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What the Night Brings is the eighth episode of the third season, and the 20th episode overall, of Netflix's original series, Castlevania.
Synopsis[]
- Something is alive in the priory's basement, and for Belmont and Sypha, time is of the essence. Lenore opens up to Hector about Carmilla’s plans.
Plot[]
Carmilla's Castle[]
Striga is redrawing her battle plans when Morana walks in. She's concerned with the human's abilities to regain control. Morana, on the other hand, doesn't believe that's possible. She begs her lover to come back to bed by soothing Striga's worries. Carmilla walks in on them and they talk about their new strategy.
Hector is reading a book when Lenore walks into his cell. He notices Lenore's ring. It's a sign of loyalty to each other; each member of the Council of Sisters wears one. The ring's black and the red features represent the night and the blood, symbols that bind the sisters together.
Hector is fascinated with the book –vampire philosophy– that's he's reading. He realizes that there's more depth to vampire culture than he initially thought. The book contains ideas about the physical presence in the world, like the importance of soil and landscape and being.
The forgemaster's enthusiasm leads Lenore to set her plan in motion. With lust in her eyes, Lenore asks Hector to leave with her if he wants to be with her.
Belmont Hold[]
Sumi and Taka get themselves ready for another day of training. Even though they are grateful that Alucard is helping them, they suspect that he's holding things back.
Lindenfeld[]
Saint Germain can't believe his eyes. Right in front of him, a night creature. At first, it seemed to be unconscious, but suddenly it began to move. Fearing for his life, the aristocrat runs upstairs and right into Sala and his men. Thinking on his feet, Saint Germain comes with an elaborate story about contamination and doors opening to Hell. Even so, Sala doesn't heed his warning.
Trevor is interrogating the captured monk. However, the monk isn't revealing anything useful. Even so, he divulges that the monks go to other towns each day, spreading the word. It's their Visitor's plan. While the Judge believes that the night creature has driven the monks, Sypha thinks otherwise. The members of the monastery might be the victims.
Saint Germain walks in and reveals that the monks have a night creature in the basement. Before they can continue talking, Trevor knocks the scarred monk out cold. While Sala and the monks have a clear goal in mind, Saint Germain excitedly blurts out that the clergyman has the means and information to create something much greater, the Rebis. A missed opportunity to complete alchemy itself.
They come with a plan to fight the mad monks and get rid of the night creature. Not only that, but Trevor and Sypha will also help Saint Germain to open the Infinite Corridor.
Meanwhile, Sala and his followers are pleading to the night creature and his forgemaster, Isaac. It seems the clergyman is aware that a battle will occur at sundown.
It's time. Trevor, Sypha, Saint Germain, and the Judge with his men-at-arms are heading to the monastery. Simultaneously, the monks and the night creature are getting ready for battle.
Dracula's Castle[]
Sumi and Taka get the feeling that Alucard is hiding something from them. Taka can't hold it any longer and confronts Alucard. There are parts of the castle that Alucard avoids showing the duo, and they want to know why. The young dhampir tries to ease their minds by telling them that they have plenty of time together to explore the castle. Instead of pressing on, the vampire hunters agree and head toward the kitchen.
Cast[]
- Ivana Milicevic as Striga
- Yasmine Al Massri as Morana
- Jaime Murray as Carmilla
- Toru Uchikado as Taka
- Rila Fukushima as Sumi
- Bill Nighy as Saint Germain
- Navid Negahban as Sala
- Richard Armitage as Trevor
- Jason Isaacs as Judge
- Alejandra Reynoso as Sypha
- James Callis as Alucard
- Theo James as Hector
- Jessica Brown Findlay as Lenore
Quotes[]
- – Carmilla: Can you not keep it down?! I can hear you through several walls and three snoring boys.
- – Morana: I do not want to know.
- – Carmilla: What are you doing in the middle of the bloody day?
- – Morana: Making you scheme work.
- – Carmilla: You don't have to "make" it work. It was bloody genius.
- – Striga: Good morning. I'm going to bed.
(Sumi and Taka exit the library inside the Belmont Hold by raising the wooden platform to the top of the pit. Sumi ties the rope to a couple of chains.)
- - Taka: (gets up) He's holding things back from us, you know.
- - Sumi: He's lonely. He wants us to stay.
- - Taka: (walks off the platform with Sumi toward the forest.) Well, he did kill his father. And the people who helped him left.
- - Sumi: It's just him in a dead castle guarding a ruined house.
- - Taka: It doesn't seem fair, does it? He rid the world of Dracula, and this is his reward. (kicks a pebble.)
- - Sumi: I think that he thinks he deserves it.
- - Taka: The loneliness?
- - Sumi: He killed his own father. He wants to be punished for it.
- - Taka: Even though he had no choice. It seems that he probably killed Cho, too. At the very least, Cho died as a result of his attack on Dracula.
- - Sumi: Now home is more unprotected than ever. But he has so many wonderful things. He can do so much for us. Give us a future.
- - Taka: (sorrowfully picks a white flower) But he stays here because it's as close to death as he can manage without killing himself.
- - Sumi: We should do something for him. Give him a reward.
- - Taka: (looks at his sister.) Can it be after I've had a nap? I've read so much, my brain hurts. (They keep walking.)
- - Sumi: (scoffs) So lazy.
- - Taka: (lightheartedly) I'm not lazy. I conserve my resources for important efforts.
- - Sumi: Like eating?
- - Taka: God, did we miss lunch? Maybe Alucard can make lunch again. And dinner.
- - Sumi: One more dinner?
- - Taka: Well, sooner or later, I'll have to start preparing my own food again.
- - Sumi: (smiles) And meals taste better when someone else makes them.
- - Taka: (picks a few petals off the flowers.) That's what I always say. (He and Sumi approach the castle's front doors and go inside.)
- - Sumi: I know. All right, then. Lunch and dinner, and we'll see what the night brings.
- – Sypha: (whispers to Saint Germain He saw a man try to kick a cat once, and he broke the man's leg in three places!
- – Trevor: Well, you don't do that to cats, do you?
- – Sypha: Three places. I heard three cracks. (St. Germain gazes at his glowing multi-colored gem.)
- – Trevor: Poor bloody cat wasn't hurting anyone. Cats just want to get on with their lives.
- – Alucard: My father was an accomplished magician. He held enough power within himself that he felt magically enhanced weapons to be unnecessary. He preferred physical things to be themselves.
- – Lenore: Good book?
- – Hector: I didn't notice that ring before.
- – Lenore: Really? We all wear them.
- – Hector: All?
- – Lenore: The four of us. Carmilla, Morana, Striga, and I.
- – Hector: I'm presuming there's some disturbing reason for that and I will regret asking.
- – Lenore: (scoffs) Silly. Look. The black and the red. The night and the blood. These are the things that bind us together. The rings are a sign of loyalty to each other.
- – Judge: God is no longer in that house.
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