![]() What makes Van Helsing different from vampire television shows and films is that Vanessa’s blood has the ability to revert vampires back into humans again and she seems to have accelerated healing abilities much like the Wolverine. Vanessa displays more of her uncanny fighting abilities and singlehandedly kills her would be kidnapper easily as Axel, Sam (Christopher Heyerdahl) and Mohamad (Trezzo Mahoro) stand on the sidelines ready in case she needs them. A few moments later she’s accosted by Ted who claims that he needs to take her to the vampires. Outside, she finally gets a reality check on how changed the world is as she gazes upon a city that looks more like a war zone. Apparently he promised the creatures Vanessa and he chases after her to the rooftop. Ted finally admits this and angrily says that Axel didn’t understand what it was like outside and what had been done to him. Axel confronts him and claims that he’s the only person who would know where the real code would be hidden to unlock the door (he gave them all a fake code to begin with) and so he must have allowed the vamps in. Ted (Ted Guinee), other marine, attempts to befriend her and promises to help her get out of the facility, but he turns out to have a nefarious agenda. Her main goal at this point is to get out of there and find her kid. She also has no knowledge of the apocalyptic events that have transpired while she’s been out of commission. In the aftermath, poor Vanessa has no idea what’s happened to her, where she is, or what’s become of her daughter Dylan. Acting on pure instinct she claws and stabs one of them viciously and I can’t help but wonder where this ferocity came from. Vanessa however finally wakes up and proceeds to take down all her assailants. ![]() The creature begins to convulse and throws up blood. But here’s when the episode starts to get interesting because as soon as one of the vamps bites her and drinks her blood, it begins to have a adverse affect. That night all hell breaks lose as somehow the vampires manage to get inside the facility and they target Vanessa’s unconscious body. Against his better judgment he lets them inside as one of them was a fellow marine who had been on the same mission to protect Vanessa. Things quickly escalate though when a group of survivors come knocking at Axel’s door looking for sanctuary since the streets are crawling with feeder vampires. When we first meet Vanessa (Kelly Overton), she’s in a coma and is being protected in some kind of facility by a single marine named Axel (Jonathan Scarfe) with only a vampire (who had been a doctor) for company. This retelling is set in post-apocalyptic Seattle, where the eruption of a super volcano in Wyoming creates an ashen hell on earth, allowing for creatures of the night to rise to the top of the food chain. Syfy’s newest original show Van Helsing is a modern day story of Vanessa Van Helsing, (descendant of vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing) and she’s no damsel in distress. Spoilers through Season 1, Episode 2 of Van Helsing
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