Dracula Episode 7

Servant Of Two Masters

 

 

Now that he's gotten his nickel-steel alloy, Dracula is back to perfecting his steampunk thingy. He thinks the machine is ready for a public demonstration.

 

Jonathan Harker figures out it was his own employer, Alexander Grayson, who arranged the frame-up of General Shaw. While Harker swears to expose Grayson, Dracula coolly points out that if anyone is to blame it would be Harker himself.

 

Mr. Browning and the boys feel threatened by Grayson's steampunk thingy and plot how to take him down.

 

Renfield has been sent to Budapest in order to try and get the Dresden triptych.

 

Dracula gets tied down and injected with the solar serum again. Van Helsing fusses at the vampire for not having fed on blood since the actress. He keeps bringing this up so I take it this will be important later on.

 

Grayson takes a stroll through the sunny park so he can "accidentally" bump into Mina. Afterwards he stops by Lady Jayne's for some afternoon delight. Jayne is perturbed because her sickly husband claims he's fallen in love with his nurse. Grayson advises his lover to go after the other woman.

 

Mina wants to arrange a dance for the patients at her father's mental hospital.

 

The Thirst! The Thirst!

 

Renfield makes it to Budapest (where naturally everyone has a British accent) and the auction where the Dresden triptych is to be sold. Also in the bidding crowd is that guy with the road rash on his face. What was his name again? Anyway, he works for The Order. Renfield outbids everyone with 1 million coronas (which for all I know is ten bucks).

 

Lucy goes to Lady Jayne's Breasts for comfort and advice after Mina's rejection. Lady Jayne reassures Lucy that Mina treated the young lesbian abominably, thus setting up the scenario of Lucy getting some kind of revenge. Lady Jayne sets out to train Lucy in the arts of seduction so Lucy can get Harker to betray Mina.

 

Chief Inspector Morrow, at the behest of The Order, secretly tampers with some milk that is being dispensed to the neighborhood around Grayson's factory. (I'm now curious as to whether this is how milk was really delivered back in the 1800's.)

 

Renfield returns to London only to discover he's been a victim of the old switch-a-roo. The real triptych is now in the hands of Lord Davenport. He opens the small paneling to reveal three paintings of Dracula's dead 15th century wife. Davenport recognizes the resemblance to Mina Murray and now knows Grayson's weakness.

 

A bag is put over Harker's head and he's whisked away for a forced meeting with Mr. Browning and The Order of the Dragon. The shadowy figures try to win Harker over to the power of Big Oil and boo to Grayon's steampunk thingy.

 

Dracula brings a small orchestra to the asylum to play for Mina's dance. But the Thirst! The Thirst! Mina asks him to dance with her. The Thirst! Dracula comes close to snacking on Mina. Luckily she's wearing a cross pendant which brings him back to his senses.

 

Meanwhile at the factory the public has been invited for a demonstration of the steampunk thingy and glowing light bulbs. Outside along the street, whatever was put in the milk is making the neighborhood sick. Morrow breaks up the crowd in the factory, claiming that the illness was caused by Grayson's machine. The police lock the factory up and confiscate the machinery.

 

Dracula takes it out on Chief Inspector Morrow by finally satisfying The Thirst.