Complete story — includes the ending
Setrakian, Eph, Fet, and Nora return to the pawnshop. Zach, reunited with his father, claims nothing happened while they were away. Dutch Velders returns with computer equipment and a plan to use the Emergency Alert System to transmit Eph's warning about the strigoi invasion. Elsewhere, Gus locates Alonso Creem, a former acquaintance he forces at gunpoint to provide him weapons, ammunition, and cash. Gus discovers Creem has unwittingly been transporting cargo containers containing strigoi. After opening a container, Gus battles the strigoi inside (and also Creem). Vaun, a strigoi, and his strigoi-killing team arrive and destroy the remaining vampires. Vaun and his team kidnap Gus, leaving Creem behind unharmed. Meanwhile, Dutch and Eph partially broadcast Eph's announcement before TV stations block the signal. Gabriel Bolivar breaks into the pawnshop and attacks Mrs. Martinez, infecting her, while Eichhorst and his strigoi army storm the shop, forcing Setrakian and the others to escape through a secret passage. Before exiting, Nora decapitates her mother to prevent her turning, while Setrakian abandons his deceased wife Miriam's still-beating strigoi heart. Flashbacks to 1967 reveal how Eichhorst exploits Setrakian's obsession with killing the Master to lure him into a trap, leaving Miriam unprotected; when Setrakian arrives home, he finds her infected, decapitates her, and removes her worm-infested heart as a keepsake. In the present day, Eichhorst taunts Setrakian as he and the others are escaping. Later, the Master rejuvenates a dying Eldritch Palmer by dripping bodily fluid from his finger down Palmer's throat.
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