05x03 - Lumina Intunecata

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Previously on "Van Helsing"...

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

- Bathory?

- You need not k*ll me.

We wish for the same thing.

I'm a vampire hunter.

What have you done?!

She was dead and now she lives.

You no longer own your own destiny.

Time to meet your fate.

The Dark Spirit awaits you.

[CHANTING IN LATIN]

[THUNDER]

Arise, sweet darkness.

Take your place at my side and I will show you all that you might become.

You?

Show me?

For centuries I have built my Sisterhood.

A league of darkness that has followed human kind to every corner of this world.

It is because of this strength that I finally discovered you, disembodied for all this time, lost and wandering.

But I learned the means, brought you back to this mortal world.

This human vessel gave you life.

You do not know who or what I am.

I can sense your darkness.

Your power.

I did from the beginning.

And it will serve me well.

[LOUD THUNDEROUS ROAR]

Even as a spirit I have lived eternal since mankind began.

My name has struck fear in mortals for thousands of years.

They know me by many names.

Ekimmu, Baobahn, Lilitu.

But you will know me now as Dracula.

I need no one.

And I serve no one.

Behold, my master.

Dracula.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [THUNDER ROLLS]

THE ROMA: This way!

The cemetery!

Why are we slowing down?

We're almost there.

I sense a thr*at.

A vampire hunter.

More powerful than I've ever encountered before.

Find her.

[SCREAMS IN AGONY]

Jack?

She knows about me.

You too.

She's trying to get an edge.

She's trying to make us stop.

Fight her.

Use your power to keep her at bay.

[SCREAMING IN AGONY]

She's hunting us.

[SCREAMING IN AGONY]

The Dark One.

She knows I'm a thr*at.

- You have to help me.

- We are!

[SCREAMING IN AGONY]

It's Michaela.

She's using this to find us.

Then we must purge it.

No.

No, you're not...

you're not gonna do what I think you are.

We have little choice.

Put this in your mouth.

Bite down, hard.

[MUFFLED]

Make it quick.

[MUFFLED AGONIZED SCREAMING]

[SPEAKING LATIN]

Close your eyes.

Out you wicked darkness!

[MUFFLED AGONIZED SCREAMING]

[PANTING]

You are strong, Jack.

You are strong.

Are you kidding me?

That hurt like a son of a bitch.

I gave you the most mundane of tasks.

She is a more unpredictable enemy than I thought.

Arose from the dead after attempting to m*rder your host.

Is she more powerful than you, Michaela?

Never.

Then prove that.

Or should it be her as my chosen instead of you?

But dawn approaches.

[SIZZLING]

We must retreat into the safety of the shadows.

We need not worry about the light.

It too will bend to my will.

[LATIN CHANT]

[THUNDER ROLLS]

♪♪ In time, when the last of our enemies is vanquished, I will turn this whole world into perpetual darkness.

And then the humans will know it is only a matter of time until we enslave them all.

What foul enchantment is this?

She's keeping it dark so that the Sisterhood can hunt us.

This magic is too powerful.

I can't do this alone.

Michaela has always been a dangerous adversary.

But this Dark One and her power, it's...

Your mother's scroll.

It can counter their magic.

No, I told you we cannot battle darkness with darkness.

We might not have a choice.

I travelled through time for this.

I'm not gonna give up now.

I have to change fate.

Mine and yours.

My fate has not been written yet.

I have a family legacy to fulfill.

Yeah.

You and me both.

But without allies...

We can go back to town.

Gather Florian and his people.

The villagers still think you m*rder*d Olivia and that you're a witch.

Yeah, well...

they're gonna have to decide what they fear most.

Me or that.

[VILLAGERS SCREAMING]

Run!

They'll k*ll us all!

We need to find Jack.

[VILLAGERS SCREAMING]

Before it's too late.

[SCREAMING CONTINUES]

[HISSING]

Where is she?

I don't know.

Please don't k*ll me.

I beg of you.

The one called Jack!

I don't know!

[BITE]

Please.

Listen to me, please.

You know who I am.

That I was once a Sister.

But look at me now.

She did it to me.

The one you seek.

She can set you free, as well.

[HISSING]

There's no saving them now.

It's w*r.

Sire, the sky.

I know.

Evil is all around us.

My men have taken to the road to create a path.

As you commanded.

Head east until you reach the river, then north.

The castle is ours.

Stop for no one.

You have your orders, Captain.

Protect our escape.

When my son is safe I will return with men and together we will purge this evil.

My lord.

Stealing away with the child, that seems unwise.

My Countess.

I saw you die.

Do not be deceived.

The lady, Olivia, has been poisoned with the same evil that blackened the sky.

Poisoned?

No.

Transformed.

Strike her down, Rasto.

That is the only way.

Or you could submit.

All of you worship the darkness.

What say you, Dalibor?

What say I?

My Olivia would never, ever ask such a thing!

Rasto, end her!

I command you!

End her!

Protect the child!

Forgive me, my Countess.

[BATTLE CRY]

Forgive you?

I should be thanking you.

I haven't fed in such a long, long time.

[DROPS SWORD]

I can see your future.

Can you see it, too?

[SCREAMS]

Do what you want with me, but please, if there is any part of Olivia left within you, I beg you spare the child.

He is our flesh...

And blood?

Yes.

And I should wish it dead.

But I will spare him for now, and you do exactly as I instruct.

Look how few of us are left.

We cannot take the fight to them.

There is little choice now.

I'll have to risk using my mother's scroll.

Is there no other way?

If it comes to it, you know what you must do.

What does she mean?

Do what?

Legend had it that the first was exiled long ago by an enchantment.

Forced to roam the earth without physical form.

Much as my ancestors searched, they could not find it, let alone capture it.

So instead they devoted themselves to hunting down the evil that still lived amongst us in the shadows.

The Sisterhood.

Then my mother discovered this.

Authored by the very person who summoned and then banished The Dark One in the first place.

What does it do?

The incantations serve as an antidote to the powers of The Dark One.

A way to make her vulnerable.

But to do so, the person who uses them must access the darkness that makes her so strong.

She means you have to resist the power the same time you use it.

My mother told me what I must do if she was seduced by the darkness.

Now you must vow to me to do the same.

No matter what future you've seen from me.

I would rather die than become one of them.

It's the last thing I want.

I swear I'll do what I have to.

ROMA: There's people approaching.

Hey!

Who goes there?

Bathory?

Stay right there.

Don't come any closer.

Don't come any closer.

Stop.

Drop your hood!

Now!

I said drop your hood!

Your Grace?

I have to save my son.

Have you done as the Dark One commanded?

Yes.

I captured the woman, Jack, and brought her to the castle.

And?

Shackled in the dungeon, a sl*ve to your will.

And the Roma?

The one they call Bathory?

My men cut them down.

All of them.

Every man, woman and child.

You stand unopposed now.

Oh, Dalibor.

If only you had purged me from this place when you had the chance.

But that is the fate of all men now.

To rue their bad decisions and take a knee for their new master.

Whatever it takes to safeguard my child.

Indeed.

Such a human frailty.

Now, show me my prize.

Yes.

Pray tell, how did you and your men take Jack and the Roma by surprise?

An innocent villager who trusted me.

Just as you expect me to trust you.

See for yourself.

All your scheming.

Your strange powers came to nothing in the end.

But now, with the Dark One arisen, you will be sacrificed in her name.

My realm of darkness so soon to be merged with this earthly realm.

VOICE: I wouldn't count on that if I were you.

What is this?

You built the mousetrap.

How does it feel now that you are the mouse?

Argh!

Argh!!!

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

For my sweet Olivia.

[COUGHING]

[SCREAMING]

Bathory!

Don't touch me!

Such darkness, such horror.

Dit it work?

Did Michaela fall for the illusion?

[BELLS TOLLING]

Listen.

The signal.

Dalibor did it.

They took her head.

We can do this, finish the Dark One.

Here, now.

I know.

I feel it too.

Even though I wish I didn't.

Dalibor!

Dalibor, my love.

The spell is-is broken.

The evil presence left me.

What did you do?

I k*lled the witch Michaela.

I cut off her head and I threw her down into the moat.

You saved me.

We're free.

We're free now.

Yes.

Yes, free.

Yes.

I wish it were true.

[GASPS]

Dalibor, my love.

What have you done?

Jack has told me what you are.

The illusions you create.

My wife is dead!

And now so are you.

[BABY CRYING]

Shh.

Christoph.

[BABY CRYING]

All will be well.

All will be well.

Come, little one.

[BITING]

[CRYING CONTINUES]

You wouldn't serve me as a human but you'll have no choice now.

You said there was a secret way in.

Yes, yes.

Shh.

There is a small tunnel behind a secret door right under that bridge.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Come on, come on, go.

This way!

Look, this way!

Retreat to the castle!

Those are the Count's orders!

We can't trust that they're with us.

But the bells?

Dalibor's signal.

We're entering by stealth for a reason.

We can depend on nothing.

Are we clear on the plan?

When we find the Dark One you're gonna use the scroll and freeze her.

And then you'll harness this unique gift of yours.

Bite her and turn her.

Doesn't that mean I'm gonna take in some of her darkness?

Indeed.

But you mustn't give in to it.

And in the end it must be purged into this.

I always knew this was important.

I never thought I'd find out why.

What do you mean?

Perhaps I should not know.

If we pull this off then history changes for everyone.

Let's go!

This is it.

Come on.

There.

The keep.

What now?

We wait for Dalibor.

What?

Something feels wrong.

[DISTANT SNARLING]

Show yourself!

She's right.

Something's amiss!

It's a trap!

Vampires!

There!

♪♪ Hello witch!

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[GURGLING]

[DROPS SWORD]

More will come.

We don't know how many.

Get to the tower.

We'll hold them here.

No, you'll be overrun.

We'll all be dead or like them if you don't k*ll the Dark One.

We owe you, remember?

Go down to the catacombs to the far side of the castle.

There is a route up to the tower.

Go.

Hurry.

Go, Bathory.

Avenge your mother.

I will come back for you.

I will count on it.

♪♪ [THUNDER ROLLS]

Such a fragile thing.

Life pulsing through you while all around is death.

Darkness.

[BABY COOING]

I should fill myself with your vitality.

Drink every drop of your innocent blood.

But I cannot.

Why is that?

[LAUGHS]

Drink your fill.

See?

Not so different after all, you and I.

You saved my life back there.

You spoke truth before.

You cannot defeat the Dark One alone.

I didn't realize you and Roberto...

He's very important to me, and a great ally to our cause.

Yeah.

It's just not exactly who I thought you'd be.

You did not want to tell me my future but if I'm in yours centuries from now that means only one thing.

It's a lot worse than you think.

Which is why I plan to stay exactly the way I am, when I am.

[HISSING SOUNDS]

Count Dalibor.

Great.

You must die now.

It is your fate.

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

Bathory, are you okay?

It's fine.

It is nothing.

It doesn't look like nothing.

We have to keep moving.

The others can only hold up the guards for so long.

I...

I did not wish to harm you, but I had no power to resist.

Trust me.

I know.

I've made terrible mistakes.

You tried to warn me.

There's no way you would have known what she was, or what Michaela had planned.

Maybe I chose not to see.

And my villagers are paying the price for my blindness.

But I now see the answer clearly.

You should be healing.

Why aren't you healing?

k*ll that foul creature for me.

Avenge my Olivia.

Jack, we must go.

Get free from here.

Find help.

Not without my son.

Let them come for me.

Their ignorance will be my shield.

[SPEAKING LATIN]

Not one but two great vampire hunters here to slay the beast.

I should be quite afraid.

An unexpected turn of fate when you took Michaela's head.

I suppose now you have the advantage.

You're trying to open a portal.

Such a clever one, you are.

Full of knowledge you should not have.

But perhaps that will prove useful when you join me at my side.

We have to do this now before she gets in your head.

[CHANTING]

What do you have there?

You must go quickly, Jack!

Now!

[CHANTING]

No!

No, I will never be vanquished!

[CHANTING]

[CRIES OUT]

Bathory?

I'm blind.

You come from nowhere.

Why did you feel that you could destroy me?

Because I know the darkness.

I've felt it, and now I realize how flawed and vulnerable it is.

You suffer from the grandest of delusions, child.

The darkness is simply more powerful than the light and it consumes all.

Bathory!

You know the magic, you don't have to read it!

[SLOWLY CHANTING]

[SLOWLY CHANTING]

[CHANTING FASTER]

In the name of my sister and my mother.

In the name of all my ancestors I end the darkness now and forever!

No!

No!!!

We can still be one, you and I, Jack.

Contain the darkness within you, Jack!

Do not give up and she will be defeated!

Something you missed, sweet Jack.

I sensed what you did to Michaela and I used it!

[GROANS]

Thanks to my beloved, I rise again.

Count Dalibor?

Alexandra.

You must take my son.

Take my son.

Now, flee.

Flee.

All of you, flee.

What of Bathory and Jack?

Their fate is in their own hands now.

But my child, I entrust to yours.

But what of you, Your Grace?

You are gravely wounded.

There is only one thing left that I can do.

Be brave, Florian.

Flee.

Go.

Flee.

Flee.

Flee!

[THUNDER ROLLS]

Michaela, we can destroy her together.

Take back the part of me that she stole.

I told you, Jack.

You cannot win!

Now you will learn what it is like to lose your head and no one to put it back on for you!

That part of her, the darkness, it's inside me.

No.

My fight against the dark is slipping.

Our gambit failed, but you must fashion another chance and I must accept my dark fate.

[CHANTING]

Be well, my son.

Let the light guide you to safety and may it purge the evil from this land.

Arise, my sweet.

Prepare to embrace your transformation.

In blindness I now see everything.

I am the Oracle.

[GROANS]

You made it.

Where's Bathory?

The Dark One.

Part of her, it's inside of me.

Do as Bathory told you.

Purge this into the amulet.

It was made to contain the darkness.

[GASPING]

That evil, it could have taken over.

Not now.

Evil lost.

One small victory.

[DISTANT SCREAMS]

We gotta get the hell out of here.

[expl*si*n]

[BELL TOLLING]

Thank you for getting me here.

In more ways than one.

Are you sure about this?

A voyage to the new world?

I have to get as far away as I can from the Dark One and whoever she sends after me.

Besides, America is my home.

Yes, but... not now.

Not yet.

That's tomorrow's problem.

You look after him.

Nobody can know who he really is.

You have my word.

I will raise him as my own.

I saw you sketching me in this.

That's when I knew.

Fate is part of my story.

Maybe it always was.

But shouldn't this and the amulet remain with you?

I changed a small piece in this story, but the Dark One still rose and the Oracle and Michaela are with her.

The amulet and the book, they both made it from the Romas to the Van Helsings once before.

Maybe they will again.

I have to have my faith in that.

I wrote a note under that sketch for the ones that follow.

Maybe one day this will all make sense.

After everything comes full circle.

That's it.

Thank you.

No, Jack.

Thank you.

Thank you for everything you've done for us.

I did what I could.

And the rest?

Who knows.

If we have to hide baby Christoph he will need a new name.

Maybe the best way to remember a Van Helsing is to make one.

What about Jack?

Jack Van Helsing.

Something has changed.

Things are not as they once were.

I know.

I sense it too.

Part of my strength is missing.

The past has altered.

[GASPS]

The Van Helsings.