- Beth's Editor is murdered and Mick and Beth pursue leads on the killer. Mick and Beth struggle to make decisions about their relationship and now that Mick is Mortal. Mick faces an agonizing decision regarding the price of Mortality.
- Mick starts to enjoy life as mortal, he and Beth spend a day at the beach. Beth's editor is murdered, and she may have been in contact with a vampire before her death. As they check out suspects, Mick begins to realize how limited he is by his current condition. When the culprit captures Beth, Mick realizes he cannot face him as a human and must make a difficult decision. Beth realizes the true barrier between her and Mick.—Jesse Sanchez
- It's been six days, eight hours, and 42 minutes since Mick took the cure. He's been sleeping in a bed for the first time in 55 years, waking in the morning with the sunlight streaming through his windows, brushing his teeth while looking in a mirror, drinking orange juice and coffee for breakfast, eating junk food for lunch, and going for long walks on the beach with his shirt open. Carpe diem is his new motto. Seize the day. Today it's a picnic on the beach with Beth. Beth has packed a lunch and, for the first time, apologizes to Mick for asking him to turn Josh. He wouldn't have liked being a vampire anyway, she confides. Mick asks why she's no longer wearing Josh's ring, and Beth admits him that she wouldn't have been able to marry Josh due to the fact that there is someone else in her life...and he'd better make up his mind what he's going to do about it, she adds. Mick just nods and smiles.
Josef agrees with Beth when Mick stops by his still-in-shambles-but-undergoing-remodeling penthouse. Josef reminds Mick that the cure is temporary, so he should make his move now before the opportunity passes. "It's not Beth you're afraid of hurting," Josef says insightfully, "it's you." As Josef and Mick talk, Beth returns home. Almost immediately, she receives a phone call from Maureen Williams, her boss, ordering her to come down to BuzzWire within the next 20 minutes. It seems Maureen has gotten a hot lead on a story. Tired and reluctantly, Beth heads down to the office only to find, when she gets there, that Maureen has been murdered, shot through the forehead, and the office torn apart. Help arrives in the person of the new District Attorney, Benjamin Talbot Eric Winter, followed shortly thereafter by Mick St John. When introduced to each other, Ben admits to having heard some not so nice things about Mick. Not a good foot to step out on.
When Beth notices that Maureen's computer is missing and speculates that the killer may have taken it, she and Mick head for Maureen's apartment where Beth says Maureen always keeps a backup. First, however, they stop at the morgue and learn from Guillermo that Maureen may have been killed by a vampire. Of course, not being a vampire anymore, Mick can't smell it, but Guillermo assures him that she was definitely near a vampire just before she died. Searching Maureen's apartment for her USB drive turns it up in the last place anyone would suspect to look...Maureen's box of tampons. After Logan succeeds in opening the encrypted files, Beth finds three stories of interest. One concerns the heart attack death of Jill Button, spokesmodel for the Donut Diet. A second case involves an email Maureen received from someone named Luis Perez claiming that the death of the wife of mayoral candidate Kent Morrow in a car accident three years ago was no an accident. The third case involves some sort of charity scam leading to the investigation of boardmember Josef Kostan.
First, they check out Josef. Josef admits to talking with Maureen earlier in the week and being surprised when she informed him that the charity was bogus, but he shows them an upcoming appointment with Maureen and plans to reimburse the scammed individuals. Why would I go through all this trouble if all I had to do was kill her, Josef reasons. The only person Josef admits to killing this week was his publicity agent, the one responsible for setting up the scam. His body is buried in the La Brea Tar Pits.
While Logan searches for the whereabouts of the informant Luis Perez and Beth follows up on the Donut Diet, Mick drops in on a press conference where Kent Morrow is speaking. When he attempts to interview Morrow regarding the death of his wife, Morrow's campaign manager intervenes and sends Mick packing. The only one with any civility towards Mick is Morrow's 15-year old daughter Bonnie, and she's not talking either. Meanwhile Beth has spoken with Dee Dee Dwight, the owner of Diet Donuts, who assures Beth that her donuts are perfectly safe. When Beth points out that Dee Dee is trying to sell her company for a cool $50 million dollars and suggests that the death of her spokesmodel might lead the buyers to think her donuts are killing people, Dee Dee ends the interview and suggests that Beth talk to her lawyer. On her way out, Beth is invited to take with her a box of donuts.
When they regroup in Logan's basement, Beth takes a bite of one of the donuts and tosses it back in the box. When Mick sees the donuts, he grabs one and swallows it ravenously. "How long has it been since you've had a donut?" Beth asks him. "Fifty-two years," he replies. "Two words," says Beth, "Krispy Kream." As tasty or untasty as the donuts might be, Logan shows them reports that show the ingredients to be, as Dee Dee claimed, perfectly safe. Logan also shows them the police report of the car accident in which Morrow's wife was killed. She was driving, hit another car head on, and both drivers were killed. The autopsy report showed there was no alcohol or drugs in her body. Luis Perez, however, is still not able to be located. While Logan tries to trace Perez's IP address, Mick and Beth head to the morgue to see Jill Button's body. Mick notices some surgical scars on Jill's arms and Beth recognizes them as liposuction scars. Guillermo thinks it's odd that the scars were not mentioned in the coroner's report.
When Mick gets a call from Logan giving him the address in Burbank where he traced Luis Perez, Mick and Beth split up again, Mick heading over to Burbank and Beth going in search of a copy of the coroner's report. As she is leaving the morgue, Beth runs into Ben Talbot. Ben informs her that he's learned that she and Mick are snooping and warns her that she's in danger of tainting evidence, so Beth agrees to take him to Mick so that they can talk. Meanwhile, Mick goes knocking on Perez's front door only to see him slip out the back door. After a bit of a chase (I'm going to have to cut back on those hotdogs and donuts, Mick thinks to himself), Perez reveals that he thought Mick might be from the Immigration Department. Mick asks him about his connection to Kent Morrow, and Perez tells him that he was the valet the night Mrs Morrow died. It wasn't Mrs Morrow who drove off in the car, it was Kent Morrow, and he was drunk. When Mick asks Perez why he waited until now to contact BuzzWire, Perez denies ever contacting Buzzwire.
Mick has Logan put a trace on Perez's computer and finds that the configuration does not match that of the message sent to Maureen, meaning that someone tried to make the message look like it was coming from Luis Perez. Checking further, Logan traces it to Morrow's campaign headquarters, but both Morrow and his campaign manager deny sending the email to Maureen. When Beth and Ben show up at Morrow's HQ, Beth informs Mick that they're going to have a hard time making a case against Morrow. Suddenly, Bonnie Morrow jumps out of her chair and runs out on to the roof. As she stands at the edge, about to leap some 20 stories down, she confesses that it was she who sent the email. Unable to live any longer with the knowledge that her father was the one driving and that he's been covering up his own crime by blaming it on her mother, Bonnie steps out over the edge. Fortunately, Mick is able to grab her and pull her back onto the roof.
So it wasn't Josef and it wasn't Morrow. That leaves the donut queen, Mick concludes. Beth is able to pull the information from Ben that the coroner was paid off by Jill Button's plastic surgeon, Dr Pierce Anders, to not mention the scars in his report. Ben also informs them that several of Anders' patients wound up hospitalized following their surgeries for unexplained blood loss. Mick and Beth agree to meet with Ben the next morning and pay a visit to Anders together. On the way out of the building, Mick asks Beth if she'd like to come to his place for dinner tomorrow night. "I figured out how to work the oven," he admits, and Beth agrees, a big smile on her face.
The next morning, the three of them -- Beth, Mick and Ben -- pay a visit to Pierce Anders in his office. Anders tells them that Jill had no problems following her surgery and appears to be forthcoming until Ben asks to see Jill's medical file. Anders refuses on ground of patient confidentiality, and Ben threatens to get a warrant. Suddenly, Anders vamps out, tosses Ben and Beth across the room, and goes for Mick. Mick draws his gun but Anders bats it across the floor. In his human form, Mick is no match for a vampire, and he is quickly knocked out. Beth picks up the gun and fires three shots at Anders. He grabs her, licks her face, and comments, "Type AO negative. Tasty."
When Mick becomes conscious two hours later, he has a large piece of glass embedded in his thigh, and Beth, Ben, and Anders are gone. He gets Guillermo to remove the glass and sew up the wound. Guillermo tells him that he did some checking on Anders and discovered that his plastic surgery practice is a front for his real business...selling blood to vamps looking for rare blood types. He siphons off a few pints from a patient, and no one knows the difference. Mick realizes that Beth has a rare blood type and forces Guillermo to tell him where he can find Anders. Then he goes home and starts packing up all his vampire killing equipment. Suddenly, Josef appears. He reveals that Guillermo called him and said that Mick was about to do something stupid. When Mick says that he can take care of himself, Josef vamps out and tosses Mick against a wall, pinning him there. Mick realizes that he can't fight Anders as a human, so he makes Josef turn him back into a vamp. Then the two of them head for Anders' office. Beth and Ben are blindfolded and tied together back-to-back on the floor in Anders' office when Mick and Josef break in. First they take out Anders' two henchmen, then Mick breaks Anders' neck when he tries to escape. When Ben, still blindfolded, asks what's going on, Josef says simply, "We're saving your ass," and leads Ben from the room.
Later that evening, Mick honors his invitation to cook dinner for Beth, although he can no longer eat it with her. As they picnic on the roof of Mick's apartment building, Beth apologizes for Mick having to be turned back into a vampire in order to save her. Mick assures her that he has no regrets. Unfortunately, we're back to where we started, Beth points out. "You're a vampire, and I'm human." For a human to get involved with a vampire is dangerous, she admits, but charges Mick with being afraid for himself, not for her. When Beth starts to walk away, Mick suddenly grabs her arm, whirls her into his arms, and they share a long, passionate kiss. Mick asks for a chance to figure it out. "Just don't take too long," Beth says as she slips away from him. "You may have forever, but I don't." [Full Synopsis by BJ Kuehl]
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