US Air Date: 12/10/07

Writers: Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman

Director: Scott Lautanen

CBS’s vampire detective continues to over-perform as the show starts to pick up some steam with its third episode. It kicks off when Gerald Stovsky, a rocket scientist as well as a vampire no less, gets himself mowed down in a hit and run accident. A passer-by, who happens to be a doctor, stops to help but rather than getting praise and thanks for his efforts, he finds a set of fangs lodged in his neck instead. Then he turns into a vampire too because of the blood Gerald inadvertently coughed into his mouth. A short killing spree later and the doc is back at his house where his wife finds him, and she too joins the list of the doc’s victims.
Picking up the case from a dead convenience store clerk the doc left in his wake, Beth and Mick track the Doc to his house but when they get there they find Gerald, who’s looking for the doc too. Apparently, vamps live by a ‘moral’ code that requires them to look after those they have sired. Gerald stakes Mick, mumbling about he doesn’t want the doc dead, before leaving. Beth, after pulling out the stake, goes with Mick to the hospital convinced the doc will be looking to feed on its supply of blood and they stop him just in time before he feeds on a sleeping patient. The newbie vamp and Mick duke it out in the hospital, fangs out, until Mick produces the same stake Beth pulled from his own body and heaves it into the doc’s chest. By the time Beth catches up, Mick is wheeling the paralysed doc to the incinerator on a gurney to toss him into the flames. The episode ends with Mick and Josef reminiscing over a glass of the crimson stuff.