Moonlight: The Mortal Cure
January 31st 2008 22:58
A medieval vampire named Lance shows up at Mick’s apartment asking for Coraline. He says she stole something from him and he wants it back. Mick tells him he hasn’t seen her. Lance and his right-hand man jump off the building into the night, assuring Mick they’ll see him again.
Mick goes to the hospital security guard to ask if he can review the footage of the night Coraline disappeared, and after some coaxing, he spots a woman named Cynthia Davis rolling out an empty bed with fingers sticking out from under the draped sheet. Cynthia, Mick informs us, was at his and Coraline’s wedding.
Mick goes to Logan, interrupting his Guitar Hero playing, and asks him for help finding Cynthia. After more money being passed along, Logan finds out that Cynthia is involved in some sort of French agricultural importing business. He has the name of the hotel where she’s staying.
Meanwhile, Beth is trying to deal with Josh’s death. Someone arrives from the DA’s office to give her his things and to let her know that Josh left her $40,000. She goes through his day planner and finds a number for a girl named Celeste. She calls the number, but can’t make herself speak when Celeste answers the phone. She calls and confirms Josh’s reservations with her that night instead.
Mick shows up at Cynthia’s hotel room, they smell each other through the door, and he asks her where Coraline is. She tells him her friend is in Europe. He asks her about The Cure, and she skirts the question smugly.
Logan calls with the location where the imports are being delivered. Mick goes and finds a warehouse full of blood, strange plants, a monkey, and Coraline and a researcher. Coraline is a vampire again.
Lance suddenly appears and asks Coraline if she really thought she’d get away with this. He then cuts off the researcher’s head and threatens to stake Coraline. Mick jumps in from the roof and knocks Lance away. His hand lands in a fire, but regenerates! He shoves Mick away and leaves with Coraline. Mick puts out the fire and calls for a cleanup.
Beth shows up at the restaurant and meets Celeste. She tells her Josh isn’t coming and angrily asks how long this thing between them has been going on. When Celeste is confused, Beth tells her that Josh is dead. Shocked, Celeste tells Beth that she was meeting with Josh because she was resetting his grandmother’s stone. He was planning on proposing. She pulls out the ring and gives it to Beth.
Mick visits Joseph and tells him what’s going on. As usual, Joseph tells him to forget about Coraline and worry about himself. Mick goes home to find Beth waiting and asks her if she’s okay. She tells him about the ring. She says the thing she’s struggling with most is that she doesn’t know what her answer would have been.
She asks Mick how he knew when to propose and that it was the right time. Suddenly, there’s a knock at the door. It’s Coraline. He asks her where she went. Beth leaves, to which Coraline tells Mick, “I think Beth is starting to like me. She didn’t stab me back there.”
Mick asks Coraline why Lance is after her and why she was a human but is now a vampire again. Coraline tells him The Cure came from the 18th century. There were seven brothers all turned by the same sire, a cousin of Louis XVI. Mick almost laughs in the shock that Louis XVI was a vampire. Coraline tells him, “There’s much more to the French Revolution than is written in history books.”
She tells him that the Reign of Terror was actually a vampire genocide. A suspected vampire was shoved toward a fire to have his or her finger burned. If the flesh burned they were mortal. If the finger immediately turned to ash, they were sent to the guillotine. That’s where beheading came from.
The compound that they came up with allowed them to become human long enough so that they could pass the test. Coraline pulls out said compound while sitting on Mick’s couch. She took it from Lance.
She tells Mick she took away his life and wanted to give him back what she could. Mick lets Coraline cut his arm and administer the compound. Mick slowly becomes human again…just in time to head outside with Coraline, revel in the fact that he can feel warmth…and get attacked by Lance.
Lance welcomes his sister—that’s right, it wasn’t seven brothers in the noble bloodline. Mick accuses Coraline of setting him up, and she insists that it’s not true. Coraline and Lance fight, Mick tries to help, but now that he’s mortal it’s a little bit more difficult to fight a medieval vampire!
Lance flings Mick into a car windshield, and as he’s lying there bleeding smugly asks, “You wanted to feel human again. Well here you are. How does it feel Mick? Blood doesn’t taste the same now does it?” Just as he’s getting ready to stake Mick for good, Coraline tells him to stop. She’ll go with him and give him the compound if he’ll leave Mick alone. Lance accepts her offer, stakes Coraline instead.
Mick: Stabbing a vampire with a wooden stake is like putting a human in shackles.
Lance and flies off with Coraline and the compound, leaving Mick laying beaten and alone.
Back in his apartment, Mick moves around trying to find a syringe. As he says, “I’ve waited to feel human for a long time. But I forgot how painful it can be.” He takes a sample of his blood, now the only link he has to The Cure.
He then covers his table with all the food he hasn’t been able to eat in 85 years and digs in. When he gets ready for bed, he glances at his freezer, goes back into the living room and thinks, “I can finally sleep in a bed. Too bad I don’t have one.” He settles for the couch instead.
Mick goes to Josh’s funeral, and when Beth spots his bruises and cuts, she’s shocked.
Beth: Wait a second…are you human?
Mick: For now, yeah.
Beth: How does it feel?
Mick: The pain…the sun…and mortality…It feels amazing.
More quotes of the week:
“Part of what makes life so invigorating is its finite nature. We’re all mortal, our time is limited. It’s part of what allows us to love and hurt. And in the end it inspires us to make the most of the time we are given.”—Priest at Josh’s funeral.
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