VANESSA: Previously on Van Helsing...
Come back!
I promised Axel I would protect you.
- GUARD: Jolene Walker? - Yes?
You're under arrest.
I found her. I found Jennifer.
They transferred her to some place called, uh... Loveland.
Loveland's a prison colony.
Unless you perform some heinous crime, you won't be seeing her anytime soon.
- GUNSHOT - Where are all the prisoners?
Well, they're on the bus heading to Loveland. The bus is leaving right now.
DOC: Jolene!
Meet me at that place we talked about.
- Polly? - That's my old name.
You're my brother.
Nothing will ever change that, right?
SCARLETT: Today's the day.
Today is the day!
Twenty-three days on this goddamn island.
I'm getting off, I can feel it.
What?
You know what? If you're gonna criticise me, I really don't wanna hear it, alright?
You are not a positive person.
You know, the book and my brains
you can will anything into being, you know that?
You could learn a little bit from me.
God, you're so judgmental. You know what?
I thought we could have a nicer goodbye than this.
I was really hoping for it.
We had really good times together, Wilson.
SHE LAUGHS Psyche!
SHE LAUGHS
See ya, Wilson, you sucker!
Shut your mouth!
SHE SIGHS
There's gotta be a way off this goddamn island.
Yeah, I did that.
And I did that.
Man, I've done all of it.
Useless book!
You gotta be fucking kidding me.
ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
♪ Saw you standing there ♪
♪ You were looking so nice... ♪
♪ That cherry lipstick makes you look so... ♪
DISTANT MUSIC PLAYS
Axel?
ROCK MUSIC BLARES
Axel!
Hey! Axel!
ROCK MUSIC BLARES - Hey!
Hey! Axel!
Hey!
You said make it here and you would wait as long as it took
and you're driving off right now?
- Hey, no, no, no. - No, that's not what you were doing?
No, never.
Just road-testing it.
Hey.
SCARLETT GROANS - You look good.
- So do you. - You doing alright?
- Yeah, I'm good. - No fresh holes in you?
- Not yet. - No?
- You still got my dog tags. - Yeah, of course I do.
You wore them through two tours of duty and the apocalypse.
You think I was gonna lose 'em?
- Dude, I got these in a gumball machine. - Shut up.
Come on.
What's going on with you?
Hey.
You know that saying, "You can't ever go home again"?
It just turned out to be true.
OK.
I don't know what that means.
- You wanna get outta here? - Yeah, I do.
Alright.
Where's your sister?
SCARLETT: Ugh.
That's... ugh.
ENGINE STARTS
FLESH: Rumour is it's in a place called Loveland.
JOLENE: Let me guess.
- No beach resort. - Nope.
People go in but no one comes out.
GUARD: Hey! You two!
No talking.
A death sentence.
That's what this is.
A one-way ticket to hell.
I shouldn't be here. I didn't do anything.
I just handed out leaflets about shots causing rage.
Shut your mouth!
PRISONER: Don't.
They're gonna kill me.
I'm gonna get them first.
All of them.
Excuse me? Help.
I need to change seats.
- What did I tell you? - PRISONER GROANS
- Woah, woah, woah! - WOMAN YELLS
PRISONERS CLAMOUR
GUNFIRE
Put the gun down! Put the gun down!
GUNFIRE
TYRES SCREECH
GUNFIRE
BUS CRASHES
BIRDS CAW - STEAM HISSES
FLESH: Go, go, go, go, go!
AXEL: Almost out of gas.
Might be able to scrounge some up here if we're lucky.
SCARLETT: Hope you brought a rabbit's foot.
This place looks like it's been running on empty for a long time.
You wanna walk to Renfield House?
You sure you wanna go back there?
We could always make a run for it.
Find a safe spot, make some little baby ninjas.
I've gotta be there for Vanessa whether she wants me to or not.
Fair enough.
I go where you go.
OK, try it again.
ENGINE SPLUTTERS
SCARLETT: Told you. - Goddammit.
The fuel's good, it's just gotta be the pump relay again.
Just... hand me that tool box?
FAINT TAPPING
- Scarlett? - Yeah?
TAPPING CONTINUES
Do you hear that?
TAPPING CONTINUES
Well, that's a little weird.
TAPPING CONTINUES
What is that?
TAPPING CONTINUES
Is it Morse code?
Sounds like SOS.
RHYTHMIC TAPPING
RHYTHMIC TAPPING GETS LOUDER
VAMPIRES SNARL
Son of a bitch.
GUNSHOTS
SCARLETT GRUNTS
GUNSHOTS
VAMPIRE SNARLS
GUNSHOT - AXEL SCREAMS
- Axel! - HE GRUNTS
- Hey! Hey! - AXEL WHIMPERS
Hey, it's... it's me.
Axel.
Hey.
I can't see.
Oh, dammit. I can't see. I can't see.
Shit.
AXEL: Shit. Such a stupid mistake.
AXEL WINCES - SCARLETT: You couldn't have known.
AXEL: I shoulda seen there was something jammed in the barrel.
SCARLETT: Hey, don't worry, we're gonna get you some help.
Come on, just trust me. Follow me.
HE GRUNTS
AXEL: How're you gonna find help?
SCARLETT: Have a little faith, would ya?
I told you, I saw that guy. He's gotta be around here somewhere.
AXEL: What guy? - SCARLETT: The one, I told you.
Oh, my God.
Hey!
A little help here!
MAN: Goodness, what have you done to your face?
AXEL: Oh, accident at the tanning salon.
- AXEL GRUNTS - Let's put him down on the cot over here.
Just throw that stuff off.
SCARLETT: OK.
MAN: You're good. You're coming forward.
Turn around now.
Here we go.
OK, and sit.
- Take off his jacket. - SCARLETT: OK.
It was some old shotgun, blew up on him.
MAN: Never did like those things, they are so dangerous.
Oh, come on... I love guns.
Only thing you can count on in this world.
- MAN LAUGHS - Yeah, well...
looking at you right now, I would beg to differ.
Here, lift your head up.
There we go.
AXEL GROANS
OK, there's a... first aid kit in the truck.
Grab that for me, please.
What's your name, son?
It's, uh... Axel.
MAN: Well, happy to make your acquaintance, Axel.
AXEL WINCES - No, no, no...
MAN: Simon.
AXEL: Hey, Simon. - Got yourself in quite a pickle, didn't ya?
What did you just say?
Just be still now. I need to take a closer look.
There's a saline solution there, grab that for me.
OK, now you need to try to keep your eyes open.
- OK. - SIMON: I can rinse out the residue.
- It's likely gonna hurt. - AXEL GRUNTS
- Sure this is a good idea? - OK.
Just trust me. Here we go.
- Ah! - AXEL YELLS
AXEL: Son of a bitch!
That's right, ah, good. Good, good, good.
Here you go.
OK.
HE YELLS
Come on! You can do it! You can do it!
I can't do it! I need something better than this.
I need pliers or a saw or...
We don't have anything else!
Just give it a... just try again.
Just try again.
Argh!
Fuck!
You're stuck with me.
- It's getting dark. What do you wanna do? - We hold up here.
We lost them crossing that river.
You're sure?
No, but pessimism wasn't working for me so I thought I'd try the opposite.
HE SIGHS
OK, it's my turn.
I don't think we're gonna be able to escape these guys.
This is gonna sound crazy, but I was the only person
on that bus that didn't want to escape.
It's, um...
HE SIGHS
It's my wife, Jennifer. I...
I think she's alive. I think she might be in that place.
You wanted to bust her out?
No, just...
talk to her, if she'd see me.
Tell her...
I don't know.
I can't go with you.
I know that, but you can't go back either.
I gotta try.
I gotta find Sarah.
HE SIGHS Well...
I guess we're at an impasse.
You love her.
Yeah.
I do.
And her?
JOLENE: It's...
well, she's, um...
sh... complicated.
FLESH: Always is. There's no such thing as pure love.
JOLENE: That optimism didn't last long.
FLESH: Jennifer and I, we, um...
we got pregnant after we'd been together for three weeks.
So fucking stupid, right? But, uh...
We were, so, uh...
we got married, I mean, sometimes you just fall into things.
But it all worked out, right?
Oh yeah, it all worked out, right until I murdered our kids.
It all worked out right until then.
I thought I could kill myself. I thought I could clean the slate
or balance the scales but...
you have to deal with the consequences.
I have to face them. I...
have to face her.
There's something I told Sarah once.
You want forgiveness
you gotta forgive yourself first.
You think you could do that?
SIMON: You should come eat your fish. It's getting cold.
Is he gonna be OK?
That's not up to us.
It's pretty bad burns.
It's in His hands now.
Really?
Just all up to the big man in the sky?
SIMON CHUCKLES
SIMON: You don't believe.
SCARLETT: Well...
my parents taught me a lot of things but that was not one of them.
I mean, take a look around.
You know, this place is overrun by vampires.
Not exactly a solid argument for divinity.
SIMON: Isn't it?
Scriptures of the world are filled
- with stories of... - Whoa, seriously?
SIMON: Oh, sure. Sins of man, the consequences of that.
Wouldn't be the first time God gave himself a do-over.
So what, this is just all punishment?
For not being faithful?
Do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord
for the Lord disciplines the ones that he loves.
HE SIGHS
Mmm.
Pretty good. Yeah.
Yeah.
Teach a man to fish, right?
Oh, amongst other things.
What were you doing out there?
I mean, you just walked right by us when we were fighting all those Daywalkers
like you didn't have a care in the world.
I don't.
You don't even have weapons around here.
I'm a pacifist.
SHE SCOFFS What?
SHE LAUGHS - What?
Come on, how are you even alive?
- Faith? - Why is that so hard to grasp?
Because I've seen people ripped apart.
I've seen those things feeding on my friends
and turning them and it didn't matter - Yeah.
what they believed or not.
No higher power saved them.
So, either you're delusional or...
I don't even know what.
I used to be a lot like you.
Angry, afraid, and...
trying to protect myself from everything and everyone.
It's called survival.
Mmm.
Let me tell you a little about survival.
Years before the rising, I lived different. I was a...
long-haul trucker.
On the road sometimes 14 hours straight, ten days in a row.
Drugs were the only thing that kept me going.
I paid the price.
Wife left, took my kids...
nothing left I cared about.
Considered ending it all right there.
Why didn't you?
Well... Ahem. I was on a...
stretch of blacktop outside of Fort Worth. Clearest day you can imagine.
Out of nowhere, a twister just dropped right down
in the field next to me, bam.
I knew I couldn't stay in my rig.
There was no buildings around, no place to hide, just...
except a lone phone booth set out in an empty parking lot.
So I ran.
Crawled in there on my hands and knees and...
right then, with the wind ripping all around, and the...
sky going dark as coal, it happened.
I closed my eyes and I prayed.
"Please just give me one more chance to be better.
To live right, to...
make amends.
Please God, just let me have that."
And then everything went quiet.
The storm disappeared like it never even happened.
I crawled out of there.
My whole truck was gone, everything was wiped clean.
And then I knew.
There's...
nothing really divine about that story.
HE CHUCKLES - It was just luck.
Plain and simple, and you can't even really...
will that into being.
You know? You just...
can't.
Well then, you just keep right on hoping for Axel to get better and...
I'm gonna pray on it a little while, if it's all the same to you.
OK.
HE MOUTHS SILENTLY
- I'd say you're a sight for sore eyes, but... - SHE LAUGHS
Shut up, marine.
Now, you just focus on getting better.
Hey.
I think he's got a fever.
SIMON: Well, hopefully. - What does that mean?
Well, I am worried he's got an infection.
OK, but you can treat that, right?
Not without antibiotics, no.
I don't-I don't think you understand. I need him to get better.
It's not up to me.
OK, can you stop with that shit?
This is not a spiritual thing right now.
He needs medicine.
HE SIGHS
Well, there...
might be a place where we might be able to find it, but it's...
I don't-I don't care. We just gotta go there.
- Well, you should stay here with him. - And risk you not coming back? No way.
I don't need your protection.
I'm not asking you.
The faster we do this, the better chance he has
so let's go. Please.
Come on. What do I... what do I gotta do?
Here, do I need to say that I believe that you're God's Chosen One
before you get on board?
You-you-you think I use my faith as a weapon?
I have no idea.
It's the greatest shield you can possibly imagine.
Look, I-I-I don't understand what that means but I...
I have to go, now, please.
- We have to help him. - OK.
There's no charge on the truck, it's about an hour's walk from here.
He won't need it but if it makes you feel better
I'll leave him his gun.
No, he's coming with us.
Well, if we take him, it's gonna slow us down.
I don't care.
Boy, oh boy.
A firecracker, that one.
Daddy!
MUFFLED VOICE: Number four, this is me, sit-rep.
MUFFLED VOICE OUTSIDE: ...out the front, no joy...
One last building here to check.
MAN ON RADIO: Copy. Report to waypoint tango if zero contact.
But your orders remain shoot to kill if eyes on target.
MUFFLED VOICE: Roger that, out.
SOLDIER GROANS
JOLENE: Oh, fuck!
SOLDIER GRUNTS
God...!
SHE GASPS
Did we...?
I'm not killing them unless we have to, alright?
RADIO CHIRPS
INDISTINCT VOICE ON RADIO
They're coming for us.
They're coming for us no matter what we do!
The gun. Where's the gun?
- Put your hand on the door frame. - What?
Just do it!
Come on! Do it!
Put your hand on the door frame.
Now look away.
Close your eyes.
GUNSHOT - FLESH GRUNTS
We gotta get outta here!
Come on. Go.
Go, go, go, go!
HE GROANS
This way. This way!
OK...
- Here we go. - This is great.
Yeah.
There's gotta be antibiotics in there.
I'll check it out.
Hurry up.
Ask and ye shall receive.
That's good.
Yeah, that's good.
Let's get outta here.
One, two, three.
What'd I miss?
Well, your fever is down, so that's good.
AXEL GROANS - Let's see what we got.
AXEL GROANS
SCARLETT: Oh... I'm sorry.
Oh...
Can you open your eyes?
I can see light, that's it.
OK, well, what did you expect?
You're not gonna get better all at once. It's gonna take some time.
- Sorry. - It's alright.
HE GROANS
OK, I'm just gonna change the dressing and we'll see what tomorrow brings.
OK, I'm going on.
Can you lift your head up?
You think she's there already?
At Renfield House, Vanessa?
I mean, maybe. She could be.
It's OK.
What's she even doing there?
I'm assuming something with the fourth Elder.
You think she's gonna do the right thing?
- Destroy those totems? - No, I don't.
If she goes dark like that Elder that you found on the island
are you prepared to do what you gotta do?
Hey, we should go.
Before it gets dark.
DISTANT RUMBLE - What's that?
RUMBLE CONTINUES
DISTANT GROWL
Oh, God. This is bad.
- What? - This is bad.
It's a bunch of Daywalkers and they're walking right at us.
- Well, Jesus, we gotta get... - Axel, lie down.
- You can't fight them. - Yes, I can. I can try.
- You'll die. - You know what?
At least I can create a diversion.
If you're going out, I'm going out with you.
There's no way I'm hanging out in this shithole by myself.
Nobody's gonna die.
Sit still and quiet. I promise we'll be safe.
Oh, this is not a solution.
OK, they're coming, they're coming.
FOOTSTEPS SHUFFLE
VAMPIRES GROWL
SHE WHISPERS: What the fuck?
SAFETY CLICKS
SCARLETT WHISPERS: Stay still.
They're gone.
God's will.
As soon as he's able to walk again, we're gonna take off.
We'll just take the antibiotics with us.
What?
The antibiotics are not working.
His fever is back, and it's worse.
OK, well then, we'll keep at it.
I... I think there's something you need to accept here.
Axel may not be coming back at all.
You said he's getting better.
You said that anything is possible. I mean, what's all this talk about prayer?
Y-yeah... Prayer is good, but He's not a genie that grants wishes.
No, apparently not.
Apparently He's just a cruel son of a bitch
who just strikes people down when they don't deserve it.
Look, even if we don't understand Him
- God has his reasons. - Ugh. Stop.
- Scarlett... - Enough.
Listen to me.
I gotta tell you some stuff.
Look, we got a lot of time, OK?
AXEL MUMBLES - Just rest.
Just let me talk.
I didn't wanna tell you about it, I don't really know why, but...
I found my sister.
What?
She's been there the whole time, just...
I lost my sister, but you still got time to save yours.
And we will.
As soon as you're feeling better, we'll go.
We both know that's not where I'm headed.
Don't say that.
Look, I will try to hang on.
I promise you I will, but...
you gotta go to her.
- Now. - No.
If I'm not here when you get back, you listen to me...
SCARLETT: No.
I love you, Scarlett.
Always will.
SHE SNIFFLES
VOICE RASPS
You piece of shit.
HE HISSES
Yeah, take a good look. It's gonna be your last.
VAMPIRE GROWLS
- What in heaven's... - Move outta the way!
- I-I don't... - Sit down!
Get down! Listen here.
I don't know if you can understand me, if this virus makes you smart enough or not
but you are going to bite him.
What-what're you doing?
I don't believe in miracles and I'm outta options.
Bite him!
VAMPIRE SNIFFS - VAMPIRE SNARLS
I said, bite him!
- Great... - Stop!
- It did what you asked, let it go. - No, you move out of my way!
I'm gonna kill him. That's what I do, OK?
He does not deserve to live.
And what will that change?
Will it do anything at all for Axel?
Let it go.
Get out of here!
Go!
Run!
SHE PANTS
Oh, come on, Axel.
SHE SIGHS Come on.
HE GRUNTS - Hey.
Axel.
Hey. Hey.
Hey, hi...
HE MOANS
- Hey. - HE GROANS
Axel...
SIMON CHUCKLES
Peek-a-boo.
SHE LAUGHS
JOLENE: Now what?
FLESH: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
This is the road where the bus crashed.
That means...
Denver's that way, so the prison must be this way.
So this is it?
You gotta do what you gotta do.
You're a good man, Phil. Believe that.
Drop your weapon! Now!
Put it on the ground, hands on your head.
Put it on the ground.
- RADIO CLICKS - Control, I got 'em. Both of 'em.
Please, just don't do this.
Shut up! Don't move.
Want me to cuff them or just wait for back-up?
MAN ON RADIO: Your orders were shoot to kill the fugitives.
- Listen... - Carry out your orders.
I'm surrendering, alright? Look, take me into custody.
Alright?
You... you don't have to do this.
Let-let-let her go.
I can't do that.
You don't wanna kill me.
- You don't have to. - RADIO BEEPS
MAN ON RADIO: Hunter five, what's your status?
The others on the bus, they're all dead because of you.
- No! - No, no, no.
That had nothing to do with us.
- Take me in, I'll explain everything. - GUARD: No.
No. If I don't follow orders, I get sent to Loveland as well.
They know you're alive.
I don't have a choice.
No, no, no! Don't! Don't!
- GUNSHOTS - JOLENE GRUNTS
MAN ON RADIO: Hunter five, report, Goddammit.'
Two tangos down, I killed them.
Both of them.
Did you...
Yeah.
Are you OK?
I'm fine.
Keys. Keys, keys, keys.
Oh, you took a bullet for me.
FLESH: Yeah, three, actually.
- Got 'em. - You can't go back to Denver now.
Are you coming?
I help you find your wife, you help me get back to Sarah, deal?
If we live that long.
ENGINE REVS
MAN ON RADIO: What's your 20?
So I guess this is goodbye.
SIMON: Oh, why don't we call it "happy trails" instead?
We don't know what the future holds.
Our paths might cross again someday...
if it's God's will.
I'll give you this.
You're one of the luckiest guys I've ever run into.
Well, I told you luck isn't real, but faith...
OK, I wasn't gonna say anything.
- Mm-hm? - Remember the ambulance?
- Sure. - OK.
You would have been killed by that feral if it wasn't for me.
So where was divine intervention then?
Oh, I'm looking right at it.
He brought you to me, didn't He?
Your friend needs something for his eyes.
Look after yourself.
Peace be with you...
wherever your journey takes you.
Axel.
- Well, he was different. - He saved your life.
Are you kidding me?
I was on my way out if it hadn't been for you.
That is kinda true.
You gotta admit, though, some crazy shit happened.
Hold up...
are you buying this whole "prophet in the wilderness" thing?
SHE SCOFFS No, but how do you explain
the Daywalkers passing us?
- A miracle. - SHE LAUGHS
Seriously, I'm glad you brought me back
but you really want me to believe it's cos God intervened?
No, but I'm just...
we don't have all the answers, that's all. I don't.
Mm-hm.
Looks like I'm not the only one who got a little blinded back there.
SIMON CHUCKLES