Sanctuary: Trail of Blood Recap

The first ten minutes of Trail of Blood revolved around the team picking up a distress signal from a trapped Nikola Tesla, that led them to an old Cabal lab, where vampire source blood has turned a bunch of centipede-like bugs into giant, mutated, people eating centipede-like bugs. Weirded out yet?

When the team finds Tesla in a bunch of caves and tunnels in the Colombian Highlands, surrounded by a bunch of giant bugs (in case you forgot I mentioned it), Will is suspicious that they've let themselves be led into another one of Tesla's schemes. Score one for Will's intuition.

At the end of the episode it's revealed that Tesla was there searching for the vampire source blood (to turn himself back into a vampire), and Magnus isn't pleased. Eventually Tesla "sacrifices" himself to save the others from the bugs, only to live after using his newly obtained magnetic powers to shield himself from the explosion. Seams like a nice way to give Tesla a bit of chivalry without killing off the mildly amusing character (whose antics actually range from mildly amusing to just annoying).

Meanwhile, back at the Sanctuary, Bigfoot and Kate try to track down the killer of a priest who helped Bigfoot find the Sanctuary. The real killer is never caught, but from his reveal at the end of the episode, he'll probably be back.

Sanctuary: End of Nights (Part 2)

Last night's Sanctuary episode End of Nights (Part 2) on SyFy was certainly an improvement on that last, but still leaves me with questions that they should probably have answered for those of us new to the show. Here is the official recap from SyFy:

Still reeling from a violent encounter with the transformed Ashley, Helen Magnus is determined to find answers about the Cabal and their plans for her daughter.

Certain that Kate is still withholding information, a furious Magnus demands to know who her contact is at the Cabal. Kate is acutely aware that, without Magnus and the Sanctuary, she will be killed by the Cabal, herself, and therefore relents, revealing her contact protocols to reach Dana Whitcomb.

The Cabal's true agenda to destroy the Sanctuary Network is disclosed when Dana gives Magnus an unthinkable ultimatum - save Ashley and hand over the Sanctuary Network, or prepare to fight an impossible battle against the Cabal and her own daughter.

To make their point, the Cabal unleashes its first attack on the Sanctuary Network, as Ashley plus two of her powerful clones quickly annihilate the Tokyo location, leaving behind little more than fiery ruins and a convincing message that war has begun.

The Sanctuary team is forced to quickly create lines of defense against Ashley and her clones, a team of fully transformed Super Abnormals with devastating powers. Along with her newly cloned fighters, Ashley begins her onslaught, setting out to destroy each Sanctuary around the world.

The team prepares a final defense against an impending assault on the last standing Sanctuary and Magnus knows that by unleashing the only weapon that could defeat the Cabal's attacks, she is also risking the life of her only daughter.

Sanctuary: End of Nights (Part 1)

Last night's Sanctuary premier episode End of Nights (Part 1) on SyFy was interesting to say the least. SyFy's twitter account had something to say about jumping on board Sanctuary season two with no knowledge of the first season:

Q) @Acidbather How easy would it be to jump into Sanctuary season 2 if I've never watched anything from season 1? A) Pretty easy!

So with these words of encouragement I decided to give Sanctuary a shot, and boy was I confuzzled the whole way through. Here is the episode description provided by TV.com:

While desperately searching for Ashley, who remains in the hands of the Cabal, the Sanctuary team encounter a con artist named Kate Freelander. After her relationship with the Cabal went sour she gives Helen the location of a secret Cabal facility that may lead them to her Ashley.

Ok so Helen's daughter is missing for some reason and her genetic makeup has been altered to make her super powerful, but what was it that she was stealing and how can Ashley and her father, the big bald guy, teleport? And I was supposed to have figured out that the one guy was a vampire and the other a werewolf, and where does Will fit into all of this? If anyone figures it out, feel free to let me know, but it looks like SyFy isn't doing so well with this season of Sanctuary.