Dracula Episode 8

Come To Die

 

It's a busy night in London. Dracula is parked outside Mina's home doing his usual stalking stakeout. It just so happens, though, Mina isn't home. She's working (i.e. snooping) around Van Helsing's lab to discover his new secret hiding place for the mysterious liquid she had found earlier. Elsewhere, Lady Jayne is in huntress mode as vampires have been popping up all over town. Alright, cat fight! Always a good way to start off an episode. Lady Jayne is at least able to learn that the head vampire she's hunting for is none other than the Vlad Tepes.

 

Harker confides the whole General Shaw fiasco to his foreign accented buddy from the paper. (Yep, I've already forgotten his name.) After Jonathan admits he feels his life may be in danger, Foreign Accent Buddy slips him a spare gun for protection.

 

Lady Jayne reports her findings back to The Order. Some of the fogey stogies scoff at the idea. Dracula is only a myth. Mr. Browning orders his huntswoman to bring them some solid proof that Dracula is in London.

 

Jonathan warns Mina that his boss, Alexander Grayson, could be very dangerous and to stay away from the American for her own sake.

 

Grayson stops by Lady Jayne's house expecting to get his usual jollies. Surprisingly, Lady Jayne and her breasts aren't in the mood. In fact, it's time their friends with benefits without actual friendship situation came to an end. After all, Lady Jayne has known for some time that Grayson's heart really belongs to Mina.

 

The next day Grayson is surprised when Mina drops by his mansion. She lets him know that she and Jonathan know what kind of a ruthless man Grayson is and they won't allow him to drag them down to his level.

 

Lucy continues with her mission to seduce Jonathan. When that doesn't work out, Lucy innocently mentions seeing Mina at Grayson's mansion, which of course gets Jonathan's attention. He goes to the school to confront Mina about her meetings with Grayson. They argue.

 

After being scorned by his not-lady love, Dracula has a vampiric snit fit. Only Renfield can stop him, even if it involves trashing the place in the process.

 

Lady Jayne utilizes holy water to torture a couple of captured vampire. This time she learns that the vampire grape vine says Dracula has found a way to be able to endure sunlight.

 

Mina, alone in the lab at the school, is attacked by Road Rash (Lord Davenport's man) and a couple of thugs. Road Rash is about to pour some sulfuric acid on Mina's face when Dracula drops down from the ceiling and rips Road Rash's arm off. (It's quite graphic. I continue to be surprised at how much NBC will allow to be shown.)

 

The next morning Lady Jayne and Mr. Browning find the remains of Road Rash and company impaled on top of some iron fencing. Surely this is proof enough that The Impaler is in town for a limited engagement.

 

Grayson stops by the hospital to check up on Mina. She awakens, but due to a blow to the head and the swiftness of the attack the whole night is sort of a blur to her. (Whoops. Turns out that road rash on Road Rash is actually a birth mark. Didn't mean to be insensitive there. I just didn't know what the heck was on his face.) Jonathan suddenly remembers Lord Davenport's man had a large birth mark on his face.

 

Jonathan gets up to go inform the police about this. Grayson stops him, reminding Jonathan that the police are more likely to fall on Lord Davenport's side rather than believe a lowly ex-reporter. Jonathan leaves the hospital anyway and, with his foreign friend's pistol, confront Lord Davenport. Davenport starts playing mind games on his young intruder, repeatedly pointing out Grayson and Mina's attraction to one another. A much confused Jonathan sort of accidentally pulls the trigger and shoots Davenport in the chest. The only logical thing for Jonathan to do now is to stumble over to Lucy's house and start getting it on with her.

 

Family man Mr. Browning returns home only to find his two young children have been spirited away.

 

Renfield delivers the news of Lord Davenport's death to Dracula as well as the plot-twisting line of, "Mr. Harker worked out just as you planned."