Gwen was my mom's best friend. - Raelle tried to summon Willa, and she didn't come. - The requested dead cannot refuse to appear. - If you can't feel her by your side, it just means she hasn't gotten there yet. - So you think Nicte gave her working to the Spree? - I think Nicte created the Spree. - CHARVEL: My voice was easy enough to slice out. I can't wait to see what he can do with yours. - Is that how you woo your women? Splitting boulders? Or do you only use your earth work in battle? - We're pacifists. - The Camarilla are emboldened with every attack. - Being hunted gives you a unique perspective on survival. - Time to make them feel hunted. And we start with the one who killed Charvel. - As long as I can get a bit of Charvel's blood, everything should be fine. - Time to hunt. - IZADORA: They've engineered it to become a self-sustaining hunter. And once it latches on, death follows. - (GROANS) (WOMEN SCREAM) - We have orders to keep Miss Special Projects here out of trouble. (DARTS FIRE, WOMEN GRUNT) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SOFT, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC) - Petra! Tally Craven is on the phone. - Tell her Abigail isn't home, Claude. - She says Raelle has been kidnapped. - Have the car brought around. I need to get back to base. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (TENSE MUSIC) - (COUGHS WEAKLY) - Hold still. - Thank you... for staying. What happened while I was out? - Raelle Collar's security detail was attacked. - (GRUNTS) - The attackers took her. They fled the scene. MPs out of Fort Deacon are already running her down. - Who took her? - The Camarilla. - (GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (TENSE MUSIC) - (GRUNTS STIFFLY) - You're awake. I am surprised, considering the amount of paralytic we gave you. I've heard you have a very special gift. We will have that. (BEEPING) There's only one throat like that in the world. Do be careful. (OMINOUS MUSIC) (MUSIC RISES DRAMATICALLY) (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC) Captions by Able. Captions were made with support from NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2021 (MUSIC CONTINUES) - It wasn't always just me and Khalida. We used to have a big family ` aunts, uncles, so many cousins. There are only a few of us that still know how to make this. (VOCALISES DEEPLY) When we got separated, we would use a tool like this to find each other. We call it a... (SPEAKS MOTHERTONGUE) - Blood compass. - I keep a vial of Khalida's around my neck, and she has mine. Just in case. (TENSE MUSIC) (VOCALISES DEEPLY) - What do those lines mean? - The big one leads back to the sycamore grove. The smaller one... - To the rest of Charvel. How far? - That way. Couple hundred miles. - It's OK. We're gonna make them pay. (DEEP RUMBLING) (RUMBLING STOPS) - Thank you for your help, cadet. - Wait, that's it? But... - A BAT will take you back to base. It's safer for you there. - I can't just leave. I can help. - That's all for now. - I deserve to know what's going on. Now, you know something. You tell me. She's my daughter. - Thank you both for your time. - We're gonna find her. - OK. (PHONE RINGS) Hello? Rae? - Is it Raelle? - I'm sorry, Mr Collar. This is War College Administration. I'm looking for Raelle Collar. Is she there? - I don't` I don't know where she is. Your investigators were here all morning. Ask them. They won't tell me a damn thing. - I'm sorry. I` - (HANGS UP) - We're too late. They got her. - (EXHALES HEAVILY) - Why do they want Raelle? - We can wonder why later. Where is she? - I know who we can ask. - (GRUNTS) (GROANS IN PAIN) - You're not going anywhere. - I won't just lay here while the military's most valuable asset, one of my daughters, is in the hands of the enemy. - And if you set foot outside this room, we cannot guarantee you won't be hit with an immediate attack. (DOOR OPENS) - Any word on Collar? - Not yet. Transport's on their way to pick Craven up. - What else? - The Vice President is here for you, General. For the joint statement about the testing centres. - I suppose I've been preoccupied. Clearly, we need to delay it. - His office is holding firm. They don't want the nation stewing any longer than she needs to about what happens next. - We can't hold it down here in the Warding Circle. - Not without revealing its existence to the entire world, including the Spree that attacked you. - They should see that they failed! - We can't risk exposing you or the Biddies to anyone until the situation has been resolved. - And how do we plan on resolving it? I can't stay down here forever. - We are working on it. - Work fast, then. (TENSE MUSIC) I've prepared a statement. Join the Vice President in my place. Tell his office I'm occupied with a classified matter. (SCREAMS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (OMINOUS MUSIC) - Making my first incision. (HEART MONITOR BEEPS STEADILY) (GASPS) I nicked the carotid. (MONITOR BEEPS RAPIDLY THEN FLATLINES) (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (GRUNTS) - For the gifts and the calling of God... are irrevocable. (EERIE, MYSTICAL MUSIC) - Hello? (EERIE, MYSTICAL MUSIC) Who's there? Am I dead? (STRANGE VOICE ECHOES IN MOTHERTONGUE) (HARSH WHISPERS) (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (GASPS) - This wasn't mentioned in the reports. I've never seen one that can heal itself. No. Not like this. (TENSE MUSIC) For whoever does these things is an abomination. This manifestation, it's triggered by death. At least we know how to get it going now. Ready the clean room. We're going to try something new. - (GRUNTS) (GRUNTS) - Oh, you're a feisty one, aren't ya? Shh. (SIREN CHIRPS) - (SIGHS) Stupid rookies. Do you have any idea who I am? - Absolutely. (LIGHTER CLICKS) (TENSE MUSIC) - You're the witch from the party. - Yes, I am. ECHOES: And you're gonna lead us to the girls you took. - She's right. We can't just scatter every time there's a threat. - There's no hiding from this. These abductions have been happening all over. They found a girl with her throat cut out up by my cousin's place. - Who's there? - I'm not here to cause trouble. - Stand down. She's a friend. - Raelle's been taken. I know this is gonna sound crazy, but it's` - It's the Camarilla. I know. I'm sorry. Lord knows poor Edwin's already been through enough. (SOLEMN MUSIC) - You're dodgers. - We're free. - I'm sorry. I, uh... I haven't slept. I didn't mean to offend. - If she's as special as I think she is, the army's gonna have the best of the best looking for her.. Tell us what you know. - The Camarilla have learned to steal our voices. They have some kind of sick version of our work. The army knows they're here but aren't saying, and I think it's cos they don't want to cause panic, but you need to warn whoever you can. - We'll keep our ear to the ground for Raelle. Put the word out. - They're sending me back to base soon, so I'll see what I can do, but Edwin` - I'll tend to Edwin. I hear anything, I'll let you know. Stay safe. - How? (ADIL SIGHS) - I just wish we had a plan. - We do have a plan. Once we reach the location, you kill our visibility, we penetrate their defences, take out the targets, and avenge our people ` in that order. - And you honestly think that's gonna work? - Doubt can't be a factor if we're going to succeed. - Yeah, but fear keeps us alive. - I'm terrified. But in an ideal world, Alder wouldn't be sitting on her hands while the Camarilla tries to murder us in our sleep. And we wouldn't be going in on our own. - SILVER ON TV: I have entrusted my daughter, Penelope, to the army. It is our constitutional and our patriotic... - Isn't that your mom? - And the vast majority of Americans have shown great eagerness to comply. - PETRA: But many Americans are refusing testing and some states are suing over testing centres. The nationwide rollout of the testing programme will temporarily be suspended as the military works with the administration to guarantee the public's safety. - Why isn't Alder talking? - And to keep the peace at existing centres, seven states have signed on to the Civilian-Military Joint Security Initiative. - Father of the year (!) I can't believe I voted for him. - We are confident this initiative will create more understanding between our communities. - What's not to understand? Witches have, like, 16 husbands. They raise their kids to be killers. - That does not look like a 16-husband kinda lady. 14? (CHUCKLES) - Witches are all inbred, so half of them are probably her cousins. - They don't have enough kids, so they're taking ours. What does that old hag know about raising children? - She did just fine with me. - It's all right. Hey, go find your voice somewhere else. - We have every right to be here. - Hey, hey, hey. Easy. - No, no, don't worry. She can't do anything to me without breaking the law. - I can't do any work without breaking the law. - You need to keep your little witch in line. - Hey. Look, she isn't in the wrong here. (PEOPLE GASP) (SLIGHT HUMMING VOCALISATION) - Do you ever regret it? Going AWOL? Joining the Spree? - Only when I breathe. I thought I was making the world safer for my girl. Instead, I just made it easier for these bastards to take her. - If I would have just brought her when you ordered, none of this would be happening. - You actually protected her. Thank you. (EXHALES HEAVILY) There is a solid chance she will hate both of us after all is said and done. Can you live with that? - I don't expect her to forgive me. I just want her to be safe. - You really love her. - I do. (SOMBRE MUSIC) - What if it's too late? - No. No. No way. That girl knows how to put up a fight. - Yeah. - A woman who is a witch shall surely be put to death. She shall be killed with stones, and her blood shall be upon her own hands. - (GRUNTS SOFTLY) - I guess I'm feeling old-fashioned today. Of all the old methods we've used to deal with your kind, this one is probably my favourite. Gravity does all the work. That wasn't the first time you died, was it? - Why don't you ask your team from the Tarim? Oh wait. You can't. - I promise you, this is going to be painful. (OMINOUS MUSIC) (GIRLS WHIMPER) - What are you gonna do to them? - We know your trick can kill. What I want to know is... can you control it? - Do whatever you want to me. Please don't hurt them. - I won't be the one who hurts them. - (SOBS) (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (GRUNTS) (CRACKING) WHISPERS: I'm so sorry. (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC) (SOBS) What do you want from me?! (STRANGE VOICE ECHOES IN MOTHERTONGUE) (GASPS) - Take them back to holding. - It didn't even touch the kids. It won't kill witches, and she can't die. What are we supposed to do with her? (OMINOUS MUSIC) - We're getting close. - That's the first thing you've said since the bar. - Sorry. That was just a big deal. I'm not a soldier. Fighting... it's not in my nature. - This is not the time to start saying things like that. Because if you lose your nerve, I might lose my nerve. And if I lose my nerve, we don't make it back home. - Punching a guy isn't the same as killing. - Today it has to be. - It's 10,000 years of tradition for my people, all gone with my actions. - Adil. How many thousands of years of tradition were lost when they murdered your elders? Your line ends with you. My line ends with me. Here we are, Tarim and Bellweather. And we can either lie down in the dirt and die or we can take back all the life the Camarilla have already taken from us and live. (SOLEMN MUSIC) - Looks abandoned. - Lot of security for a place that's abandoned. Tally would be useful right now. She could see inside. - This should help. (TENSE MUSIC) (VOCALISES DEEPLY) - (EARTH RUMBLES) It would be best to enter here. - So does that mean you're coming? (TENSE MUSIC) - Exarch. Back so soon? - Got two new volunteers eager to meet the surgical team. (BOTH HISS) - Where are you, Raelle? (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) Come on. - ADIL: They're preparing for war. - Or a genocide. (MUSIC CONTINUES) We'd better find a way around. - I can get us through. Be ready. (VOCALISES DEEPLY) (MUSIC CONTINUES) - This is taking too long. - MAN OVER RADIO: Breach! Sound the alarm! - Find my daughter! (DOG BARKS) - I found the intruder! - (VOCALISES SHRILLY) (DOG GROWLS) (DOG WHINES) (TENSE MUSIC) (GIRL WHIMPERS) - She'll do for target practice. - ABIGAIL: You might want to start with someone a little more challenging. (HISSES) (HISSES) You get them out of there. I've got this. I think one of you has something that belongs to my family. (MAN GRUNTS) - CHARVEL: Hey, cuz. Nice of you to come all the way out here to let me finish the job. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - (VOCALISES AGGRESSIVELY) (PANTS) It's done, Charvel. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (CRACKING) - (VOCALISES DEEPLY) (OMINOUS MUSIC) - I didn't know you could do that. - Neither did I. - I saw an emergency exit a few hallways back. We need to get those girls out of here. - Not yet. They say there's one more witch in one of the clean rooms. A blonde girl that can't die. - Raelle? They've got Raelle? (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (TENSE MUSIC) - I have good news... and bad news. The good news is it would seem your comrades in arms have infiltrated our facility. - Well, that sounds bad for you, Doc. - Nonsense. I'll be fine. The bad news is that I'm going to have to watch this next step from somewhere farther away. (OMINOUS MUSIC) Every generation gets a little stronger. Oh, he's a frisky little bugger, isn't he? I must confess... I love this little guy. (TENSE MUSIC) (MUSIC CONTINUES) - They're in the security booth! Why isn't this working? - Because we're professionals. - Ah! (GRUNTS) (NECK SNAPS) - Where is she? - There! She's in the clean room. What is he doing to her? - That's Witch Plague. That's the same thing they did to us in Brussels. (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) - (GRUNTS) (GRUNTS, GASPS) (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) (GASPS, PANTS) (EERIE, MYSTICAL MUSIC) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) (GASPS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - Raelle! - No! It will kill you if you go in there! Once it touches you, you're done in seconds. - She's fighting it. - For the moment. (MUSIC SLOWS) You need to step back. Tell her I loved her more than anything in my whole life, OK? (MUSIC RISES DRAMATICALLY) (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC) ECHOES: 'Ask and it shall be given unto you. 'Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. 'Ask and it shall be given you. 'Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. 'Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find. 'Knock and it shall be opened unto you.' - What are you doing here? - I'm here for the same reason you are. - Who is that with her? - That is her mother. No, no, no. You'll die too, Abigail. - 'Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find. 'Knock and it shall be opened unto you.' (BREATHES SHAKILY) (DRAMATIC MUSIC RISES) (UNSETTLING MUSIC) There's my baby girl. - Mom? - Hey. - Mom? - Hey. - SOBS: Mom. - It's OK. Rae... Stay with me. You need to keep fighting. - Is that really you? - That's my girl. That's my girl. - Mom, I've missed you so much. (SOBS) Does this mean that I'm...? - No. No, but we don't have much time. I thought I would have longer to tell you everything, to explain. Leaving you behind, it was the biggest mistake of my life. I am sorry, Raelle. - Leaving me? Mom? - It's OK. - Mom. - Rae, Rae, it's OK. Look at me. You are gonna have a lot of questions, and I am sorry I won't be there to answer them. I need you to know all I ever wanted was to make a world where you could be free. - Mom, I don't understand. - I have always loved you. More than anything. - (SOBS) - I hope one day you'll forgive me. - SOBS: 'Mom? Mom, please. 'Stay.' (MOMENTOUS MUSIC) (MUSIC CONTINUES) Mom? Mom! (SOBS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - ABIGAIL: Help me. Help me! (MUSIC CONTINUES) - K, K, go, go. Go. OK. Come on. Over here! - He's with me. - We need to get out of here ` now. (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - We can handle this from here. - Well, I'm coming. - K, go. (TENSE MUSIC) There has to be more of them inside. - They're never gonna stop coming after us. (MUSIC CONTINUES) - (VOCALISES DEEPLY) (DRAMATIC MUSIC RISES) (STOPS VOCALISING) (PANTS) (SOLEMN MUSIC) - Come in, Craven. No need to be alarmed. This is the Warding Circle. It's standard protocol for when security hears whispers of a threat. - What's going on? - Raelle's safe. - (GASPS, EXHALES HEAVILY) - It was the Camarilla, as we had feared. - Where is she? - Western Pennsylvania. Abigail called it in. - Abigail? But... how? - That is a mystery for the moment. - We just wanted to put your mind at ease. The asset is in good hands. - Asset? She is a person. That means nothing to you. - Cadet... - All she is to you is your precious Witchbomb! - You are out of line, Cr` (GRUNTS) - General? - It's happening again. Get Major Verger! (ALL GROAN, GASP) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (SCREAMS) - (SCREAMS) - Help! (BOTH VOCALISE) - This shouldn't be possible, not within the Warding Circle. - (GRUNTS) - (HISSES) - (SCREAMS) - Guards! (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - Nicte? (GASPS) (TENSE MUSIC) - It's OK. You're safe now. (SOFT MUSIC) Captions by Able. Captions were made with support from NZ On Air.