Alexander Teplov

Mládshiy serzhánt **Alexander Teplov** was a sniper of the Red Army. In late 1945, he was aboard an Allied hospital ship when it was sunk by a German U-Boat. He survived in a life raft with, Malone, Jane Prescott, Lydell Jackson, Nathan Sinclair, Jimmy Bigelow, and Gerard Faraday. One night they spotted a ship in the distance and Malone decided to fire a round from his rifle to draw it's attention, only to discover it was a Kriegsmarine minesweeper. They managed to board the ship, thanks to some sharpshooting from Teplov, but Malone was killed as he tried board when a rung on the ladder snapped and he fell into the sea and was then pulled into the propeller.

The remaining survivors investigated the seemingly-abandoned ship, with Sinclair, Teplov, and Bigelow going to the bridge and finding that the steering wheel had been chained in place. They also found the body of one of the German crew, decapitated and with huge veins extending out of his neck and sticking to the wall. Below-deck, Jackson checked out the engine and found bodies that had been burned to death, and also discovered that the boiler had failed and the ship could explode at any time if the engine kept running, so he shut off the engine, leaving the ship dead in the water.

The survivors regrouped in the galley and discovered a young girl hiding there. The girl was frightened and bit Jane's hand when Jane attempted to reach out to her, but Jane calmed her down and comforted her. When the girl finally spoke, Teplov identified her language as Romanian despite not being able to fully understand it, and the girl introduced herself as Mya. Mya led the survivors to a heavy locked door further below-deck and the group heard a man speaking German on the other side. They cautiously opened the door and found a surviving German crew member wielding a Luger, who became terrified at the sight of Mya. He fired at Mya multiple times, wounding Teplov in the leg and hitting Jackson in the head, killing him. Teplov killed the German survivor with a knife. Bigelow and Sinclair investigated the room that the German survivor was holed up in and found multiple large wooden boxes, a box of Nazi gold, and a box filled with crucifixes and transparent glass containers shaped like grenades that were filled with water. Jane, Teplov, and Mya returned to the galley where Jane treated Teplov's bullet wound.

Faraday had run off when the shooting started and attempted to reach someone on the ship's shortwave radio. Sinclair and Bigelow looked through the quarters of the ship's dead captain, finding a wealth of photographs and documents showing Nazi soldiers unearthing ancient artifacts, including what appeared to be multiple sarcophagi. They also found a thick tome showing images of monstrous creatures. Bigelow decided to go back to the storage room to take some of the gold for himself, and also opened up one of the large wooden boxes, which contained one of the sarcophagi from the photographs. He broke the chains holding it shut and opened it, hoping to find more treasure, but instead found a slumbering creature with a bat-like face. The creature suddenly awoke and killed Bigelow. Sinclair then encountered the creature as it attacked Bigelow but managed to lock the storage room door, trapping it inside. The creature's awakening triggered a transformation in Mya, who was revealed to be of the same species, and she suddenly attacked Jane, but Teplov shot at her, scaring her off.

Sinclair reunited with Teplov and Jane and informed them of the monster in the storage room. Meanwhile, Faraday made contact with a German over the radio and offered up classified British information in exchange for rescue, but he was attacked by Mya. Sinclair, Teplov, and Jane looked over the documents and film in the captain's cabin, and when Teplov looked at the tome, he recognized the monsters depicted inside as Strigoi, fairytale creatures that were said to feed on the blood of their victims and have the power to shape-shift and command the minds of others. In the storage room, the male strigoi opened the second sarcophagus and bit his own hand, spilling blood into the open mouth of the female strigoi sleeping within, awakening her. Sinclair, Teplov, and Jane resolved to find Faraday and then kill the strigoi using the holy armaments in the storage room. They found Faraday, but he had been bitten by Mya, which allowed the Patriarch of the strigoi to psychically control him. Speaking through Faraday, the Patriarch taunted and then attacked the remaining survivors, but Jane killed Faraday by stabbing him. The survivors then went searching for Mya. Jane found her and lured her to the upper deck where Sinclair and Teplov trapped her in a small room that they had doused in gasoline. Teplov then dropped a lighter through a hole in the wall, igniting the gasoline and burning Mya to death. As she burned, the Patriarch initiates a psychic connection with Jane through the bite she received when they first discovered Mya, which had slowly grown worse. Jane slipped away from Sinclair and Teplov and went below-deck, freeing the pair of strigoi; the Patriarch then bit her neck.

Teplov wnet back to the storage room to arm himself with the holy weapons stored there, but was ambushed by the Patriarch and bitten in the neck. He managed to escape by wounding the Patriarch with one of the holy water grenades and a flare gun recovered from the captain's cabin. Meanwhile, Sinclair, while searching for Jane, encountered his estranged wife on the upper deck. He broke down upon seeing her, but Teplov found them and saw that it was actually the Matriarch using her powers on Sinclair. Teplov broke the illusion by firing the flare gun into the air, getting Sinclair's attention at the last second and saving his life. Teplov then wounded the Matriarch with the heavy mounted machine gun on the ship's highest deck and Sinclair finished her off by decapitating her with an axe. The pair heard a distant ship approaching, alerted by the flare gun, so they agreed to find Jane and then destroy the Nazi ship by detonating a warhead in the munitions storage in order to kill the Patriarch. They went to the munitions room and found it full of infected German crewmen, but they fought through the strigoi and killed them all. Teplov then revealed his neck wound from the Patriarch and decided to stay behind to detonate the warhead himself, ordering Sinclair to escape with Jane. Sinclair went back to the upper deck and found Jane, who appeared disoriented and told Sinclair to leave her behind, but he ignored her pleading. Teplov attempted to detonate the warhead by bludgeoning it with his axe and was stopped at the last second by the arrival of the Patriarch, who froze Teplov's body with a psychic attack, but Teplov freed himself from control by pressing a crucifix into his neck wound, severing the psychic connection between him and the Patriarch. He slammed his axe into the warhead, detonating it and causing a chain of explosions across the ship as Sinclair and Jane jumped overboard. Sinclair dove underwater to rescue Jane, and began yelling and waving at the approaching British ship, but when Jane regained consciousness, she was revealed to have been infected by the Patriarch, and bit Sinclair's neck, killing him and then letting him sink into the ocean. Jane was then rescued by sailors of a British ship.