Vicki and Celluci are doing their flirty thing, with Celluci
blurring the boundaries around their relationship and Vicki giving him not too
subtle “back off” vibes. And Vicki doing some actual, mundane detective work
for money.
On the supernatural front, Francine, a homeless woman is
attacked by night-versioned beast-like hunter under the light of the full moon.
Annie, another homeless person and a friend of Francine takes
the case to Vicki. She remembers Vicki from her police days as one of the few
who had any sympathy for the homeless – and with at least 4 people missing,
they need sympathy.
After finding some of the dead woman’s stuff and some blood she, of course, turns to henry, hoping to use him as a bloodhound to track the blood trail into the sewer. Yes there is flirting. Vicki takes the bag they found to Celluci to try and get the police working on the case. Celluci is unwilling to devote resources to the case and deems it a low priority and a “hard sell” especially since it’s based on the witness statements of homeless people.
While not helpful on her case, he does want Vicki to look
at his; Celluci and Graham are working on the murder of a sex-worker who was
drained of blood with tiny holes on her neck. And a big, neon sign saying “vampire”
flashing over her corpse. Yes, of course Celluci is aimed at Henry and Vicki is
protecting him. The fact that Vicki has given Henry blood before also raises
itself in the conversation
Henry’s tracking of the beast doesn’t find it – but does
find a human who is also hunting it – and he calls it a Windigo. The man,
Peter, a Native American, returns to Vicki’s office with Henry to tell them a
dramatic story about the Windigo – a creature that used to be a man that eats
people. He tells all of this in a rather stilted English for some reason.
Coreens’ research fills in some gaps on the big hairy monstrous Winidgo
Celluci is approached by a Javier Mendoza over the dead
sex-worker. He’s an officer of “canon law” and is basically hunting Henry
because he’s a vampire. He also brings a
file of other supposed victims of Henry, including Delphine, a woman he was in a relationship with in 1944 –
which Celluci then takes to confront Henry with in his classic jealous style.
Celluci is left with the difficult choice of handing Henry over to Mendoza or
not – he doesn’t like Henry, but working with or helping a vigilante killer is
a hard choice to make.
Javier presents Henry as a monster with a mass number of
kills and that Vicki will be the next victim. And Javier gives him a sun
pendant that will drain Henry’s life if placed on his chest. And Javier should
know because, unknown to Celluci, he has already used it on Delphine – who isn’t
dead, she’s a vampire (something Henry neglected to mention) and imprisoned at
Javier’s mercy, left for the sun.
