ULTRAVIOLET
Episode four

'Mea Culpa'

Synopis & Review by Angela Pollard

This episode starts with an argument between a priest and a boy called Gary in a Catholic school. The boy tells the priest not to touch him. He then slashes the priest with a knife.

At home Angie receives a letter. It is Pearse's tests results. It reads he has Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. When she gets to work Vaughan tells her Pearse wants her at the mortuary.

Vaughan and Michael go to the school to investigate. At the mortuary Angie asks Pearse did he know the priest. He says only by reputation. She tells him you cannot think its code 5. Pearse says he is not assuming anything.

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We then see the boy Gary hanging round the park.

We then cut to a reporter telling Kirsty that Michael has disappeared. He suggests finding an old contact, who might know were Michael is. Kirsty says she will visit Michael's last girlfriend.

Some man picks Gary up in the park and takes him back to his place. The man's dog attacks the boy. Michael and Vaughan go and see Gary's mother. Michael asks did the boy see the priest out of school. She says choir practice.

Angie has boys at the school taken in for tests. The man drops Gary off at the hospital. Angie and Vaughan go there.

Michael goes to the priest's home and investigates what is in his computer. He finds paedophile material. He shows the evidence to the others. Michael says the boy stabbed the priest because he was abusing him and the boys are acting funny because they are traumatised. Pearse says what was on the computer was not downloaded, it could have been planted. So find out who downloaded the stuff and put it there.

Vaughan and Michael go to the park were the boy was sighted and come to the conclusion he was picked up by someone.

Angie tries to talk to Gary. Pearse arrives. The boy won't talk with him there. Pearse says to the boy, what is it about me. Angie says that's enough. Pearse says, I think so.

Angie goes to see Pearse. Pearse says maybe the vampires are trying a mass infection. Angie invites him back for a meal. Pearse says that sounds ideal, then you can give me my results.

Kirsty goes and sees Michael's old girlfriend who won't tell her anything except to leave Michael alone. Kirsty calls reporter, he tells her not to call on this phone. She calls again but the mobile is in the bin.

Angie tells Pearse the results. Pearse asks what are his chances. Angie says he has low-grade lymphoma and there's lots of work to do before we throw around statistics. Pearse says low grade is good, then he looks at Angie's face. He then says low grade not good and incurable. Angie says it is treatable and some people have gone into remission indefinitely. He asks for the mortality rates. Angie says it's meaningless. Pearse smiles and says science is meaningless. Angie replies statistics are other people not you.

Michael and Vaughan go and see the man who picked Gary up in the park with a bit of encouragement from Vaughan he eventually gives them an address of a man who might be who they are looking for. They go to the address were they find a video camera and film. Michael shoots the man who is with a boy, but it turns out it is the boy who is the vampire. Vaughan tells Michael to shoot him but Michael has frozen and the boy escapes.

The man (Oliver) is still alive. Angie tells Michael the man is allergic to sunlight. Angie sees Michael is still in shock and sends him home.

Angie tells Pearse and Vaughan that the vampires have altered the meningitis strain to carry code 5 so humans can infect humans. She tells them she can develop an anti-serum. Pearse tells Vaughan to set up priest as paedophile to protect the boy who has seen through enough and has his whole future ahead of him.

Pearse and Angie talk to Oliver. He tells them he had no choice. Pearse says there is always a choice. Pearse says to Oliver, they gave you a boy who would not grow up, but it was not the same because he was not really a boy. Pearse asks where he went for the experiments. Oliver says, the boy brought the chemicals. Oliver also says they will find out what Pearse wants.

Michael goes and sees Pearse thinking he is going to be fired, but Pearse doesn't. Vaughan tells him he thinks he has potential if he can stay alive.

Angie goes and sees Pearse. He says Oliver and him are related as sunlight is implicated in his condition. He says it's amazing what you pick up on the net. He says UV is said to be the trigger, it must have been the 18 months he spent in Melbourne. Angie says she is not going to let him die. Pearse replies he has no plans in that direction.

Michael drives by Kirsty's and sees her with reporter. The reporter eats at Kirsty's and then goes to the bathroom and is sick. He comes down stairs and kisses her, but she says it's too soon, but she allows him to kiss her again and he does on the NECK.

Review

This was a superb episode. It had the usual twists and turns and the plot is developing wonderfully. The relationship between Angie and Pearse is blossoming beautifully. The acting between Quast and Harker in these scenes is both outstanding and touching.