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Hello?

Please. I just need to get to town.

Please?

Hyah, hyah!

Fucker.

Hello?

Is someone there?

Hello?

No, no!

No, no!

Abraham.

Welcome home.

Hello, Mina.

Look at all this dust.

How are you feeling?

I've had worse days.

Sit.

I'll make you a cold drink.

Rudy...

come prepare the table for dinner.

Coming.

Max.

-Yes? -May I speak with you?

Do you trust me, Max?

You're my father.

I have made a disturbing discovery.

Perhaps it was foolish of me to think

that we could hide away forever.

I have known for a long time...

that it might come...

and we would be ready if it did.

But I'm going to need your help

and cooperation.

Of course.

You're a good boy, Max.

Not again.

Not again. Please.

Damn work.

Sometimes I don't know if all this is for us...

or for his bloody crusade.

No.

Mustn't question him.

Mustn't.

Leave me alone!

The devil is coming, and I want to be ready for him.

You're not making any sense.

You need to rest.

You're right.

Of course.

I did not think I would have sons.

I always wanted a daughter.

Softer.

More difficult to keep safe.

You see them?

Mapping for the new railroad extension.

After them, more will follow.

Do you remember Amsterdam, Max?

Only a little.

Or London before that?

No.

You were too young, I think.

Just as well.

It was a filthy, stinking place.

I'm sure you've noticed your mother has been acting...

strange lately.

Years ago, your mother and her friends

called on me...

to fight off...

a terrible threat that had followed them to London.

She was attacked by the enemy,

and her blood was infected.

This experience changed your mother.

These memories she carries with her

are her scars that will never heal.

So we came to California

to build our family.

♪ You're like a sweetheart...

And California has been good to us.

♪ From ocean to ocean

♪ For you my devotion

But now I suspect that same threat has followed us

from the old world to the new.

I am fearful for your mother's well-being

and all of our souls.

♪ ...mother's knee

These creatures have a connection

to your mother's mind.

If they are near, they may be drawn to her.

I need you to help me protect her,

watch over her.

A year ago...

there were no railroad tracks

anywhere in this part of the state.

Barely a town to speak of.

The world is getting smaller...

closing in on us.

And as the new world grows more populous,

they follow.

Like rats...

with a merchant vessel.

Are you Dr. Van Helsing?

Yeah.

Please. There was an accident on our work site.

My brother's been injured.

He was caught under heavy equipment.

We need your help.

Please. We can pay.

Come on, come on. -Lay him flat.

My son will help you. I'll gather my things.

Show them to barn.

Move the tarpaulin over the hay.

-Okay. Get back here. -Gentle.

Okay.

Good.

Mm-hmm. Good.

Good.

Elsie.

Mm-hmm. It's okay.

Okay.

What is this man's name?

Edward. Eddie.

Edward, you can hear me, yes?

Mm.

Okay.

The lung has been punctured by a broken rib.

Tension pneumothorax has already begun.

We need to relieve the pressure.

Hold him still.

Mm-hmm.

You'll be okay.

Aah.

Okay. Okay.

Okay. Yup.

Shh! -Elsie.

Yes. Shh, shh, shh, shh! Relax, okay?

You're okay.

It's important to keep the tube in place

so that the pressure will not build back up again.

Thank you.

You'll want to take him to the hospital now in town.

It's only a few miles' journey from here.

Make sure that the tube does not become dislodged.

Thank you.

I thought the worst.

I only serve God's purpose.

It was not his time.

Clean your hands.

Don't ruin your appetite.

What are you making?

Blood pudding.

An old countryside recipe.

It's been a long time since I've made it.

Usually with pig's blood.

But this...

is your father's own elixir.

Perfected over time.

To cure ailments, prevent future infection.

How did it get inside?

Take it outside, Max.

Careful.

Those things carry disease.

Turn off that light.

Max...

Do you believe in father's creatures?

Have you seen one?

Do you think we're in danger?

It doesn't matter what I think.

Anyway, according to him, they can't enter uninvited.

But what if they're already inside?

What do you mean?

I've heard something.

At night.

Crying.

And scratching.

Haven't you heard it?

Like an animal, sort of.

And it's not a coyote or a fox or whatever you're going to say.

If you don't stop talking, I'm going to smother you to death

with your own pillow.

Then you won't have anything to worry about anymore.

Oh.

Mrs. Van Helsing.

I'm Elsie. -Yes, hello.

You were with the injured boy yesterday.

How is he?

My brother. Uh, he will...

he'll be fine.

I wanted to say thank you.

I bought these cookies in town.

They're made in San Francisco.

Apparently, they're very good.

Thank you.

I'm glad you were able to find us in time.

One of the workers in town said a doctor lived in these hills.

I'm in your debt.

My brother...

he's all that I have in the world.

Hmm.

To have family is a blessing.

I agree.

Well, thank you.

Do you live with those railroad men?

In that camp?

I do.

You're very confident for a young woman, aren't you?

Sort of...

hard around the edges.

I'm sorry, that was rude of me to say.

No need to apologize.

Thank you again and enjoy the cookies.

Be careful.

There are hungry things in the night.

Uh, I will.

Goodbye, Mrs. Van Helsing.

It's simple for schoolchildren half your age.

I don't understand why you struggle with this.

Let me see.

"What are the four ways of solving a one-step equation?"

Addition.

S-Subtraction.

Multiplication. Division.

Good.

What is the first step

of solving a two-step algebraic equation?

This one, for example.

I will...

I will isolate...

the...

It is clear to me when you are not applying yourself.

At least when Rudolph disobeys me, it's deliberate.

But you disobey me in a stupor.

Then you can't understand why I'm disappointed with you.

Abraham!

I will be in my study.

Do not disturb me.

I'll bring some warm milk to improve our mood.

Can you try not to be so stupid all the time?

You know it makes him mad.

Don't call me stupid.

I'm sorry that he's so hard on you.

But you must remember,

his only aim is to keep us safe.

I know that.

I suppose I should be grateful,

at least that you are strong.

But still...

I hope you'll never face our enemy.

Abraham and I are the only ones left

who really saw him.

The others never saw his true face.

He held me so close.

I could feel his...

...cold breath on my cheek.

So strange to have cold breath.

Long, white limbs.

White teeth.

And a terrible, thin, soft mouth.

He moved like a ghost.

The others never saw him.

I did.

I remember.

Your father saved me.

Rudy.

I heard voices out there.

You hear them?

I don't hear anything.

Tell me what's going on.

Nothin'.

It's getting dark.

Come inside.

Max.

Are you asleep?

-We're not safe here. -What's wrong?

Listen to me. We're not safe here.

-We're okay. It's okay. -No.

We're alright. Let's go inside, okay?

Let's go inside.

Mother.

Mother!

Come in.

Put that down. Come here.

I'm thirsty.

Abraham.

Max.

My love.

Come closer.

Do not approach your mother.

Not for your own living soul and hers.

Sit down. I need your help.

Your mother is a victim of an unholy illness.

How could this have happened?

I've seen this before.

Inflammation that travels from the blood to the brain.

If we succeed with the transfusion,

we can bring her back.

She'll never be the same.

I'm pumping air to create a vacuum.

Now insert the needle into your arm.

Medicine and healing take time.

You must be patient.

He's here.

Be calm, my darling.

I can feel him.

I feel his thoughts penetrating mine.

I see his shadow.

By the window.

He's just outside.

That evil stain.

Those dreadful teeth.

Don't let him take me.

I want to stay here.

I want to stay... -Be calm. Be calm, my love.

I want to stay here with you.

How did he find us?

Max, don't. Please.

Don't!

Max!

Close it! Close it!

Leave.

Leave us now.

Rudy.

Is everything alright here?

What do you mean?

Is it just you?

And the horse.

Yes.

Alright.

What's going on?

Is she sick?

He knows what he's doing.

Don't stay out here too long.

It'll be night soon.

You must understand these demons...

can cross great oceans.

They are patient and cunning.

They do not grow old.

And they never die.

She asleep?

Yeah.

She needs to rest to get healthy again.

So don't be loud and don't bother her.

When will he be back?

I don't know.

Whenever he's done working.

Should only be a few hours.

This isn't bad.

Not as good as her breakfast, but...

not bad.

Hey!

Slowpoke!

Rudy! Rudy! Wait!

Shit.

We shouldn't be in here.

You know we're not allowed in this room.

Whoops.

We'll just...

throw it away.

No, he knows where everything is in his office.

He'll notice it's missing.

Aren't you curious to know what he does in here all day?

Hey.

Alright, come on.

Let's clean this up and get out of here.

What's that?

Mother.

Back in Amsterdam.

It's before you were born.

Turn it off.

Don't.

There's something under here.

What do you think is down there?

Close it.

Did you hear that?

-What was that?! -Be quiet.

It's one of father's creatures.

What are you... Don't.

I just wanna see.

What are you doing?

Please.

Help me!

-Don't let it out. -Shh!

Help me.

Step aside.

No. No.

Rudolf, please stop crying.

It's a miracle you didn't wake your mother.

She said you were both too young to see this.

I have protected you from the truth all these years.

But now...

it seems you have taken a genuine interest

to my life's work.

Very well.

Come with me.

And we'll finish this lesson.

Please!

I don't wanna go down there.

Please. -Everything will be okay.

In my time, I have killed 13 of the undead by my own hand.

I have trained others in the art of destroying the undead.

Including your mother's unfortunate first husband,

Jonathan Harker.

And so therefore, I am indirectly responsible

for the slaughter of dozens of their filthy kind.

I had been observing her for several days.

She was in the process of changing.

Of leaving behind her humanity

and becoming something...

rotten and unclean.

The undead who found and fed on her

must have continued his unholy journey,

because I found no sign of him

except for the imprint his fangs left behind.

I wanna go back upstairs.

Shh.

You need to learn how to defend yourself

against unholy disease and unnatural death.

You must...

strike here.

Drive it in to the hilt.

They never go easily.

But do not desist from your work until you have impaled her

and she no longer struggles against you.

No! Max!

Good.

Good.

To the hilt.

There you have it.

To do offense to the house of the human spirit

even after its tenant is gone is...

no easy thing.

Where were her fangs?

Ah. They...

They disappear after the demon dies.

Poof.

And now...

we remove the head.

Rudolph, come.

I don't want to.

I don't wanna know how. -I'll do it.

No.

It is important that he learn.

Rudolph.

Rudolph. Stop this nonsense.

I will help you. Her neck is brittle.

It won't take long. Stop it.

Rudolph. -Ow!

-Come! -Stop!

-Stop it! -Stop!

Let him go!

Go and put some ice on your face.

Clean up. Then meet me out on the porch.

I suppose I have never raised my hand to you before.

Your mother has made me gentle.

Look what you made me do.

I could leave.

I could take the horse and ride away.

Disappear.

Where would you go?

Leave then.

The family will get along fine without you.

Enough of this.

We are losing light.

This will take some time.

It will become less difficult as time passes.

I'm proud of you, son.

Where have you been?

Come up to see your mother.

She looks so sick.

Just like that thing from the basement.

We must not abandon hope, son.

Your mother is the strongest woman I have ever known.

She will recover.

Abraham.

I was dreaming...

about the night he came to my room.

Do you remember?

I will never forget.

I thought you saved me.

But I was only...

falling deeper into the pit you pulled me in.

Leave me alone.

Wait, Rudy.

Listen.

I'm sorry.

I told you there was something in the house.

I told you.

And you didn't believe me.

I'm not listening to you anymore.

You don't know any more than I do.

Go ahead.

Anywhere a body can move from one room to another,

they pass from shadow to shadow.

It's best to do a self-examination

after contact with the infected.

Thick blood.

Healthy. Good.

Years ago,

my own father...

defined faith as that which enables us

to believe things we know to be untrue.

Your faith...

is not misplaced.

Max, come here.

Come and sit.

Yeah.

That bruise has healed well. Good.

You have grown up, Max.

Somehow, I...

did not see that happen.

And I am sorry.

Hello?

You're the doctor's son.

I'm Max.

Elsie.

You live out here all alone with your family?

Yes.

It's just us.

We like it that way.

And you?

My brother got hired

to survey the railroad for a new track.

I just... I'm good with pen and paper.

You're an artist.

Uh, maybe. If I keep working at it.

I draw maps.

One day, they'll use my work to build something.

I think it would be nice to be part of building something.

What's wrong?

My mother is sick.

I'm sorry.

This feels different.

And she's not getting better.

Now I wonder...

if my father's treatments are actually making her worse.

I think sometimes I must be going crazy.

I'm sorry.

I don't mean to burden you with our problems.

I understand...

we have to hope for the best.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

To this woman...

May you receive the Lord's blessing.

May the Lord bless you and watch over you.

The Lord make His face to shine upon you

and be gracious unto you.

The Lord look kindly on you...

and give you peace.

In the name of the Father,

the Son,

and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

She was...

a beautiful woman.

Thank you, Father.

Woah.

Rudy!

Go away.

Go away!

I'm not sorry.

Aren't you angry?

It's just an old guitar.

Rudy...

I'm not mad.

You said you wanted to leave.

Did you mean it?

Listen, Rudy.

The things that he does...

It's ugly.

What if we didn't move to California by choice?

Maybe it was us

being chased out of London, out of Amsterdam.

Not his decision to leave.

But an exile.

And our family was forced into isolation because of him.

I can't stay here.

I don't want to be alone with him.

I won't leave you.

I promise I will not leave you.

I don't believe you.

Hello?

I-Is this the Van Helsing home?

It is.

Ah.

Arthur Holmwood.

I'm an old friend of your parents.

I haven't seen you

since you were a little baby on your mother's knee.

She loved you very much, you know?

Wrote the most beautiful things about you in her letters.

I pray for her soul every day.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Thank you.

It's been a hard time for our family.

I understand.

You should come back to London someday.

After all, your story did start there.

You're always welcome to my home.

Is that Arthur Holmwood?

Finally come to visit his old friend.

Hello, Abraham.

You received my letter?

I did.

It was very kind.

Come inside.

You've had a long journey.

After so many years, it is good to see your face.

Likewise, Abraham.

So, you're living in Sacramento, then?

For a little while.

Making my way down to San Diego.

I wanted to see America.

And how do you find her?

Large and wild.

Though, I hear that Union Pacific

is building new tracks this way.

Seems the world is coming to your doorstep, Doctor.

Much as you may try to escape it.

I am sorry to have to offer my condolences.

Mina was...

truly the best of us.

I considered her as a sister, you know?

Yes.

You've lost much over your lifetime, Abraham.

Too much for one man to bear.

But Mina gave you two strong sons.

And for that, I thank God.

What do you want, Arthur?

I don't sleep anymore.

And I seek remedy.

Or at least diagnosis.

I-I want...

I want to know if I am mad or not.

Or more importantly, if I am a sinner.

Speak your mind.

You were like a father to me.

To me and the others.

We would have followed you into the inferno if you'd asked us.

There was no doubt in our minds

that our task was holy and righteous.

But I grew up.

I am not the boy you found all those years ago.

And I know why you are here in California.

Yes, Abraham.

I know you are continuing your work.

I've come to ask you to stop.

To put an end to all this.

To let the dead rest.

No.

What we saw was real.

What I showed you is real.

Evil is real.

But Abraham...

What if we made a mistake?

No.

No mistakes.

I wish I could go back in time, Abraham.

Back to the time before.

I was ready to spend the rest of my days with Lucy as my wife.

She was to be Lady Godalming.

And I loved her.

And we killed her.

I bled for her through your tubes and bottles.

And I was ready to give every last drop if called for.

I was ready to die for her.

And I...

I cut off her head.

Have you nothing to say to me?

What is it you want?

We did what was needed.

No.

No, no, you...

you turned me against Lucy.

You... You filled my mind

with thoughts of demons and... and spirits.

You told me she was already gone.

You told me to be... to be joyful.

To send her to heaven, that it was to be by my hand.

The hand she loved best.

That thing was not Lucy.

Please, Abraham.

Just answer me this.

Am I a murderer?

Stupid, inbred lord of shit.

You come to my house to ask me this.

We rid the world of a demon.

King Demon himself.

Do we call it murder

when we kill a wolf who is at the throat of our cow?

You do not sleep, because you are weak.

Your kind is always weak.

Pampered, like a spoiled child.

You require a man who works.

A man who knows the feeling of hot blood in his hands

to come and teach you how to protect yourself.

Lucy was a monster.

And what about Mina?

Was she a monster as well?

You are not welcome in my house.

If you can't sleep, drink wine

until you pass from consciousness.

Please, think of your boys.

That is my only remedy.

What did he mean?

It does not matter.

That man is a fool.

I don't know why no one understands me.

My only mission is to keep us safe.

Stop you from what?

Come.

Here.

Look.

They are all there.

You killed all those people.

Not people. Not souls.

Dead things walking around.

As if they have a right to our world.

Max, you saw that thing in the cellar.

It was sick and deceased.

We will set a perimeter.

Nothing or no one will be allowed to cross it.

We will create a sterile environment.

Purity of spirit.

And we will begin with those men from the railroad.

Let the world fall to the hideous undead and burn.

It will not bother us at all.

We are safe here.

No.

No, I'm not going anywhere with you.

You're insane.

Insane?

For trying to keep my family safe?

There's nothing out there!

I'm not stupid.

And I can see what's happening.

My mother is dead, because of you.

You were the one making her sick.

You pulled her away from everything in her life.

In the end, she was alone because of you.

We are alone.

It breaks my heart, Max.

That you think these things to be true.

But...

at least have a drink with your father.

Stay then.

Aah!

Rudolf, come with me.

What about Max? where's Max?

-Come here. -Ow! Get off me!

Stop. Stop!

Help, Max! Help me!

Rudy!

You scared me.

Didn't mean to scare ya.

Tryna take a leak.

Henry?

Henry?

You alright?

Now is the time.

Stand up, son.

Stand up.

End her suffering now before it even begins.

The way I've shown you.

Strike hard!

Right through the heart.

Be strong! Be bold!

Do it, son! It is God's will!

Do it! Do it!

It is God's will, son!

Aah!

Aah.

I'm sorry.

Max.

I won't let you hurt anyone else.

So you finally understand me.

You're okay.

You're safe now.

You killed him.

He was a monster.

I told you. You're safe now.

My own father...

had a deep ambivalence towards me.

I would have cherished any kind of attention.

Even the harshest criticism.

Anything but his blatant disinterest.

My grandfather was a peasant who thought he was an aristocrat.

He had...

no skills to speak of whatsoever.

Just, uh, an enormous capacity for selfishness.

I moved through his world like a little mouse.

And when I left for medical school...

he barely noticed my absence.

I know that sometimes I am hard on you.

But you must know that I love you and your brother very much.

And I will always do what is best for our family.

I only ask that...

you place your faith in me.