Re: "Blood Ties" TV series (2006-???)

~                      Summary of "D.O.A."
Episode 1.13 of BLOOD TIES

New Characters
Paul Deeds .................. Steve Bacic
Chuntao Fang ............... Kira Clavell

As Vicki Nelson, P.I. opens her office one morning, she is
approached by a colleague and undercover cop, Paul Deeds, asking
for her help with a homicide. The unusual thing is that there is
no body, the victim is Deeds himself, he claims to be Deeds'
ghost, and no one can see him but Vicki. On top of all that,
Deeds cannot remember being killed. The last thing he does
remember is being at a biker bar called "The Standard" and
meeting some girl.

Vicki first consults with TPD Detective Mike Celluci who
remembers "Dirty" Deeds as a cop who didn't care how he closed a
case and suggests that his murder may have something to do with
that, but Mike does offer to see what he can find out about
Deeds' work on the force. Mike learns from Chief Crowley that
Deeds was riding undercover with a biker gang called "The
Wolverines." His cover is as an ex-con with experience in
international drug shipping. When Mike and Crowley meet at "The
Blue Corvette," a cafe across the street from a shopping center
where the Wolverines are currently amassing, Crowley lets it slip
that Internal Affairs is also interested in Deeds because he
hasn't produced anything useful to them in months and that a
Wolverine member was recently murdered, a drug shipment stolen,
and a clubhouse firebombed. It's feared that Deeds has gone
crooked, and Crowley isn't certain just whose side Deeds is on.
Things become even more complicated when Mike looks out the
window to see Paul Deeds in the flesh, joining his Wolverine
buddies.

Meanwhile, Henry is concerned that the ghost of Paul Deeds
may not be that of Deeds, since Vicki has recently become a
"magnet" for the supernatural. This "ghost" could be anything
from the actual ghost of Paul Deeds, to Astaroth or someone sent
by Astaroth to do his dirty work, or to some sort of mythological
vampire that sucks the lifeforce out of people, so Henry decides
to find out more about Deeds. He pays a visit to The Standard,
where he learns from the bartender that Deeds came in about two
nights ago, met a girl named Tessa, and went into the men's room
with her. Deeds came out later and left. Tessa came out, sat down
at the bar, and keeled over dead.

Mike has had Deeds picked up and brought in for questioning
under the pretext of wanting to know what insights he might have
on the murder of the Wolverine biker. Deeds thinks it might be a
grudge with the Only Ones, another biker gang, but an undercover
cop riding with the Only Ones assures Mike that they weren't
involved. Mike also arranges to have Vicki see Deeds, and she
notices that this Deeds is different from the ghost of Deeds in
that Deeds' ghost passes through solids whereas this Deeds is
picking up and eating a raw steak sandwich. She also notices that
his body feels extremely warm. While Mike suspects Deeds of
working for a third faction and possibly selling out the
Wolverines, Vicki suspects that Deeds' body has been demonically
possessed.

While Mike does a stakeout at The Alleycats Body Rub, a
massage parlor where the Dragons, an Asian rival of the
Wolverines, hold turf, Vicki and Henry visit the coroner to see
what Dr Mohavedan can tell them about Tessa, the girl who dropped
dead two nights ago in The Standard. Rajani shows them the body
of a girl in her early 20s, but explains that her insides were
those of a 70-year old. It's almost as though her insides were
burning out, Rajani describes. In addition, her stomach was full
of raw meat, which reminds Vicki of Deeds' raw steak sandwich.
Vicki is now more certain than ever that Deeds' body is being
used by another entity. Even so, Henry points out, that doesn't
mean that the "ghost" is really Deeds. Both Henry and Vicki are
surprised when Deeds also shows up to view the body, and Henry
gives him a twice-over while Deeds and Vicki exchange tough talk.

Mike's stakeout pays off when Dragon leader, Chuntao Fang,
drives up in her black Porsche and finds herself face-to-face
with Paul Deeds. Deeds seems to be coming on to Chuntao, but she
doesn't appear to be interested. She reminds him that he's
already received cash for his services, but Deeds presses for a
different "thank you" and, to show his sincerity, he produces
photos and info from her active file with the police. Chuntao
warms up slightly, but she challenges him to be more impressive
before she becomes forthcoming, so Deeds takes out two Wolverines
in a driveby shooting.

Back at Vicki's office, Coreen has dug up some info about
Tessa, including the name of her lowlife boyfriend.
Unfortunately, Derek Pheasant died four days before Tessa, after
being with hooker Mary Wallace, whose john -- Bert Winters --
preceded her in death. Plus, they all died from the same thing,
as though their bodies were burning up from the inside out. First
Bert Winters, then Mary Wallace, Derek Pheasant, Tessa, and now
Deeds. The entity may be jumping from victim to victim, Henry
concludes, impressing Vicki with his growing detective abilities.
When Vicki shares this information with Mike, he has no answers
other than the fact that Deeds, like the others in the chain,
might not have been "clean." He asks Vicki to talk with Deeds
about his activites the next time she sees him, but when Vicki
later points out to Deeds that this entity seems to be attracted
to certain types of essences -- that of lowlife criminals -- and
asks how Deeds fits in the picture, he gets angry and disappears.

Henry thinks he may have found the possessing entity. Coreen
has discovered information about the ancient Babylonian ekimmu,
an entity that moves from one human body to the next because it
can't gain entrance to the underworld. It lives in a constant
state of anger and feeds on raw meat. It jumps from one gender to
the next and must touch its victim intimately in order to make
the jump. Vicki surmises that, during its jump from Deeds' body
to the next body, the ghost of Paul Deeds might be able to get
his body back if there hasn't been too much cellular damage.
Henry thinks that trapping the ekimmu between bodies might be the
way to destroy it, along with a cedar stake. The problem is
getting the two Deedses together and being there when the ekimmu
makes its jump. Vicki suggests that, if they can figure out what
lowlife thing Deeds was doing, they might be able to predict when
or with whom the next exchange will take place.

Henry remembers seeing a sheath of papers in Deeds' pocket
when he was twice-overing him at the morgue. "Chuntao Fang" was
written on it, and the records department is right next to the
morgue. Thinking that the papers might have been Chuntao's police
files, Vicki goes to the station, where she and Mike check the
records and find that the file on Chuntao Fang has been
skeletonized. Meanwhile, Henry stakes out the Alleycats and
notices Paul Deeds hobnailing with Chuntao. Henry is joined by
Deeds' ghost, whom he can now talk to, and they conclude that the
ekimmu is planning to jump into Chuntao next.

Later, as Vicki, Henry, and Deeds' ghost meet in Vicki's
office, Deeds comes clean about his activities. It wasn't him who
took Chuntao's files, but he admits that he did take money for
passing information about the Wolverines to the Dragons. The
three of them then head back to the Alleycat, where they come
upon Deeds kissing Chuntao. Suddenly, the ekimmu comes out of
Deeds' mouth and tries to snake its way into Chuntao. Henry
pushes Chuntao and Deeds apart, and the ekimmu drops to the
ground. Vicki stabs it with a cedar stake, and it disappears.
Mike drives up and arrests Chuntao. Paul Deeds' ghost re-enters
his body and, after apologizing to Vicki for lying to her, Paul
Deeds dies.
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