1 00:00:18,768 --> 00:00:20,562 I'm a nice person. I am. 2 00:00:20,895 --> 00:00:22,230 I know how to be nice. 3 00:00:22,564 --> 00:00:23,773 No, you don't. 4 00:00:23,857 --> 00:00:26,151 I do. I'm nice to everybody. 5 00:00:26,276 --> 00:00:29,195 Then why are most of the stories you've told me the last few days 6 00:00:29,279 --> 00:00:32,073 about you arriving somewhere and getting punched in the face? 7 00:00:32,157 --> 00:00:35,994 That's because everyone else is a horrible piece of shit. 8 00:00:36,453 --> 00:00:37,912 - See? - What? 9 00:00:41,416 --> 00:00:42,917 So, how do we proceed? 10 00:00:43,752 --> 00:00:45,128 Have the Speakers left? 11 00:00:45,211 --> 00:00:46,211 Yeah. 12 00:00:47,255 --> 00:00:48,255 I'm sorry. 13 00:00:48,757 --> 00:00:52,886 In success, you will see them again soon, in far happier circumstances. 14 00:00:53,845 --> 00:00:56,431 See? He knows how to be nice. 15 00:00:58,266 --> 00:01:01,770 Is it true, then? The castle can travel somehow? 16 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:06,816 We know the stories, but sometimes, it's hard to separate myth from truth. 17 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:11,321 Tell her about Dracula's castle, Alucard. Her day can't get any more ruined. 18 00:01:11,821 --> 00:01:14,949 Dracula's castle moves. How to describe it? 19 00:01:15,992 --> 00:01:19,829 It travels without moving. It appears at locations as if... 20 00:01:20,955 --> 00:01:22,207 Well, as if by magic. 21 00:01:22,707 --> 00:01:26,085 There has to be some way to trap it. How do we start? 22 00:01:26,669 --> 00:01:27,879 I want to go home. 23 00:01:28,755 --> 00:01:30,465 Have you been drinking again? 24 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,426 Some chance. But no. 25 00:01:33,927 --> 00:01:35,345 I want to go home. 26 00:01:36,137 --> 00:01:37,806 The old Belmont estate. 27 00:01:38,765 --> 00:01:41,351 I was under the impression it was destroyed. 28 00:01:41,434 --> 00:01:43,812 Villagers, pitchforks, and torches. 29 00:01:44,229 --> 00:01:48,817 It was. But the value of the old house wasn't the house itself. 30 00:01:49,567 --> 00:01:51,361 It was what was underneath it. 31 00:01:52,278 --> 00:01:56,199 The Belmont Hold. Our family library and trove. 32 00:01:56,991 --> 00:02:00,078 The knowledge and material of generations of Belmonts 33 00:02:00,161 --> 00:02:03,665 who fought the creatures of the night. Sounds interesting. 34 00:02:04,165 --> 00:02:05,667 If it survives. 35 00:02:06,292 --> 00:02:11,047 If there are solutions to the problems of finding and killing Dracula, 36 00:02:11,589 --> 00:02:14,467 - they are in the Hold. - You're guessing, though. 37 00:02:14,717 --> 00:02:18,555 I am guessing. I can't read or understand magic. 38 00:02:18,638 --> 00:02:21,182 But my family stored everything they found, 39 00:02:21,266 --> 00:02:25,854 including books of magic and whatever other weird stuff they came across. 40 00:02:26,771 --> 00:02:28,731 I just can't do anything with it. 41 00:02:29,732 --> 00:02:30,732 But you two can. 42 00:02:31,818 --> 00:02:35,488 Fortunate, then, that I chose not to kill and eat you, Belmont. 43 00:02:36,072 --> 00:02:40,618 And that I decided against gutting, flaying, and turning you into shoes. 44 00:02:40,702 --> 00:02:42,912 Such a merry band we are. 45 00:02:44,622 --> 00:02:47,333 I will find us a covered wagon and horses. 46 00:02:47,417 --> 00:02:50,962 If you two can manage not to kill each other while I'm gone. 47 00:02:51,045 --> 00:02:53,256 Oh, please. We're not children. 48 00:02:58,136 --> 00:03:00,263 - Eat shit and die. - Yes, fuck you. 49 00:03:05,977 --> 00:03:09,480 You really believe we could find the tools to kill my father at your old home? 50 00:03:09,564 --> 00:03:12,775 I'll be honest with you, I don't have a better idea. 51 00:03:13,443 --> 00:03:17,113 I just know that right now, we are under-equipped for the job. 52 00:03:18,197 --> 00:03:21,159 I'm trusting you, Belmont. Don't make me regret it. 53 00:03:22,493 --> 00:03:24,454 Everybody regrets it in the end. 54 00:03:56,236 --> 00:03:59,530 No, no, no! Dracula will decide, not you. 55 00:04:00,114 --> 00:04:01,616 Threaten me all you like. 56 00:04:01,699 --> 00:04:04,953 I will die for him if I don't kill you first. 57 00:04:05,036 --> 00:04:09,457 You do not question my loyalty. All I'm saying is that our goals can be met 58 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:12,585 without gleefully paddling in the blood of children. 59 00:04:14,796 --> 00:04:15,796 Enough. 60 00:04:16,297 --> 00:04:20,677 I told you all that Hector and Isaac would guide our next steps. 61 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,888 You will cease this infantile squabbling. 62 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:26,640 I said... 63 00:04:26,849 --> 00:04:28,351 I said cease! 64 00:05:01,092 --> 00:05:02,385 I am Carmilla. 65 00:05:03,094 --> 00:05:06,097 I am come from far Styria to join the war council. 66 00:05:07,557 --> 00:05:11,936 Your presence was requested some time ago, Carmilla of Styria. 67 00:05:13,146 --> 00:05:17,233 Indeed. But your mighty castle keep moves around. 68 00:05:18,234 --> 00:05:23,489 And with such mighty vampire generals advising you and prosecuting your war, 69 00:05:24,157 --> 00:05:27,660 what use could you have possibly had for a regional ruler? 70 00:05:28,911 --> 00:05:30,830 And yet, my lord, 71 00:05:31,622 --> 00:05:34,584 your forces were repelled from a single city-state. 72 00:05:35,251 --> 00:05:37,295 Your generals are in disarray. 73 00:05:37,712 --> 00:05:43,593 So, I feel that, perhaps, it is time to offer my insights to your great cause. 74 00:05:45,053 --> 00:05:48,014 And what insights have you, Carmilla? 75 00:05:49,432 --> 00:05:52,685 Why was this new wife of yours never turned? 76 00:05:58,608 --> 00:05:59,650 What did you say? 77 00:06:00,401 --> 00:06:02,987 You married. You had a child. 78 00:06:04,072 --> 00:06:06,407 And yet you did not make her a vampire. 79 00:06:07,158 --> 00:06:08,493 Why was that? 80 00:06:09,118 --> 00:06:11,454 Were you simply keeping a human pet? 81 00:06:12,455 --> 00:06:17,126 And if so, why is vampire society going to war with the world over it? 82 00:06:18,544 --> 00:06:20,671 I will speak with you alone. 83 00:06:21,047 --> 00:06:22,048 Attend me. 84 00:06:45,988 --> 00:06:46,988 Yes? 85 00:06:52,078 --> 00:06:54,622 You wished to speak to me, my lord? 86 00:06:55,081 --> 00:06:57,625 That was a dramatic entrance, Carmilla. 87 00:06:58,334 --> 00:07:00,545 It was not meant to disrespect you. 88 00:07:01,170 --> 00:07:03,673 It was to unsettle a room full of men. 89 00:07:04,006 --> 00:07:08,177 I prefer in such situations to arrive with as many advantages as possible. 90 00:07:09,053 --> 00:07:10,930 And how is it that you're here? 91 00:07:11,514 --> 00:07:15,226 Godbrand has been keeping me apprised of your castle's position. 92 00:07:15,309 --> 00:07:17,979 Your current location was also advantageous. 93 00:07:18,646 --> 00:07:22,900 And why has Godbrand been in regular communication with you? 94 00:07:24,026 --> 00:07:26,863 I suspect he still wants to sleep with me. 95 00:07:27,738 --> 00:07:28,738 And will you? 96 00:07:30,408 --> 00:07:31,409 My lord. 97 00:07:32,243 --> 00:07:35,496 From another man, that would be impossible impertinence. 98 00:07:35,913 --> 00:07:40,918 And yet I prefer to know my generals' ties and compromises. 99 00:07:42,086 --> 00:07:46,048 I may. If all the other vampire males in the world drop dead. 100 00:07:46,507 --> 00:07:49,552 And half the females. Some of the animals. 101 00:07:53,181 --> 00:07:54,390 Very good, Carmilla. 102 00:07:55,516 --> 00:07:57,143 Speaking of impertinence, 103 00:07:57,727 --> 00:08:02,648 you just denounced the choice not to turn my dead wife in front of all my generals. 104 00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:05,985 What advantage does my anger buy you? 105 00:08:06,819 --> 00:08:07,819 None. 106 00:08:08,613 --> 00:08:11,699 It's a question they have all been asking themselves. 107 00:08:12,408 --> 00:08:15,661 I gave you an opportunity to address it, my lord. 108 00:08:15,995 --> 00:08:17,955 Oh, so you were helping. 109 00:08:18,414 --> 00:08:22,585 - Of course, my lord. - Then why have you only just arrived? 110 00:08:23,419 --> 00:08:27,673 You were summoned some time ago. Surely I needed help much earlier. 111 00:08:28,216 --> 00:08:29,842 Distractions at home. 112 00:08:30,259 --> 00:08:33,346 Securing my region. Villagers, pitchforks, torches. 113 00:08:34,013 --> 00:08:35,013 The usual. 114 00:08:38,142 --> 00:08:39,227 Rejoin the others. 115 00:08:39,727 --> 00:08:43,731 Hector and Isaac, my forgemasters, will be directing our next moves. 116 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:46,317 I'm sure they would enjoy your help. 117 00:08:46,859 --> 00:08:48,236 As you wish, my lord. 118 00:09:03,376 --> 00:09:07,755 I'm still not completely clear on why you don't catch fire in the daylight. 119 00:09:08,339 --> 00:09:09,382 I am half-human. 120 00:09:10,591 --> 00:09:14,095 My mother's name was Lisa, and she was a mortal. 121 00:09:15,179 --> 00:09:18,808 I would very much like to hear the story of how that happened. 122 00:09:20,518 --> 00:09:24,146 She actually showed up at his front door. She found the castle 123 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:26,941 and banged on the front door with the pommel of her knife. 124 00:09:27,024 --> 00:09:28,526 She sounds interesting. 125 00:09:29,110 --> 00:09:30,486 Oh, she was remarkable. 126 00:09:30,945 --> 00:09:33,739 She beat on the door until my father let her in 127 00:09:33,823 --> 00:09:36,492 and demanded he teach her how to be a doctor. 128 00:09:36,576 --> 00:09:39,870 Wait, Dracula taught a human woman how to be a doctor? 129 00:09:40,830 --> 00:09:42,623 What was first, bloodletting? 130 00:09:43,874 --> 00:09:45,876 God, you still think you're funny. 131 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,878 - My father... - Dracula. 132 00:09:47,962 --> 00:09:51,173 ...is a man of science, a philosopher, a scholar, 133 00:09:51,674 --> 00:09:54,927 and knows things our society have forgotten three times over. 134 00:09:55,011 --> 00:09:58,556 Do you still not understand the enormity of what we're doing? 135 00:09:59,098 --> 00:10:03,436 He's gone mad and from that, there is no recovering him. 136 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:06,439 - Shame. - It's a tragedy. 137 00:10:07,315 --> 00:10:09,817 He's a repository of centuries of learning. 138 00:10:10,234 --> 00:10:14,238 He could have changed the world. He might have if Mother hadn't died. 139 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:16,782 She'd sent him out into the world. 140 00:10:17,283 --> 00:10:19,660 That's why he wasn't there when the bishops took her. 141 00:10:19,994 --> 00:10:21,078 She sent him away? 142 00:10:21,454 --> 00:10:23,456 She sent him to travel. 143 00:10:24,165 --> 00:10:28,252 To learn the state of the world, true nature of humans, how they live. 144 00:10:29,086 --> 00:10:30,546 She was turning him. 145 00:10:30,963 --> 00:10:34,967 Imagine if he could have aimed all that knowledge at improving lives. 146 00:10:35,343 --> 00:10:40,056 If the religious inquisition hadn't proved his worst instincts about humans. 147 00:10:40,139 --> 00:10:44,268 And now he's going to use her death as an excuse to destroy the world. 148 00:10:44,352 --> 00:10:46,854 Oh, the world will still be here, Belmont. 149 00:10:47,813 --> 00:10:51,275 Trees will still grow, birds will still sing, 150 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:55,988 animals will still hump away in the undergrowth. But you won't be here. 151 00:10:57,114 --> 00:10:58,449 And you won't be here. 152 00:10:59,408 --> 00:11:00,408 None of you. 153 00:11:00,993 --> 00:11:04,372 The sun will still set, but you will not see it rise. 154 00:11:05,122 --> 00:11:06,749 There will only be Dracula, 155 00:11:07,208 --> 00:11:10,086 and his war council, and the hordes of the night. 156 00:11:11,253 --> 00:11:16,133 He writes in great books, you know. He hews the covers himself from oak 157 00:11:16,217 --> 00:11:20,054 and wraps them in the preserved skin of the people he hated most. 158 00:11:20,346 --> 00:11:22,264 He writes plans. I've seen them. 159 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:25,476 Ideas for darkening clouds and making them as permanent in the air 160 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,103 as the frost of the north. 161 00:11:28,312 --> 00:11:32,858 Strange flying machines that pull shrouds across the sky to block out the sun. 162 00:11:33,359 --> 00:11:34,359 Imagine it. 163 00:11:35,569 --> 00:11:39,281 A world without humans under endless invented night. 164 00:11:40,116 --> 00:11:41,784 And Dracula in his castle, 165 00:11:42,785 --> 00:11:45,746 his revenge so complete there is nothing left to do 166 00:11:45,830 --> 00:11:49,250 but look out over a world without art or memory or laughter 167 00:11:49,333 --> 00:11:51,419 and know that he did his work well. 168 00:11:52,628 --> 00:11:54,296 That he did it all for love. 169 00:11:56,966 --> 00:11:59,969 - You hear that? - Animals humping in the undergrowth. 170 00:12:00,428 --> 00:12:01,428 Wait, no. 171 00:12:02,763 --> 00:12:05,433 Which is the nearest town? Is it still Gresit? 172 00:12:05,516 --> 00:12:06,934 Arges is closer to us. 173 00:12:45,014 --> 00:12:46,515 No further. 174 00:14:34,832 --> 00:14:36,542 Nobody's going to Arges tonight. 175 00:15:29,637 --> 00:15:31,597 You thieving little shit. 176 00:15:33,015 --> 00:15:35,893 I didn't steal anything. I'm trying to learn. 177 00:15:35,976 --> 00:15:40,356 I found you dying on the street. I gave you a home and fed you, 178 00:15:40,439 --> 00:15:43,984 and all you were supposed to do was work quietly and watch my back, 179 00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:47,905 not go behind my back and fuck around with the tools of my trade. 180 00:15:47,988 --> 00:15:50,824 Sneaking down here, going through my books. 181 00:15:50,908 --> 00:15:53,619 - I'm sorry. - What did you think you were gonna learn? 182 00:15:54,286 --> 00:15:56,580 How... How to help you. 183 00:16:00,042 --> 00:16:03,337 You actually wanted to learn so you could help me do my work? 184 00:16:04,463 --> 00:16:06,715 - Why? - Because... 185 00:16:08,217 --> 00:16:10,886 Please don't be angry with me anymore. 186 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:13,597 Just tell me, Isaac. It's all right. 187 00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:16,684 Because I love you. 188 00:16:20,688 --> 00:16:22,189 Oh, bless your heart. 189 00:16:23,190 --> 00:16:25,067 Even after everything in your life, 190 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:27,861 you're still a sweet boy who believes in love. 191 00:16:29,196 --> 00:16:32,533 I'm sorry. I just wanted to help. 192 00:16:33,784 --> 00:16:35,119 Well, I love you, too. 193 00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:39,957 That's why I do this. 194 00:16:40,874 --> 00:16:42,376 This is how I love you. 195 00:16:43,585 --> 00:16:45,379 This is how I teach you. 196 00:16:46,839 --> 00:16:50,175 You stop fucking around, you do as you're told, 197 00:16:50,259 --> 00:16:52,761 you never use the word love again. 198 00:16:59,059 --> 00:17:00,059 No. Isaac. 199 00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:19,329 No such thing as love in this world. 200 00:17:25,502 --> 00:17:28,005 From a party sent to Arges. 201 00:17:28,714 --> 00:17:33,802 - It died 20 yards from our door. - Arges is some distance. 202 00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:35,804 He must have flown all night. 203 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,475 Why do you do that, the whipping? 204 00:17:40,434 --> 00:17:42,686 Discipline, peace. 205 00:17:43,437 --> 00:17:48,776 Choosing my own actions and inuring myself to a world of horrors. 206 00:17:49,818 --> 00:17:53,906 Oh, come on, wake up. We have a horror right here for you. 207 00:17:59,578 --> 00:18:05,501 Imagine, so horribly injured and so determined to come back to us. 208 00:18:06,502 --> 00:18:09,213 And crapping out a minute before it managed it. 209 00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:14,301 Useless fucking thing. Now do your filthy human magic with it. 210 00:18:30,692 --> 00:18:31,692 I'm sorry. 211 00:18:32,736 --> 00:18:36,949 You struggled so hard to come back home. So loyal. 212 00:18:38,742 --> 00:18:43,580 Perhaps this is all loyalty buys, in a world without love. 213 00:18:44,373 --> 00:18:49,837 Pain in the night and death on your master's floor. 214 00:18:50,879 --> 00:18:53,257 Perhaps that's all that awaits me, too. 215 00:18:54,633 --> 00:18:56,009 But you didn't mind. 216 00:18:56,844 --> 00:18:59,054 You came home regardless. 217 00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:03,851 The lesson here is that I shouldn't care either. 218 00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:10,149 Dracula will bring a pure world into being. I believe that. 219 00:19:10,774 --> 00:19:12,359 I believe him. 220 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:19,324 I want, of all things, a pure world, a clean world, 221 00:19:20,325 --> 00:19:24,496 where there is only loyalty and only love. 222 00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:48,353 You're so alone. 223 00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:52,608 We have to accept that we've lost the party sent to Arges. 224 00:19:52,691 --> 00:19:55,194 Taking Arges is bloodshed for its own sake. 225 00:19:55,277 --> 00:19:56,570 There is no strategy here. 226 00:19:56,653 --> 00:19:59,364 Arges has no real importance. 227 00:19:59,823 --> 00:20:01,909 You should have counseled an attack on Braila. 228 00:20:02,409 --> 00:20:04,786 - Why Braila? - If you were serious 229 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:07,289 about serving our lord's war, you would have seen 230 00:20:07,372 --> 00:20:10,709 that taking the biggest river port town in the region was important. 231 00:20:10,792 --> 00:20:14,171 If you take Braila, you prevent escape from Wallachia. 232 00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:18,592 Any city built over running water is a place that we, 233 00:20:18,675 --> 00:20:22,012 as vampires, should approach carefully. 234 00:20:23,722 --> 00:20:27,976 Running water? I've never heard of that affecting vampires. 235 00:20:28,060 --> 00:20:32,272 Death by running water hasn't happened in many centuries. 236 00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:34,358 - Why not? - Look around. 237 00:20:34,441 --> 00:20:36,360 We moved into the middle of countries. 238 00:20:36,443 --> 00:20:39,196 I'd been told that vampires couldn't cross running water. 239 00:20:39,571 --> 00:20:43,367 - I've been on boats. I've had baths. - When? 240 00:20:43,825 --> 00:20:46,787 - Baths aren't running water, are they? - Course they are. 241 00:20:46,870 --> 00:20:49,414 How can baths be running water? 242 00:20:49,498 --> 00:20:52,125 The water's stopped being poured when you get in. 243 00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:54,336 The Greeks used to bury us on small islands, 244 00:20:54,419 --> 00:20:57,464 because the graves would be surrounded by running water. 245 00:20:57,547 --> 00:21:02,386 I think I would probably feel like running water would kill me. 246 00:21:02,469 --> 00:21:05,764 Really? Do you feel like poison would kill you? 247 00:21:05,847 --> 00:21:08,016 Of course you don't. It's a thing you learn. 248 00:21:08,850 --> 00:21:11,478 It's not like we're given a manual for being a vampire. 249 00:21:11,561 --> 00:21:12,561 Enough! 250 00:21:15,941 --> 00:21:18,819 Do you really think that's enough, Hector? 251 00:21:19,361 --> 00:21:21,405 Power is what matters in this world. 252 00:21:21,947 --> 00:21:25,534 I do not see how securing Braila over Arges gives us power. 253 00:21:25,909 --> 00:21:28,704 Arges is an old, respected town. 254 00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:32,499 I must respectfully disagree with my fellow forgemaster. 255 00:21:33,292 --> 00:21:36,753 Taking Arges brings only terror and will scatter the human populace. 256 00:21:37,379 --> 00:21:40,382 Taking Braila seals off one side of Wallachia. 257 00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:43,051 Interesting, Hector. 258 00:21:45,470 --> 00:21:49,016 I must disclose that I revived the creature that returned. 259 00:21:49,099 --> 00:21:52,311 The party was attacked on the road. Their assailants are unknown, 260 00:21:52,894 --> 00:21:55,689 but Arges is close to Gresit. 261 00:21:57,607 --> 00:22:01,653 We are quite certain that Alucard sleeps at Gresit. 262 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:05,699 And that there was recently a Belmont there. 263 00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:10,245 A Belmont? I thought they were extinct. 264 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:15,167 No. We believe our lord's son, Alucard, and the Belmont may have worked together 265 00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:17,336 to repel our forces at Gresit. 266 00:22:17,794 --> 00:22:21,298 If there is a Belmont left alive, then should we not observe 267 00:22:21,381 --> 00:22:23,842 - the ancestral Belmont home? - Why? 268 00:22:24,217 --> 00:22:27,345 Perhaps on the general notion that the Belmonts hunted the likes of us 269 00:22:27,429 --> 00:22:30,599 for fucking centuries. And if there's one left alive, 270 00:22:30,682 --> 00:22:34,227 then it may have access to the trove of weapons and magical materials 271 00:22:34,311 --> 00:22:36,980 talked of across generations but never found, 272 00:22:37,064 --> 00:22:40,150 which they used to hunt us through fucking centuries. 273 00:22:40,776 --> 00:22:43,070 Am I making myself clear now? 274 00:22:44,571 --> 00:22:46,865 This is your War Council, my lord?