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She's married?

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'd you do?

Come on, you're a cop. I've had people like you sniffing around here before.

I'm just trying to help her.

Okay, Mom. I'm ready.

I'll just be a second, honey. Hop in the car.

This was taken just before she disappeared.

She looked 10 years older now.

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 and 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 could look for her there.

Thanks.

If you find anything out, I'd like to know.

What if you could call next time?

Emily doesn't really remember Ash. I'd rather keep her out of this.

I haven't to do this.

That's true. I mean, it's probably just a wasted effort. You know,

I'll 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.

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.

Ashley Marin?

Ashley, I know you're here. I just want to talk to you. I want to help you.

Ashley?

Gabe?

Gabe, what happened?

Where did all this stuff come from?

So, this is how you get into the attic.

Great choice. Put it in the kids' room.

Hey. Hey.

This was my mom's.

This was all my mom's stuff.

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

That's her family Bible, Gabe.

Can I see?

Your grandma had this with her all the time when she was in the hospital at the end.

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

She'd ask me to read her stuff from it. Maybe she could have met her.

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, um, 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, uh, 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...

Now, into bed.

I don't have much.

You'll have to go slowly.

If you talk to me, you can have more.

Ashley, you've got to talk to me.

I want to help you, but we've only got 46 hours left to try to save your soul.

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

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.

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.

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

What I do now?

I only have 48 hours to try and save a client who sleeps 12 hours a day.

Don't be silly. Everyone knows vampires aren't real.

Although, 33% of those polled believe in ghosts,

and a startling 79% believe that Jesus Christ's

mother gave birth without having sex.

I have to wake her up. No time to answer a few simple questions.

Get out.

Personally, I've found that 54% of those polled will open

their door to a complete stranger holding a clipboard.

Excellent for business. 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 from their arms and their legs where they shoot up.

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.

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.

Well, that was a hell of a pep talk.

Come on, we can't waste any more time. I can't.

I have to eat.

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 want to 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?

Little shopping trip for groceries.

They don't sell groceries in the elevator. Maya, if you keep making it about him,

you're going to 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.

Why would he still be here? Is this where he buys his drugs?

He lives here. He's an old guy, always starving. I know he was really scared.

Oh, God, no! Keep her away from me! You have to kill me! You're a murderer!

Help me! Somebody 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.

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.

Don't worry. I'm just here to ask a few simple questions.

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

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?

I think I'm picking up on a signal.

I'm receiving it. I'm receiving it. I think I'm receiving a signal.

Young man, such language!

Just kidding.

But it seems like you've got a question of your own, don't you?

Well, maybe you could whisper it.

Did Mummy go to hell?

That is an interesting question.

No, I don't believe you're going to 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.

Yes, I know. Doesn't look good, does it?

But then, 98% of those polled believe that people who work for the devil...

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 out of school, ruin my marriage. You did that.

Disappear for ten 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 have gone to her funeral. Ash,

this was a mistake. Oh, that's great. Run away.

You've had plenty of practice at that.

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're 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.

Kid yourself.

There won't be another time, will there? You got that right.

I just don't think I should be here. You're not.

I put a needle in my arm six days ago. At least it wasn't during the meeting.

Aren't they 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 going to 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. Forget it.

Forget this. Forget you. Forget me. Forget all of it.

Firing your sponsor is generally considered a red flag.

Ash, we've got to go back. You've got to try to connect with your mom.

Ash! Ash!

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 out of going to hell.

I used to come here with Danica, okay?

I miss her.

Tell me what was happening when the devil came to see you.

I never fit in anywhere, you know?

I thought it would be like joining a secret club.

Dress in black, never get old, school forever.

He told you there were other vampires?

I told him. I thought I knew everything. I've 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 alive.

Vampire! You bunch of freaks!

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

You know, I don't really hear things the way I usually do.

He snuck up on me from behind.

I guess he thought I'd be scared like the other women he'd raped.

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?

Who's there?

I'm sorry, but I haven't slept all night, and if I don't talk to somebody,

I'm just going to go back out there.

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 have 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 ten 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.

She freaked out, lost control of the car.

It's why I didn't want to 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.

It's not burning me.

I'm human.

I gotta go.

Ash.

I've got the daylight hours now. Let's use them.

Please, just for an hour.

There's somebody I really need to talk to.

You been on a diet or something?

You have no idea.

God, this meatloaf is really good.

I guess. Look, Mom's not going to be home till six.

I don't want to talk to Mom.

We just fight. I want to talk to you. Okay. Okay.

I want to 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.

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 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.

Gabe?

Gabe, enough.

Gabe, stop. You're gonna rip it.

I just showed him this little game I used to play, and now he's obsessed.

He's been doing it all day. 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 going to 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 and dodgeballed.

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.

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.

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.

So, are you hooked again?

Seven hours of bliss and a week of withdrawal.

Kind of takes the fun out of it. So why'd you do it?

Some things happen.

Some Morgan things?

You could have called me.

You've got enough on your plate. Yeah, I know, but a week of withdrawal?

That must have been awful.

My sponsor checked in on me.

So, you're okay now?

Yeah, sort of. 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.

Mr. Devon?

Devin, leave her alone.

Please, let him go. We need to talk. He said he'd

tell me where to find you. 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.

No, I'm not crazy. Ashley, run!

Just put the stake down, okay?

I know what I saw and what I felt in my neck. I said just go! You're evil!

You're a vampire! And this is gonna finally be over.

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.

Wake up, okay? Wake up, help's coming.

Danica! She would have died otherwise.

I'm sorry.

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?

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.

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 want to leave another vampire

running around after my deal is over.

I'm not going to let you hurt her. I don't want to hurt her.

I think she's the key to 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 ten years.

Her car never would have crashed in the first place if you hadn't

been trying to tell her about the results of your deal.

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.

So...

Overall, would you say your life is going better today than it was a year ago?

Well, I don't know. It's been kind of a rough year.

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

Geez, my hope is not hopeless.

Alrighty 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.

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?

Um, no.

His parents are... Hey, Eep!

I'm 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?

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% of those polled believe you can catch more bees with honey.

There's a place back here we used to go when guys were

hitting on us. This was it. There was a door here.

I don't believe it. She lives here?

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.

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

What are you doing?

Danica.

Ash! 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.

Are you the one who changed her back?

Will I change back too?

I assumed you would.

But your power seemed to be as strong as ashes 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 going to die all over again.

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 stray dogs, cats. I've even fed on rats.

But not people. Never people!

You want to 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 want to die.

No.

You said Devin 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 part of your deal?

Is there a way to do it that Devin 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.

Danica, no.