[Vanessa] Previously on Van Helsing...
[Axel] You're just gonna stroll up to the White House,
take on the whole military by yourself?
[Vanessa] Yeah, I'll need a disguise.
-Someone the Dark One will never suspect. -[gunshots]
-[groaning] -[gasps]
You came here with her blood to set things in motion.
You can't harm me.
Well, maybe it's time we found out.
[screams]
[Dracula grunts]
[crashes]
[groans]
[Dracula] No.
-[gasps] -Gotta sting,
knowing your beloved bride is gone forever.
And you let a Van Helsing get close enough to bite you.
-[scoffs] -Learned some new tricks in the Dark Realm.
-[wind blowing] -[chuckles]
[Dracula groaning, panting]
-You feeling it yet? -[panting]
[Vanessa] My bite starting to take effect?
[pants] You were never this powerful.
And I thought you were smarter. Did you really think trapping me would break me?
[chuckles] It only made me stronger.
-[thuds] -[crashes]
Not strong enough to threaten me.
-[grunts] -Your bite did nothing.
[grunts]
[as Olivia] Who's there?
[exhales]
Help.
Can you help me?
[grunts]
[as Dracula] What have you done to me?
[groans]
[as Olivia] Her hold on me is weakening.
I can feel it.
Who are you?
Olivia.
Can you help me, please?
Please?
[as Dracula] No! This cannot happen!
[sighs] Oh.
Looks like my bite was a little more powerful than you thought.
-Stay away from me. -[Vanessa chuckles]
That body you took over, you didn't kill the host.
Olivia.
She's still trapped in there with you, isn't she?
Maybe another bite will help bring her out.
-[scoffs] -[grunts]
[Dracula groans] No.
You and your children have plagued me long enough.
We're just getting started.
[Vanessa choking]
I will take your head with my bare hands!
I will purge the world of the Van Helsings forever.
-[grunts] -And darkness will reign.
[gasps]
[as Olivia] Aah! Uh...
Go now. While you have a chance.
[sighs] Do it.
-[sighs] -Do it. [cries]
[groaning, gasping]
[groaning]
No!
[Dracula grunts]
[gasps]
[groans]
[opening theme music]
Clear!
[Bathory speaking indistinctly]
[Jack] It's okay, you're safe now. Hey.
[babbling]
-Hurry! -[Bathory screams, grunts]
You know it's not gonna be long until the Dark One sends more of her brood.
She's gonna find this place, and she's gonna revenge what we've done.
[screams]
We have a second location on Mercer Street. We can take her there.
Put her in the van. Please be gentle. We need her, okay?
[Weathers] Go!
-[Ivory] Hey, what happened? -[man] Move.
She's human again from the bite, but, I mean, what's wrong with her?
-It's the scroll. -The scroll? She hasn't even laid hands on it.
She has in the past, before she was turned,
when we first tried to defeat the Dark One.
[screams]
I know you said we needed her, but like this?
Look, she's our only hope at controlling the powers of the Dark One.
I wasn't planning on her being blind and psychotic.
[pants]
We need to contact Vanessa.
All right, I'll go check for a note.
Hey, no. No, it's too dangerous.
Everything is dangerous now. Stefan is gone. It's gotta be me.
Listen, you go with Bathory, okay?
I'll find you, all right?
[dramatic music]
I'll be okay.
[gasps]
[siren wailing]
[indistinct chatter]
-[man 1] All right, put it on this table. -[man 2] Mark that.
We're secure here. The company went out of business when everything went to shit.
I guess there isn't much of a market for dating apps anymore.
And Bathory?
Safe.
-Still sedated, but-- -I know.
All we can do now is wait and hope.
[light music]
[siren wailing]
[officer over PA] Attention. Clear the streets.
A daytime curfew remains in effect.
Clear the streets or you will be detained.
Hey! Hey, whoa. Easy.
-[Ivory] Axel! -It's nice to see you too.
You both made it.
-Where you been? -Lining up allies.
We need to get out of the open. Where are the others?
First, I gotta check for a message.
We got the Oracle.
-Jack turned her. -You gotta be kidding me, that hag's human?
-Yeah, but we got a problem. -There's always a problem with her.
-Have you heard from Vanessa? -Jack says she's still in the White House.
If she is, then she's in danger. No way the Dark One
hasn't figured out the Oracle is off the board.
-Wait! Down, down, down! -[officer over PA] Clear the streets
- or you will be detained. -[siren chirps]
It's just over there. I gotta go get it.
-Wait a second. -Wait, what? What is it?
-What? -I feel something.
Yeah, me too.
-We've been spotted. -No, no, no. No need, no need. We're good.
[chuckles]
Hey there.
[tense music]
That party trick's gonna take some getting used to.
-Vanessa. -Looks like we're getting the band back together.
With some new players.
-Uh, yeah. -[chuckles] Yeah.
-[siren chirps] -[officer over PA] Clear the streets immediately
-and return to your home. -What are we waiting for?
Clear the streets.
-[mumbling] -[door opens]
[Bathory mumbling]
[mumbling continues]
[Bathory mumbling]
[Jack] I failed you once before.
I won't fail you again.
[light music]
[Jack] Bathory,
I know you weren't able to save your mom after she read the scrolls.
And I know you know way more about all this stuff than I do.
There's gotta be some way to get you back.
[mumbling]
I promise, I won't leave you like this.
[as Olivia] Your time has passed.
Your control, ebbing.
[grunts, pants]
[as Dracula] You are nothing. You know nothing!
[panting]
I will use my own darkness to regain my strength.
[foreboding music]
[groaning]
[knife clanks]
[sighs]
The Oracle is not dead,
that much I can sense.
[Bathory] No. No.
Stay away from me.
I'm not yours anymore.
[chanting]
[groaning]
I knew you'd turn up.
Yeah? There were times I wasn't so sure.
You okay?
[Jack] Thanks to Vanessa.
-Where's Axel? -[Violet] We've got a plan.
He's putting the finishing touches on it.
And the Dark One is losing control.
It was you that turned the Delta Force on Bathory and saved us.
-Mm. -How?
I took a few pages from their playbook.
But I barely got out alive. The Oracle almost blew my cover.
The Oracle is dead and gone. She's just Bathory now.
A friend who sacrificed herself for me.
Come with me.
Friend?
We're talking about the Oracle.
You don't know the real her. When you sent me to the past,
she was a vampire hunter trying to do exactly what we are.
She kinda reminded me of you in a lot of ways.
-[scoffs] -She's an ally, trust me. A powerful one.
I just... don't know how to make her sane again.
Or if that's even possible. Maybe she's too far gone.
No, she's the key. We can't do this without her.
[disembodied voices whispering]
No! Please, no! Till death.
[whispering continues]
[disembodied voice] Take it.
Take it from her and give it to us.
[panting]
Please, help us.
-Hey. -[gasps]
Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm... It's nothing.
All right. If you say so.
I wasn't even sure we could turn a bride. Maybe you have a skill I don't.
Something's not right.
[Jack] Blood.
Bathory, no!
[blood trickling]
This is not the protocol! You can't just hustle me out of a briefing
and haul me back to the White House!
Where's my Chief of Staff?
Get your goddamn hands off me!
-[gunshots] -[thuds]
-[gunshots] -[men grunting]
Fuck!
-[gunshots] -[thuds]
[panting]
What the hell is this?
It's a rescue mission, Mr. Vice President.
From who? General Lannister?
[snarling]
We're saving you... from them.
-[grunting] -[vampires groaning]
Fuck!
[gasping]
[Weathers] Just hold her arm.
[groans]
-[exhales] -It's okay, we're gonna keep you safe.
Sedatives are kicking in. Rest will do her good.
Lost a lot of blood.
She tries something like that again,
I don't think even you Van Helsings will be able to bring her back.
[retreating footsteps]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[chair creaks]
You feel guilty.
First time we met, I tried to kill her.
She wasn't evil.
How could you be sure?
We fought side by side.
She tried to give everything to kill the Dark One,
and in the end, she lost herself.
But, for a moment,
she was able to use the scroll and control the Dark One.
And that's your plan? To try again?
It was.
If I had killed the Dark One back then like I was supposed to,
the way you meant it to be--
Hey, you figured out that Bathory and the scroll were the key.
How useful is that?
[light music]
Before the Oracle was the Oracle, she was Bathory.
What about the Dark One?
Who was she? Olivia?
Yes.
And she was good and pure, and I murdered her.
Well, maybe in her case,
death isn't what you think it is.
[Vanessa] It happened after I bit the Dark One.
Olivia, the woman whose body was taken over,
-part of her is still in there. -And now she's fighting back.
-[Violet] Talk about having someone on the inside. -[Vanessa chuckles]
The Dark One is gonna be working on ways to protect herself.
Yeah, and she knows I'm back and that we flipped her last bride.
Losing a battle doesn't mean you lost the war.
[thrilling music]
Who is this?
The key to getting inside the White House.
[gasps]
-[Jack] The vice president? -The White House is one
of the most secure buildings in the world.
This is the one guy that can shut it all down
-and get us inside. -The gatekeeper.
-How'd you pull this off? -You're not the only one with aces up your sleeve.
Mine happens to have four stars on his shoulder. General Lannister ring a bell?
[scoffs] So, what, he's just supposed to believe us that the president is a vampire?
[Axel] No, he's not gonna believe anything we say.
That's why we have to turn a skeptic into a true believer.
You realize this is full-on treason, right?
Well, so was the War of Independence.
[grunts]
Sorry about this, sir, but there's some things you need to understand.
I can assure you the government won't negotiate with terrorists.
Yeah, that's what you don't get. The terrorists are the government.
You saw who your protection detail was.
How did you get General Lannister to betray his country?
You'll face a death sentence for this.
[Vanessa] We're all facing a death sentence.
That's what we need you to understand.
You thought you kept the threat out there, but it's not.
It's here and it's sitting in the Oval Office.
You think President Archer is a vampire.
President Archer was murdered at Fort Collins.
You've been dealing with an imposter.
[Jack] Who goes by the name of...
Dracula.
[Bathory screaming faintly]
[screaming continues]
[Bathory mumbling]
How did she get like this?
It's the scroll.
When she used it against the Dark One,
she said it would come with a cost.
-[Bathory groans] -[sighs] I might be able to help her.
To clear her mind.
-Something I learned in the Dark Realm. -What are you gonna do?
-Connect with her. -With her mind?
She lost it.
If I can help her fight the darkness,
I might be able to pull her back.
What if you end up just like her?
We can't do this without her, right?
Our father tried to connect with us once. To help us.
And what I felt, the pain that he shared, it was almost too much to take.
[sighs]
I've learned how to live with the pain.
It can make you stronger.
[sighs] I have to try.
[exhales]
[gasps]
[suspenseful music]
You two. You're on the most wanted list.
Vampires. Traitors. Both.
[Weathers] All due respect, sir,
-they're not. -[Axel] I know it's a lot to digest,
but we need your help if we're gonna bring her down.
[Newton] "Bring her down"?
As in kill her?
You want me to help you kill the President of the United States?
You are all out of your minds.
Why do you think Lannister helped us grab you?
Because he's a traitor.
Or maybe he's the biggest patriot we got left.
President Park is still alive. The two of them spoke.
Now you're going to conjure up a dead president to try and convince me?
[Park's voice] Eli, if you're listening to me, then the plan worked.
Hard as it may be to believe, I'm alive.
And all the crazy stuff they're telling you, it's true.
Archer's gone, and you have to help stop what's coming.
I hope to see you soon, and we can put this country right again, together.
I'll tell you what.
Pretty damn convincing.
But if powerful vampires can change form, pretend to be somebody else,
couldn't you have just faked that recording?
Oh, for Christ's sake! What's it gonna take?
-Please. -Axel, I got this.
You think I'm a vampire in human disguise.
Maybe you're right, you know?
In which case I should just do this.
No! God, no! God! [groans]
If I'm one of them, you're gonna turn.
And if you don't, you're gonna have to wake up and face the truth.
Why don't you sit right here, see what happens?
[panting]
[chanting]
Come on.
Come on, Vanessa.
[groans]
Mom!
What the hell is happening?
She's trying to get in her head and cure her.
-[Vanessa pants] -What? How?
[Vanessa groaning]
[Vanessa grunts]
[disembodied voices whispering]
[grunts]
[whispering continues]
The darkness.
Vanessa's taking it from her.
-[whispering continues] -[groans]
[chanting]
[screaming]
-[Jack] Mom, no! -[panting]
You can't do this. I can't lose you again.
[gasps, pants]
Is she okay?
-Is she okay? -[Violet] Yeah. [sniffles]
Is she okay?
Bathory?
[Bathory exhales]
-Jack? -[Jack exhales]
I can see you.
[Jack and Bathory chuckle]
-I can see. -You're back.
It's okay. It's okay.
-[knife swishes] -[panting]
[Jack] You're okay.
Vanessa saved you.
Thank you.
I've only been there once.
The tunnel runs from here to here.
-[Axel] Where've you been? -Fixing what was broken.
Some things can't be fixed.
Axel, I'm sorry for all you've been put through--
Save it. Your words are worthless.
You do your job, you play your part,
I'll be happy to never see you again.
[Newton] If she's as strong as you say,
this Dark One,
you really think you can kill her?
[eerie music]
[grunts]
Where are you, my love?
Where?
There you are.
Voice verification code. Lima, seven, Tango.
It's me, Deputy Director. No, I'm safe. I'm safe.
I need you to listen to me. I need you to clear the White House
of all remaining Secret Service and support staff.
That's right, everyone.
Do not inform Delta Force of our directive.
Or the Office of the President.
No, listen to me, Jillian. Listen to me!
This is a matter of national security.
Contact General Lannister at the Pentagon for verification.
Trust no one else.
I'm counting on you, Jillian.
-[sighs] -[beeps]
I've done everything I can.
They'll stage a mock disaster drill,
clearing the White House of anyone who'll get in your way.
-But the Deltas... -Those vampire guards
and the Dark One won't take the bait.
-They'll stay where they are. -[Alex] She's gotta know the circle is closing.
We should hit while we have the chance.
Sounds like we're a go.
Yeah. When do we strike, boss?
As soon as all those real people are out of there.
-You ready? -You?
Almost.
-What's wrong? -Nothing. Just a feeling, you know.
Probably just some, uh, nerves for what lies ahead.
[chuckles]
That's not it.
You look burdened...
by something bigger.
[tense music]
See, at first,
I thought it might be the Dark One.
Some, like, residual leftover vampire legacy.
It's just, these voices, they were calling me.
And it wasn't the Dark One. It wasn't her. It...
It was like it was my Sisterhood calling.
You said they were all dead.
Ones that I knew.
Yet that's what I heard.
I'm sorry you lost them.
I know they meant everything to you.
That wasn't your fault.
I know, I know, I know. I just...
I fight for them now, you know?
Fight for their memory. And I will honor them.
I will.
Even if it costs me my life.
I won't let that happen.
I swear.
[dramatic music]
[kisses]
[clattering]
[Vanessa] Hey.
-Got a sec? -Uh, sure.
[Vanessa sighs] I'm sorry I didn't do this sooner.
-Uh, what? -Just in all that's going on,
it's hard to really find time to get to know each other.
-Yeah, a lot's been going on. -Yeah. [chuckles]
Well...
before we step into the fire,
I just... I just wanted you to know that I realize
it was strange for you to find out that I'm your biological mother.
I've had time to process. It's fine.
Violet.
You don't have to do that.
You don't have to harden yourself.
It's okay to feel.
I can't get close to you. I don't know how this ends.
None of us do.
When I lost Dylan and Scarlett,
and the mother I never knew,
it almost broke me.
But a truth I've learned is that the darkness feeds on despair.
It preys on sadness and grief.
And the more you try to stuff that down, the stronger it gets.
[Violet] I'm not like you.
[Vanessa] You're more like me than you realize.
And I wanna know that you're gonna be okay.
Dylan was your flesh and blood.
-We're just DNA. -It doesn't matter to me.
[sighs] I think about you all the time. Both of you.
And when I think about something happening to you,
I wanna push it away.
But instead, I feel it in my heart.
You do?
Yeah.
It's what makes us human, Violet.
And whatever you do...
whatever happens...
don't lose sight of that.
[Violet] I won't.
[chuckles]
I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner.
This is soon enough.
[dramatic music]
[Vanessa and Violet chuckle]
I think you should have the amulet from now on.
You know what? You keep it. It's safer with you.
But you'll need it to trap the Dark One's spirit.
Let's cross that bridge when we get there, okay?
-[Jack] Everything all right? -Yeah.
For once, I think so.
Good.
It's time to go. I'm gonna get Bathory.
Okay. I'll see you.
[approaching footsteps]
Do you remember the words? How to use them?
Oh, yes. It's quite powerful.
But only for the one who can read them.
Lucky for us, Vanessa made you see again.
Quite lucky.
So she's with you now?
Don't you remember?
She used her powers to make your mind clear again,
bring you back to what you were.
I don't know if that's quite possible...
after all this time.
I was the bride of the Dark One, beholden to her until the end.
I know you're struggling... being human again,
stepping into a fight that cost you everything.
I need to know you're with us.
I'm the key to all of this, aren't I?
Using the scroll, neutralizing the Dark One...
so that you and your kin can bite her.
And then what?
The darkness spills out of her, like it did before.
But this time, I don't just catch a piece of it.
I catch all of it.
With this.
Remember?
[ominous music]
Are you okay?
I now know the whole plan.
[Jack] Good.
We should get the others.
Jack, there is just one more thing.
[gasps]
-[Bathory grunts] -[groans]
[groaning continues]
[indistinct chatter]
Ready for this?
My whole life.
All right, rock 'n' roll.
Here's that access tunnel.
It runs from under the treasury building into the east wing.
-And your people have cleared a path? -I have faith in them.
I'm not the only one who's been unsettled by the president.
Lucky you didn't try to do anything about it sooner. You'd all be dead.
I guess timing's everything.
The clock's ticking. The less time we give
the Dark One to prepare, the better.
Where's Jack?
Didn't she go get Bathory?
[foreboding music]
[door opens]
-[Violet] Jack! -[Ivory] Jack!
Jack!
-[Ivory] Slow, slow. -[grunts]
-You're all right. It's okay. -[gasping]
It's okay.
What happened?
It was Bathory. She took the amulet.
-[Axel] See? I knew it. -Where did she go?
She can't have left the building,
our people sealed off all the exits.
[suspenseful music]
She's not trying to leave.
Check the others. The vice president. Go!
-This is all my fault. -Come on.
[Jack grunts]
[siren wailing in distance]
[door opens]
[Vanessa] Bathory!
[Axel] Step away from the ledge!
Stay away from me!
[Jack] Bathory, no!
[sobbing]
I'm sorry, Jack.
Sorry for what? Putting a blade in her heart?
That wasn't the way this was supposed to end.
What have you done with the amulet?
[tense music]
I said stay away!
[Vanessa] I saw it in you, Bathory,
when I connected my mind to yours,
I saw the confusion, the fear.
I don't know what I'm doing up here.
How... how I came to have this.
She's still got a hold of you somehow. The Dark One.
She wants you to betray us.
I can take the shot. Maybe she drops the amulet before she goes over the edge.
[Jack] You kill her, we can't use the scroll.
Come on, she was never gonna be on our side.
The dark just runs too deep.
I am not the evil you think I am.
I want to be free of the Dark One just as much as you do.
Then step away from the ledge. Give us back the amulet.
[suspenseful music]
[Bathory groans]
Aah!
Oh, shit.
[as Dracula] Such a tragic flaw in your plan.
Placing faith in one so weak, so poisoned by ambition.
She nearly stopped you.
She would have given her life all those years ago.
But instead, I took it.
Made her more than she could have been without me. I perfected her.
Somebody please let me put a bullet between this bitch's eyes.
You know the end is coming. I sensed it in you when I bit you.
[as Dracula] All I could sense was your frailty.
Your shallow and pointless legacy.
Every Van Helsing I have ever met, I have bested.
Really?
Then how did I escape the Dark Realm, huh?
How did I get out of that little mind trap you left me in?
How did I get close enough... to draw your blood?
You think you can distract me long enough to retrieve your little prize?
You are close, that much is true.
But only because I'm not quite myself.
A situation that's easy enough to remedy.
-No! -[screams]
[thuds]
[light music]
[groans]
Bathory?
-[normal voice] What have I done? -We can still defeat her.
Together.
-[Bathory] No. -We can. We can.
No.
I cannot.
She will never let me go.
Please, no, Bathory.
-You cannot control me! -You can do this!
Not now.
Not ever.
[gasps] No!
[exhales]
-[body thuds] -No!
[sobs] No!
[crying]
You have reached the end of your time, my broken beloved.
[chuckles]
And I have just begun...
the height of mine.
[exhales]
[ominous music]
Come to me.
[wind howls]
Come to me.
[chuckles]
[laughing]
Come to me!
Come to me.
[gasps]
[rumbling]
[exhales]
[crackling]
[screams]
[screaming continues]
[rumbling]
Does somebody wanna tell me what the fuck is going on?
The part of her that was in the amulet just found its way home.
She's back to her full strength.
What the hell are we gonna do now?
[rumbling]
[closing theme music]