5. Runaways

Complete story — includes the ending

After Gabriel Bolivar slaughters the urologist sent to treat him, his agent hires a "cleaner" to remove the body; Bolivar also kills the cleaner. Joan Luss, another survivor, turns more slowly. When her housekeeper Neeva sees Joan's inner horizontal eyelids, she flees with the Luss children. At the house of Ansel Barbour, Eph and Setrakian find Ann Marie, who has hanged herself, unable to face life without Ansel. The fully turned Ansel and the neighbor are in the garden shed, and Eph video records Setrakian killing them. Eph takes the recording to Everett Barnes at the CDC, but quickly realizes he has been set up to be arrested for murdering Captain Redfern. He escapes with Jim Kent's help. Flashbacks reveal a young Abraham Setrakian arriving at a concentration camp commanded by a still-human Eichhorst. Setrakian's brother says they are carpenters, so they are ordered to do woodworking for the Third Reich. At night, Setrakian witnesses a strange creature feeding on sleeping prisoners and plots to kill it with a stolen silver knife. One night, Abraham's brother becomes a victim. In the present, Nora visits her dementia-impaired mother at the nursing facility. When a strigoi attacks the residents, Nora and her mother flee to Nora's apartment. Vasiliy Fet, a city exterminator, notices city rats behaving strangely and tracks them to the sewers where he encounters subterranean strigoi, barely escaping alive.