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- "Saint Germain: I, Saint Germain, am going to pull Dracula and Lisa Tepes out of hell, fuse their souls together and lock them inside the body of a Rebis.
Greta: Who's Rebis?
Alucard: It's a word for a hermaphrodite creature. A body that is both man and woman." - — Saint Germain revealing his plan to Alucard and Greta
Death Magic is the eighth episode of the fourth season, and the 30th episode overall, of the Netflix original series, Castlevania.
Synopsis[]
- Belmont, Sypha and Zamfir battle Varney, Ratko and their unholy army. Alucard's castle falls under attack, and Saint Germain shares his scheme.
Plot[]
Targoviste[]
Night creatures are lead into the underground court of Targoviste by Ratko. The civilians inside are brutally murdered by his forces while Varney trails behind. Not even members of Zamfir's guard are any match for Ratko. Before the vampire warrior claims any more lives, Trevor confronts him directly. Excited for the challenge, Ratko tells Trevor he's been itching for a proper kill. Trevor asks if Ratko meant a proper fight, but the vampire denies this and claims he will win.
Sypha and Zamfir back up Trevor against the night creatures, allowing Trevor to focus on the blade-wielding, winged Ratko. Sypha tries to rescue as many people as she can with her magic. While everyone else is distracted, Varney goes around interrogating others for the location of the royal family's transmission mirror.
Dracula's castle[]
Meanwhile, at Alucard's castle, the refugees take up arms and rub them in salt. They're afraid, but they stand their ground as the horde of monsters approaches. Some lose their lives, and their souls are guided to Saint Germain via the channel he laid out through the castle using runes. He uses the key given to him by the Alchemist to begin the Great Work.
Alucard descends from his castle to the front line with his magic sword and shield in hand. He fights alongside the humans and fights them as a united front. The arches from the castle give Alucard's team the upper hand until Dragan unleashes a firebreathing beast upon them. Everyone is forced to retreat inside the castle. The doors lock shut just a moment after Greta pulls Alucard inside by his waistband.
Once inside, Alucard's forces begin barricading the door while he and Greta head upstairs. They find Saint Germain opening a portal into the Infinite Corridor. He tells them to stay out of it and explains he's using the souls of Greta's people to fuel it. Alucard recognizes the Death Magic being used to open a portal to Hell. Saint Germain adds that he's going to pull Dracula and his wife from Hell and fuse them together into the Rebis. Naturally, this upsets Alucard, but the ritual has a barrier keeping him from harming Saint Germain.
Unable to stop the madman, Alucard and Greta focus on helping the others fight downstairs. The giant fire-breathing monster breaks down the door, but Alucard slits its stomach open immediately.
Targoviste[]
Meanwhile, Sypha struggles to protect everyone hiding underground in Targoviste. Zamfir is fighting, but she focuses on avenging people after they're hurt or killed. Sypha directs her to protect the people properly, stating that she knows Zamfir can do better. Varney continues searching for the mirror while Sypha uses lightning magic to strike down the night creatures.
Ratko monologues as he fights and overpowers Trevor. He complains about Varney and proclaims that he finally gets on with being a true warrior. Before Ratko kills Trevor, a woman and her daughter push him. They serve to do little more than annoy him, but they get the vampire's attention. Ratko goes to strike them down, but Zamfir jumps in front of the blade, getting herself stabbed to save them.
Zamfir holds Ratko's blade in her, rendering him unable to move for the moment. She tells him that he's just a man and her people will outlast him. Ratko replies that he's immortal, but Trevor gets back up and uses his new cross-knife weapon to kill him. Sypha notices Zamfir's fatal wound and expresses that through the flames she uses to incinerate the remaining night creatures. Varney locates the mirror in the aftermath of the fighting. Trevor and Sypha notice its activation, but Varney slips through before they can catch him.
Saint Germain is surprised to see Varney join him. Trevor and Sypha realize the transmission point of the mirror is drifting and decide it's now or never, jumping through together without hesitation.
Cast[]
- Richard Armitage as Trevor
- Alejandra Reynoso as Sypha
- James Callis as Alucard
- Bill Nighy as Saint Germain
- Malcolm McDowell as Varney
- Titus Welliver as Ratko
- Marsha Thomason as Greta
- Toks Olagundoye as Zamfir
- Matthew Waterson as Dragan
Quotes[]
- – Ratko: The Belmont. I was hoping for a proper win.
- – Trevor: Don't you mean a proper fight?
- – Ratko: No. Because I'm going to win.
(Trevor is knocked to the ground by an oncoming bat-like demon. He launches two daggers at it as Zamfir draws her sword and attacks it. Sypha then performs a backflip and incinerates the creature with a wave of fire before landing on her two feet. A pair of sickly green wings sprouts from Ratko's back. He flies past Sypha and Zamfir and charges toward Trevor. They engage in a brief sword fight before their weapons clash with one another. Their wielders scowl at each other. Three bat-like night creatures approach the surviving villagers with the intent to devour them. Sypha pulls the water from the river and hurls it at the creatures, freezing them solid. She casts a fire wall to force two more night creatures to back off, giving the villagers space. While Zamfir fights off the creatures behind her, Sypha launches several icicles toward the others coming in her direction. A semi-panicked Varney watches the battle briefly and walks away from the fire wall.)
- – Varney: Where is it? Where's the **** thing? (He ceases a cowering old man and lifts him in the air.) Looking for a big mirror. There's writing on the frame. Things disappear through it. (The man is unresponsive.) No? (He breaks his neck and tosses him to the side.) Bloody useless. Now, how am I supposed to orchestrate the return of Dracula himself if you won't help me find the **** mirror? (Trevor and Sypha overhear him and their eyes widen. They suddenly realize what he is doing in the underground court.)
- – Alucard: (banging on the front door can be heard.) It may be a good idea to drag as many heavy things over to this door as we can. (The villagers hurry over to grab any large object they could carry from the camp they built in the entrance hall.)
- - Greta: And I want someone with a sword next to every archer at the windows. And keep three steps back. (A group of villagers splits up to meet with the remaining archers on the upper floor.) I assume those **** can climb.
- – Alucard: I should have thought of that.
- -Greta: (gives him a sly smile.) Lucky you have me here to run your life for you now. (The night creatures outside continue to bang on the door. Alucard appears to be smiling in return until it recedes.) What's that? (The villagers gather barrels to use to barricade the door while Alucard and Greta investigate the sight of a glowing bright red stone lodged into the wall.)
- – Alucard: I'm not sure. Come on (He and Greta run down the hallway to follow the trail of souls from the fallen villagers.)
- -Greta: Why here? What's here?
- – Alucard: (Realizing where the trail is leading to) My childhood room.
- – Saint Germain: Just stay back. It will be quicker and easier for everyone.
- – Alucard: What in hell are you doing?
- – Saint Germain: I am opening a door into the Infinite Corridor.
- -Greta: I think his mind has gone.
- – Alucard: The Infinite Corridor is a fairy tale.
- – Saint Germain: It most certainly is not. (To Greta) Young lady, the Infinite Corridor is a passage to other other worlds. It is, however, very hard to control. I am truly sorry that the souls of your people are being sacrificed to the cause, but they would have died of rickets or angry badgers soon enough anyway.
- – Alucard: This is death magic. You're using the energies of death to...
- – Saint Germain: To open the corridor and direct a portal to hell. And I need this spot here, where I presume you killed your father, to anchor the connection.
- – Alucard: My father?!
- – Saint Germain: I'm bringing him back from hell. And your mother. You're welcome to stay and watch. You can wave if you like.
- – Alucard: I am going to *** murder you! (Punch the barrier but to no avail)
- – Saint Germain: No, I don't think so. You see, in Lindenfeld I saw that a many-souled creature of magic can control the corridor. I, Saint Germain, am going to pull Dracula and Lisa Tepes out of hell, fuse their souls together and lock them inside the body of a Rebis.
- -Greta: Who's Rebis?
- – Alucard: It's a word for a hermaphrodite creature. A body that is both man and woman.
- – Saint Germain: The pinnacle of alchemy. An ultimate entity.
- – Alucard: Drop this shield and I will let you live.
- – Saint Germain: I can't control the corridor while I'm in there. I'm not strong enough. But a many-souled creature... a fusion of vampire and human, even, that would be a mechanism to exert control over the corridor. Vampire and human who were already closely bonded. It was obvious really.
- – Alucard: Why, man? What possible reason?
- – Saint Germain: Two reasons. The woman I love is lost somewhere in the Infinite Corridor. And I am an alchemist. I seek perfection of knowledge, the achievement of the great work, the magnum opus, which can be reached by the creation of the Rebis, the divine hermaphrodite, the fusion of male and female into an alchemical creature of perfect power and knowledge. And I can *** ride it, Alucard. I create it. I bind it. I own it. I will find my love. I will command the Infinite Corridor. I will have complete access to a million different worlds. Like God.
- -Greta: We can't stay here. The fight is downstairs. (She and Alucard leave to aid the villagers to stop incoming attack)
- – Saint Germain: I once observed to Sypha Belnades that God had quite gone out of fashion. God is now standing right in front of you. And soon, very, very, soon... he's going to have sex again.
- – Zamfir: You are not the apocalypse. You are just a man. And my people will survive you.
- – Ratko: I am *** immortal.
- – Trevor: Nobody is immortal
- – Ratko: *** your lies!
- – Varney: Varney of London. Your conspirator and benefactor. I have come to personally supervise this... this..
- – Saint Germain: "This?"
- – Varney: Well, I was... Actually, I was looking for a really big word. You seem clever and it's important that you know that I'm clever too.
- – Saint Germain: Sir, I am certain your wit is as suave as your unique personal stench.
- – Varney: Suave? Oh, suave. Well that's a short word, isn't it? I mean, I appreciate that.
- – Saint Germain: How about "epochal event"?
- – Varney: Huh?
- – Saint Germain: Well, suit yourself.
- – Sypha: If we're going to go, we're going to have to go now. Ready?
- – Trevor: Hell, no. But when that's ever stopped us?
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