Moonlight (2007–2008): Season 1, Episode 6 - B.C. - full transcript

NARRATOR:
Previously on Moonlight:

Being on the hunt
with you is kind of fun.

It's a giant thrill
ride that never ends.

MAN: Silver's
like poison to you.

You've been avoiding
me ever since...

So how does it work,
anyway? The sex thing.

Your parents never told you?

They skipped the
part involving vampires.

I saw the way you two
looked at each other.

MICK: What we want
doesn't always matter.

But then again,
sometimes it's all that does.



NIGEL: Gorgeous, Renee, yeah.

Right there, yeah, yeah. Show
me that, show me that. Raise it up.

Gorgeous. Come on.

We're here with
photographer Nigel Hart...

shooting a sneak peak of
the exciting new collection...

of hot young designer
Ghislaine Tavares.

Outfits only a
broomstick could wear.

NIGEL: You got it, yes.

STEVE: All right, let me
just go in for a little peek.

NIGEL: Hold, hold.

Watch the platter hands.

Not loving that. Come on.

Show me sexy, babe. Let's go.

- Hot, Renee.
- Steve.



- Hello? I'm over here.
STEVE: Can I say something?

I think you got the wrong
attitude about this assignment.

I'm a crime reporter. We
should be covering a trial...

or a riot, not this fluff.

Beats corpses in an alley, right?
At least everyone here's alive.

Barely.

Get up. Up!

Okay, okay.

Oh, God.

- Tell me it's not twilight.
- No. I'm looking for somebody.

- What, do you think they're in here?
- I need your help.

- You need my help.
- Don't make me say it again.

JOSEF: Dolores Maxford
Whittaker. Lola to her friends.

MICK: Nice.

- She a vampire?
- Of course she's a vampire.

She's the vampire.
Oldest one I've ever met.

We've had this on-again, off-again
thing for a hundred years or so.

She came back into
town, so it's on again.

Until she disappears.

- What you get for dating older women.
- Better than dating a human.

Beth and I are not...
What's this about?

I told you, she's vanished.

And I haven't found
her in her usual haunts.

Believe me, I've been looking.

- You got her phone number?
- She usually calls me.

So you guys are
really close, huh?

In our own special way.

She's always been sort
of unpredictable, exciting.

Traits you'll come to value
when you hit the 400-year mark.

Yeah, yeah. So she's
been calling you?

- Yeah.
- Cell phone.

So let me get this straight.

She stood you up.

So instead of moving on,
you became so worried...

that you immediately came
over here and woke me up.

How much does she owe you?

You see what you can find out.

- Thanks.
- Hey.

NIGEL: Yeah, that's
good. Right there.

The theme for Ghislaine's
collection is celestial bodies.

And this outfit is the focal point,
the linchpin that holds it all together.

NIGEL: Loving you
right now, Renee.

- Was that better?
- There's just a tinge of condescension.

- Just a tinge.
NIGEL: Beautiful.

What is that? Come
on, come on, keep it up.

That's not so
high-fashion, sweetheart.

Renee?

WOMAN 1: Get an ambulance.
NIGEL: Let her breathe.

- Come on. MAN: Call 911, go.

WOMAN 2: Some kind of seizure.
WOMAN 3: Hang on, Renee.

NIGEL: Renee? WOMAN 1: No.

WOMAN 2: It's okay.
- Did you get that?

Yeah. Yeah, I got it all.

- And I wouldn't call
that fluff. NIGEL: Renee.

No heartbeat. She's dead.

Excuse me.

You're with that
video crew. Go away.

You were her friend, obviously.

Don't pretend
you're all concerned.

- You don't even know her name.
- Renee, Renee Beresford.

Moved here from
Shreveport last year.

I didn't know her, but
I do know her name.

- I've done my homework.
- I really should go call her mom.

BETH: So you were friends.

Do you have any idea
what just happened?

Not really.

We went out last
night to two clubs.

Then around 11, she wants
to go to this other place...

but I really needed to go home.

- Where'd she go?
- Club Valis.

Just opened. She
never came back home.

Just showed up today wearing
what she had on last night.

She said none of this mattered
anymore and that she was gonna quit.

Anyway, I really should go find
out if someone called her mom.

- Okay. MAN 1: Confirm
with the coroner...

before they go ahead and move.

MAN 2: I'll talk to him.

Beth. What are you doing here?

Covering a story that just
got way more interesting.

- Get any video of what happened here?
- Yeah.

- I'm gonna need that tape.
- I'm gonna need it back.

I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to
ask you to leave the crime scene.

A girl just convulsed and
died. This is a crime scene?

I'm not gonna discuss
an ongoing investigation.

Ongoing? Since when?

- What's going on?
CARL: Excuse me.

- I'm gonna ask you not to follow this.
- You're not gonna give me anything?

This is our third OD in two weeks
from a drug we can't even identify.

- Come on. Let's go.
- Hey. Take it easy.

- How about I owe you dinner?
- You owe me dinner anyway.

[STEVE CLEARS THROAT]

Yeah, give him the tape.

All right. Here you go, big guy.

- Thank you.
- Hey, Josh.

JOSH: I'll call you later.

- What was that all about?
- Do you know of Club Valis?

Mm-mm.

MICK: I love the way the camera
caught the light on her cheekbones.

You could dance on those.

Digital photography. What
a boon for the tribe, huh?

Remember the old
film days, no image?

- It was like you didn't even exist.
- Okay, okay, so did you find her?

Before I tell you that,
I just have to know.

Is there any chance that
you hired me to find Lola...

so you could cut off her
very photogenic head?

Why would I wanna do that?

You tell me.

I tracked the cell that
she called you from.

- Wanted to see who she was talking to.
- And?

She bought a metric ton of silver
from a place called Allied Metals.

- A ton of silver?
- Yeah, quite an arsenal.

She got a vampire problem?

I can't think of any who'd
wanna go up against her.

All those centuries she's lived.
With that kind of age comes power.

I'm beginning to see why
you're so attracted to her.

You know, when I met her,
she was building a pirate army.

- A pirate army?
- Back in the day, you could do that.

- Okay, so, what aren't you telling me?
- Your vamp sense must be off.

I'm telling you all I know.

No, it's actually my detective
sense at work here, Josef.

- What's going on?
- It's embarrassing, okay?

She stole money from me.

- I knew it. How much?
- A million bucks.

Siphoned it from my accounts
right before she disappeared.

What, did you give her
your password or something?

- You gave her your password?
- Not on purpose.

- I don't wanna know.
- I can't let this happen.

On principle alone, I can't
let her cheat me like this.

It'll ruin my reputation.

MICK: So this is
just about money.

There's no hurt feelings
about being stood up...?

- No, of course not.
- No, of course not.

I got the address where
they shipped the silver.

It's a storage
facility downtown.

Well, don't forget,
she's powerful.

You can't just confront her.

Thanks to your
once-a-decade booty call...

a dangerous vampire now possesses
a large quantity of a lethal substance.

I kind of have to check it out.

- Hi.
- Hey.

- Thank you. MAN:
Can you believe this?

- Right hand.
- Thank you.

[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]

You're gonna hate that.
The drinks suck here.

- I'm not here for the drinks.
- That's what I'm talking about.

I'm not here for that either.

Right.

Ah. Yes, the upstairs VIP room.

Forget about that unless
you've been pre-approved.

- What do you mean?
- It's qualified buyers only.

How do you get to be one?

No offense, but if I knew, would
I be out here talking to you?

No, no, no. I
didn't mean... Wait.

I just...

- Sorry.
- What? I got a stamp.

A stamp doesn't get
you into the VIP room.

- What will?
- Being a VIP.

There's a list.

- How do I get on it?
- You talk to the owner.

- Who is where?
- In the VIP room.

- Sorry.
- I'm a friend of Renee's.

She said it wouldn't be a
problem getting upstairs.

Well, it's not a problem
if you know how...

but you don't, so...

MICK: If you're human, a metric ton of
silver is maybe a good inflation hedge.

Or a lot of jewelry.

If you're a vampire, it
has a different meaning.

Lola had bought enough silver
to paralyze every vamp in L.A.

Made me wonder
what she was planning.

Silver.

Terrance. Where's Guillermo?

A straight flush won me a
week's worth of his night shifts.

Please tell me that's
just lunch in there.

Not this time.

TERRANCE: Oh!

This is L.A. County Morgue...

not Help-U-Autopsy. Can't
just bring in your own bodies.

I need to know what killed him.

TERRANCE: I'm thinking
fire. MICK: Well, not just.

- Silver.
- Yeah, a lot of it.

The silver should
show up in the blood.

Blood should show up too.

- What?
- This vamp's been drained.

Someone soaked him in
silver and drained his blood?

Then set him on fire.
It's kind of excessive.

- Silver would paralyze the vamp.
- So would a stake.

Yeah, but with a stake, there
would be blood loss, right?

With silver, you can
paralyze with no leakage.

- Whoever did this wanted the blood.
- But why?

I got a list three pages long of
vamps who want human blood.

Never heard of anyone
wanting vampire blood.

Some freak is out there
feeding on his own kind?

Actually, her own kind.

I'll let you know
when I find out.

MAN: I could so lose my job.
BETH: You're happy to risk it, though.

What am I buying you this time?

- IPhone?
- IPhone.

- I just wanna see her hand.
- Some friend of yours?

- No, she's a model.
- That explains it.

BETH: What?
- She's really hot.

- Do you mind?
- Knock yourself out.

Just make it quick.

- What's the V? BETH:
Nothing, it's what I have.

That's not what got her in.

- Got her in where?
- The VIP room at a club.

There was a bouncer checking
people's hands and letting them in.

What's that incision?

Something under her
skin. We removed it.

- What?
- A microchip.

A microchip? What,
like James Bond?

No, like "Find my lost cat."

People get them put in
pets. Any vet can do it.

Do you read those
with a scanner?

Yeah, shelters do.

But I've never seen
one in a human before.

Wow. So Club Valis uses
a microchip and a scanner.

How 21st century.

- This VIP room, do they serve silver?
- Silver? What do you mean?

The other weird thing about your
pal is that she had silver in her blood.

What? How much?

More than if you used
it as a supplement.

This silver was pure. My
guess? It's what did her in.

[PHONE RINGING]

You really gotta go.

Hey, what you got for me?

- Hey.
- Hey.

So this isn't
awkward or anything...

running into each other in the
middle of the night in a morgue.

Again.

Look, I don't wanna invade your
privacy, whatever you do here.

Oh, no. I'm working
on a case, it's...

- Oh, me too. A story.
- Oh, how's it going?

- Great.
- Good, that's... That's good.

Listen, I'm trying to get into this club.
You don't know a good vet, do you?

Me? No.

Vampires can't really
be trusted with pets.

- It's...
- Of course.

What kind of club is it
that you're going to...

that you need to go to a vet?

I...

I need this microchip
inserted in my hand.

- Well, of course you do.
- They scan them.

- Can't you just hold it?
- They check carefully.

- Okay.
- Found it in this model who collapsed.

The morgue guy thinks it's from
traces of silver found in her blood.

- Silver?
- Any more than trace amounts...

- and you overdose.
- Any idea how it got in there?

No idea, but she was fine
before she went to Club Valis.

I don't have a vet, but
I have something else.

Come on.

Don't worry, it's sterile.

Honestly, I was more
worried about the size.

Why do you even
have that, anyway?

Oh, right. Stupid question.

Okay. This may
hurt a little bit.

Okay, but I'll be
fine, right? Won't I?

Let's hope.

By the way, the
whole kiss thing...

Yeah, the kiss.

I was thinking that maybe
that was, like, an accident.

Oh, okay.

Tell me when.

All done.

Put your finger there.

So I wanna go with you.

- To Club Valis.
- Oh, I'll be okay.

I'm actually looking
for someone.

The silver makes me think
that maybe she's there.

She?

- Yeah.
- I'll see you there in two hours.

I can't believe this.

I spent two hours getting myself
up to club admissionability...

and you're wearing the
same thing you always wear.

Yes, well, perpetual coolness
is the vampire's curse.

By the way, how do
you get away with silver?

- I thought it was poison for vampires.
- It's gold.

- And where's this VIP room?
- Upstairs in the back.

Good.

You're gonna do that
vampire-jumping thing, aren't you?

- I don't have a chip.
- Just being human is so lame.

I know, but you wear it well.

I'll see you inside.

I got my invite.

Thank you.

Don't let anybody else in.

WOMAN 1: Black crystal?

MAN 1: Yeah, baby.

WOMAN 2: Okay, sure.

WOMAN 1: Black crystal?

MAN 2: Thanks. WOMAN 2: Ready?

MAN 2: Okay.

WOMAN 1: I need another cognac.

MAN 3: All right. MAN
4: You got it, baby.

That girl that just came up?

- Scanner said Renee Beresford.
- Your model friend.

ALAN: You want me to pull her out?
- I'll handle it.

Black crystal?

Thank you.

Thank you.

We prefer you consume
it on the premises.

I was just waiting for a
friend. We were gonna share.

Why are you wasting your time?
She's not even supposed to be here.

Calvin, go get me a drink.

You're not Renee Beresford.

How did you get her chip?

Oh, Renee gave it to me.

I just wanted to try
what she was doing.

Then try it. It's all for you.

- I'm gonna wait for my
friend. MICK: Sorry I'm late.

I knew I should have
closed the window.

You must be Lola.

- And you are?
- We have a mutual friend.

He's been worried about you.

If it's the friend I'm thinking
of, he's not worried. Trust me.

This little thing
helping you track me?

- She's got nothing to do with this.
- Oh, I think she does.

Your friend and I have
something in common.

But you can see that, can't you?

And you two, don't
tell me, just friends.

Leave her alone.

LOLA: He lets you
know what we are...

and then leaves you on the
edge of our world, looking in.

Don't you wanna do
more than just look?

- What is that?
- It's what she came here for.

- It's black crystal.
- Well, you found it. You should go.

He cares about you,
but he hasn't turned you.

- Nobody's turning anyone.
- I don't want that.

You say that now.

You're young.

But in a year or two, when
he stops coming around...

and you look in the mirror...

I know you've looked
at him and wondered:

"What does it feel like to
move through the night...

so powerful nothing
can touch you?"

- I can give you that...
- Leave her alone.

Without turning you.

Taste it.

Just once, and you'll see.

MAN 1 [OVER LOUDSPEAKER]:
This is the police.

We need everybody to move
against the far wall. The south wall.

Cops. Get rid of everything.

This is the police.
Everyone, stay where you are.

No one leaves the building.

MAN 2: Everybody out.
- We can get this over with quickly.

Remember, darling,
half the world is night.

MAN 3: The back stairs.

Bag that.

You have got to be kidding me.

JOSH: Seal off those
exits. WOMAN: Yes, sir.

- Josh...
- Don't.

Pat everyone down,
starting with him.

CARL: With pleasure.

- Come on, private eye.
- Hey.

CARL: You know the drill.

Come on.

Thanks for taking me home.

Look...

I asked you not
to follow that story.

- Be angry if you want to.
- I don't want to.

But what do you expect when I walk into
a club we're raiding and see you there...

- with Mick St. John?
- That's what this is about.

- How do you think that looks?
- Like I'm a good reporter...

who got to a drug source
before the DA's office.

And I wasn't there with Mick.

- Not really.
- Look, I'm gonna go.

I'll call you later, okay?

Okay.

JOSEF: So? MICK:
Got something for you.

JOSEF: Oh, yeah?

Black crystal.

What, so I'm financing
a drug operation?

Not just.

[SNIFFS]

- This is vampire blood.
- Yes.

- Apparently, the high is us.
- Where's she getting the blood?

I found one vamp
drained. I'll bet there's more.

She's preying on her own
kind. I should've known.

She stole a million bucks
from you. How could you know?

- She didn't steal it.
- She didn't steal it?

She asked and I gave it to her.

Can't help myself.

But I thought she
had, you know, limits.

The vampire used to make this
survived maybe hundreds of years.

This used to be someone,
and Lola exterminated him...

reduced him down to a vial of
party drugs, fed him to humans.

Yeah, some of
those are dying too.

I know this isn't what
you signed up for...

but you can't let the
cops solve this case.

Lola won't hide what she is.

- The cops find her...
- They find us.

- Yeah.
- Don't worry about that.

I'm not gonna let that happen.

BETH: PCP, bitter
chemical taste.

Heroin's bitter too.

LOLA: What does it feel like?

Just once and you'll see.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Hey.

We got no drug.

What do you mean?
We have 5 ounces.

Toxicology ran it four times.

They can't identify anything
illegal in it. It's just filler.

- Traces of silver?
- Take too much of that, it'll kill you.

No, people are paying
a lot for this stuff.

We must be missing something.

Well, we got one guy that
might talk. You just gotta ask him.

Look, I'm a damn
doorman, is all, okay? I just...

I create a cool factor.

Let's think how
a jury will see it.

First...

they'll see three people...

dead from a drug
bought in your club.

Three innocents who
bought your marketing.

The best high ever.

They'd hear all about
your cool factor...

where kids line up outside
just so you can tell them...

they're not good-looking
enough to get in.

You see how this looks?

You're a predator, these
kids are your victims.

I want a deal.

Immunity, and
I'll give you Lola.

She makes the drugs.

I can tell you where she is.

How about this?

You wear a wire and say
exactly what we tell you to.

You're not worried about
the cops. They've got nothing.

We're gonna have to
distribute somewhere else.

A new location
will be even better.

We'll have a fresh supply
of vamps to choose from.

If we take any more from here,
someone's gonna start noticing.

And we've already
drawn enough attention.

Thanks to you and your
human girlfriend, Renee.

Lola...

[SNAPS]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Did you forget something?

Hey. Can I come in?

Yeah, of course.

- Is everything okay?
- Everything's great.

I feel fine.

I walked all the way here.

Why?

I wanted to feel the night.

Did you take some of that drug?

It was research for my story.

It tasted really weird.

Yeah, that's because
it's vampire blood.

Do you feel like
this all the time?

I don't know.

- I doubt it.
- I feel everything.

When I was walking...

the breeze felt like individual
molecules brushing against my skin.

I felt people in their houses.

I could feel their lives.

Can you do that?

Do you feel me?

Or is it more of a scent?

You have no idea
what you're doing.

I feel close to everything.

To you.

There's no space between us.

Hey, there is space.
There is space.

You saved me twice.

- There are no barriers between us.
- You just think there aren't.

- This is the drug, it's not you.
- No, no, no. Shh.

This is me. I
just didn't know it.

And I like it.

I wanna be close to you.

Come on, Mick.

Join me.

It's the drug.

Turn me.

Turn me.

- Do it.
- No, Beth.

Do it.

MICK: It's just the drug.

BETH: What time is it?

It's early.

- Is this yours?
- Yeah.

Your clothes were
wet, but they're dry now.

- So do you remember much?
- No.

Yes.

The drug made
me feel invincible.

Like I was more than human.

I felt like the hottest
thing on the planet.

Like no one could resist me.

Well, sounds like
this drug gives you...

all the highs of being a
vampire without the lows.

What could be the downside
of feeling like that forever?

The scrounging.

The hiding.

Missing all the things
that you once loved...

like sunbathing, food.

I used to love that
prime rib at Musso's.

Now I can't even
remember what it tastes like.

They say it gets easier
the longer you live...

but I hope that's not true.

Really? I think you'd
hope for the opposite.

To forget what it's
like to be human?

No way. Never.

I was wearing that?

Yeah.

- That is not like me at all.
- Actually, you said it was the real you.

I better get going.

I have some apologies to make.

- Rough night?
- You could say that.

I'm...

I'm glad you're here.

Sorry I was insensitive about your
case. I know it's important to you.

Don't know what I was
thinking, trying to order you off.

The fact that I was in
the club, it was just work.

I'm sorry if I embarrassed you.

I shouldn't have made
such a big deal out of it.

It's just...

This case is driving me crazy.

I really messed it up.

- The drug evidence vanished.
- It's gone?

We seized the drug,
but there's nothing illegal.

Toxicology couldn't get a read.

The guy we got from the club
is giving us the manufacturer.

Some woman named Lola.

[KNOCKING]

- Hey, he's wired.
- Is he okay?

- He's a little scared, but he'll do it.
- Okay.

Warehouse is at
Fifth and Alameda.

- Hey. I got the officers ready.
- Okay.

All right.

- Hey, look, I better go.
- Okay.

Okay? Good luck.

Mick, it's Beth.

Listen, the police are about to raid
Lola's warehouse at Fifth and Alameda.

If there's anything there you don't
want them to find, you get there first.

Okay.

- Where's Lola?
- I don't know.

- Where's Lola?
- She's in back.

Get out.

It finally made sense.

The silver, the vampire blood.

Oh, my God.

Lola had made her
own little factory.

Immobilize, extract...

and eventually, dispose.

LOLA: I wouldn't do that.

It'll kill him.

They're vampires.

You're preying on your own kind.

LOLA: Don't get all
sanctimonious on me.

Humans kill each other
every day, no one even blinks.

It's evil.

"Evil" is a word that
gets tossed around a lot.

Like "great" or "awesome."

You're enjoying this.

Everyone should enjoy
their work, don't you think?

You're done here.
You're done everywhere.

So self-righteous. Like Josef.

Both of you, with
your rules and laws.

We're above all that.

But you, still trying to be human,
hanging onto your little freshie friend.

Being all tragic and dark.

You can't go through
eternity that way.

You'll understand
when you're older.

[LOLA CACKLING]

MICK: I don't need to be older.

I understand now.

CARL: All right, bring it around, men.
All right, listen, we're going in hot...

There's nothing I
could do for the others.

With that much silver in their
bodies, they're dead already.

CARL: You three, go around,
come in the back entrance.

You three, take the east
door. You two, come with me.

Believe me, I'm
doing them a favor.

Down, down!

Moving back.

Moving back.

BETH: The explosion
happened just after midnight.

Police believe this is the site of
the drug-manufacturing facility...

that's responsible for the
black-crystal overdoses.

They have no leads as to the
whereabouts of the people involved.

- This is Beth Turner for Buzzwire.
- So you got your story.

BETH: Yeah.

This fire...

Anybody can see
how convenient it is.

It's Lola covering her tracks.

I would think that somebody
obsessed with mysteries, like you...

would seize on that.

And get in the middle
of your investigation?

No, thanks.

JOSH: Investigation's over.

DA's just happy black crystal's
disappeared from the scene.

And so has Lola.

She won't be back.

I don't wanna know.

MICK: The warehouse is torched.

Everything's been taken care of.

What about...?

She's dead.

Well, you know, Lola never
told me exactly how old she was.

- You know how women are.
- Yeah.

She was at least 500 years old.

- Five hundred?
- Yeah.

Wow.

Imagine everything
she must have seen.

- Yeah.
- All the history.

Lola said she thought
you and I were alike.

- Alike?
- Yeah.

- You and me?
- Yeah.

Self-righteous, following
human rules and laws...

moral principles,
that kind of thing.

Don't worry. She was wrong.

You're 100 percent vampire.

Well, you know, when
you've lived as long as Lola...

it tricks you into thinking
you're above it all.

That you really are immortal.

Yeah.

Then it ends.

JOSH: Beth, dinner's ready.

Okay, I'll be just a minute.

[ENGLISH SDH]