VANESSA: Previously on Van Helsing...
Yeah, we're OK.
I had a sister, too.
Dropped her off at the park, the swings.
Never saw her again.
You sure about this? Going it alone out there?
AXEL: Yeah, I'm positive.
Kill the one you love.
No matter what happens, meet me in that place we talked about.
Promise me?
That is not the one you love.
No!
Where's Felix?
Grendel got him.
MUSIC: "Lost Under Heaven" by I&I
♪ There's signs in this early morning ♪
♪ As mindful you wake from your sleep ♪
♪ There's life in this early morning ♪
♪ A life that you want to lead ♪
♪ And if you're not ready, forget it ♪
♪ Lay down and fall back to sleep ♪
♪ If you're not ready, forget it ♪
♪ Lay down and fall back to sleep ♪
♪ I say there's signs in this early morning ♪
♪ Signs in this early morning ♪
♪ As mindful you wake from your sleep ♪
♪ There's life in this early morning ♪
HE YAWNS
♪ A life that you want to lead ♪
♪ And if you're not ready, forget it ♪
♪ If you're not ready, forget it ♪
♪ Lay down and fall back to sleep ♪
- MAN: Wait! Wait! - ♪ Lay down and fall back to sleep ♪
♪ If you're not ready, forget it ♪
♪ Lay down and fall back to sleep ♪ - Get on up.
♪ Lay down and fall back to sleep ♪
♪ I said there's signs in this early morning ♪
♪ There's signs in this early morning ♪
- ♪ As mindful you wake from your sleep ♪ - Oh, thank you.
- ♪ There's life in this early morning ♪ - Everybody set?
♪ A life that you want to lead ♪
♪ Lay down and fall back to sleep ♪
♪ I said there's signs in this early morning ♪
♪ There's signs in this early morning ♪
♪ As mindful you wake from your sleep ♪
♪ There's life in this early morning ♪
There she is.
This place hasn't changed a bit.
ENGINE SPUTTERS - Come on now...
HE GROANS
HE CHUCKLES
Jesus Christ.
Look at us, man.
Hope you made it, Lorne.
Come on, baby.
Can't miss that.
HE GROANS
HE COUGHS
HE SIGHS
SWING SQUEAKS
Axel.
SIREN WAILS
Shit.
VAMPIRES HISS
MAN SHOUTS
MAN 2: Come on!
Run, run, run!
You gotta be kidding me.
Come on, come on!
Let's go!
Hurry up!
VAMPIRE HISSES - THEY GASP
Shit!
GUNSHOT
Grab your shit and go! Get outta here now!
GUNSHOTS
SHE SCREAMS - GUNFIRE
Run now! Go!
GUNFIRE
Go, run, run, run!
WOMEN SCREAM - Go, go, go, go!
GUNSHOTS
VAMPIRES GROWL
METAL RINGS
Mohamad!
I'm home!
Mohamad?
IN SING-SONG: Mo-ha-mad!
HE GROWLS
Mohamad?
HE SNIFFS
HE SINGS INDISTINCTLY
♪ Mohamad, where are you? ♪
Mohamad?
Mohamad...
HE WHISPERS Mohamad.
HE GROWLS
Mohamad...
HE WAILS: Mohamad!
Drop it, soldier.
Uh, marine, actually.
I didn't mean to barge in on you guys. I can just walk back out that door.
He saved our lives!
All but Sandra.
But I put the blame for her on you, Lorne.
Me?
The plan was so clear. I went over it a thousand times with you.
I can just go.
He helped us out.
Give him dinner.
It's up to you.
I vote he stays.
Is that a yes?
Yeah.
- I-I can... - Why don't you go rest?
I got this.
SHE SIGHS Don't mind her.
- She's got some issues. - Well, don't we all?
So what's your story?
It's not really one worth telling.
Why don't you let me be the judge of that?
- Hey. - Hey.
Name's Lorne.
You look familiar.
You from around here?
It's Axel.
Axel Miller.
I used to work for you down at the old feed store.
HE SPUTTERS It can't be!
Axel?
Axel Miller?
LORNE LAUGHS Look at...
You sure you remember me? It's been a lot of years.
You're kiddin' me?
Forget the hardest working boy I ever hired?
Bah!
Hell of a bat, too.
Number nine, right?
Shortstop.
Jesus Christ, you remembered the...
jersey number from junior baseball?
I sponsored the whole damn thing.
Remember the logo right on the front of the uniform?
- Yeah. - That's why you got the job, son.
I... I figured if you could put out that much work running those bases
that, yeah, maybe you could put in a good shift at the store.
AXEL CHUCKLES
Turns out I was right.
LORNE LAUGHS Axel!
I remember your mum and dad.
And...
your little sister, Polly.
Pretty, pretty Polly.
LORNE SIGHS
Glad to see you made it, Lorne.
HE BREATHES HEAVILY
You look familiar.
I-I'm Lorne.
I used to run the old feed store out on the highway.
I didn't catch your name.
It's Bob.
The name's Bob.
- Bob. - Yeah.
Well, nice to meet ya, Bob.
Nice to meet you, Lorne.
LORNE: Yeah...
KELLY: Whole town wasn't hit that hard after the first wave.
At least, that's what Lorne used to say.
Before he, uh...
you know.
Anyway, ash cloud cleared after a couple months.
Real trouble was on the coast.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Well, everyone from here went for higher ground. More sun.
LORNE CHUCKLES
I've lived here all my life. No way I'm giving up now.
I, uh, used to run the old feed shop.
Right there off the old highway.
LORNE CHUCKLES
That right?
MAN: Name's Nelson.
- Hey. - From San Diego.
Good to meet ya.
I was headed for Denver, but I ended up here.
Listen, these Daywalkers, they're not like what they used to be.
You have to be more careful.
A feral is a feral.
I mean, so this pack don't sunburn.
It's a fluke.
Yeah, but it's not.
LORNE LAUGHS
Listen, sonny.
I've lived here all my life.
So don't come in here and tell me what I do and don't know about ferals...
- Hey. - No!
I probably killed more ferals than he's ever seen!
Hey. It's our turn at scrub duty.
Again?
It's Tuesday, isn't it?
Right...
I'm no slacker.
Never said you were.
- Need some help? - It's alright. It's alright.
He gets upset if he's not in charge.
I know the feeling.
It's nice to see a new face around here.
SHE SIGHS
Anyway, um...
Welcome.
Cheers.
What's her story?
KELLY: Carter?
Yeah.
She's got guts.
Yeah, but social skills?
- Well, she did point a gun at my head. - KELLY LAUGHS
Well, that's just her.
Again, I'm not gonna gossip.
Small town, you know?
I do.
Besides, if you got something to ask, maybe you should just ask it yourself.
Don't shoot.
I had my chance.
Sure did.
- Those ferals, they're, uh... - They're different.
Not just the sun.
They plan.
They communicate.
We used to fish and hunt.
The store was just like storage.
Just wander over when you had to.
Stuck in here now.
The woods can't be that bad.
- I made it through. - Yeah, but...
- Lorne. - He's kinda slipping, huh?
So, whose idea was the, uh... siren?
Nelson.
It worked yesterday.
They're smarter than that.
Smarter than Nelson.
- He's not all bad. - Might be onto something.
Take out the whole pack?
Only till the next pack wanders in.
Well, it'd be long enough to get the food back here.
Just need a couple days' worth for my take.
You sure?
Guy like you, girl like Kelly?
Seems like a perfect fit to me.
Someone to ride out the apocalypse with?
Let's move in the morning.
The hardware store still by the fire hall?
Last time I checked.
LOCK SLIDES
- Hey. - Hey.
Out for a morning stroll?
Uh, no, I was just doing a little scouting. Checking out your defences.
A man who likes to be prepared.
You were in the army?
AXEL: Marines.
You ever kill anybody?
Before the rising?
- I don't really talk about that stuff. - Mm.
Well, we all have a past we'd rather leave that way, good or bad.
I'm gonna help you guys out with another supply run
take my share, then I'm gonna leave you all the way I found you.
Good to know.
What's the rush?
I mean, maybe you'd like to grab a box of protection
when you make the run to the store.
Ah... HE LAUGHS
I don't think that's a good idea. I'm...
kind of waiting for somebody.
Oh.
It's been six weeks.
- What? - I had somebody too.
Justin, he...
went to get firewood.
That was six weeks ago, so...
Maybe you want to grab a box of something, just... in case.
Look, I'm sorry to hear about your guy, you know
but... you really don't have to do that.
Do what?
Trade yourself for a little bit of safety.
SHE SCOFFS
You don't know me.
And more to the point, no one here really knows you either.
- Huh. - HE SIGHS
- I didn't mean to upset you. - SHE SCOFFS
See?
In the end, no one's really who you think they are.
Ready to go?
- Not until I know the plan. - What do you mean?
We sound the siren, distract those things, grab as much shit as we can carry
and run like hell.
You can't just use the same bullshit plan over and over again and expect it to work.
- They're smarter than that. - It does work.
Really?
You should tell that to the girl who's dead outside.
Well, if you think you've got a better plan.
I might.
SAM GROWLS
HE SNIFFS
We got ripe berries.
We got nice berries.
We got berries for days.
I like berries.
I know you like berries!
That's why we went berry picking.
Now...
HE CLEARS THROAT
I have an idea.
Why don't you take these delicious berries... back to Chad and the rest?
OK.
OK? Good.
And I want you to tell them...
that Grendel is back.
He is?
You walk back calmly to Chad, and you tell them all to run.
Understand?
It was a great afternoon.
Bye.
Where's Felix?
He was not worthy.
Not worthy of you? You're nothing but a rotting sack of shit.
And you love him, I can see.
Really?
I doubt that.
I tried...
to love him.
But I could not.
You don't know what love is.
You can't love anyone.
I do know love!
It is a cancer that I must...
cut out of me.
It is the source of all the pain.
Where's Felix?
Dead.
There. See?
Love...
is the greatest torturer.
GUNSHOT - SAM CRIES
Don't you want to be free of that?
I'd rather die.
Not your choice, really, is it?
GUNSHOT - SAM GROANS
HE YELLS
If you shoot me again
I will find that little Tabby
and I will tear her apart in front of you.
No.
There.
Love again.
Your worst enemy, seeded deep inside of you.
Stop.
SAM: Shoot.
There. Love again.
Our Father...
You are pleading to a god that tortures you?
In heaven he gives us our food.
All this suffering is because of this.
- This. - I will forgive those
just as he forgives us.
He will deliver us from evil.
This is evil.
Love is evil.
You have no heart.
Yes, I do.
I do.
And it torments me.
But I will no longer allow that.
I will cut it out.
I will gorge it out.
HE GASPS
MIKE GROANS
No love.
MIKE RASPS
No!
No...
HE CRIES I didn't know love...
until the world turned dark.
And then that love became the world itself.
It took the place of everything else I had lost.
SAM: No.
- No... - Yes!
IMPACT GRUNT
There.
Love tortures again.
HE GASPS
CHAD SOBS
CROWS CAW
DISTORTED VOICE: But love you still do.
But I fight it.
You must extinguish the flame.
But how?
I've lost him.
Mohamad?
SAM: Yes.
He is found with her.
She returns to the crypt.
The crypt.
Follow his trail.
You have not lost him.
Follow and you will find your destiny.
CROWS CAW
CHAD SOBS
Alright, I met six of these Daywalkers.
There was the two at the treeline
the other four, they were just running up and down the road keeping watch.
CARTER: That's the whole pack.
Looks like it.
You really think we can take them on all at once?
Yeah, I don't see why not.
As long as Kelly and Lorne pop the signal at the right time and hang back.
You guys get everything we need?
If it can destroy a Daywalker and runs on gas.
HE LAUGHS IRONICALLY
Let's do it.
Where'd G.I. Joe say he was from again?
He didn't. Why?
SHE SIGHS
Kelly's set.
Nelson and Hugo are in place.
Alright. Stay sharp.
SIREN WAILS
If things go sideways, make sure you fall back.
VAMPIRES HISS
That's our cue.
One, one thousand, two, one thousand.
AIR HORN BLASTS
The last two aren't falling for it.
Let's give 'em something to fall for.
Hey, assholes!
GUNSHOTS
ELECTRIC DRILL REVS - Come to papa!
AIR HORN BLASTS
VAMPIRE SNARLS
GUNSHOT
GUNSHOTS
DRILL WHIRS
GUNSHOTS
VAMPIRE SHRIEKS
Goddamn.
I'm gotta have to get me one of these.
CHAINSAW REVS
VAMPIRE SNARLS
HE YELLS Die, you piece of shit!
We put ours down. How bout y'all, everybody good?
Yeah. We're alright.
Got our two.
Where are the others at?
There should be two more out there somewhere.
AIR HORN BLASTS
LORNE: Hey!
GUNSHOT
- Lorne! Lorne! Stop shooting!
- GUNSHOT - What are you doing? Stop, stop!
Lorne! Come back!
- GUNSHOTS - Lorne! Stop firing!
Stop, stop, stop!
- SHE SCREAMS - VAMPIRE SNARLS
Hugo, Nelson, kill that fucking thing!
GUNFIRE - SHE SCREAMS
Come on!
GUNSHOTS
- AXEL GRUNTS - DRILL WHIRS
SHE GASPS
Help me.
- SHE COUGHS - Please.
Don't let me turn! Don't let me turn!
I'm sorry, kid.
GUNSHOTS
HE SIGHS
LORNE: Come on!
Come now, come on!
Come on!
VOICE MUFFLED: Come on, come on!
HEARTBEAT THUDS
Hey, you alright?
Let's go. Let's get inside, come on.
Are you OK?
- I can help. - No, don't-don't touch me.
- This is your fault. All of it. - What the hell happened to her out there?
She's done it a couple times before. Something just sets her off.
Dark spaces, I don't know.
SHE EXHALES
- How you doing? You OK? - Yeah. I just got nicked, that's all.
- Goddamn Lorne... - Let me take a look.
Hell of a plan.
Kelly's dead.
I should never have listened to you.
Look, I take the blame for that. That's on me.
Shit went sideways, I...
But what happened to you out there?
You know, I had a buddy in Iraq, dude was a rock.
Never faltered, always had your back, and...
IED went off, he was never the same again.
I don't care about your buddy.
- I'm just saying it's not your fault. - Enough!
Alright? I hate basements. That's it. That's all. End of discussion.
My dad used to say that.
SHE SIGHS
SHE SNIFFS
SHE PANTS
Your real name.
It's Axel, right?
What's... happening here?
I was supposed to stay by the swings.
Polly?
Don't use that name. That's my old name.
I came back, I...
I looked for you.
He was so kind.
I trusted him.
I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have gone.
Don't... no, no, don't say sorry, don't say sorry.
Jesus Christ.
This was on me.
I was supposed to be watching you.
I should have listened to you.
He said he needed help, and then he got me, and I tried to get out, but I couldn't...
No, no, no. This was not your fault.
Where were ya?
We looked everywhere, you know.
Whole town.
State police.
In his house.
In the basement.
He let me upstairs after a while, when I was older.
When all the... other stuff was over.
By then, he already wasn't thinking straight anymore.
Now he doesn't even remember what he did.
Or who I am, really.
His mind. It goes back to before.
You know, when he ran the feed store.
Lorne did this to you?
He doesn't know though.
It's all gone.
He's gonna pay for what he did.
To me, or to you?
I worked with him every day, the whole time he had you?
I don't think about back then.
- Why didn't you fucking kill him? - Cos he's all I had.
He felt bad every day about doing it.
- Who gives a shit how he feels? - I do. Me.
- Why are you defending him? - I have to.
No, you don't!
I had to forgive him.
You don't!
Years ago...
I... I couldn't keep hating.
That was what the real darkness was. The hate.
Nobody can forgive what he did.
The hate is what's in that basement for me.
The hate is what scares me.
SHE BREATHES SHARPLY
AXEL: Oh, no...
Let me look. Let me look what happened.
- Oh, Jesus Christ. - It's... pretty bad.
SHE GASPS
No, no, stay here. It's gonna be OK.
- Don't. - Polly.
- Don't. - Polly...
Axel.
I'm so sorry.
Axel, listen to me.
- I can't tell you... - Listen to me.
You're my brother.
And nothing will ever change that, right?
No.
No, but just...
SHE STUTTERS
- Oh, don't do this, please. - Just f-f-fight the hate...
You can't leave me now. Come on.
SHE GASPS
You're OK.
I'm...
Don't leave me.
I'm not going anywhere.
No.
No...
I'm sorry.
HE SOBS I'm sorry.
HE VOMITS
HE INHALES
Where's Lorne?
Son of a bitch must have wandered off. We'll get him.
No. I got him.
- What are you doing here? - You remember me?
You son of a bitch! You remember me?
- Yeah, you do. - LORNE WHIMPERS
You used to own the feed store down the road, didn't you?
You remember that, don't you?
You're crazy!
How scared was she?
- What you're talking about? - All those years you kept her!
LORNE GROANS
How scared was she!
You did things to her.
You remember that, you piece of shit?
LORNE SPLUTTERS
Stand up!
You don't remember it?
I tell you what, it's gonna die with you, you son of a bitch.
- You hear me? - Help me!
- Die. - Help me!
Somebody!
Help me!
Help! Help...
LORNE WHIMPERS
LORNE SOBS
Polly! Help me...
GUNSHOTS
AXEL BREATHES HEAVILY