Mick St. John quotes from Moonlight

Beth

Why did you run? Why didn't you stay there and tell the police what happened?

Mick

[Reciting in his head] Because I'm a vampire. Because I'm a vampire. Because I'm...there's no good way to say it. [Finally out loud] I guess I panicked.

Beth

What did he mean, "I know what you are"? Mick, what did he mean?

Mick

I don't know.

Beth

I don't believe you.

Mick

How 'bout we get Julia first?

Beth

How 'bout you finally answer a question without evading or disappearing?

Mick

Hours almost up.

Beth

Like that.

Mick

We all have secrets, Beth and that's not evading.

Beth

Mick? You ran off again. One second you were there and then you were gone. Are you okay?

Mick

Please leave.

Beth

Not without answers. [She walks in] I keep dreaming about you. Why?

Mick

Please don't look at me. [Beth sees Mick's vampiric state]

Beth

Oh my god. What are you?

Mick

I'm a vampire.

Mick

Beth.

Beth

Okay, I'm here to talk to you about...ehm.. you.

Mick

Maybe you should come in.

Beth

I really need you to tell me that I didn't see what I saw or what I think I saw the other night. The blood, the fangs. I heard what you said.

Mick

That I'm a vampire.

Beth

How am I supposed... Are you the only one or are there other vampires?

Mick

A few hundred here in L.A.

Beth

How can people not know you exist?

Mick

We're extremely careful. Sometimes people see things but they dismissed.

Beth

How can they?

Mick

No one believes them. [Mick gets up] People have been hunting us for thousands of years. So, it's extremely important that no one knows we exist. You understand?

Beth

So, do you bite people's necks and suck the blood out?

Mick

Actually I.. I get most of my blood from the blood bank.

Beth

Oh. The red cross does not mention that in their literature.

Mick

I don't think they know.

Beth

Do you know how crazy this is? I trying really hard to wrap my mind around what you just said and what I saw.

Mick

Hey, I get it. It's a lot to get.

Beth

So, how does a person even become a vampire? How did you become a vampire?

Beth

Should we call the police?

Mick

Suggestions like that are why you shouldn't be here.

Mick

These two?

Accidents happen. Everyone feels bad, but at least they called the clean up.

Mick

You wanna know how I became a vampire?

Beth

Yes.

Mick

Okay. I told you I was married, right? Well, she was a vampire. I didn't know. And on our wedding night she turned me. I went to bed a happily married man and I woke up a monster.

Beth

Were you married?

Mick

Once.

Beth

What happened?

Mick

She died.

Beth

Did you try and turn her into a ...

Mick

She's dead. Period.

Beth

Okay. Sorry.

Mick

You're not. Trust me.

Josef

The incinerator?! Damn. Remind me to never piss you off.

Mick

I didn't have a choice.

Josef

Well, like I'm judging you. I would have done the same thing. Except, I would have enjoyed it more.

Beth

Can you fly?

Mick

Just like Superman.

Beth

Really?

Mick

No. [pauses] It would be pretty cool, wouldn't it?

Beth

Yeah.

Mick

I need you to use your police contacts to see if anybody has filed any kind of reports in the last couple of days.

Beth

You're a private investigator. You don't have any contacts in the department?

Mick

It takes time to develop a contact. Years. People age. I don't. Cops especially tend to pick up on those kind of details.

Beth

I'll go through the wild reports. See if the cause of death matches any other recent murder victims.

Mick

Beth.

Beth

And you will ask the other vampires if they know anything.

Mick

There's not like a big club house where we all hang out.

Beth

Word is, something slashed him open and drained all his blood out.

Mick

Something? What, as in something like me?

Beth

I didn't say that.

Mick

Whatever did this is nothing like me, okay?

Mick

What have you done to me?

Don't be scared. It's my wedding gift. I freed you, I freed you from death.

Mick

Tell me what you did to me?

I joined us, forever.