Everyone takes a trip to the eponymous Night Market, where Nadja does some bartering, Laszlo tries to educate Colin, and Nandor accidentally ropes Guillermo into an underground familiar fighting ring.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- All for Nothing: Nadja buys off the union representative for the wraiths using a rare drug, but the other wraiths simply devour him for giving up on their demands, then keep pressuring Nadja for concessions.
- Apologetic Attacker: Guillermo during his fights with other familiars, which mostly involve him dodging their attacks.
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: The Night Market, where all supernatural creatures of all kinds congregate underground in New York City. (The real Queens Night Market is more of a craft and food fair that just happens to be held after dark.)
- Berate and Switch: Nadja is furious about the wraiths killing five nightclub patrons in a week, but becomes considerably more chill upon finding out that four of them were humans.
- Black Market: Some merchants in The Night Market sell things from under the counter.
- Blind Without 'Em: Guillermo beats one of the familiars by just taking her glasses, rendering her too blind to fight him.
- Can't Move While Being Watched: Garden Gnomes are apparently living, sentient creatures, but they freeze up anytime someone looks at them, and can only move if nobody is watching.
- Chain of Deals: Nadja makes a series of trades at the Night Market to get drugs for bribing the wraith leader. She barters one of Nandor's vases for a cup of Swedish meatballs, exchanges those for a novelty t-shirt, and finally trades the shirt for a few vials of Water Lily of the Nile.
- Continuity Nod:
- Colin is still the main point of attraction for Nadja's nightclub.
- Nadja mentions the blood sprinklers constantly getting clogged.
- Deadly Dodging: Guillermo wins the first round of the familiar fight by simply dodging his opponent, causing him to run face first into a truck and knock himself unconscious.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Valkyries are selling little meatballs and furniture with hard-to-pronounce names
. - Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The Night Market is ripe with all sorts of creatures from various fairy tales and mythology, such as fairies and valkyries.
- Funny Background Event: The garden gnomes that Laszlo points out to Child Colin come to life and run away the moment they stop looking at them.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: You can simply take a subway train to the Night Market. There are even some muggles aboard, though they're... given a reason to want to leave before it gets that far.
- Hope Spot: Nandor comes up with a solution to get Guillermo out of fighting with and publicly killing a vampire. Said solution? Fighting Guillermo himself, of course.
- I Let You Win: Before fighting Guillermo, Nandor insists this was the case for their previous fight. As we see his prowess after he picks up a sword, he wasn’t kidding.
- Kill the Ones You Love: The crowd at the fighting ring gets really excited about Nandor and Guillermo fighting, and starts chanting "Kill your friend!".
- Let's You and Him Fight: Nandor's idea to get Guillermo out of fighting and publicly killing a random vampire is to fight Guillermo himself. Predictably, it backfires.
- Living Statue: Garden gnome statues are revealed to be their own species and greatly dislike being frozen in place while being watched. They immediately hop away from Laszlo and Child Colin when the two stop looking at them.
- Mundane Object Amazement: As no one can actually agree upon the value of each other's currency with so many supernatural people who have different values coming together, they have resorted to bartering as a universally understandable system for everyone at the market to use. Nadja quickly figures out how to game the market by taking advantage of what other beings consider to be valuable, but are mere trinkets to her (and the audience).
- Oh, Crap!: Guillermo when Nandor puts him up for the familiar fights, again when he gets put up to fight with a vampire after defeating all the familiars, an especially big one when Nandor volunteers to take said vampire's place, and pretty much all throughout the fight.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Much to Colin's disgust, they look less like pretty women with insect wings living in mushrooms, and more like flying cockroaches with humanoid features, living in dumpsters and feeding off garbage.
- Meaningful Background Event: While Laszlo berates Colin over his love for the fairy-tale books, Nadja comes in, checks out a random book on a shelf behind them, and leaves. As it turns out later in the episode, said book contained important information about a drug that she buys at the Night Market and uses for her negotiations with the wraith employees of her nightclub.
- Nonchalant Dodge: Guillermo, all while trying to convince the other familiars to talk it out instead of fighting him. He only starts actually fighting in his final fight with Nandor.
- Refuge in Audacity: When Guillermo gets anxious over going to the Night Market as a human, Nandor tells him to simply tell people he's an orc, should any problems arise. Guillermo is upset at what this says about his looks, especially when it actually works.
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Laszlo's reaction to Child Colin reading a fairytale book. He immediately proceeds to show Colin the nitty-gritty reality of the creatures from said books.
