Previously on The Strain.
Too long I've lived, too much I've seen.
Strigoi!
I've seen 'em in the tunnels.
Turning people into hungry vermin.
They are no longer people, and to think they are is very dangerous.
You do not have the luxury of choice anymore.
All we can do now is fight.
ls the war already lost' ?
Are we destined to be cattle for monsters?
Or, now that the enemy has shown his face,
do we have a fighting chance?
I've kept my part of the agreement.
The Master will keep his.
Behold.
What about Mom, Dad?
I don't know where she is, but I'll find her.
- No. - Mom!
It's not her anymore!
No! Mom!
The Master will use your wife's love. - Eph,don't.
For her son to pursue us to the ends of the earth.
Let him try.
Despite all evidence to the contrary,
you cling to the delusion that you will prevail?
The great game is over, Jew.
Not while I still breathe.
Abraham Setrakian, come and have your soup.
Abraham!
I'm not hungry.
Tell me one more story, Bubbeh.
It's late now, Abraham.
There's barely enough time for a tale.
Maybe while you finish your soup.
What story do you want to hear?
Sardu, Bubbeh will you tell me his story?
Sardu? Again?
Even if it is a scary one?
Very well, Abraham.
But I want a clean plate at the end of it all.
There once was a great nobleman named Jusef Sardu.
Since childhood, he suffered from gigantism.
His body was aged,
his bones were bent and riddled with aches,
so he was forced to walk with a cane.
His was a beautiful sword cane
with a white gold handle and a silver blade.
His disease made him aware of the frailty of life.
So, as a result,
he was very kind to others,
especially children.
However; Sardu is brother; the Baron,
was shamed by his sibling's affliction.
He organized a hunting trio with his brother and his cousins
because he believed the blood of the great gray wolf
could cure the disease afflicting Jusef.
Day after day
they walked in search of the great gray wolf.
But...
something other than a wolf was alive in the woods.
And it started hunting them.
One by one
the members of the hunting party left?
until Jusef found himself completely alone.
A certainty grew in his heart,
his brethren were dead,
and it was up to him to kill the beast
or die trying.
Finish your soup, Abraham, and I'll finish my tale.
When he finally encountered the creature,
it was not a wolf at all.
It was an ancient, hungry being.
And as it gazed at the giant's body,
it smiled.
Young hunter.
So, you think you're going to kill me
with that?
I can smell the silver on the blade.
Do you think you are faster
than me?
_
This body is frail, brittle.
My will, my soul,
I pass on to you.
As a blessing, I bestow them.
Sardu returned to his village weeks later
but was never again seen outside his castle walls.
Not in daylight, that is.
Some say he was much changed.
And soon young children began disappearing from the village,
vanishing from their beds at night.
And while no one ever saw Sardu again,
some said they heard his cane in the night.
Evil lurks in the world, Abraham.
In many forms.
Some familiar, some not.
You must stop it.
We all must.
In the name of all that is holy!
- Show yourself! - I'm right here.
Where is he?
I was wondering the same thing myself.
- Who are you? - My name is Vaun.
Never thought I'd be nostalgic for rats.
Yeah.
Well, vampire-proofing is a lot more labor intensive than rat-proofing.
- Where's Setrakian? - He left before I got up.
Where to?
He's not big on leaving notes.
Hey, you want to help me out with this?
He said sunlight would kill that thing.
We chased it into the sun. It got away.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Even vampire hunters.
Even doctors.
So you're still on board.
You're still ready to follow him down every dark tunnel in the city.
Yeah. But I got my own plan.
Which is?
I'm going to secure my place, then next door,
then the block and then the next block.
The ground game isn't for me.
So what are you going to do?
Well, seeing as how, as a vampire hunter, I'm total shit,
I'm going to go back to being a doctor.
At a press conference in the Rose Garden earlier today,
the president announced that he has ordered.
Nora?
Another 2,000 National Guard troops to deploy in Manhattan.
Nora?
To secure government buildings and crucial infrastructure.
You ready? Yeah.
This brings the total number of National Guard troops in the city to 10,000.
Zack is still asleep.
Dutch?
You could use some ventilation.
Yeah, and a latte with almond milk and a massage from the Four Seasons.
When Zack gets up, will you make sure he gets some breakfast?
- Where are you going? - Out.
Got it. Yeah, no problem.
I'll feed your kid and make sure this place is vampire-safe for you.
Is there a problem? I just said there wasn't a problem.
Sounds like there's a problem.
If there was a problem, I'd tell you there was a problem.
You're just so bloody presumptuous.
- Am I? - God, yes.
Please and thank you. Whatever and you're welcome.
Mein Master.
I'm removing the bag now.
Any sudden moves and I'll kill you.
Nod if you understand.
Wha-
I know this guy. Give me my cane.
No way, old man.
He owns a pawn shop in my neighborhood in Harlem.
He's not a threat.
You're the idiot brother
of the man-child who stole my clock.
I brought you your clock back.
Okay, shut up. Come on. Let's go.
That way.
You work for this filth?
You know what they say.
You gotta stay on top of the food chain, OG.
You and five strigoi.
Not very smart.
Silence. You will approach with all due respect.
They exist.
The Ancients.
They're sleeping now, but they can hear and understand everything.
I speak for them.
What do you know of the seventh one of their kind?
The- The seventh?
The one you call the Master, you injured him.
How do you know this?
The seven share a common mind.
But the seventh has the power to disrupt thought.
When you injured him, he lost control.
So they saw you fighting.
And now he has recovered enough to shield himself from you once again.
What do you want?
They want to make an alliance with you.
Sometimes great enemies become allies so they can fight a common foe.
Do they know how to kill him?
I think, for obvious reasons, they won't answer that question.
Then I don't see how they can help me.
No.
You're here to help them.
Over the millennia, they have gathered vast resources that could help you in your hunt.
A legend has passed down through the centuries
concerning a book,
an ancient tome of uncertain provenance
and some say divine inspiration.
The Occido Lumen.
And what do you know of this book?
I now have proof that it exists.
What are they saying?
They're trying to decide whether you should live.
I vowed to hunt the Master until the day I died.
If today is that day, then so be it.
All right.
Here's the bargain.
They'll let you live,
but you must guarantee that when you find the Master,
you will alert us.
Fair enough.
Oh.
They're waking now. Yeah.
We'd best leave.
They're gonna be hungry.
No. Please!
As you walk on in the daylight,
never forget this.
Hello?
Anybody there?
No looters.
Well, if a Walmart is a 10 on the attractiveness-to-looters scale,
then a pathology lab would be, like, a negative three.
Wonder what happened to Elliot.
He was smart enough to start a chain of 10 pathology labs.
Probably smart enough to get out of the city.
Smarter than us, anyway.
God bless the man.
Never skimped on anything.
It doesn't make any sense to haul all this back to Fet's.
- We should just set up shop here. - Yeah.
Thank you, El, wherever you are.
Jesus Christ.
Poor Elliot.
Herr Eichhorst.
Where is he?
He's near.
Always near.
I was under the clear impression that he was going to be here.
The Master will attend or will not attend according to.
Please. Spare me the “he will or he will not” spiel.
It's tiresome.
This is the most significant part of the next phase of operations.
Now, where is he?
I see a little of the Master's white in your veins has made you bold, Eldritch.
But as a friend,
I'm telling you being too bold may not be wise right now.
Eichhorst, honestly?
You're not my friend.
And I don't give a warm shit what you think.
Don't try and manage me.
I'm not one of your foot soldiers.
I am the Master's partner.
His partner?
Mmm.
Of course.
The Master will be very interested to hear that.
That's a burn.
Only silver could do that.
Did someone attack you?
Step away.
Who was it?
Setrakian and his merry band of vampire hunters?
The ones you deemed were not a threat, hmm?
Where is your faith, Eldritch?
If you only knew what was to come.
And what does that mean?
Mr. Palmer, sir.
I'm Coco Marchand. I work with Jack Parker.
I'm - I'm sorry I'm late. It was challenging to get here.
Where's Mr. Parker?
With all the craziness, he had a family emergency.
But I'm a licensed broker and I know from working with Mr. Parker
how important this deal is.
I jumped at the chance to work with you.
Anyway, I have all the paperwork right here.
Hello. I'm Coco Marchand.
Thomas Eichhorst. Very pleased.
Mr. Eichhorst is my business associate.
I had expressed my concern to Mr. Parker about the property's EPA status.
Yes, I managed to locate the EPA 3842 form on the property.
Zero issues.
Very well done.
The drains, they're all functional?
Can they carry a large amount of liquid waste?
Well, this was a soap and cleaning supply factory. I imagine so.
What if we were to significantly modify the property?
It's zone IR4, which means you can pretty much do anything you want here,
except build a baseball stadium and compete with the Yankees.
You a sports fan, Ms. Marchand?
I'm a Red Sox fan, yeah.
Really?
Where'd you grow UP?
In France. My mother's French, my father's American.
From Boston.
I've never been to a baseball game.
You're kidding me.
Health issues.
The distractions of my career.
No. Sadly, I've never gone.
Oh, you must go.
Baseball can make you feel like a little boy again - in the best possible way.
Can we finish our business?
Here. I brought you the purchase agreement.
Tell them - thank you - that in the middle of this medical holocaust,
they are the luckiest real estate sellers in the city.
Give them exactly 12 hours.
I'm not moving on the price.
Except down.
Yes, sir. I'll get you an answer.
No, Ms. Marchand. Get me the property.
We either interrupt the chain of infection here
by developing a vaccine,
or we pour our efforts into a cure here.
Or we find a way to get to the Bahamas.
I love the chart. It's awesome.
I don't want to get too meta about it, but I keep looking at it and I think,
this is a summary of our entire careers,
how everything we know is now useless.
Right. Let's start with the vaccine.
Problem number one,
this disease kills its host before it turns it.
That's kind of a big problem if you're trying to create a vaccine.
It's really a lot easier if you have a living person.
Problem two, also an issue, a vaccine helps create antibodies.
Antibodies travel via the bloodstream. So you need a bloodstream.
What if we find some mechanism
by which we can get the body to destroy or reject the worms?
Cases like Jim's, where they only get nicked, that's 10%, 20% of the total.
Everybody else is getting sucked dry like a juice box.
So we focus on a cure? Sure.
All we have to do is figure out how to create wholesale human organ regeneration.
These creatures generate new organs in a matter of hours.
Maybe we can start by figuring out how they do it.
Yeah. Maybe.
What? Say it.
I'm not going to be your scold.
I only quit drinking because of Kelly and the whole custody thing,
and I can't think of a single positive thing I ever got out of it.
Be honest. Even you like me better when I drink.
It's not PC, but it's the truth.
- Then you shouldn't feel the need to justify it. - I don't.
You're being presumptuous.
We spent the whole bloody day fortifying this place against vampires,
and now you want to set out after dark.
- Setrakian's still gone? - He doesn't know the neighborhood.
I can't wait for him any longer.
The man's a bloody sword,wielding Armenian Samurai.
I'm sure he's,
fine.
Thank you.
Where the hell were you all day?
Don't concern yourself with me.
Didn't you think that maybe, “Gee, I should check in,
Let them know that I'm not dead. Let 'em know I'm not a vampire.”
I'm not dead. I'm not a vampire.
Hey.
Professor.
Did you eat anything?
-I'm not hungry. - No. You gotta eat.
You gotta stay healthy and sharp.
I'm gonna get you something.
- And you're not even gonna growl at me? -l'm fine.
Where were you all day?
- On the trail of the Master. - And?
Nothing.
Mr. Fet, I need your help.
I have a storage locker.
In it are all my extra supplies.
I kept them separate for just this type of an emergency.
I need to retrieve them.
Yeah. Okay.
We leave first thing in the morning.
See, that's a good sign,
you giving me orders.
You hurt him, you know. The Master?
You wounded him.
You shouldn't feel like you failed.
“Newton's third law states
that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Write carefully.
Newton's third law states
that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Children, close your work and listen to me for one minute.
Given everything that's going on,
we have decided to relocate the institute to outside of the city.
Now, the National Guard is in the process of setting up checkpoints
at all of the bridges and all of the tunnels leading out of the city.
But thanks to our generous sponsors at the Stoneheart Foundation,
we've gotten a transit pass out of Manhattan.
So those of you whose parents we've managed to contact,
you will be picked up here at the school.
The rest of the group will travel with me on the bus
to our new location in New Jersey.
All right, everyone, empty your lockers and pack your bag.
We are leaving in two hours.
Jesus Christ, Zack! What are you doing?
I'm practicing.
You're mad?
Let's talk it out. Okay?
You can yell, you can scream, whatever.
But let's deal with this.
She's gone.
She's not gone.
She was right there.
You scared her away. You shot her!
She's turned. Do you understand how that works?
She's sick. You even said so.
Her heart,
her organs,
they're all gone.
There's nothing I can do to help her.
There's nothing anybody can do to help her.
She's something else now.
Bullshit.
You're a doctor. Right, Dad?
Then save her. Find a cure!
You know, drinking alone is like dancing alone.
To... survival?
To victory.
- What the hell is this? - I won't know, really, until it's finished.
How will you know when you're finished?
When I know what the hell it is.
That's a Zen riddle.
Too bad my job is so results-oriented.
You still have a job?
- Oh, yeah. Saving the human race. - Oh, right. I forgot.
Ah. “Presumptuous.
Failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.”
I really got under your skin with that remark, didn't I?
“Impertinent, bold, confident.”
Arrogant, egotistical... cheeky.
I forget, are we talking about you or me?
All right, so tell me.
Which is more fun, crashing the Internet or making this thing?
Art rarely goes viral,
but dark deeds seem to be contagious.
You're absolutely right. Thank you.
For what?
The drink.
Nutter.
Excuse me.
Are we at the quarantine zone?
I didn't hear us go over a bridge.
Or-Or through a tunnel.
Okay, everyone, grab your seatmates' hands.
We're going to get off the bus and gather just outside.
I have to go to the bathroom.
I'm sure we could all use a trip to the restroom.
And some food.
Ms. Singer?
I- I know, Meg.
You're the last, right? I think so.
Okay. Come on. I'll be your buddy.
Welcome, children.
Hello?
Who's there?
How wonderful that you have all arrived with your teacher.
Miss Singer, are all these children blind from birth?
Some of them are, yes.
But not all of them.
Uh, are we?
ls this the new school?
Your journey has indeed come to an end.
But your adventure is just beginning.
So finding a cure or making a vaccine is nearly impossible.
But what we can do is take everything we know about how to stop an epidemic
and use that knowledge to start one.
Infect the infected.
Find a weak link in the vampire biology
and cook something up to exploit it.
Infect the carriers, break the chain.
We need something we can distribute on a mass scale.
Something that vampires are vulnerable to,
but that non-turned humans can tolerate.
The elevated body temperature, stinger morphology.
Something to attack the simplistic brain stem.
The biological and chemical components, that's more your department.
If we can brew up something that will burn through these things fast,
but not too fast, with enough incubation time to spread the disease to other vampires.
Perhaps you two can be useful after all.
I'm glad you approve.
But first, I, uh
I must ask you to help me with something.
Fellow New Yorkers,
the federal government says it's doing all it can to help our great city.
But if you're like me, you have a hard time seeing much evidence of that.
This morning, I informed Mayor Lyle that I am making available to the city
an open line of credit to supplement the emergency budget,
effective immediately.
Thank you, sir.
Mr. Palmer and I have never been on the same side of any political issue,
but a true statesman sets aside political rhetoric
in a time of crisis.
Let me be perfectly clear.
This credit line is an investment in the future of this city
and the resilience of its brave citizens.
I'm calling upon everyone to be vigilant
and to look out for family, friends and neighbors in this time of crisis,
and show our country, and indeed the world, what New York is made of.
Thank you all for coming.
Excuse me, Mr. Palmer. Mr. Palmer.
Ms. Marchand.
Good news?
Your offer was accepted.
And I have to say, what you're doing for this city,
it's heroic.
No. “To whom much is given”
Oh, I don't believe anyone ever gave you anything, Mr. Palmer.
But you need a better tie. This one is boring.
- Boring? - Mm-hmm.
I have a hundred just like it.
Ms. Marchand, how would you like to work for me?
Pardon me? Not for Stoneheart. Directly for me.
Why, thank you, Mr. Palmer, but I don't think I can.
You feel a sense of loyalty to your current employer?
Well, the firm paid for all my training and licensing,
and I've only been with them for 18 months.
Yes, yes. That was very generous of them.
Here's what I want you to do.
Go back to your office and tell Mr.
Parker. Parker I offered to double,
no, triple your salary
and give you a position working directly with me.
I promise you, he won't be angry.
He'll be falling all over himself to retain you as a contact.
How does that sound?
Let me ask,
is there any doubt, any at all,
that the CDC's response to this epidemic has not been
- Hungry? - You went shopping?
- Sort of. - You stole it.
Which is the greater sin, stealing food or wasting it?
My stomach said wasting.
Ever had ramen noodles?
I lived off this stuff exclusively for three years.
Ramen and Red Bull.
Oh, here. I got you this.
It's warm.
We're in the middle of a vampire apocalypse. Everybody's making sacrifices.
Anything good on TV?
Just the same news. Over and over.
- This gonna keep them out? - You bet your ass it will.
Rise.
You are very lucky indeed.
Our lord is going to give you back
the power of your own thought.
Your own voice.
You have been chosen.
Zack.
Ah. There.
You talk.
It has begun.
Come.
This place is a maze.
Where is it? It's, uh, here.
You don't remember which unit?
Of course I do, by sight, not by number.
Here. This is the one.
Are you sure?
Or this one. It's one of these two.
- You have no keys? - Uh, he left them back at the pawn shop.
No harm.
Not exactly the weapons I was expecting.
Damn it, then it's the other one.
Okay, okay. Don't shoot.
The government's lying. They're doing nothing.
Our building? The people who live there
have either been turned into one of those creatures or they fled.
I'm going to check out the next corridor.
This seemed as safe a place as any.
So we stored ourselves.
- Do you have any family? - A son.
He's disabled.
He's well cared for.
We can find more silver. We can make new weapons.
Let's go.
Here. This is it.
What do you want so badly in there?
Yeah. This is definitely the one.
What's this?
Silver grenades.
Please handle them with care. I was not able to make them too stable.
Dangerous explosives- your favorite. You carry those.
- What's that? - Some notebooks.
Some research I need to review.
I, uh, made a mistake.
Won't happen again.
We found it. They're loading up the truck right now.
Why don't you come with us? No, thank you.
It's not safe.
Nowhere is, but there is safety in numbers.
Nora - MAN: We're fine here, okay?
Goddamn it.
I don't know, Fet. Are you done chasing the old man around?
Nora!
Go, go! Go!
Huh?
Go to the truck!
No. No!
Are you okay?
- Yeah, yeah. We're fine. It's just a scratch. I'm fine. - Show me.
No, wait, wait.
We need them.
We're all called upon to serve his glory.
But the Master has anointed you above the others.
This is a great honor
and an even greater responsibility.
All due to your connection with your dear one.
Zack. Yes, him.
Rejoice, Kelly,
for you have an important role to play
in the Master's great vision.
To that end, he has bestowed upon you the blessing of a new family.
They have unique abilities.
Sight and perception beyond the physical spectrum.
Behold the Feelers.
the children of the night.
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