Count Dracula is
trapped in a room quickly filling with holy water; he tries turning into a bat
and flying through the duct the water is pouring through but he is splashed
which burns severely. He changes into a mist and makes it through before
collapsing from the pain….
Frank Drake and
Chastity Jones arrive in Brazil to be greeted by his old pal Danny Summers who
repeats his offer of a job….
At his home, Quincy Harker
shows Rachel van Helsing his new device for tracking vampires but she is
really worried about Frank Drake. She knows that he, having never made anything
of himself, is in awe of her independence and accomplishments so he will only
return when he loves himself as much as he loves her….
The unseen villain
[spoiler: it’s Doctor Sun] questions his flunky Randolph who was sent to steal
the Chimera from Jacob Eshcol; he brought back only the lion’s head portion of
the statue yet David Eshcol has only the serpent’s tail so where is the third
piece, the goat’s body? Sun dangles him over a vat of acid, forcing him to
reveal that it is hidden in a safe deposit box in a bank. Sun then drops the
traitor into the acid then dispatches the sensuous Mae Li to fetch the box….
David Eshcol and
Shiela Whittier encounter Dracula on the road and the vampire presents himself
as Shiela’s employer from the “museum.” David is suspicious of the newcomer but
Dracula takes the tail of the Chimera and demonstrates the power that resides
in only one portion of the statue: he calls fire from the sky worldwide—as we
see that in India, it has driven Taj Nital’s car from the road and killed his
friend Ramon—and then Dracula calls down rains to wash away the traces of the
fire. He then uses the tail to raise an army of the dead to search for the
other two parts; they leave their graves and kill the caretaker. The Count
tells the confused David that he is a vampire and intends to kill him but
Shiela pleads for his life; Dracula overpowers him but is suddenly repulsed by
the Star of David his victim pulls out. The vampire tries to mock and
intimidate him into throwing it away but David counters with some solid
theology about God the Creator and man’s free will to obey or rebel. Dracula
distracts him with the idea that the Chimera can give him the power to bring a
divine order to the world—and then attacks. David presses his Star of David
against his enemy’s face and it burns. Then Doctor Sun’s agents arrive and
capture all three of them and the Chimera’s tail….