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listening to horror podcasts is so silly because ill be having the worst day of my goddamn life and ill be like.. you know what i need? to listen to this sad wet cat british man have an even worse day and ya know what it actually helps
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Here, have some (mildly cursed) bumper stickers for all your Dracula needs.
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Van Helsing in movie adaptations: Dracula's nemesis
Van Helsing in the book: Dracula's real estate lawyer's wife's girlfriend's fiancé's boyfriend's university professor
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that “Christian Kane for Quincy Morris” post wormed its way into my head months ago, but somewhere along the way it mutated into “Leverage episode but the mark is Count Dracula”
- Investigative Journalist Mina Harker is the client
- Dracula threatened her real estate lawyer husband and probably had her best friend and photographer Lucy killed to keep her quiet
- beyond just that, there’s a combination of suspected but unprovable kidnapping, (That Jonathan may have witnessed) and a shady for-profit blood donation company
- which was trying to acquire real estate near a mental hospital for definitely exploitative and shady purposes
- Dracula’s castle: great heist location. Early in the getting-the-con-started phase of the episode Parker steals at least one 15th century painting and a lot of ancient gold coins
- Whether Leverage mark!Dracula is actually a vampire is never 100% proven but it’s definitely implied
- regardless he’s definitely metaphorically a vampire
- and Parker 100% believes he is one, even making a comment on how this isn’t the first time she’s robbed a vampire
- Flashback to her cracking a safe in what the props make clear is Wesley Snipes’s house
- The Leverage crew pose as a medical/biological goods shipping company (Demeter Transportation) in order to con Dracula and get both his money and evidence of all the shady stuff and crimes
- their fake identities for the con are Lucy’s polycule
- Eliot’s Quincy, Hardison is Seward, Parker is Holmwood
- Nate was supposed to be Van Helsing, but there was a hot potato job-like kerfuffle and Sophie ends up playing that role instead
- which makes Nate Renfield
- Classic leverage action
- the big wrinkle happens when they finally get their 50 boxes full of evidence delivered and discover that Dracula isn’t just smuggling blood, he’s smuggling black market organs
- they manage to recover as they always do
- (probably because of Harrison coming through with hacking, as a nod to the novel’s tech themes)
- Spectacular success and Interpol seizes everything
- when we see Mina again post-gloat she’s on her way to wherever Interpol is holding Dracula. She’s wearing a crucifix necklace and she conspicuously tucks a wooden stake into her bag alongside the check for the liquidated value of those gold coins.
- after she leaves Parker drops out of the ceiling wearing those cheap plastic vampire fangs
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It's bloofin' time
A companion piece to this.
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Some thoughts our director Ella shared on Twitter today 🥰
i have to say that i adore the direction for re:dracula. you guys are so good at making sure every performance shines, no matter which character it is, from drac himself to one-off characters and lines. you've struck an awesome balance between drama and realism.