Season 2 begins with a flashback to the night the Bishop and his cronies raided the Tepes household, interpreting Lisa's medical equipment as "witchcraft" and her anguished warnings of what her husband might do as threats. Back in the present, Dracula's assembled his war council, mostly consisting of vampires but headed by two human forgemasters named Hector and Isaac, to the disgust of a Viking vampire named Godbrand (and presumably every other vampire in attendance). The vampire formerly known as Mr. Tepes trusts the misanthropic humans on the basis that their grudge with humanity is more personal, compared to the way vampires merely see them as livestock.
Meanwhile, back in Gresit, Sypha sees off the rest of the Speakers as she and Trevor plan their next move. Alucard sits in the ruins of the Speakers' house, and broods over having to resort to patricide to fulfil his mother's last wishes.
Back at the Castle of Doom HQ, Godbrand chats with Hector about his concerns over how disordered the war they're prosecuting seems to be, as Dracula prepares to move the castle to a more strategic location.
Tropes for this episode include:
- Call-Back: The old lady Lisa is attending when the Bishop comes is the same one that brought flowers to her burned out home back in the first episode.
- Clarke's Third Law: In spite of Lisa's attempts to explain that what she does is science, the Bishop thinks her medical equipment is "Satan's tools".
- Comically Inept Healing: The previous healer in Lisa's village was apparently found of a mixture of various herbs and dried foot skin. Lisa expresses amazement that anyone in the village is still alive.
- Comically Missing the Point: Hector tells Godbrand he's never met anything he didn't instantly kill, fuck or turned into a boat. Godbrand complains that, as a Viking, he's supposed to make boats out of things.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Lisa's pleading and attempts to warn the Bishop that harming her will bring about Dracula's wrath are taken as threats.
- Dumbass Has a Point: While Godbrand is a simple man, he brings up a good point about how Dracula's war on humanity is a Missing Steps Plan with no clear end-goal. He also points out the obvious that despite Dracula calling in his Council of Vampires for a war against humanity, Dracula seems to trust the only two humans in his court more than any of the vampires there.
- Even Evil Has Standards: While Hector has no lost love for the millions of humans that will die in the war, he admits that he doesn't have the stomach for the endless suffering and bloodshed it would cause, prefering the "cull" was quicker and painless.
- Hypocritical Humor: Godbrand doesn't see humans as anything more than "livestock", but when Isaac derides him for being a bloodthirsty vampire, Godbrand calls him a bigot.
- I Take Offence to That Last One: Godbrand doesn't even blink about being accused of wanting to fight or fuck everything, but he sees taking a shot at his building boats as bigotry against vikings.
- Necromancer: Hector's power as Forgemaster involves raising the dead.
- Put on a Bus: The Speakers go on their own path, separate from Sypha's.
- Reforged into a Minion: As per the game they came from, Hector and Isaac have the job of doing this from the corpses of the various victims of Dracula's raids.
- Schizo Tech: Lisa's laboratory has hand-written books along with a mechanical centrifuge that wouldn't look too much out of place in a modern lab.
- That Came Out Wrong: Lisa tried to defend her medical sciences by saying they "[have] nothing to do with their God". Unfortunately, the Bishop noticed that she said "their God", which makes him even more suspicious that she is a follower of Satan, rather than that her work has nothing to do with religion.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The "wise woman" who was fond of using foot skin as medicine. By accusing Lisa of witchcraft for putting her out of business, she caused Lisa's death, which brought down Dracula's wrath on the country.
- When Things Spin, Science Happens: Since it's the first time anyone in the church have discovered and heard of marvels beyond their understanding, it doesn't take much to mistake them for witchcraft.
- You Are Not Alone: Subversion Played for Laughs. When Sypha mentions that, with the other Speakers gone, she is now alone, she waits for a moment before looking at Trevor and pointing out he's supposed to say this trope. Trevor tries, but not too successfully.
