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(siren blaring)

(footstep thumps)

(person panting)

(heartbeat pulsing)

(person panting)

(heartbeat pulsing)

(footstep crunches)

(heartbeat pulsing)

(surprised music) (victim gasping)

(victim screaming)

(dramatic music)

(attacker biting)

(siren blaring)

(frantic music)

(wings beating)

(mysterious music)

(air whooshing)

(fire roaring)

- Mrs. Merrin?

- Yes.

- I'd like to talk to you about your daughter Ashley.

- Has something happened to her?

Is she dead?

- No, I think she's alive.

I'm trying to find her.

- Why, what did she do?

Come on, you're a cop.

I've had people like you sniffing around here before.

- I'm just trying to help her.

- [Teenager] Okay, Mom, I'm ready.

- I'll just be a second, honey.

Hop in the car.

This was taken just before she disappeared.

She'd look 10 years older now.

Do you think you can find her?

- You haven't seen her at all

in the last 10 years?

No phone calls?

No rumors about where she could be?

- She used to hang out on the east side.

She was always into the wrong people, the wrong things.

Her so-called friends back then claim

they don't know what happened to her.

She used to hang around that goth club down

at Howe and Davy.

Maybe you can look for her there.

- Thanks.

- If you find anything out,

I'd like to know.

But if you could call next time.

Emily doesn't really remember Ash.

I'd rather keep her out of this.

- You don't have to do this.

- That's true.

- I mean, it's probably just a wasted effort, you know?

Probably shoot up again.

- I think you should finish your soup first.

- I've had slips before,

not since I started the program.

Total failure.

- We've all had slips.

- No.

Morgan's the one that got me off it the first time,

but every time I've gone back to it,

it's because of him.

- Maybe.

- What's that supposed to mean?

Don't give me your inscrutable sponsor crap.

If you think it's me.

If you think I'm just a hopeless case,

why don't you just say so?

- Not until you eat your soup.

(hard rock music)

(air whooshing)

(hard rock music continues)

- Ashley Merrin?

Ashley, I know you're here.

I just want to talk to you.

(heartbeat pulsing) I want to help you.

(air whooshing) Uh!

- [Ashley] Ugh!

- Ashley?

(Ashley growling)

(thunder rumbling)

- Gabe?

Gabe?

What happened?

Where did all this stuff come from?

(thunder rumbling)

So this is how you get into the attic.

Great choice.

Put it in the kid's room.

Hey.

This was my mom's.

This is all my mom's stuff.

Oh, I can't believe that ended up here.

That's our family bible, Gabe.

Can I see?

Your grandma had this with her all the time

when she was in the hospital at the end.

Oh, I used to hang out with her every day after school.

She'd ask me to read her stuff from it.

I wish you could've met her.

(thunder rumbling)

Hey, do you want me to show you a game I used to play?

It's kind of like a magic trick.

So you hold the book like this,

and you close your eyes,

and you ask a question you need an answer to,

like, I don't know.

Will I get the job at the flower shop?

Okay.

Revelations chapter six.

Lots of good job advice in here.

And I heard a voice in the midst

of the four beasts say,

"A measure of wheat for a penny,

and three measures of barley for a penny."

Okay.

Sort of plant-related.

I, yeah, I guess you kind of have to read things into it.

It sort of made sense when your grandma did it.

But right now, the answer to

can I climb around in the attic all night is

no.

Into bed.

(Ashley growling)

- Ashley? (Ashley growls)

- Blood is. Blood.

(thunder rumbling)

Blood. Blood.

- Ugh!

(Ashley growls)

- Need blood!

(thunder rumbling)

Uh.

(thunder rumbling)

- I don't have much.

You'll have to go slowly.

Uh.

Ah.

(thunder rumbling)

(Ashley sighing)

If you talk to me, you can have more.

Ashley, you've gotta talk to me.

I want to help you,

but we've only got 46 hours left

to try to save your soul.

(sad music)

Can you tell me why you wanted to be a vampire?

(Ashley struggling)

Where do you go when the sun comes up?

Does it have to be somewhere special?

Look, I can't help you if you don't talk to me.

(Ashley screaming) (flesh sizzling)

- That hurts!

(perilous music)

(Ashley whimpering)

(gentle music)

- Made a little withdrawal from the blood bank?

Our most recent public opinion survey finds

most people prefer red blood cells with beef,

white with chicken. (chuckles)

(air crashing)

- I see you're still not above rigging the game.

- What'd I do now?

- I only have 48 hours to try and save a client

who sleeps 12 hours a day.

- (sniffs) Don't be silly.

Everyone knows vampires aren't real.

Although, 33 percent of those polled believe in ghosts.

And a startling 79 percent believe

that Jesus Christ's mother gave birth

without having sex. (chuckles)

- Get out.

I have to wake her up.

- No time to answer a few simple questions?

Personally, I've found that 54 percent

of those polled will open their door

to a complete stranger holding a clipboard. (chuckles)

Excellent for business.

Huh? Yeah.

- I spent hours getting this.

- Can't.

- Can't what?

- Don't be stupid.

- Can't drink blood out of bags.

- Why not?

- I have to suck it myself from the living.

- The people in the alley,

are they the kind of people you drink from?

- Junkies don't notice the extra holes.

I take it (coughs)

from their arms and their legs,

where they shoot up.

Disgusting.

- So no one knows about you?

- The junkies don't seem to remember afterwards.

I guess the drugs take care of that too.

- Or the devil does.

- You an angel or something?

- I work for the devil,

but he lets me try to help people who've made deals.

- (laughs and coughs) Wow.

I just knew he was a nice guy.

I'm hungry.

- We talk first.

- I hate foreplay.

- I talked to your mother.

She's hurt and angry.

- Life sucks.

- Ashley, some-

- It's Ash, just Ash.

- Someone has suffered

so that you could live out your fantasy

of being a vampire.

If you don't find that person and make amends,

the rest of eternity is gonna feel like what happened

when you got hit by that ray of sunlight.

- Wow, that was a hell of a pep talk.

Go team.

- Come on.

We can't waste any more time.

- I can't.

I have to eat.

(siren blaring)

- I figured we'd start by going to see your mom.

- No!

My deal didn't do anything to her

that I wasn't already doing.

- Ash, this isn't going to be pleasant.

- I said I didn't wanna go, all right?

Whatever else you want me to do I'll do,

just not that.

- All right.

Why don't we start with one of your junkies?

(elevator dings)

- Hey, how you doing?

(button clicking)

Little shopping trip,

for groceries.

(button clicking)

(elevator dings)

They don't sell groceries in the elevator.

Maya, if you keep making it about him,

you're gonna spend your life going up

and down in the same elevator.

I mean, it's not even a metaphor.

- Don't make fun of me.

- Baby girl, I am not making fun of you.

I'm just trying to save your life.

Help me.

(melancholy music)

- [Morgan] Why would he still be here?

Is this where he buys his drugs?

- He lives here.

He's an old guy.

I was starving.

I know he was really scared.

(melancholy music) (fist knocking)

- Oh God, no! (dramatic music)

Keep her away from me!

(victim screaming)

You tried to kill me!

You're a murderer!

Help me!

Somebody help me!

Help me!

- I think we should get out of here.

- On the bright side, he's still alive,

and he didn't turn into a vampire.

- Don't be stupid.

You can't turn someone into a vampire

just by drinking some of their blood.

Stop it with the cliches.

(dark music)

(gentle music)

- Revelations again?

What a coincidence.

I've always liked the part about the seven seals.

I think the guy who wrote it worked

in an aquarium. (chuckles)

Now, don't worry.

I'm just here to ask a few simple questions.

Number one is, why the heck don't you talk?

Hmm?

Everybody wants to know.

Okay, I'll make that one no comment.

Number two, what's with the whole vision thing?

Are you psychic or what?

Huh?

(gasps) I think I'm picking it up on a signal.

(gasps) I'm receiving it.

I'm receiving it.

I think I'm receiving a signal.

Young man, such language!

(laughs) Just kidding.

But it seems like you've got a question

of your own, don't you?

Well, maybe you could whisper it to me.

Hmm?

Did Mommy go to hell?

Hmm, that is an interesting question.

Huh.

No, I don't believe you're gonna find the answer

to that in here.

Well, she did get very close to that Morgan Pym fellow,

and you know the kind of things he's into.

(air crashing)

- Ah!

- Yes, I know.

Doesn't look good, does it?

But then, 98 percent of those polled believe

that people who work for the devil are evil.

- So you're not a cop?

- No, I'm just a friend trying to help.

- Help her how?

- Stop it, Mom!

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him.

- And why are you here?

- I thought maybe you'd be glad to see me.

I guess I was wrong.

- Oh, I see.

You screw up your life,

get kicked outta school,

ruin my marriage.

- You did that.

- Disappear for 10 years, never call me,

then show up here with no warning with some stranger,

and I'm the one who's to blame.

Did you know Danica was dead?

Car crash.

- Yeah, I knew that.

- Christ, Ashley, she was your best friend.

Even if you didn't care about the rest of us,

at least you could've gone to her funeral!

- Ash.

- This was a mistake.

- Oh, that's great, run away.

You've had plenty of practice at that!

- [Emily] Hey, Ash.

- Emily.

- Hi.

- You're

big.

- You look just the same as your pictures.

- Yeah, I guess I just live, right?

How's it going?

- New dad, same old crap.

- That's enough.

You don't have to try to impress her.

- I'm not.

I'm just trying to talk to her,

which is more than you are doing.

- You don't understand what this is about.

- She just got here,

and you're already trying to drive her away.

- I'm not!

- I think we better try this another time.

- Don't kid yourself.

There won't be another time, will there?

- You got that right.

(door slams)

- I just don't think I should be here.

- Why not?

- I put a needle in my arm six days ago.

- At least it wasn't during the meeting.

It's really disruptive when people do that.

- You're doing it again.

- What's that?

- Mocking me.

Why don't you just say it?

- Okay.

Say what?

- That I'm a failure.

That I'm never gonna stay straight.

- You don't know the future.

- The program doesn't work for me.

It says I'll be restored to sanity,

but I can't if I was never sane in the first place.

- You know, that's a really persuasive argument.

I guess I should start shooting up again.

- Oh, forget it.

Forget this.

Forget you.

Forget me.

Forget all of it!

- Firing your sponsor is generally considered a red flag.

(alternative rock music)

- Ash, we've gotta go back.

You gotta try to connect with your mom.

Ash.

Ash!

(alternative rock music continues)

(indistinct lyrics)

Okay, why are we here?

- Because I like to dance.

- We only have a little over a day left.

Ash, we're trying to keep you outta going to hell.

- I used to come here with Danica, okay?

(hard rock music)

I miss her.

- Tell me what was happening

when the devil came to see you.

- I never fit in in anywhere.

You know?

I thought it would be like joining a secret club.

Dress in black, never get old.

It was cool forever.

- He told you there were other vampires?

- I told him.

I thought I knew everything.

I'd been doing research my whole life.

The Aztec legends, Vlad the Impaler,

that blood disease, porphyria.

I wasn't just going off the garbage

about garlic and crosses from bad movies.

I thought I knew the real rules.

- So he took your rules and made you live by them?

- And the joke on me was,

there were no others.

I was alone.

(hard rock music)

- Ah!

Uh!

Ugh!

♪ I hear you say ♪

(fighter grunts)

♪ When you warned me to ♪

- Stop that girl!

She's a vampire!

♪ You're in my world ♪

- You bunch of freaks!

♪ When we were young ♪

- I can't believe that guy is stupid enough

to think he can kill a vampire

by driving a stake through her heart.

Like that would work!

The really stupid part is, he keeps on trying it.

- This has happened before?

- At least a dozen times!

I'm way too fast for him though.

- You told me no one knew about you.

- I said the junkies don't remember me.

He's not a junkie.

- And he's been telling other people

that you're a vampire?

- I hung around once to watch the cops pick him up

after he stabbed me,

and there was no trace of blood

or anything because I always heal.

So they just thought he was crazy.

Nobody believes him anymore.

Not even the basket cases on the street!

He's a freak!

- You fed on him.

You can't blame him for wanting to kill you.

- That wasn't how it happened.

- Then why don't you tell me what did happen?

- It was three years ago,

I was feeding.

(air whooshing)

It's the time I'm the most vulnerable.

You know, I don't really hear things

the way I usually do.

(air whooshing)

He snuck up on me from behind.

I guess he thought I'd be scared

like the other women he'd raped.

(fence jangles)

(Ashley growling)

(rapist screaming)

I wanted to kill him, but I didn't.

I left him there alive.

I guess that was the mistake.

- Or maybe just the opposite.

- What is that supposed to mean?

(hand knocking)

- Who's there?

- [Maya] Maya.

- Maya, I can't talk- - I'm sorry,

but I haven't slept all night,

and if I don't talk to somebody,

I'm just gonna go back out there, and...

(air whooshing)

(person screaming)

(melancholy music)

(melancholy music)

(elevator dings)

(dark music)

- You think that guy,

the guy who's trying to kill me,

is the one I'm supposed to make amends to?

- It's logical.

He never would've become a vampire hunter

if not for your deal.

- He's the kind of creep that goes

into clubs with Rohypnol.

He raped eight women before he got to me.

- Bad things don't just happen to good people.

- He deserved what he got!

- That's not the point.

People think he's crazy.

Your deal has caused his suffering.

And if you don't make up for that,

you're going to hell.

- How do you know he's suffering?

Maybe he gets off on it.

- You don't think you've helped him?

- No, I don't!

I've spent 10 years of my life being a parasite,

a disgusting blood-sucking creature!

I hurt everybody I touch.

And believe me, some of them worse than him.

Danica's car crash.

That was because of me.

It was about a year after I made my deal.

I was just so lonely.

I just wanted to tell somebody about what I'd become.

(dramatic music)

She freaked out, lost control of the car.

(tires squealing) (car crashing)

It's why I didn't wanna go home.

I knew I would just make it worse with my mom.

I make everything worse.

- Ash- - I'm sorry.

You've been great.

But there's no way I can make up

for everything that I've done!

(dramatic music)

(gentle music)

It's not burning me.

I'm human.

I gotta go.

- Ash, we've got the daylight hours now.

Let's use 'em.

- Please, just for an hour.

There's somebody I really need to talk to you.

- You been on a diet or something?

- You have no idea.

God, this meatloaf is really good.

- I guess.

- Look, Mom's not gonna be home till six.

- I don't want to talk to mom.

We'd just fight.

I wanna talk to you.

- Okay.

- I wanna hear about your life,

everything that I've missed.

- I don't know, school, boys, TV, whatever.

- No, don't say that, Em.

Your life is special.

Anyway, it is to me.

- Then why did you leave?

- It's funny,

my whole life I was in love with the night.

And now the day looks so beautiful.

Can you forgive me for not being here?

It would mean a lot if you could forgive me.

- Yeah, I guess.

I mean, from what Mom says,

you weren't that great anyways.

- Thanks.

- She never gave up on you, you know.

That's why Dad left.

She went out like every night,

every weekend, for years, looking for you,

even after everyone said you were probably dead.

(doorbell rings)

- I gotta go.

I didn't want to answer the door.

I wanted you to go away.

I wanted to stay and have dinner

and be a normal person until my time is up.

- Well, I don't know if I can make you a normal person,

but maybe we can buy you some time.

I hacked the parole record on your vampire hunter.

Name's Patrick Devon.

I invited him over for a meeting.

- A meeting?

Why would he meet with you?

- Because he thinks I'm selling you out.

(book slams)

- Gabe?

Gabe, enough.

Gabe?

Stop.

You're gonna rip it.

(Taylor signs)

(book slams)

(sighs) I just showed him this little game I used to play,

and now he's obsessed.

He's been doing it all day.

Ugh.

I shouldn't have told him.

He probably thinks he can actually find all the answers

to his questions in there.

And now he's gonna get frustrated.

- Hey, don't take all the credit.

He's probably got a lot of frustrations

on his own, you know,

like math homework, getting bashed in dodge ball.

(book slams)

He's got a life.

- Well, maybe that's my problem.

I don't have a life,

so I just make it all about Gabe.

(book slams)

Well, enough of that.

I'll make it all about you.

How you doing?

- Okay.

- Okay?

Is that the okay where you're really okay,

or the okay where I don't really know you well enough

to tell the truth?

- I had a slip.

(book slams)

- Oh.

What does that mean?

- I shot up.

- You did?

Isn't that like really, really bad?

- Well, it's not the best choice I've made this month.

(book slams)

- So are you hooked again?

- Seven hours of bliss and a week of withdrawal.

Kinda takes the fun out of it.

- So why'd you do it?

- Some things happened.

- Some Morgan things?

(book slams)

You coulda called me.

- You've got enough on your plate.

- Yeah, I know, but a week of withdrawal?

I mean, that must have been awful.

- My sponsor checked in on me.

- So you're okay now?

- Yeah, sort of.

(book slams)

Actually, I think I might be going

through some kind of after effects.

I had this weird moment this morning.

I thought I recognized this girl in Morgan's apartment.

- You found a girl in Morgan's apartment?

- I was probably just jealous.

I guess I gotta get a life too.

(book slams)

(hand knocking)

(suspenseful music)

- [Morgan] Mr. Devon?

(dramatic music)

(Patrick yelling)

(Morgan grunting)

(dramatic music)

(Ashley struggling)

- Get off me! - Uh!

- [Morgan] Devon, leave her alone.

- Please, let him go.

We need to talk.

- He said he'd tell me where to find you.

- [Morgan] Leave her alone!

- I knew he was lying.

I knew he'd try to kill me!

- He just wanted to make sure you'd come.

- Everybody thinks I'm going crazy.

But I'm not crazy.

- [Morgan] Ashley, run!

- [Patrick] I'm not.

- [Ashley] Just put the stake down, okay?

- I know what I saw, and what I felt in my neck!

- [Morgan] Ashley, just go!

- You're evil.

You're a vampire.

And this is gonna finally be over.

(Ashley screams) (air whooshing)

(vampire growling) (Patrick screams)

- Danica?

(dramatic music)

You got rid of the body?

- Yeah.

- I know he was a psycho,

but I didn't want him to die.

I never wanted anyone to die because of me.

- You told me you couldn't turn somebody

into a vampire by drinking their blood.

That was one of your rules.

- I said you can't make someone a vampire

by drinking some of their blood.

But you can make them a vampire if you drink all of it.

I had to do it.

(dramatic music) Danica, wake up, okay?

Wake up, help's coming.

Danica.

She woulda died otherwise.

(suspenseful music)

I'm sorry.

(Ashley growls)

As it was, everyone thought she was dead.

I had to go back a week after the funeral and dig her up.

After I let her out of the coffin,

she was so completely freaked out.

I tried to explain, but she wouldn't listen.

She just ran off.

- And what about since then?

(melancholy music)

- I see her around sometimes in the alleys at night.

I've tried a million times,

but she won't talk to me.

Why won't she talk to me?

We were best friends.

She's the only other person

in the world who could understand what it's like,

how lonely it is.

(melancholy music)

God, I'd give anything if she would just talk to me.

- We have to find her.

- Why?

So you can kill her?

Why do you think I didn't tell you about her before?

I know you wouldn't wanna leave another vampire running

around after my deal is over.

I'm not gonna let you hurt her.

- I don't want to hurt her.

I think she's the key of your redemption.

- What?

- I think Danica got the bad luck from your deal.

- But no.

Saving her life is the only good thing I've done

in the last 10 years.

- Her car never would've crashed

in the first place if you hadn't been trying

to tell her about the result of your deal.

(melancholy music)

Ash, Danica's powers are tied to yours.

You saved her with the powers that the devil gave you,

and that's ending.

- Meaning what?

She's gonna die?

- Meaning that if you owe her an amends,

we don't have much time.

(melancholy music)

- [Devil] So overall, would you say

your life is going better today than it was a year ago?

- [Taylor] Well, I don't know.

It's been kind of a rough year.

- [Devil] Okay.

So would you say it's worse, much worse, or hopeless?

- [Taylor] Geez, I hope it's not hopeless.

- [Devil] All righty then.

I'll put you down for much worse.

Okay, that's enough of the lifestyle questions.

Let's move along to your economic situation.

- [Taylor] It's gonna get really depressing.

- Well, this must be the man of the house.

You must be a very proud mother.

- Actually, I'm his aunt.

- Really?

Oh, so that would be four people in the household,

including Mom and Dad?

- No, his parents are.

(clipboard clatters)

Gabe!

I am so sorry.

- No problem at all.

Perhaps I've overstayed my welcome a little.

Thank you so much for your time.

- Gabe, you can't just act like an animal

anytime you feel like it.

Gabe?

(air whooshing)

- You can't protect her from me, you know.

No more than you could protect Mummy.

Which is why you might think

about being just a little nicer to me.

After all, 72 percent of those polled believe

you can catch more bees with honey.

(dark music)

- There's a place back here we used to go

when guys were hitting on us.

This was it.

There was a door here.

(somber music)

I don't believe it.

She lives here?

(gentle music)

(tense music)

Oh my God.

That's the one she was buried in.

She must have dug it up after that night.

She sleeps in a coffin?

- You didn't use one?

- I never died.

(gentle music)

- That's why she was at the club last night.

- [Danica] What are you doing?

- [Ashley] Danica.

(air whooshing) (dramatic music)

- Ash.

(Danica growling)

Uh!

- You did this to me!

You cursed me!

- Danica, she's human now.

You'll kill her.

- Human?

- Yes.

And if you wanted her dead,

you wouldn't have saved her life an hour ago.

(melancholy music)

- Are you the one who changed her back?

Will I change back too?

- I assumed you would,

but your powers seem to be as strong as Ash's ever were.

- So now I'm the only one.

No, this can't be happening.

- Danica-

- How could you do this to me?

I thought you were my friend!

- I was.

I am.

I was just trying to save you.

- Save me?

After you let me out of my coffin,

I was so scared and so hungry

that I was gonna die all over again.

(melancholy music)

I went home to see my parents.

They were asleep.

All I wanted to do was feed on them,

my own parents!

But I didn't.

You know what I did?

I fed on our dog.

That's what I do.

I feed on straight dogs, cats.

I've even fed on rats.

But not people, never people.

You wanna know how I resisted?

I thought one of these days,

one of these nights,

it'll be over.

It'll all be over, and I can just die.

I just wanna die.

(melancholy music)

- No.

- You said Devon was stupid enough

to think he could kill a vampire

by driving a stake through her heart.

That was the rule.

Is there another rule that's a part of your deal?

Is there a way to do it that Devon didn't know about?

- Ash, please.

- The stake will work.

Knives, bullets, anything.

The catch is, you can only be killed

by the person who made you a vampire.

(dramatic music)

(sad music)

Danica, no.

(Ash crying)

(sad music)

I love you.

(Ash crying)

(somber music)

(throat clearing)

(gentle music)

(gentle music continues)

(gentle music continues)

(gentle music continues)

(engine rumbling)

(gentle music continues)

(enlightening music)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music continues)

(fireworks booming)