Not looking any worse for wear, Ethan goes to the Grand Guignol and meets Vanessa, who gives him her sympathies for the loss of Brona. She also thanks him for his kindness when she was ill. “Was it kindness, I wonder?” He asks. Does Vanessa remember Ethan’s apparent exorcism? It’s unclear. Malcolm approaches, and they enter the shadowy theatre. Sembene follows, and Victor, surprisingly, is also in tow. (Or maybe not so surprisingly, seeing as Malcolm does treat this attack like a last stand.) They wander around the theater for a while, searching in the shadows, when Vanessa and Malcolm finally spot something up by the ceiling.
As their light reveals a pale, humanoid creature asleep in one corner, all hell breaks loose. Below, on the stage, a trap door opens beneath Ethan and he falls down. Before he can rise, a female vampire, shrieking, has launched herself onto him. The creature above Vanessa and Malcolm roars and darts away just as more vampire brides attack Sembene, Ethan and Victor. As Sembene makes short work of some with his blades, Victor unsteadily raises his weapon and blasts one away.
Above, the pale head vampire takes a bullet from Malcolm but still goes after Vanessa, who locks eyes with it for a second. That the creature doesn’t attack her immediately just strengthens the already pretty rock-solid case for Vanessa as Amunet. Then Malcolm is there with a blade, impaling it through. The creature hisses and turns, its tongue lashing around. Nonchalantly, Malcolm tosses it over the railing, and it drops down to the stage. Quickly, he descends to stab it again. Meanwhile, Ethan is finding himself to be a little too popular with the vampire brides. As they overwhelm him, he screams once, with a mixture of terror and anger. Malcolm pushes the blade further into the head vampire, who gasps and struggles, before finally ceasing to resist. With a howl, the vampire brides all around the theater drop as well. The companions stagger to their feet, scarcely believing their luck.
Vanessa rushes to the stage to examine the vampire, but she’s distracted by the appearance of Mina. “Vanessa?” She asks, and overjoyed, Vanessa rushes to embrace her long-lost friend. Malcolm stands, his face still bloody, on the other side of the stage. “Mina?” He asks, hopeful but confused. Why would Mina go to Vanessa, who slept with her would-be bride all those years ago and destroyed her family, first? “Father,” she says casually. Then, her eyes go black and she says again, “Father,” her voice distorted and demonic. Before Vanessa can react, Mina, her inner evil revealed, has a hand around her throat and is using her as a human shield. Ethan moves to intervene and Mina growls, “No, Mr. Chandler. You have no role in this play.” Malcolm bids Ethan to stay there.
Mina moves to retreat with Vanessa, the prize the vampires wanted all along, into the shadows. Fighting to breath, Vanessa tells Mina that she can save her. “Why do you think I want to be saved?” comes her terrible, chilling answer. “Somewhere inside you, know who you are,” Malcolm pleads with her. “I am who I’m meant to be,” she says, pulling Vanessa’s head to one side. “You’ll understand when you join the Master. When you all join him. And now that he has his bride, he will sire generations.” Malcolm stands there, watching something that looks like his beloved daughter, possessed by evil itself (it’s now clear, if it was ever in doubt, that the Master is in fact Amun-Ra), about to bite Vanessa, and he pleads, “Don’t do this.” As she intones, “It’s already done,” and goes in for the kill, Malcolm, his heart ripping itself apart into a billion little pieces, pulls the trigger and blasts her backwards.
She’s clearly stunned but not yet dead. As Vanessa, now freed, looks on in horror with the rest, Mina raises one hand and begs Malcolm, “I am your daughter.” The look on Malcolm’s face, of dead certainty, is spine-tingling. He’s been lost all season, but now Malcolm has chosen a side and he’s sticking to it. “I already have a daughter,” he rasps, again squeezing the trigger. Curtains for Mina.
