Season 1 Part 2
Episode 7: Haunted
1924: Edward Lomax and his fiancée, Abigail Strauss, use an ancient Grimoire to open the gateway to hell. A demon takes possession of Abigail, who kisses Edward and sucks the life from him. Present: Paranormal investigators Lex, Susan and RJ interview medium/demonologist Holly about filming a séance at the Lomax mansion for their cable TV show. The current owner, Tom, wants to debunk the house’s haunted reputation so that he can sell it. The séance gets under way: wind whistles through the house, along with the screams of dying men; a powerful force knocks all but Holly from their seats. Lex and Susan separate to investigate in different parts of the house while RJ monitors the video feed from their cameras. Both see Abigail and her ghostly victims, but their cameras transmit nothing. Abigail seduces Tom and sucks the life from him. Holly finds Lex and shows him a document that tells of Abigail, an angel who was cast out of heaven for seducing an archangel. Lex comforts the frightened Holly, which leads to sex – and death, as Holly transforms into Abigail. Meanwhile, Susan has found Edward’s Grimoire. She tells RJ they must get out of the house, and they separate to search for the others. Susan finds the desiccated bodies of Tom and Lex; she races to the guesthouse in time to save RJ from Holly. Susan backs the possessed medium into a pentagram and utters chants from the Grimoire. Abigail releases Holly, and the survivors leave the mansion. As they drive away, Susan smiles at her reflection in the van’s mirror: Abigail looks back at her.
Episode 8: Angel & Demons
A serial killer called the Grim Reaper terrorizes the city. Detective Janet Wright is assigned to the taskforce headed by her former partner, Detective Isaiah Judson. Wright had a breakdown after one of the Reaper’s victims, Greta Lupino, died in her arms. Meanwhile, stockbroker Charles Solomon visits one of Leland Ryan’s strip clubs, where he picks up gorgeous blonde Angelica. Ryan calls the cops to report a possible sighting of the Reaper, and has cigarette girl Lilith furnish a description of Solomon. Lilith also reveals she overheard Solomon mention the Excelsior Hotel. Judson and Wright race to the Excelsior, where Solomon has stripped Angelica and revealed the reason for his hatred of women: his college sweetheart broke his heart by sleeping with his roommate. Solomon menaces Angelica with the switchblade but she gets away, grabs her purse, pulls a .38 and shoots him. The cops arrive as the shots are fired. Wright goes for backup while Judson enters the hotel room and sees the dying Solomon. Wright encounters Angelica, who has taken the desk clerk hostage, in the lobby. Angelica recognizes Wright as the cop who comforted the dying Greta Lupino – Angelica’s sister. Solomon is the Reaper, and Angelica was only getting justice by shooting him. Wright lets Angelica get away. Later, she learns that Greta Lupino had no sister. A gorgeous brunette watches TV reports on the Reaper’s latest victim as she services a bound Leland Ryan. She pulls a gun and takes off her wig: it’s Angelica, and she’s there to exact revenge for the girls Ryan has hurt...
Episode 9: Help Me, Rhonda
Camille Gardner’s afternoon is interrupted by Molly Trevor, Marvin Widmark and Robinson McGraw, who let themselves into her remote ranch house to wait for her husband, Johnny. Robinson reveals that Johnny, who works for Homeland Security, has some documents for them. Camille convinces Robinson to allow Molly to escort her to the bathroom. Molly reveals that she is an undercover cop, and lets Camille take a small switchblade from a bathroom drawer. When Marvin paws Camille during an inspection of the grounds outside, she stabs him. The injured Marvin chases Camille and is about to shoot her when Molly shoots him. Molly is then killed by Rhonda, who escaped from the house, unseen: she is unaware that Molly is a cop. Camille sends Rhonda ahead to a motel while she goes inside to deal with Robinson. Robinson gets the drop on Camille and forces her to open the bedroom door where her “kids” are supposedly sleeping. The room holds Johnny’s corpse. Johnny came home unexpectedly, caught the two women having sex, and hit Camille, who grabbed a knife and stabbed him. Camille pulls the knife from Johnny’s chest and kills Robinson. She showers off the blood, only to find the Feds waiting to arrest her as she steps from the bathroom: the murder was caught on a hidden surveillance camera.
Episode 10: The Clinic
Logan Cale passes out while making love to girlfriend Jessica. A visit to Dr. Chandler reveals that Logan has just months to live: his only hope is treatment at a Mexican clinic. Jessica checks him into the clinic after he has another seizure. Fellow patients Doug and Lindsey give him a tour of the windowless facility, which has armed guards at the doors and cameras everywhere. After six weeks, Logan feels so much better that he wants to leave. A visit from Jessica, who has since found another boyfriend, dissuades him. Patients Jake and Grace are “discharged,” as is Doug. Lindsey makes the connection between the arrival of elderly patients and the disappearance of their friends, and convinces Logan that they must escape. Before they can flee, Lindsey is given another “treatment.” She wakes in the Operating Room, an elderly woman on the gurney beside her. Lindsey leaps from her gurney and runs. She bumps into Logan in a corridor and, together, they overpower a guard, take his gun and get out the door. They find themselves inside a warehouse in the hills above downtown L.A. Then they find the bodies of their missing friends. Dr. Chandler reveals that the patients, adoptees all, are providing organs for their wealthy biological parents. Despite Lindsey’s entreaties, Logan surrenders the guard’s gun when Jessica’s life is threatened. Only then does he learn that Jessica is one of the plotters. He is sedated and wakes briefly in the OR, where he finally meets his biological mother – a steely old woman who is to receive his still-beating heart.
Episode 11: Till Death Do Us Part
Rachel Worth wakes on her wedding day to find a dead stripper in her bed. She remembers nothing of the night before, when her fiancé’s sister, Kim, and friends Daphne and Sharon threw her a bachelorette party. Daphne remembers Sharon’s threatening the stripper, and wonders if Sharon killed him. Kim finds Rachel’s phone, which holds a video of Rachel having sex with the dead man. Did Rachel kill him? Or did Daphne, who never quite got over her love for Rachel’s fiancé, Cam, do it to frame her rival? When homeowner Lilith drops by, Rachel stalls her while the others move the corpse. Then Cam arrives. Still semi-intoxicated from his own party, he heads for the bathroom and finds the corpse. Rachel wants to postpone the wedding, but Cam insists the nuptials proceed: under the terms of his grandmother’s will, he will lose his $10M inheritance if he is not married before his 30th birthday, which is the next day. Attention shifts to Kim, who inherits if Cam fails to comply with the terms of the will. She spiked Rachel’s drink (the reason Rachel can remember nothing) and conspired with the stripper to stage the simulated sex session, which Kim recorded on Rachel’s phone. Kim planned to use the video to derail the wedding, but when the stripper got greedy and demanded half the inheritance, she killed him and constructed an even better frame-up. Rachel and Cam get married. Kim is arrested, but is confident that Cam will spend the inheritance to hire an attorney and free her.
Episode 12: Visions, Part 1
In part 1 of 2, a phony mentalist murders his greedy assistant and hires a new assistant Tara. With Tara's help, a computer hook-up, and a miniscule earpiece, magician Foster Prentiss convinces audiences of his abilities as a mentalist. When Tara threatens to expose him if she doesn’t get more money, Foster makes her “disappear.” Enter con woman Jessica, Foster’s new assistant. Jessica has her sights set on wealthy Ingrid Gardner, who is frantic to communicate with her daughter, whom she believes is dead. Ingrid is in the audience at Foster’s show when the computer and earpiece go dead. Foster tries to wing it. He accidentally touches Violet MacReady and has a vision of her being held hostage by Laz, whom she kills. At his next show, he touches sorority girl Tiffany, and sees her kill sleazy videographer Jay Roma. When he touches Jessica, Foster sees her kill her boyfriend and harvest his organs. Jessica doesn’t fear Foster’s new gift – she sees it as an opportunity. Together, they blackmail Violet and Tiffany. Neither can pay the blackmail, but thanks to Lilith (who suddenly appears), they learn that Foster is also a murderer, and plan to get rid of him. The women send Alexis, Tiffany’s sorority sister, to seduce Foster. He touches her and has a vision of his own death at the women’s hands. He flees, only to be betrayed by Jessica, who helps the women chain Foster up and force him to reveal where he buried Tara. Violet and the sorority sisters leave Foster to die a slow death, send Jessica packing, and comfort her mark, Mrs. Gardner. Afterwards, the cops receive an anonymous tip and dig up Tara’s grave; inside, they find two bodies. Was Foster’s other victim Mrs. Gardner’s daughter, and did she get revenge from beyond the grave?
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