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Once the world was full of wonders

but it belongs to humans now.

We creatures
have all but disappeared...

demons, vampires and witches...

hiding in plain sight

fearful of discovery

ill at ease, even with each other.

But, as my father used to say

in every ending...

there is a new beginning.

Hi, Fred.
- Good morning.

Good morning.

♪ Home is the trace of the past
we leave behind ♪

♪ And home is the place
that I yearn for all the time ♪

♪ But I can't look back ♪

♪ Times are changing yeah, yeah ♪

♪ No I won't lose no rearranging,
yeah, yeah ♪

♪ You know that I must follow dreams ♪

♪ you come with me, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ so I'm leaving... ♪

No, stop!

Please, join me
in welcoming back to Oxford...

this year's visiting research fellow.

As many of you know, she took her
DPhil in the history of science here.

And after publishing
two prize-winning books

she was awarded tenure at Yale

one of the youngest ever
to have been awarded that distinction.

We are delighted
to have her back amongst us.

Dr Diana Bishop.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Alchemy.

In the 17th century, alchemy was at
the very heart of the study of nature

and a precursor to modern chemistry...

..and death. All parts of the natural
world, be they animate or inanimate

were believed to experience
these stages.

Although these images were
often interpreted as allegory

they actually represent
the chemical processes...

With access to
the Bodleian Library's collection

of unique manuscripts
owned by Elias Ashmole

the 17th-century antiquarian,
astrologer and alchemist

I will continue to explore
the role that alchemy had

in 17th-century thought

and how it influenced great scientists
such as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle.

Thank you.

Very stimulating.
- Thank you.

There's an opening
coming up soon in the faculty.

I'm drawing up a shortlist of
candidates. Would it interest you?

Er, yes.

We'll need to evaluate all your work.

The talk that you just gave today -
I assume it's ready to be published?

It is, it is. It's almost finished.

Well, I'd need it by late October.
- Absolutely.

I look forward to reading it.
- Thank you.

Diana, that was brilliant.

Gillian Chamberlain at a lecture
for alchemy? What a lovely surprise.

It's been, what, four years
since I've seen you?

Almost six, actually.
Can't believe it.

When did you arrive?
- Over a week ago.

I've been practically living in
the library. I haven't even unpacked.

It is so good to see you.

It's like...

No, it's like coming home,
nothing's changed.

Tell me about it.

I'm not regular faculty, that's all.

Still no vacancies
for a classical historian.

I'm sorry.

If there is anything I can do.
- It'll happen.

Otherwise, Oxford's still great.

The coven's pretty active.
We're meeting tonight for the equinox.

You'll know loads of us
if you wanted to come.

I'm still not comfortable
around magic.

Not after what happened to my parents.

I still find it...

I just find it difficult.

Do you not use your powers at all?

I am a walking disaster on that front.

My powers are so unpredictable.

This morning, it happened
by accident in public.

I mean, no one saw,
but they could have.

You should speak to Sylvia about that.

She's the head of coven now.
She might be able to help you.

It's OK. I'm used to it.

I hear your lecture impressed
a few people yesterday.

So, now you've got to get
that paper finished, right?

What do you need?

Ashmole 37, 92, 183 and 782.
- 782.

No problem. Be with you shortly.

Thanks.

Hey!

Hey.
- How's it going?

Oh, just the usual, you know.

There you go, the Ashmole manuscripts.

Thank you.

Right, so, I'm out by the call desk.

Maybe we could have a coffee later?
- Yeah, great.

Awesome. See you.
- OK, bye.

Christ! Someone needs to fix the lights.

Is it happening to you?
- Yes.

Our blood...

it's reacting to something.

Sorry, sorry.

Dr Bishop?

- I'm such an idiot, I...
- Just need to check the fuses again.

We close at 5.00.

Dad.

Dad?

Dad?

Diana!

What happened in there?

Did you feel it?
I don't think the humans did.

That Ashmole manuscript,
there was something weird about it.

Did you see anything unusual?

Diana, are you all right?

Diana?

Where are you going?

So I presume I'm seeing you tonight.

No.
- Come on.

No.
- James, look, I've found a new place.

I've just been on
a 12-hour shift. I'm going home to crash.

Last week was a mistake
and I admit last week was a mistake.

That's what you said last week.
- Tuesday's better than the weekend.

You can get a booth,
it stays open till 3:00am...

3:00am, midweek?
Are you off your rocker?

And I'm pretty sure the DJ plays
almost exclusively '90s R&B.

See, when I'm not on shift,
I'm in bed by 12.

How come you never look tired?
- I'm not a lightweight like you.

A-huh.

Have a good sleep.

Five-a-side next week!
- If you're awake.

No!

James, mate!

Hang in there, James.

No.

Matthew, have you been here all night?

She's a witch, Miriam, a powerful one
if her family's anything to go by.

Who is?

The academic I overheard
outside the Bodleian.

She's a direct descendant
of Bridget Bishop

the first woman to be executed
at the Salem witch trials.

You think what happened yesterday
was witchcraft?

I don't know, but she'd just taken out
an alchemical manuscript.

An Ashmole manuscript.

Come on, Matthew

it's not possible.

What, that she's found
Ashmole 782? Why?

Because you've been looking
for that book for over 100 years.

Longer.

Ever since I began to believe that it
could help us understand our origins.

It's missing.

It's always been missing.
How could this witch have found it?

Perhaps it wasn't missing.

Perhaps it was waiting.

Dad.

Next up on Radio 4

it's Rebecca Ali with Woman's Hour.

Hello.

Hey. Er, it's me.

Hey. You alright?

It's five o'clock in the morning,
Diana.

I know. I know. I'm sorry.

Something's happened.

- You all right, honey?
- I was in the Bod studying.

I took out a manuscript.

But it was bewitched or something.

Was it a grimoire?
- It was an Ashmole manuscript.

There were alchemical illustrations.
- Uh-huh, what else?

Er...

Moving under the pages.

I couldn't read it.

Definitely sounds
like it was bewitched.

How did you unravel the spell?
Did you say any words?

There was no witchcraft involved,
Sarah.

How many times?
You know I refuse to practise.

I couldn't wait to get rid of it.

I returned it.
- What?

Diana, we've always told you...

if you ever come across
something magical...

you should always, always,
try to understand it!

Honey, what is happening?
- It's Diana.

She's discovered some magical book.

That is not even why I called.
It's...

It's what happened afterwards.

I think... I think I saw Dad.

What do you mean, you saw your dad?
- He was just as I remembered him.

What do you think it means?

Well, honey, we're not
gonna know now, are we?

You've given it back. Really, Diana,
it's time you faced what you are

a witch!

We've been over this, Sarah.
I'm an historian, that's what I am.

Oxford might offer me a professorship.

Oh, honey!
That is wonderful news, Diana.

Well, I don't have it yet.

I have to get a paper written.

Wai t! Wai t!
You can't just hide in your work.

You saw your father.
This is important.

If the book is bewitched, there's no
telling how you unlocked the spell.

You have to take the book out again.
Work out what's going on.

That may be what you would do, Sarah,
but I'm not you.

I called for your advice,
not another lecture.

Well, you know how
she feels about all this.

Give her time to cool off, honey,
and try again.

You say the car took off at speed.

Are you sure that
registration number's right?

Positive.

I have very good eyesight.

You say you left the hospital at 5:30.

But you didn't call
the incident in until 6:15.

- I was giving him CPR.
- For over half an hour?

Yes.

I'm a doctor.
I was trying to save his life.

Hey, Matthew.

Think of the risks you took.
You could've been seen.

James was my friend
and a brilliant doctor.

I couldn't bear for all that
potential to go to waste.

Did you even get his consent?

Christ, Marcus!

How many times do you have to be told?

Alright, I messed up.

Why didn't it work?

That's what we need to find out.

What's he doing here?
- Marcus is our new research subject.

Another failed siring.

Would you take his bloods and do
a cheek swab? Thank you, Miriam.

Hello, Miriam.

Hello, Marcus.

I'll need that.

And roll up your sleeve.

I can take my own blood.

Not in my lab, you can't.

You should've told me.

You knew that there'd been other
failed sirings, so why the secrecy?

You're not meant to be siring anyone.

Do I have to haul you both out of here
or can we finish our wine first?

You know I didn't plan to sire James.

If there had been more time,
I would have asked permission.

And if I'd known
there was a risk of failure

I never would have attempted it.

Matthew, his last moments

were ugly, confused

and desperate, but he didn't know why.

I did that.

He was my friend and I took
his death away from him for nothing.

The reason I didn't tell you...

is because we're all in the dark.

We know there's a problem,
but we don't know the cause

and that's the reason...

that we need the book.

Matthew thinks Ashmole 782
covers early creature history.

It could help us
understand our evolution

our origins.

The witches cannot be allowed
to have that information.

Some would want to use that knowledge
to destroy us.

So what do we do?

I talk to Dr Bishop.

And if need be...

we take the book for ourselves.

Notes and Queries?

Notes and Queries?

Where are you?

Goddamn!

Yours, I believe?

That's a nasty burn.

You're a vampire.

Professor Clairmont.

Biochemistry.
- Dr Bishop.

I found your article
on colour symbolism

in alchemical transformation
fascinating

and your work on
Robert Boyle's approach

to problems of expansion and
contraction quietly persuasive.

You have a wonderful way
of evoking the past for the reader.

Thank you.

I'm hardly likely to forget you now,
after that.

I didn't think that witches were
allowed to show their magic in public.

I didn't mean for that to happen.

Not in control of yourself, Dr Bishop?

I'm perfectly in control.

Thank you.

Now, if you'll excuse me,
Professor Clairmont

I have to get back to my work.

Focus.

Gillian.
- Sylvia.

Is everything all right?

The disturbance we all felt. Your
text said if anyone knew anything.

Yes?

I think maybe I do.

Anything of interest?

You're following me.
- Well, we work in the same place.

It's hardly strange that our paths
should cross again.

You knew who I was yesterday.

I'd call that a professional hazard.

Your photograph's on the back
of all your books.

Checked in with the staff at the Bod.

You were in and out of there
in five minutes max.

You were looking for me.

Not because you enjoyed
my thesis on Robert Boyle.

What do you want, Professor Clairmont?

That's a fair question.

You called up an Ashmole manuscript
earlier this week

and something happened

something that disturbed you.

Was it Ashmole 782?

I'm assuming you used magic
to retrieve it.

Why do you care?
Alchemy's not your area.

This is about a great deal more
than just alchemy.

Where's the manuscript now?

Where it always is. You can't take
books out of the Bodleian.

Excuse me.
- Dr Bishop, please hear me out.

No one has seen that book
for a very long time

and it's not just me who wants it.
Word is spreading.

It might be safer for you

if the creatures of Oxford knew
that it was longer in your possession.

Is that a threat?

No. It's a warning.

You need to be careful.

I will be.

Goodbye, Professor Clairmont.

Sean.
- Yeah?

I need a drink.

For you.
- So now I know what you drink.

I know what you read.

Pretty much everything pre-1800.

What else is there?

Oh, come on.

Family? Brothers, sisters?

I'm an only child.

I, er... I was actually raised
by my aunt and her partner.

Oh.
- Yeah.

My parents died.

Both of them?

Car crash or something?

They were, er... They were murdered.

I shouldn't have asked. You
really don't have to talk about it.

It's OK.

They were on a research trip

to a village
on the Ukraine-Russia border.

We think the villagers turned on them.

They thought that they...

that they were witches.

Witches?

Some people still believe in witches.

That magic is real.

They believe in other creatures too.
- Superstitious crap.

I don't know how people
can still be so ignorant.

We're living in the 21st century.

I'm so sorry, Diana.

No one's here.
The bed's still warm though.

She can't be far away.

We never are.

Where'd you come from, witch?

I found him in the local pub.

Told him about the witch in the woods.

Humans and their prejudices.

Tell me...

are you always this assertive?

The equinox gives me an edge.

You've proven yourself
more than worthy, Satu.

I shall take you to be sworn
into the congregation.

But we have work to do first.

There's been a disturbance.

He's already put in his requests.

These are his two.
Give them to him, will you?

Sure.

Hey.
- Hey.

What's going on?
- Some hotshot scientist

has graced us with his presence.

Sorry, he requested 83.

Yours, Professor Clairmont.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Professor Clairmont.

I'm sorry, am I bothering you?

No.

I'm just surprised you find
a southern exposure comfortable.

You don't believe
everything you read, do you?

Alright, then.

I thought that you
might like some company.

The library's busy today.
Quite a few witches here.

You see?

Hey.

So what? They often work in here.

They're here to watch you.

I did warn you that other creatures
would take an interest in you.

They're looking at me
because I'm talking to you.

They are not the ones
with the problem.

Do you mind?

Leaving so soon?
- Yeah.

Hey!

Diana.

Hey.

That was a vampire.

Yes, yeah.
- What was he doing in the library?

I don't know any more than you do.

But he talked to you.

Yeah, he'd read my works.

It's not a big deal.

They're very dangerous and they
hate us as much as we hate them.

Hopefully, he'll be gone by tomorrow.

Yeah.

I'm going back to my rooms to work.
- OK.

Sure.

Welcome to Oxford, Mr Knox.

It's such
an honour to have you in our city.

Come in. Don't linger out there.

So, Miss Chamberlain.

Hello.

Please, sit down.

Now, tell me exactly what happened?

There was this Ashmole manuscript
in the Bodleian Library

an alchemical one.
- Old?

Medieval, two clasps,
distinctive binding.

My friend took it out.

If it's the book I think it is

then I've been looking for it
for a very long time.

What's the name of your friend?

Um...
- You heard him.

The name.

Diana Bishop.

Do you actually think it's safe
down here in the dark, Dr Bishop?

Are you stalking me?

I'm merely pointing out
that rowing on your own is a risk.

So...

The Book Of Life,
what did you do with it?

I don't know what that is.

A witch of your powers,
how could you not know?

Just because you saw me in
the library. That was unusual for me.

I don't use magic.
- Don't lie to me, Diana.

I can feel your power.

If you want the book,
why don't you go get it?

I told you, I gave it back.
- I don't believe you.

OK, let's say I'm lying.
What are you going to do?

Rip my head off
to get the truth out of me?

I could.

But it's not how I operate.

I'm going to say this to you
one more time.

I don't have your book.

Ashmole 782 has been missing
for centuries

and yet you were able to call it up.

Aren't you curious why?

That book has never appeared to me
or anyone else

no matter what we've done.

Only to you.

It could be the key to our survival

so isn't it strange that the only
creature who can summon it

is a witch who can't
control her magic?

Walk past me slowly.

No sudden movement.

Go!

But don't run.

What's going on?

I came up here to get away
from a witch. I'm craving her.

Good hunting.

If you hurt her,
you'll never forgive yourself.

Vampires abuse their longevity
to gain far too much control.

This dead tourist is
a brazen vampire killing.

- Other creatures will want the book.
- Why is it so important to you?

It could tell us how we...

created vampires.

If we created them,
then we could uncreate them.