First Blood

**First Blood** is the second episode of Season 1 of *First Kill* and the second episode overall.

## Premise

The shocking aftermath of Noah's party sparks more questions than answers. Juliette's mother jumps to conclusions. A monster zeroes in on Cal's family.

## Summary

The episode starts with the pantry scene where Juliette and Calliope kiss, which turns into a bite and staking. Juliette voice overs and cites Newton's third law, "every action has an equal and opposite reaction". Juliette falls to the ground while Calliope looks at her, confused. She walks out and then runs away from the party. On the way, she encounters a police car that chases her.

At the party, Ben is about to give Noah a drink when the lights go out. Using his phone as a flashlight, Ben doesn't notice something on the ground that he almost trips on. The light goes back on and its a bloody Ashley Stanton. A strange woman smiles and walks out while Noah calls 911.

Calliope escapes the police by cutting through a park and getting onto a bus. While there, she starts to calm down and touches her neck where she was bitten but there are no bite-marks.

At the Burn's family home, Talia walks out of her room with knives in hand while there's a strange noise from downstairs. She calls for Calliope, but noone replies, instead the two brothers join her. When they go downstairs, a monster (Shambler) is rummaging through their things. When it notices them, it throws Theo's picture of him and his mother at them. Talia calls for Theo to get weapons while they question what its doing there. Talia attacks it first and the other join shortly. The Shambler pushes the brothers around easily, knocking Apollo through a glass window.

Back at the party, Juliette wakes up and pulls the stake out from her chest. The wound starts to heal. She hear police outside and sneaks out a backdoor but forgets her phone.

Back at the Burns's home, the family regroup and notice that the Shambler is looking for something, which turns out to be a summoner amulet that Apollo took from the cemetery. Talia finishes the Shambler by cutting its head off and tells Apollo to clean it up.

Juliette arrives at home and sneaks inside, but her mother catches and confronts her. After seeing that she has blood on her cheek, she stops and calls for her husband, thinking that she completed her first kill. Margot says they'll handle everything with disposing of the body, and that she now can have her consecration ceremony, which is done on the full moon after the first kill in two weeks. Juliette objects, but her mother won't have any of it. She asks to go to bed, which her mother allows. Margot walks away, saying she needs to call her mother and tell her the great news. Sebastian says its late, but Margot says its an important event.

While Talia, Apollo and Theo are cleaning up from the monster, Theo asks Apollo when he's going to apologize. Apollo says he's done nothing wrong, and they start to argue. Talia joins in, berating him for stealing. Apollo tries to redirect by asking what the amulet was doing there, but Theo shows him the broken picture frame of his dead mother. As they are about the get physical, Talia ends the fight by throwing a knife close to them. She takes the bags of monster goo and goes outside. Calliope tries to sneak in while her mother is out, but Talia is having none of it. Talia asks where she's been, but before she can come up with an excuse, she starts to yell at her. Calliope interrupts, saying she got her first kill and staked a vampire but it didn't turn into ash. Talia doesn't believe her and tells her to go to bed and that they'll talk about it in the morning.

Juliette, at her bathroom, pulls out the stake and looks at her wound again which heals completely. She hides the stake in her cupboard.

Calliope dreams of the time she failed her first kill, which was a demon that looked like her mother. It made her loose her guard, then her actual mother appeared to kill it instead, saying "The worst monsters are the ones that appear to be human. Never forget that." Her mother then abruptly wakes her and tells her to get up.

At the city morgue, Elinor meets the morgue attendant Malcolm. She asks to see the body, but he says no. She takes the papers anyway, reading about Ashley Stanton. When commenting on that she must've had too much to drink, Malcolm says her liver was excised. Elinor asks to see the body, and after some hesitation, he does. Elinor comments that the body still has blood while he says he swears its happening again, what he used to see when he started working 25 years ago. She uses her vampire power to make him believe a fake story about what happened (and telling him not to daydrink). She takes the file and walks away.

Calliope tells her mom she had the nightmare again, and Talia shows compassion. She then tells her to show her exactly how she staked the vampire. Calliope tells her they were in a pantry, on a dare, and she saw her fangs. She does a few fake attempts which her mother easily breaks off. Then she shows her how it happened, where her mother comments that she has perfect form. She considers for a bit before telling her to go to school but to keep alert.

At the Fairmont Residence, Sebastian is sitting with Juliette's phone (which Ben is calling). He's concerned about how brutally Juliette did her first kill, that they need to be more careful. Margot dismisses his concern, blaiming his residual humanity. Sebastian says he doesn't want her to become "like him", but Margot angrily says she's nothing like him and they hug.

In school Juliet is suffering from her usual pains when she is approached by Ben. He summaries the events of the party and Jules is suprised to hear that someone died. She starts to ramble and he stops her, asking why she didn't pickup. She doesn't respond right away, so he guesses that she was still inside the pantry with Calliope. To get away from talking about what happened, she asks him to tell her what happened to Ashley. He tells her there's a vigil later that evening. Jules opens her locker and starts to suffer from blood hunger again, and notices that she's out of pills. She hallucinates seeing Calliope.

At the city hall, Sebastian is looking at the news channel about Ashley's death. Elinor comes in, giving him Ashley's file and telling him that she used her powers on Malcolm. When he says she shouldn't use it, she tells him he was about to start talking about monsters coming back. She gets angry when he compares her to her twin and tells him the gruesome details of Ashley's murder.

At the bar "Wooden Stake", Theo and Apollo meet with Clayton Cook, a guild sanctioned monster hunter for a standard debrief. He is antagonistic towards Apollo, who doesn't think he needs another lecture. Cook talks about when there were still monsters out there and Apollo is dismissive and tells him he's rambling. When giving Cook the summoner, Apollo takes it out of its protective bag and is berated once more. He says its damaged and Apollo before starting another fight, Theo stops him and Cook asks them to tell him exactly what happened.

Juliette is in her room when her father comes in and gives her her phone back. He tells her to be more careful. He reminisces about when she was younger, and she is about to tell him she didn't make her first kill, but he dismisses her and tells her its okay, but to be more empathic in the future.

At Ashley's vigil, Juliette is with Ben, Noah and his girlfriend Phillipa. Ben talks about how Ashley died in his arms, which Phillipa questions. Talia and Calliope joins the vigil too, and Calliope lies about not seeing the girl she staked.

At the Wooden stake, Elinor makes out with and feeds off a tattooed guy, then makes him forget it by using her powers.

Back at the vigil, Ashley's parent hold a speech. Juliette starts to cry and when she realizes its blood, she runs off inside the school. Calliope tells her mother she forgot a book and follows her in. Cal says she "just wants to talk", but Jules doesn't believe her and runs off. They end up on the roof. Juliette trying to stop her, explaining that she wasn't herself and saying she's not a monster, but Calliope yells at her where, in her panic, Jules' fangs pop out and they start to fight. Juliette can, suprisingly, hold her own against her and says that she's born with that kind of skill while still trying to stop the fight. After a while, Calliope hits her in her face and gets some of her blood on her. She falls down, asking what she did to her - Juliette answers that her blood paralyzes and that it'll wear off, then runs away.

At the Wooden Stake, Elinor is sitting at the bar and looking at a news segment about Ashley. She says "Tragic", and Apollo, who is also sitting at the bar, comments that he thinks its a cover-up. Elinor questions why its hard to believe, and when Apollo doesn't take her view, she starts to flirt with him. They continue to flirt for a while before he leaves. She stops him, hinting that they will hookup in a women's bathroom stall.

The next day, the girls are in trouble for going on the roof and are and sitting in the Principal's office. Juliette starts to tell a lie about her being upset about Ashley and Calliope confirms the lie. Their mothers come in and Juliette explains the situation again and apologises. Talia suspects Juliette is the vampire that Calliope staked, texting to ask her quietly. Cal answers with a look. After some persuation from the mothers, the girls are let go with an expectation to be on their best behaviour.

Juliette and Calliope walk out together. Calliope comments on that she's a bad liar, and Juliette replies that she's not a very good monster. Jules asks if everything she said was a lie. Cal initially says she wasn't there to make her feel better but notes that she was the first person to welcome her. Jules asks how she knew she was a vampire, and Cal says "everybody has a tell if you look hard enough and I couldn't keep my eyes off you". When Cal tries to leave, Jules stops her and says that even if Cal wanted to kill her at Noah's party, all she wanted to do was to kiss her and apologizes again for biting her and admits that she's had a crush on her for a while. After noting that she did bite her anyway, Jules asks if she would've staked her anyway. When Cal says yes, Jules smiles, calling her bluff since she can hear her heartbeat race as she lies.

Margot and Talia talk as they walk out together, talking about getting in trouble when they were young. Margot invites the family to dinner and Talia agrees, but her smile disappears as soon as Margot walks out.

At home, Juliette is suffering badly from blood hunger. Elinor is waiting in her room and asks her to tell her all about her first kill. When Jules lies to her, she confronts her with the stake Jules hid and Ashley's file. She calls her a terrible a liar but doesn't push the issue further, just says she's there if she wants to talk.

When Calliope gets home, her father and parents' Guild hunter friends, Mike, Sarah and their daughter Tess, are there. They say that Calliope was right, the girl is not just a vampire but a legacy vampire which are very hard to find. And thanks to her they now know where they are - and each and every one of them must die.

## Cast

### Starring

* Sarah Catherine Hook as Juliette Fairmont
* Imani Lewis as Calliope Burns
* Elizabeth Mitchell as Margot Fairmont
* Aubin Wise as Talia Burns
* Jason Robert Moore as Jack Burns
* Gracie Dzienny as Elinor Fairmont
* Will Swenson as Sebastian Fairmont
* Phillip Mullings Jr. as Theseus Burns
* Dominic Goodman as Apollo Burns
* MK xyz as Tess Franklin
* Jonas Dylan Allen as Benjamin Wheeler
* Roberto Mendez as Noah Harrington