Van Helsing (2016–…): Season 4, Episode 1 - Dark Destiny - full transcript

Vanessa faces against Sam with a surprising new ally. Meanwhile, Julius confronts Scab and the Daywalkers.

Previously on "Van Helsing"...

Go!

They're Ferals.

No, not anymore.

They're Daywalkers.

We don't have enough firepower.

We do now.

Ammo tipped with aluminum
silicide.

A poison I engineer,

made from the same
base chemical

Blak Tek was using
in your repellant.



The chemical that repels them
could also poison them.

This path you have
always walked.

I'll never become
an elder.

If not you, then him.

Let it be me.

So I just need to go back
to the lab,

get the results of the tests
and get out of here, okay?

No. I made Scab.

I've gotta make this right.

I keep them,
I kill you.

Julius!

Don't do it.

You will end
the Dark One.

Please don't...



Now you have
become Elder.

Lily!

The Van Helsings end now.

What is that hellish beast?

A nightmare I have to kill.

There is another way,
trust me.

There is no other way.
The Van Helsings end now.

Is that the sickly sweet smell
of Van Helsing blood

coursing through your veins?

Your resurrection will be...
brief.

You said there's another way
out of here?

Yes, but to use it we must get
past him and escape.

Oh, there's no escape.

Only death.

After you.

Okay, come on, come on,
come on.

Bye.

You could've stopped me years
ago when I was still human.

But then I killed Susan.

Oh, the blood I've spilled
since...

Since killing her.

Your fault!

I kill you now,
all is forgiven.

Make me.

This darkness is yours.

My destiny is just beginning...

As yours ends.

In the name of my grandfather,
Abraham Van Helsing,

I send you to hell!

Stop.

You must not.

I know the path
to the Dark One,

but to take it we need
a Van Helsing.

Destroy that which seeks
to destroy us.

Your words.

One, not both.

It is
my right.

No, you will do as
I command.

You don't control me.

But I do.

Always will.

And I too have a destiny,
and you will play your part.

I kill who I wish!

I do what I wish!

No!!!

Finally a challenge.

Death has always been
my true companion.

No.

We have to go, now.

I have always been there
by your side.

I've only seen you for
who you really are,

chose you.

Drawn to your darkness.

Come on.

Not back in the maze.

Trust me.

Why me?

Salvation of the Dark One,
through you, entwined in you.

Through here.

This place.

My sister.

Let me show you
what you can become.

But first, you must surrender
your will to me and do as I say.

I've never been a follower.

Let me guide you now.

Be yours.

Until the end.

Tell me what I must do.

She was here.

In the maze?
What happened?

She died.

The amulet.

We must hurry.

Find the blood amulet
and the Van Helsings.

Keep one alive.

We must keep this amulet away
from them.

If it falls into their hands,

we may no longer control
our own destiny.

This is a dead end.

Your eyesight is recovering.

How is that possible?

If you know of another way
out of here,

we need to find it now.

Here.

What are you doing?

Attempting to recollect
the combination.

My mother told me many stories
about this place.

Including a clue to get out,
if I can remember it.

So, if you please.

Thank you, mother.

Let's go, quickly.

Vanessa!

If they want this amulet
so badly,

why don't we just destroy it?

We tried.

Nothing worked.

What?...

What year is this?

Lily.

How long have I been gone?

More than 100 years.

No.

How?

How did it go this wrong?

Come on.

Scab.

It's me you want.

It's me you've
always wanted.

Just let me kill him for you.

Oh.

What is that, Scab?

You're scared
to face me?

Just like old times,
huh?

Stronger now than
you can imagine.

I have become a Sister.

Well that's weird.

But you know what,
Scab?

You've always been weak.

You have always been a follower
and you always will be.

Always.

And you are a pathetic human,

fallen from the heights
of what you were.

I will bathe in the blood
that I tear from your veins!

Shit.

No match for me.

Not anymore.

You know you talk
too much?

She didn't.

Your woman.

I sucked the life right
out of her.

This is for Frankie.

This is for my Mom.

And I'm sorry I ever
made you.

It worked.

It killed them.

All right, we gotta get
those people out.

Let's go!

Yes sir.

Clear the fence!

All right, let's go.

Move 'em out!

The poison bullets
aren't working!

They're getting back up!

Run!

Run!!!!!

Move, move, move,
move, move!

Let's go!

Get up. Get up.

Get up!

This sector has
been breached.

All citizens must evacuate
immediately...

I want you to find
that doctor, you understand?!

I want every square inch
of this place searched!

You hear me?

Find her.

To the gate.

Oh, shit!

I got him.

Get down.

It didn't work.

Get behind us!
They are coming!

The second that path clears,

you make a run for that gate
as fast as you can.

- You got that?
- Copy.

Let's finish this.

Ah, shit!

Julius!

No.

Make her watch
as I finish him.

Say it.

Look.

Say it.

Master.

Let us in!

Where's Nguyen?

He's dead.

Just let us in.

This sector's not secure.

I can't defy orders.

You have to let us in!

We're here, come on!
Let us in!

Please let us in!

I'm sorry, there's nothing
I can do.

Stand back.
Stand back!

Stand the down
before I blow his brains out.

Okay, okay, come on,
let's go!

- Doc...
- Oh, my god!

Doc, you opened
the gate.

You saved our lives.

Yeah, I did.

Put the weapon down.

One second.

Check her bag.

Where is the report?

What report?

I know you deleted it.

Where's the copy?

Oh, okay.

You want to play it like that.

We'll get the answers,
one way or the other.

Wait, no, no, wait, wait!

She saved our lives.

Are you seeing this?

Yeah.

Take him as well.

I'll get to the bottom of this.

I promise you that.

Ease up, ease up! Where the hell
are you taking us?

Someplace safe, where we can
talk without interruption.

Get 'em ready to board.

What?

You can't just fly away.

You made the mess, it's
your job to clean it up.

They've already taken over
half the city.

The silicide isn't working
on the Daywalkers.

We're being overrun.

Stay calm, Max.

I'm sending reinforcements.

The second we get airborne,
deploy the canisters.

Canisters?

For what?

Nerve agent.

Weapon of last resort.

But that won't do anything
to the vampires.

Oh, my god.

Get 'em out of here.

You can't do this!

That'll kill everyone else.

Get 'em outta here.

Don't do this!

What reinforcements?!

He did this to me!

Julian!

Rest.

Heal.

In time, you will have
your revenge.

I don't think I have
the strength...

Please!

I can help you.

I know where they went!

The only help that you
can provide is what pulses

through your veins.

We must find them.

We need a Van Helsing.

Why are we still here?

What is this?

A pathway forward.

The gateway of all
we have set in motion.

The Dark One?

Yes.

Points on a black star.

We must find the others.

Others?

In time, you will know
everything.

Now give me back
the blood amulet.

No.

No, you let them flee with it.

If you had let me kill them
when I could,

you would have the blood now.

We must move quickly.

Send word.

Ahhhh!!!!!

Return to the beginning!

Prepare for the awakening.

Mother of your sisters.

Bride of my beloved,

bear witness and bow down as the
darkness consumes the light.

Ivory.

Ivory.

I see our path now.

Our mother will rise.

She will rise.

Who is she?

The mother who shall rise?

Beloved of the Dark One.

The second of three.

Teach me everything.

I can give you the greatest gift
you have ever known.

The ability to be more than
you ever thought possible.

Perhaps to become
the Dark One yourself.

But your loyalty must remain
with me always.

Can you make that pact?

And in return, I can teach you
to be anything you wish,

have anything you desire.

Would you like that?

Yes.

Then come, my love.

Our fates must become entwined.

Drink from me.

All right, clear the LC.
We got a hawk coming in...

Hansen?

Hansen?

Hansen, are you even listening
to me?

Years of effort to take back
some of what we lost,

to establish a safe city,
and now in a matter of hours,

Denver has fallen.

You have to take account
for your actions.

I wasn't prepared to allow
the vampires to capture it.

There were thousands
of people.

Who would've been
turned into food,

or worse, a growing army
of Daywalkers.

Would that be more preferable
to you?

Blak Tek was supposed to be
providing solutions.

Hope.

Now all we have is a greater
crisis and a worse enemy.

That's on you.

With every loss,
there are certain gains.

Lessons to be learned.

What?

It takes a few broken eggs
to make an omelette?

Don't you dare flip
the narrative.

No, no, that's very good,
Miss Avery.

Very, very good.

In fact, that analogy
is kind of perfect.

Come on.
Get over here.

Who the hell are they?

Uh, eggs.

A Denver omelette, if you will.

Blak Tek was supposed to find a
cure for this vampire situation.

We went through so many
amazing things,

but in the end the result was...
disappointing.

That's a hell of
an understatement.

This goddamn Daywalker virus,

it was made by Blak Tek,
wasn't it?

That rogue Frankenstein
operation

you were running
in the mountains.

It was a project
that went astray.

A project that spawned
an epidemic.

Mutant vampires that
we can't defend against.

Or can we?

In the jaws of defeat,
perhaps there lies victory.

But to get there,
excuse me.

Thank you.

A few eggs get broken.

Thank you.

Are you insane?

What the hell did you
just do?

Shh.

Wait for it.

What the hell, man?

That's not possible.

You son of a bitch.

Get off me!

Get off me.

All right?

I just took a bullet to
the ticker, would you relax?

That's not possible.

It shouldn't be,
but it is now.

Only Daywalkers can heal
from a fatal shot like that.

Is... is he?

No.

But he was a vampire.

He was turned back
by Vanessa Van Helsing.

I've heard of her.

Thought maybe it was
just a hopeful legend.

No, she's real.

There's something special
in her DNA.

It can reverse vampirism.

Tell me how.

I don't know.

But I can help you find answers.

We both could.

Would you back off, lady?

I ain't a freak show.

Don't you see what he is?

A mutant.

Hey.

A solution.

If I can replicate what's
flowing through his veins,

make a serum that would allow
regular humans to gain

this vampire resistance,
this rapid self-healing...

...We could make
ourselves immune.

And the tide would turn.

We'd regain the upper hand,

and this nightmare would come
to an end once and for all.

And is this something only
you can figure out?

Well, with the right motivation,
she's capable of anything.

There's no sign of them.

We're safe for now.

Too modern?

No. It suits you.

More than 100 years, trapped,
neither dead nor alive,

while the world unfolded
and fell to pieces.

My husband, my daughter,
lived and died without me.

I never got the chance to...
to know my own child.

I think she was my
great-grandmother.

Her strength passed on.

Your strength.

So you are my...
great, great granddaughter?

Vanessa.

Vanessa.

My mother's name.

She was a veritable force
of nature.

My family and I, our family, we
hunted all the powerful elders.

Imprisoned the ones
that we found.

Their power was thought
to be vanquished.

And yet, this world outside,
that hellish thing in the maze?

Sam, or whatever he's become.

The fourth elder.

Did you play a role in this?

I destroyed them all.

Abadon, Gabah, even Jacob.

Why?

Why would you do that?

Because I wanted to.

I wanted to raise
the Dark One to kill it.

How?

With what knowledge
that you could succeed?

I wasn't raised like you.

Aware of what I was,
my role in all this.

I learned.

I adapted.

I made mistakes.

How could you be
so headstrong?

So reckless?

Do you understand the gravity
of what you've done?

The oracle and the fourth elder
are on the path now

to freeing the Dark One,
and it's because of you.

Then help me stop them.

You said they needed this.

For a ritual.

There are pages in a book...

The Van Helsing book.

Yes.

Do you have it?

It's safe.

I can take you to it.

Well played.

But I want to make something
crystal clear.

As much as you want to cozy up
to Avery,

I'm still the gatekeeper.

So we're prisoners here
until I get results?

Cooperate, prove
yourself useful,

and you'll find your stay here
much more comfortable.

Look, the kind of work
you want me to do-

I... I'll give you a full lab.

Better than you've ever had,
even before the rising.

You can give me the whole CDC,

what I promised her
was a fantasy.

No, what you gave her
was hope.

Surely the data that you got in
Denver from that gene sequencer

will get you one step closer
to the answers.

Like I said, what data?

Remind me to never play poker
with you, Sarah.

Why would I do that?

Even fools know the house holds
all the cards.

What about my friend?

Your frie...

Oh, don't be so sentimental.

Come here.

Use him as you need to.

Doc, Doc, I ain't... I ain't
nobody's lab rat.

Doc!

Doc!

Back down! Back down!

Oh, wow.

I have got the shot.

Stand down.

All of you.

You're well-trained.

Fearless.

Lethal.

And you're an asshole.

Thank you.

I was going to have her
cut you up into pieces,

but instead I think I have
a better use for you first.

Are you certain?

Something this important

I wasn't going to leave
on that island

or take to Renfield House.

Safe and sound, see.

That's good.

Give it to me.

Wow.

A great deal has been added
since I last laid eyes upon it.

Your daughter, and
eventually my mother,

it passed through
both their hands.

To understand what's at stake,
you must know about the ritual.

You'll have to cut me.

Van Helsing blood reveals
the ink.

I know.

How?

Your mother?

No.

We discovered it ourselves.

Me and my sister.

She gave her life for yours,
didn't she?

Oh, Vanessa.

It's what we do.

We Van Helsings.

We protect each other.

Keep the family legacy alive.

There's no guilt in it.

Still, everything I've done,
all the people who have died.

There's still hope.

Let me show you.

No. Let me.

I heal, remember?

A curiosity I still
don't understand.

My grandfather
sketched these.

It was he who sacrificed himself
to entomb the Dark One.

He had a plan
for the rest of us,

that much my grandmother
remembered.

For years, she told me
that there were secrets

I was too young
to be burdened with.

By the time I was old enough,
her mind was... gone.

She handed me the amulet
and said it was up to me now.

What was up to you?

I don't know.

To use it.

To destroy it.

The truth was lost with her.

Did it have anything to do
with killing the Dark One?

What is this?

I believe it is the ceremonial
place of Incarnar,

the boundary between earth
and the shadow realm

where the Dark One
was exiled.

My grandfather told me
about these gates.

The place he built beyond.

And the amulet has something
to do with these ceremonies?

I believe so.

It must, or else...

What?

Why would grandfather?...

What's wrong?

I don't know, I just suddenly
feel quite faint.

Might we rest a while?

What's this about?

I think you and I got off
on the wrong foot.

Yeah, a bullet
to the chest?

That'll do it.

Well, I'd like to make amends.

I don't want you to think of
yourself as some test subject.

That's reassuring.

Oh, but wait.

There's a catch, right?

You're something quite unique.

You can fight, you heal,
you're a formidable adversary,

but perhaps there's something
even more.

I ain't no thug.

If you're looking for muscle,

you can find yourself
another stooge.

I didn't do it for the mob,

and I sure as hell ain't going
to do it for you.

I'm thinking of something
quite... different.

The world is a dangerous place,

and she's the most
precious thing I've ever had.

I can't risk anything
happening to her.

Who is she?

My daughter.

Violet.

And you, Julius, are her
new sparring partner.

- Oh, boy.
- Hmm-mmm.

It's no use.

What do you mean?

Without the blood,
the amulet's pointless.

One would think.

Look at it again.

How?

Some dark enchantment.

A mystery we could
never understand.

What is it?

The elder Abadon, he sent me
into some altered state.

I went back to Hong Kong
in the past.

I was you.

What was it like?

Being me?

I learned a lot.

About what we're up against,

who you are,
and who I am.

And who are you?

There's a part of me
I've had to fight.

A darkness.

It called to me for a while.

I almost gave in to it.

Whatever happens, you must
never surrender to the darkness.

Why would it call to you?

I was bitten by Abadon.

And you survived
without turning?

How?

The darkness consumed Jacob
after he was bitten.

He became an elder.

But... you're still human.

I don't think I'm a true
Van Helsing like you.

Somehow I was made with
the blood of the Dark One.

How?

Your mother?

No.

Not naturally.

By some kind of science.

I was an experiment.

Who would do such a thing?

Why?

They found us.

Stay here.

Lily!

Did it bite you?

Uh, no.

Okay. Just lie back.

It's okay.

What happened to you just now?

That vampire?

Your eyes?

You bit it.

I told you I'm not like you.

Lily.

There's nothing that
can be done.

What are you doing?

It bites you,
you turn and heal.

No!

No, then I'll become
one of them.

You saw what I can do.

I'll change you back.

No.

No, no, no.

I'll never turn!

I'd rather die!

Get that thing away
from me!

It's my time.

There's no way to find
our path now.

No way to the gates and
the answers that lie there.

No, Lily.

Lily, how do I find the gates?

What do I do with the amulet?

The light has already faded
from your eyes.

I swear to you, I can fight
the darkness.

I can find the light.

All these centuries
of struggle... for nothing.

They won't win, Lily.

I won't let them.

The light isn't dead,
but the Dark One will be.

I swear.