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All right, listen up. I need volunteers to help me with the bends.

Nobody's making such a big deal about the pledge.

It's not every day we get initiated in the convocation.

I'll help you, I think. Great.

Any other takers?

Okay, I guess I'll just be a girl thing then.

I've got to memorize all this.

Yeah, but only if you successfully complete the first term of the

Marty. Hey, I'm half human now.

No, you're not.

We're still vampires.

We'll always be vampires.

Are you saying we haven't changed?

Will that be the thrust in your speech?

What are you talking about?

Oh, see, Murdoch chose you to address the class.

What?

Yeah, well, he was supposed to tell you himself, except some of us aren't so

good at keeping secrets.

But hey, if you're the slightest bit hesitant to make the speech, I nominate

Carl to do it.

I could just see him now.

Lord Bacall. Oh, sorry. I mean, Lord Bacall.

Dr. Murdoch.

Fellow vampires.

I realize how far I've come in the difficult journey to become a human.

I mean, of course it's irrelevant that I've only been a vampire for a year. And

it's irrelevant that I've only fed on one human. And, in fact, it's irrelevant

that I'm not really a vampire at all.

Come on, Carl, we're just joking.

Hide

me.

Oh, please.

When the great eclipse plunged the world into darkness, The vampire race erupted

in a civil war.

The bloodthirsty fury battled with the enlightened elders for domination of the

undead. In desperation, the elders gathered up those young vampires that

be saved and entrusted them to me.

To humanize them, to tame their instincts, and teach them how to live

mortals.

It's difficult to break habits.

Even more difficult to overcome primal instincts.

Yet my vampire students have shown remarkable progress over their first

period.

Carl, a newly made vampire, is harder to assess, as he has yet to confront his

own darkness.

Dr. Murdock, we've got big trouble.

Is this how you treat your own kind? I'll ask you again.

Who are you and where are you from?

I'm just trying to survive.

Government agents are after you. Yeah, caught me feeding.

Almost blew my head off.

How did you find us?

I can smell a vampire a mile away.

Will you let me out?

No. You'll stay put until I check you out.

I'm not going to hurt anybody.

I don't feed on my own kind.

What harm could she do? There's five of us. No.

Until I say so, you'll have no contact with her.

Her name is Bridget.

Is that understood?

By everyone?

Good.

Now, I want you to continue preparations for the pledge.

And do it somewhere else.

I've got to memorize all this?

Could I get some cheat notes or something?

Will you help me?

Oh, come on.

I didn't do anything wrong.

That used to be alive, you know.

But now it's dead.

Ain't I lucky. It's still all bloody. How can you eat that? How can you eat

grass?

This is good for me.

Well, this is good for me.

The hottie count here is, like, way low.

Right now I'd settle for something with a heartbeat.

Your bar is way too high.

Give me a list.

Smart.

Great eyes.

Someone who can't be fooled.

Who knows how things really are.

And sexy.

No one here even comes close.

It's definitely you.

Why?

We are all vampires driven by dark desires, afraid of the light.

We are told we must deny our instincts and reach for the sun.

Why? To be burned?

Is this pain the cost of our humanity?

You're questioning the whole experiment.

Mm -hmm.

Is that how you really feel?

It's how we all feel.

No, we don't.

Otherwise, we'd be out there living from kill to kill, just like Bridget.

It's so stupid.

We are all vampires.

Driven by dark desires.

Afraid of the light.

Hey, we've been waiting for you.

What's your clan symbol going to be?

Try this for my blood -sucking clan.

Marty. What? It's a happy face.

Hey, there's something I don't get. In the name of the convocation, we pledge

ourselves to battle darkness in others and ourselves.

Does that mean we got a whack, Bridget?

I think Murdoch's gone overboard locking her up like that.

Yeah, what's with the no blood rule anyways?

Blood would only feed her powers.

She could be a fury plant.

Not like I'm scared.

Look, guys, she's just a dirty little street fan looking for a place to sleep.

That's all. Oh, it's too late.

She has about to experiment.

Do you talk?

I'll talk.

What are you doing?

I've been assigned to watch you.

Watch me?

Are you my guardian angel?

What's your name?

Carl.

I really like that name.

Next, you're going to want to know my sign.

Whoops.

Busted.

You know, if you come closer, I promise not to bite.

Come on, no fangs.

You like this?

You know it's welded on.

I have to cut off my head to get it.

You know it's a thousand years old.

You want to touch it?

Look, Carl, I'm really hungry.

The agent showed up before I fed.

I can't.

Who's going to know?

That's not the point.

Check this out. We scored big time.

Yeah!

Our very last cram session deserves a pig out.

This is great. Listen to this.

We are all vampires, driven by dark desires, afraid of the light.

We are told we must deny our instincts and reach for the sun.

Why? To be burned?

Is this pain the cost of our humanity?

Vampires.

It's a metaphor, Mimi.

Whoever wrote this is talking about her life at Mansbridge Academy.

It's romantic.

Especially the dark desires part.

Oh, you want dark desires?

I'll show you dark desires.

I doubt whoever wrote this knows anything at all about vampires.

Why?

Because they love the dark.

I have a feeling a guy wrote this.

Definitely a guy.

Oh, not me.

What?

No guy I can imagine from around here.

Not for sure.

Whoever it is, it's some heavy stuff.

Oh yeah, a vampire getting sunburned.

That's heavy.

There's someone around here who's not what he seems.

I want to meet him.

How?

I'll write him back.

I gotta tell you, this is awful stuff.

Is this all they feed you around here?

Yeah.

But you're allowed to hunt on your own. No.

Why not?

Well, the whole experiment is about trying to be more human.

Human? Well, judging from the way I've been treated, I'd say it's failing.

But don't you miss the kill?

How long have you been a vampire, Carl?

Long enough.

How many kills, Carl?

I want to show you something.

One notch for every kill.

Really?

It's no big deal.

If humans notched every hamburger they ate, you know what the best part is.

me all the blood. You hear it pounding so loudly you want to scream.

Rush. You let go.

You sink deep into that warm, sweet nectar.

Everything is quiet.

You're at one with yourself.

I'm a vampire, Carl.

Don't run away from who you really are.

Must have left my speech in here.

Yes.

Meet me tonight in the library to discuss a metaphor.

I've always known that I was different from the others.

You are, Carl.

I don't fit in.

You're better than they are.

How?

You looked me straight in the eye.

They ran away.

Yeah.

Fearless.

Sometimes I get a sense of what I can be.

I can help you.

Trust me, Carl.

You must choose.

This prison or who you truly are.

What do I do?

Listen to your heart.

Pounding, beating, stronger and stronger in your chest.

We need to know which crest is yours so we can... Carl, what are you doing?

Carl!

Oh, my God, Carl.

What were you thinking?

All I know is it felt right. She tricked you. Can't you see that? I see that

everyone thinks they know better than me.

Is this about Essie?

You're angry because Essie refused your declaration of love. Is that what this

is about?

You don't know me at all.

I know you got taken in by a rogue vampire. That's not supposed to happen.

Has it occurred to you that she might be Fury?

The elders are after her. They want her. They want to know where she's been.

They want to know who she is. They want to know...

Who she's feasted on.

There's a possibility her blood could be tainted.

Look, I'm a vampire.

I was hungry. I fed.

That's how it works.

Listen to yourself.

No!

You listen to me.

It's time I stopped pretending I can change when I haven't even begun to

vampire's life is not living.

It's the only life I've got.

I'm changing my life.

I'm going to make a run for it. You wouldn't last a day out there.

You're coming with me.

Can I trust you out there? Of course you can.

Show me.

Come on, Mr. Green Man, I'm waiting.

You want me to drain her?

I thought I could trust you.

You can.

Not until I know you can kill.

Otherwise, we'll never survive out there.

Now go.

messed with your mind, Carl.

Look at her.

You remember how good it was with me?

Trust me.

Human blood tastes better.

I'm not sure.

Was I wrong about you?

You're just like the others.

I am not weak.

Not quite what I expected.

But hey.

Not talking, Mr. Creature of the Night?

Afraid of the light?

I love your work.

So, what else are you afraid of?

Oh, come on, I won't bite.

Do you have any idea what you've done?

How could you?

Leave me alone.

What are we going to do?

Can't just let her die.

Reddick's on his way.

She ain't gonna make it through the night.

Carl did a bang -up job.

Where's Bridget?

She escaped.

Good riddance.

Think she might sell us out to the Fury?

Let's hope for everybody's sake.

The elders find her first.

Change is never easy for vampires.

When it comes, it is always slow and painful and all too often

dangerous.