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

~                      Summary of "Bugged"
Episode 1.16 of BLOOD TIES

New Characters
Gene "Dante" Hanson .... James Pizzinato
Lexia Chang .............. Jody Thompson
Evan Crane .............. Patrick Currie
Wynter .................... Olivia Cheng
Gabrielle Clairmont ..... Krista McPhail

When Gene Hanson, known in the Goth underground as "Dante",
dies mysteriously in the alley behind the Underground Club, owner
Lexia Chang hires P.I. Vicki Nelson to investigate. Since Lexia
is a personal friend of Coreen Fennel, Vicki's office manager,
Coreen talks Vicki into letting her help with the investigation.
Realizing that Coreen might provide an "in" with the Goth
underground, Vicki agrees. A visit to the morgue reveals that
"Dante" died of anaphylactic shock from multiple insect bites and
that there was an unknown substance in his blood. That night,
Vicki and Coreen infiltrate the club. In full goth garb, Coreen
works the customers, talking specifically to Dante's best friend
Evan Crane, while mundanely-dressed Vicki talks with bartender
Wynter, with Lexia's permission, of course. All they learn is
that Dante was drinking absinthe the night he died. When Vicki
asks Lexia whether she's selling drugs at the club, Lexia becomes
angry, denies it, and storms away. Suddenly a scream is heard out
back. Vicki and Coreen run out in the alley to find Evan slumped
against a pile of trash, his arms and face swollen from the bites
of hundreds of large bugs. While Vicki calls for an ambulance,
Coreen has the presence of mind to capture one of the bugs in an
empty cup.

Meanwhile, Henry has his own problems. While working on his
drawings, he heard a thump outside his apartment door. Cautiously
opening the door, he found the body of a girl whose neck had been
savaged and her body sucked dry by a vampire. Henry brought her
body into his apartment and then contacted TPD Detective Mike
Celluci for help. After scolding Henry for moving the body and
compromising evidence, Mike had the body picked up and delivered
to the morgue. As he and Coroner Rajani Mohadevan examined the
body, Vicki showed up for the toxicology report on Gene Hanson.
Mike cleverly covered the body of the Jane Doe and even offered
to accompany Vicki to the station and help run priors on Lexia.
Vicki immediately smelled a rat and, when Henry abruptly hung up
on her, claiming to be too busy to assist in the investigation of
Gene Hanson's death, Vicki paid him a visit at his apartment.
Concerned that Vicki could be placed in danger if this vampire
finds out about her, Henry told Vicki that he wants some time
apart from her.

While Henry drives around Toronto looking for the vampire,
Mike has IDed the dead girl. Gabrielle Clairmont was a model. Her
agent reveals that she had a photo shoot three days ago and
hasn't been seen since, so Mike and Henry go looking for the
photographer, after Henry assures Mike that, if they meet up with
the vampire, it will go for Henry first. Methods of killing a
vampire include a stake through the heart and exposure to
sunlight, but Henry prefers decapitation, he says, as he grabs
his sword.

Coreen has given the captive bug to Rajani, who passed it on
to an entomologist at the University. In the autopsy on Evan's
body, Rajani found a puncture wound on his arm. "Drugs or bugs?"
Vicki muses. Coreen suggests black magic, but Vicki has a hunch
that the drug may contain some sort of chemical that acts like a
pheromone for the bugs, such that they are attracted to the smell
exuding from the body of a person who has taken it. Rajani
concurs with that possibility but needs a sample of the drug in
order to test it. Vicki promises to bring her one. Before she
leaves the morgue, however, Vicki asks about the Jane Doe, and
Rajani lets her name slip, along with the fact that her murder
may have something to do with Henry Fitzroy.

Henry and Mike have searched the photographer's studio but
found only a few photos of Gabrielle in the wastebasket and no
evidence of foul play. As they are about to leave, however, Henry
senses someone coming. Mike pulls out Henry's sword, but Henry
hides it just as the door opens and Vicki walks in. "Who's going
to tell me what's going on?" she asks, knowing that Henry and
Mike's dislike for each other would preclude their working
together unless something pretty big was going on. Unfortunately,
neither Mike nor Henry will talk, so Vicki returns to her office
to prepare Coreen for her solo performance.

It's going to be Coreen's job to infiltrate the Underground
and get a sample of whatever drugs are being used. Vicki outfits
Coreen with a transmitter and instructs her to say, "My mother's
not going to like this," should she get into any trouble. Vicki
stops by Henry's apartment on her way to the club to ask him to
come along as protection for Coreen but again he refuses, so it's
just Coreen inside and Vicki standing outside, handing out
pamphlets about the good news as her cover.

Coreen picks out a drug dealer and asks if she can score.
"Angel Tears or Crow?" he asks. Vicki advises through the
transmitter that Angel Tears is LSD and Crow is cocaine. "I'm
actually looking for something a little different. Evan told me
about it," Coreen says, then adds, "but I can't remember the
name." "Venom," says the drug dealer and walks away. Moments
later he returns and tells Coreen to go into the back room.
Coreen makes her way to the back and is surprised to see Wynter
there. Wynter shows Coreen the vial of Venom, but places it in
her cleavage. Then she holds up her arms and stingers protrude
from each one. She uses the stingers to inject the Venom into
Coreen while blabbing about Vicki having a powerful enemy who has
declared open season on Vicki.

Bugs instantly come pouring out of the walls, headed towards
Coreen. She stomps on a few and manages to call to Vicki that
Wynter is some kind of bug demon. Vicki runs to the club entrance
but Wynter is already outside buzzing around quickly, trying to
disorient Vicki. She taunts Vicki by telling her how she injects
kids with her venom so that she can feed off them. Slurp slurp.
Suddenly, a car barrels into the alley and runs right into Wynter
whose slimy insides splatter all over the windshield. In the car,
Vicki can see Henry. "Sorry I'm late," he smiles. Back inside the
club, Coreen has used a fire extinguisher to send the bugs
running.

Several hours and some antihistamines later, Coreen is
feeling better albeit a bit contrite at allowing herself and
Lexia to be used by Wynter to get at Vicki. While Coreen rests,
Vicki lets Mike and Henry know that she's now available to help
them find the vampire they're looking for, but Henry immediately
tightens up and refuses their help, Mike's included. Henry has
figured out who the vampire is and knows that she's much too
powerful for either Mike or Vicki to go up against. I would
prefer to work alone on this one, he says, and leaves Vicki's
office.

"Christina," replies Vicki.

"And who the hell is Christina?" Mike asks.

"Trouble," says Vicki.
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