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''Here Iies LazIo,

''Count of Lavud, he fed his body

with his victims' bIood,

and his souI, with the fire of heII.''

It's him, take him out of there.

Come on, heIp me.

No.

No, don't take him away,

no, no, no, no.

Come on, hurry up.

Leave it here.

Take the cover off.

WeII, Doc, I did my part, now I want my money.

Here, now Ieave.

What do you want now, isn't it enough?

Not reaIIy. I want to know what's inside that coffin.

- What do you think, stupid? - OnIy you know that.

You can hide many things in a coffin.

Come cIoser.

Now I understand why they brought him,

this must be very vaIuabIe.

�Stop! Don't touch anything. Aren't you happy now?

To be honest...

weII, yes, it's a dead man.

This is reaIIy strange,

nobody's going to beIieve me when I teII them.

When you teII them? Are you out of your mind?

You can't teII anybody about this, aII right?

Oh, we said nothing about that.

Now, if you want me to forget about this...

Yes, that's what I want.

For a thousand pesos, I can even forget my name.

Now, get out of here.

Of course, Doctor, of course.

Enjoy your evening, Doctor.

Yes?

Miss, I'm Dr. Mendoza, is Dr. ZaIdivar there?

No, Doctor.

PIease, find him, and teII him

that I'm in Room 1 4. This is very urgent.

Yes, Doctor.

What's wrong, why did you scream?

I'm scared.

Of what?

Of dying.

Of dying?

Nobody dies from a fractured Ieg.

Besides, your Ieg is fine, tomorrow you'II be out of here.

That's why I'm sad.

Oh, weII, are you sad or afraid?

Both things, I wiII no Ionger see you or Dr. Enrique.

We'II see each other again. Try to sIeep.

PIease, don't go!

I need to go, do you want Dr. Enrique to be upset because I'm not sIeeping?

CIose your eyes and soon it'II be morning.

She woke up screaming. I aIready caImed her down.

Screaming? She's never been nervous.

She's just a kid, chiIdren confuse being afraid with being sad,

she's Ieaving tomorrow and she Ioves you so much.

And you? Aren't you going to scream?

Me, why?

I don't know, this is your Iast night here.

And? I'm a grown up.

And I don't get confused with my emotions.

So, you don't feeI sad at aII?

No.

Aren't you afraid?

No.

Are you sure?

Sure, and it's thanks to you, Enrique.

I, I...

You, what?

I'd Iike to stay more time here but...

I'm Ieaving tomorrow.

We stiII have a few hours untiI tomorrow.

I have to go back to the theatre, it's my Iife,

I have rehearsaI tomorrow.

You move your Iips too much.

Dr. Enrique ZaIdivar, Dr. Enrique ZaIdivar.

Dr. Mendoza is waiting for you in Room 1 4.

They're caIIing you.

What does he need me for in Room 1 4?

He aIways cuts me short.

What do you need me for now?

Weren't you in AcapuIco?

Look what I brought you.

What's that?

No, you didn't do that.

Yes, I went to Sierra Negra and brought it for you.

It's your famous vampire.

Are you out of your mind?

Do you want to ID him?

No! Don't you see what you've done?

You desecrated a tomb, stoIe a corpse.

You can go to jaiI for this.

ShouId the oId and great doctors go to jaiI

for doing the same for the sake of science?

What were the crimes of Ambrosio Pare, AdviI?

They needed corpses for their studies and they did the same thing.

Yes, but not vampires. Besides, this isn't a vampire, what happened to Marta

and me in Sierra Negra was something eIse.

This isn't a vampire, he's just a reguIar guy

who Iiked bIood, but that's aII.

You know how hard it's been for me to heIp Marta

feeI fine again and forget about aII those things.

Look, Mendoza, get rid of this corpse. If Marta sees it,

she'II go out of her mind forever.

Nobody needs to know about this.

I'II put it in a refrigerator and...

- And? - ... I'II anaIize it.

No, Mendoza. Get another one.

Besides, you can't use this one, it's got a hoIe in his chest.

SeriousIy, Mendoza, stop this, pIease.

Do you think that I'm crazy, out of my mind?

There's an incredibIe scientific mystery hidden in this coffin.

Enrique, I'm going to investigate untiI I find out something.

Listen. Look at this.

Don't insist.

Look, I want to show you something important

and then you can teII me if what I'm doing is right or wrong. Look.

WeII, he's the same guy. And?

Now you'II see.

This is a reguIar mirror. Now Iook.

What are you going to show me, that it doesn't refIect?

- I know that. - You are wrong, Iook.

What trick is this?

There's no trick. The Iight rays go through the skin.

What rare state of conservation do his ceIIs have?

What kind of rays does it emit?

It's weird, isn't it? This is the mysterious phenomenon that everybody

has expIained with a Iegend. It's a scientific fact.

From the most profound ignorance arises

the most sensationaI scientific truth.

It has aIways been Iike this.

But the vampires don't exist.

Not for the science, but beneath aII this, there has to be something,

something that hasn't been reveaIed in their story.

It's said that they sIeep during the day, and at night they go around Iooking for bIood.

They taIk about their strange immortaIity,

and how they can onIy be put to death with a stake stuck in their heart.

But, you don't beIieve aII that, right?

I want to know how much of this is true.

Look, I'II heIp you, but promise me something:

if we faiI in the investigation, we'II burn this young man to ashes, aII right?

AII right. HeIp me, we'II start right now.

Wait, I'II go get the instruments.

Mendoza, wait, you never know where the scaIpeIs are.

Wait,

Iet me Iock the room.

Nobody can kiII the Count of Lavud, Master of Life and Death.

No.

Have some mercy, don't kiII me.

No, you won't die,

I couIdn't kiII the man who

by fate has brought me to Iife again.

But you'II be Iinked to me and to the speII of my power,

because it's written that you're the one.

I wiII govern your wiII and thoughts,

as if you were dead.

My hypnotic strength wiII give you Iife.

I'm here to take revenge of those who one night took my body

in the stiIIness of the eternaI nebuIous that they caII death.

Obey...

obey, obey.

Yes, sir.

CaII me Master.

Yes, Master.

From dawn tiII dusk

I must rest with the sIeep of death, away from the human eye,

hidden inside my deathbed,

foIIowing the mandates of the norms that ruIe my Iineage.

And under the protection of the night, I shouId Iook for bIood.

We'II do as we said,

if we faiI tomorrow, we'II burn this young man to ashes

and then we'II decide what to do with them.

- Go away. - And you, Master?

Men can't fight against me.

This is weird, I thought I saw a shadow in the window.

What's that?

- The stake. - The coffin is empty.

- Empty? - The vampire is gone.

ReaIIy?

Martita!

Dr. ZaIdivar,

don't you remember me?

Maria Teresa, from Sierra Negra.

Maria Teresa? Are you dead or aIive?

I've traveIIed a Iong way to teII you that...

That the coffin and the vampire have been stoIen, right?

How do you know that?

Because they were brought here.

Here? Be carefuI, Doctor.

Mi niece Marta is in serious danger if she stays here in this medicaI center.

Don't worry, everything wiII be aII right, he's dead.

Dead? If someone removes the stake, he'II come to Iife!

He'II come to Iife? Are you sure?

Of course, don't Iet anyone touch the corpse.

Too Iate, it's gone aIready.

What?

Yes, we had it there and it disappeared.

Where?

You... you have no idea what you've done with this profanation.

By removing the stake, you have resurrected a monster.

Don't you see what you've done?

Take me with my niece Marta, I have to take care of her.

No, it's better if she doesn't know that you are here.

I've been taking care of his tomb night and day to avoid something Iike this.

And now, my niece, you and me are threatened to death.

She's the one under most danger, she was attacked once...

he couId turn her into a vampire!

He can't be far from here, he must stiII be in the buiIding.

So, what are we doing here? Let's go!

Let's go!

You?

Don't move.

Look, this is the Iight which Ied me to you.

I've come from the shadows because it was written in my fate

and you were the reason.

Your thoughts stand stiII,

sIeep, sIeep.

I've come for you and this time it's forever.

It's here!

Is she dead?

No, she just fainted.

I want to see my niece, now, he's going to attack her.

PIease, caIm down, she may have fainted for another reason.

Besides, I don't want Marta to see her, it'd be terribIe for her.

Here in the neck!

The vampire's mark.

It was your fate that after aII this time, you'd be mine forever.

The moment I put this medaI

around your neck,

you'II be bound forever to join your path with mine.

Marta. She's aIone in her room.

Go and Iook over there, I'II Iook over here.

There wiII be no human force that wiII ever break this bond.

Marta, Marta! What happened?

What happened?

I don't know, I woke up in a rush and I...

I can't remember anything eIse.

The girI, she screamed. There's something wrong.

What's the matter, honey, what happened?

Marta, Ieave her aIone, everything is fine now.

What's fine?

She's fine, she's no Ionger screaming, she caImed down.

I think that she just needs a sedative,

I'II go get her a sedative, whiIe I'm gone, you can shout.

But, why?

If you feeI Iike screaming, scream Ioud. You can heIp her, you can both shout.

WeII, it's aII right. TeII me what happened.

A dead man, taII, paIe, with a mirror here.

Hug me, I'm scared, he tried to kiII me.

- And? Did you find anything? - Nothing.

We have to keep on Iooking for him, he has to be somewhere.

Look aII over the pIace.

Where couId he be?

We're wasting our time, don't you see?

The most fiercefuI murderer is out there.

This is Juan eI Tubas, the servants' murderer.

As you can see, he's not preciseIy handsome.

As a young man, he suffered terribIe burns which disfigured his face.

The man has invented horribIe machines to get rid

of these men who,

have aIso kiIIed other men, and that's why they're caIIed murderers.

This is the gaIIows,

it was originaIIy buiIt

to execute the prisoners in the same pIace the crime was committed.

Instead of this pIatform, they used a tree branch.

Here's the guiIIotine, whose name derives from Mesiou de GuiIIotin, its creator.

It was invented during the French revoIution.

Its inventor, by a strange irony of fate, was one of the first ones to try it.

It has a sharp-edged and heavy bIade

which faIIs on the victim's neck.

And here, Iadies and gentIemen,

to finish our tour through the wax museum,

we have the most horribIe instrument of torture ever created,

the Virgin of Nuremberg.

These are spearheads

of the hardest steeI.

The victim was pIaced here,

and the door was cIosed IittIe by IittIe.

If the victim didn't confess,

the executioner sIammed the door, and the victim died in a second.

AII these death machines have been brought from Europe

at a very high cost, to better serve,

heIp and entertain our kind cIienteIe of the wax museum.

And that's aII, Iadies and gentIemen, the wax museum has opened

its doors and secrets for you,

good evening and thank you for joining us.

Maybe next week, we'II have news from Asia,

Africa, in case you'd Iike to come back. Thank you, and good evening.

- Barraza! - You have another customer.

Barraza, Barraza, go away, what the heII do you want?

A pIace to stay, isn't this my home?

Barraza, go away, don't you hear me? I don't want anything to do with you--

Since when are you so deIicate?

Barraza, go away, pIease.

I don't want to have probIems with the poIice, find another pIace to sIeep.

Do we have to repeat what we did in the past?

- No, but don't... - Do as I say, right?

But, Barraza...

There are stiII some unsettIed issues between us, aII right?

Do I need to teII you this? I don't Iike to do this with my friends,

especiaIIy after having Iived together in the same ceII.

AII right, aII right, Barraza, Iet me go.

And from now on, try to taIk Iess. AII right?

Yes, as you say, Barraza.

I want to see my things, come on.

Barraza, Barraza.

There's nothing here, see?

I burned everything, your bed... everything.

Give me the keys to the basement.

You won't get in here again, aII right?

AII right?

- Yes. - Get out.

Wait, wait, pIease, don't rush to concIusions.

You are teIIing me that?

I'II go taIk to the director right now, and I'II teII him the truth,

the whoIe truth and nothing but the thruth.

What wouId you get with that? Let's keep Iooking.

We've aIready Iooked everywhere.

Right now, he's just a vampire foIIowing us,

but wait untiI the poIice finds out about you steaIing corpes around,

and we'II see what happens then.

Enrique...

Wait here, I'II go taIk to the Doctor.

Come in.

Yes, yes, here, in Pasteur medicaI center.

Yes, Miss...

- Director... - Quiet, pIease.

Yes, I hear you. Yes.

Why?

Why did you remove the stake?

I didn't remove it.

Then, who did it?

The man you took to the cemetery.

Barraza!

Find him, you know where to find him.

Yes, he was a security guard at a wax museum, but...

Very weII, Miss, yes, I'II wait for your caII.

WeII, what do you need?

Sir, I have something very serious to teII you.

Something happened tonight in this hospitaI that...

I don't know how to expIain it.

Just say it, I'm in a hurry.

Thank you, sir.

I don't know if you are famiIiar with the experiments that Dr. Mendoza

has been doing these past years regarding ceIIuIar phenomena.

The purpose of these studies is...

I imagine you haven't come here at this time

to give me a Iecture on ceIIuIar phenomena.

No, no, sir.

Do you remember Ambrosio Pare's case, sir?

As you know, during those times the doctors had to steaI

the corpses in order to perform their experiments.

In the professionaI Iife of a person, Doctor...

I stoIe a corpse Iast night.

You are teIIing me, Dr. ZaIdivar,

that besides making advances at our nurses,

fIirting with every pretty patient that comes to the hospitaI,

and constantIy asking for a raise and a saIary advance,

you can be so irresponsibIe

so as to make this horribIe joke, steaIing a corpse?

I order you to take that corpse back to the deposit right now.

I can't, sir, it's gone.

What are you saying, Doctor?

What you heard, Doctor. And there's something worse.

Worse?

Yes, Doctor, worse. It was a vampire.

A vampire? Dr. ZaIdivar.

Yes, I know that sounds unreasonabIe, but it's absoIuteIy scientific,

and if you don't beIieve me, you'II have to beIieve Dr. Mendoza.

You can't deny that Dr. Mendoza is an exceIIent scientific.

I'II go get him. You'II see that I'm not Iying.

Wait a minute, Dr. Mendoza is waiting for me right outside.

Wait a minute.

Where's Dr. Mendoza?

He aIso Ieft.

AIso?

Dr. ZaIdivar, what kind of joke is this?

It's not a joke, Doctor, someone removed the stake from the vampire's body.

Dr. ZaIdivar, I order you...

Doctor, pIease, you have to beIieve me.

I stiII have a piece of evidence to show you that I'm not Iying.

- A piece of evidence? - Yes, sir.

- What's your evidence? - The coffin!

- The coffin? - The coffin. Yes, sir.

And it's not just any coffin, it's a very important one.

It's in Room 1 4, if you want to take a Iook.

- In Room 1 4? - Yes, sir. Let's go.

Let's go.

- Go ahead. - You first, sir.

Now you'II see that I'm not Iying, Doctor.

Some things just happen, no one makes them up.

Excuse me.

There it is.

Where?

Dr. ZaIdivar,

pIease come to my office tomorrow first thing in the morning.

But, Doctor, pIease, Iisten to me...

Doctor.

But, I Ieft it right here...

There's nobody here.

Master!

Dr. Mendoza and Maria Teresa are outside. She is my enemy.

- Doctor? - The corpse disappeared.

What do you want me to do? I don't have it here.

Who knows...

Maybe it's a good pIace to hide it.

Come in, Doctor, you too. Go ahead and take a Iook,

maybe the oId Iady is right after aII.

Here it is, here's the coffin.

The oId Iady.

Take care of that one. Burn every trace of him. Hurry.

Yes, Master.

Mendoza? Dr. Mendoza?

Dr. Mendoza? Where couId he be?

Excuse me, is Dr. Mendoza here? Sorry.

- Miss, have you seen Dr. Mendoza? - No, Doctor.

No, of course not. No one sees or hears anything here.

Even a patient can die here and no one cares.

I was with the patient in Room 10.

Room 10... Mendoza, Mendoza... ?

What's the matter?

I'm Iooking for Mendoza, but I can't find him anywhere.

Don't worry. You'II see him tomorrow.

Yes, I hope so.

- What's wrong? - With me?

- Yes. - Nothing. And with you?

Nothing, I don't know why you ask. Are you sIeepy?

No.

- No? Why were you going to your room? - Which room?

What do you mean, which room? Your room.

And you? Are you sIeepy?

No, no, I'm not sIeepy. ShaII we go?

Yes. Where to?

Where?

Let's go to... Iet's buy... Iet's go smoke a cigarette. I don't want to Ieave you aIone.

Why?

Because tonight is your Iast night and I can't Ieave you aIone.

Come on, come with me.

We've smoked a Iot, but we haven't taIked. Why did we come here?

Do you want another cigarette?

You want to teII me something but don't know how, right?

Who, me? No. Why do you think so?

Enrique, Mr. DuvaI was in my room

before I fainted.

The vampire? I mean, that man? No, that man died in Sierra Negra.

I saw him, Enrique. And I've had the same worries since then,

remember?

Of course I do, I'II never forget it. That's part of our history.

Marta, don't you worry anymore. That man wasn't a vampire,

he was a murderer, just a murderer.

I've struggIed so much to heIp you forget about the whoIe thing...

You're aIso nervous because of that.

If you know something, you shouId teII me. It'd be worse if I didn't know.

Besides, he couId come for me at any moment.

I'm not the person I used to be, Enrique.

I grew stronger. TeII me everything you know.

Marta, are you sure that you saw him?

Are you sure it wasn't just a dream?

AbsoIuteIy. Like I'm seeing you now.

Marta, I can't hide it from you anymore.

I'm going to teII you the truth;

and don't think it's easy for me.

I need to teII you everything from the beginning.

Do you remember when I arrived at Sierra Negra?

Because the truth is,

the truth is that Mendoza

went to The Sicomoros and stoIe the vampire's coffin to do some experiments...

Marta, Marta.

Marta. I'm waiting for you.

Get out of there, he's not Iooking.

Get out of there now, come on. Obey.

Now we're aII in danger, but speciaIIy you.

When I found out about it, it was too Iate,

both the coffin and the vampire had disappeared.

I know it'II be hard for you to beIieve in something that I asked you

so many times to forget, but... Marta!

Martita, Martita, forgive me if I said something that bothered you.

Marta, Marta? Martita, what's wrong?

What happened to me?

Nothing. Let's go upstairs. You need to rest. Come with me.

Boo! Did I scare you?

Me? No, nothing scares me.

You Iook so eIegant, where are you coming from?

Where from? We're Ieaving.

You are Ieaving? Who was the idiot that authorized such a thing?

You.

Me?

Come on, say goodbye to the Doctor. Your mother is waiting for you.

Bye, be a good girI. Give me a kiss.

Goodbye, Martita; see you Iater, Doctor.

- Bye, kid. - WeII, now it's my turn. I'm Ieaving.

We aII need to go on with our Iives.

I'II go back to the theatre. We have a generaI rehearsaI today.

Enrique, Iast night you were about to teII me something very important when...

when I fainted.

Last night? I don't remember.

Did you regret about it?

About what? What's there to be regretfuI? No, it's onIy that I'm very nervous

because I can't find Mendoza.

I don't know.

Enrique, do you think those faints were due to... ?

No, no, those faints are just something that you're going through.

- I'II go with you. - Where?

- To the theatre. - Why?

Because you're very weak and you can faint again anytime.

It'II be good to have a doctor with you just in case, don't you think?

Good evening.

We'II begin with the rehearsaI, pIease.

One, two, three, and change, and one, up, two,

three, up, four.

No, I'm not doing very weII. I didn't get a job at the theatre.

Maybe next time.

Doctor, Doctor, we need your heIp. They've just found a friend of ours,

she is dying on the street, around the corner.

A vampire?

Yes, sir, a vampire.

Maybe you mean a bat.

No, sir, no. A vampire.

WeII, and what's the difference?

One has wings and the other has a cape.

A cape?

Yes, sir, a cape. One is an animaI and the other one is a dead man.

A dead man who's aIive.

I understand. A man who pretends to be dead and takes advantage of the situation.

No, sir, no. He's dead during the day and aIive at night.

That girI was kiIIed by a vampire.

Listen to me,

my friend, Dr. Mendoza, went to Sierra Negra and stoIe the vampire's corpse.

Now I can't find my friend, and I think that the vampire has something to do with this.

WeII, Iet's go to the point. What do you want us to do?

WeII, the vampire is a fierce kiIIer that can't be waIking in the streets. Find him.

- Is that aII? - Yes, sir.

Right now.

Lieutenant Garcia. TeII your men to go Iook for vampires.

Find them aII and put them in jaiI immediateIy.

Are you satisfied, young man?

You don't beIieve me, right?

What do you think?

No, you don't beIieve me.

Vampires...

Hey, Chief, what if it's true?

Take it. I give it to you in the name of my ancestors' rite.

Thus, we shaII be married tonight in eternum, in the ceremony of darkness.

I'II heIp you get out of here without anyone noticing.

Marta, Marta.

What happened?

Something terribIe. You were hypnotized.

How?

Do you recognize this?

Mr. DuvaI's neckIace.

- Yes. - Who gave it to me?

He did. I toId you everything Iast night, but you couIdn't hear me.

Take me out of here. I'm very scared.

Listen, Marta, you need to be strong.

The vampire has been hypnotizing you from a distance,

I know that's incredibIe, but we both know that nothing's impossibIe for him.

Mr. DuvaI has come back to Iife and he wants to take you with him.

CaII the poIice. He can't be very far.

That wouIdn't heIp.

I aIredy taIked to them and they didn't beIieve me.

Marta, we are aIone in this.

Let's run away then.

He'II foIIow you. We need to confront him now.

It's now or never.

But, how are we going to confront him?

Listen...

To the stage, Martita, you are next. Last caII.

Come on, girIs, hurry, hurry, faster, faster.

This cross is my onIy protection.

No, you can't wear it.

But he's scared of crosses.

That's why you shouIdn't wear it.

You shouId pretend you have no idea of what's happening.

Wear this medaI.

Our onIy hope of getting him is if he gets near you.

I'II be watching you whiIe you're on stage.

I'II take care of it.

You have to be strong. Think of me.

Come on, go.

PIease.

Go get the poIice.

Now you'II know what's Iike to fight against a vampire.

Get ready to die.

Where are you going, cIown? Get him! You'II spend the rest of your Iife in jaiI.

Take him.

Marta.

Marta, what's wrong? What happened?

Nothing, it's aII over.

I've seen you before. Did you capture the vampire?

Yes, sir.

Where do you have it?

There.

Those stairs Iead to the roof.

Is that right?