Blood, the father of all vampires and first murderer, has awoken from an eternal slumber to wreak unholy havoc on London. Detective Williams, dying from a brain tumor, has followed Vail from America in hopes of finally bringing him down. Dr. Randolf, an old associate of Andy's brother, has literally fought his way through time and dimensions to warn Andy of a powerful darkness that is coming for him. And Andy Vail recently found out that he has a murderous alter ego called the Ripper. When we last saw Ripper, he had found a way to kill Andy and completely take over his body. But Andy, banished to a strange afterlife known as Summerland, got some much needed help and earned himself a ride across the river Styx and back to the land of the living. Now, Andy Vail is back, the Ripper has some competition, and evil is going to find that two times the Vail is twice as bad.
The Vail: London Fog
by Joey Pettine
Episode Thirteen: Clash
(The University College London Quad, twilight, the main building silent and dark behind it. To the right of the lawn sits a small astronomy shed, a little hut with a sliding roof, perfect for gazing at the stars. Surrounding the shed and littered across the lawn are statues: Women in blouses and tank tops, men with backpacks and books, bespectacled old men, and a number of other uncanny likenesses with only one thing in common, the look of utter horror which draws across their stone faces. THE RIPPER, clad in his black London Fog trench coat and bowler hat, and INSPECTOR CORDEAUX, wielding his Spanish rapier, enter, moving cautiously behind the statues, staying hidden from the astronomy shed. They stop, not far from the shed, hidden behind a statue of three girls cowering in fear. Ripper unsheathes a large machete from his coat.)
RIPPER
You get the door. I'll get the bitch. We move hard, fast, and silent. Shouldn't be a problem for you.
(Ripper grins mischief. Cordeaux glares reproachfully. Ripper suddenly grimaces and slaps his left ear. Cordeaux looks worried.)
RIPPER
Ah. I can't hear outta my left ear.
(He corkscrews his ear with his finger like it's full of water. Cordeaux looks impatient. Ripper gets serious and nods. Cordeaux moves silently to the door and pulls it open. Ripper rushes from his hiding spot when his body suddenly goes limp and he falls on his stomach, dropping the machete before the open door. When he lifts his head, dazed, his eyes are softer, the eyes of ANDY VAIL.)
ANDY
I made it. Crap. I still can't hear outta my left ear.
(He stands, similarly corkscrewing his ear.)
ANDY
Where am I?
(A beautiful voice slithers from within the doorway.)
EURO
You are in the serpent's garden.
(Cordeaux panics, drops his sword, and runs to Andy. He slaps his hand over Andy's eyes, closing his as well, then they both freeze.)
ANDY
I can't move. Why can't I move?
EURO
Because the stare of a gorgon is paralyzing.
(EURO emerges from the doorway. She wears a silken dress that moves like snake skin, she smiles and hisses, baring fangs like a vipers. Her hair is long and golden, stretching down past her feet and trailing behind her, it writhes and shimmers seemingly of its own accord. She steps over the weapons, not giving them a glance, staring intently at her prey. She moves intimately close to them, running her long nails over Cordeaux's fingers.)
EURO
Such supple, tender flesh. I like my men hard.
ANDY
Please, Medusa, no puns.
(She hisses anger inches from his face.)
ANDY
Ugh, snake breath.
EURO
My sister is nothing! Dry, peeling skin. That tangled snake's nest of a hairdo. And the piercings. Ugh! I possess a natural beauty that has literally left legions of men harder than marble. But who do the Muses remember?
ANDY
Okay. Sore subject. Sorry. But I literally just came back from the dead. If we could reschedule this maybe...
EURO
See me, dead man. See my beauty.
(She brushes Cordeaux's hand with her fingertips.)
EURO
Move that arm and look into me.
(Cordeaux's arm tremble, the muscles losing their rigidity. Andy's arm is trembling as well, shaking violently. Cordeaux's arm drops, revealing Andy's eyes. At the same instant, Andy delivers a whollop into Euro's face, knocking her back. He screams in the gruff voice of Ripper, very different from the higher voice of Andy, then claps his hands over his eyes again.)
RIPPER
Cordeaux, keep your eyes shut.
(Cordeaux squeezes his eyes tight. Ripper reaches into his jacket and pulls out a grenade. Euro looks back at him and he freezes, his thumb paused over the grenade's trigger, his arm shaking violently as it tries to lower his thumb.)
RIPPER
Let go of me!
EURO
You are helpless, hero. No man can fight the power of the gorgon.
ANDY
Good thing there's two of us in here.
(His thumb falls, there is a pop and a blinding flash. Euro screams. Cordeaux and Andy/Ripper unfreeze. They dive, roll past Euro, grab their weapons, pop onto their feet, and simultaneously swing to behead her. Blackout.)
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