#Fet the strain upgrade#

The big guy’s being a major brat now that Dutch’s girlfriend Nikki’s turned up at their apartment in Gowanus, putting a serious crimp in Mr. Vasiliy’s lecture might have stung with truth, but even Eph knows to take his outbursts with a grain of salt right now. Fet puts the screws to our soused, would-be hero about not being there for his son, and by episode’s end, he’s vowed to take Palmer’s life. Barnes and assassin Leavitt), witness a friend and lover get shot, and barely escape alive, Eph comes back to the news that Kelly’s crept even closer to Zach. After returning from D.C., where he managed to murder two Stoneheart associates (the late Dr.

Outside of sporting chromed domes, Eph and Quinlan wouldn’t appear to have much in common, but they’re equally focused on single-handedly slaying a choice nemesis.

Although after Fet and Abe’s little stunt in Throggs Neck, he warns that he’ll be going on his quest alone from here forward. Even luckier for our protagonists, Quinlan would rather ally with the individuals who weakened his foe than feast on their blood. Fortunately for us, The Strain is far less concerned with how its characters internalize tragedy than the ways in which they right perceived wrongs. And according to Abe’s ancient texts, he’s even been acknowledged as simply “the born.” (Sadly, Metta World Peace was taken.) Whatever the exact nature of his DNA, Quinlan’s got some serious childhood trauma. One wonders, though: Who was Quinlan’s mom? Thanks to his Roman Senator Sertorius - whom we encounter during an opening flashback to Quinlan’s time as the “barbarian gladiator,” which was preceded by a spell as “the night demon of Sicily” - it’s clarified that Quinlan was born of half-human, half-vamp genes. 2), but Fet’s bomb detonates, sending the Master and Eichhorst scurrying for cover and to gather reinforcements. (The Master, we learn, has a history of taunting his pursuer.) Quinlan comes roaring after the creature we now assume is his father (the line about having chased him all his life was clue No. Quinlan’s got an alternative, more direct way of handling things, and as soon as the Master taunts him by declaring, “I’ll make you scream out in agony like I did your mother,” it is on. He and Abe hope the resulting blast will force the Master’s eviction from his fertile breeding ground. Fet’s in another part of the building planting dynamite. It’s a confrontation of good and evil, man and other, fate and determination. (We will miss you, Robert Maillet.)Īt the Throggs Neck warehouse that’s currently doubling as a feeler nursery, the Master and Eichhorst find themselves staring down Setrakian and Quinlan several yards away.

#Fet the strain upgrade#

Either way, the Master 2.0 looks pretty badass, so it’s an upgrade for both him and the host. Although it’d suffice perfectly fine if Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan kept Bolivar around purely to achieve the aforementioned satire. During a showdown with Quinlan, the newly rejuvenated lord of darkness explains that he selected Gabe on account of his loyalty. That would be the show’s ostensible Marilyn Manson stand-in, Bolivar, whom the Master has selected as his latest vessel. A long-standing cultural paranoia has come to pass amid The Strain’s strigoi siege: A popular goth-rocker is, in fact, an evil demon seeking to insidiously infect the minds and hearts of his followers.