30 years ago Clara pours herself some red wine, and counts her latest profits from a recent sale when a young pregnant Ruth comes to her door. She was the only coven member nearby and her water broke. Clara gets Ruth into the bathtub, and urges her to say a spell while she draws the symbols on the mirror. The tub fills with blood, and Clara tells Ruth to start pushing.

Ruth lies on Clara’s couch in recovery, wondering why Clara hasn’t brought the baby for her to see. There’s a problem with the baby. It’s a boy. Ruth can’t believe her ears, and Clara sits in glee. Ruth is the golden child of the coven, and she’s borne a boy. Ruth tells Clara that she will help her fix her mistake, but Clara isn’t so on board. Ruth blackmails Clara, knowing that she’s been selling spells. She tells her that she will tell the coven that the baby was still born, and she will get rid of the baby. Clara tries to drown the baby, but she cannot bring herself to do so. Instead, she leaves the baby on the doorstep of a church. I’m not thinking that was what Ruth meant when she said to deal with the baby.

Now. Rachel is drug into a cell and left with Logan. He wakes up. She tells him that she was injected with someone’s blood, that she was forced to watch Elena change into a wolf. She asks him if he’s a werewolf too. He tries to play off that she’s been drugged and hallucinated, but Rachel wants the truth. They were together for two years and she had no clue, she deserved better. Logan points out that there was no good way for him to break news like that to her, that she loved him for two years. She tells him that they will get out of there, and then he should leave her alone.

Elena kicks at her bed, trying to break it.

Aleister gives Savannah another lesson, trying to get her to manipulate a metal ball. She can’t concentrate. He tells her that she has a great and ancient power. She thinks that she cannot do it without a talisman, she can’t connect to her coven. He tells her that its another way for her coven to control her, that he didn’t have a talisman for a long time and he was able to tap into his powers. She knows her coven loves her and cares about her, even Elena says so. He does the whole I am the lock, and she responds with I am the key before he asks why she’s so distracted. She’s worried about Elena. He wonders why she would think that she isn’t. She feels that something isn’t right, and she doesn’t want anything to happen to her. He tells her to put Elena out of her mind, she goes all brainwashy, thinking that the coven is trying to control her.

Elena hears someone approach, and moves to cover up the damage she’s doing. Aleister warns her that if she tears her bed apart she will need to sleep on the floor. Elena knows that he doesn’t care. Savannah cares though, and she can feel her tension across the compound. He needs her calm for the undoing. Elena thinks that Aleister is losing his hold on her, and Savannah should be able to feel that she will never let him have her. He casts a spell on Elena, paralyzing her. He finds her fascinating, he wishes that he had more time to experiment on her. As the only male witch, and the only female werewolf he thinks that they have much in common. Elena doesn’t share his thinking. He’d love to break her, but thinks that she could break herself better. He casts another spell on her, and leaves her to her fate. She rolls to the floor.

Clay and Paige try to locate Elena and Savannah. The area where they think the girls are is too large to search in the time they have, even as a wolf. Paige wonders if they could find some locals, but there aren’t any in miles. She knows that they have to move fast, she can feel Savannah hitting womanhood. Clay asks if she can follow that feeling, but Paige can’t.

Elena struggles to get off the floor. She pulls herself up onto shaky feet. She tears at the hole she made in the wall between her room and Savannah’s

The bells toll and Rachel knows that there will be another ritual soon. Logan moves to find a way out. Rachel wonders if she’ll be apart of the next ritual. Their captors have made it clear that she’s not needed, just the baby. Logan pierces something, and gas begins to fill the room.

Elena makes it into Savannah’s much nicer room. The head of Savannah’s bunny rolls off, and Elena gets jumpy. She hears someone enter her room next door. The guy tosses her small cot before checking out the hole. Elena is ready for him though, and snaps his neck to steal his key. She’s free in the dark horror movie hallway. No one seems to be there. A hand strokes her neck, but is gone as she continues to walk forward. She feels it on her stomach, but there’s no one there. It traces her back. Elena looks all around, and there is no one. She backs up towards the wall, and arms grab her, covering her mouth.

Clay and Paige take off into the woods. With all the talk of communing with nature, Clay would think that Paige would know better than to wear heels to go searching through the woods. Paige has bigger worries than her fashion to worry about, like whether they’re all gonna die. Clay is right though, she could have just as easily worn flats or better yet tennies, but Paige doesn’t think. Clay refuses to let her slow him down though. Paige tells him that he needs her. Clay is sure that Elena will signal. Paige thinks that his faith in Elena is sweet, but he needs her. She has a little item that will show her if anyone used magic in the area. Clay warns her, she either keep up, or he goes all caveman on her, and drags her by the hair.

Logan continues to look for a way out. Logan tells Rachel to give him her bra, and she can’t believe he’s asking her for that, but he needs the underwire in it.

Elena wakes up on the ground. Clay tells her that she’s safe, that its just the two of them. Elena knows that she’s safe. He tells her to wait. He knew she was special the first time he saw her, he wanted her to have it all so he bit her. He kisses her and his stroking reminds her of Aleister. Elena dreams of being lowered into a tub of blood. She rises with a start.

Logan and Rachel continue to struggle, as Logan works to release them from their gassy cell. Logan trips it, and the pair make a run for it.

Paige glimpses something in the woods, but she’s unsure what it was. Clay wants a better location for it so that he can investigate it. Paige teases about him going all wolfy and sniffing it out. She refuses to give him more information, and he’s tired of her cutesy act. He tells her to save it for Nick, he’s unimpressed by her, and I have to agree with him. Paige saw power lines, which means there’s an access point, and she can find that on a map, trying to prove her usefulness.

Savannah looks over her very grown up dress. Aleister asks her what she thinks. She’s never had anything like it before. It’s about time she did, and everyone has gathered to see her. Everything is ready, today she can use her powers and it’s the day of the undoing. Savannah just wishes that Elena was there to see her.

Elena searches desperately for Savannah. She passes through the lab, and see Savannah pass on the other side of the glass. She calls to her, but Savannah doesn’t stop. Elena finds a lighter, and tucks it into her boot. In the other room she spies Diane, dirty and bleeding on the floor. Elena killed her brother Phillip, and now she’s going to die because of her too. She’s lost everything because of Elena, and now she’s coming for her too. Elena runs from Diane as she drags her body across the ground. Elena makes it through the door out of the lab. Diane doesn’t stop through, she tells Elena that she did this and she will pay. Elena cringes on the floor in the corner.

Diane ceases her threats, and Elena emerges from the room.  All traces of Diane are gone. A pair of followers come through, Elena calls for them, and they attack. She holds her own, beating one, and then the other. Elena manages to get one of their bats, and cracks one over the head. She grabs the second bat, before moving forward. She finds Savannah. Elena isn’t sure that she’s real though. Of course Savannah is real she says. She tells Elena that she felt something wasn’t right, so she escaped Aleister and came for her. They did something to Elena’s head. Savannah knows that too. She tells Elena that they need to get out of there now, and she leads the way out.

Back at the car, Jeremy and Nick found the other base, but its deserted. It’s quiet, but Clay thinks it has to be there somewhere close. Paige wishes she could fly around and look for red roofs and lavender, but she can’t. She has no clue what kind of signal Elena will send. Clay hopes whatever it is, that it will be big, he can’t take the waiting. Paige is shocked by how much he loves her. When she was little she was taught how to be alone, and to be happy about it. Clay felt that way once, but no more. When Paige was younger there was a boy, Jeff, a boring name for a boring boy. He never really said a word, but he would send her beautiful hair ribbons, who would smile when she wore then. She thought she was going crazy thinking about the boring kid, and then she got her talisman, became a witch, and then she had no time for boring boys or hair ribbons. She made a choice. Clay knows that you don’t get a choice in this. Paige gets defensive, she has her mother, her coven, she is not alone. She wants to get going, and knows they will find Elena.

Savannah leads Elena on, and she asks what they’re doing, since she knows its not the way out. She’s brought her to show her something. Elena looks into a cell. She sees herself still asleep, in a nightmare. Nothing is real. She’s still in her cell, hallucinating. Elena knows that she’s real. Savannah tells her that she lied to her, she was never going to get both of them out, she was just using her. Savannah’s eyes turn black as she calls her a monster, tells her that everyone is going to suffer and die because of her. She is going to stay there. The room begins to shake, and Elena falls to her knees in pain.

The followers continue to prepare for the ceremony. Logan and Rachel keep to the shadows, but Logan knows that they won’t get far with the brands on their necks.

Elena wakes up on the floor. Clay is there again. He tells her that put an end to it all, all she has to do is choose peace. Elena feels like she failed Savannah. She said that she would protect her. Clay asks her to come with him, to let it all go. That’s not what Elena wants, she wants love. Clay tells her love is the answer, that in the end it’s all that matters, it is the key. They’re not monsters because they can love. She’s on the way back now. Clay tells her that she’s gonna need the bats, to get outside and signal him. Clay backs away, fades to nothing. A follower comes at her, and Elena beats her down with her bats. She takes off running down a corridor.

Savannah and Aleister go before the gathering of Aleister’s followers. They will be pair that remain. Aleister tells Savannah to gather the power. Elena makes it to the outside, and heads towards the ceremony as Savannah lifts her arms to gather the power. Elena makes a stop. She needs a very big signal. She places rope inside one of the gasoline generators, and lights it. With Savannah’s eyes closed, Aleister prepares to inject her with Elena’s blood. Elena tells them that she wants the girl as the generator explodes in the distance.

Logan and Rachel hear the explosion. That’s not normal, and they need to get out of there fast. Rachel shows Logan the top that powers the mark. He grabs it and it delivers a shock. She could have warned him about that, but their marks are gone. Rachel turns away. Logan loves her, and he’s sorry that this all happened to her. He came back for her, and that counts for something.

Aleister makes a run for it, dragging Savannah with him. Elena gives chase, but has to navigate through the followers.

Clay and Paige arrive, but they’re blocked by the brainwashed followers. Clay tells Paige to find Elena, he’ll fight them off.

Elena finds Savannah before Aleister’s mirror. She’s been keyed, as she talks all brainwashy. She tried to resist Aleister, but he’s too strong. He didn’t get a chance to do the spell, they can just leave Elena reasons. Savannah tells her that she can’t leave him. Her coven doesn’t love her, they want to control her. Elena tells her that she doesn’t have to do anything, but asks her to come with her. Aleister tells her that she isn’t going anywhere, she scratches at her arm. He’s impressed that Elena came out unbroken. He has everything that he needs from her, and he doesn’t understand why she cares about the witches when she didn’t even know they existed until recently. She’s not leaving without Savannah. Aleister finds it a shame that this is how she ends. He breaks a mirror with his magic, preparing to send the shards at her. Elena doesn’t run, but braces for it. Paige swoops in, and saves Elena. She tells him to let Savannah go. Aleister is glad that it was Paige who came, he wanted to get to know her. Paige doesn’t want to get to know him. Aleister thinks that’s a horrible thing to say to her big brother. Ruth Winterborne didn’t want him, and now she’s going to feel the pain of losing the child she wanted. Neither women can strike Aleister for fear of hurting Savannah. Elena tries to appeal to Savannah. Aleister has no power over her. He can’t control her. Aleister thinks differently. He tries to demonstrate his power over her. He says I am the lock, but Savannah doesn't answer. Elena offer her hand, she is a friend. Savannah takes Elena’s hand, and Aleister moves to strike out at her. Paige strikes first, and Aleister disappears.

Aleister awakens in his devil penis circle. He exits the circle, and there are a few brainwashed minions shuffling around. Aleister grabs one, and transforms him into looking like him.

Rachel sits behind the wheel of a jeep. Logan thinks its over, but Rachel isn’t taking any chances. She tells him that this time he has to listen to her, and get in. Logan reluctantly does, and they drive away.

Paige finds “Aleister’s body.” The body is staked. Clay finds Paige, she tells him that she’s with Savannah. They think its all over. One of the followers begins to wake, and Paige notices that the mark is gone from her. The girl is out of it. She was feeding pigeons in the park talking to a man in Albany. She notices Aleister’s body and begins freaking out. Paige knocks her out. They need to keep the followers asleep and figure out a way to get them to wake up some place else. Neither of them really want an investigation into what was happening there. Paige is sure she can keep them asleep and make them forget, while Clay arranges a clean up.

Elena takes Savannah to the car. Savannah is happy to see that Elena kept her promise. She wants them to stay friends, not the just texting kind, but to actually see eachother. Elena would like that. Clay finds Elena, and she runs into his arms, glad that he found her. Nothing would have stopped him. Elena asks him to get her far away, and Clay is ready to take her home. He asks if they hurt her, and she admits that she saw things that almost made her lose her mind. He promises to be there for her. Elena gets in the car, and Elena spies that evil bunny thing from Savannah’s room. Clay drives her and Savannah home. Aleister emerges from the shadows, watching them leave.

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In Harlem, Zach looks around Abraham's shop. He finds an old computer, but it doesn't do him much good with no wifi. He sneaks into another room of the house, and gets the computer up and running, for only a moment to track his mother's phone. Her phone is moving, and he alerts Eph. The internet is super slow, but he figures if she's moving she has to be okay. Zach calls his mom, but she doesn't answer. He hopes its just on silence, and as he wonders why she hasn't called back, Eph doesn't tell the boy his fear. The internet connection is lost, but Eph is off to retrieve her.

The president declares a bank holiday to try to stabilize the economy, and Eph tells Nora of Zach's findings. She's still giving him a bit of the cold shoulder. Eph admits that he didn't try to hurt her with his words last night, and that he knows that she's only trying to prepare him, but he has to go after Kelly. Abraham agrees that he needs to prepare for the worst. 

Fet has tracked the rat activity in the city. Fet thinks that attacking the thing head on may be a kamikaze move. Planning would be much easier if the internet were up. Dutch apologizes and confesses her hand in the downfall of the internet. She never wanted to hurt people, and wants to fix things, but its tricky, they would need to go into the Heart Group building to do it. Fet is up for the challenge. 

Eph walks the streets towards Kelly's last location. He finds his wife's phone, but no Kelly. A homeless woman has it, and Eph asks her to take him to where she found it. She's hesitant, and slightly hostile, thinking him a cop, but when he tells her that he's a doctor she shows him a bad burn on her leg. Eph tends the wound, and then she takes him to where she foudn the phone. Eph finds Kelly's car, and there's blood inside.

32 hours earlier. In Kelly's home, a Strigoi Matt shuffles in on a sleeping Kelly, but he leaves her be. His closing the door awakens her. Kelly knocks on the bathroom door, but Matt doesn't open it. Kelly tries to open the door, thinking Matt is just being childish, but he won't budge. Kelly heads off to work.

In her classroom, one of the other teachers is surprised to see her. Half of the kids and staff are missing, most didn't even call in. This raises red flags for Kelly, and she tells her that Eph warned her about something in conjunction to the dead plane. She plans to get Zach and leave, and suggests that she does the same.

Kelly returns home, calling for Matt, telling him that everyone is sick and Eph was right. Still no answer. Matt comes in and Kelly sees just how sick he looks. The pair fight, and Kelly gouges him with a blender blade. Matt's milky blood gets on her, but worse one of his parasitic worms lands on her face, and crawls into her eye. Kelly manages to get away into the sunlight, and her car, but its too late, shes infected.

Away from the scene Kelly tries to check the damage. Her eye looks like hell, and she's shaky. She cleans herself up, which is the bloody handkerchief Eph found, and has a little breakdown. Exhausted she falls asleep behind the wheel. As nights falls she awakens feeling sick. She tries to make a call, but the illness overtakes her and she drops her phone as she stumbles out of her car. Kelly heads to Zach's school, no one is there except the principal. Kelly looks like hell, as she asks for Zach. The principal tells her hat they dismissed early, and when they couldn't reach her Diane took Zach. The principal thinks that Kelly has been in a car accident, and possibly has a concussion, she calls for help, but Kelly runs out of the building. On the playground there's strigoi, but they don't attack Kelly. Kelly spots one, and follows it. She sees it take a victim. Is it too much to hope that she turns into one of the other strigoi that is creepy but kinda human that hunts the bad ones?

Dutch and Fet take off in the bread truck. They make small talk getting to know each other a little better. Dutch doesn't want to open up, saying you get what you see,  but Fet doesn't buy it. He wants to know how Dutch plans on making it through the front door, knowing being hot isn't going to be enough. 

Fet uses his badge to get through the receptioist at the StoneHeart Group. He sweet talks her, and makes it into the elevator, but they're stopped by security. Security takes Dutch and Fet into custody. They know exactly who Dutch is, Eldritch's man remembers her and has the pair searched. Fet's gun is taken, and Dutch is taken to see Eldritch alone.

Eph goes back to the house looking for Kelly. 

17 hours earlier. Kelly heads over to Diane's. Kelly looks awful, but Diane lets her friend in. She tells her that Matt did this, and Diane wants to get Kelly to  a hospital. Kelly worries over where Zach is, but he's with Eph. Diane's son comes down to see what all the commotion is about, and Kelly throws her stinger at him. Diane leaps onto her friend's back to save her child, and ends up as Kelly's meal instead.

Dutch is roughly taken to see Eldritch. She's not so cocky now. The man asks why she would ever come back. Dutch isn't one to be taken for a ride, and now knowing that Eldritch is behind all the madness, she's come to stop it. He warns her that if she tries to hurt Eldritch he'll kill  her. Eldritch dines, finding audacity in Dutch's plan to storm his castle. He lied to her, but by omisson only. He congradulates her for her part. He's about to achieve the ultimate hack when he transcends humanity, and takes up his strigoi mantle. He can spills his plans because no one would believe her anyways. Dutch loses it, hits Eldritch and is manhandled out.

15 hours ago. Kelly walks the streets. She can hear the heart beats of passerbys, and see the blood flowing in her veins. Something calls to her below ground, and Kelly heads down into the subway tunnels. It calls her, luring her down, and when she comes upon the master he tells her to rejoice.

Dutch and Fet  walk their green mile. Dutch is a little angry over their failed plan, and tells him that next time it'll be different. Going in guns blazing wasn't a better plan. The assistant stops the pair, he isn't going to kill them, his employer is just misguided. He tells them to go while they have the chance, and run they do.

Eph continues to look for Kelly. He heads over to Diane's house, things look off there. He finds a broken picture frame, the one Kelly dropped. Eph heads down to the basement. No one ever finds anything good down int he basement, but he searches it. An infected Diane is lying down next to her infected little boy. She rises to attack Eph, but he shoots her, and then is forced to do the same to the child when he awakens. In Diane's hand is Kelly's necklace, and Eph breaks down. 

Somber, Eph returns to the shop. Nora was worried. Fet and Dutch return as well, but Eph isn't welcoming her in.. Dutch would rather leave than to stay where she's not welcome. Zach asks about his mother, and Eph takes him back upstairs to deliver the news. He didn't find Kelly, but he found her phone. He tells his son that he's not giving up on her. He doesn't mention his other dire findings. 

Zach relives happier times, watching home videos on his mother's phone. She's gone, and the happy times are too.

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The sun rises on another day, a lunar event is about to occur. New York has reached a new level of crazy, even for the city that never sleeps but it hasn’t seen anything yet. Things are about to get even wilder. What can be wilder than human ken dolls? A virus running rampant that will consume everyone.

Thomas in full Vordormort glory pays his chained up victim a visit. He pulls the man’s chain to get his head into position. Once in position he uses his throat spear and sucks him dry. Was the whole chain contraption really needed, or did he feel like a bit of kink with dinner?

FBI agents pay Kelly a visit. They look legit, and not like ghost hunting underwear models, and they’re asking about Eph. Apparently they aren’t that good since they had no clue that she and Eph are separated. Little do any of them know just how close Eph is as he hides out behind cars watching them talk to his ex. She asks if its about the whole airplane thing, but they’re stingy with the information. Matt tries to play the whole man of the house card, but Kelly is tightlipped, and sends them away. They go figuring that Eph couldn’t be in the house with the new boyfriend there.

Two pest guys chat it up in a diner, wondering about the current rat situation. Fet throws in his theory about the mass rat displacement, and shares with them the things he saw down in the sewer. Its so much worse than any of them could imagine. It’s not mole people in the tunnel, mole people would be a blessing. Fet warns them to be careful, and the two mock him as he leaves.

Gus does a little sparring in the ring as Felix watches. He has a visitor from Mr. Eichorst, and the muscle isn’t budging. Gus sees that he’s packing heat, and decides the better option is to go along and see what the man wants.

Zach asks too many questions, wanting to know if his father is in trouble, because he’s on TV. Eph sneaks in, and Kelly wants to know what he’s done. He claims its all BS. He tells Kelly to get Zach out of the city, that something bad is happening, and worse they’re discrediting him. Matt who listens in at the top of the stairs decides to throw his weight in, and asks why Eph is here. Kelly is freaked out by Eph’s warning, and Matt doesn’t quite believe him because the government would totally warn people. Right? Sure, let’s not believe the guy who works at the CDC who is genuinely concerned for his family. The government is trying to turn things around on him, and its not a conspiracy theory. Zach reminds his dad that they can trace him by his phone. Kelly sends her son upstairs so that Eph’s crazy talk doesn’t frighten him. She’s concerned that he’s lost it because of the custody hearing, he’s always told her that she can’t outrun a virus. But this is one that Eph is sure that she has to try to, this is important. The FBI interrupt with a knock at the door, Matt’s a total dick, and hopefully Kelly throws him out now. Eph tries to make for the back door, but of course they have that covered. By gun point the FBI claim that they only want to talk to Eph. They cuff Eph and take him into custody. Eph tells Kelly “Run” as he’s taken away.

Matt is upset that the neighbors may have seen Eph taken away in cuffs. Kelly is more angered by the fact that he called the FBI on Eph, but Matt didn’t want to be an accessory and points out that he forced his way into “their” house. But it isn’t his house, or their house, its her house, and her ex husband and she’ll be the one to decide how to deal with them. Zach is curious as to why his dad was arrested, and asks if they’re going to Vermont. Kelly wonders if it isn’t a bad idea, but Matt isn’t willing to risk anything apparently but infection if Eph just went off the deep end. Seriously you would risk being infected with a deadly virus rather than to admit that maybe your girlfriend’s ex isn’t crazy and there’s a serious virus on the verge of an outbreak. And why is no one reporting on what went down in that senior center, does no one care that elderly people were attacked? Or is the StoneHeart Group’s hacker just that good? Matt knows she’s upset, but Kelly points out that he’s a guest in her house and he needs to start acting like one. She considers that she made a mistake, and Matt changes his tune. He is trying to protect this family. Kelly is done talking though, and heads off to work. Matt resorts to childish tactics of fine, well I have to work late, but Kelly is past the point of caring.

Abraham has reached his next address. He skips the front door, and makes for the back one. No one in this town locks their back doors. He sees that there was a wake of some sort. Lots of food and drink, and he removes his hat to get a closer look, and leaves it on the counter. The guy sure knows how to make himself at home in the homes of people he’s about to murder. He heads down to the basement, good choice, its blood splattered. Someone’s heart beats way too loudly. Abraham finds more than one creature, they’re all huddled together, but they don’t attack. The original passenger comes after Abraham and he uses his trusty nail gun and cane sword to dispatch him. The victim creatures shamble towards him, and it’s Abraham’s heart that’s been making all the noise. He’s on the verge of a heart attack, but he can’t get to his pills with monsters looking to eat him. He fires off his nail gun to incapacitate them and makes his way back upstairs and into the sunlight. Where is a UV light saber when you need one? Abraham gets the door closed to the basement, and grabs one of the candles from the table. He turns on the gas stove, grabbing his hat and leaving the candle behind. That should take care of the creatures.

Nora is awoken with her mother’s vacuuming. She asks if she remembers anything, but all she remember is a lovely dinner. Jim calls and tells Nora that Eph brought Redfern’s video to Everett, and that he’s been arrested. Nora can’t believe her ears, it doesn’t make any sense. The doorbell sounds, and Nora springs to action preventing her mother from opening the door. They need to make a run for it she says. Nora packs a quick bag.

Abraham takes a cab away from the scene of the crime, and he looks like hell. The cabbie tells him not to die in his cab, he even goes as far as to ask if Abraham has enough cab fare. He does, and he wants to be home before the eclipse starts. The city has reached new levels of crazy, but the cabbie isn’t so sure it’s the eclipse. Abraham tries to recruit him to his cause, but the cabbie isn’t taking him seriously.

Gus and Felix meet up with Thomas, who was nice enough to don his nose in the creepy underground. Gus isn’t looking to play again, he’s done. Thomas isn’t taking no for an answer. Gus didn’t look in the box so he wants to just walk. Thomas wants him to recover a body from the hospital, probably Redfern’s. Gus tries to walk away, but Thomas looks to sweeten the deal. In addition to $800.00, his dear mother won’t be deported. Don’t mess with his mama! Thomas has found his weakness, and as he taunts Gus about the love’s ties that bind, Gus loses it, and punches Thomas and smudges his makeup. He wails on him with little effect. Gus is shocked, and even more so when Thomas catches his fist and throws him against the wall. Felix remembers that he has a gun in his hand and fires off a shot, but that doesn’t effect Thomas either. Thomas warns him that he is his salvation or his downfall, and warns him not to be so foolish again, and sends him on his task.

Eph has a little sit down with homeland security. He’s told his story and he’s sticking to it. They think that he killed Redfern, but he most certainly did not. He asks the one agent to text his son since he was cuffed in front of him, but the agent isn’t sure that Eph is in his right mind. He is, but him saying that they need daylight to hunt these things, probably isn’t the best avenue. When he tries to check the time via the agent’s watch, the agent backhands him. The guy doesn’t care who Eph is or what fancy medical school he went to, he owns him, and plans to keep him locked up for awhile. Seriously, I wasn’t aware this was a pissing contest.

Gus and Felix wait for their pick up. Jim collects them, and gives them their uniforms. So Jim is still working for the bad guys too. Et tu, Brute?

Nora’s cell is still on the fritz. Her mother is worried about where they’re going. But Nora knows they need to get someplace soon, it’ll be dark soon with the eclipse. Nora looks up Abraham, he’s the only one left to help them.

Fet heads back to his office, and it’s completely empty. Even the flirty secretary is gone. Fet hears a noise in the back room, and goes to investigate the locked room. H can hear a rat or something squeak, and that’s when he notices his boss is in there sitting in the dark, and he’s not quite right. The man leaps up to attack, throat stinger and all. Fet is able to get away, and draw the blinds. The sun fries the man, and Fet takes another look around. The secretary is there too, and she’s infected. Before she can completely turn and attack he opens the blinds for her too.

The FBI agents continue grilling Eph. They want to know about that whole head smashed body from the airport and the infected people that need to destroyed. Eph asks them to consider for a moment that he’s right, to just go to any of the airline passengers’ house, and see that they are infected. They don’t believe a word he’s saying, until he claims to know where all of the bodies went. They want a location, he wants a deal. The slappy one gets threatening again, but Eph points out that they won’t find their answers there.

Kelly has a drink with her neighbor, Diane (our favorite succubus’s mama from Lost Girl!), who thinks that Eph’s behavior was purely about cockblocking. Kelly is feeling bad about her hard shutdown of Matt. He hasn’t called or text since, but good riddance I think. Diane knows its nothing but pride, and Matt has been showing his all over with this whole redecoration, she’s lucky he hasn’t been marking his territory another way. Kelly wonders if Eph is right, and maybe she should go to Vermont. Kelly invites her friend along, but Diane turns her down. She’s a Queens girl, they don’t run.

Felix, Gus and Jim go about the task of dumping the body, and Felix’s curiosity gets the better of him. He wants to see who they’re dumping. When he unzips the bag all he sees is the throat stinger. Jim wrangles the thing back in the bag with a stick, and he and Gus toss the body in the water, and it sinks to the bottom. If it worked for Hoffa, it must work for everything, right?

Fet takes a little walk. He pays a visit to his father, who looks surprised to see him. His mother isn’t home though. Fet is acting a little weird, and his pops jumps to the conclusion that Fet needs some cash, but that isn’t why he’s come. Fet continues looking around, asks about his father’s incomplete manuscript. It’s almost complete, and his father’s schedule looks to be busy. There’s plenty of strife between the two men. His father is still upset over fet’s chosen career, but Fet didn’t come to fight. He came to warn his father about the outbreak that is about to overtake the city, turning people into hungry savages. His father thinks that the job has gotten to him, and doesn’t know why he should believe his estranged son. When Fet goes to leave, his father asks him to stay for his mother. Fet asks him to leave for him.

Kelly and Zach prepare to view the eclipse with some styling paper glasses. She asks him if they should stay or go. Zach thinks they should go, but it may be too late for that. Kelly apologizes for the little scene he had to witness this morning, for all of the craziness. She worries about school, about leaving, and just holds her son as they wait for the eclipse.

The eclipse darkens the sky. The sun is completely blocked out.

People wander the street as normal. The FBI agents are completely stick in traffic. A crazy man runs through the streets, and Eph recognizes him as one of the men that was around when the bodies disappeared, the coroner. One of the agents prefers to twiddle his thumbs as the man tries to get into someone’s car. The other springs to action to intercept him and offer assistance. His partner is reluctant to offer assistance, as a woman fights to stay in her car. Poor Eph is left in the back of the car still cuffed. The coroner uses throat stinger on the first agent when he’s confronted and he’s still hungry. The second agent doesn’t stand much of a chance either. Now people panic. Eph makes it out of the car and to the second agent who is pleading for help. He gets himself uncuffed, but there’s no helping the agent, he was warned.

 Matt is still at work, still pouting over his fight with Kelly. One of his co-workers comes in holding his throat, he was attacked. Matt goes to investigate, yelling at two men asking if they did this. He approaches them, bad idea Matt.

Felix is freaking out still about the less than normal body. He thinks that they may need to wash with holy water or something, that they should have burned the body. He doesn’t like anything that went down, especially not the crazy German guy. Gus is in total agreement, trying not to freak out when they’re attacked by the coroner. He throws Gus aside, and goes after the tastier looking morsel Felix. Gus hits him with a pipe, and the coroner goes down, but not before he’s spit some white cum looking substance on Felix. He tries to remove it from his hand, freaking out about it on him. Two officers arrive and throw the pair to the ground, handcuffing them.

Abraham’s shop is locked up tight. Eph bangs on the door, and Abraham actually comes out. Eph is ready to join the cause, and Abraham allows him inside. He takes him down to the batcave, where Nora and her mother are already waiting. Nora welcomes him with open arms. Abraham is glad that they’re both ready because he has a new plan.

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Ruby’s top priority remains her clients Mr. Bolivar aka Ken doll. The Urologist pays Gabriel a visit, Ruby needs him all ship shape before his concert tomorrow, needless to say that is totally not going to happen. Ruby takes Dr. Evanstan up to see him, but Gabe is way beyond the help of a urologist. Ruby continues her calls and appointments when she hears Dr. Evanstan scream. She rushes upstairs to check on her client and the doctor, and finds him eating the doctor, but quite calmly compared to the rabid eating habits displayed by the other infected passengers. He drags her off announcing “mine” as Ruby stumbles out of there.

Ruby cancels the concert. She thinks that Gabe hurt someone bad, but she didn’t call the police. The person on the other side of the line seems to have a solution, a permanent one, but Ruby does not want to be linked.

Abraham makes breakfast at The Arnell house. Ephraim thinks that they should call someone, but who. Abraham doesn’t wish to go back to jail, but is perfectly okay if Eph wants to spend some time in a cell to assuage his guilt. The skirmish they’re now in the middle of is a long standing one between humanity and the master. The master has been trying to spread his infection for awhile. He excels in manipulation, a disease with intelligence. Abraham knows that he is an ancient creature that feeds on the blood of his victims, like a vampire, but not. He’s a predator, a leech, a blemish, a strigoi. When he was a boy his grandmother told him fairy stories about the Master, until he saw the devil with his own eyes.

Poland 1944. He rides on a train with his grandmother. She tells him to remember the stories that she told him, because she fears that they are destined to meet it. The train door flies open, and they’re herded from the train. They will work for the welfare of new Europe. The man shouting out orders is none other than Thomas, looking exactly as he does today. The men are separated from the women. Abraham fights to stay with his grandmother, but he’s pulled away anyways. His friends tells the soldiers that he’s a carpenter, even though he was hardly an apprentice, but they have to convince them otherwise to survive.

Joan’s children make her breakfast in bed. She’s even more chipper and pleasant than ever as she snaps at her children and housekeeper. She looks like hell. As she hugs her daughter, she ponders the child’s neck. She thanks them for breakfast.

Eph asks what the plan is next. Abraham plans to visit the next person on the airplane list, and possibly kill them. At this early stage of the infection, they’re very easy to kill, which will not be the case later. He’s hoping to find other people to join their cause. Eph wants to collect more evidence to present to his superiors so they’ll get involved. Abraham gives Eph a nail gun full of silver nails. Silver affects them, can even kill them, but at the least it’ll slow them down. He knows that Eph is taking a risk by trusting him. Abraham is taking a greater risk by trusting him with all of humanity’s fate. He tells him that should be become compromised while trying to capture his evidence on film, he’s not above releasing him.

Abraham is less than pleased with Eph’s car. Why does no one love that giant jeep? Eph seems to take some pride his the truck he traded his rolex for. Abraham finds Eph to be both romantic and impractical. Eph calls to check in with Nora. They’re close, but he doesn’t want to talk about the relationship. Those that are turned when they come back go after the ones that they love the most.

Past. Inside a military barracks something slithers in, not very quietly though. It awakens one. He sees the thing feed in the dark. A young Abraham knows that something killed the man that they were told was sick. He knows it fed on him. His friend thinks that it was nothing more than a nightmare, tells him to stop looking for monsters, they’re already surrounded by them.

Fet comes into the office. The last client called in and said that he was rude. There is an unusually high number of rat calls in the city. The secretary mentions that she saw a bunch of rats in the subway this morning, and they looked to be migrating. Rats don’t really migrate like that, they only move like that when they’ve lost their food supply, or there’s a larger predator they’re fleeing from.

Nora gets a call. She’s still spooked. Her mother has been picked up. It’s her third incident where she’s run off, luckily she went into a coffee shop to order a martini and someone spotted her bracelet. The nurse warns that they’ll need to hire someone to keep her from wandering off, Nora maintains that her mother loves it there, that she has friends there. Her mother tells her that she doesn’t like it there, she wants to go home she says. She introduces her daughter as a medical student, and a good girl who’s come to help her pack.

Abraham and Ephraim head into the home of Ann Marie and Ansel. They finds Ann Marie hanging from the rafters. Eph wants to cut her down, but Abraham checks to see if she is infected first. She isn’t, but Abraham has other priorities. Ann Marie left a note. They know that the children are with her sister, and she says that she cannot face the world without Ansel. The pair head into the kitchen and spy the shed outside. The pair make their way outside in the snow to check out the shed. Abraham warns Eph to do what he can to avoid the blood as he pulls out his sword. Armed with his cell phone and the nail gun he follows Abraham into the shed. The chained up Ansel cannot quite reach the pair. Eph fires silver nails into him, and Abraham beheads him before seeking out the neighbor and doing the same to him. He pours gas around the shed while Eph looks over his footage. The shed goes up in flames, and finally Eph believes.

Past. Again the creature creeps about at night. It takes the man in the bunk next to Abraham, and they make eye contact. The creature snaps his victim’s neck.

Eph makes a call. He wishes Abraham to help him to get the quarantine in place, but Abraham cannot just sit around and wait for that to happen. They both have work to do against the Evil.

Eldritch’s surgery was a success, but it’s still too early to say if it will last. The doctor worries what will happen if their organ harvesting gets out, but it’ll be his last job anyways. Eldritch isn’t well enough for another procedure, and his life is in the hands of a higher power.

The solution that Ruby asked for comes to Gabriel’s place. He takes a quick look around, and finds the doctor’s body in a tub. Before he can get to work Gabriel sneaks up on him. Jack tells him that if he can just back up, he can make everything as if it never happened. As he gets to work, spraying the blood and disposing of evidence, Gabriel watches him with an odd velociraptor demeanor. Jack lays into place a cover story as a gore covered Gabriel draws closer. Jack asks him to back up, but Gabriel springs for an attack. Jack is forced to shoot Gabriel, and he thinks that he killed him. There’s a white milky substance coming from his chest, and as he gets a closer look Gabriel’s throat stinger springs to action, and throat hugs the heck out of Jack.

Joan remains irritable as ever. Her house keeper, Eva, wants her to go to the doctors, but she refuses. Joan feels like there is something wrong with her eye, and she has Eva look into her eye. Not only are they still oddly blood shot, they’re reptilian side blinking. Eva rushes out of the room, and rushes the children off to get them away from their mother. She tells Joan that she’s taking them to a movies as Joan smells them all too weirdly. Eva’s plan works and she and the children make a run for it.

Fet goes under ground to check out the oddly acting rats. It’s not rats that Fet finds but infected people. They give chase, and Fet halls butt to get out of there. Luckily its daytime, and they’re repelled by the light.

Nora’s mother braids her hair, talking about Nora’s work. She asks again when she’s going home, but Nora reiterates that she is home. Her mother does not like that one bit. She doesn’t like that she is forced to live with strangers, and its too much for Nora right now. Nora opens up about the case. Nora’s mother has faith that she’ll get to the bottom of things. As Nora walks her mother back to her room, she sees one of the infected making a snack of a resident. Nora has a change of heart and runs to the nearest exit with her mother in tow.

Eph heads into the Canary team headquarters of the CDC. Eph has proof that it is a disease, and it is rapidly spreading. Everett cannot believe that Eph is trying to quarantine the family members of the dead passengers. Eph explains that the passengers aren’t dead, not really, they’re going to a metamorphosis and worse that they’re returning home and infecting their families like in the case of Emma Arnell. He has empirical proof of the spreading infection, and wants Everett to start the daunting quarantine process immediately. Everett isn’t sure it’ll work, there’s a mountain of opposition in their way, but if they don’t stop this solve this problem they’re all doomed. Eph presses him to at least look at the video, that once he sees proof he will know that it’s the right call. Everett can’t even watch the whole thing, he cancels his next appointment. Jim asks if its spreading, it is massively. Eph notices Everett isn’t cancelling his next appointment. They have video of Eph dragging Redfern’s body down the hall. He tries to leave, but finds that his card no longer works. Jim helps him get out, he had no clue what he was doing when he released the box. Eph presses him to get Everett to issue that quarantine. Jim didn’t mean to betray Eph, and he tells him about the bogged down internet, as he takes him phone’s sim card so they can’t track him. Eph slips away on the streets. 

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St. Sebastian’s Hospital. Redfern is dead. Nora tells them that Abraham said to remove the head and burn the bodies. Jim is not on board for that plan. Ephraim wants to do a quick little on spot autopsy before the rest of the hospital can see what happened. Nora goes in search of a room, while Eph has Jim help him move the body. For the record Jim doesn’t think this is a good idea, but Eph points out that a monster just attacked them, there are no records.

Ephraim leaves Jim with the body so that he can go look for supplies for the autopsy. He tells him that if the body gets up to run. Nora wonders if Redfern knew what was happening to him. Eph tells her that she doesn’t have to do this, but she needs to know as well. Eph is relieved, because he needs her by his side for this.

Ann Marie tells her husband that she plans to take the kids to his sisters. He thinks that it’s a good idea, that she should take them as soon as she can. Ansel tells the kids that daddy is not feeling well, to just go with mommy. Ann Marie asks that he go to their family physician, that he loves their family unlike the government doctor but he refuses. She asks again if there’s anything that she can do for him, but he tries to put on a brave face. She offers to put the dog in the shed before leaving, but he tells her that she can keep him company. Ann Marie leaves with the kids as Ansel watches from the window.

Gus awakens and his brother asks where his gun is. He tells him to shut up, as he sits down for some breakfast. His friend, Felix, tells him about a “sure thing,” and Gus worries if this sure thing will get him locked up too. His brother doesn’t look so good though. Gus’s mother arrives home, all smiles with a bag of pasteries. She tells Gus how his friend called her everyday to check on her. Gus’s brother all but refuses to partake in the breakfast. He looks like he’s coming down with something.

At the StoneHeart Group, Thomas joins Eldritch and now they can greet their guest, Miss Dutch Velders, a self-described freedom fighter. She’s a hacker with a specialized talent. They want her to basically slow down the internet, so they can spin their cover story to their liking. After all those people dying on the plane, the CEO of the airline committing suicide, and the stock market crashing, people are against corporate greed and plan to crash the websites of large corporation. Luckily she’s good enough that she can do just what they’re asking for a price and fame she desires. They thank her for coming.

Ephraim has Jim record video with his phone as they start the autopsy. The worms seem to have vanished, as have his genitals, he’s barbie doll smooth. The body has gotten a makeover to become more efficient. Eph slices open Redfern. The lungs have dried up. Why is no one wearing a faceshield, oh the spores. The heart is shriveled, and a new circulatory system has formed. There’s new flesh, not cancerous but forming new organs. Eph pulls on the stinger and keeps pulling, and pulling. Goodness, that thing is long. Jim tries to tap out, he’s had enough, with the ammonia discharge and wants them to call it in. Eph is excited and horrified by the discovery that the thing is rewriting human biology so that it can reproduce and consume its host.

The super gives Gus’s momma a hard time about her recyclables in the hallway, and he’s come to collect the rent, which Gus’s brother was supposed to bring down. He swears he did. Gus goes to speak in private to the super. He has issue with the way that he’s been speaking to his mother. He warns him to speak to her with respect, or he’ll find his body in the trash. He pays the man the rent, and Gus and Felix go to see about that job and the Super takes down the recycling.

Ann Marie returns home. She looks for Ansel, hoping that he’s feeling good enough to get out of his pajamas. A sweaty Ann Marie changes her shirt, she notices that Gertie isn’t underfoot, and she’s hoping he took the dog for a walk. Ann Marie gives a prayer, before she notices a pile of hair on the pillow. From the window she spies something in the back yard. She rushes down, the dog collar is bloodied and torn in two. She says a prayer, trying to calm herself as she continues investigating, seeing traces of blood here and there in the snow. Ann Marie finds their dog dead with her throat ripped out. There’s a noise in the shed, and Ann Marie calls out to Ansel, asking if he’s alright, if he’s hiding from her. She opens the door and walks into the darkened shed. If you have to say a hail mary before entering, you probably shouldn’t enter. She wants to help her husband, but thankfully he’s taken preventative measures to save his wife. He’s chained himself up. He begs her to leave him, to not come back no matter what he tells her as he snarls at her. The voice in his head wants to rip out her throat and kill her. He begs her to run away and never return. He scares her enough that she runs from the shed.

Abraham goes to close up shop when Gus walks in. He wishes to give back the clock that his brother stole. Abraham isn’t in the business to buy back his property, but Gus isn’t selling it, and he’s less than pleased with Abraham’s lack of gratitude.

Ephraim, Nora and Jim clean up after their little autopsy. Eph thinks that they should have listened to the old man, taken and destroyed the cabinet when they had the chance. Ah, hindsight. This outbreak could have been avoided. Jim admits that its all his fault, he’s the one that waved through the van that carried the cabinet away, that he was paid to do so. Eph and Nora can not believe their ears. Jim was flat broke. Craig Nelson approached him, with claims that he just wanted to sell the CDC some medical equipment. Jim was broke before, but with his wife’s cancer, he was desperate. Eph asks if the epidemic was intentional, but Jim isn’t sure. It started with a small favor and just grew from there. They asked him to clear a box, which seemed harmless. He had new clue as to the danger in releasing the box. Eph hits him, and still Jim says that there was nothing he could do. Nora takes the phone, and autopsy evidence.

Ephraim doesn’t know Jim anymore. Nora tells him to think of what he’s going through, how desperate he must be, but they can’t focus on Jim right now, there’s an epidemic to be stopped. Abraham said that the bodies would return to their families. Ephraim and Nora decide to go find Emma, they know she returned home to her father, and then they’ll have her evidence and Redfern’s, if Eph can get his car started.

 Felix strolls past the parking attendant, like some dark hulking shadow, going completely unnoticed. He uses his bottom to set off a car alarm. When the attendant goes to check out the noise, Gus walks over and takes a set of keys. A new set of wheels is obtained, all too easily.

Ann Marie buries Gertie, hoping the dog didn’t suffer. Of course she suffered, her zombie-like husband ate the dog. Ann Marie talks to herself, pondering the horrors Ansel must have seen on the plane. Her neighbor, Tripp comes over with a laundry list of complaints. He wants her to quiet the dog, to teach her not to growl when she’s in the shed and is upset over the press camped out, like she has any control over them and where they decide to use the bathroom. Ann Marie takes the abuse, until he mentions having hit her dog, which explains the dog’s mysterious injury, and she offers to let him be the one to deal with the growling animal, to teach it a lesson. Tripp is all too glad for the opportunity, and Ann Marie shoves him in the shed. It’s a win/win. Ansel gets a meal, and Ann Marie gets peace.

In Queens, Felix and Gus bring a car but the four men at the garage don’t seem all that interested in doing business. Felix rouses their interest with the luxury SUV. One of the guy’s check it out, and offers a measly $400. Gus is less than pleased with the offer, but Felix suggests that they take it. Gus decides to walk away, and the offer goes up to $800. That he can accept.

All the social networks have gone dark, the internet has slowed to a crawl. The girl down what she’s claimed she could. Eldritch looks like hell, but he thinks that he’ll be better soon. He tells Maggie what “happened” on that flight. The US military removed the bodies from the morgue last night he tells her. A highly classified biological patient got loose on the plane, a mistake of epic proportions. Now they must do what needs to be done, without hesitation. Eldritch talks up her ego. Maggie owes Eldritch her career, but asks about the agent. He tells her that although deadly, it dissipates quickly, so it has great military applications. Maggie plans to stand with Eldritch on this, and give him any support he needs, which he appreciates before he passes out.

Eldritch’s health is worse. His liver is ready to go, but they need to proceed with the surgery now. Thomas is no where to be found, and they cannot reach him. How quickly he’s been forgotten when he was promised a miracle. Eldritch agrees to the surgery.

Ephraim and Nora arrive back at the Arnell home. The home still seems empty as Eph announces himself, and takes another look around. There’s music coming from one of the rooms. Eph and Nora head towards the playing of “This Old Man.” They find Emma standing before the music player. Eph calls out to the child, and the rabid little beast turns to them. A bloody, horrific mess, she shoots her stinger at them, which they dodge but they have no weapons to combat her. Luckily, Abraham is there, with his sword, and he cuts the head off the child as Nora screams. Abraham tells them to move, that he will need to find shelter from the son. The father appears behind them, and Abraham dispatches him just as easily, warning them to keep away from the worms. They need to burn the bodies. Nora cannot do this, they cannot run around and exterminate their patients. It may be the only thing that they can do. It’s a breath away from being out of control. He asks her where she thinks that blood came from. Arnell was out killing innocent people. Emma was just a child though, but Eph tells her that there was something inside her body controlling her. Nora tells him that she would rather die than to kill innocent people. Abraham plans to kill everyone on the list, but Nora isn’t ready for that. Eph tells her to be safe, Nora believes there has to be another way. Some brains cannot adjust, not everyone is cut out to be a hunter.

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Voldemort looks himself over in the mirror and he’s not unhappy with what he sees, but he’s about to make some changes. A few prosthetics here, some make up there, and well, Thomas looks more like himself. Soon the time for this little charade will be over, and victory will be his.

Ephraim and Nora head to the director. He knows that the bodies are gone, but not where the bodies have gone. Everett is almost too happy to wash his hands of the whole problem, even though all involved know that the group on the plane did not die of carbon monoxide poisoning, and Everett reminds them that they no longer have any authority in the matter having been relieved of duty. Everett tells Jim that the press gets nothing, that they get no news from them. It is no longer about disease control but about damage control.

Jim worries over just what he has done. He places a call over to StoneHeart to chat.

Flatbush, Brooklyn. One of the survivors are awoken by his dog. He stumbles out of bed. His eyes are bloodshot, and his front teeth are bleeding. The press sit outside of the house. His wife sends the children away from the windows. The phone is off the hook because of all the ringing. She worries what if he has to go back to the hospital, that he’ll need to be quarantined. He assures her that he’ll be fine. She knew he should not have gone on the trip, and Ann Marie keeps going on and on. She mentions that one of the dogs came back hurt, and the noise in Ansel’s head gets louder. She sends him back up to bed.

At the Health Department, the secretary watches the airplane coverage. Fet notices that there is a week’s worth of rat calls that have all come in today. His boss warns him to go to the mayor’s office first and to be on his best behavior.

Redfern’s diagnosis continues. There’s all sort of theories on what it is, but Eph tells them that it’s a nasty blood worm. A protocol for treatment is being formulated. Redfern wonders if he’s going to die. Eph thinks they can find the cure, he promises to make him better. Nora tells him that he can’t make promises like that, but he has nothing but hope to offer the man. His custody hearing starts soon, so its up to Nora to follow up with the other survivors. Nora suggests that she also speak with Abraham, since he seemed to know about the situation.

Jim is at the StoneHeart Group meeting with Thomas, he’s come to meet with Craig, but Craig is not available. Jim isn’t familiar with Thomas. Thomas figures that he’s there about the airplane box, but Jim feigns no knowledge at first of what Thomas is speaking of. He was asked to allow a piece of medical cargo through and Thomas has the rest of the funds for his favor. Jim doesn’t take the money, instead he asks what was in the box, and where the corpses have gone. Thomas doesn’t answer, and Jim thinks that he should go to the authorities when Thomas mentions Jim’s sick wife. She has cancer, and she was denied into a special program. The StoneHeart has a long reach, and they can help her get into the trial. Jim accepts the money, telling him that he’s only doing this to pay for her treatment. Thomas makes it clear that Jim is now is bitch, and he’ll bark when he’s asked to.

Abraham’s hearing begins. The judge asks what he was doing at the airport, and he claims he saw something on television, and he’s unsure why he went, he’s old. The judge asks about next of kin, which he has none. The charge of trespassing is of little worry, but the judge is concerned about the giant sword in his cane. Abraham promises to have the hardware removed, and the judge allows him to go. Nora stops Abraham outside, asking how much of the doddering old man was an act. She knows that he’s upset, but not about what she thinks. He’s mad because the bodies are missing, but he knows where the bodies are going. She asks if the military is covering it up. It’s nothing so simple as that. Being good isn’t enough, and he warns that they need to find and destroy all of the bodies and everyone that has come into contact with them. Nora hesitates. She’s useless to him, she isn’t ready.

Queens Family Court. The judge faces Zachary, and asks him what he thinks will be the best solution for him. He knows his parents want what’s best for him. He says that he thinks his dad should get 1-2 weekends a month, because he knows that his dad has a super important job, and he wouldn’t want him to worry about missing dates. This is not what Ephraim wants, he wanted joint custody. Kelly says nothing. Zach says that he wants what is best for his dad, that’s all. Eph is clearly upset over the order. After Kelly goes to him to see if he’s okay. Zach still doesn’t know that he’s the most important thing to him. Kelly tells him that saying it isn’t the same as proving it. She tells him that he can see his son whenever he wants, with a little notice. He thinks she’s gloating, but she points out that their son just had to choose between them, and he chose what was best for Eph, not for himself.

Gabriel watches his band rehearse, but he doesn’t feel up to participating. Between the plane, and biting the girl, Gabriel is hotter than ever, Ruby tells him, but he still can’t bring himself to sing.

Ephraim pays Mr. Arnell a visit. The door is open, and he walks in, but the house is quiet. Ephraim sees a “pilot” pin on the counter as he continues to look for Mr. Arnell. Eph heads upstairs and see a pink tinged bathtub of water, and a clump of hair, but no signs of Emma or her father. He gets a call from Norm, asking if any of the personal affects have been released to the next of kin yet. He says something that sends Ephraim running, and Eph never sees Emma in the shadows.

Health Inspector Fet is at the mayor’s apartment. A rat bit his daughter in the face, and he wants it caught and taken care of. Fet starts his rat hunt. There’s some cursing, and he comes out with a bag containing a rat. Fet tells him that rats also like the cigars when he notices the mayor smoking a Cuban. After a little lecture of cigars, and the neighborhood Fet is off, but outside he spots a rat. He follows it and notices rats pouring out of the sewer, they look like they’re getting out of dodge.

Jim returns home to his wife. Sylvia tells him that Stanford called, and she has been admitted to the trial, she’s one of the lucky 100. She hugs him, and he realizes the deal with the devil was really made.

Ansel’s german shepherd barks at him. The buzzing in his ears gets louder. He goes into the fridge and spots a raw steak. He drinks the blood straight out of the bottom of the pan. His wife spies his odd behavior.

Gabriel’s personal doctor prescribes him a whole medley of drugs for his performance issues. He asks if he has any issues beside the voice in his head, and there is one. The doctor turns almost green looking at Gabriel’s crotch, which “doesn’t look good.” A doctor should never look in that region and make that statement, and he suggests that someone drive him to a hospital, but Gabriel isn’t really interested in being a youtube sensation for that. The doc suggests a urologist.

Abraham gets the airline manifest from a hacker. She asks why he wants the list, and he claims its so that he can pay respect to their families, aka hack them to bits with his giants sword. She takes her prize and runs out, appeased with the answer.

Redfern’s prognosis remains bleak. He’s rapidly declining at an unprecedented rate. Redfern says he’s here. Nora scans him with a UV light, and the worms are swirling under his skin, but they aren’t sure what happening.

Zach watches news footage on his ipad when he hears a noise downstairs. He heads down, thinking that its his mother. He finds Kelly looking at old family photos and crying. He sits outside with her.

Regis Air Corp headquarters. Thomas pays the president a visit, asks if he would like to write a note of any regrets, sorrows. He holds a gun on him, but only so that he can put it in his hand and pull the trigger to make it look like the man committed suicide.

Gabriel comes out all painted up. He pulls out a contact, and his eye beneath is beyond bloodshot. He removes his wig, and he’s practically bald beneath, with more patches of hair coming out in his hands. Gabriel is a mess, and no longer a hot one. He removes his war paint. Scratching, he goes to take a leak, and his dick falls off. I’ve heard of bad days, but that pretty much takes the cake. He looks like a poor ken doll.

Jim finally shows up. Eph and Nora cannot find any of the other three survivors, and Redfern is going into sugery. Jim tells them that his wife has been accepted into the trial program. Finally some good news. A nurse rushes in, Redfern is gone. He was left alone for but seconds and now he’s vanished. The three split up to find Redfern. Jim spots him in the kitchen in the basement. He’s going to town on some blood bags when he sees Jim. He attacks Jim and Nora arrives. Redfern goes after her, throwing her. Ephraim arrives on scene. Redfern attack him with his throat tentacle. Eph manages to beat him back, kills him with a fire extinguisher. That’s one way to put your anger issues to good use.

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In Brooklyn, a cop cooks up some deadly looking concoctions. His apartment looks straight out of Burn Notice. Maybe he and Michael Weston have the same interior decorators.

The cargo has arrived, and the driver, Gus, still has no clue what he has stolen. He calls out to Wesley that he has the box, but gets no response. He opens the cargo doors, and the box begins to growl and shake, and that’s enough to send the man running away in a panic, the only smart thing he’s done.

 Peter Bishop’s headless body is found. Ephraim and Nora begin to investigate his death. In the dark, under a black light there is the same iridescent goo around the body. Ephraim locks the crime scene after he gets a call the four survivors have been released.

Ephraim tries to stop the survivors, but they refuse to be waylaid any longer. Ephraim has reason to believe that they are actually sick, but they chock up their illnesses to mundane reasons. Ephraim puts them under quarantine anyways, and with Nora’s help, under quarantine they remain. Joan threatens to get them both fired.

At the Stoneheart Group, Eldritch watches the news about the airport. Thomas sees the situation as a problem, as the airport is still closed, the survivors quarantined. Eldritch will spin the story to his liking in no time, now that he’s done his part he’d like to see “him.” Thomas has something to do first.

Abraham sits in lock up, listening to a press conference when he gets word that his lawyer is here to see him, but he has no lawyer. It’s Thomas. He tells Abraham that he’s grown old, though Thomas looks the same. Abraham’s heart beat has grown irregular, Thomas tells him. Abraham asks where his master is. His master is watching him through Thomas. So long as Abraham lives, the fight remains alive. Thomas asks about the sword, which Abraham plans to give back to him in time.  He asks if he also still has the heart, tells him that she never once cried out even in the end. Thomas wants Abraham to watch the world go down. Abraham plans to kill him like he has the others, and the lines are drawn.

In Harlem, Gus returns home. His mother asks him to attend mass with her, but he says he has to get some sleep. She makes plans for dinner before running off. Gus grills his brother on some stolen goods, warning him not to bring stolen goods into the house.

The Director isn’t exactly happy that the good doctors went above him with the quarantine, but they feel that the survivors can’t be released until they know why the plane all died, but they think they do know. Margaret presents them with information about a mechanical malfunction aboard the plane. The entire airline has been grounded until the NTSB conducts its investigation, taking it out of the CDC’s hands. Ephraim points out that it has nothing to do with a faulty airway, but rather a viral pathogen. Margaret wants him to think about the potential fallout a quarantine like Ephraim wants will have on the economy. His director thinks perhaps his personal life is affecting his job. But his personal life has nothing to do with saving people’s lives. Ephraim gets handsy, and he’s taken off the case and sent home. Ephraim tries to call Bennett, and can’t reach anyone at the coroner’s office, Nora thinks its just that they’re busy with all the bodies.

Ephraim and Nora meet with Captain Redfern, one of the survivors. He looks like hell. Nora checks on him, although he looks horrid, he doesn’t feel all too bad. They want to ask him about some cargo, the box that has gone missing. He tells them that some government looking men loaded the box onboard. He didn’t question it, and because of that everyone else died. He didn’t know what government branch loaded the cargo, he never even thought to ask about it since it all looked official. Ephraim tells him to go see a Dr. William Lester to admit him as a private patient and to run some tests to see what’s causing the noise in his head. Captain Redfern cannot believe the hoops they have to jump through because the airport is avoiding a quarantine, the unions, everyone is more worried about cover their own asses, than learning the truth. Ephraim vows to get to the bottom of it.

Ephraim and Nora look at the worms under a microscope. Ephraim tests his theory on the worms desire for human blood, and the worms go straight for it. He gets a text from his son, and considers putting it off, hot on a trail, but Nora suggests if he doesn’t want to lose his son that he take a moment for him. Ephraim takes her advice.

The officer, is from the city health board and does a health inspection of a restaurant. The owner thinks he’s just after a payout, but he’s points out the rat urine and the fact that he’s had a complaint. The man changes his mind about a payout, and offers him a bribe, but the officer suggests he move out of his way.

Ruby tells Gabriel and Joan about the large sums of money they could have had for a short interview, but Joan knows they can get more. Gabriel complains of noise in his head, Joan is experiencing it too. Ruby suggests that if it’s musical that he should write it down and use it. Gabriel tries to get friendly, but Joan finds that she’s bleeding. She decides it’s time to get home to her kids.

The restaurant fails its inspection. A very large rat has been found. The inspector tries to clear out the establishment, but they’re not quick to move, so he pulls out the rat, and the customers get the clue. Gabriel and Ruby find the events amusing.

A liver has been found for Thomas, but he’s unsure if he’ll need it anymore. His assistant reminds him that if his plan fails they’ll be hard pressed to find another liver in time to save him. He takes the advice, and plans to proceed with the transplant, but he’s never been more excited and assured of a plan working than he is of his current one.

Ephraim hurries to get off the phone as he arrives at his ex’s house. She asks why he’s involved in the plane incident still since it’s being reported as a mechanical issue. He tells her that the cover story is bull shit. That nothing is adding up. She’s glad that he’s handing it, and allows him in. Diane is there having wine. The boyfriend and Zach are in the back converting Eph’s old office into his game room. Eph doesn’t want anything to be awkward, just that his family is happy. The boyfriend gives him a hug, sure that eventually they’re going to be good friends. Eph talks alone with his son Zach, trying to assure him that it’ll be okay when they go before the judge to speak about custody. Eph tells him to be honest to speak from his heart. Eph plans to do the same, and will ask for joint custody. Zach worries that his father’s promise that he won’t be so busy after this last case is solved will be as untrue as its always been, but Eph tells him that it will be true this time.

Ephraim makes it to his AA meeting, surprising his sponsor. He’s trying to make a change it seems. He even does the whole “Hi my name is Eph, and I’m an alcoholic.” He’s both passive aggressive, and actively aggressive. He puts all of his faults out there, and there’s plenty to be angry over. He tells the group how he just saw his family with his replacement, and that nearly drove him to stop and have a drink. But he cannot, his son is all he has left.

The noise in Gabriel’s head is getting worse. He snorts some meds and joins the three naked ladies waiting. He starts to get frisky with them, and one of them runs her hand though his hair, some of it falls out. He feigns that he’s fine though, and tries to continue their amorous play until he takes a bite out of one of them. When the girl screams, he sends the three packing, and laps up the trail of blood on the floor.

Ephraim looks over the initial reports from Redfern. It looks all crazy bad. His skin is crawling, says that it feels like its full of razors. Under a UV light Eph sees that he has the same scar as the others from the plane, he just healed so fast they didn’t notice it without the light. Redfern’s veins are glowing white. Eph makes a call, reporting that one of the survivors is very sick, and the others should be brought in as well. Still no word from the coroner’s office.

Gary Arnell calls Eph apologizing for what he did to him, and thanking him for sending his daughter back to him. Eph is confused, asks if someone released Emma’s body. Gary clarifies that Emma isn’t dead, but when he tries to get more information Gary hurries off the phone. Eph thinks that Gary was just hallucinating, but Nora wonders if maybe the worms made the bodies appear dead since they thought everyone was dead and then four woke up. They’ll find out when they get to the morgue.

Eldritch’s assistant is still unsure of their associates, but Eldritch knows that they have untold powers. He tells the man to stay in the car,that he has to do this alone. Eldritch gets out of the car and finds the box open. Thomas tells him that he is very fortunate that he has been chosen. A wind flies through his hair, and he falls upon his knee to welcome the master. Voldemort looks down on him, and Eldritch fears he who shall not be named.

Ephraim and Nora find no one manning the reception of the morgue. The phone is ringing off the hook, and no Bennett. There’s an overturned gurney in the hallway, and the lights don’t seem to be working. All of the bags are empty, every single one, and the only sign of Bennett seems to be a pair of broken glasses.

Emma sits in the bathtub in the dark. Her father tries to talk to her, but she’s oddly quiet. He touches her hair and it comes out in his hand. He suggests getting her out of the tub, and she goes all alien on him, eating him.

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It’s the series we’ve been anticipating since the announcement, and its finally here. Will it live up to the hype and do the books justice is yet to be seen!

There is a hunger in the world that is rising, an unquenchable one, and it’s not human. A plane is preparing to land and everything seems quiet. And everything is relatively normal as the stewardess tells various passengers to turn off their electronics or put their chairs back in their upright positions. In the back of the plane, it’s a mess. The other steward is freaking out because he thinks he heard something moving in the cargo hold of the plane. He makes the woman investigate. She doesn’t see anything, but when she closes the hold, there’s clearly something inside, and it breaks out. What the hell is that?

On the ground the plane, they notice the plane has shut down, completely still on the runway, and Bishop goes to investigate before the first responders arrive. The plane is cold to the touch, like a dead animal. All of the window blinds are closed but one. The CDC is called. They’ve got a dead airplane.

In Astoria Queens. Ephraim from the CDC heads into the Family Counseling Center. His son, Zach is glad to see him and wishes him luck. He’s late. He’s been busy with the latest outbreak, but they aren’t cutting him any slack. He’s great at his job, Kelly tells him but he’s failing at everything else, not for lack of trying. He’s making changes, he’s quit drinking. His ex points out that her current excels at his job too, but he’s there for them all the time. Ephraim is willing to quit his job anything or his family. His phone rings off the hook, and she points out that that is the problem. He has to take it though, it’s about the plane. And to make matters worse, he’s gotten a parking ticket.

Ephraim arrives onsite. Over two hundred people have been sitting on that plane in complete silence for an hour. Ephraim cannot believe it. The landing took six minutes, and the onsite team thinks that the CDC should take a back seat to the investigation. Ephraim makes the men think about the fast spread of a virus, and makes them rethink being the first ones through the door.

Manhattan. A man comes into a pawn shop. He want to know if the man will buy something without a receipt, and pawn shop owner, Abraham Setrakian tells him that he’s always looking for good silver. He looks at the watch, and the man tries to steal from his cash box. Abraham grabs him through the glass and holds him by knifepoint. He makes the man rethink his life decisions, and his friend is forced to hand over his gun. The man steal something on his way out, but Abraham has a new gun. On the TV he hears about the dead plane, and he slides into his hidden room. Down the steps he goes, inside he has some nifty trinkets, including a pretty nice can sword. He knows something is back as he looks at a dead heart in chloroform. He’s unsure if he has the strength to do this again, but This time he vows not to fail. He opens the jar, and spills a few drops into the water. Little tentacles come out of the heart, and go crazy for the spilt blood.

Ephraim and Nora suit up and head into the plane. She tries to give him words of encouragement about his family situation, and realizes that he really knows little about women. Ephraim and Nora had inside. The plane is beyond dead. It looks as if every passenger, everyone on the plane is dead. There are no signs of struggle, agents or bruising. They check the readings, trying to finds some cause of death. Everyone looks to be asleep, all but the little girl. She has her eyes open. Ephraim checks her to find some clues, but it only leads to more questions. They use some UV lights, which shows some substance splattered throughout the cabin. One of the passengers twitch, not everyone is dead after all, but Ephraim and Nora don’t see the movement. Ephraim finds the cargo compartment open. It looks to be where the substance leads from. Inside, the substance is everywhere. Nora finds the cockpit open. She enters, and from her radio Jim tells her that she should not be inside, to get out of there, but she doesn’t listen. Jim notifies Ephraim. One of the pilot awakes, startling her, and as Ephraim rushes to her side, there are others awake. Jim prepares to call SWAT, but Ephraim orders paramedics for the survivors. He should have called SWAT, the survivors are gonna be a problem!

At the StoneHeart Group, Thomas Eichorst goes to the top lab and Eldritch Palmer. A line has been crossed that cannot be uncrossed Eldritch tells him, and Thomas likes the sound of that.

Ephraim shows Everett just how bad it is. The bodies are being bagged, tagged, and will be autopsied. The four survivors will be quarantined, but Everett wants to make certain that Ephraim is prepared to meet with the families. Everett is more concerned with public scare, than with potential outbreak.

Mrs. Lester is being less cooperative. She ‘s sealed into her own room, as all of the survivors are being kept separately. Ephraim and Nora question the survivors, trying to get any clues they can. They ask if there was a distinct smell or anything. The survivors want answers, but they have none. Ephraim gets called to look at something they found.

In the cargo hold there was an oddly carved box, its not on the manifest though. Standing it’s nine feet tall. Tony has it turned onto its side, and they open it. The chances of it loaded unchecked and unlisted are next to impossible. Nora sees that it has a latch on the inside. Ephraim wants to know who put this on the Plane.

The news continues to report about the airplane. Kelly and Zach watch the news unfold, while her boyfriend tries to get her attention elsewhere. Zach heads off to bed, but not before texting his father to check on him. He tries to assure his son that he’s fine. Nora prepares him to speak with the quarantined people’s families.

There’s no record of the box, and the air port where it originated from makes excuses why they can’t try to look into its origins. An Airport employee   hears some odd noises, and he goes to investigate. Passing through doors he finds a heap, and blood everywhere. The thing grabs him, draining the body, before violently smashing his head. In the cheesiest effect yet it runs out screeching into the night. The episode has been fantastic right up until that retreat.

Harlem, Manhattan. Thomas enlists the help of a gang to retrieve the box. The thugs big talk doesn’t faze him, and he gives the man his walking orders. He gives the man everything he needs to pull off the job. He’s used thug power before, but he needs to make sure that all instructions are followed, and to that end, he puts the man’s family on the line. He tries to walk away, and Thomas isn’t what he seems with an odd twitch of the eyes. Thomas convinces the man otherwise, and issues three rules. No opening the cargo, drive fast, and deliver before sunrise.

JFK airport. Abraham arrives to the chaotic scene. Families are fantic, Bolivar’s fan are chanting for him. Abraham zeroes in on Jim who is trying to coordinate security. From his pocket he pulls a medication vial to get close to Jim. The ruse works.

Everett gives Ephraim the passenger manifest and throws him into the lion’s den. The press close in hungry for any news. Ephraim begins the press conference. Kelly watches from home. The press all yell trying to get a question in, but he silences them. He’s not there for reassurances, but to deliver what he knows. 203 passengers are dead, and 4 are alive. They have no clue how they died, but that it looks like they died peacefully. One of the men punches Ephraim, he’s a distraught father. He wants to see his daughter. In 48 hours, more answers will be available.

Ephraim and Nora call the morgue for answers. The bodies haven’t been processed yet, but he’s found an incision in one of the necks, deep enough to puncture the carotid artery. Spot check of six others, show the exact same wound in the exact same place. The other intriguing finding is what looks like milk in the bodies. There are no blood in the bodies at all.

Jim tells Ephraim that he’ll want to talk to Abraham.  Ephraim tries to brush him off, but Abraham will not be silenced. He tells him that he has faced this virus before, and he must be contained. Abraham announces that the bodies are not decomposing normally, and that gets their attention. He tells them that all the bodies dead or alive they must be destroyed. The heads severed, bodies burned. Ephraim lets security restrain him as he yells about the coffin, asking if they have it. Nora listens as he tells them that it isn’t too late if they have the coffin, to destroy it, and not let it cross the river.

At the morgue, one of the bodies is examined under UV light. There’s a weird webbing that can be seen under the skin.

Nora wonders how the man could have known about the coffin. Ephraim thinks its all crazy talk. He finds a thin worm that tries to pierce their gloves. It’s desperate for a host. He boxes his specimen. Good news is that it isn’t airborne. Nora finds more of them, and now they’re panicked. They run to find the cabinet/coffin and it’s gone. Looking over the security footage, its there, and then there’s a glitch and its gone. Nora thinks back over Abraham’s words. The footage when it disappeared isn’t too old, which means the box is still in the airport. He goes to find it.

The thug has a CDC placard in his car, and the box inside. He’s not sure what the hell is in the van, but he takes it. Ephraim seals off the parameter of the airport. He wants all vehicles stopped, and Jim gives the orders to stop everything. The van pulls out of the garage, but is stopped. He has all the right ID, and when he hands over the card that Thomas gave him the cop doesn’t know what to do with it. The K-9 unit goes nuts, and the cop asks him to step out of the vehicle. He bristles at the order, and Jim comes to see what the commotion is. He sees the card, and okays the vehicle to go past, but not before he gives the thug a message. He’s done. Bad move Jim.

The autopsies continue. There are growths on some of the organs. When the heart is weighed, the coroner hears a noise. The heart is full of worms. They crawl out and into his hands. As he tries to get rid of the worms, the dead rise and eat him. Lesson one, never investigate a strange noise, it does not end well.

It’s a decent first outing for the Strain, but I just wonder. What the hell is with Ephraim and his milk drinking? 

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