05x10 - E Pluribus Unum

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Previously on "Van Helsing"...

Splitting the two of you up is the only way to make sure that at least one of you makes it to the Oracle.

VANESSA: How did you get here?

AXEL: I was kinda hoping you were gonna tell me that.

Where's "here"?

We're in the Dark Realm.

VANESSA: You said the Dark One's in D.C.?

That's where I'll be.

Axel... Axel!

It's okay.

Vanessa.

She's back.

So why didn't she come with you here so we can go together?

You know, strength in numbers.

I'm sure she's got a plan.

Okay, well what if she needs our help?

She definitely needs our help.

We gotta get to D.C. first.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

I know who you are.

The wanted posters they show on TV.

You thinking of turning me in?

Hmm?

- Is there a bounty?

- No.

But yeah.

Look, I need your help.

Why should I trust you?

Because my guess is you're trying to find a way through that wall.

Get to D.C.

Look, I might be the only guy in town who can make that happen.

Hey!

[COCKS g*n]

Drop the Kn*fe.

Look, I don't want any trouble.

Then walk away.

No, no, no.

It's her.

The vampire cure.

I told you, she... she's real.

Step away from her.

Now!

Woah, hey.

Please, don't let them take me without you.

Please!

Woah.

Maybe-maybe, maybe, maybe we... we all walk away, you know?

Leave him to go about his business.

He is our business.

Not yours!

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

YOUNG MAN: Don't hurt her!

She's the answer!

Enough!

Get him outta here!

No.

Let's go!

[BLEEP]

Hey!

What part of "stay in the truck" don't you understand?

He needs my help.

- He said so.

- Who?

That-that guy.

You mind telling me what the hell you just did?

I don't know.

♪ [DRAMATIC THEME MUSIC] ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

I thought I told you to stay out of sight.

Yeah, you also said you'd come back with bootleg documents.

Well, they don't exist anymore.

Even the coyotes can't get through the wall.

You get too close to the border and... game over.

Game on.

- That guy said he could help us.

- Oh God.

That guy is not the mission!

Not yet, right?

If he knows a way, we can find Vanessa and the others and get all the way to D.C.

He's a dude that is in deep with a bunch of bikers that wants to get rescued.

Okay, so we scratch his back...

And we, what?

Get sh*t in ours?

What's this?

No idea.

He dropped it in the fight.

It's a circuit board.

What's it for?

Only one way to find out.

[DOOR OPENS]

♪ ♪ What're you in the mood for?

Just looking for a little intel.

Hmm.

I mind my business.

Do you, now?

A fella like you, a store like this, I don't know.

I feel like you might know some things.

[LAUGHS]

No?

Sterling silver?

Is there any other kind?

Three questions, amigo.

That's all this buys.

Okay.

Um... a young fella, looking for some computer parts?

Aaron?

What about him?

Aaron just got drug outta here by a bunch of bikers.

He didn't seem to happy about it.

Never is.

He busts loose on these guys every couple of weeks.

Usually ends up here at some point wanting hacker parts.

Can I help you, miss?

Hacker?

Uh, yeah.

I don't know the whole story.

He's trying to reach someone.

Thinks it'll make a difference.

Pointless if you ask me, but the kid pays in MRE so I got no issue.

You know where they took him?

Mmm.

Serious?

[CHUCKLES]

Ooh.

Ah-ha.

♪ ♪ Any signs of people?

You could say that.

There's not too many of them but they don't look super friendly.

What about Aaron?

Bingo.

Upper floor, looks like a bedroom.

The trick is gonna be getting past all that security.

This perimeter's pretty good.

We got one entrance, maybe a little service gate around back.

Oh, I'm getting vibes.

I'm feeling like you got a plan.

Yeah.

When you spend half your life locked in, you learn a thing or two.

Ah.

Mmm-hmm.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I've ever done.

It is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever...

You know, I had given up hope.

I mean, once you get turned there's no coming back.

Then I saw you on that TV show.

What you could do.

Yeah, I'm more interested in what you can do.

For us.

The wall.

I never thought I'd ever run into you.

What are the odds?

Sometimes things happen for a reason.

Can we speed this up?

Clock's ticking, Vi.

Dark One.

[RUSTLING]

It's okay, Dad.

She's here to help you.

[QUIET SNARLING]

Wait just a g*dd*mn minute.

That's...

Davis Park.

My father.

And the th president of the United States.

[SNARLING]

What the hell is this?

President Park.

So that makes you uh...

Like I said, his son.

Aaron.

Hold up.

My father told me you both d*ed the day of the rising.

That's why President Archer took over.

Do we look dead?

No.

That's not how it went down.

Hey, I need you strong, Dad.

The last one you ever have to have, okay?

I made him a promise.

You heard it.

That blood will chill him out so you can do your thing.

Not until you tell me how you can get us through that wall.

Look, Hopper and his guys will k*ll you if they realize you're in here.

You spotted me at the market, remember?

You wanted my help and you offered us yours.

That part comes later.

Okay?

First we do this.

Not so fast.

Why are you being held c*ptive by a bunch of bikers?

No, I'm not c*ptive.

Not exactly.

Okay, I'm not helping anybody until you tell us what the hell this is.

You've got a radio, right?

That's what all the parts are for?

What, you got contacts in the safe zone or not?

We need to get to the other side of that wall.

That's what you don't understand.

There's nothing over there I need.

Then what the hell are we doing here?

- This is ridiculous.

- Wait.

Come on, wait.

It's not a radio I'm fixing, okay?

It's a high tech communications array.

If I can make it work I can...

Get help?

Find my mom.

And Tina.

The world got turned upside-down, kid.

What makes you think they're still alive?

They made it.

I know they did.

Look, all I gotta do is bypass the security and I can track them.

Four years.

Don't you think they would have found you by now if they could have?

Don't tell me it's not possible.

Now, I owe it to them.

I owe it to my dad.

It's all I can do.

[SLURPING SOUNDS]

I mean, look at him.

Basically you're telling me you got nothing to offer except a broken comm link?

A link that isn't broken if my dad is human again.

He's the only person in the world who can open it.

I use it to find my family, okay?

Then it's yours.

Call anybody you like on the other side of the wall.

Well, now we're talkin'.

What do you say?

Let's do it.

Bring the president back?

Okay.

Woah, woah, woah, easy fellas.

Easy.

Easy.

Easy.

Hopper, don't.

Aaron, step aside.

Now.

I don't know who the [BLEEP]

you are but this only ends one way.

It doesn't have to.

We just wanna help.

Didn't ask, don't want.

Hey, Hopper, she's the one I was telling you about, okay?

She can turn dad back.

Fake news.

All of it.

For all we know she's a g*dd*mn vampire, too.

You're not gonna get a bounty on these guys.

You gotta know that by now.

Bounty?

Go to hell.

Maybe I'll send you straight there myself.

[COCKS g*n]

We can help each other, just not like this.

I'm gonna say it one more time.

Move away from the girl.

Hey.

[g*n sh*t]

No!

Easy, easy, easy.

Easy.

[SNARLING]

[VOMITING]

Holy sh*t.

[COUGHING]

Look!

What did you do?

Ended your pain, Mr. President.

Are you okay?

Mmm-hmm.

You know, I didn't know if I'd ever get him back.

But you...

Thank you.

What?

Not what I was expecting.

You, the president, and a bunch of bikers living together.

I know.

The day of the rising me and my dad were in the White House.

My mom and sister were in Virginia.

When it all went crazy, the secret service evacuated us.

They were in their convoy, me and my dad in another.

We were supposed to meet up at Air Force One and get taken to some secure bunker.

But it went wrong.

We got att*cked just outside Baltimore.

The protection detail, they held them off for a while but they were overrun.

My dad got bit...

I mean, the only reason we survived was they locked us inside that limo.

That thing was designed to survive a t*rror1st att*ck so.

So...

I guess it did its job.

You were stuck inside the car with your dad while he was turning.

You're wondering how I never got turned.

You know, my dad, he fought the urge to bite me.

He did.

But it was too strong.

So I scrambled to the front.

I put up that bulletproof glass.

I sealed him in.

There was nothing else I could do, you know?

You know, I'm just...

I'm not the kid I was before the rising.

I've seen some heavy sh*t.

Yeah.

But your dad's been through a lot.

Yeah.

You and Hopper.

You guys did the best you could.

And even if your dad couldn't share it I know he felt it.

You did a good job.

I just...

I couldn't get what I needed from him.

Maybe I don't want it anymore, you know?

There's only one way to find out.

Look at you.

Strong and handsome.

A man.

So, curious, aren't you?

As to why me and my boys have uh, well...

The th President of the United States as a house guest?

Yeah, it'd be kinda weird if I wasn't.

We weren't trying to profit from him, and that's for damn sure.

He was long dead as far as anyone was concerned.

Hell, I didn't even vote for the man.

Hated his politics.

Saw him as a thr*at to the whole damn country.

Go figure.

And yet...

Vampire or not, he was the President.

Represented something that mattered.

Still matters.

The flag, the republic, my heart, my soul.

Those sons of b*tches, they took enough from us.

They weren't gonna get him, too.

Now, that sounds crazy, right?

Protecting someone for reasons you don't even fully understand.

No, I think trusting your gut and doing what you think is right, that might be the only real thing we got left.

So, he's human again thanks to Violet.

What happens now?

Hmph.

So Archer's dead?

And the-the rest of the government, I mean, nobody else is aware that Archer isn't Archer?

There's no way of knowing that without getting on the other side of the wall, which is why we need you.

You can get us in.

Make them listen.

Help our plans to take out the Dark One once and for all.

I'm not in charge.

You're the president.

I was the president.

Past tense.

My powers ended the moment they swore in my replacement.

You're not a vampire anymore, okay?

You're sure as hell not dead.

That's true.

But the fact remains I don't have any more authority right now than anyone else in this room.

You don't know that.

The th amendment of the Constitution says that.

They would have invoked it.

AXEL: You still stand for something.

People remember.

It matters.

What's left of the world has changed.

Moved on.

I'm a relic of the past.

That's bullshit.

Look.

We kept this.

And I always knew it'd be the answer.

Come on, Dad.

Open it.

Only you can.

Please, Dad.

You have to.

Okay.

Yes.

Yes, finally.

What is that?

It's the football.

Y-you-you mean the nuclear football.

It's a little more than that.

It also serves as a direct link to operational command at the Pentagon.

Yeah, we can contact the m*llitary,

- tell them what's going on...

- Not anymore.

Not anymore.

They-look, as far as Washington is concerned I d*ed years ago.

We won't know unless we try.

They'd just assume I was an imposter.

Do you understand?

Me and that device, we are footnotes to history.

Look, I'm sorry, but...

You know what?

Hey.

Hey.

Forget about contacting Washington, okay?

They've moved on.

They left us for dead.

But you can still use this to find mom and Tina.

A secondary communications link, right?

It has access to the secret service shortwave.

Their GPS trail.

We can locate them.

We can find them.

Aaron.

I've been hacking this thing for months.

And now that we have it...

Son.

What?

We could be together again.

A family like we used to be.

They're all gone, son.

All of them.

The day of the rising.

It was the last communication I got right before our convoy got att*cked.

They were already compromised.

No.

That's not true.

It is, son.

I'm so sorry.

There were no survivors.

I'm so sorry.

You know-what happened to you?

God, you used to be a man people believed in.

Who I believed in.

Now you're too scared to do what needs doing.

To live in hope.

But not me.

I never gave up.

And I won't now.

You don't understand.

No, you don't!

I-I thought she gave you back to me.

I guess I never realized that a part of you really did die that day.

- Hey!

- They're not dead.

I can prove it.

I figure I get on the road, use the signal to find them.

Aaron, your dad.

Look, he's too chicken sh*t, okay, but I'm not.

Okay, well you don't know what you'll find or what you'll face out there.

Now, if it was your family out there, if you had a chance to find them alive,

- wouldn't you risk everything?

- I would.

I am.

That's why I need to get to D.C.

They're not that far away, okay?

I gotta steal a truck.

Okay, well you can't go alone.

Watch me.

No, I mean we can all go with you.

You heard my dad.

No.

He thinks they're dead.

Maybe he never leaves this place.

Too frightened to face the truth.

What if it was just me?

What if I went with you?

You'd do that?

Yeah.

Well, maybe I can help you and then we can come back and convince your dad that there's something still worth fighting for.

You're just like him.

Caught up in your own sh*t.

Excuse me?

Don't give me that.

My dad d*ed, okay?

Right in front of my eyes.

So don't pretend like your feelings are somehow more valid than anyone else's.

Then you know how important this is.

I think I can help you get through.

Word is there's coyote tunnels, supposedly run under the wall a couple hours north of here.

A town called Pendleton.

When can we set out?

Well, that's the thing.

If what you say is true, the President's not safe back in D.C.

- Safest thing to do is...

- Woah, ho, ho.

Biggs.

Snuck up behind me, boss.

Took the keys to the truck.

Goddammit, Aaron.

And Violet.

They can't be more than about an hour ahead of us.

We'll catch up to them.

It's not the first time we had to keep Aaron from doing something stupid.

It's just a question of where they went.

I got a pretty good idea.

Aaron figured out the last position of my wife's convoy.

Well, if we get close enough to Violet I can find her from there.

It's hard to explain but I got a sixth sense when it comes to Van Helsings.

Let's do it.

Biggs, you and I travel with the Sergeant.

The rest of you stay here, keep the President safe.

That won't be necessary.

Sir?

If anyone should save Aaron from himself it should be me.

It's not safe, Mr. President.

After all you've done for me, Hopper, I-I think you've earned the right to just call me Davis.

I left my son without a father for long enough and you've been a hell of a surrogate.

But time for me to step back up to the plate.

You heard the man.

Lock and load.

[LAUGHING SOFTLY]

You didn't.

All true.

One and only trip to the White House.

Fifteen years old, slipped that mug with the presidential seal right into my back pack.

[LAUGHING]

Isn't that basically treason?

Uh, not unless you get caught.

Yeah.

Sure as hell paying for it now, though.

So we nearly crossed paths.

I guess.

I don't think you would have liked me back then.

Uh, who says I like you now?

[LAUGHS]

I mean, I just-they kept me out of the limelight, you know?

A bit of a socially backward loner in those days.

Uh... nobody wanted to be friends with the president's kid.

My dad enrolled my twin and I into m*llitary school.

Seriously?

Isn't that like child abuse?

[LAUGHS]

Uh, it wasn't that bad.

And look around.

Not a terrible skill set to have now.

Yeah.

Survivors.

That's what our parents made us.

Hey um, you ever used one of these before?

What?

We're not alone.

[SNARLING]

Get in the car.

I've got this.

Are you kidding me?

I'm not hiding anymore.

- [SNARLING]

- [g*nshots]

[g*nshots]

[g*n sh*t]

[SNARLING]

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[FIGHTING GRUNTS]

[g*n sh*t]

You ugly son of a bitch!

[g*nshots]

Suck on that, assh*le!

[VOMITING]

I got him!

Violet, I sh*t him right in the face!

Aaron, look out!

[CRIES OUT]

[g*n sh*t]

[GASPING]

Years of chaos and suffering.

And survival.

Not everybody backed down.

A lot of people fought.

Resisted.

This is my fault.

Nobody knew this was gonna happen.

I did.

A briefing.

My first month in office.

They sit you down in the Oval Office and they bring you in the file.

The dossier of all the stuff that's eyes only.

All the crazy truths most everyone else would think are just a tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

They told you about vampires?

Yeah.

Amongst other things.

I-I didn't wanna believe any of it.

As though being president I got to pick and choose what was real and what wasn't.

Nobody knew that volcano was gonna pop off.

That all this would unfold.

I should have taken the thr*at more seriously long before that.

All this... loss!

It happened on my watch.

And we can still make it right.

We help k*ll the Dark One.

Once that happens people are gonna need someone to bring hope back.

Someone to believe in.

You think that's me?

Hell yeah, it's gotta be you.

Look, I-I never thought fate was a thing.

Destiny and higher powers and all that sh*t.

But there's a reason that we stumbled across Aaron.

We found you.

It has to be.

It's all part of the plan.

This...

I might not understand how but I know why.

I couldn't even convince my own son.

What makes you think I can fix all this?

Because together with the Van Helsings we can find a way out of this.

We can.

Up ahead, boss.

I see it.

Stop short.

It don't look good, boss.

Weapons ready, we don't know what we're walking into here.

Aaron.

God no.

God no, no, no.

Aaron.

Hey, sir!

- Wait!

- No, no, no, no.

He's down!

He's down!

Violet?

Violet!

[UNDER HIS BREATH]

Aaron, no.

No, no, no.

Violet!

They've moved on.

Aaron!

We gotta get back to the vehicle.

Come on, sir, let's go.

We gotta move.

Come on.

Hopper!

[g*nshots]

Don't move.

Don't move.

Lie still.

Goddammit.

Should have seen it.

Should have seen it.

[GASPS]

See this through.

See this through.

It's okay.

Make the world right again.

For everyone.

The kid, he's a good kid.

Yeah.

He's a good kid.

Don't be too hard on him.

Tell him.

Tell him...

You're gonna be okay.

I can feel it.

Just the change starting to happen.

I got to you as fast as I could.

Before it took hold.

Now I know what my Dad went through for years.

Those coordinates should be right... here.

VIOLET: Aaron! Aaron, wait!

Hold on!

Aaron, wait!

Aaron.

Aaron, wait!

Aaron, stop.

I needed to do this.

Aaron, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[FLIES BUZZING]

Argh!

It's my fault, Aaron.

I'm... I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Oh, Dad.

Dad, it's okay.

Dad.

Dad.

Hey.

You didn't do this, okay?

Do you hear me?

They did.

Okay, them.

Look at me.

Dad, look at me!

We have to make this matter, okay?

They can't die for nothing.

Oh, Dad.

Okay?

They can't have d*ed for nothing.

[SOBBING]

I swear to you, son.

We're gonna make this right.

We're gonna make this right.

You and me.

Okay.

And me.

And me.

And me.

Where's Hopper?

No.

No.

No.

- Dad.

- He saved my life, son.

He did?

[SOBBING]

I got you now, okay?

You hear me?

I got you now.

[SOBBING]

I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend this country.

And I'll be damned if I don't see that through.

For Mom and Tina.

And Hopper.

For all of them.

Every victim.

Every single one.

What do you say, son?

Maybe it's time to take America back, hmm?

So what's the plan?

Find those coyote tunnels Hopper was talking about, get across the wall.

Maybe we should go back to the compound, gather some supplies.

Not right now.

Let's get these guys home, keep them safe for now.

You're not taking me with you, are you?

We need you alive, sir.

There's no point in risking you when we don't know what we're walking into.

So your plan is you're gonna take the White House by force?

You understand how impossible that is, right?

Yeah.

Gonna do it anyway.

Maybe there's a chance I can help you even the odds.

PRESIDENT PARK: General.

General Lannister, are you there?

Henry, it's me.

It's Davis Park.

I think you and I need to talk.

President Park is dead.

How did you hack this line?

Listen, go ahead.

Track the call, fire a m*ssile at these coordinates, I wouldn't blame you.

But tell me this.

If I really was a vampire would I know about that bucks you still owe me from poker at Camp David?

I hope Sam and Sally are okay.

That you kept them safe through... through all this.

I've still got Aaron with me.

We both survived.

Even if you are who you say, you're not the one I take orders from anymore.

Yeah, about that.

There are things you need to know, General.

Truths that are gonna make a big difference.

Don't you think you at least owe me the chance to lay it all out before you blow me sky high?

Hank.

♪ ♪