![]() Can we conclude that biting Vanessa not only returns the vampire to the human state, but gives him/her immortality? By all accounts this man should be dead. “Her existence could be the end of us,” he claims, but his partner counters that Vanessa could be “our future.” The doctor has the blood dealer vampire who returned to human form after biting Vanessa, but he has been horribly mutilated yet remains alive. ![]() Doc (Rukiya Bernard) is still normal, and four soldiers, including Axel remain.Īs if the existence of the enclave isn’t enough, the leaders have a doctor conducting experiments on pregnant women, and it’s here that he sets up the coming campaign. Are there others out there like Vanessa, and how much does the government really know?įast forward three years later to 2019, and Vanessa lies comatose on the table in the room we see her in as the pilot begins. When she describes Vanessa’s blood as acting “as if it’s still alive,” the revelation goes far beyond the reality that she’s not actually dead. The unusual nature of Vanessa’s corpse prompts the ME to call her sister who it turns out is connected to the Pentagon and clearly knows something’s going on. The medical examiner discovers a lot of blood but no wounds. So when the scene jumps to the morgue and Vanessa’s dead body in a bag, the audience recognizes she’s only mostly dead. That he gnaws at her in several places eventually killing her while her daughter sobs over the body as she bleeds out only intensifies the desire to see what comes next. Of course, we understand from the pilot that Vanessa and Axel’s primary focus will be to evade the Feeders, but now that we know it’s one of the enclave that’s tracked her down and with his superhuman strength overpowered her, the stakes grow exponentially. She sets the cake down, candles still burning, and we’re now concerned she’s going to burn down their home, though we’re not as worried about her safety since we just saw her kick the crap out of her best friend’s abusive boyfriend. The suspense builds as Dylan hides in the closet after Vanessa hears an intruder enter. Bathed primarily in a reddish tint as she attempts to celebrate Dylan’s birthday, Vanessa’s apartment transforms from a modest home into a horrific murder scene. Writer Simon Barry ( Continuum) and director Michael Nankin ( Defiance) present several extended views allowing the developing scenes some breathing room, a welcome relief from the frenetic editing present in so much television drama today. The enclave recognizes this and understands they must discover the source of this threat to their existence setting up a battle we didn’t know existed. The pieces begin falling into place, and we assume he drank Vanessa’s blood which returned him to human form. Viewers watch the delivery guy take a taste before delivering the stolen blood to the enclave, and it’s immediately clear something has changed him. Retreating to her closet after her absent father bails on his promise to fly her to his place for her birthday sets up one the most frightening and suspenseful scenes to date. It also could be argued that employing the daughter who seems older and wiser than her years and understands her mother is not the perfect mom may be a bit overused, but Hannah Cheramy as Vanessa’s daughter Dylan brings the perfect blend of acceptance of her mother’s plight and hope that they’ll one day climb out of this dreary life. ![]() I’ve always loved the use of the Space Needle as a geographic identifier, but it does make one wonder about the use of the Pacific northwest and by extension Yellowstone. We now see this formidable woman in a totally different light, and whereas before, our hearts went out to a mother searching for her missing daughter, viewing Vanessa’s daily struggle to maintain as normal as possible a life for her daughter feels even more devastating. She’s at the clinic with her daughter, and it’s evident she’s down on her luck, even lying to her daughter that she’s there for a job interview. Watching Vanessa sell her blood, it’s clear there’s something unusual about it and the camera shot insists we notice, but this marks only one facet of the scene’s importance. The introduction of an enclave of vampires awaiting its blood delivery from one of their own who has stolen it from a local clinic/blood bank, sets the scene for a plot point we already know, but witnessing the genesis of this new conflict opens up a secondary struggle as our protagonist has a target placed firmly on her back.
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