The Strain

- (narrator): Previously on the strain...

- (creem): What the hell? What is it, man?

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

- (gus): Where you taking me? Get your hands off me!

- He's nesting somewhere in the city.

We can find him if we work together.

- Have you come here to destroy me?

- We've got him on the run. We must press on!

Thank you!

- Sir? - Come along, mr. Fitzwilliam.

I want all this boxed up

And brought back to my office. - Right away, sir.

That can stay.

Take special care of this valuable item.

Certainly, sir.

Silver. How quaint!

Eldritch. Look at you!

How are you feeling?

- I expected it to be traumatic,

To say the least. But I feel wonderful!

- Huh! - Strong, energized,

No pain...

When does my, uh...

- Oh... Did you think you had been turned?

The master gave you

The white, yes, but not the worm.

He gave me health

But not immortality?

Ugh...

- He visited you in your hour of need.

He spared you the way of almost all flesh.

- How long will this last? - I don't know.

- But not forever. - Oh, no.

- You're turning people right and left all across this town,

Yet I'm on some... Some sort of

Waiting list?

True, they are being turned,

But being turned the way you seek, well...

That is a far different thing.

- I've done too much, come too far

To be treated this way. - He chose you, eldritch!

He anointed you.

You will serve at his right hand for eternity.

Eventually.

"eventually"? When?

- Think of this as another test

For your everlasting devotion.

(kelly): Thanks, buddy.

- Oh, my god, this is so cool!

Thanks, mom! - It's from dad, too, okay?

Let's bring it on the street, let's bring this down...

Oh, and I want to take some video to send to your dad

While he's at his conference in atlanta.

- I'll go around the corner and circle back.

- Perfect. Watch out... - for a car.

For cars, you got it.

Hey, dad, we miss you!

Thanks, mom, I love my bike.

I love you too, honey.

- (eph): So why did we see all those vampires in one spot?

- (abraham) safety. Without the coffin,

The master needs to be protected during daylight hours.

- So those 500 or 1,000 down there...

- They were his security. The master will be nesting nearby.

- So, whatever's aboveground here,

It's important to him. It's gotta be dark or protected...

Most likely both.

Did you just agree with me?

In this instance, yes.

you two are falling in love.

It's a beautiful thing, huh? My vote:

Reconnaissance. Now, doc and I, we go down

To vestry and washington and see what's there, yeah?

And we should move.

We wanna burn as little daylight as possible.

Excellent idea.

- I heard you guys talking. What's going on?

- Uh, we're just discussing our plans.

- Are you going to try to attack him again?

We most certainly are.

We're just, uh... Fet and I

Are going down to tribeca to check some things out.

- What about me? - You? Uh, get dressed!

We'll be back before you know it.

When can we go home?

Zach, we can't go back.

I'd appreciate it if you let me decide

What I want to tell my own son.

- Sheltering him will ultimately only make things worse.

He needs to know the truth. The whole truth.

Including what happened to his mother.

- That's not your decision to make. Keep your mouth shut.

- Shortest honeymoon on record, huh?

Come on, doc. We're burning daylight.

(gus): Who's there? Huh?

You must be real scared to have me tied up like this.

You scared to look a mexican in his eye, you coward? Huh?

That's more like it.

What is this shithole?

What the hell are you?

You planning on eating mexican tonight?

You gonna choke, I promise you that shit.

- I did not bring you all the way down here

To drink you.

- Down here where, huh? - Deep underground.

Somewhere safe.

Safe from what?

What are you gonna do with that, huh?

You be patient.

- So what do you wanna do, huh?

Wanna just talk, have a conversation?

bad idea.

- Damn it! - Come with me.

- This is the heart of one who has been turned.

I thought it would make a nicely ironic addition

To my collection of my own failed organs.

- If you say so, sir. - Apparently,

Dr. Goodweather made an unauthorized broadcast

Last night, using the emergency alert system.

Why was I not made aware of this?

- You were dying, sir. It didn't seem important.

- Well, it was important enough that

The secretary of health and human services, maggie pierson,

Is talking about quarantining all of manhattan.

I need to have a serious chat with her.

Bring the car around. Contact eichhorst.

No, sir.

- Excuse me? - Won't do it.

Not anymore.

When people called you cruel

And selfish, I defended you.

I said they didn't know you as I know you.

Then eichhorst showed up and his ilk,

And I told myself it was them,

Manipulating you, warping your judgment.

I was wrong.

- You've been by my side the entire time.

- Yes, I am complicit, because I served you loyally.

- This is the part where the whore declares herself a virgin.

- You made a devil's bargain. You pulled me into it with you.

Your sudden resurrection

Is an affront to nature and to god.

- What a load of horse shit! You self-righteous

Son of a bitch! How dare you defy me!

- Part of me thinks I should kill you right now,

Restore the natural order of things.

But I can't.

Not after all you did for me.

Consider my debt to you paid in full.

Never come after me.

You fool!

Deserting me when we're on the verge of triumph!

Where will you go?

What will you do without me to protect you?

The question is, sir,

What will you do without me to protect you?

That goth douche bag.

- Uh, share the wealth, doc? - Bolivar? The one who

Attacked nora's mother? He was one of the four survivors

On the plane. He said he was buying a theater in tribeca.

He's living there. - He bought the vestry, huh?

Oh, this place goes all the way back to vaudeville,

You know? And since then, it's been a silent movie theater,

Yiddish stage, speakeasy, uh, burlesque house...

This boulevard is one of the master's favorite vamps.

- Then there's a high probability the master's inside.

- Probability's not gonna cut it, doc.

We need to know for sure, you know?

What?

- You know how I said that theater used to be a speakeasy?

- Yeah, and... - Yeah.

In the '20s, this place was called hawk's tavern.

It was run by a gambler named diamond jim o'brien

Who also owned the vestry hall across the way.

But diamond jim, he was a legend

During the manhattan bootleg wars

Because his place had been raided so many times

But never found any booze. You know why?

- I don't need to, you're going to tell me.

- They never found any booze because

He built a secret tunnel,

A tunnel that he connected to the sewer tunnel

That connected to the theater, huh?

That's how they ran the booze back and forth.

No vampires. That's a good sign.

He used to have, uh, secret latches to unlock the door.

Not bad.

- Alcoholic's sixth sense for booze.

Huh.

- What are you doing? We're not going in there without backup.

- I'm your backup. We got weapons.

- We have 30 bullets between us. We don't know what's on

The other side of that door. - It's just recon, doc,

You know? A little sneak and peek. Come on.

There it is.

The old sewer tunnel.

Whoa.

Look, smell and listen, huh?

Look over this way.