the third. The Widowmaker howls in pain, wrenching his hand free, and Lee keeps punching. Eventually, Lee begins to yell as each punch lands, knocking a few of The Widowmaker's teeth out.

Finally, he stops, sitting on top of him as blood pools on the floor. He breathes a deep sigh, closing his eyes and leaning back to face the ceiling. Coughing weakly, The Widowmaker looks up at Lee and asks through broken teeth "what are you?" He leans forward again and simply says "a vampire" before slowly lowering himself onto The Widowmaker's throat and biting down hard. He winces in pain, trying to grab his hair with his undamaged hand, but eventually, he collapses as Lee drinks his blood.

Jill and the others finally turn a corner, where they find Lee stepping out of his cell, The Widowmaker's coat wrapped around him. He turns to them, smiling faintly as he sees them, but they stop in their tracks seeing the blood all over him. Heracles looks him over, as Jill and Nynaeve look into the room, seeing the dead bodies inside. They look at each other with concern, but when Heracles determines he's okay, they all make their way back through the catacombs.

After the battle, Harriet finds Boris' body where it was left. Seeing him, she drops her gun and breaks down crying, kneeling over him while Valerie puts a hand on her shoulder.

At Jack the Ripper's apartment, three men sit with the old vampire. He tells them that "the operation was a complete success, so I heard. Most—if not all—of the Blood-born are gone, that swine The Widowmaker is dead, and the warlords now have an open slot." One of the men, tall with dreadlocks, smiles at him, saying that "I'm sure your people will choose a proper successor. Preferably one less...impulsive than the last member." Kosminski gives him an uneasy smile before mentioning that "your smell...it's odd. I don't believe I've ever smelt it before." The man nods and tells him not to worry and that "we are simply letting you know that we intend to move into the area. As for the smell, well...let's just say, we aren't vampires per se. Don't worry, you'll understand soon enough, for the full moon is coming."

## Trivia

* Last appearance of Callahan Gritt
* Last appearance of Nils Fier
* Last appearance of Boris Anderson
* Last appearance of Polly Gray
* Last appearance of The Widowmaker
* First appearance of Patrice Peletier