Dracula Episode 9

Four Roses

 

 

A sleeping Mina, still in the hospital, is dreaming about the attack and starting to get a clearer image of a blood-smeared Alexander Grayson reaping carnage.

 

Dracula is wanting to declare jihad. Renfield tries to convince his boss that Lord Davenport, while a member of the Order, yes, was the one behind all the recent attacks and was acting on his own. Oh, and Renfield's men have retrieved the triptych from Davenport's custody. Dracula won't be budged. He still thinks the Order was behind the assault on Mina and he won't rest until he has vengeance.

 

Renfield goes to Professor Van Helsing, hoping to get backup in calming Dracula down. However Van Helsing considers the pact between him and the vampire to be null and void. Frankly, my dear Renfield, I don't give a damn.

 

Lady Jayne is almost bursting with joy. Reputable huntsmen are arriving from all over Europe. Together they're going to sweep through London and commit vampire genocide. Mr. Browning can't get worked up enough to celebrate with her as his children are still missing. He's convinced it is Alexander Grayson who is behind the kidnapping and he rightly surmises that Grayson is Dracula. Lady Jayne once again scoffs at the idea of her former lover being a vampire. Now forget about the kids and concentrate on wholesale slaughter of the undead.

 

Jonathan Harker wakes the next morning to discover himself in a very ugly bed along with Lucy. He quietly gets dressed and leaves her sleeping ass behind. Not even a "Thanks for last night" note. You're a douche bag, Jonathan.

 

Mr. Browning brings the police to search Carfax Manor. Grayson is like, "Sure. Go right ahead. You won't find anything." Which of course they don't. As Browning is leaving he's surprised to find Harker hiding in the carriage. Jonathan informs Browning he's willing to join the Order. Browning puts two and two together and figures out it was Harker who killed Davenport. Meanwhile Renfield asks the possibility if it is Van Helsing who stole the children. Dracula poo poo's the idea.

 

Lucy starts to come out to her mother. (BTW, Mom has so far been the only woman I've seen on the show to wear correct period clothing.)

 

Harker's first order for The Order is to steal the blueprints to Grayson's steampunk thingy.

 

Dracula warns Van Helsing that the abduction of the Browning children better not muck up his own plans for revenge. Or else he'll muck up Van Helsing.

 

Van Helsing indeed has the children hidden away somewhere in a very cobwebby shack. They're unconscious (must be drugged) and laid out on the slab. Oh no, the professor has brought his Hammer O'Death. Yet as he begins to swing, Van Helsing relives the screams of his own children right before they were stuffed back into the burning house. He's unable to bash the Browning kids.

 

Back at the club, the fogeys are enjoying their stogies when Grayson invites himself into the billiard room. (Um, does no one notice the "American" is speaking with an English accent?) Grayson has brought some friends along with him, promising them dinner. Oh wait, somebody does mention the change in accents. Grayson laughs, exposing his fangs. Leaving his minion vampires behind, Grayson closes the door to the billiard room and uses a pool stick to barricade against any dinner escaping.

 

Mina wakes up to find Grayson at her side. She tells him she knows he was the one who saved her from the men who attacked her. Grayson insists she's confused and not remembering correctly but Mina knows better now.

 

Lady Jayne brings one of the visiting huntsman along to view the bloodbath in the billiard room. His name is Kaha Ruma and his a Maori. (He's got one of those tattoos around his eye like Mike Tyson.) Mr. Browning tells them he's also sent for the Sicilian, Loiza Scaverra, and that the Vatican is going to loan the Order a sacred relic. (What, no Rosicrucians?)

 

Lucy comes to the hospital to visit her frenemy, Mina. Without putting it in so many words, Lucy breaks it to Mina that Jonathan's throbbing python of love has found a new home.

 

Jonathan is off being sworn in to the Order.

 

Van Helsing slaps together a ransom note for the children.

 

Grayson receives the good news that the Board of Health have ruled in his favor over the steampunk thingy. Now Grayson can go ahead with his grand demonstration. Don't be too happy, Grayson. It was the Order who arranged the clean bill of health. They want you to have a grand demonstration so they can arrange a grand failure.

 

Mina pulls herself out of her sickbed to go confront Jonathan about Lucy. He tries to shift the blame, claiming Lucy has been throwing herself at him for weeks now. Mina, knowing Lucy's tastes don't run that way, can't believe him.

 

Stumbling her way into people as she wanders out into the fog, Mina has a vision in a rain puddle and faints. Anyway, Mina is found and returned to the hospital where she receives another visit from Grayson. She asks him just what is going on between them. Grayson admits that Mina reminds him of someone he used to love named Ilona. He's stunned when Mina confesses that she knows Ilona. She's dreamed of the other woman since childhood and the vision tonight in the rain puddle was of Ilona.

 

Mina goes on to tell Grayson how she and Jonathan have broken up because of his wango zee tango with Lucy. Grayson is appalled at Lucy's behavior. So appalled that he drops in on Lucy's bath, bites her on the neck and then forces Lucy to drink his vampire blood.