E Pluribus Unum

**E Pluribus Unum** is the tenth episode of fifth season of Syfy's *Van Helsing* and the sixty-second of the series overall.

## Synopsis

Axel and Violet inadvertently save an important figure from America's past who could help turn the tide in their fight against the Dark One.

## Plot

Axel and Violet pull up to a market in search of a way past the wall. Axel looks around while Violet remains in the truck, given that she’s wanted. Violet is approached by Aaron, who recognizes her from the wanted posters on TV. Violet exits the truck and holds him against a wall with a knife. However, he does not intend to turn her in. He simply needs her help and offers his help of getting her though the wall to DC in return. However, before they can come to an agreement, Hopper and Biggs draw their guns and order her to step away from Aaron, who attempts to explain that Violet is the vampire cure. They aren’t interested and take Aaron away. Violet attempts to fight them off, but she is outnumbered and knocked down. By the time she comes to, the bikers driven off with Aaron. However, during the scuffle, Aaron dropped some kind of circuit board, which Violet recovers.

Axel is unsuccessful in coming up with a way past the wall to DC. However, Violet informs him that Aaron claimed he could help. Axel reluctantly follows along with Violet’s plan. They question one of the market dealers, Pauly and ask why Aaron was dragged away by bikers. Pauly reveals that Aaron busts loose from the bikers every couple weeks and always makes his way back to the market for hacker parts. He’s apparently trying to reach someone on the other side of the wall. Axel then pays Pauly in jewelry to reveal the location of Aaron and the bikers.

Axel and Violet scope out the biker’s hideout. However, they have a pretty tight perimeter.

From his bedroom, Aaron sees a light shining through his window and notices Axel and Violet just outside. He sneaks them into the house and reveals that he’s been keeping tabs on Violet since he saw her turn a vampire to a human on TV. Aaron is hoping that Violet can turn his father, who he has locked up in a cell, back into a human. Additionally, Aaron’s father is Davis Park, the 45th President of the United States.

Violet and Axel were under the impression that President Park and Aaron died the day of the Rising, which is why Archer took over, but this clearly isn’t true. Violet only agrees to turn his father back if he tells them how to get through the wall, but he explains that part comes only after they cure his father. Axel then questions why he’s being held captive by bikers, but Aaron claims that he’s not a captive and that it’s not a radio he’s fixing, rather a high tech communication array. With it, he can hopefully find his mom and Tina. Axel doubts that they’re still alive, but Aaron refuses to give up on them without knowing for sure. He simply needs to bypass the security of the comm link, but he needs his father to do so, in order to make communication with the other side of the wall. Axel then senses trouble, and Hopper and Biggs enter with their guns drawn. Hopper orders Aaron to move away from Violet . Instead, she rushes towards President Park. Violet is shot in the back by Hopper, but she manages to bite him in the process, and within moments, President Park is human again.

The next day, Aaron thanks Violet for giving him his dad back. Admittedly, Violet is still a bit thrown off by Aaron’s living arrangement with a group of bikers. Aaron reveals that during the day of the Rising, he and his dad were in the White House, and his mom and sister were in Virginia. The secret service evacuated them. They were in a convoy planned to be taken to a secure bunker, but they were attacked outside of Baltimore. Their protection detail was overrun and Aaron’s dad got bit. The only reason Aaron and his father survived was because they were locked inside a limo, which was designed to survive a terrorist attack. As Aaron’s dad was turning, he tried to fight the urge to feed, but it was too powerful. So, Aaron climbed to the front and separated himself from his father with the bulletproof glass divider, though Aaron blames himself for not doing more. Violet assures Aaron that he did the best he could. They are joined by President Park, who is grateful to see his son.

Axel questions why Hopper and a group of bikers ended up with President Park. Hopper explains that they weren’t trying to profit from him or anything of the sort. They helped simply because he was President Park, and he represents their country. Hopper refuses to allow for the vampires to take him along with everything else. Now that he’s human again, Hopper wonders what happens now.

Axel and Violet reveal to Aaron and President Park that the real Archer is dead and that her persona has been taken over by the Dark One. They need his help to reach DC and expose the Dark One. However, President Park doesn’t think anyone will listen to him considering that Archer was sworn in. Aaron tries to encourage his father to at least try, but President Park doubts that he has any power and refers to himself as a relic of the past. Aaron refuses to give up and pleads with his father to bypass the security of the comm link. With President Park’s retinal scan, they open a case containing means of communication. It serves as a direct link to operational communication at the Pentagon. Axel wants to make contact, but President Park doubts that anyone would believe it’s him, claiming that he’s merely a footnote to history. Aaron approaches his father and asks him to at least use the radio to find his mom and sister. However, President Park reveals right before their convoy got attacked, he learned that they died. Aaron refuses to give up.

Aaron refuses to accept that his mom and Tina are dead, so he intends to travel on his own. He’s using his father’s radio to track them, who also had one. Violet offers to go along with him, but he accuses her of being too caught up in her own stuff.

Hopper offers to help Axel cross the wall. There’s supposedly coyote tunnels that run under the wall in a nearby town. Axel and Hopper then spot Biggs on the ground. Violet and Aaron snuck up behind him and took off in a truck to the last location of his mom’s convoy. Axel and Hopper intend to go after them. President Park wants to join them. As much as he appreciates all Hopper has done for Aaron while he was gone, it is his duty as Aaron’s father to bring him home.

Violet and Aaron pull off onto a dirt road, and she reveals that once she was at the White House before when she was 15 years old and stole a mug. They nearly crossed paths, but Aaron remarks that Violet probably wouldn’t have liked him back then. Nobody wanted to be friends with the President’s kid. Violet then reveals that her father enrolled her and her sister into military school, and it prepared them for the world. They are then attacked by desert vampires. One of the vampires bites Violet and another vampire bites Aaron, who passes out from the blood loss.

Axel, Hopper, and President Park make their way to Violet and Aaron. President Park blames himself for the state of the world. He claims that he knew this would happen after a briefing during his first month in office. He learned of the existence of vampires, amongst other things, but he didn’t want to believe most of it. He blames himself for not taking the threat more seriously. Axel explains that they can still make it right by killing the Dark One and restoring the world, as people will need someone to look up to. He believes it was faith that he and Violet stumbled upon Aaron. They pull up to the truck that Aaron and Violet stole, but all that remains are the bodies of a couple vampires. Axel calls out to Violet, but she does not return his call. President Park begins shouting for Aaron, but Axel surmises they’ve moved on. As they’re heading back to the truck, a vampire emerges from within the sand and nearly stabs President Park, but Hopper sacrifices himself and takes the fatal blow. With his final breath, he tells President Park to save the world and that Aaron is a good kid.

Aaron claims that he can feel the change starting to happen, but Violet assures him that he is cured with her bite. Violet and Aaron then arrive at the last known location of his mother and sister’s convoy at the same time as Axel and President Park. He opens the door to his mom and Tina’s convoy and confirms that they are in fact dead when he sees their bodies inside. President Park apologizes, as he blames himself for the rise of vampires, but Aaron embraces him and reminds him that this isn’t his fault, though he does have a chance to save the world. David holds Aaron close and swears to him that they’re going to make this right. Aaron then realizes that Hopper isn’t with them, concluding that he’s dead. Aaron whimpers in his father’s arms. “I got you now,” he says. David swore an oath to protect the country and intends to see that through.

Axel, Violet, and Biggs maintain their distance as President Park and Aaron bury Tina, Aaron’s mom, and Hopper. Their plan moving forward is to find the coyote tunnels to DC. President Park realizes that Axel doesn’t plan to bring him along, as they need to keep him safe. President Park warns Axel how impossible it will be to take the White House by force, though he has a plan to even the odds. David makes contact with General Henry Lannister, who was under the impression that David was dead. However, President Park manages to prove his identity.

## Cast

* Keeya King as Violet

Supporting* Jeff Ballard as Aaron Park
* Tim Perez as Biggs
* Darcy Laurie as Hopper
* Reese Alexander as General Lannister
* Peter Kelamis as Pauly

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Van Helsing 5x10 Promo "E Pluribus Unum"SYFY's Van Helsing - Exclusive ClipViolet and Axel Bring Back the Former President - Van Helsing - SYFYViolet and Aaron Track Down His Family - Van Helsing - SYFY