- A car runs down a woman on a motorbike. The investigation leads Colefield to Danni Ashford, a banker for the vampires, and thence to a small part of the vampire's plan. Colefield seeks Frances Pembroke's advice on how to deal with his newfound job status.—kamas716
- It is nearly morning. Danni Ashford [Jane Slavin] has been up all night at the Nursing Home, visiting her mother Margaret who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When the morning nurse arrives, Danni is surprised at how the time got away. She gets in the silver Jaguar where her boyfriend, Lester Hammond [Christopher Villiers], has been waiting for her, and they head back to London. Neil [Neil Maskell] and Sal [Julie Smith] are tooling along on a motorcycle when they are sideswiped by the silver Jag, obviously in a hurry. When both car and motorcycle are stopped by road construction, Neil grabs a steel pipe and bangs up the Jag, breaking the tinted window. The Jag suddenly takes off, plowing into Sal on the way. Sal winds up crippled in the hospital.
Mike has done well training on the shooting range, but he still has problems dealing with the fact that his new job on the Code 5 team places his friends in such danger that he must leave them behind. For example, Rice advises Mike to end his friendship with Kirsty because the Code 5s will use her to get at him and then use him to get at the team. Ditto for Frances, although neither the Code 5s nor the Code 5 hunters know about her yet.
When the silver Jag is found abandoned in a dark tunnel, the Code 5 team is alerted because of the telltale red residue found on the driver's seat. Angela is surprised to find that the amount of residue is not enough to constitute a whole person. The driver may have escaped but 'whatever is left, can't be too pretty.' The car is registered to Lester Hammond, son of wealthy Gideon Hammond, so Angela pays Gideon [T. R. Bowen] a visit. She learns that Gideon is not a Code 5, that he hasn't spoken with his son in three years, and that his son's funds have since been cut off. This is verified by Danni Ashford, his banker.
Immediately after being interviewed, however, Danni and Gideon get in touch with each other. Gideon tells Danni to liquidate all his accounts. When the Code 5 team learns about the liquidation, they conclude that Gideon, Lester, and Danni are working together. However, neutralizing Lester is not a priority, and Fr Harman orders that they concentrate on investigating the money...where it comes from and where it goes. Where does it come from? Gideon Hammond is involved in property--designing and building basements with tinted windows, no plumbing, and no heating. 'Safe houses,' as Fr Harman calls them. Where does it go? Lester makes a killing investing in futures. However, trading futures must be done face-to-face, but there are no videos showing Lester on the floor, plus the trading is all done through Gideon's accounts, which makes liars of both Gideon and Danni.
But what is really going on? Their investigation is beginning to look like a dead end until Mike notices that the most recent photo, taken three years ago, of Lester Hammond shows him with brown eyes, whereas Neil was absolutely certain that the driver of the Jag had blue eyes. Mike suspects that Lester Hammond and the driver of the Jag aren't the same person. Angela suspects that there might have been another person in the Jag because a cellphone was found in it. Rice explains that the voice of a Code 5 (or 'leech', as they are sometimes called) won't transmit online audiologically, just like their image can't be seen in mirrors or videotape, so a leech must communicate by electronic transmission. In other words, a leech has no use for a cellphone.
The next morning, while on his way to work, Mike runs into Kirsty. He is having a hard time accepting that he must cease contact with her for her own safety. Kirsty, on the other hand, is tired of being lied to and still wants answers. Are you working for the people that investigated Jack? (Yes) Did you turn him in? Is that why they took you on? (No) Kirsty pleads with Mike to stop protecting her. He suggests that they meet tomorrow night, but she refuses, 'unless you've got something to tell me.'
Keeping surveillance on Danni Ashford, Mike and Rice notice that she has burns on her right hand. On this basis, they wonder if Danni might have been the other person in Lester Hammond's car. Their investigation reveals that Danni visited her mother in the Nursing Home the night before the accident, which occurred on the motorway she would have taken to get back to London, so Angela and Mike decide to speak with Margaret Ashford's nurse. She reveals to them that Danni had never visited her mum until that night, the night of the accident. Why did she choose that night to visit? Perhaps conscience, the nurse suggests, or perhaps her boyfriend, who was waiting in the car, persuaded her. The nurse allows them to look through Margaret's photo album in which they notice a photo of Waldo Hammerfetz, who closely resembles Lester Hammond, taken in 1952. But Waldo died in 1943. There is also a letter showing that Margaret served as Waldo's banker until Danni took over the job.
Meanwhile, Rice and his SWAT team, suspecting that the transfer of the liquidated money will take place at Gideon's house, are keeping the Hammond estate under surveillance and listening in on the conversation between Danni and Gideon. As Danni is about to leave, Neil suddenly appears from the shadows. Not knowing what Neil intends to do, Rice tackles him. He takes both Neil and Danni into custody. When they later attempt to explain to Danni that she was being used, Danni becomes irate, accusing the Code 5 team of running an extermination program, trying to kill "them" just because they're different.
Mike has put it all together and concluded that Waldo Hammerfetz has taken on the identity of Lester Hammond, and it is Gideon's father they should be looking for, not his son. Turns out that Lester died three years ago of an overdose. That's when Waldo took the expedient way to re-enter society. A visit to the bank confirms that Waldo still has dealings there. They learn that all of his money goes to medical research for AIDS, leukemia, and various blood disorders. One of his biggest charities is the Beacon Institute.
Mike and Angela break into the Beacon Institute and find patients lying in bed, obviously very sick. One patient has fallen to the floor and is lying in a pool of blood. Mike gets help. As the patients are being carted away, Angela explains that they were experiments. She's not sure what was being researched, but all the patients had all been exposed to high levels of radiation in order to wipe out their immune systems. Fr Harman points out that what they were doing was not philanthropic research. "They" are concerned about contamination of their food supply and were researching ways of protecting it. It might have looked on the surface like they were searching for cures but think about what humans did when mad cow disease was discovered. Their response was not to find a cure for it but to exterminate those cows infected with it.
When Neil is eventually released, he goes home and is immediately killed by Waldo Hammerfetz. ('This is what it looks like, now learn how it feels.') Mike wants to know what to tell Sal, Neil's girlfriend, but Rice thinks Mike is still battling with what to reveal to Kirsty and says that he (Rice) will tell Sal. Mike calls Kirsty to arrange a meeting with her for tomorrow morning ('We have things to talk about.') then goes home to get some sleep. Rice goes to talk with Sal, but finds her gone and the hospital room in shambles. Meanwhile, Mike is awakened by someone in his room. At first, he thinks it is Kirsty, but it is Sal. She's been bitten and cured and only has good things to say about them. Rice suddenly appears and, without a word, stakes her through the back. She explodes, along with most of Mike's apartment. 'Time to move,' Rice comments.
Mike finally realizes the danger in which he is placing Kirsty by continuing to see her. When they meet, he tells her that he is moving, refusing to tell her where, and that they need to take a break from each other. Kirsty continues to press him for information about Jack. He's dead, isn't he? Mike gets hard-nosed and tells her that it's time for her to accept the fact that Jack was a shitehead and move on. [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]
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