The Endings

"It's time to give this place back to the people who know how to build things. You and me, we're just killers out of history. It's time for us to go."

— Trevor Belmont

The Endings is the ninth episode of the fourth season, and the 31st episode overall, of the Netflix original series, Castlevania.

Synopsis[]

Belmont and Sypha join forces with their old friend Alucard – and not a moment too soon. As the battle rages, Varney reveals his true form.

Plot[]

Dracula's castle[]

As a horde of monsters invades Alucard's home, he stands and fights them back alongside Greta and all who would take up arms beside them. The refugees try to move to safety while others fight for their lives. Alucard and Greta have their hands full with their own adversaries until Trevor and Sypha suddenly arrive to support him.

Reunited at last, the trio stands together. Alucard explains the situation to them and acts as if he's not happy to see Trevor. Together, the three of them leap onto the battlefield and change the tide of the fighting completely. Trevor uses his new cross-knife weapon alongside the Morning Star whip. Alucard and Sypha don't miss a beat alongside him, as if they haven't spent any time apart at all.

Next, they're faced with Dragan's firebreathing monster. Sypha holds back its flames while Alucard shapeshifts into wolf form in order to flank it. Before the beast can unleash another attack, Trevor cuts off its face, and it explodes. Next, the three fighters split up and spread out through the castle to rescue as many people as possible.

With the trio present to defend them, the refugees are kept safe from the invading vampires and night creatures. Sypha deals with the monsters at the entrance while Trevor heads through corridors into several rooms saving anyone he can find and killing any enemy he encounters. Alucard does the same and encounters a viking vampire with the ability to teleport to the location of his axes. The vampire gives Alucard some trouble but eventually succumbs to his magic sword when Alucard anticipates his teleportation path.

Meanwhile, Saint Germain continues to lead the souls of the damned into the portal of the Infinite Corridor. Dragan and his group of female vampires head toward Saint Germain and Varney with the Rebis's vessel completed. Dragan is unhappy to see Saint Germain, but his group leaves to fight after completing their task. As the time approaches, Saint Germain asks Varney to help with the final steps of their plan.

Suddenly, Varney reveals that he's actually the Alchemist in disguise. Not only that but he's actually been Death portraying them both. Dracula was prepared to end all life on Earth, which would give the Death spirit infinite power. This potential was taken away from Death when Alucard killed Dracula. Because only a human can reach into Hell, Death needs Saint Germain to return Dracula to life, fusing his soul with his wife's to drive them both mad. Death's intention is to use Dracula and Lisa's maddened state within the Rebis to bring human demise on an unimaginable scale. He forces Saint Germain to open the portal into Hell, forcing Dracula and Lisa out.

Greta, Alucard, Sypha, and Trevor complete their battles and round up all the survivors. While Greta finds out how many people she lost, Alucard leads his friends upstairs to confront Saint Germain once and for all. However, the trio is confronted by Dragan and his team of necromancer vampires on their way there. They are incredibly skilled and provide far more of a challenge than any of the enemies before them. The trio eventually realizes that their matchups are not preferable in one-on-one scenarios. Alucard is nearly staked, Trevor loses his normal whip, and Sypha is caught in a restrictive magic field.

Trevor throws his cross-knife to free Sypha, allowing her to do the same for Alucard. With his enemy out of the way, Alucard teams with Trevor to finish off the final two. Dragan is forced to confront them himself and duels the trio three-on-one. Dragan proves to be exceptionally strong, lasting quite a while against all three of the monster-slaying experts. Once Dragan is slain, Trevor, Alucard, and Sypha move to confront Death and Saint Germain.

Death keeps them out of the room with a force field, and Trevor recognizes Death, whom the others initially mistake for the Grim Reaper himself. He surmises that Death was Varney acting within Dracula's court. Saint Germain initiates the horrific ritual and traps Dracula and Lisa's souls inside the Rebis vessel, much to Alucard's horror. Trevor breaks through the force field, and Saint Germain decides to go back against his decision. He places the portal between the Rebis and Death and signals Trevor to attack. Casting holy water over the cross-knife, which strikes the Rebis, successfully splitting them back up.

The explosion from the diffusion leads Trevor and Saint Germain outside. The cross-knife breaks, and a piece of it lands in Saint Germain's chest. He sees his love disappear in the Infinite Corridor before passing away. Death consumes the key he gave Saint Germain to open the Infinite Corridor, making himself far more powerful and capable of fighting. He then spits it out at Saint Germain's side, labeling him an idiot for defying him.

Trevor stands up and notices Sypha on a platform below. Knowing only one way to stop Death, Trevor prepares to sacrifice himself and says goodbye to Sypha. He professes his love for her before charging into his final battle. The last son of House Belmont decides its time for the killers to go and for new creators to take their place. Death doesn't believe Trevor can make him, but that doesn't stop the hunter from trying. The two of them engage in an epic battle where initially all appears hopeless for Trevor.

Trevor is nearly defeated, but he refuses to give up and uses the full power of the Morning Star whip to stage his counterattack. After injuring Death, he's forced to leave the whip behind and prepares the magic knife he found in the underground court, connecting all of its pieces until it activates. Before Death can recover from Trevor's previous attack, Trevor ends it all by stabbing Death in the face, seemingly sacrificing his life to the illuminating magic as it engulfs the entire castle.

Cast[]

Richard Armitage as Trevor
Alejandra Reynoso as Sypha
James Callis as Alucard
Bill Nighy as Saint Germain
Malcolm McDowell as Varney and Death
Marsha Thomason as Greta
Matthew Waterson as Dragan (no dialogue only grunt noises)
Graham McTavish as Dracula
Emily Swallow as Lisa
Christine Adams as the Alchemist

Quotes[]

(The refugees from Danesti are facing fathomless peril inside the castle. Alucard, meanwhile, is fighting a multitude of night creatures in a corridor single-handedly. He slashes his sword at a few of them, but ten more gang up on him. Just before Alucard makes his next move, he is interrupted by Trevor|Trevor's and Sypha's sudden arrival. The use of their combined abilities vanquishes the charging creatures, leaving Alucard briefly surprised before turning his attention to Trevor.)

– Trevor: Evening.

– Alucard: (smiling) As if my day wasn't going badly enough. It's Trevor Belmont.

– Sypha: You don't seem to be doing very well. What are we looking at?

– Alucard: Vampires and night creatures trying to kill a castle full of human refugees, and a madman upstairs.

(Sypha prepares to cast another elemental spell, Alucard draws his sword, and Trevor throws his fur cloak to the ground before confidently spinning his four-bladed boomerang.)

– Trevor: Shall we?

- Varney: Finally. We're nearly there.

- Saint Germain: I'll need to create a hole in that to get the container through.

- Varney: (walks past him.) No need. I have skills too. (He touches the barrier to make a hole in it.) Just a little taste.

(He opens the barrier wide enough to let the four vampires carrying the coffin containing the Rebis in the room. Saint Germain concentrates on his book and preparing the portal as the humanoid is placed on the floor in front of the glowing séance circle. The vampires pick up the coffin and leave the room.)

- Varney: Well, this is a remarkable thing.

- Saint Germain: The time approaches. Do you have the forging phrases from Hector?

- Varney: (finds the small parchment in his jacket.) Ah, Saint Germain. You have been a joy to me from the start. (He hands it to him.)

- Saint Germain: I'm delighted to hear it.

- Varney: So human. So easily led. From he moment we met face-to-face.

- Saint Germain: I don't believe we've ever met.

- Varney: (slyly smiling) Oh, we have. (He transfigures into the Alchemist Saint Germain encountered earlier in the Infinite Corridor, shocking the magician.)

- Saint Germain: (stammering) What?

- Varney: You know me. I've been with you for a while now. Guiding you. (He transfigures into his true skeletal form, revealing himself to be none other than the personification of the Grim Reaper.)

– Death: You know me. We're old friends now. (A horrified Saint Germain looks at him.) I am Death. And you people all took my treasure from me.

- Saint Germain: You. You're death. Death itself?

– Death: My treasure, you gawping little ****. Dracula was going to bring death to this world on a scale unimagined. Something I could never do. I am a spirit. A function of the world. I can't raise armies. I can't fight an entire world teeming with life and bleed it to death. But he could. And that was taken away. I am not a vampire as you understand it. Death is my meat. And you people broke him. And I can't bring him back because I'm not human. Why is it that only human hands can reach into hell? Don't you think that's weirdly **** up? I can't do it. (points at Saint Germain.) But you could. In your human greed, your human need, you could and would do anything to bring him back.

- Saint Germain: (timidly) You're insane. He will be a Rebis. Not the man you knew.

– Death: He will be a vampire with his own screaming wife trapped inside him. He will be deranged. His rage will know no bounds. There will be murder on a scale never before seen. I will feed and become the strongest creature on this earth. (He softly grabs Saint Germain's throat from behind to coerce him to finish the spell.) So do it. Finish it. It'll be fun. Or I'll kill you right here. And you'll never, ever see her again.

(Saint Germain hesitates for a second before closing his eyes and squeezing his fist. The floating key opens the portal to the underworld, absorbing energy from the slain souls on the ceiling. The portal's location is drawn to the remains of Lisa's house where she and her husband are embracing each other. They look toward the portal when they realize it's open.)

– Trevor: Nice to see you. You were saying something about a madman upstairs?

– Alucard: A little **** by the name of Saint Germain.

- Lisa: I can feel the air changing.

- Dracula: We're moving. I smell the human magic.

– Trevor: I love you.

– Sypha: Trevor. I know.

– Trevor: You'd better know. Just remember: Trefor is a terrible name.

– Trevor: Oi, Death. I want a word with you.

– Death: You know me?

– Trevor: I'm Trevor Belmont of House Belmont. Of course I know you. Finding things and recognizing things is what we do. And you are absolutely a thing.

– Death: I was put here at the dawn of life on Earth to feed on the last breath of every one of you ***. I'm a little more than a thing.

– Trevor: No. You're only a thing. You're only an old killer. You don't make anything. You don't live. You just eat and hide.

– Death: Is there a point to this? Are you dictating your *** obituary to me, Belmont?

– Trevor: It's time to give this place back to people who know how to build things. You and me, we're just killers out of history. It's time for us to go

– Death: And who's going to make me go? You, with your bit of string in your hand?

– Trevor: Probably not. But let's just give this one last go. Shall we?

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Compositing reel Castlevania s04 e09

Trivia[]

The dialogue between Trevor and Sypha before fighting Death is reminiscent of Leia and Han's in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, just before Han is frozen in carbonite.