There is a standoff
at Anton Lupeski’s house: Frank Drake and Harold H. Harold have been captured
by the cultists while Rachel van Helsing brandishes her crossbow demanding they
let the men free. And then Dracula materializes in their midst. Rachel fires at
him and gives him a minor wound and tells Dracula to order his followers to
free the men—and Dracula, uninterested in confrontation, lets them all leave
unharmed. Dracula asks Lupeski to remove the crossbow bolt from his chest;
Lupeski toys with the idea of killing his “master” now but realizes that will
upset all of his other plans….
Rachel, Frank, and
Harold return to the Harker home to find Quincy Harker has suffered a heart
attack. They call an ambulance and he is taken to the hospital….
The cult throws a
fund-raising party attended by Boston’s elite where Dracula and Domini are
presented as the new messiah and the Mistress of Hell. The crowd is impressed
by Dracula’s personality and charisma, moreso when the demonstrates his ability
to turn into a bat or a mist. An old lady in the crowd sees Dracula as evil and
he hypnotizes her into submission. Then Dracula spies a figure lurking in the
shadows, recognizing him as one who has appeared to him in the past, as a
harbinger of doom—but the figure departs unseen. Lupeski notes this for future
possibilities. Then a wounded Hannibal King dashes into the room followed by
Blade’s vampire doppelganger; Dracula seizes the opportunity to demonstrate his
power and ruthlessness by destroying the Blade he thinks is the same one who has
been hounding him for years, though now become a vampire. (Present is Deacon Frost,
creator of the Blade doppelganger, amused at the turn of events.) As the
fight becomes intense, Lupeski takes Domini into an adjoining room for a talk;
Lupeski wants to make a deal with her, proposing that they kill Dracula and her
unborn child will become the new messiah, with Lupeski as regent, of course.
Domini rejects this offer, insisting she will deal with her husband in her own
way….
At the hospital
waiting for word on Quincy’s condition, Frank and Rachel hash out their
relationships problems, with her admitting that she keeps her emotions bottled
up and was resenting Frank for showing his. They kiss while Harold wisely
wishes he were somewhere else….
As Dracula continues
to throw Blade around, Hannibal King spots Deacon Frost and chases him. The
vampire easily escapes by turning into a mist then a bat, while King refuses to
use his vampiric powers. Dracula and Blade each seize a shard of broken
furniture to wield as stakes against each other. Blade stakes Dracula in the
back but misses his heart; Dracula stakes Blade dead center and the vampire
Blade dies….