November 10, 2006
3.03 - Unknown Origin
New and old friends visit with mixed results.
TEASER A young, attractive blonde (special guest star Julie Berman) sits in her seat on an airplane. She's reading, looking through some kind of folder. She's very rude to the flight attendant. As she turns the page of the folder we see a picture of Nadja. Later, we see her accosted by two guys on the street -- vampires. She beats the crap out of them and walks away calmly.
After the credits, we have a "solo scene" from each cast member that catches us up on what they've been doing for the past two months. Desiree has been doing some work for the Baton Rouge PD. Armstrong is taking classes at LSU where he's temporarily transferred. Lisa's scene shows how she, Trey, and Becca have been living in a small hotel room. Javier has continued to work in the rescue efforts and has been building a political base. Nadja's scene depicts her having another of her "Gulf" flashback/dreams.
The krewe gets together at Lisa's for dinner. Nadja pases; her sleep is interrupted by the blonde girl from the teaser. Her name is Zoey Phillips... and she's a slayer, sent here to be trained. By Nadja. Naturally, this is a bit of a shock to everyone.
Does that guy (Javier) SPEAK English?
-- Zoey
Zoey is introduced to the gang and it doesn't go well. While she likes the idea of fighting monsters (and especially of Lisa having been "on a death squad") she is irritatingly direct in her manner.
Lisa goes to check on Becca to find the new nanny a little frustrated. The child ignores her, preferring instead to play pattycake with an "invisible" friend. Lisa asks Becca about it and she answers, with a grin: "Unca Toby!"
CUT SCENE As we go to commercial we see a man in a long black overcoat walk out of a double-shotgun camelback -- a house that looks very much like Javier's. After the house explodes we get a good closeup on the guy's face: it's covered in terrible burn scars.
Desiree and Armstrong take Nadja to see a doctor in Baton Rouge. The doctor doesn't tell her much other than that she needs to eat better, have some blood tests, and see him again in a couple days. In the waiting room she bumps into Ben who's there because of a minor injury. At first Nadja is very upset and nervous. That changes drastically when she discovers that Ben has transferred to LSU. She agrees to get a new cell phone and to stay in touch with him.
That night, Lisa plans to resume patrolling. Javier is working late at the office, trying to figure out who blew up his house. He soon discovers that he is not alone in the building: he's attacked by a horde of shambling zombies. While waiting for the krewe to arrive and back him up he manages to trap the zombies on the first floor of the building by locking the fire exits. Unfortunately for him, one of the zombies stumbles into the elevator button; the elevator is soon filled with a troupe of zombies refusing to make eye contact with each other.
When the krewe arrives they discover that the situation is pretty dire. There are a LOT of zombies in the building -- they seem to be coming from the basement. After a protracted battle, the group realizes that they cannot overcome the sheer numbers of the undead. They're forced to destroy the building and the zombies with it. The perpetrator -- the man in the long black overcoat -- escapes, cackling madly to himself.
What do I look like, Lars? Do I look like a chump to you? Do I?
--Unknown
CUT SCENE The vampire that escaped during epsiode 3.01 is here, looking contrite. He's talking to someone -- apparently his boss -- who calls him Lars. Whoever the Boss is (we never see his face) he chews Lars out but good. Lars is beheaded, but not before revealing that a) they guy in the black overcoat was Phil (or maybe Gary), one of the firefighter/cultists from the incident at Place St. Charles and b) they were involved in his plot to kill Javier and/or the Krewe.
Guest Stars
- Leah Cairns as Det. Leslie Abingdon
- Julie Berman as Zoey Phillips
Music
- Nine Inch Nails, "Eraser"