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(door creaking)

(tense instrumental music)

(gasping for air)

(tense instrumental music)

(flames burning)

Michelle: They thought he was dead.

My sister, Becky, put me in a body bag

to protect me from the sun.

Mr. Thompson, from the Embassy, helped her.

They were so frightened they forgot

about the Bloodstone.

(water splash)

(tense instrumental music)

(screaming in pain)

(tense instrumental music)

(wheel squeaking)

(birds singing)

(phone dialing)

(foreign language)

(grasping for air)

Ana: Can you hear me?

Don't be afraid.

Try to stay still.

You've had an accident.

I'm a doctor, help is on the way.

(phone dialing)

(busy signal)

I'll take you to a clinic myself.

(anxious instrumental music)

Doctor Nicolescu, please.

It's an emergency.

(heart rate monitor)

Doctor.

Ana Lazar is at the gate, she says it's an emergency.

Tell the guards to let her in.

I won't do the things

that would doctors so far from the city.

Careful! Take her inside, quickly!

Ana! What's wrong?

Was it there an accident?

Yes! This girl was the only survivor!

(foreign language)

This bag is for corpses.

Yes, but when I opened the zipper

she went into a violent paroxysm.

(gasping for air)

(frenetic instrumental music)

(moves to suspense instrumental music)

What's wrong with her?

Ana, this is a vampire.

A vampire?

Impossible!

You'll see when the sun goes down.

(gasping for air) (frenetic instrumental music)

Where am I?

Please, don't be afraid.

We want to help you.

I am Doctor Lazar. Ana.

This is Doctor Nicolescu.

You were in a terrible accident in an Embassy car

with a man and two women.

My sister.

Becky.

Where is she?

I'm sorry but... she did not survive.

No!

Aah! Turn it off!

(Michelle screams in pain)

Ana: Please!

Can you tell us what happened?

This poor child has been ravaged by a vampire.

A vampire?

I don't believe it.

Can you tell us his name?

Radu Vladislas.

Radu Vladislas is a figment of folklore.

Tell me trust worthy child,

have you tasted blood?

Yes.

Nicolescu: Don't be ashamed.

I can help you

ease the symptoms of this terrible affliction.

You can't help me.

No one can.

I'm already dead.

You are not dead.

You are suffering from an ancient malady.

There is hope for you if you will agree

to stay with us a while.

Let me devise a treatment for you.

(foreign language)

We want to help you but you must cooperate completely.

I'll loosen the bonds

if you promise to behave yourself.

Yes! Please!

You must be completely honest with us.

You were initiated by Radu Vladislas, correct?

Yes.

Where is Radu now?

I don't know but he'll find me!

He won't let me get away!

(shivering instrumental music)

Nicolescu: Don't be afraid.

A vampire must be invited

or it cannot enter sacred ground.

This clinic was once a monastery.

Radu cannot enter here.

You are safe from him

as long as you stay within these walls.

Tell me something, does Radu have the Bloodstone?

Yes.

Have you tasted of it?

Yes.

What is this Bloodstone?

It's an ancient relic, revered among the vampires.

A crystal said to drip the blood of the saints.

According to legend,

a vampire who has the Bloodstone

can survive without killing.

It's true, yes?

Yes.

But there's a dark side to its power.

It's driving Radu mad!

This is crazy.

We're scientists, Ana.

We must keep an open mind.

If the Bloodstone exists,

it would be a priceless object for research.

You are not the first vampire to seek my help.

I will do my best to ease your suffering.

If it becomes necessary to...

...take some blood, believe me,

there is no reason to feel shame.

I can provide blood for you.

It's not a problem.

Please.

(sobbing)

Do not despair.

In time I can free you of this terrible desire.

(phone rings)

(phone rings)

(foreign language)

Detective Voda?

(foreign language)

The police want to ask me some questions.

Please! Don't tell them about me!

Don't be afraid. Your secret is safe with us.

(menacing instrumental music)

(echoing footsteps)

(menacing instrumental music)

(door creaking)

Ash, my child.

Master!

I seek sanctuary.

Our dinner...

...is yours to share.

I am Radu Vladislas.

I am Serena.

She is my protegee, master.

Extraordinary creature.

Ash: Sit.

Drink blood with us.

What brings you to Bucharest, master?

Vengeance.

Vengeance, master?

Against whom?

The fledgling who spurns me.

We will help you, master,

to hasten in your safe return to Transylvania.

Our wealth has multiplied.

It is easy to profit from the corruption of mortals.

The casino and brothel

keeps us well supplied with income.

And victims.

I grow lonely in Transylvania.

Perhaps I'll stay in Bucharest and reclaim my old things.

As you desire.

I require a resting place.

The seventh level is off limits to you

from this day forth.

The seventh level is in ruins.

There is better lodging in the western quarter.

The seventh level pleases me.

As you wish.

I can provide a willing mortal for your pleasure.

I normally ask ten thousand for a night,

but to you it is a courtesy.

You can do anything you want with them.

Short of the kill.

(suspense instrumental music)

I will amuse myself with your protegee.

Detective Voda?

Yeah.

I'm Ana Lazar.

This is my colleague, Doctor Nicolescu.

Thanks for seeing me, Doctor.

I have just a few questions.

The victims were in Transylvania

searching for a young American woman,

sister to the woman killed in the wreck.

Was there anyone else?

Any cars or people nearby?

No, there was no one else.

Why did you leave the scene of the accident?

I waited quite some time, detective.

Where were you?

I had, other business.

There was nothing I could do for the victims.

I had patients here waiting for me.

There was a man whose job was to follow them,

a colleague of mine.

In pursuit an stolen artifact.

Lieutenant Marin of the Bucharest police.

(screams in pain)

(car engine)

My master fears you, Vladislas.

But I'm not afraid.

Ash is wise to fear me.

He seized this stronghold from me

in the turmoil of the great war.

And you should fear me too...

...because I'm a monster.

(mysterious instrumental music)

Serena: Destroy Ash for me, Vladislas.

He keeps me imprisoned here, in this den of evil.

It is forbidden to destroy our kindred.

You could reclaim your stronghold.

Rule over Bucharest.

You are diabolical, Serena.

Do you desire to taste the blood of the saints?

Yes, but I'm frightened.

I'll let you drink if you promise to serve me.

I'm yours, master.

(feverish instrumental music)

Caution, child. 'Tis a potent elixir.

(choking)

What's wrong with her?

As the dawn approaches,

the vampire reverts to a state resembling death.

Please, kill me.

I can't go on like this.

Give us a chance to help you, Michelle.

I'm sorry, but I must draw some blood from you

in this moment of surrender.

(mysterious instrumental music)

I'll put my laboratory to work on this immediately.

You'll be safe here. We'll seal the doors.

No light will penetrate.

Tonight we'll begin your treatment.

(footsteps)

I apologize for doubting you, Ion.

Can you really help her?

I can lessen the urgency of her of compulsion,

make it possible for her to move about in daylight,

but she will always be a vampire.

Let's rest a few hours.

If this child is the fledgling of Radu Vladislas,

Radu will come to us.

We must be ready to meet him.

(mysterious instrumental music)

Please, sit.

This will help you to relax.

(foreign language)

Cheers.

What's happened to you, Nicu?

You've gained the reputation of a charlatan.

My anti-aging treatments are quite effective, Ana.

Even if they are dismissed by my former colleagues.

Patients come to me from around the world.

How much do rock stars pay you

to filter the heroine from their blood?

More than your friends at the academy earn in a lifetime.

It's sad to see you wasting your talents, Ion.

Have a drink, Ana.

(foreign language)

This will help you to relax.

Cheers.

Ana, you are more beautiful now than you were then.

Don't try to flatter with me with superficial cliches, Ion.

I'm a grown woman now.

I regret sometimes how our love story ended.

It was not a love story, Ion.

And it ended as it began,

with you seducing a new student.

I beg your pardon.

It was you who seduced me.

It was a silly misadventure.

I'm so tired.

Wake me in a few hours.

(tense instrumental music)

Forgive me, Ana.

But I find you...

...irresistible.

(menacing instrumental music)

Any word from Lieutenant Marin?

No, sir.

We checked his apartment.

He hasn't been there for days.

(foreign language)

Lieutenant Marin.

Lieutenant Marin!

Have you been drinking, Lieutenant?

I, I don't know.

I'm sick.

I don't know what's happened.

You were supposed to spy on the Americans.

Now everyone is dead, and you're drunk in the closet!

Mel Thompson from Embassy is dead?

I had to go out to Stirbei in the middle of the night

to question a witness.

It's your case!

You should do the work!

One more mistake Lieutenant and you are fired!

(tense instrumental music)

(foreign language)

If she drank from the Bloodstone,

we should find some unusual sequences

in the DNA.

Find the Bloodstone's DNA,

and we may find the secret to eternal youth.

Ion, are we trying to cure this girl?

Or use her for our research?

We have sinned, Lupu, masquerading as doctors.

The most important thing

is to gain possession of the Bloodstone.

Ana. Ana.

Wake up.

What time is it?

There is something I want to show you.

Our patient will be waking soon.

What's this?

Some lamps from our tanning salon,

to weaken him.

Holy water bottled by the monks of Lake Borgo,

who, by the way, make an excellent Cabalie.

Stakes

to pierce his heart.

If Radu Vladislas comes to claim his protégée,

we must be ready to defend ourselves.

You said he cannot enter here.

Yes, but the girl, who was invited in by me,

is as great a threat to us as Radu.

This is barbaric.

I won't let you drive a stake into her heart.

If it comes necessary you won't try to stop me.

(suspense instrumental music)

Take me into the great night, master.

Teach me the mysteries.

Ash does not appreciate the pleasure of the hunt.

Return to you master. You are not my fledgling.

(suspense instrumental music)

We must destroy him, master.

He is evil incarnate.

Do not meddle in his affairs, Serena.

He is insane.

He possesses the Bloodstone.

The Bloodstone?

Are you sure?

We can destroy him and claim it for ourselves.

Radu is my master, Serena.

But he's not mine.

It would give me pleasure to watch him suffer.

You are no match for him.

We must find a mortal with the will to destroy him.

(door creaking)

(menacing instrumental music)

Here is the key to the great night.

Follow him.

Discover his intentions.

Yes, master.

(door creaking)

(crickets chirping)

(suspense instrumental music)

(door knocking)

Marin: Hey! Help!

Help me!

Somebody hear me?

Hey!

Hey!

Somebody hear me!

Hey!

Ah!

Come to me, pretty one.

The time has come to serve your master.

Now, tell me, where's my fledgling?

I don't know!

I swear to you!

But at Stirbei there is a witness!

Yes!

- Stirbei? - Yes!

(tense instrumental music)

I'm here Michelle.

The first stage of treatment

is to draw the blood from your body,

purify and filter it, and replace it once again.

I predict we should see some immediate improvement.

It's necessary for us to work

while you are fully conscious.

I'm sorry but

there may be some discomfort.

(screaming in pain)

(suspense instrumental music)

You are Radu's pretty one.

No, no!

No!

No!

(suspense instrumental music)

All signs are stable.

Excellent.

Tell me.

She has survived the first tribulation.

How do you feel, Michelle?

I feel peaceful.

This is a good sign.

But don't be surprised if the benefit is temporary.

I am Radu Vladislas.

This is a private road.

What is your business here?

I demand an audience with the master of this house.

Doctor, there is a man outside

insistent to speak with you.

His name is Radu Vladislas.

He's come for me!

Niculescu: Please!

Try to remain calm.

There is no way he can enter here.

Lupu, the sedative.

(anxious instrumental music)

I am obligated to speak with him.

(trembling instrumental music)

Radu Vladislas.

I am Doctor Ion Niculescu.

You hold my child against her will.

She is in pain and cries for my protection.

Bid me cross your threshold.

No, Vladislas.

You are not welcome here.

Release here to me and I shall leave in peace.

Deny me and I will lay your souls to waste.

She begged for sanctuary.

She wishes to be mortal again.

She wishes for the impossible.

She belongs to me.

No!

She's in my care now.

Leave her alone or I'll call the police!

Challenge me at your own peril.

I delight in

such diversions.

I beseech you,

open your gate to me.

Do you possess the Bloodstone?

The Bloodstone is my birthright.

Who came before you?

Ash, the music lover.

I am before Ash.

Please, Vladislas.

Let me see it.

Give me a few drops of its essence

in the name of science.

I have lived a thousand years.

Witnessed the progress of man.

I have a weak spot in my heart for the sciences.

Open your gate and I will give you three drops.

But I warn you, Doctor,

the mysteries of the Bloodstone

cannot be illuminated by science.

(suspense instrumental music)

Ana: No!

No, Ion!

Are you crazy?

You promised to protect us!

No! Please, no!

Don't do this! Ion!

No, Ion! Please!

Don't let him! No, Ion!

(vibrant instrumental music)

Master!

(vibrant instrumental music)

You are powerless before me!

Get down on your knees!

Give me the Bloodstone!

The Bloodstone now!

You will suffer dearly for this!

(overcome instrumental music)

Set me free!

My master needs me!

The sedative! Quickly!

(tense instrumental music)

(scream)

Get away from me!

(anxious instrumental music)

I'm sorry to give you such a shock,

but it was necessary to distract him from the trap.

Will he die like this?

The stake is the first step.

The vampire cannot move.

Next we have two choices:

cut off it's head,

which would be too merciful for Radu.

Or leave it to agonize

until the Sun comes up and renders it to dust.

Michelle: Master!

No!

Michelle, go back inside!

I begged you to destroy me.

No, Michelle!

You are free of him.

Vadislas is dying.

No!

(overcome instrumental music)

Radu: Michelle.

My blood runs within you.

Our hearts beat as one.

Stand away!

Do not touch him!

Michelle, get away from him!

Save me and allow it to set you free.

(tense instrumental music)

Now, prove yourself fledgling.

Let there be a bloodbath.

I saved you life, Radu.

I've earned my freedom.

You will pay for this in suffering.

(menacing instrumental music)

We've lost her.

You wish to destroy Radu Vladislas.

Who are you?

A kindred spirit.

Daughter of Ash.

I will tell you where he sleeps if you promise

to destroy him before this day is done.

Where does he sleep?

Tell us.

Not you.

You must destroy him.

Me? Why?

Because you wish the save the life of Radu's fledgling.

They sleep in Belus Cemetary. The tomb of Vladislas.

From the year of 1875.

Here is the key.

The sarcophagus takes you underground

to the ancient city.

Go south, down seven staircases.

There you will find Radu's resting place.

You are warm, pretty one.

You have the passion to prevail.

Surprise him while he sleeps.

Drive a stake through his heart.

Cut off his head.

Take it back the way you came.

Do not hesitate

or explore the labyrinth.

Go quickly to the sunlight

and render Radu's head to dust.

(mysterious instrumental music)

(foreign language)

(tense instrumental music)

Buy yourself a new one.

(bell rings)

(bell rings)

(religious organ music)

(foreign language)

(menacing instrumental music)

(foreign language)

(menacing instrumental music)

(foreign language)

(frightening instrumental music)

Michelle?

I can save you from this torment

if you come to me of your own free will.

Never.

Will we share my sanctuary

and the sacred mysteries.

Drink of the Bloodstone.

I'm your master. You cannot deny me!

Stefan was my master.

Stefan infected you with his tragic weakness.

His love for mortals.

But Stefan was my spawn,

and he's dust!

So you are mine!

(trembling instrumental music)

(suspense instrumental music)

Your powers have evolved.

But your weakness threatens to destroy you.

Michelle,

I know you despair.

Surrender your ties to mortality

and all your pain will disappear.

(tense instrumental music)

Tomorrow, master,

when the Sun is high, Vladislas will be dust.

You are a never ending source of joy to me, Serena.

How will the deed be done?

I found a mortal with the will to destroy him.

You conspired with a mortal?

I gave her the key to Vladislas tomb.

You endanger us, Serena.

Fear not, master.

I sabotaged the mechanism.

The key works from the outside

but it's broken from within.

She will destroy Vladislas for us

and be trapped in the labyrinth.

And when the sun sets we can ravish her

and seize the Bloodstone.

I am diabolical.

Aren't I, master?

Serena, you are sublime.

There is one small complication, master.

Complication?

She's in league with Doctor Blood.

Do they know of the Bloodstone?

Yes, Doctor Blood tried to

steal it from Radu.

But tell me master,

if the Doctor is descended from our bloodline,

how is it he can stand in the light

and touch holy water with his bare hands?

He is spawned from our blood, Serena.

But he has altered himself with science.

Ash, my child.

Master.

Henceforth I claim all the profits

from your worldly enterprises.

But master,

I've nutured our holdings for a hundred years.

I have earned your generosity.

I generously give you until full moon

to evacuate my stronghold.

You and your fledglings must find a new sanctuary.

(tense instrumental music)

The blade of Laertes.

The vampire slayer is mine.

(tense instrumental music)

Radu: You stole it from me, Ash,

in the black plague.

You cannot force me from my lair, Radu.

You are not my master.

You amuse me,

Serena.

You alone may stay.

(anxious instrumental music)

Your humanity is yielding, fledgling.

I can see the darkening in your eyes.

Your memories of mortality will fade like a sweet dream.

You're mine forever more.

(anxious instrumental music)

Niculescu: You should rest until daylight.

You have a difficult task ahead.

Thank you for helping me, Ion.

You don't have to thank me, Ana.

(echoing) You drugged me.

(glass breaking)

(frenetic instrumental music)

(moves to slowed suspense instrumental music)

(echoing footsteps)

(moves to trembling instrumental music)

Ana!

Help! Help! Someone!

Help me! Help me, please!

- Stop it, Ana! - Help me!

Ana, stop it!

Ana!

- Please, listen. - No!

You're a vampire.

I'm not a vampire, I'm human too.

You must listen to Ion.

Please, listen to me.

I didn't choose to be a vampire.

It was forced upon me.

You're a murderer!

No, I drink only to sustain my life.

The woman you saw is a willing partner.

Please, believe me!

I curse this fate!

Each day I pray to God to make me mortal again.

To be feel the warmth of the sun upon my face.

To let me survive one night without the urge for blood.

Radu must be destroyed, Ana.

By a mortal saint.

Why me?

Why not Lupu?

He's a mortal too.

I'm a brain surgeon, not a vampire hunter.

Trust me, Ana.

I promise to help you.

(hopeful instrumental music)

Where is the body bag?

I have it here.

If we are lucky, I find Radu's resting place.

It may be necessary to kill her too

if she is too deep in Radu's thrall to be saved.

No.

With the Bloodstone she has a chance.

We must find a way for both of you

to share in its benefits.

Thank you, Ana.

Bullets are powerless against a vampire.

Even so, a false sense of security

is better than no security at all.

(suspense instrumental music)

Niculescu: Dammit!

We don't have time for this.

(foreign language)

Show respect for the dead.

I'm one of the dead people,

so don't tell me what to do.

It's afternoon already.

Isn't there another way in?

This is the only way.

(suspense instrumental music)

Look for a tomb inscribed Vladislas, 1875.

Ana, go that way.

I'll search back here.

Lupu, behind the church.

Rendezvous here in one hour, yes?

Ana: Okay.

(suspense instrumental music)

Ion!

Ion!

Ion, I found it!

Good.

Let's go to work.

(uneasy instrumental music)

You keep the key.

Open the door when you hear us calling.

Don't worry.

I'll be waiting.

If we are not out at nightfall,

send for the police.

(suspense instrumental music)

One hour and 20 minutes until sunset.

You are frightened, yes?

Yes.

(suspense instrumental music)

What is this place?

The ancient city beneath the city.

(suspense instrumental music)

Ana: We must be 300 feet down.

Niculescu: I think we are almost there.

(suspense instrumental music)

Ah!

You'll make a pretty plaything.

Ah!

(Radu screaming)

(trembling instrumental music)

Michelle!

(trembling instrumental music)

She's yours, Vladislas.

I brought her for you as a gesture of good will.

Ah!

No!

That's right! Struggle!

Fear me, child!

Feeling such a sweet nectar through the blood.

Oh, Doctor.

You have earned a taste of the Bloodstone.

(increasingly suspense instrumental music)

Ah!

(owl hooting)

(foreign language)

(crickets chirping)

Ana: Lupu!

Help me, Lupu!

(tense instrumental music)

Lupu: Ana!

Why are you here?

Alone at night?

I'm praying for the departed.

For a lost one.

Don't lie to me, mortal.

The key in your hand belongs to me.

No!

Ah!

(anxious instrumental music)

Ana: Lupu! Doctor Lupu!

Doctor Lupu, Doctor Lupu!

Please, help! Please, open the door!

Ah!

You can't desert me.

(frightening instrumental music)

What do you want from me?

Your life blood.

To extinguish the last embers

of my fledgling's humanity.

Ana: No!

Michelle!

(suspense instrumental music)

Surrender child

and I'll have mercy. Challenge me and your life

will be an everlasting torment.

Michelle, help me please!

Reach out with your senses, fledgling.

Revel in the perfume of fear.

No, please!

Radu: Drink, fledgling.

Purge your sadness in a wellspring of blood.

Michelle, please!

Drink, fledgling!

Or I'll ravage her myself

and multiply your nightmares a thousandfold.

Michelle, help me.

No!

This is a moment of weakness you will never forget.

Ana: No! No!

No! No!

(trembling instrumental music)

(gagging) You're an [indecipherable]... I'm your master...

(gasping in pain)

(vibrant instrumental music)

You can't destroy me.

(tense instrumental music)

It will be dawn soon.

Take his head out into the sunlight.

You are coming with me, Michelle.

We've got the Bloodstone.

You're going to be alright now.

(flames burning)

I curse you, Vladislas.

(tense instrumental music)

Come on, Michelle.

We have to hurry!

I can't.

The sun is rising.

You have to keep moving, Michelle.

We've got to get you out of here.

(tense instrumental music)

Michelle: No, please don't.

I can't go on.

No!

We are almost there.

(tense instrumental music)

Doctor Lupu! Doctor Lupu open the door, please!

Your friend, the doctor, is dead.

(tense instrumental music)

Where is the Bloodstone?

Help! Someone help me!

She's a pretty one, master.

Her fear is a rare perfume.

Ah! Ah!

Help! Someone help me!

Help!

Ah!

(vibrant instrumental music)

(Gravekeeper and Ana screaming)

Don't move, Michelle!

(foreign language)

(resolution instrumental music)

Michelle: At last, I was in peace.

In time, the Bloodstone yielded its mysteries to me.

Radu Valdislas was returned to dust.

(mysterious instrumental music)