- Deputy Marcus Jordan braves chief Nick Monohan's opposition to investigating where his missing dance date Teresa went. Marcus even works out her true Chicago identity and identity and motive to come after the chief. Vampire Dylan Radcliff killed her to save the chief, hid the corpse and demands collaboration to cover up. While Charlie recovers from alleged 'kisisng disease', lover Andie Bates hesitates to handle her succubus heritage as her 'normal' father implores. Frank Buckley hosts in his mansion the chief's festive installation, but his own secrets aren't safe even in his safe for ex Devon.—KGF Vissers
- No sooner is Nick assailed with the revelation that vampires exist and are living inside The Gates, than he finds himself forced into an alliance with one. To complicate matters, Marcus begins an investigation into Teresa's disappearance, bringing him dangerously close to uncovering the secret that Dylan and Nick share. Devon is brewing up some trouble of her own when she decides to let bygones be bygones and attend a party with her ex-husband and his new wife. Meanwhile, Andie is reeling from a recent discovery that threatens to stunt her budding relationship with Charlie. Unfazed and enamored, Charlie continues to pursue her, oblivious to the mortal danger he may face.—ABC Publicity
- "The Gates" - "Repercussions" - July 25, 2010
There's several thing-a-brewing in the Gates since the Chief discovered that Dylan was a vampire.
After disposing of the body, Dylan meets Nick at a diner and tries to convince him that he has no intention of hurting his family and so Nick needs to keep his big mouth shut. His own family is happy in the Gates, says Dylan, and he wants it to remain that way. Nick, needless to say, is freaked out. (Not so freaked out that he ever asks how it is Dylan and his family walk around in daylight.) He's worried Dylan will hurt his family, his cover-up of Theresa' s death will be uncovered, and the fact that there are, you know, vampires. In one of the series' funniest ever visuals, Nick sits down at his desk and Googles "How to kill a vampire."
Compounding Nick's problems is the fact that Marcus is worried that Theresa is missing and starts to launch an investigation, one that includes questioning Dylan about his whereabouts that night since his was the only car to leave the Gates. Luckily, Dylan fashioned an alibi.
Marcus' investigation uncovers the fact that Theresa is the sister of the man Nick shot. So instead of being suspicious of Nick, Marcus becomes contrite because he feels like it's his fault that Theresa got close to the chief and was clearly planning on hurting him. Nick tells him he's a good cop and not to worry about it since Theresa obviously got cold feet. (Lying six feet under, boy did she ever).
After one scary vampiric threat and one vampiric show of trust, plus with the knowledge that his wife and kids like the Gates, Nick decides to form an uneasy alliance with Dylan and stay as Chief of police of the Gates.
He makes this decision right before his big coming out party hosted by Gates muckety muck Frank Buckley. He's thrown the swanky soiree to introduce Nick to the community.
That safe is of great interest to Frank's ex-wife Devon. After burying the hatchet with Frank's new wife Vanessa- or at least appearing to- Devon gets an invite to the party.While at the party, she slips upstairs to Frank's bedroom and figures out the code to open his safe. She pulls out a DVD case labelled with her name, swaps out the DVD inside, and puts it back in the safe on top of what appears to be a stack of DVDs. During the party when Clair sees Devon she asks Vanessa why she's there. Vanessa, who was the other woman in Frank and Devon's divorce, claims that all is hunky dory now. Perhaps not says Clair, as she points out that Devon has just come down from Frank and Vanessa's bedroom and moments later Frank emerges. Vanessa is not happy.
Meanwhile, Claire is not happy because that busybody Barbara who saw Clair and Christian at a bar outside the Gates keeps making smiley, veiled threats to Claire. Claire calls Christian to ask for help and then decides she's going to take care of it herself instead, perhaps emboldened by Dylan's admission that he killed Theresa, his first kill in 8 years. (Dylan is freaked because apparently there are steep consequences for killing inside the Gates: death for him and banishment for Clair and Emily. Claire says they will make sure no one finds out).
In the night's final storyline Andie is predictably freaked out by the news that she's a succubus. (She too Googles succubus and is not thrilled with what she discovers). Dr. Peg tells her not to worry, however, because she's whipping up a mineral concoction that will regulate Andie's life force energy so she won't have to go sucking it out of other people, like Charlie. Andie asks her dad about his life with her mom and how they made it work. He says they exercised a lot of control and he was sick a lot. When Charlie comes to visit Andie the night of his dad's party she exercises self-control by giving him just one quick peck and sending him on his way. No doubt her dad would be relieved since he reveals to Dr. Peg that Andie's mom didn't die in a car crash after all. One night they were getting it on and it got out of hand, Andie's mom couldn't curb her succubus ways and he had to kill her.
At the party Nick talks about police being only one part of the safety puzzle and that good neighbors make a safer community.
As the episode wraps up, we see Devon at home viewing the DVD she swapped out. Apparently she liked to get frisky with a former Gates cop. She destroys the DVD. Apparently the DVDs in Buckley's safe are incriminating videos.
We see Buckley in his bedroom viewing monitor cam video showing Theresa threatening Nick and Dylan killing her vamp style. He labels it Dylan + Nick and puts it in his safe on top of the stack of DVDs we saw when Devon had gotten into the safe. The DVDs that we can see in a brief shot are labelled: Dylan + Nick; Devon; Claire Radcliff; Marcus Jordan; Simon Ford; Lukas Ford; Barbara Jansen; Brett Crezski; Leigh Turner; S. Crisp; Z. Ross; M. Schoewe; K. Lingenfelter.
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