You have come here to destroy me? The old professor has a new pupil, to fail as he failed. I have taken everything from him. And I will take everything from you. Your wife, your son. I am a drinker of men.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Your pulse is slowing and your heart is struggling, Eldritch. I can hear it.
Is he here now?
Oh no, I came here on my own.
I've kept my part of the agreement; the Master will keep his.
He will not be compelled or coerced. He is the Master. He does or he does not.
I used every resource at my disposal. No one else could have done his bidding as I have.
And if he denies you what you want? What if he sent me instead in order to offer you your last rites?
He will save me. He still needs me. I have faith.
[to Eph] Look, I get it, yeah? We're never gonna be best mates. It breaks my heart, truly, but you need me even if you don't know it yet.
More details you require?
Only one: Men or women?
I specialize in passionate, destructive relationships.
The best kind.
I prepared, yes, but I had resigned myself to the reality that I would pass from this world without ever facing him again. Seeing the Master in the tunnels after all that time, I, uh I lost perspective. I realize that now. I reacted with raging impulses, and anger, and emotion. I-I apologize.
[The Master appears at Palmer's deathbed]
I knew you'd come. I believed. Save me.
[administering 'the white'] Behold.
I want all this boxed up - and brought back to my office.
FMr. Fitzwilliam
Right away, sir.
[seeing a decapitated body] That can stay.
Bring the car around. Contact Eichhorst.
FMr. Fitzwilliam
No, sir.
Excuse me?
FMr. Fitzwilliam
Won't do it. Not anymore. When people called you cruel and selfish, I defended you. I said they didn't know you as I know you. Then Eichhorst showed up and his ilk, and I told myself it was them, manipulating you, warping your judgement. I was wrong.
You've been by my side the entire time.
FMr. Fitzwilliam
Yes, I am complicit, because I served you loyally.
This is the part where the whore declares herself a virgin.
FMr. Fitzwilliam
You made a devil's bargain. You pulled me into it with you. Your sudden resurrection is an affront to nature and to God.
What a load of horse shit! You self-righteous son of a bitch! How dare you defy me!
FMr. Fitzwilliam
Part of me thinks I should kill you right now, restore the natural order of things. But I can't. Not after all you did for me. Consider my debt to you paid in full. Never come after me.
You fool! Deserting me when we're on the verge of triumph! Where will you go? What will you do without me to protect you?
FMr. Fitzwilliam
The question is, sir, what will you do without me to protect you?
Fire in the hole, vermin!
VVaun
An ancient truce has been broken. An act of war has been declared. We need a human soldier, who can move freely in the daylight. Someone who can use the power of the sun to massacre the unclean.
AEAugustin "Gus" Elizalde
You know what it sounds like to me? Sounds like you got a vampire turf war going on.
VVaun
You have proven yourself capable.
AEAugustin "Gus" Elizalde
Why should I help them? Or you?
VVaun
Payback. And a rich payday.
AEAugustin "Gus" Elizalde
I'm listening.
Too long I've lived, too much I've seen. This planet, our host, once so wild and unknown; we've mapped it, paved it, arranged it on a grid, never imagining that something else was watching us, a creature even more ruthless and predacious than we are, eager to exploit the very infrastructure we so obligingly arranged. Is the war already lost? Are we destined to be cattle for monsters? Or, now that the enemy has finally shown his face, do we have a fighting chance? The world today is not what it was one week ago. What will it be one week from now? One month from now? Nothing is written that cannot be changed. It is a small world, after all. We made it that way.
The ground game isn't for me.
So what are you gonna do?
Well, seeing as how as a vampire hunter I'm total shit, I'm gonna go back to being a doctor.
Where the hell were you all day?
Don't concern yourself with me.
Did you think that maybe, "Gee, uh, I should check in, let them know that I'm not dead, let 'em know I'm not a vampire"?
I'm not dead. I'm not a vampire.
I was under the clear impression that he was going to be here!
The Master will attend or - will not attend, according to -
Please! Spare me the "he will or he will not" spiel. It's tiresome. This is the most significant part of the next phase of operations! Now, where is he?
I see a little of the Master's white in your veins has made you bold, Eldritch. But as a friend, I'm telling you, being too bold - may not be wise right now.
Eichhorst, honestly? You're not my friend, and I don't give a warm shit what you think. Don't try and manage me. I'm not one of your foot soldiers. I am the Master's partner.
His partner? Hmm, Of course. The Master will be very interested to hear that.
[Dutch and Ephraim are sharing a drink]
To survival?
To victory.
[They drink]
[about Dutch's project] What the hell is this?
I won't know really until it's finished.
Well, how will you know when you're finished?
When I know what the hell it is.
That's a Zen riddle. Too bad my job is so results-oriented.
You still have a job?
Oh, yeah. Saving the human race.
Oh, right. I forgot.
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