"Everything's come back." "Amniocentesis tested negative for AFP." "No blood disorders, no neural tube defects." "And no abnormalities on the sonogram." " So our baby's fine?" " He's perfectly normal." "Dr. Vonner!" "Where's the doctor?" "Oh my God!" "Oh my God!" "Oh no!" "There's a dead end." "I suggest you get his files and get out of there." "No time for that." "Send me his home address." "Van Sciver's people are probably cleaning it out right now." "So you think this baby doctor thing was just a front?" "Or the reason Marcus recruited him for Aurora." "If you believe this guy's press... he was a miracle worker." "Looks like he worked one for Marcus." "Every vampire needs a familiar with skills." "Yeah." "I make the weapons." "And I use 'em." "That's the arrangement." "No shit." "I thought we were dating." "Blade?" "Blade!" " Nailed his ass." " Damn straight." "Ripped By mstoll" "Son of a bitch." "Chain him up." "Can I get you anything else?" "Nuh-uh, I'm done." "All right, you can pay at the register when you're ready." "You play soccer?" " Evening." " Hey." "Well, there's a dead end." "Every vampire needs a familiar with skills." "Yeah, I make the weapons..." "And I use 'em." "That's the arrangement." "No shit." "I thought we were dating." ""Little Man."" "Nailed his ass." "Damn straight." "We have Aurora." "We know it works." "You were going to kill Dr. Vonner anyway." "Blade just saved you the trouble." "At the moment, I have different troubles." "Those shipments were your responsibility." "And so is Boone." "I'll take care of him." "No." "You and Krista will, together." "I don't need her." "Boone was Krista's first turn." "There's a connection between them that can be exploited." "Marcus." "Not the House of Leichen." "Shortest distance between Boone and Krista is through that shared experience." "I'll find Boone another way." "He left a trail." "That ends in the middle of Kansas!" "I don't have time to humor your sordid past." "Find Boone, and use Krista." "What?" "!" "Charlotte's calling." "Tell her we'll find Boone." "I'm going to tell her you already have." "Hey." "Blade." "Blade!" "Carlyle?" "I'm here to negotiate for your release." "You okay?" "Shut up and start negotiating." "Things need killing." "Well, that's just it." "I'm negotiating with you." "I'm with them." "This was my idea." "Then I'll be killing you too." "A little help." "Heard you halfway down the hall." "Gaining a little weight?" "Time to clean up your mess." "Boone." "He's loose, and complicating matters." "That's impossible." "I killed him." "You turned him." "To kill him you'd have to drain him." "Being an amateur, you didn't." "Now you're going to see how the other half lives." "Other half of what?" "Us." "Pack a bag." " We're flying to Oregon." " What's in Oregon?" "The House of Leichen." "And they know where Boone is?" "No." "You do." "Leichen's just going to dig it out." "Wait a minute." "You mind telling me what I'm walking into?" "Sweetheart, walking in isn't the problem." "I bet you're wondering why you're here." "I told you there was another way to fight the war." "You weren't always the man you are now." "You still need a little redemption... with the help of a few old friends." "Go ahead." "Say hello." "Remember him?" "Remember your childhood?" "Little Man." "Steppin' Razor." "It's been a while." "What you going by now, Little Man?" "Blade?" "You got a deep rep." "You big, bro." "Not too big though." "Welcome home, Little Man." "Blade?" "Hello?" "Blade's gone." "Taken off the street by four masked vampires." "Now, what would you know about that?" " Shen..." " Where is he?" " Marcus didn't do it." " Bullshit." "You come here to finish things off?" "You don't believe me?" "Shoot." "What are you doing here?" " Boone's alive." " The cop?" " He's turned." " No shit." " That's what happens when a vampire..." " Shut up and get the gun out of my face." "Boone's going around killing people, and Chase and I have been ordered to eliminate him." "Shen, I don't know what happened to Blade." "Okay." "I got to torch this place and go." "Wait a minute." "You're leaving?" "That's the protocol." "Well, what happens to me?" "We all got problems." "Shen, what do you know about the House of Leichen?" "Leichen vampires have sworn off killing." "They drink cloned blood." "I'm going there to find Boone." " He's there?" " No." "Then why?" "Oh, wow." "What?" "You can't go, Krista." "They have this ritual." "You ever heard of a sweat lodge?" "A Native American thing where you see visions?" "What?" "They want me to see Boone?" "That's the idea, except there's no sweat." "Just lots of blood." "How much blood?" "You can't do it." "If it'll stop Boone, I'm doing it." "Hey." "Good luck with Blade." "I've got serum." "You're going to need more." "And, after it's done, inject it... all of it..." "first chance you get." "Okay." "Thanks." "Good luck to you too." "Blade?" "Blade!" "Nailed his ass." " Damn straight." " What is that?" "The last transmission." "Rewind it." "I can hear them." " It's static." " Shen, I can hear them." "I thought we were dating." "It's taken out of context." "Shh!" "Blade?" "Blade!" "Nailed his ass." "Damn straight." "What?" "They're still talking." "Play it again." "Nailed his ass." "Damn straight." " He ain't so bad." " He ain't so bad." " He used to be." " He used to be." "But he's no Bad Blood anymore." "But he's no Bad Blood anymore." "Bad Blood?" "Bad Blood." "I guess you're pretty thirsty by now." "Probably want to get back on that serum of yours." "Yeah, I know about that." "And I know what you did on the streets after your father left." "Before Whistler found you." "Such bad things to these poor boys." "They weren't exactly Boy Scouts." "But they took you in off the street, and you took their souls for it, you took their lives." "Cue the violins." "Because they were turned by you, they've been rejected by every House, forced to live on their own to do horrible things just to survive." "I can fix that." "I've gotten through to them." "They want to stop feeding, stop killing." "They just need your serum to do it." "They don't want my serum." "They want me." "And now that they've got me, you're nothing but their next meal." "You're a real bleeding heart here." "Can't believe how much you've changed, Little Man." "I wish I could tell you that it's not too late, that you could come back, be a brother again." "But we got plans need executing." "Let me guess:" "I'm the plan." "Yeah." "You're going to help us, Little Man." "You're going to change our fucking lives." " You Agent Collins?" " You Detective Gibbs?" " I am." "You ready?" " Yeah." " How long were you and Boone partners?" " About two years." "But the last six months, he was more of a solo act." " Took a lot of personal time." " Any idea why?" "We stopped talking." "I mean, about anything other than the number of girls he was banging." "Pretty long list, if you believed the stories." "Did you?" "There was a lot of detail." "Any talk of personal problems?" "Where he might have gone if things got bad?" "Like a beach in Bali or something?" "No." "He talked about the future a lot." "You know, what it would be like to live in it" " like hundreds of years from now." " What, like science fiction?" "No." "Not really." "More like an extended vacation." " Hmm." " Yeah." "I didn't get it either." " You need a key?" " Yeah, got one?" "He speak German?" "Only thing I ever saw him read was a menu, and he couldn't pronounce half of it." "You recognize this?" "What's Armaya?" "Look at you." "Playing vampire cop." "You won't think I'm playing when I send your ass up in smoke." "Yeah." "There's that look, like you're trying to tell me you're going to kill me." "Who taught you that look?" "You were a kid, lost and scared, with no place and nobody." "Scrawny-ass little blood-sucker." "You fed." "You killed." "Some you turned." "Do you remember that night you turned us?" "Bolt was joining up." "I was giving him his tats." "I was just wiping the fresh blood off the back of his neck." "You must have tasted it in the air." "That's what brought you to us," " back when we were just kids." " I was just a kid too." "No, that night you were a killer." "You walked right into this place here... all shaking and crying and saying you was hungry." "We offered you shelter and food." "We reached out to help you." "You bit us for it." "You turned us into addicts, gave us the thirst, that pain so deep inside that it never goes away." "Oh, yeah, you got the thirst right now, don't you?" "That's what you gave us." "But we ran with it." "And you ran with us." "Hell... you were proud to wear our mark and live under our protection." "But you were smarter than the others." "Different." "A brother." "I'd have done anything for you, Little Man." "And I did." "I killed a lot of people." "You were killers way before I ever met you." "And that's what we'll be when this is over." "It's how we survive." "Damn, you really don't know what you did to us after you left." "You remember that night Whistler came knocking?" "That old man killed Brick and Cutter before he dragged you away." "We thought he'd ashed your sorry ass." "About a decade later, we started hearing rumors about this vampire killer named Blade." "Big, bad, scary motherfucker with tattoos crawling up the back of his neck." "Sunlight don't bother him." "Guess Whistler gave you a different thirst, a thirst for killing us addicts." "Addicts that you turned us into." "When you got your new rep as a daywalker, all the Houses started ashing every vampire you ever turned, everyone that comes from your bloodline." "The Bad Bloods had to go underground, hide like goddamn rats, while you traveled all over the world." "But you're home now." "Hell, you even still dress like a Bad Blood... with the coat and the glasses." "You've still got our mark." "But the toys are new." "Rev says that without your serum, you can't see straight." "Every minute that goes past, you're more like us, feel the thirst like us, hurt like us, bleed like us." "I want to keep you alive." "I need you alive." "Nothing can ever change what happened." "No." "Nothing can." "But you can help us, Little Man." "You can help us live out our whole long lives a whole lot better." "See, we're tired of hiding." "We want what we gave you... a home." "Wherever you build it..." "I'm going to burn it down." "Little Man still thinks he's going to be a hero." "He's crazy, but it's good to have a dream." "Reality is always better, especially when you've got an ace in the hole." "Give me that." " You get something for that." " I'll get it." "You just make sure you save me some." "Hello, Chase." "Pleasure to see you again." "Save it, Doc." "And you must be Krista." "I'm Dr. Berganza." "We're absolutely delighted to have you here." "Everything's been prepared." "Let's go, ladies." "We have a lot to do." "If you'd like to leave your bags here, somebody will collect them." "It's not often that we get visitors from other Houses." "For the most part, they seem to stay away." "Possibly because you're all bat shit." "If that assessment eases your discomfort in some way, then by all means, you stick to it for as long as you require." "The dialysis machines are downstairs." "The what?" "It's an essential step in the processing." "We keep things very clean here." "Yes, because according to the freaks, we're dirty girls." "Our blood must be cleansed." "Apparently it reeks of death." "It does." "Well, hello, Chase." "And how's life with Marcus?" "Never a dull moment." "How nice for you." "Are you going to introduce me?" "Krista, meet Frederick... my ex-husband." "Well, you've certainly got ambition." "Well, you've got to start somewhere." "Yes, yes, you do." "Although you, unfortunately, started with Blade." " What does that mean?" " It means he turned you." "And now I hear you and your Lost Boys are looking for a home?" "We just want in." "I'll be blunt." "My superiors will not allow street scum tainted by the blood of the Daywalker in the House of Chthon." "We do not adopt polluted strays." "You might try the House of Saqqara." "They're less particular." "Yeah." "About that Daywalker..." "And... this means what to me?" "It means that I can deliver you Blade, wrapped up and ready to die." "And for this gift you want keys to my front door?" "I think your superiors will make an exception." "What do you think?" "I think you like risk." "If the payoff's worth it." "Sometimes you have to take things to get things." "I'm sure you've taken plenty, things your superiors know nothing about." "And you plan on taking more, don't you?" "A lot more." "It's how men like you and me get the respect that we deserve." "Oh, is that what you're doing?" "Getting respect?" "I'm giving you Blade." "Are you going to kill him or not?" "Welcome." "Now where do I find him?" "Jermaine Turner?" "You got the wrong guy." "Hmm." "In case you're thirsty." "Who are you?" "It doesn't matter." "After this, you'll never see me again." "What?" "Back in the '70s, you used to be a member of a street gang called the Bad Bloods." "After you were shot, what happened to the rest of the gang?" "They disappeared." "They all died." "How did they die?" "Little Man." "Little Man?" "Who's?" "So I won't find their bodies in the cemetery, will I?" "Now you listen to me." "If you got anybody that cares about you, that loves you or depends on you for living, you'll stop asking questions and stop looking for whatever it is you're looking for." "'Cause if you find it, you'll wish to God you didn't." "You see, it's because somebody depends on me for living, that thing I'm looking for, I'm gonna find it." "And that thing is whatever you sons of bitches called a home." "Now tell me where I can find the Bad Bloods." "How long is this gonna take?" "That's up to you." "Listen to me, this isn't magic." "There's no pentagrams and chanting and incense burning." "When we kill... which you've done or you wouldn't be here... energy's released." "Which takes you into an after-death experience." " Been there." " So has Boone." "Because of you." "You're connected." "Now because of your new metabolic chemistry, your senses have been retuned, calibrated higher." "What we do here is simply turn up the dial even more." "If we can turn it high enough, you can pick up the energy of your first kill." "You'll be able to find him wherever he is." "Now here's the rough part." "You're going to come out of this incredibly thirsty." "You must be careful not to drink too much blood too fast." "Or what?" "Or Boone's energy will take root in your soul, and whoever you were will be gone forever." "I'm already gone." "Whoever you were is still very strong in you." "I can see that." "And you'd better be careful, because Chase can see it too." "Now don't worry," "I'll be your guide." "I've had some experience in this." "With Chase?" "You turned her?" "Yes." "Sorry to break this up, but can we please get this over with?" "Let's find your problem child, shall we?" "You got us into this, Little Man, but you'll get us out." "Marcus Van Sciver assures me of that." "Got one last thing to do before we... turn you over to our new family, Blade." "Gonna take those tattoos back." "Gonna cut that skin clean off." "That's it, Little Man." "Scream for me." "I got him!" "I used to be like you." "I used to be his friend." "But he screws them all over." "Everyone he touches, he hurts." "Mostly, he just touches vampires." "And yeah... it hurts." "Son of a..." "Another time, Little Man." "So much for the Cosby Kids." "I swear to God, if you say thank you, I'm quitting." "Just give me a minute." " Where's Krista?" " Well, that's a story." "Funny." "Collins, it's me, Gibbs." "Brought you those files you asked for... all of Boone's open cases." "Do me a favor, don't tell my captain." " I only want the last three months." " And that's all you got." "What can I say?" "Detroit's a dangerous place to live." "Runaways... prostitutes... low-level pushers." "Boone's specialty..." "I guess you could say he had a soft spot for the lowest of the low." "Lost souls." " What about this one?" " What's the name?" "Starr." "Zachary Starr." "Single GSW to the head, no viable suspects?" "Yeah, that's one of Boone's special projects." " He have a lot of those?" " Yeah." "Cases that were never closed?" "What about the soldier?" "I assume Boone wanted to screw her." " Did he?" " I don't know." "She went missing." "If she turns up, you can ask her." "If she's still alive." "Ripped By mstoll"