In the end... HOLY SHIT!
If you have been watching this show and made it to this point... remember that Lawyer Lady everyone just wants to die already? Well she finally becomes a vampire in this episode as she kills her husband who has just returned home. Her nanny has luckily already taken her kids away from the house, but at the insistence of the nanny's daughter, she takes them back. Meanwhile Eph, Nora and Abraham hatch a plan with Jim to draw out Eichorst in order to get close to The Master. And hopefully they can kill him. As for Gus, he's sitting in jail with his friend who is obviously slowly turning into a vampire.
While a lot of things happen in this episode I feel like the most interesting that happens for a majority of it, other than the ending, is the flashbacks concerning Abraham and Eichorst. Here we get a much deeper understanding of how these two are destined to become true archenemies for decades. We learn that during Abraham's time in the concentration camp, it was Eichorst who commissioned him to build the ominous gigantic coffin that the Master uses. It is through these interactions between a pre-vampire Eichorst and a pre-vampire hunter Abraham that we see their ideologies and how the times have caused them to evolve into what they are now. While it does come off as a bit cliche to have a villain temping the reluctant hero into action or spitting out his master plan, the acting between Eichorst and the actor playing a Young Abraham was definitely nice to watch.
Back to the present. Eph, Nora and Abraham are convinced that if they get Jim's help they'll be able to find The Master and destroy him. Of course they catch Jim trying to leave the city with his cancer stricken wife. The very wife that he was willing to let the world end in order for her to receive the proper therapy for her cancer. However when Jim tells her the truth about not just the bribes but the fact that there are vampires, she completely disregards everything that he says and leaves him. I hope this serves as a point for viewers who say, "Why not just tell people there are vampires instead of beating around the bush?" Well Jim did, and the reaction was exactly the same. Disbelief. No one wants to believe vampires are real, even if your love one tells you. That's reality. Of course this gives Jim nothing left to lose as he helps out with the plan to draw out Eichorst. And hopefully, draw out the Master as well.
However those plans don't exactly work. What could've easily have been a bloodbath for Abraham and his Vampire Hunting crew, becomes instead a game of cat and mouse. A really bad game of cat and mouse. The biggest problem about it is the fact that it was very obvious from the start that this wasn't going to work. It is a poorly conceived plan and only serves as a way of bringing those flashback interactions of Abraham and Eichorst full circle for the narrative of this episode. Nothing really gets solved other than more taunting from the villains.
There is a small bit with Gus, but it isn't really much to talk about. Other than the fact that cops don't care what convicts think. Even if the convicts are telling the truth that there are vampires out there. That's really all there is to his bit. There isn't even any scenes involving Vesily Fet or Bolivar the Rock Star Vampire. Which is kind of becoming a negative of this show. The characters are so numerous, so early into the game that it can get confusing. Game of Thrones had multiple characters and multiple stories, but in the first season it at least kept focus on all of them for each episode. Then later on we can start missing people in later seasons for the sake of focusing on one group over the other. This show hasn't exactly earned the right to not show other characters for a whole episode. But at least it isn't a total loss.
While it may sound like I'm complaining, the big ending of this episode was a real shocker. Having not read the books, I did not know what happens at the end of this episode was going to happen. It was a genuine surprise that has me saying: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!?!?! I will not spoil it here, because I'd rather you as a viewer witness it for yourself.
SCORE: 9/10 - For the origins of Abraham and that HOLY SHIT ENDING
STATUS: CONTINUE TO WATCH BECAUSE OF THAT CLIFFHANGER ENDING
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