Dorian and Lily rescue a girl named Justine from a torture house. Rusk refuses to hand the matter of Ethan's execution to the Americans due to his snatching. Vanessa begins her regular sessions with Dr. Seward; Renfield begins gathering information for his new master. Jekyll shows Frankenstein his lab. They agree to test on a subject before attempting anything on Lily. Sir Malcolm and Kaetenay embark on a ship to the American West to rescue Ethan. After a session, Vanessa attends a lecture given by Dr. Sweet and later invites him accompany her for a night out. Lily promises Justine that she will have revenge against those who hurt her. Frankenstein and Jekyll test Jekyll's formula on their subject, which appears successful. Ethan transforms and murders his escorts with the help of Hecate. Frankenstein has a tender moment with Lily, who advises him not to see her again. Renfield visits his master's lair with the information; Dr. Sweet is revealed to be Count Dracula.
Tropes :
- Absent-Minded Professor: Dr. Sweet certainly appears this way, when he claims to have once again forgotten Vanessa's name.
- All Therapists Are Muggles: Subverted. The audience believes Vanessa may spin her past trauma into something that she thinks Doctor Seward will actually believe. Instead, she confesses her entire story.
- Asshole Victim: Dorian and Lily make short work of the snuff show attendants.
- Badass Boast: Jekyll's claim that the patients of Bedlam never see the light, "They only see me."
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Dorian and Lilly at the torture house.
- Bedlam House: Dr. Henry Jekyll works as a resident at the Trope Namer, Bethlem Royal Hospital.
- Big Damn Heroes: The massacre at the snuff show could be construed this way, at least for Justine.
- Blunt "Yes": Kaetenay's response to Malcolm's question "Do all your people speak so enigmatically?"
- Broken Record: Renfield starts doing this as part of his Sanity Slippage. It thoroughly creeps Vanessa out.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Dr. Seward's immediate reaction after hearing Vanessa's story. She breaks down in tears after Vanessa leaves.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Dorian proves he is far more capable in a fight than his Upper-Class Twit veneer would suggest. In fact he is damn near as good a shot as Ethan, and kills a number of men in a matter of seconds, all with headshots.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Two examples:
- The wealthy snuff show patrons barely even have time to plead for their lives as Dorian and Lily slaughter them.
- The bar patrons don't even realize Ethan's killing them all until he's ripped nearly all their throats out.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Renfield sucking blood out of Dracula's wrist at crotch level, Dracula tilting his head back... You see where this is going.
- Death Glare: When the greeter at the torture house specifies just how far his establishment goes with their "program", Lily visibly has to restrain herself from killing him on the spot. Instead she stays patient for a bit more, but the sheer hatred in her eyes doesn't fade away until she gets to smash everyone in this place to bits.
- Driven to Madness: Jekyll implies that Mr. Balfour was not originally insane when admitted to Bedlam, but his treatment and imprisonment have destroyed his mind and left him a raving lunatic. Considering the conditions of Bedlam, it's not hard to see why. Seems to be happening to Renfield as well.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Justine, Lily's new, well, foster daughter, gives away this vibe.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Hecate is quite turned on by the Wolfman, and lovingly tells him how she's missed him (after watching him slaughter an entire bar full of people).
- Internal Reveal: Two examples:
- Vanessa tells her entire story to Dr. Seward.
- Victor reveals to Jekyll that he murdered Brona.
- It's Not You, It's Me: Dr. Sweet implies it when he has to sadly turn down Vanessa's offer to have coffee following the show. However, he adds that he had a great time, and looks forward to their next date.
- Jekyll & Hyde: The Trope Namer demonstrates a version of his new formula on a mental patient, Mr. Balfour. However, it has the exact opposite effect of the usual trope, as it transforms him from a scurvy-ridden, jaundiced, raving lunatic, to a polite and healthy-but-dehydrated Scotsman.
- Loving a Shadow: Lily calls Victor out on this, telling him his happy memories of her are nothing but delusions, as she was never happy with him, and he doesn't really know her. However, her words fall on deaf ears.
- Mad Scientist Laboratory: Jekyll has a multi story one, built from an unused boiler room in Bedlam. It comes complete with frothing chemicals, a barber's chair with his own "modifications", and a large boiler furnace that looks disturbingly like a miniature crematorium.
- Mythology Gag
- "Justine" was the name of the nanny who was executed for the Monster's crimes in the original Frankestein novel. Here, she is a former prostitute rescued from a snuff show by Dorian and Lily.
- Jekyll's potion. Interestingly, while it has the exact opposite effect of the potion in the novella, it ironically has the precise effect Jekyll ultimately wanted to achieve therein. In the novella, the only reason Jekyll created the potion was to isolate the beast in man, so that he could eliminate it. Here, the potion bypasses the releasing the beast, and instead isolates the goodness.
- Pet the Dog: Lily is quite kinder to Victor than she was last time, even kissing him and asking him to move on.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Lily offers Justine a part in hers, which she immediately accepts.
- Screaming Woman: Averted. Justine refuses to make a single sound when her jailer prepares to torture her to death.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Doctor Sweet pulls one following his date with Vanessa, but she is too distracted by sensing the vampire mook following her to realize it.
- Stylistic Suck: The production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that Vanessa and Dr. Sweet attend. It is a precursor to the animated films of the 20th Century, and barely moves. The hammy narration and seeming lack of a coherent story don't help. However, Sweet and Vanessa seem enchanted by it.
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Turns out Dracula neither Looks Like Orlok as the elder elder vampires do, nor the aenemic Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette of younger vampires. Instead, he resembles a foppish, Ambiguously Brown, slender, and handsome zoologist.
- Although this could just be a ruse. The literary Dracula was able to alter his appearance at will.
- Wham Shot: When Renfield gets to drink from Dracula's wrist, Dr. Sweet's true identity is revealed.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Dr. Seward seems to have believed she was in a period version of In Treatment. Vanessa disabuses her of the idea.
