NARRATOR: Previously on Van Helsing...
I'm gonna try to turn you.
DYLAN CRIES OUT IN PAIN
Mum?
Mum!
What's up with you? - Stay back!
OK.
Just take these.
Hey, are you gonna take your lashes like a man this time, Felix?
WHIP CRACKS
Who is that?
IN SINGSONG: ♪ I am Sam. ♪
RYAN: Shoot him! - GUNSHOTS
RYAN: Shit! In here! - CHLOE: No, it's a trap!
SAM: What is this? - FELIX: Punishment.
FELIX: Please don't...
I'll rip your nuts off, you pussy!
HE SCREAMS
FELIX SOBS
SKIN SIZZLES - Mum!
THEY SOB
SHE SCREAMS
MUSIC ECHOES: "You Always Hurt The One You Love" by The Mills Brothers
♪ You always hurt the one you love ♪
♪ The one you shouldn't hurt at all ♪
♪ You always take the sweetest rose ♪
♪ and crush it till the petals fall ♪
♪ You always hurt the one you love ♪
♪ The one you shouldn't hurt at all... ♪ - SAM SINGS
SAM: ♪ And crush it till the petals fall ♪
♪ We always break the kindest heart ♪
♪ With a hasty word you can't recall ♪
♪ So if I broke your heart last night ♪
♪ It's because ♪
♪ I love you most of all. ♪
VANESSA GRUNTS
VAMPIRE SNARLS
VANESSA GRUNTS
VAMPIRE SNARLS
VANESSA GASPS AND GRUNTS
SQUELCHING NOISES
Spit it out.
What?
Whatever it is you're too chicken shit to say.
VANESSA: Fine, but if you keep side-eyeing me
we're gonna have a problem.
You're out of control.
Is that a fact?
Yes, and you're gonna get us both killed.
We've killed more vampires this past week
than that pathetic resistance has since the rising began.
I fail to see the problem.
It's a rampage.
VANESSA: It's a cleanse.
Anyway, I've barely gotten a scratch.
What're you so worried about?
Against the ferals. - SHE SIGHS
You and I both know there are stronger, more powerful vampires out there
and they're gunning for you.
Good, let 'em.
I heal, remember?
Do you?
What's that supposed to mean?
You can't kill away the pain of Dylan's loss.
You don't know my pain.
I felt your pain.
When you screamed, I could literally feel it
coursing through my veins.
HE GROANS
HE SPITS
Feel better?
A little bit, yeah.
FELIX BREATHES RAGGEDLY
DISTORTED VOICES ECHO AROUND
SAM HISSES
HE PANTS
Cold?
Hmm?
FELIX GASPS AND PANTS
FELIX WHIMPERS
Warm, hmm?
Warm.
FELIX: What do you want?
I don't understand.
Touch?
Connect.
You want me to connect.
DISTANT YELLS
SAM GROWLS
DISTANT BANGS AND YELLS
SAM GROWLS
DISTANT BANGS AND YELLS
HE SNARLS
HE ROARS
HE PANTS AND WHIMPERS
Shhh.
OK. OK.
FELIX WHIMPERS
SAM WHEEZES AND LAUGHS
SAM SNARLS
I can't...
SAM CHOKES AND RASPS
HE WHEEZES AND LAUGHS
Gotcha!
SAM LAUGHS
Like this?
SAM: Friends.
HE WHEEZES AND LAUGHS
We're lost.
DOC: We're not lost.
DOC: We just don't know where we're going.
Same difference. - No, it's not.
I can't explain it. Something is telling me we need to go in this direction.
Oh, yeah, your "dreams".
Vanessa and all that shit... - HE GROANS
Axel! Axel, are you OK?
Get the bag.
Why don't you just feed off of-- HE SHOUTS: Get the bag!
Are you sure?
AXEL: I'll kill you if you don't.
HE PANTS AND GRUNTS
DOC SCREAMS
SHE GASPS
AXEL GRUNTS AND GROWLS
HE GROWLS
VANESSA: Bleeding stop?
JULIUS: Yeah, finally.
VANESSA: That's good, then.
JULIUS: Don't worry about it.
I was always a little bit of a bleeder.
But you...
you have one hell of a left.
VANESSA: Lucky it wasn't my right.
JULIUS: Yeah, I bet.
You hit harder than Max Bear.
Who?
What, are you kidding me? Max Bear.
Back in my day, before I turned, he was the heavyweight champion of the world.
Back in your day, huh? When was that?
'36.
1936. Jesus.
Yeah, but listen.
I fought him.
Slobber knocker back in '29, amateur fight before he turned
before he became Max Bear.
We were just... HE IMITATES BOXING SOUNDS
I mean, we were kicking the living shit out of each other.
Back before he hit the big time and our faces were like...
were like ground chuck.
Just... HE IMITATES BOXING SOUNDS
And the crowd. Oh, my... the crowd, they loved it.
And there we were, 15th round, we were so gassed
we could barely keep our hands up, we're just swinging at air.
But then I hear it.
Ten-second clang.
So I just charge in there
ready to give everything I got.
Ha...
Then what happened?
I got caught.
Right hook. Bink!
On the bud.
You know, if I had just played it safe for just 10 more seconds.
At least you went for it.
JULIUS: Yeah.
Yeah, but I was ahead on the scorecards by two points.
I see you doing the same thing, Vanessa.
You're ahead on the scorecard.
Don't get caught by that right.
It's a cool story.
Skinners. We need to move, now.
I don't run anymore.
DISTANT SNARLS
Those aren't ferals, trust me.
We need to move, now.
SOMETHING PINGS - THEY GROAN
VANESSA GASPS
VAMPIRES GRUNT AND GROWL
JULIUS: You dogs!
You ugly dogs!
Get over here!
Leave her alone!
VANESSA: Julius!
JULIUS: Leave her!
What're you gonna do, huh?
VANESSA YELLS
Julius!
VANESSA: Julius, wake up!
Wake up!
Julius!
THEY FEED NOISILY
Julius!
VAMPIRES GRUNT
VANESSA PANTS AND GROANS
SAM GROWLS
Hurry, get to the back!
SAM MOUTHS SILENTLY
Here, take him! Take him!
No, no, no, not me.
Not me! No! No!
CHLOE: Ryan! - Let me go!
Ryan! Ryan!
Don't you hurt him, you son of a bitch!
CHLOE SCREAMS: Ryan!
DOOR RATTLES - Ryan!
HE WHIMPERS: Please, please, stop.
HE SOBS: Please, I don't wanna die.
HE WHIMPERS
SAM: Ten.
RYAN SOBS: No, no, no...
No, please, no.
SAM: Arms.
SAM SHOUTS: Arms! - WHIP CRACKS
SAM, IN SINGSONG: ♪ Arms... ♪
WHIP CRACKS
RYAN SOBS - SAM: One.
SAM: Arms.
WHIP CRACKS - RYAN SOBS AND SCREAMS
SAM: Two.
RYAN SOBS
SAM: Arms.
WHIP CRACKS - RYAN WAILS
Please, no more.
HE SOBS Please. Please.
FELIX WHISPERS: Come on...
RYAN SOBS
Thank you.
HE SOBS: Thank you.
RYAN SOBS
SAM WHEEZES AND LAUGHS
RYAN SCREAMS: No! No! No!
No! Please!
RYAN SOBS - SAM HISSES
SAM GULPS
FELIX WHIMPERS
I wanna learn.
I don't believe you.
Teach me.
SAM: Good.
Good boy.
Mohamad.
My Mohamad.
SAM WHEEZES AND LAUGHS
JULIUS: Come on, do it!
Come on, come on!
Come on, you bastards!
JULIUS: That's it.
That's it. Come and take a piece.
VAMPIRE GROWLS
Do it.
- Leave him alone, you piece of shit!
VAMPIRE SNARLS
Do it.
Come on!
VANESSA: Julius!
Yeah, yeah, come on.
Come on.
VAMPIRE WRETCHES
VANESSA LAUGHS
VANESSA LAUGHS: You like that?
JULIUS: How's that?
That's cos of me.
His blood is useless because of me.
VAMPIRES SHRIEK - JULIUS: That's it.
JULIUS YELLS
VAMPIRE SNIFFS AND GROWLS
JULIUS: Take the bite, you bastard!
JULIUS: Do it!
JULIUS: Take a bite!
VANESSA SCREAMS
VAMPIRE SCREECHES
JULIUS: Do it!
SHE WHISPERS: Go. Get out of here.
VANESSA WHISPERS: Go on. Go.
What?
GIRL: Hello? - Run!
VAMPIRES SNARL AND GROWL
VAMPIRES SCREECH
VAMPIRES SNARL AND GROWL
VAMPIRES SCREECH
VAMPIRE WHINES
VAMPIRE SHRIEKS
SHE PANTS
You OK?
What?
She asked if you're OK.
Who are you?
We're the Johnsons.
The question is... who are you?
Woah, woah, woah, woah, hey.
Are you gonna be a friend
or do we have to bury you along with the rest of these monsters?
Alright then.
Friend it is.
VANESSA: They don't seem too bothered by the killing.
MIKE: My partner and I have trained them well.
We found that the best way to survive out here is taking the fight to the vampires
whenever they encroach upon our territory.
Catching them by surprise isn't that hard when you prey upon their weakness.
Young blood.
VANESSA: That's disgusting.
MIKE: That's survival.
The second we start sheltering our future from their reality
is the second we lose to those monsters.
Oh, hey!
Hold up.
I wouldn't move any further unless you wanna get an arrow in the eye.
BOY WHISTLES
MIKE: You're good.
Just watch your step there, big fella.
VANESSA: What is this place?
Home.
MAN CHUCKLES
You made it.
CHAD: Hey, how you doin'?
MIKE: Hey, Maria.
MIKE: Over there we have a small greenhouse with food.
We each take turns on the bike generator in order to keep the batteries charged.
CHAD: Some take less than others.
It's very impressive.
CHAD: What it lacks in beauty, we fill with love.
MIKE: You'll have to forgive Chad.
At times he can be a bit of a cheese ball. - CHAD CHUCKLES
How long have you guys been here?
MIKE: Oh, about... two years now.
CHAD: Yeah.
Defenses?
We fortified what we could.
At night, we sleep underground.
And during the day, all the kids have duties in order to keep us safe.
Child soldiers.
Got that part.
We made a decision a long time ago to stop running.
To live with love and not fear.
We teach these children how to survive
but we also teach them to be children and have fun.
You can't have both.
Vanessa. - VANESSA: What?
You take a child's innocence and it's gone forever.
MIKE: Maybe.
But you do the best you can.
Loss is a part of the way it is now
and you can't hide from that. - He's right.
When I lost my family, I didn't think I could go on.
CHAD: That's when I met Mike.
He gave me back the hope I had lost.
If you told me five years ago that I'd be in a relationship with a man
raising a litter of orphans in a forest
I would have told you to get your head checked.
CHAD: The heart knows no boundaries.
Now our goal is to take in any child we find
and to give them the future we all thought lost.
That's pretty great.
CHILD: You can't catch me! - Ow.
CHILDREN GIGGLE - Hey!
I'm gonna get you, you rascals!
What's your story?
I kill vampires before they kill me.
What else is there to know?
What's that?
It's nothing.
Shouldn't you be playing with your friends or something?
Nah, I don't like the games they play here.
Well, what do you like?
Chess.
I'm working on a board.
I have a piece.
Here.
Me and my mom used to play it.
Before...
you know.
Yeah.
That must be tough.
And it is...
but I think my parents would want me to keep going.
So I do.
MIKE: Time for dinner!
CHILDREN: Yes!
BOY: See ya.
Oh, hey. Here. - Oh.
What happened here?
I'm not supposed to talk about it.
FLIES BUZZ
FLOOR CREAKS
FELIX WHIMPERS
FELIX PANTS
KID: Felix?
CHLOE: What're you doing here, traitor?
FELIX: Quiet! We're getting out of here.
SAM, IN SINGSONG: ♪ Mohamad? ♪
SAM, IN DISTANT SINGSONG: ♪ Mohamad? ♪
FELIX PANTS - Hurry, Felix, get us out!
SAM, IN SINGSONG: ♪ Ready or not, here I come. ♪
SAM: Mohamad!
FELIX: Shit!
DISTANT LAUGHTER
I can't.
Don't you leave us, Felix.
You can't leave us, Felix!
Felix!
You coward!
SAM, IN DISTANT SINGSONG: ♪ Mohamad! ♪
SAM SNARLS IN THE DISTANCE
IN SINGSONG: ♪ Naughty, naughty. ♪
SAM WHISTLES
FELIX PANTS
SAM WHISTLES
FELIX GASPS
SKIN SIZZLES - SAM HISSES
SAM SNARLS
SAM, IN SINGSONG: ♪ Where is Mohamad? ♪
Where is Mohamad?
I can't see Mohamad.
Oh, there he is!
SAM WHISPERS: Run, run, run...
IN SINGSONG: ♪ Run, run, Mohamad. ♪
♪ Run, run, run, Mohamad. ♪
♪ Mohamad. ♪
IN SINGSONG: ♪ Mohamad, Mohamad. ♪
SAM WHISPERS: Where's Mohamad?
Are you there?
Or are you... there?
I don't think that he's behind me.
No...
SAM SNARLS
SAM, IN SINGSONG: ♪ Caught me. ♪
SAM: Caught me!
IN SINGSONG: ♪ You caught me. ♪
♪ You caught me... ♪
DOOR RATTLES
Come on, let's go. - KIDS MURMUR
Where is that freak? - I locked him in the basketball court.
Come on! I don't know how long it'll last! Let's go!
FELIX: What?
What? Let's--
HE SCREAMS: No!
FELIX WHIMPERS
Please, come join us.
MIKE: We're just about to get to the best part.
This seat taken?
Go ahead.
DRAMATIC VOICE: Grendel, lurking outside the mead hall
was watching
waiting
for all the guards to fall asleep because he knew
that if he could catch the guards unprepared
that no one and nothing
would ever be able to stop him.
So he waited there for all to go silent.
LOUDLY: He stormed the mead hall!
Thrashing! Slashing!
Killing all the guards in his path!
Popping their heads off like dandelions!
But what Grendel didn't know was that there was another guard in the dark
a guard pretending to be asleep.
HE SNORES
CROWD LAUGHS
He was the only one ready to take on Grendel.
This guard's name was Beowulf.
Beowulf saw the opportunity
went in for the attack.
Grendel feeling something on his back!
Grendel throwing Beowulf down to the ground!
Beowulf getting up.
War-har-har!
Grendel...
HE SNARLS
The two back and forth, titans clashing
fighting each other for territory
until finally, Beowulf grabbing the advantage
putting his hands on Grendel's neck
beginning to choke the breath out of this ghastly beast
with his bare hands, with his cunning
saving the entire tribe.
More importantly, saving the whole kingdom!
I am Beowulf!
CROWD CHEERS
True story.
It's... yeah, it's a little more complicated than that.
Beowulf has to travel down to where Grendel...
underground...
Forget it.
Now...
which one of you can tell me the moral of that story?
Ethan?
It's important for us all to be courageous, brave and prepared when we fight evil.
That's exactly right.
When any one of us is on guard duty
we must approach it with courageousness
but we must also be prepared.
All of our lives depend on it.
Do we understand?
ALL: Yes!
Do we understand?!
ALL: Yeah!
Who's next?
JULIUS: Huh. You know, I never thought a place like this could exist.
You're not buying this place, are you?
Come on, Vanessa. Look around.
What's not to believe?
There's this kid, Troy, OK?
And he has these marks on his arms.
And cuts.
Uh, Vanessa?
Can we have a chat?
Your house, your rules.
Alright, well, I'm gonna hit the hay.
Um...
look, I don't know another way to approach this besides being direct.
What's your deal?
Excuse me?
You've had a dark cloud over your head since you got here.
Now, that kind of negative energy can be contagious.
Especially around children.
I know what you did to Troy.
What're you talking about?
The scars on his arms?
The ones you told him to keep secret?
HE SIGHS
Troy had those scars on his arm when he got here.
Mm.
After he lost his parents, he fell in with a very abusive group.
It's one of the reasons we took him in. - So you didn't do it to him?
Of course not!
We asked all the kids to try to leave the past in the past.
To focus on the positive future ahead.
Come with us tomorrow.
We're doing a supply swap with Troy's former group.
See for yourself.
All those kids sport wounds.
DISTANT WHIMPERS - RAZOR SCRAPES
SAM: Be still.
RAZOR SCRAPES
SAM: Ah, finished.
SAM: My Mohamad.
No.
My Mohamad.
I'm Felix.
I'm Felix, you psycho.
Goddammit, I'm Felix!
MUFFLED: I'm Felix...
MUFFLED SCREAMS
HE WHIMPERS
FELIX WHIMPERS
SAM: Shhh.
FELIX WHIMPERS - It's OK.
My Mohamad.
SAM: Shhh. Don't cry, no.
My Mohamad.
CHILDREN LAUGH
CHILDREN GIGGLE AND MURMUR
SHE GASPS
CHILDREN LAUGH
CHILDREN GIGGLE AND CHATTER
Alright, on the pile.
There you go.
JULIUS: Another nightmare?
This one was different.
This...
Chad wanted me to tell you that they're leaving for the trade meeting.
Still wanna go? - Yeah.
Yeah, I'll be right there.
MIKE SHOUTS: Heyo, heyo!
What's going on?
They're late.
So we wait?
They're never late.
Something's wrong.
Then we should go find them.
We can't.
We have an agreement.
They don't cross the bridge without an invitation
and neither do we.
Good thing I wasn't a part of that agreement.
Vanessa, stop.
MIKE: Hold-- wait!
MIKE: Vanessa, stop.
MIKE: You shouldn't do this.
Is she always like this?
JULIUS: Yeah, pretty much.
MIKE: This doesn't make sense.
MIKE: The guards should be here.
Their main meeting hall is right there.
Good.
Hey, woah, woah, woah, wait.
This place could be overrun with those things.
Like you said, Mike.
Take the fight to them before they take it to you.
Not much of a planner, huh?
She's a Van Helsing. That's her plan.
JULIUS: Wait here.
MIKE: OK.
THEY WRETCH AND COUGH
VANESSA: What happened here?
JULIUS: Oh, my God.
This wasn't ferals.
JULIUS COUGHS
VANESSA: Oh, my God.
No...
I know who did this.
Who?
Get Mike.
Find any survivors and get out of here, it's too late--
What about you? - Don't worry about me.
This is something I should have ended when I had the chance.
JULIUS COUGHS
SAM SINGS INDISTINCTLY
♪ You always break the kindest heart ♪
♪ With a hasty word you can't recall ♪
♪ So if I broke your heart last night ♪
♪ It's because I love you most of all. ♪
SAM HISSES Hello, Vanessa.
What a nice surprise.