- Previously on The Strain... - Professor!
How touching.
Perhaps you hoped to hear about your son.
- Zack's alive? - Yes. He is an apt student.
This is the Master's Final Solution.
We're not the farmers; we're the livestock.
You're certain we'll be able to get a plane?
Certain-ish.
You keep staring at me like that, I ain't coming to New York.
- She's all yours. - You wanna come?
- To New York? - Hell, no.
Scheisse!
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Roman, you're one lean, mean flying machine, man.
All we gotta do now is find a truck,
load this, uh, firecracker into Manhattan.
Boom!
That just went down the priority list.
Oh, OK.
You guys already got 'em all.
Oh, I had to shut down the systems.
Well, here's our truck.
I can't wait to see
the Professor's face when we bring him our present.
Whoa!
Feliz Navidad.
Yes, we're here.
And now we're coming for you.
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You have them?
Not yet, my Lord.
We are searching every road between here and the airport.
I will find them.
Like you found Goodweather? And Velders?
And the pawnbroker?
- He was in my grasp. - Where is he?
Where is the Born?
Where is the rat catcher?
I apologize... my Master.
I have no use for your apology!
You have lost faith in me...
Master.
I do not deserve your mercy, nor will I ask for it.
I only ask that you take my life.
Is that your desire, Thomas?
Yes, my Lord.
Well, then.
This is a proud day...
for Abraham Setrakian.
This is Standartenführer
Thomas Eichhorst, defeated by a Jew.
My most trusted acolyte,
an officer of the Reich,
bested by a pawnbroker.
You will go down
in the history of our species
as an abject defeatist
who lost his stomach for the fight!
Is that what you really desire, Thomas?
To hand victory to Setrakian?
- No! - Then find him!
Find the Born and the others.
Above all, do not
let that warhead cross the river!
You have my word.
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Right where you left it.
The hat. The cane. You're almost back to your old self.
Very old self.
There's an age, Miss Velders,
where you meet an enemy you cannot run from.
Time. When you reach it,
you will experience your body's betrayal
from within.
Now, the Lumen.
Down here, come on!
It's up here.
Maybe you should stay down here.
Keep a lookout.
I'll be back in two shakes.
Ah!
Ah... ah...
Ah!
Professor?
Is it safe?
It hasn't been touched. Are you all right?
- We'd best be sure. - I'm worried about you, are you OK?
I'm fine! Open the case!
You did well.
We should... find somewhere new to hold up.
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Do you really think the Master has Zack?
I don't know. Maybe he's using Zack as bait. It doesn't change
- our plan. - No? If it were my son...
Well, luckily, you don't need to make that decision.
That was a dick move even for you.
I didn't mean it that way. Look, I...
I'm just doing the only thing I know to do.
If we can find Setrakian, if we can kill the Master,
then all of this ends;
the depravation, the feed lots,
the blood harvesting, all of it.
And this Setrakian will have a plan?
Setrakian always has a plan.
Whether it'll work is another question.
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Well, I hope you like maple...
What the hell are you doing?
Professor...
I saw this in a dream.
The ouroboros. The Egyptians
thought it represented the never-ending
cycle of creation
and destruction, birth and death.
Eternity!
Right.
But why...
But why are you ripping out the pages after all we went through?
I have to see the parts and their sum all at once.
There are... there are patterns here. Connections.
I... things I...
I've overlooked.
I... I thought you had this figured out.
The "Face of God," the... the nuclear explosion.
I was wrong.
Slightly.
I missed the significance of these images.
- All right. OK, hold on, hold on. - I can't hold on!
- There's too much to do! - Just take a minute.
I... I'm running out of time!
Professor? You OK?
Professor? Professor!
Professor! Professor?!
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You see we did our third induction this week.
Another two probably by the end of the month.
That suggestion you had
about harvesting early. It... it's really paying off.
That is because you made it pay off, Mr. Desai.
I'm very impressed by the turnaround.
Well, coming from you, sir, that...
- that means a lot. - In fact, you have done
so well, I have decided to promote you.
- Please. - Really?
Whatever you need me to do.
There is a group at large here in New York.
It's of the utmost importance they be apprehended
as soon as possible. You are familiar
with two of them, Abraham Setrakian and Dutch Velders.
It would give me great pleasure to bring them to justice.
These other two, Ephraim Goodweather
and Vasiliy Fet, are working with them.
There is also a half-strigoi,
half-human, who goes by the name of Quinlan.
Huh. Why are they so important?
They intend to smuggle a nuclear bomb into Manhattan.
Come on, Professor.
Please don't do this.
Stop right there!
- Dutch? - Eph?
Oh, thank God!
Thank God.
His heartbeat's changing rapidly.
I think he's in AFib.
What does that mean? He's had a heart attack?
Or maybe a stroke.
- Jesus. - Or hopefully he's
just dehydrated. How'd he get so run down?
We were captured. He was put in a Partnership research facility.
What kind of research?
All I know is that they're running experiments.
Experiments?
He's B-positive. They were doing studies,
pumping him full of drugs.
Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, start from the beginning.
I told you, we were caught. We were separated.
- For how long? - I don't know.
- Three months, maybe. - You didn't see him for three months!?
I don't understand your tone here. Are you blaming me?
- I'm not blaming you! - Because at least I was here!
It was just me and him! We made it on our own
for months off the grid!
And, by the way, I was locked up, too, if that's of any concern.
And when I was, he was all I thought about.
And meanwhile, what were you doing in Philadelphia?
Look, I don't think that this
is getting us anywhere. The question is,
what do we do now?
We need to get him hydrated.
And we should probably get him
some blood thinners. God knows where we'll find that.
Well, I know a place. But I don't want
- to leave him alone. - I'll stay.
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We gotta check this place out. It's an old marine warehouse
in Sheepshead Bay.
Jorge says it's gotta be 10000 square feet.
The Partnership's growing strawberries, tomatoes, spinach,
- all kinds of shit there. - What do you think, Gus?
I think we should hit it tonight. It's the best deal.
Hold on.
Didn't we learn anything from the way we took this place?
Gus.
This woman claims to be a friend of yours.
Duchess!
You're alive. I was worried.
It's been a while.
How's, uh... how's the pawnbroker?
Not so good.
- Anything I can do to help? - We hope so.
- Eph's a doctor. - We need some medical supplies.
Yeah, step into my pharmacy.
This is it.
- You've been busy. - One-stop shopping, Doc.
Whatever you need food, booze...
- we got it. - Yeah, help yourself.
You don't happen to have, uh... IV saline?
You mean these?
Where'd you get all this stuff?
That's on a need-to-know basis. What I need to know is
what do you guys have to trade for all of this?
What about silver?
I know the old man had a lot of that.
We lost all of it. We were captured.
He still got that cane?
Forget about it. It's on the house.
What? What? What type of bullshit is that?
- They're friends. - They're your friends.
That don't got shit to do with me.
I said it's on the house.
Go on. OK, it's fine, man. I was just messing with you.
Sorry about that. Take whatever you need.
How long have they been away?
Over nine months.
For all I know, they're not coming back.
- I wouldn't count Quinlan out. - Or Fet.
The members of this terrorist cell are armed and dangerous.
- Uh, Eph? - I repeat,
the members of this terrorist cell are armed
and extremely dangerous. If you see any of these individuals...
I think we might have to get you two off the street.
I think that's a very good idea.
Setrakian...
This is what you guys have been eating?
Have you seen it out there?
We're lucky we've got all this canned food.
No wonder the old man is sick.
I'm gonna get you some real food, all right?
Dutch, what the hell
- is going on? - You're awake!
Ephraim... you're alive.
So are you, thank God.
You need to stay off your feet.
Listen to the doc.
We need you fighting the good fight.
And what would you know about the good fight,
Mr. Elizalde?
When you had the chance to stand with us,
you... ran off. Throwing in
with the likes of Alonso Creem.
Hey...
I'm just trying to get by like everybody else.
That is exactly why the Master won...
because people "try to get by."
First with silence,
then with comfort, then with...
collaboration.
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Stop here!
We need to scan you into the system.
OK. What do you guys got in the back?
Medical supplies.
We're gonna need you to open up so we can take a look.
Nah, I can't.
It's radioactive.
It's for cancer patients.
Uh... You know how they
shoot their tumors with that nuclear shit?
I'm gonna need you guys to step out
- of the vehicle. - Enough.
This is an urgent shipment
for high-level patients.
If I have to step out, you will regret it.
Just let 'em through, Hank.
Hank!
This just came in.
All right. I want you to sit still
until you finish this bag.
We need to get your strength back up.
I knew you'd return.
Never doubted it for a moment.
I did.
Until last week.
We discovered this facility in Western Pennsylvania.
It was an industrial farm.
It wasn't for cattle or pigs.
It's for us.
The Partnership is a ruse.
A way to control the populace
until the cities can be emptied
and ship the people to these places.
I've seen this before.
In the war.
This is what the Master learned
in the death camps as he was...
feeding on us.
How to subjugate an entire people,
And how to coerce them into obedience
and organizing and administrating
their own demise.
He learned it from us.
How do we stop him?
These passages
hold the key,
but I'm not sure I can...
Finish the work.
In the meantime, this might help.
It's Warfarin.
It's a blood thinner. It should prevent another stroke.
One a day.
No more.
If you take too many, it could cause
internal bleeding. That's how you kill rats.
They eat it and they bleed out.
We took out thousands of strigoi
by poisoning them. We put it in their blood tankers.
- You would've been proud. - I appreciate this,
Ephraim. But I'm... I'm going to need
- something much stronger. - What do you mean?
It's a formula
for extracting the restorative properties
of strigoi worms.
- Where did you get this? - It was developed by alchemists
in the third century.
It extends the life of the human being
without transmitting the strigoi virus.
That's impossible. I've done hundreds of tests on their blood.
How old do you think I am?
I mean...
95.
- What? - How else do you think
I've managed to stay in the fight all these years?
- That's not possible. - God damn it, Ephraim!
Have you come all this way only to doubt me now?
- After everything you've seen? - OK, OK, OK.
Look, I... I know I've been unreliable.
But I am with you... 'til the end.
So...
I believe you.
- Mr. Desai. - Get Eichhorst on the line.
- I need to... - There's someone here to see you.
- What? - Says he has some valuable information.
Sanjay Desai.
Alonso Creem. It's an honor.
I admire what you've done on behalf of our city.
- Well, we all gotta do our part, right? - Which is exactly why I'm here.
I might know a little something
about those dangerous desperadoes you're after.
Oh, really.
- Which ones? - The pawnbroker.
Abham Setrakian?
I know where he's holed up.
Along with Princess Di and the chrome dome.
Velders and Goodweather. Address?
Hold on. I want to do my patriotic duties and all that, but...
I think I need to be fairly compensated.
My Master.
Mr. Desai has brought us a promising lead.
- I'm honored. - You're the big man.
The decision maker.
Alonso Creem at your service.
I can lead you to the pawnbroker,
the Duchess, and that bald doctor.
Even the Lumen.
That's four for the price of one.
But if you boys get the notion to sting me
to get that information without paying for it,
I'll drop this sucker and everybody gets nothing.
What is your price?
First, I want Roosevelt Island back.
No strigs, no baton carriers.
My island, under my control.
How dare you?
Anything else?
You can give me full control
over the entire black market.
And if you want information or want me to track down
anyone else, my crew will be at your disposal.
It's a win/win situation.
So... so, what? Do we have a deal or what?
No, we do not.
I was merely curious
as to the depth of your delusion.
OK, so... So wait, wait. All right.
So... I have another offer.
Dutch knows a place where some meth heads used to cook,
before the Partnership
rounded them up. She thinks we can
find the necessary equipment there.
We'll pick up a strigoi on our way.
In the meantime, you have one job and one job only. Rest.
This is the version of you
I remember most.
Which version is that?
The one who never gives up on the people he cares about.
I have to tell you something, uh...
about why I left.
Zack's alive.
He's with the Master.
How do you know?
The Master spoke to me
through a strigoi.
And I... I saw Zack.
Where?
At Stoneheart, the day we went after the Master.
After you left,
I was in Palmer's penthouse, stitching myself up,
and Kelly and Zack walked in on me.
She attacked me.
I killed her.
Right in front of him.
He had a...
a device. A detonator.
He, um...
He pressed the button.
Are you saying...
He set off the bomb.
The nuke that blew up Liberty Island.
The Master took my wife.
Tricked me...
into leaving her alone so he could turn her
because he wanted me
to live with that guilt.
You've carried yours for nine months.
I've carried mine for more than 50 years.
This...
is what the Master does to those who defy him.
This...
is the price we pay. But...
you must not allow this to weaken your resolve.
You did not put that detonator
in Zack's hand. The Master did.
It was he who turned your wife
and used her to warp your son's mind.
Not you!
You must hold tight
to that truth.
The other bridges and tunnels, they run right into Midtown.
It's gotta be covered in munchers.
- Lower Manhattan? - Well, from the plane,
it still looks deserted.
Brooklyn Bridge it is, then.
There's gonna be a reception committee.
Wouldn't want it any other way.
Actually, I can think of a number of other ways
I'd rather have it.
But it is what it is,
so let's do it.
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Weird.
The checkpoint on this side is deserted.
So's the Manhattan side.
There is not a chance in hell
that they're leaving the door wide open for us.
- An obvious trap. - Whatever we do,
we can't keep hanging around here.
Not after we bust through the road blocks.
What do you think, Born-o?
That's all the bridges and tunnels.
Every contact with the outside world has been severed.
There's no way they're getting that warhead into the city.
My compliments.
Mr. Desai planned
and organized the entire operation.
Not even Eldritch Palmer would have been able
to execute such a feat.
That...
was perhaps a bit of an overstatement.
- Palmer... - Palmer was a quisling,
a traitor to his own kind.
Yes. Of course. Precisely.
So...
will there be anything else?
Yes.
Would you be so kind as to remove the...
silver from Mr. Creem's teeth?
It seems to be causing him a certain discom
No?
Do it quickly.
We wouldn't want him to burn up
before he's become useful.
Thank you.
- What are you doing? - Something I should've done
a long time ago.
I did some bad shit you know nothing about.
The professor gave me a chance to make it right,
and I didn't take it.
Maybe it's not too late.
Wherever you go, I go.
We're blood, right?
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Looks like they've been going off all over the city.
East and West Side.
The Partnership's not been keeping up the infrastructure.
Do you think it could be the gas mains?
It was too deliberate for that. They were going off
- in a controlled sequence. - Either way,
I've a bad feeling. We should get back soon.
- Just about done. - Wonder how many alchemists
got this wrong before they got it right.
Let's just hope we got it right.
I overheard you telling the professor about Zack.
I'm sorry for what I said about you not being here.
- You weren't wrong. - But I was
out of line. You're back.
That's all that matters.
And I don't know
what I would have done if you hadn't shown up.
That... cantankerous
old man has been the only thing that's kept me going.
Knowing he's believed in me right from the start,
even after I told him I broke the Internet.
He's a shrewd judge of character.
You're only saying that because he forgave you.
Sorry. I just...
wanted to make sure you didn't need anything?
I'm fine.
Souvenir?
It's a Romanian prayer rope.
The orthodoxy call it "the sword of the spirit."
They believe prayer
is a... a weapon
that can defeat the devil.
Maybe that's the problem.
I stopped praying a long time ago.
Didn't seem to make a difference.
I have felt that myself from...
time to time.
And you still believe?
I think we focus too much
on the end result, not enough on...
the act itself.
Prayer is an act of...
humility, of... uh, connection.
Reaching out
to another and to God.
If we stop praying, we sever that connection.
Give ourselves over to arrogance.
We...
isolate ourselves.
Yes, of course.
That's it!
- What did you find? - Yes,
by all means,
share your epiphany with us...
A230385.
I can hear your heartbeat, Jew.
Fluttering like a dying moth.
It's over.
We should have done this decades ago,
when it would have been a fair contest.
No!
He belongs to me.
The moment of truth
has arrived,
A230385.
Now is your chance to rid the world
of the great evil
that stands before you.
Go ahead, pawnbroker.
Pick it up.
So, where is your God now, Jew?
Watching you through me.
And soon he will see you burn in hell.
So, now you are an avenging angel, huh?
An instrument of divine retribution.
No.
Just an ordinary man.
But that is all that will be required
to bring your Master
to his knees.
Abraham. Look at me.
Remember when we first met?
In the concentration camp?
I laid my gun on your work table.
If you had just had the courage
to grab it, all this
might have never happened.
Does that thought trouble you?
It's the German.
You all right?
Come on. I got you. I got you.
Come on. Sit right here. Okay?
What're you doing here?
I'm throwing in with the likes of you.
Stay here, all right? I'll be back.
Let's go.
Stay close to me, Raul, all right?
- He's fast. - Yeah.
C'mon, c'mon.
Augustin Elizalde!
It's been a long time.
Waxy boy!
It's been too long!
It's time we settle up.
Whatever do you mean?
You were well paid
- for your services. - Uh-uh. Uh-uh. I owe you.
I owe you for my mom.
I owe you for my brother.
And Angel! Come on! Come on!
Your companion's
blood smells like yours.
Is he another relative?
- No! No! - And now, this one, too.
No!
Augustin.
Now, you.
Admit it,
A230385.
You've always been curious
about what's on the other side.
Are you gonna stand there,
flapping your lips all day
or finish this?
No! No!
Like rats,
you cannot vomit the blood thinner.
An anatomical curiosity
but very significant,
too, don't you think?
You are vermin.
Look at me. I want your Master
to see this.
Can you hear me?
I have something to say to you.
You are the hunger.
The strain that feeds on us
since time immemorial.
But make no mistake,
you're still a parasite.
And we will flush you out
and burn you.
It will not be me.
It will not be now,
but it will happen.
No matter how long it takes,
in another face,
in other eyes,
you will see me...
as you die.
And as for you,
Herr Eichhorst.
My name
is Abraham Setrakian...
and you should know
I'm not
a number
anymore.
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