Dracula and his
bride Domini both express concern that they are in love with one another for
reasons they do not understand. Dracula relates his life story to her,
stressing how he is still a warrior, intending to dominate the world through his
new religion….
At the Boston
airport, Blade welcomes his girlfriend Safron Caulder, there for a nightclub
booking and he brushes off the impatient Hannibal King while canoodling with
his honey….
Harold H. Harold
shows up for his date with Aurora Rabinowitz, only to find she has forgotten it
was that night; she reluctantly goes with him….
In Boston Common,
Rachel van Helsing talks to Frank Drake about how she doesn’t like the changes
that have come over him, making him stronger but more of a macho jerk. His
response is to force a kiss on her and she pushes him away and stalks off
angrily….
At the Church of the
Damned, Anton Lupeski presides over the dark rites to impregnate Domini with
Dracula’s seed. The portrait of Jesus Christ watches over this, knowing that
the outcome will not be what is expected and what the child will become. But
then an old man with a shotgun enters, shooting down Lupeski’s followers;
Dracula seizes him by the throat to punish him. Domini tries to intervene but
Lupeski holds her back. The man prays to Christ for forgiveness and the vampire
bites his neck, drinking his blood. Domini reveals that the dead man was her
father, always seeking to rescue his erring daughter. Dracula departs, full of
plans for his son and his new religion, while Domini knows the truth: her
father was forgiven and so the Lord let him die before Dracula bit him, meaning
he will not rise again as a vampire but rest in peace. And the child will not
be the Devil’s son after all….