"Two beers." "Good crowd tonight?" "Not if you're working on tips." "You got to take a day off." "You ever been to the Detroit Zoo?" "We should go sometime." "They got lions." "Sorry." "We're already in a zoo." "Can I get a vodka and tonic?" " Lime?" " Yeah." "Four bucks." "Hey!" "You ran right off the floor." " You tired already?" " Thirsty." "Zed." "Watch and learn." "Just don't forget to pay your tab this time." " Come on, sexy." " It's Jennifer." "Yeah." "You want to get out of here?" " Like, leave?" " Yeah." "This place is dead anyway." "Ripped By mstoll" "Hello?" "Can anybody hear me?" "!" "Who's there?" "!" "Who is that?" "!" "Let me go!" "Leave me alone!" "What do you want?" "You hunting?" "Me too." "What?" "What are you doing?" " Cleaning you up." " From what?" "You got too close to Marcus." "What are you talking about?" "House of Chthon keeps their windows open at night." "I took a peek." "Screw you." "Screw me." "Come on, Blade." "Look, I had to protect my cover." "You're off the serum." "You drank blood." "Look, Blade," "I'm done." " I'm fine." " Fine, huh?" "If the detox doesn't work, our partnership is done." "And you're ash." "What?" "That asshole forgot to pay his tab again." "Zed will be back." "Yeah, but he never tips when he forgets." "I'll share mine." "Had a good night." "That's sweet, but... it's okay." "Maybe the snake's still here." "Zed?" "Zed?" "Zed?" " I told you to wait." " I know." "I'm sorry." "My name is Bethany." "You said that you can help me." "Will you?" "I haven't spoken to her in four days." "You said your sister's name was Nicki?" "Yeah." "Let me guess..." "she's the wild sister?" "Not really." "No." "Those are from work." "She's a waitress at a club." "It's some underground place." "She's only been there for a few weeks." "She was trying to get me to move downtown with her." "She said that she missed me." "I didn't know she ever missed me." "The police aren't doing anything." "I don't have anyone else to go to." "I'll look into it, okay?" "Thank you." "How did you get so big?" "Don't bother, Chase." "He only likes to play with human girls." "He has quite a collection." "I'm sure." "Relax, my dear." "If I wanted you dead," "Thorne would have already twisted your head off." "You do know why you're here?" "I'm sure I don't, Charlotte." "I've watched you for decades, Chase." "Most of the turned lack the proper perspective." "Their emotional turmoils from their human lives carry over into the next like phantom pains." "It's a weakness... one the Purebloods thankfully don't share." "Your anger from your human life stains this one, Chase." "But somehow you've managed to use it as fuel." "I know, at your core, it's because you are a survivor." " I had to be." " Yes." "Ambitious." "Thirsty for control." "Willing to tear apart anything that threatens you." "Anything." "And I admire that." "The truth is, you remind me of me when I was your age." "And perhaps, in 200 years, you'll understand why I do the things I do." "Have you ever smelled something so sweet?" "Fresh blood taken from a newborn only hours old." "Free from the sourness of life." "Drink." "Marcus Van Sciver is different than you and I, Chase." "He suffers from delusions of grandeur." "He doesn't understand that the survival of our world depends on our hierarchy." "I believe he's been planning something sinister against us for quite some time." "I don't know." "Oh, but you do." "I've brought you here to ask you one simple question, Chase." "Are your loyalties with Marcus or Chthon?" "So what do we do if she gets out?" "If Krista breaks out before I let her out, you treat her like any other bloodsucker." "Dude." "Van Sciver's ready to make his move against the Chthon Purebloods." "I want to make sure he succeeds." "If Krista doesn't return to him, there could be delays." "She could expose herself and us." "Then everything we've worked towards goes up in flames." "Man, she's had a rough few weeks." "Ease up a little." "I let her out, she's going straight for your throat." "She's not your friend right now." "If she gets free, people will die." "And part of our job is to keep people from dying, right?" "What do you got?" "So what do you think?" "I don't see a face." "I didn't either, but that's not what got my attention." "Check this out." "Mmm." "A glyph." "I'm guessing, but it doesn't belong to any of the 12 Houses." " No." " Then it makes no sense." "Unfortunately, it does." "There are a lot of unaffiliated vampires building their own little kingdoms." "They don't want to belong to the Houses?" "Houses don't want them." "Too uncontrollable." "Like the White Prince." "That's who this glyph belongs to?" "Who is he?" "Whistler mentioned him once or twice." "I know the glyph and the name, but that's about it." "See what you can dig up." "In the meantime, I'm going to find his Familiar." "How are you going to do that?" "Shake the right tree." "♪ This is hip-hop, get it right, I'm down ♪" "♪ You're like big Brock Lesnar, Phoenix and Hugh Hefner ♪" "♪ Thugs in the club, got a booty, go get her ♪" "♪ See me on them blocks with Glocks and gold rimmers ♪" "♪ Been a local rap star with chicks and fame ♪" "♪ Bishop Don, Magic Juan picked the game ♪" "♪ Graffiti on the walls... ♪" "Hey, you sit at the stage you throw bills not coins, bitch." "Like this right here, son." "There you go, baby." "Cheap ass." "This is fucking rad, Cotton." "You own this place?" "I own 10 places." "You get marked, you get shit." "Fistful of cash, girls." "Dude, you work with them a while," " you get it all." " You sure you can get me in?" "Dude, hell yeah." "I'm the fucking king of Familiars around here." "Your dad being a judge and all that, you got a use." "How many years you got to put in?" "How much time before you're turned?" "That's the beautiful thing right there, Andy." "You get bit by the bosses, time don't matter no more." "Join up." "Get marked." "Get it all." " Mmm." "Oh, shit." " Oh, yeah." "Hey, you're not gonna kill me, are you?" "Come back here, I will." "Now you'd better get to a doctor." "You're bleeding." "Help me!" "Somebody help me!" "Hey!" "Go get some ice cream." "This is my club." "It's under the protection of Chthon." "King of Familiars, huh?" "Well, I got a question for you." "I'm looking for another Familiar branded with this." "Know him?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "There was a guy." "He was with the House of Erebus till he found a better gig." "He became a personal to some solo vamp." "He bragged about how he was on the fast track to immortality." " What's this asshole's name?" " Man, I can't remember." "So many of these guys come and go." " Where do I find him?" " Oh, man." "This metal club called Thrash." "Wannabe spends all his time there." "Thanks." "Jesus Christ!" "Krista?" "Let me out." "I can't." "It hurts." " I know." " No, you don't." "Blade knows." "Blade doesn't know anything." "Krista, I know you can do this." "You went through the Leichen blood ritual and you came back." "I know you can handle this." "You can beat the thirst." "Krista?" "Help!" "Somebody help me!" "Please!" "What are you doing?" "What are you going to do to me?" "No, don't!" "Please, no!" "How's she been?" "Quiet." "Really?" "You think what she's doing is easy?" "I know it's not." "You find that Familiar?" "Getting there." "Hangs out at the same club the missing girl worked at." "Learn anything more about this White Prince?" "More than I want to." "Looks like our perp is a nomad." "And he works on the Metonic lunar cycle." "Pops up once every 19 years." "You ever hear of Gilles de Rais?" "Should I?" "Well, he was a 15th-century nobleman in France who had a taste for cannibalism, sadism." "And was probably a cat lover." "De Rais' servants used to lure children back to his home where he'd torture and mutilate them." "And when they caught him, he was found dancing in one of his victim's entrails." "He became known as the White Prince." "There have been other killers like him throughout history." "Places where his glyph would show up." "Garret the Butcher, 16th-century Germany." "And the Red River Man in Seattle, early 1900s." "And you think this is the same guy, changing his MO along the way?" "Not entirely." "It says that he disfigured his face by his own hands." "So he somehow managed to permanently scar himself with silver." "That's why he's got to get Familiars to lure his victims in." "I found out where the new Familiar likes to fish." "So then let's go find Renfield and ask him where the Prince is building his castle." "No, we have to do it quietly." "Why?" "One wrong move from us and this guy's a shadow." "Could disappear for another 19 years." "Then how do we get this Familiar to show us the way?" "Give him what his master wants... a girl." "Who?" "The sister." "You don't have to do this, Bethany." "Who else is going to?" "We could find someone." "Yeah, and how long would that take?" "You should know your sister might not be alive." "Yeah." "We can only hope." "Do you know who took my sister, Shen?" "Not really, but we know that he'll be going for another girl." "So I'll be that girl." "All right." "What's that?" "This has a transponder in it." "I can track you anywhere you are." " I just need to attach it." " Okay." " Here." " I, uh..." "It's okay, just..." "you can clip it on." "We won't let anything happen to you, Bethany." "We?" "Whoa." "Don't freak." "Freak?" "No, are you kidding?" "I mean, he looks like he could take anything on, and that's good, right?" "Open your eyes." "Open them." "Do you know what I am?" "I know what you are." "You're a child of God." "But corrupted by your sins." "I was too." "But I died, and rose again." "Royalty reborn as a seraphim." "A byproduct of humans and angels." "I will forever walk on earth, drowning in your blood to behold the glory." "Your insides hold the doorway to the light." "If only for the briefest of moments." "You don't believe I'm what I say I am, do you?" "You're like the others." "You need to see." "I am chosen." "I am holy." "Do you have her in sight, Shen?" "I see her." " She's cute." " What?" "That chick..." "she's cute." "Yeah." "Can I get you a drink?" " Uh, Coke." " And?" "Just a Coke." "Sure." "Blade..." "I don't like this." "You don't think I'd rather be in there cracking skulls open?" "I show my face now, the White Prince doesn't." "Look, there's only one way in and out this place, and I'm watching it." "Still, using a desperate girl as a piece of cheese..." "It's the only move, Shen." "What about her sister?" "You don't think she's still alive, do you?" "No." "Do you even hope she is?" "Do you care?" "You do that for me." "You're new here." "Are you looking for someone?" "'Cause if not, I'd like to buy you a drink." " Shit." " What?" "Actually I am here with someone." "He must be a real lucky guy." "Why don't you tell me how I can get that lucky?" "Please, stop." "Stop." "Stop it, please!" "Blade, he's making a move for her." " Stick to the plan." " New plan." "Hey!" "Where is she, you prick?" "Who?" "Shen?" "You know who." "Her sister." "The girl you picked up the other night." "You all right?" "Come on, show me the glyph." "The what?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "I'm sorry, all right, man?" "I didn't know she was with you." "Bethany?" "Bethany?" "Blade." " She didn't come out." " She had to." "She's not in here." "Shit!" "The virus will be ready for transport in three days, sir." "Thank you." "Marcus." "Chase, I've been looking for Krista." " Have you seen her?" " No." " Where have you been?" " At a tea party." "Let me out!" "I know you can handle this." "You can beat the thirst." "I don't feel very well." "Help me." "Our partnership is done." "And you're ash." "And you're ash." "We're doing a good thing here." "I couldn't have done it without you." "Let me out!" "You can beat the thirst." "Oh, and Krista, don't forget to drink." "You shouldn't have gone to Charlotte's." "I didn't have a choice." "What else did you tell her?" "Our little girl did most of the talking." "Did you tell her anything?" "Nothing she didn't already know." "She wants a pair of eyes and ears inside your operations." " Mine." " And your answer?" "I told Goldilocks I needed to think about it." "Go back to her." "Tell her you've made up your mind." "And you'd like to prove it." "I know." "I didn't say anything." "I made a fucking mistake." "I'm going to get cleaned up." "Hey!" "Holy shit." " Shen." " What?" "Transponder's moving." "She's still in there." "I just looked." "I didn't see her." "There's got to be another way out." "Is there a basement?" "I don't know." "Yeah, I bet there is." "You bet there is what?" "Where did you take her?" "I don't know who you're talking about." "Yes, you goddamn well know who." "You're that sick bastard's delivery boy." " Shen." " Blade, I got him." "Shen!" "Son of a bitch." "He's leading me to the glory, to divinity." "Where is she?" "!" "He's been transformed." "And one day I will be..." "into perfection." "Yo, no weapons, man." "Come on." "You're his Familiar, aren't you?" "We heard you talk to him, say his name..." "Blade." "Tell me, after all the work you do for him... what's he gonna do for you?" "Fuck you." "Aah!" "Please don't..." "I-I'm sorry." "If I had known he worked for Blade, I..." "Shen, find the girl!" "What a pretty smile." "And I'm gonna rip yours off." "You're gonna be all right." "You're gonna be all right." "He said he wanted 100 people." "100 people and I get to live forever." "You're not going anywhere." "Yes, we are." "And that living forever thing it's just not you." "You're a hunter... like me." "I'm nothing like you." "But you are." "You enjoy it." "Enjoy what?" "Killing." "Pain." "Torture." "You think you're special?" "Some kind of god?" "I am a seraphim, a prince appointed by a power much higher than us." "You're nothing but another crazy-ass vampire." "Blasphemy!" "You were sent by the devil to challenge my faith, to close the doorway to the heavens." "You talk too much." "What's the matter asshole?" "Not smiling anymore?" "You know..." "I think I see the light." "I got you." "You okay?" "Everything's gonna be all right now." "I still don't understand everything that happened." "Take care of yourself." "Thorne, we're going home." "Call the jet." "I want to be in the air within the hour." "The board will be very interested to hear this." " I'm sure they will." " You've done well, Chase." "It's only the beginning of what I can do for you." "A present." "How nice." "The Daywalker's?" "A promise." "Marcus now, Blade next." "Our relationship is paying off already." "Shit!" "What do you want me to say?" "That you were right?" "You don't have to say anything." "I've lost everyone." "Everything." "Addicts never handle loss very well." "And that's what you are." "An addict." "But you have a choice:" "Keep going or not." "Does it ever get any better?" "Every time I kill a vampire." "Marcus is making his move against the Chthon Purebloods soon." "I need to know where it's gonna be." "He's not gonna tell me." "Get him to trust you and he will." "Yeah." "Do you trust her?" "Ripped By mstoll"