Dracula - Episode 8 - Recap - Come To Die
Dracula - Episode 8 - Recap - Come To Die
NBC's Dracula is still hanging on. An utterly inexplicable mess of a show, the titular character (played hilariously Jonathan Rhys Meyers) rasps his angsty exclamations about blood and murder, while his American alter ego Alexander Grayson provides London with all manner of scientific advancement. To keep ever-so-slightly with the source material, Dracula is still stalking Mina Murray (soon to be Mina Harker), and she's still finding her mind clouded by her magnetic attraction to him. Mina's secretly lesbian friend Lucy has moved on to trying to seduce Jonathan in her effort to break the couple up. Everyone is trying to break this pair up! They're doomed.
Jonathan Harker remains suspicious of his employer, Alexander Grayson, as well he should be. Since Grayson is Dracula. He shares his concerns with Mina, who confronts Grayson with the worries; clearly Jonathan's shaken demeanor has gotten to her. He's quite convinced her, actually, such that she gets very seriously mad with Grayson and leaves. Hopefully for good.
Lady Jayne has followed the clues and determined that London is host to a master vampire. She doesn't seem to have any idea that this vampire is actually her lover Alexander Grayson, which is weird. He's pale and very wary around the sun and also super duper creepy. Jayne does some enhanced interrogating on one of the crappy younger vamps, getting the name Dracula out of her. Jayne needs to convince the Order of Dracul, though, despite the fact that Good old Vlad was in the Order and the Order is the group that turned him into the first vampire. She reminds them all of this, but heck, they weren't even close to born yet. How such a story could be common knowledge in the Order without anyone believing it's true is beyond my ken. Jayne should really be the main character of this show. She spends her next round of interrogation pouring holy water down vampire throats. They don't know where to find the Count, but Jayne does learn that Drac can walk in the light of day, widening her hunt. Van Helsing gets involved eventually, kidnapping the kids of the leader of the Order. Oh snap! Now it's personal.
The Order (I think?) is also still trying to get to Alexander Grayson, not even slightly aware that he's Dracula. I guess they've never heard his vampiric rasp, just his fake American accent. Anyway, they're trying to get to Mina, not knowing that the old painting Grayson bought is actually of Dracula's dead wife. Who for some reason is identical to Mina. Anyway, some gross-looking Cockney thugs in bad hats show up at Mina's home to rough her up. Dracula shows up at the last second, violently slaughtering each thug in exaggerated fountains of blood/limbs. He mounts the bodies the next morning near wherever the Order is (which he knows somehow), impaling the bodies upon a fence and confirming his title as Vlad the Impaler. Jonathan heads off with a pistol to threaten who he thinks is the boss of the thugs who attacked Mina. The guy, Davenport, tries to talk his way out of it, mentioning the whole Grayson/Mina thing and the painting, but he makes a sudden move and is shot dead. Harker runs away, scared and distraught, heading to Lucy's place for some serious making out. Aw, come on, guy. Bad news! Meanwhile, Grayson confesses his love/obsession to Mina at her hospital bedside, but she's hella passed out and therefore cannot hear him.
Woof. This was actually one of the better episode of the show, both on purpose and unintentionally. There's a bratty scene after Mina scolds Grayson that is so goofy, and the little fight with Renfield right after is just as silly. But also, the plot of this episode was clear and easily followed, and there was some legitimate tension. Plus, Jayne is a total badass. I love her character, and the actress does a great job at it, too. Check out the preview for this episode below!