In the next episode a convicted killer, Lee Jay Spalding (Josh Wingate), has his conviction overturned and is released from prison. Spalding served 25 years for murdering his girlfriend and staging it to look like a suicide. Mick had helped the police prove that the suicide was staged. When Mick captured Spalding, Spalding learned that Mick was a vampire. Spalding then spends his sentence reading books on vampire lore as part of a plan to kill Mick when he gets out. Spalding's release is highly publicized with the publication of a book written by Beth's friend Julia Stephens (Lisa Sheridan). The book chronologs Spalding's version of what happened, thus casting Spalding as a good guy and Mick as a bad guy. To draw out Mick, Spalding kidnaps Julia. When Mick and Beth go to rescue Julia, Spalding shoots Mick in the back with silver buckshot. At the end of the episode, Beth learns that Mick is a vampire.
My thoughts about the show have not changed. The vampire lore has been overly tweaked. In the second episode Mick is shot with silver buckshot — isn't silver harmful to werewolves, not vampires? The look is too bright and hip to properly capture the style they are striving for (they really need the sax music). The show's creators need to study the style of the ill-fated NBC drama Raines. For a guy with detective skills and vampire abilities, Mick relies a lot on modern technology. There is a scene in the second episode where Mick sticks a GPS tracker on Julia's car. Most mortal private investigators prefer to trust their instincts over technology. Again, the premise has been done before, only better.
To quote Josef Konstantin: "Vampire experts, beautiful. Now we got the food mouthing off about the farmer."
Stay tuned.
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