“Sleepers” is episode ten of season two of Sanctuary.
A husband and wife are driving along a road at night when the man spots the safety barriers at the edge of the road are broken. He stops the car and goes to have a look. In the trees below the road is a wrecked car, and behind the steering wheel of it is a dead young man. The husband turns around and tells his wife to call emergency services. Whilst he is facing away, he hears a slight noise and, when he turns back to the car, the body is gone. Hearing another noise he turns around to it.
In daylight, Will and Magnus are on the scene. The husband is dead, sliced and diced is the description, and the wife bears similar, although less extreme, injuries. At the car, Magnus says that the steering wheel would have punched through the chest of the driver, and that death would be instantaneous. Only there’s no body.
There’s also CCTV footage of a man killing another and putting him into the boot of a vehicle. The killer is the owner of the wrecked car – and the footage was shot after the crash. The man he killed was his roommate. Then said roommate meets a girl he knows in an ally, and takes her to see the first dead guy, Chad. Both men are wearing dark glasses. Chad refers to a Mexican clinic they visited, then shoots the girl. A few seconds later, she comes back to life, and her eyes turn completely black. As are those of the two men – that’s why they were wearing glasses.
Will manages to find a link between all three of the kids – the fact that they all went to an expensive and exclusive drug clinic in Mexico. Called The House of New Life, which is run by someone neither Magnus nor Will have heard of. So they go to the clinic and Magnus says none of it makes sense. Until, that is, they meet the doctor – who is running the place under a false name, as he’s actually Nikola Tesla. Tesla says that he manages to completely cure the trust fund babies who visit the clinic of all their addictions in one week. Tesla has altered the biotech part of the weapon he designed to combat the Cabal’s super-Abnormals so that it would cure people of addictions instead. When Tesla is confronted with the disappearance of the clinic’s visitors he admits that he might have turned them into vampires. Sort of. Said vampires are increasing their numbers by killing more of their friends who visited the clinic.
Tesla states that he had set up a time release, so that the transformation would happen in 30 years. He admits that clearly something went wrong. The new vampires have also hacked Tesla’s firewalls and got the secret history of vampires – which explains how vampires once ruled the world. An idea they like. Tesla had not considered what would happen if one of the people he gave vampirism to died early – it activated the vampire in them. The vampires prove unable to spread the infection by biting – only those that Tesla experimented on turn into vampires – so they decide to go visit the man who made them vampires.
The new vampires kidnap Tesla, and the new vampires are improved over the original. He isn’t happy that the vampires have derailed his long-term plan for world domination, but is Tesla upset enough to stop them? And will he able to, even with the Sanctuary’s help?
Henry and Bigfoot are both absent on a ‘mission of utmost importance’ – they’re both at San Diego Comic-Con. Which is somewhere that Bigfoot will not look remotely out of place.