‘The Strain’ Recap: S3E5 ‘Madness’

The Occido Lumen Reveals More Strigoi Secrets

As previously stated, Setrakian and Quinlan spend much of the episode doing homework. While it doesn’t look great visually, it does move the story forward. Not only does it reveal that most of the people who fight against the Strigoi go “mad” (hence the title of the episode) in their quests, but it gives the key to defeating them.

The two learn that at one time, one of the ancients was defeated. But how? Even after scouring through the pages of the book the answer kept eluding them. Setrakian gets an idea. How do you keep the Strigoi from learning about the secrets if they ever got the book?

Hide the writing so that you can only see it in the sunlight of course. Setrakian goes to the rooftop during the day and just like in The Hobbit, sunlight shows the way. OK, it was moonlight in The Hobbit but you get the idea.

“After being surrounded by an army of thousands, the living plague was contained within a stone sarcophagus lined with an alloy of silver and lead, a tomb for the creature and the crimson worm within it, trapped for all eternity.”

Setrakian and Quinlan can the defeat The Master by trapping him in a coffin of silver and lead and he will lose his control over the Strigoi and then he can be defeated. But first thing’s first, they have to find out who The Master is which is why they now need their nemesis, Palmer to help them.