Eichorst’s Plan Of Revenge
Last week, the good guys got a much-needed victory in the killing of The Master. Of course, with one steps forward, two steps back. We knew that the bad guys would have to strike back, and strike back hard. Even though they were technically leaderless, that didn’t mean they didn’t have a great backup. Eichorst rounds up a few Strigoi and enacts a plan to get revenge and also spread terror. What better way to spear terror than to commit a terrorist attack?
He gets the Strigoi to allow him to plant C4 in their bodies and then willingly blow themselves up in the proximity of the police and security forces. Instead of the bomb being used to primarily kill the people, they use the Strigoi blood as shrapnel. Of course, Strigoi blood is bad for humans. One drop is infected with worms that will turn humans into Strigoi. So if the blood is scattered in all directions in an enclosed environment, they would not only have more for their army, but it would demoralize their enemy.
Given our current political climate, it’s always a weird “art-meets-reality type of thing when the bad guys on screen behave like the bad guys. They literally took an idea we see on the headlines from the War on Terror and placed it on the show. Given the show’s setting in New York and constant references to September 11th, it gives the show a sense of danger and realism that one would not expect from a show about vampires.
