Forgive Us Our Trespasses

"**Forgive Us Our Trespasses**" is the second episode of Season 2, the second episode of the Full Moon story arc, and the eleventh episode of the show overall.

## Synopsis

*Jill shows Lee a new side of the city. Heracles' son gets into trouble and Isiah offers to help. Harriet investigates Boris' death.*

## Synopsis

### Part One

#### Flash-Back

A young Heracles without his injured face sits at a park bench. He watches a young boy, his son Darra, as he plays on a set of swings. As he sits in silence, his phone buzzes in his pocket and he grabs it. A text from Isiah tells him that "you've been made. He told them. I'm sorry." Heracles looks up at Darra—who still plays around, oblivious—and whispers "no" to himself. He looks at the people around him suspiciously and gets up slowly when someone taps him on the shoulder. He turns around quickly, seeing a young member of the AVD. He tells Heracles that "if you come with us quietly, the kid won't have to see you get hurt." He nods over at Darra, but he does not move.

#### Present-Day

Heracles wakes up in his room, the morning sun shining on his left eye. He sighs deeply and sits up. When he decides to get out of bed, he blinks as his eye tells him he is getting a call. He answers, speaking to the air and asking who is calling. When a voice in his ear says "dad?" his eyes widen.

Jill leads Lee into a nail salon. Wearily, Lee asks her what Under London is and why they are going to the salon, to which she tells him to "just be quiet and let me get us in, okay?" She looks back at him for a moment before walking in. The woman inside leads them to the back where she uncovers a small tunnel just tall enough for them both to walk through from behind a wooden wardrobe. Jill wires her some Neo-Euro and they climb through, the hole being filled once more. As they walk down under the earth, lit only by the torch on their phones, Jill explains that "Under London's a city...well, under New London. It's a bunch of caves we used after World War Three to hide. It's grown since then and there's tons of different ways to get in. This one should take us out near the Goat's Head. It should be safe enough to bring back this Fassa guy, if we find him." When he asks if she's been there before, she nods telling him that "if you're a vampire without any other choice, you go to Under London."

At the university, Isiah sits at his desk when Heracles pushes through the door. He asks if he is alone and then tells him that "Darra found me. I don't know how, but he knows where I am, *who* I am. He's..." Isiah get out of his chair and tells him to calm down before shutting the blinds and locking the door. He then sits Heracles down and tells him to tell him what he knows. He says that "he...he tracked me down a while ago...told me that he's in some kind of trouble. I don't know what, I just...hearing his voice, Isiah...he sounds so grown up." Isiah puts his hand on his shoulder before telling him that he will help "but we might need some more hands, if there's too much trouble."

They find Strepp at Paperback, asleep on one of the tables. Heracles kicks his leg, waking him, and says that "we need your help...you know, if you're not too busy." Yawning, Strepp gets up and follows them. Before they can leave, however, Nynaeve stops Isiah and asks if he has seen Jill, to which he shakes his head. When they have gone, she calls Jills phone but gets no answer. The library's owner, Bernadette, then comes out from the back, asking if everything's alright. Nynaeve smiles and says that "everything's fine. Just trying to call my friend."

As they reach the end of the tunnel, Jill and Lee are stopped by two men wearing white tragedy masks. When one of them nods at Lee, asking why he smells different, Jill shrugs, telling them that "he's new-blood. Not all there, yet. You gonna let us through, or what?" They consider it for a moment, then step aside. They step out onto the peak of a large rock. Past them, a large city can be seen. Many of its buildings are made of stone or are embedded into the walls surrounding them. The streets are lit by dim orange lights and people mill about them, keeping to theirselves. As Lee stares, Jill nudges him and tells him they should go.

### Part Two

Heracles and Strepp sit inside of a cafe facing the window, the former taps his foot on the floor nervously as he waits. Strepp asks him how long it has been since he saw him, to which he says it's been twenty-five years. Strepp then comments that "he'll almost be as old as you were, then, right?" Heracles nods, closing his eyes. As he peers outside, he gets a call from Isiah, who says that "he's here. Coming down the street, now." When Heracles sees him through the window, he tears up and Strepp asks him if he's going to be okay. He nods, gulping hard.

At the AVD, Harriet walks to the front doors, protestors from the Brotherhood of Haem stand behind a small metal fence holding signs accusing them of murder. As she walks in, Deacon waits inside. He asks her what he thinks of those outside and, after a startled moment, she says that "I think it's disgusting. A lot of us do. To back the enemy so adamantly..." Deacon raises his eyebrows, asking if she "never met a vampire who didn't want to kill? Who wasn't completely unredeemable?" She doesn't reply, remembering when she met Lee. He then tells her that "I read your report on the night we found the sewer base. You telling me that guy didn't deserve help?" She avoids his eyes for a moment, then looks at him, telling him that "he's had months to turn himself in, now. He's just like the rest of them. An animal. If I see him again, I'm going to kill him. Just like any vampire I meet along the way." She then continues walking.

Jill and Lee walk into a small room with two beds. A window at the end looks out into a dingy street with a sign that says "The Goat's Head." The two talk about the next steps, with Lee saying that they should ask around about Fassa, stating that "if he's here, we'll find him." After a moment, she asks him if she can ask him a question. He nods—standing at the window and looking out—and she says "how did you beat him? After all that, how did you do it?" He's silent for a few seconds before replying that "I don't know. It was...it was like something was telling me what he was going to do next. It was like...something woke up. Am I...am I crazy? I don't—I don't know." Jill breathes a sigh of relief, whispering "Ultimate Instinct" to herself. She tells him that "it's called Ultimate Instinct. Only a few vampires get it. It's some genetic mutation. Allows you to predict things that are about to happen. You aren't crazy, Lee. You're just...lucky, I guess." Lee's mouth twists and he repeats the word "lucky" before telling her that "no part of my life has ever been lucky. It's just been one tragedy after another, and I'm the one who has to watch it all happen. *I'm* the one who's too weak to stop it." Jill tries to apologise, but before she can he walks out of the room.

Heracles approaches Darra from behind, calling out to him. When his son turns around, he comments that "you've grown up" and tears begin to form in his eye. Darra points to Heracles' eye, telling him that doesn't remember it, to which he tells him "it happened on the day that..." They stand awkwardly for a moment before Darra says that "I wanted to find you, after. Dad wouldn't let me. He...called you a monster. Said that—" but he cuts him off, telling him that it is okay. Darra then tells him that "there's this guy. I just moved here, and...he wants money I don't have. I think he's...like you. He's scary and I can't afford to pay him, so I thought...I hoped that—" Heracles tells him that he will do it, asking the man's name. Darra then tells him that "he called himself Patrice."

Harriet walks into an interrogation room, a young vampire is sat opposite Valerie, who smiles at the man and says that "you're not a bad kid, I can see that. How long has it been since you were turned? You don't want this life, I can see that." The vampire doesn't look at her, but twiddles his thumbs nervously. Harriet stares daggers at him before saying that "you aren't in a good situation here, kid." Valerie doesn't react and backs her up, saying that "look, you've been caught. You're done" he looks increasingly distressed until she tells him that "we can cut you a deal. Tell us where you were going, and I'll arrange you a trip to the TVCs. We don't need to go killing you." He breaks down, telling them both that "I was just supposed to help load up this truck. Food. That's what was in there, I think. I don't even know where it's going!"

### Part Three

#### Flash-Back

Heracles runs down the streets, gunshots whizzing past him. He ducks into an alleyway, coming across a group of officers. He doesn't stop running, instead cutting through two of them and dodging the attack of another before coming across a much younger Callahan Gritt. Panicking, Gritt slashes at Heracles wildly with his stake. He dodges, but too slowly as his left eye is cut. He cries out in pain and falls to the ground clutching the side of his face. Calahan, holding the stake with both hands, goes for another attack. He dodges, lashing out and kicking him back. He scrambles up, running as fast as he can, blood leaking from his ruined eye and tears streaming from the other.

#### Present-Day

Patrice sits alone in Heirloom, Kop watches him suspiciously. Heracles walks in, wet from the rain outside. He says nothing to Kop and Isiah and Strepp come in a few moments later. They hang around the register while Heracles sets his phone on the table, sitting across from Patrice. He tells him to do the same, saying that it's "common courtesy here. Makes sure you can't call in anyone if things get..." Patrice nods over to Isiah and Strepp while he puts his phone on the table, saying "it looks like you already have" but he shakes his head, telling him that "if it came to that, I wouldn't need them. You threatened my son, which means that you know he's my son, which means you know exactly who I am. So, let me ask you this before I decide if killing you will be worth disposing your body: What the fuck do you want?" Patrice remains unwavering and his smile doesn't falter. For a tense moment, he doesn't reply, then he says that "I have to say, I'm almost impressed. There are still corners of the undercity where the name Heracles scares even the strongest man. Unfortunately, I am not from Under London. But you know what I want. Fassa. Tell me where he is, and your son will not come to harm." Heracles doesn't reply, but his face is like thunder and the orange iris of his fake eye flares.

Lee leans against the rail of a rickety wooden bridge, a stream of water running below is tinted orange by a streetlight close by. He rubs his hands together nervously until Jill finds him. When he asks her how she found him, she tells him that she "went where I would go if I had no clue where I was." She then asks him if he's okay, and he nods quietly. She tells him that "it's okay not to feel strong enough. Like you...can't do the things to think you should. I...I lost a friend of mine during the raid. I couldn't save him, even though I tried. But...just because I wasn't strong enough to save him, doesn't mean that not saving him is my fault. It's not." Lee doesn't reply for a while and she joins him in leaning on the rail. He then asks her why she is helping him, to which she says "because I've been where you are, right now. You know that you won't find anything at the end of this road, right? It won't make you feel any better." Lee nods and says that "I have to do this. I have to know." She nods in agreement, then he pushes away from the bridge and begins walking away. Jill, however, tells him to stop, walking up to him and telling him that "I'm...not gonna wait around and sit on this, so here goes." Suddenly, she reaches up and kisses him. For a moment, Lee is startled but eventually accepts it. They hold each other for a few moments before breaking apart slowly, not speaking.

In a final montage, Harriet approaches a truck calmly. From her phone, Valerie tells her that "I don't approve of this. At all. But be careful, okay?" to which she says that she will. She sneaks into the back slowly, hiding behind a barrel of food. Heracles returns to Darra, who hugs him tight when he tells him that he is safe. From afar, Isiah and Strepp watch on until Strepp gets a phone call. His face becomes pale and his eyes widen.

## Trivia

* First appearance of Under London
* First appearance of Darra
* First appearance of Bernadette Downes
* First appearance of the Brotherhood of Haem
* Last appearance of Callahan Gritt (*Flash-Back*)