03x02 - Super Unknown

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Previously on
Van Helsing...

Your sister sent me to find you.

Vanessa... Vanessa...

- Susan?
- The Elder.

It's pledged to help us.

It took on a persona
I was comfortable with.

Mum?

Each Elder has something.

A totem that leads to the Dark One.

Stop the Elders.

Find the totems.

So where's yours?

- Give it to me.
- I cannot.

I do not possess it.

Well, I know what I gotta do,
so I'm gonna go do it.

We're in this together, until the end.

You and me.

All of us.

Let's go k*ll some vampires.

Good evening. I am Edward Hawkins.

Lord Hawkins.

And this is my wife, Lillian.

We've been expecting you, sir.

Indeed. Lillian is here to, um...

she's here indefinitely.

For rest.

Naturally.

I do hope you know what you're doing.

I do.

Give this to our daughter.

For safe keeping.

And darling,
if I do not return...

you know what to do.

Very good.

Just a few preliminary questions, then.

Maiden name?

Van Helsing.

Lillian Van Helsing.

But you may call me Lily.

Thank you, my pretty one.

I'll see you again tomorrow night.

Well, well.

Looks like somebody's lost their way.

I'd be glad to help you back
to your room, missy.

That won't be necessary.

I'll find my own way.

My god.

What are you?

No!

We're closer now,
I can feel it.

This?

This is where your totem is?
In a shitty little cabin in the woods?

Soon all will be revealed to you.

You know what?
I don't like how this works

because it really sounds like
you think you're in charge

and you're not,
so remember that.

Soon.

Just go.

And are you gonna
finally start talking?

Or is this how it's gonna be?

The Elder's just gonna wander around,
and you're gonna follow it

and then we're gonna follow you?

No ones saying anything to anybody?

Sounds good to me.

- It's good to have her back, huh?
- Yeah, a real treat.

Yeah? What is it?

Easy.

We just need some help.

We're a little lost right now.

- Where?
- To the asylum.

Why would I wanna go there?

What's in it for me?

Come back in the morning, then.

No one wants to go up there
this time of night, believe you me.

We do.

OK then.

- Now?
- Now.

This is as far as I go.

Hey! Hey!

Hey! Woah, woah, woah!
What the hell are you doing?

I must feed.

He helped us get here,
for Christ's sakes.

It doesn't matter.
I must feed.

What the hell?

It's over, OK?

It happened. Let's go.

OK.

You're sure that totem of yours
is here somewhere?

It is. I can feel it.

I know it is.

OK, totem.

What the hell are we looking for?

What is it?
What does it look like, huh?

Now what're you doing?

Why are you just standing there?

Hey.

Come on, take us to it.

I cannot.

There's a...

presence here.

A powerful force causing
my thoughts to be hazy.

When you see it you will know.

That's really great, thank you.
So helpful.

Oh, no.

You're not coming with us.

We might actually find someone in there.

We can't have you feasting
on them, so sit down.

Now.

Mmm.

Why don't we split up, see what we can find,
and meet back here?

Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?

That's exactly what we shouldn't do.

Yeah, Axel's right.

We should be doing this together,
like we said.

OK, I'm not opposed to that, it's just

- we'd cover more ground initially if we...
- Come on now, Sleeping Beauty.

OK, you know what? Just forget it.
Let's go.

sh*t. A bunch of dead bodies.

Oh, sorry.

No.

Vampires.

What're they doing?

- I don't know.
- They're just standing there.

What the hell kind of vampires do that?

I said I don't know.

Jesus Christ, my head!

We need to do something, now!

Oh, god!

You gotta k*ll them in the head!

My, my.

So, you too?

Looks like it.

I'm alive?

Hello.

I'm Dr Karloff.

This place...

was always thought to be haunted.

I understand now what happened to me, I...

I was turned, became one of them.

Without ever realising it.

You saved me.

Thank you very much, young lady.

So you have no knowledge
of an artefact being here?

Other than the storage rooms
that run beneath the facility or the...

the attic, perhaps, but...

no, no, um...

I have never heard
of any sort of special, um...

what... what is it? An antique?

That's a very good question.
Uh, what is it?

Remind us?

When you see it you will know.

Oh my god.

You are absolutely useless.

Pledged to us, it says.

Pledged to get in our g*dd*mn way,
apparently.

All will become clear to you.

Oh my god. Shut your mouth.

So...

no totem, no mention of...

anything to do with a Van Helsing or...

What?

Van Helsings?

Oh, no.

That's... that's a very different story.

We had a Van Helsing stay here
around the turn of the century.

A woman...

who, if I...

believe if I remember the story correctly...

yes, yes.

She d*ed here.

Under very mysterious circumstances.

Very mysterious.

Did I... did I say something wrong?

You really think she's OK?
She seems way off to me.

- Yeah, I know.
- She's always been a tough ass, but...

either they did something to her
at that place

- or she's becoming more...
- Yeah.

You didn't say anything to her
about us, did you?

What? God, no.

No. I would never do that.
This is...

- our business, you know?
- Lucky these files

were in a sealed room.

But they're so old,
I don't even know if they're...

going to be legible.

Best let me handle this, young man,
as I know what we're looking for.

OK.
But, you know, I can read.

Just let us look, OK?

Alright, I was just trying to help.

I just wanna get out of here
and find the totems

so leave us alone for a second.

Yeah, I was just trying to be useful.

But you're not, so...

OK, Nancy Drew

so you're the only one that can find
the clues now, is that how it works?

Look, Axel, it doesn't concern you.

It doesn't concern me?

What have I been doing
for the last four years?

What is going on with you?

You've been acting weird
ever since we met up at Blak Tek.

And now you're, like, just...

Well, now the Elder thing is eating spiders,
so that's happening.

I mean, this is insane.

I think I found something.

Wow. Look at her.

She's really lovely.

Delicate.

Yeah, she's nice-looking.

Mm... what? She is.

We can definitely tell she's one of us.
Look at her eyes.

Does it say anything
about what...

happened to her?
Why she was here?

A list of belongings? Anything?

Ooh, it mentions only
that she was placed here

by her husband for hysteria.

- Um...
- Does it say what happened to her?

Uh, she-ah...

she was placed in seclusion
and... oh, my...

It appears she escaped her cell
on her very first night.

Sounds like a Van Helsing.

And m*rder*d a guard.

She's uh, it...

just that she was also k*lled
on the first night here.

Dead on her first night in the hospital?

Yes, yes. I'm afraid so.

I suppose that's why I knew the name.

It was a very...

infamous story.

OK, well how did she die?

Ah, well, there's nothing
in the original report

but um, let's see...

Ah. In the medical report it mentions...

yes, here, uh...

Bruising to the face and body,
extensive brain damage.

Yes, she had a brain trauma
of some sort and...

and her head was also then...

caved in, as if...

- she had been...
- Yeah, OK, we get it.

- She was dead.
- Alright, alright.

Yes, oh yes. Very dead.

On her first night in the hospital.

So... she k*lled someone,
and then she dies...

was m*rder*d, obviously.

That doesn't make any sense.

Unless her brain...

her brain...

Uh... is she buried here?

Was she buried here or elsewhere?

Um... here.

In Potter's Field, in front of the facility

where most of the patients were buried
at that time.

Most were.

OK, where?

Um... plot 46.

Uh, you better come with us, Doc.

You're still not coming.

Stay.

You're gonna dig that all out with your
Kn*fe? Is that the plan?

Unless you got a better idea.

Or a shovel, maybe?

No?

OK.

You could help if you want.

There should be shovels

that sort of thing,
where the groundskeeper was housed.

- Tools.
- Yeah, alright, alright. I'll go, I'll go.

Come on, Doc. Show me where it's at.

This way.

So...

- I guess we should probably...
- We can just dig.

We don't have to talk.

What a beautiful night.

If you say so, Doc.

My, oh my.

What is this place, Doc?

Doesn't look like there's a whole lot
of shovels in here.

No, but there's this.

Hey, hey.

Doc, what the hell is going on here?

Doc?

What's happening?

- Oh...
- We gotta get back upstairs

to the girls, right?
Get the shovels, find the antique.

Ha! I haven't done this in so, so long.

- Done what?
- This.

The same principle
that the vampires used on me.

Sucked the life right out of me.

Literally right out of my body.

Yeah. They said I was a patient.

You were a patient?

But I knew better, didn't I?
Yes, I did.

And I waited. I waited 'til I got my chance,
and then I k*lled them all. Ha!

Didn't I not k*ll them all? Yes, I did.

And then I let all the rest go free.

What a time that was.

It was a sweet, sweet time.

The vampires came...

and turned us.

And they sucked the life...

Hey, easy now.

- Right out of our brains.
- No, no, wait a second. No, no...

Where's Axel?
He should be back by now.

I don't know.
Do you want me to go look for him?

Of course you'd volunteer for that.

What's that supposed to mean?

- Forget it.
- OK.

You need to give it a rest.

Axel and I are not a thing.

OK, we had a moment, you know,
and we were...

whatever. Look, I'm-I'm sorry if I'm
stepping on territory that...

- you're interested in...
- I'm not interested in the marine.

I promise you.

I'm trying to stop an apocalypse.

So I'm not really dating right now.

Oh, OK.

OK, well maybe you can explain...

the group shower.

- What?
- I'm just curious.

He told you about that?

OK.That was because of the hospital,
there was a water shortage.

Mmm.

Hey.

He walked in on me,
and I pointed a r*fle at him.

He mention that?

Should go ask him if you want to.

You're the one who brought him up.

Yeah, because I thought
he should be back by now.

OK, well, then go and find him yourself,
or get the Elder to go get him.

God, I'll just keep doing this.
I'm used to it, anyway.

- What?
- Grave robbing.

- What does that mean?
- Look, you don't know

a g*dd*mn thing about me

- cos you never talk.
- Yeah, we've been kinda busy

- since we met.
- So what?

We're sisters.

Apparently that doesn't mean
anything to you.

Where is all this coming from?

I have done nothing
but try to get through to you

since day one, and you have been
consistently shutting me down.

That's not true.

At least we were civil when we met.

What happened to you?

What did that guy do to you?

Vanessa?

- What's going on with you?
- I don't know what's going on with me!

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I don't know what's going on with me.

But you're right, something is.

Ever since the Elder woke me...

bit me.

What?

He bit you?

Before, you know...

I'd use blood to kinda, like, get revved up,
or to track people, that kinda thing.

OK.

But now...

I'm craving it.

If I start to turn...

you know what you have to do, right?

You're fine. You...
you're gonna be fine.

Whatever happens...

we'll figure it out.

Where are you, my happy little friend?

You are a very special young man...

Because of that we're going to need
a very special set of tools.

These little friends will do the trick.

Help me take your mind.

Hm?

There's nothing here.
It's a man.

It's not Lily.

Yeah, but the record said
that it was gonna be here.

Yeah, obviously the records were wrong.

I mean, one number could be off
and then...

Oh, great. Yeah, that's great.
So now what then?

So is it 47 or is it 45?

Worse, what if it's the first number?
What, are we supposed to be in the 30s?

The 20s?
I mean, this is sh*t.

Well, we could keep digging, or we could
go back in and check the records.

I mean, whatever you wanna do.

What do you wanna do?

I... I guess I think we should wait.

You know, cos if we go in there,
they come looking for us

and we're not here then they're gonna go
inside there trying to find us

and we're gonna be out here,
we're not gonna find...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. OK.

You're right.

We wait.

OK.

Perfect.

I hope your friends are enjoying
their search out there in the cold.

Why do you say that?

Well...

to be fair I did send them
on a bit of a wild goose chase.

In the cemetery?

The Van Helsing woman I knew of,
she was a very wealthy woman.

She would never have been buried outside.

- I don't understand.
- You don't have to understand.

In a few minutes
nothing's gonna matter to you.

No, no, I get that.
I just... I'm just curious.

Where would she be buried?

Well, below.

- Below?
- Below.

In the mausoleum.

That's where everybody of means
was interred. Yeah?

Ah.

Yeah! Ugh, god!

Not so smart anymore, are ya, Doc?

Ugh!

Hey!

Hey!

Where's the doctor?

Uh, yeah, he's kinda dead.

So what, the whole "help us" thing
was sort of...

- Pretty much.
- Right.

Yeah, forget about him,
and forget about out here.

She's not buried out here,
I got that much outta the guy.

She's inside in a mausoleum.

- Are you alright?
- Yeah, you know...

for almost getting a lobotomy.

sh*t.

Watch your backs.

I don't like this.

Really?

Look as fast as you can,
I don't like the feeling of this place.

Yeah, me neither, Sleeping Beauty.

Sorry.

Oh, you feel that?

It's the same sh*t from upstairs.

It's worse.

It's here.

What?

The thing that k*lled Lily.

Turned all the others in here.
This is where it hides.

You gotta get out of here.

- It's too strong for you.
- No. I wanna fight with you.

No, you need to live,
and Axel's not gonna make it.

Get him out of here.
OK? Go.

Get the Elder and send it to me.

- OK. OK, come on.
- Go!

OK. Come on, let's go.

Another vampire k*ller with a pretty face.

That's right.

You'll never meet another one like me,
I'll promise you that.

Such bravado.

- Such hubris.
- That's right.

Keep talking.

Already your energy is becoming mine

even one as strong as you.

Yeah, that's alright.
There's plenty more where that came from.

I'm a Van Helsing.

Yes.

I thought as much.

I've watched your kind die before.

Keep talking.

Right up until I k*ll you.

Even one with powers...

as great as yours...

will not go forward.

You can't stop me.

Ah...

Such great powers.

But you also carry a great anger.

A sadness.

Doesn't matter.

I don't have to fight you on my own.

And why might that be?

att*ck.

That's so strange.

She looks like she d*ed yesterday.

That's amazing.

Knowing she was one of us?

Fought them like we do?

I mean, she must have come here
to k*ll the thing

and then lost her life to it.

Probably had herself committed
to get inside.

That's amazing.

Ah, Ladies...

I'm about done with this creepy little dungeon,
so if we could get a move on.

OK.

Woah.

- That's beautiful.
- My totem!

Back off!

Do not forget your place.

Give it back to me. It's mine.

Yeah, like I said, can we get going?

OK, the Elder and I will close
Lily's coffin.

Why don't you two go check the trail,
see if it's still passable after the storm?

Why, because someone ate our guide?

Because of that?

Don't take too long.

Axel.

I'll tell you later.

OK.

Move away from it, Vanessa.

Close the lid and return it
to its resting place, I beg you.

- What're you talking about?
- Do not touch it.

Do not go near it.

What?

- This?
- Yes.

It must have had contact with an Elder.

See the stains? Blood.

She must have fought the B'ah
at some point in her short life.

- What's the B'ah?
- Not what, but who.

My child, you still have so much to learn.

So, so much.

Even a great vampire hunter like yourself.

So...

are we gonna talk
about the red eye thing or not?

Are you kidding me?

How about we wait 'til daytime?

Baby.

I'm not a baby, I'm a marine.

Mmm. OK.

A marine who's afraid of the dark.

Shut up, I'm not afraid.

Answer my g*dd*mn question.

Oh, good.

Good.

Very good.

Rarely have I seen such anger in a human.

So much, in fact, it nearly got you k*lled.

- Back off.
- I cannot.

I serve you, so I must stay close.

For now.

The B'ah is one of the great Elders
you will face

and for that there is much
you don't understand.

You nearly lost this battle.

You are not yet ready to face
the strength of an Elder

certainly not an Elder like the B'ah.

Then teach me.

No.

Better still, I will show you.