Dante (Gene) and his friend, Evan, leave The Underground, a Goth club, arguing about whether or not to go home. Dante’s friend leaves him after their fight and Dante takes a hit on a blue liquid drug. He begins to feel sick and realizes bugs are falling on him. He falls to the ground and the bugs converge on his body.

In Vicki’s office Lexia, Vicki’s new client, wants to hire Vicki to investigate Dante’s death. She’s worried the city might try to shut her club down. Coreen, a friend of Lexia’s, has recommended Vicki and Vicki reluctantly agrees to take the case. After Lexia leaves Coreen and Vicki argue about whether or not Coreen can help out with Vicki’s case and Coreen eventually badgers Vicki into letting her.

At Henry’s apartment, he is busy working when he hears someone leave something against his front door. He scents blood as he approaches the door and finds a body of a young girl propped outside his apartment door. He looks around but no one is there.

Vicki heads down to the morgue to talk to Mohadevan. Vicki and Mohadevan think he’s been swarmed by insects but he also seems to have had an allergic reaction to something.  Vicki and Coreen decide to go to the Underground to look around.

Henry, meanwhile, is examining the dead girl and some jagged scars on her neck when Vicki calls to invite him to go with her on her fact finding mission. He blows her off and hangs up on her which Vicki doesn’t seem to like too much but before she can do anything about Coreen shows up, in full Goth wear, and they head…

To the Underground. Before they go in Vicki reminds Coreen they are just there to look around and if anyone looks suspicious she should go directly to Vicki. Coreen thinks they should go in separately and Vicki is miffed to find she resembles a narc in Coreen’s estimation and Coreen doesn’t want to be seen with her.

Inside the club, Coreen goes to interview customers and Vicki heads over to the bar. After a moment or two of stalling Lexia comes up and tells the bartender, Winter, to give Vicki whatever she needs.

Coreen finds Gene’s friend, Evan, and asks him about Gene. The camera goes back and forth between Coreen/Evan and Winter/Vicki. They ask about what Gene drank that night and whether he has any allergies but pretty much they come up with bupkis.

Henry approaches Mike at the police station and after a few minutes of Mike giving Henry a hard time and Henry almost leaving they finally get down to business. That being that there’s another vampire hunting in the city and he left a present on Henry’s doorstep. Henry needs Mike’s help. Mike wants to give Henry grief about moving the body inside his apartment. Finally Henry gets Mike to understand what’s going on and that he needs his help, unless Mike wants Henry to do it on his own.

Henry fills Mike in on what another vampire leaving a dead woman on Henry’s doorstep means. Essentially, another vampire wants Henry’s territory. Henry doesn’t want Vicki involved because anyone close to him is in danger. Mike thinks he might like the new vampire better than Henry but Henry says it’s better to deal with the devil he knows. Mike has two conditions. When they find the vampire they put him down, no exceptions and Mike gets full disclosure. Henry wouldn’t have it any other way.  Mike tells Henry to phone the death in.

Coreen and Vicki leave the club and Coreen feels bad for Evan because the poor guy feels so guilty. Vicki wonders if maybe Evan and Gene were doing drugs and Coreen shoots that down. Vicki takes the opportunity to give Coreen a lesson in sleuthing which Coreen doesn’t take kindly too. She doesn’t believe Evan was doing drugs and she doesn’t believe Lexia’s involved and that’s that.

Mike is with Mohadevan, going over Jane Doe’s body. Mohadevan thinks the wounds were caused by hand but Mike thought vampires used their teeth. Mohadevan thinks that Vicki might need to be involved in this but Mike shuts that down as soon as possible. He doesn’t want Vicki involved and Mohadevan agrees. They’re interrupted by Vicki as it happens, who is there to check up on Gene’s toxicology. Vicki and Mike discuss Gene’s case and Vicki reveals she’s working for Lexia. She asks him to run some names and he agrees… without any convincing… which immediately makes Vicki wonder what the hell’s going on. For a cop, Mike isn’t very stealthy.

Henry’s back at home when there’s a knock on his door. As he walks towards it, he smells Vicki’s presence and sighs as he goes to let her in. Vicki wastes no time in saying that she thinks something is going on. Mike offering to help her research names when he hasn’t agreed on her first request one time in ten years and Henry hanging up on her make her think something is going on in this “Jane Doe” case Mike is working.

Henry tries to throw her off by saying there’s a first time for everything and then suggesting that they not see each other for a while. See, he’s been thinking about it and he really needs to get some work done instead of being her partner. Subtle. A cop and a 500 year old vampire and not a stealthy gene between them.

Vicki takes the news with apparent good grace and then Henry tries to shove her out of the apartment by telling her he needs to go to a meeting. Too bad he didn’t take his portfolio with him and Vicki has to remind him to get it. Way to go Sherlock.

Vicki goes back to the office and confirms to Coreen that Lexia has no criminal record but that Gene had some unknown substance in his system. Coreen is adamant that it isn’t drugs and thinks it’s something supernatural. Vicki says to hit her with her best shot. Coreen thinks its demon related or black magic and Vicki says someone at the club is into something and thinks they should go question Lexia again. Coreen agrees to go along.

Evan is at the bar and Winter questions him about what he’s told the cops. Evan confirms that he hasn’t said anything and Winter thinks he needs something to cheer him up. She gets him to take a bottle of the blue liquid.

While Henry prowls the streets looking for the Vampire Vicki questions Lexia about whether or not she’s selling drugs. Coreen tells Lexia she needs to tell the truth and Lexia, offended that Coreen thinks she’s capable of pushing drugs, once again denies it and then walks away from them both.

Coreen follows Lexia to apologize as Evan leaves the club. He’s a little wobbly and falls down in the trash as the bugs approach his body.

Back inside the club Coreen is talking to Lexia as Vicki looks around. Lexia thinks Coreen is just trying to protect her paycheck and is upset that she’s no different from any other “mundane” and even though Coreen protests that that’s not true Lexia is having none of it and walks away. Coreen gets on Vicki’s case that she came in with an attitude and because she can never trust anybody she believes the worst.

Their argument is interrupted by a scream from outside and they run out to find Evan eaten up by beetles. Coreen manages to snag a bug for testing purposes as Vicki calls the police.

Henry and Mike are discussing the problem vampire. Mike scoffs at Henry’s warnings about the fallout of a vampire battle and calls the situation a simple turf war. Henry tells him it’s much more than that and they head inside an interrogation room to talk about it.

Henry tells Mike about what happened back in the 1700’s when one vampire tried to take over another vampire’s village. The invading vampire killed friends, lovers, destroying the life the inhabiting vampire had built. Mike wonders which vampire was Henry and Henry demurs, saying he was the one still alive. He impresses upon Mike the importance of keeping Vicki out of it and Mike agrees but wonders how well that’s working when Henry is standing her up in the middle of the night to meet with his editor.

Mike has the victim’s name and Henry is not impressed that that’s all he has. Mike counters that he gets to go meet with the girl’s family and tell them she was killed for no apparent reason while trying to find out how she spent her last few days and as Henry leaves, Mike tells him that he’s not doing this for Henry. He doesn’t even like Henry.

Henry returns the courtesy and tells Mike the reason he’s involved in this at all is that Vicki trusts him with her life and that’s good enough for Henry.

Back at Vicki’s office Coreen is researching bugs. Vicki wonders if she’s made any progress. Coreen reports that Evan had an injection mark on his arm and Vicki begins to wonder if there isn’t some kind of designer drug being distributed down at the club that attracts the bugs.

Vicki heads back over to Mohadevan’s office and they talk about what kind of bug pheromone could act as a trigger to other bugs. They agree that it’s possible and Mohadevan says to be sure she needs a pure sample. Vicki goes to get on it but turns back to question Mohadevan about the Jane Doe case.

Mohadevan says they got a name and she tells Vicki what it is. And then as Vicki leaves she says what she’s not supposed to tell Vicki is that it somehow involves Henry Fitzroy. Vicki says she won’t say a word.

Mike shows up at Henry’s and says the girl’s last appointment was for a photo shoot and while he doesn’t have the photographer’s name they decide to go check out the studio. Mike wonders how they take care of the vampire once they find him and Henry says to leave that to him. Mike isn’t too sure about that idea.

Mike says he promises that if he ever tries to kill Henry again he won’t use a method Henry’s told him about. Henry, oddly enough, believes him and tells him the requisite stake through the heart, sunlight and immolation theories. Mike wants something new and Henry gives Mike a sword to use to decapitate the vampire.

Then Henry tells Mike not to worry, if they do find the vampire, it will attack Henry first because it won’t see Mike as any type of threat. They can use that to their advantage. As they leave, Mike wonders about holy water and Henry tells him no. Mike curses under his breath and sets the holy water he’d been carrying on a nearby table as he follows Henry out.

Mike and Henry head into the photographer’s studio and take a look around. They find pictures of the victim’s last photo shoot and as they look through them Henry finds one he recognizes and hides it in his jacket. Mike wants to know if Henry smells any blood and Henry doesn’t but he does sense something else. Mike draws his sword but Henry makes him put it away a split second before Vicki walks in the door.

She wonders why they’re skulking around the city together and leaving her out of it. She presses them for details and they clam up. So she goes back to the office and whines about it to Coreen. Vicki’s upset that they don’t trust and Coreen turns that back around on her.

Vicki decides they should work their case and Coreen says that could be difficult since their client isn’t talking to them. Vicki thinks they need a pure sample of the drug and they decide Coreen needs to go in under cover. They wire her up and Vicki says she has one hour and then tells her to come back out. They decide to meet back up at midnight and Vicki heads out…

To Henry’s, where she tells him she needs his help with her case. He says he can’t tonight; he’s working on something that could be equally as dangerous. She says that’s why they need to work together on it but Henry shuts her down. She’s upset that he won’t help her and he’s just as upset that he can’t. She leaves and he takes out the picture he grabbed of the biting victim and matches it to a painting of Christina. He talks to the painting and wonders what she wants with him.

At the club Coreen hits up some of the regulars for party favors, different party favors than the norm. She gets a lead on a newer drug called venom and she heads to the back to pick some up. Unfortunately for Coreen, her lead is Winter, the bartender who’s not just a bartender but some kind of demon with tentacles on her arm that she uses on Coreen, injecting her with the venom so as to attract the nasty biting beetles.

After the injection, Winter tells Coreen just why she injected Coreen. Winter tells her it’s open season on Vicki because of the powerful enemy she has. Winter wants to be the one to get Vicki. Winter leaves Coreen with the bugs and Coreen manages to tell Vicki that Winter is a demon and after her because of Astaroth.

Winter heads outside and uses her superior speed to mess with Vicki and Vicki uses her lack of sight to attack Winter, throwing her off guard just enough to get away as Henry runs her over, killing her. Coreen, meanwhile, was able to fight off the beetles with a fire extinguisher and gets some anti-histamines from Mohadevan to get the venom out of her system.

As Coreen is resting, Vicki heads out to talk to Henry and Mike. Vicki fills them in that the demon wanted her and killed the kids to draw her in. But that doesn’t matter because it’s dead now so she’s free to help them hunt that vampire they’re after. Yep, she figured it out all on her own (with no small help from them and they’re wacky way of trying to keep her out of it I might add).

Henry says no, she’s not getting involved and Mike agrees but Henry says the deal’s changed and he doesn’t want anyone else to die. Mike and Vicki both question him on that. Mike thinks Henry knows who it is and tells him that if anyone else dies it’s on his head.

Henry says he works better alone and tells them to stay out of his way, that “she’s” too powerful. Mike gets angry as Henry walks out and Vicki says that Henry’s trying to protect them. She’s been watching him, probably all night. The women behind the vampire. Christina. Mike wants to know who Christina is and Vicki says, simply, “trouble”.

Synopsis generously created by: Sandra