Did you know my editor was investigating your involvement in a bogus charity scheme?
Nice to see you, Beth, me I'm doin' great, thanks. Except for the drywall dust. It gets everywhere.
Beth's editor was killed a few hours ago.
I'm sorry. So. Am I a suspect? [they nod] Cool! It's like roleplaying, but without the leather.
Your name came up in connection with a story Maureen was working on.
Was her body found in the La Brea Tar Pits?
That was the only person I killed this week.
No, this is stupid. Look I'm on the board of dozens of charities. I had no idea that this one was bogus until Maureen told me.
Ok, we'll talk to your PR man.
BBonnie
Living everyday with a secret that you wanna tell someone.
Listen to me. Secrets are like a disease, and if we don't share them, they will eat us up on the inside, until there's nothing left, until it feels that we are already dead.
BBonnie
You do have a secret, don't you?
Yeah, I do. And it ate me up until I finally told somebody.
[Mick is at home, pulling vampire-hunting weapons from hidden cubbies behind his books.]
[Appears behind Mick and startles him] What are you doing?
What? Use my crafty vampire abilities to sneak up on you?
Guillermo called me. Said you were about to do something extremely stupid. I said, "Wait, that can't be the Mick that I know.”
You should come, you love a challenge.
No, see, I'm a lover, not a fighter. No, besides, I'd just get dead trying to protect you; the human liability.
I can take care of myself.
[snarls, attacks, pinning Mick against the wall] Is this how you're gonna fight them? This is how you want it to end!?!
Get off me! Get off me! [Josef suddenly focuses on Mick's throat, leaning closer, before tearing himself away]
Well, I hope I've made my point.
You were right. I can't save Beth as a human. But I can save her as a vampire. You have to turn me back.
Whoa, uh-uh. You hold on. This is not-
You have to turn me back, right now.
Mick, you’re human again. After all you went through to get the cure, you're gonna give it up this easy?
You think this is easy for me? This is not easy, okay? I don't have a choice.
What you're asking me to do-
Listen to me, all right? He has Beth. He has my Beth. So please. Please, brother.
Mick, forgive me. [Mick nods and offers his neck. Josef bites him, drains him, and lays him gently on the table. Then takes off his own jacket, bites his own wrist, then holds it in the air, above Mick’s mouth and squeezes out drops of blood that land on Mick’s lips. Mick then starts to lick the blood off his lips.] Come on, Mick. Rise and shine. [Mick’s head raises to Josef’s wrist, which he takes hold of and drinks. Mick then rests his head back on the table and releases Josef’s wrist, then all his wounds start to heal, he sits up slowly, and roars]
You started over with Layla.
I know how it sounds, but it just...kinda happened. It just happened.
So you think Robert ..... how could you not know you had a son?
When I left Layla, I had no idea she was pregnant. I checked Robert's birthday, it's possible.
Because Ray survived. He was in a coma for months, lost his tags, the doctors didn't know who he was.
So, about what Josef said?
What? that we can't have a baby?
What do you think of "Elliot" for a boy? [Mick looks at her]
I'm kidding, relax. But I mean, children are the prior of most normal human relationships.
Our relationship being neither normal nor human, but Josef was right; vampires can't have kids, so, I mean that if it is a deal breaker.....
Wow...I think we are getting ahead of ourselves. I mean that we haven't slept with each other yet. Look, let's just focus on getting Jacob back and we can worry about our children when the time comes.
When we first met...or met again, whatever...what was I wearing?
Blue jeans, white striped shirt, cream jacket.
How do you even remember that?
(They begin to kiss, the door to Beth's apartment closes.)
