Previously on Dracula, Lady Jayne began the hunt for Dracula. not knowing it was Grayson; Mina and Grayson finally admitted their love for one another, and Grayson turned Lucy into a vampire as punishment for breaking Mina’s heart.
We open on Lucy in bed, looking dreadful. Lucy’s mother comes in and opens the shutters, hoping a little sunshine will help her daughter feel better. It does the opposite of that, however, and Lucy recoils from the light, blaming it on a headache. She curls into the fetal position, and her mother expresses concern for her health. As soon as her mother turns away, however, Lucy smiles a vicious smile and we know the turn has happened and her inner vamp is taking hold. Mina finds Harker, and they have a really awkward post-breakup conversation. She tries to return a necklace he gave her, but he can’t accept it. Harker asks her to swear that she doesn’t love Grayson, but she can’t bring herself to say it. In a last-ditch attempt to make small-talk, he sadly asks if she’s going to Grayson’s demonstration of his wireless electricity and she quietly says she is. Meanwhile, Lady Jayne, in epic pants, leads a Seer into a group of huntsman. By the way, I have to say, I absolutely love how Lady Jayne, a relatively young, attractive female, has total command of this entire room of old men. Anyway, the Seer has the Blood of Christ to help them narrow in on Dracula’s location. Harker finds Grayson and asks for advice on how to get away with murder. Grayson tells him to pull himself together and go about his business as usual. Harker squeaks and flails and isn’t sure if he can do it, but Grayson tells him that he has no choice.
So while Grayson is preparing for his demonstration, the huntsmen have begun their hunt. Much like the Hunger Games, a shot goes up every time a vampire is slain. They celebrate over the death of the first two, so I have a feeling they have no idea quite how big this infestation has grown.
Harker is giving some men a tour of the wireless electricity plant (warehouse?) and Grayson pulls him aside like, “Why are you acting so squirrely, Harker you only killed a man, GOSH. If Emily Fields can still behave like a relatively normal human, you can too.”
Speaking of the Pretty Little Liars, while all this is going on, Van Helsing is in his lab, smashing bottles and vials like a Marin smashing plates. Renfield walks him and recognizes the multi-colored fluids as parts of the process that helped Dracula walk in the sun. Van Helsing, now totally of the rails, stabs Renfield and sends the ransom note (along with a child’s finger?!) to the Brownings for their children.
Harker finds out from one of Grayson’s employees that he should maybe GTFO because the “demonstration” is rigged to explode. It’s with a horror-stricken face that Harker realizes that half the town will be crammed in the town square for this demonstration–Mina included. It’s like how in Fievel Goes West, the mice all gather in the town square on a platform that actually ends up being a giant mouse trap. (Don’t look at me like that, it’s an accurate, albeit antiquated, comparison.)
Browning brings the demanded ransom to Van Helsing, who drops him through a trapdoor into the basement, throwing the money down there with him, presumably just to prove to Browning that he had other plans for him? I don’t know, I would have kept the money anyway. Browning yells up demanding to know where his children were, but Van Helsing assures him the kids are down there, too.
Sure enough, they are. But they’re baby vampires.
Van Helsing allows them just enough time to eat their father before setting the whole house on fire. Probably would have been nicer of him to smash their heads in with a hammer when he had the chance. (OR LEAVE THE BABIES OUT OF IT?!)
Lady Jayne gets some more information from the Seer, and now must face the undeniable fact that Grayson is Dracula. She runs off to the docks to find him, but not before getting some sort of holy blade from the Seer (who should have kept his rock star shades on, if you ask me).
Harker runs to try to warn Mina that the demonstration will actually be a massacre, and she immediately asks him what he’s done, assuming he was involved. With no time to explain, he tries to drag her away, but he’s punched in the face by someone who didn’t appreciate all his shoving. Mina takes the opportunity to run to Grayson to warn him. They work together to try to stop it, but nothing is working the way it’s supposed to. Even the giant red button isn’t putting a halt to the magic lights.
Mina pulls the fire alarm (which doesn’t make anyone move?) and Grayson insists that she leave with Harker. Harker picks her up and drags her to safety, her cries of “ALEXANDER!” piercing the air (and my heart…girl can scream). Then…well…BOOM.
When they recover from the blast, Mina assumes that Grayson is dead and blames Harker. Harker protests, but she stumbles away from him out of the rubble.
Lady Jayne arrives and surveys the scene. She calls out for Grayson, “You bastard, I know you’re still alive.” Like a gentlemen, he returns her call with a, “Hello” that implies he knows that she knows. And she KNOWS he knows she knows.
Grayson tsk tsks her weapon choice, so Lady Jayne throws down her gun and whips out axe-things that would make River Tam proud. They fight, and when Grayson has her in a compromising position, he says he thought she loved him. She tells him that she lied before stabbing him with the fancy knife the Seer gave her. He plays dead, and when she gets close enough, he throws her clear across the rubble, where she lands on a piece of debris, impaled like a regular ol’ Cordelia Chase.
When he approaches her, she begs for death, pleads to not be turned. In a final mark of respect for whatever twisted relationship they had, he kills her dead.
In the Westenra manor, Lucy calls out to wake her mother, who had been waiting by her bedside for her daughter to wake up. “Come to me, mother,” she calls out, stretching out her hands like a child, begging to be held. Her mother once again expresses her worry for her darling daughter who has been acting so strange, and Lucy quickly eases that worry…by eating her mother! Mina goes to Grayson’s place in one final attempt to find him. I’m sure it’s one of those “I’D KNOW IT IN MY HEART IF HE WERE REALLY GONE” things, or possibly delusions caused by grief, but just as she’s about to give up, Grayson appears. He explains about his first wife and how he was destined to love her. They hug, they kiss, they…well, you know.
Across town, Van Helsing tells Harker that Grayson is Dracula, and it seems as though a new Dracula-hunting team has formed.
What did you think of “Let There Be Light”? Are you hoping for a second season, or do you think they tied up the loose ends well enough? Am I the only one who wants a ten-episode run entirely dedicated to Vampire Lucy terrorizing London?
