The Strain

- Previously on The Strain... - Professor!

How touching.

Perhaps you hoped to hear about your son.

- Zack's alive? - Yes. He is an apt student.

This is the Master's Final Solution.

We're not the farmers; we're the livestock.

- You're certain we'll be able to get a plane? - Certain-ish. You keep

staring at me like that, I ain't coming to New York.

- She's all yours. - You wanna come?

To New York? Hell, no.

Scheisse!

Roman, you're one lean, mean flying machine, man.

All we gotta do now is find a truck,

load this, uh, firecracker into Manhattan.

That just went down the priority list.

Oh, OK.

You guys already got 'em all.

Oh, I had to shut down the systems.

Well, here's our truck.

I can't wait to see the Professor's face when we bring him our present.

Whoa!

Feliz Navidad.

Yes, we're here.

And now we're coming for you.

You have them?

Not yet, my Lord.

We are searching every road between here and the airport.

I will find them.

Like you found Goodweather? And Velders?

And the pawnbroker?

He was in my grasp.

Where is the Born?

Where is the rat catcher?

I apologize... my Master.

I have no use for your apology!

You have lost faith in me...

Master.

I do not deserve your mercy, nor will I ask for it.

I only ask that you take my life.

Is that your desire, Thomas?

Yes, my Lord.

Well, then.

This is a proud day...

for Abraham Setrakian.

This is Standartenfuhrer Thomas Eichhorst, defeated by a Jew.

My most trusted acolyte, an officer of the Reich, bested by a pawnbroker.

You will go down in the history of our species

as an abject defeatist

who lost his stomach for the fight!

Is that what you really desire, Thomas?

To hand victory to Setrakian?

- No! - Then find him!

Find the Born and the others.

Above all, do not

let that warhead cross the river!

You have my word.

Right where you left it.

The hat. The cane. You're almost back to your old self.

Very old self.

There's an age, Miss Velders,

where you meet an enemy you cannot run from.

Time. When you reach it,

you experience your body's betrayal from within.

Now, the Lumen.

Down here, come on!

It's up here.

Maybe you should stay down here. Keep a lookout.

I'll be back in two shakes.

Ah!

Ah... ah...

Ah!

Professor? Professor?

Is it safe?

It hasn't been touched. Are you all right?

We'd best be sure.

I'm worried about you, are you OK?

I'm fine! Open the case!

You did well.

We should... find somewhere new to hold up.

Do you really think the Master has Zack?

I don't know. Maybe he's using Zack as bait. It doesn't change

our plan. No? If it were my son-

- Well, luckily, you don't need to make that decision.

That was a dick move even for you.

I didn't mean it that way. Look, I...

I'm just doing the only thing I know to do.

If we can find Setrakian, if we can kill the Master,

then all of this ends:

the depravation, the feed lots, the blood harvesting, all of it.

And this Setrakian will have a plan?

Setrakian always has a plan.

Whether it'll work is another question.

Well, I hope you like maple...

What the hell are you doing?

Professor...

I saw this in a dream.

The ouroboros. The Egyptians

thought it represented the never-ending

cycle of creation and destruction, birth and death.

Eternity!

Right.

But why...

But why are you ripping out the pages after all we went through?

I have to see the parts and their sum all at once.

There are... there are patterns here. Connections.

I... things I...

I've overlooked.

I... I thought you had this figured out.

The "Face of God," the... the nuclear explosion.

I was wrong.

Slightly.

I missed the significance of these images.

- All right. OK, hold on, hold on. - I can't hold on!

There's too much to do! Just take a minute.

I... I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME!

Professor? You OK?

Professor? Professor!

Professor! Professor?!

You see we did our third induction this week.

Another two probably by the end of the month.

That suggestion you had

about harvesting early. It... it's really paying off.

That is because you made it pay off, Mr. Desai.

I'm very impressed by the turnaround.

Well, coming from you, sir, that...

that means a lot. In fact, you have done

so well, I have decided to promote you.

Please. Really?

Whatever you need me to do.

There is a group at large here in New York.

It's of the utmost importance they be apprehended

as soon as possible. You are familiar

with two of them, Abraham Setrakian and Dutch Velders.

It would give me great pleasure to bring them to justice.

These other two, Ephraim Goodweather

and Vasiliy Fet, are working with them.

There is also a half-strigoi,

half-human, who goes by the name of Quinlan.

Huh. Why are they so important?

They intend to smuggle a nuclear bomb into Manhattan.

Come on, Professor.

Please don't do this.

Stop right there!

- Dutch? - Eph?

Oh, thank God!

Thank God.

His heartbeat's changing rapidly.

I think he's in AFib.

What does that mean?

He's had a heart attack?

Or maybe a stroke.

- Jesus. - Or hopefully he's

just dehydrated. How'd he get so run down?

We were captured. He was put in a Partnership research facility.

What kind of research?

- All I know is that they're running experiments. - Experiments?

He's B-positive. They were doing studies,

pumping him full of drugs.

Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, start from the beginning.

I told you, we were caught. We were separated.

- For how long? - I don't know.

Three months, maybe. You didn't see him

for three months!? I don't understand your tone here. Are you blaming me?

- I'm not blaming you! - Because at least I was here!

It was just me and him! We made it on our own

for months off the grid! And, by the way,

I was locked up, too, if that's of any concern.

And when I was, he was all I thought about.

And meanwhile, what were you doing in Philadelphia?

Look, I don't think that this

is getting us anywhere. The question is,

what do we do now? We need to get him hydrated.

And we should probably get him

some blood thinners. God knows where we'll find that.

Well, I know a place. But I don't want

to leave him alone. I'll stay.

We gotta check this place out. It's an old marine warehouse

in Sheepshead Bay.

Jorge says it's gotta be 10,000 square feet.

The Partnership's growing strawberries, tomatoes, spinach,

all kinds of shit there. What do you think, Gus?

I think we should hit it tonight. It's the best deal.

Hold on.

Didn't we learn anything from the way we took this place?

Gus.

This woman claims to be a friend of yours.

Duchess!

You're alive. I was worried.

It's been a while.

How's, uh... how's the pawnbroker?

Not so good.

- Anything I can do to help? - We hope so.

- Eph's a doctor. - We need some medical supplies.

Yeah, step into my pharmacy.