Blood Ties

It is the young girls grandmother who approaches Vicki to search for her granddaughters father. She thinks no matter what the girl would be better off with her father. We find out that Vicki was abandoned by her father when she was young. Mike finally finds out what Henry is and the sparks fly between them. Mike has total distrust for Henry and the feeling is mutual. There are some fun scenes in a comic book store with Vicki and then Mike as each of them is searching for keys to answers about Henry.



In the end this ho hum episode is driven by the administrator for the school Cobb played by Jay Brazeau. He is scaring the young girl into using her unique telepathic gifts to stop anyone that might separate her from him. Where most childrens childhood imaginary friends are just that this girl literally can imagine them into being. Including the capability to do violence.



Vicki, the father, Henry and Mike come together to stop Cobb and save this psychotic child from herself. It seems irrelevant that she killed her mother and tried to kill at least three other people we know of.



This show is taking the wrong direction and I hope that it does not continue. It sort of reminds me of a poor mans Supernatural without the heroes. This "monster" was a little weak and the story not strong enough for this early in the series.



They need to come up with clear cut roles for Mike and Henry as this weird three way relationship does not work as well. Maybe they should bring Coreen more into the stories or leave Mike out a little more.



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I must admit this have become an addiction, and when Mike finds out at the end. I expected more of a reaction but heh i get that in the next one kind of.



quite a freeky episode. that freeky little toy was scary and it was odd tht you find out it was her not the toy.



the doctor guy also slightly freeky



the chemisty between henry and vicki is still alive and i love it, especially the bit at the end. it seems he wants to protect and help her



i really enjoy this show, and i really hope it continues for the sake of vicki and henry finally getting together

i was not happy that the vicki's cop friend found out about fitzroy. that is going to make things more difficult i guess, or easier as it will make the cop more helpful. although he was already helpful because of how he feels about her so it seemed to be unnecessary. the way she left at the end bothered me because they weren't being jealous over her. the cop had legitimate questions about the vampire & whether he has been killing people or not which she needs to answer. i was bothered that no one contradicted cobb when he lied to the girl. dad could have just said "i'm not going to take away buttercup" i think it was dumb that fitzroy was helping out with the case at the beginning when it was just a missing persons case.

Ever wish you had the power to move things wiht your mind? I know i do... but when a woman ends up killed in a very intersting situation and her daughter is left alone. Vicki is hired to go find her dead beat dad. When she tracks him down he tells her of why he ran away from his daughter and family. its because she has powers and that she had attacked him with them and almost killed. Her school is for gifted children. Meaning smart but the school new about her powers and encouraged them and thought her to think that her stuffed animal was killing all the people, until the father comes to take his dauighter away from there and she learns the truth. On the other hand, Mike finds out what Henry is and gives Vicki the whole 3rd- degree about it and how he cant believe that she would associate with something like that.

Okay we are four episodes into the series and I feel like I'm at a restaurant and they keep bringing out appetizers, teasing us while withholding the main course. This episode, don't get me wrong, but come on. It takes Celluci FOUR episodes to find out what Henry is. And yeah granted, the first two happened in the first night, but still. If Celluci is supposed to be this grand cop he should be a bit more intuitive. And yeah I know some of it is NOT wanting to believe in the supernatural but damn. I'm hoping that now the episodes will be getting better and have a faster pace to them since Celluci knows.

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Let me talk about the good before I start my complaining.



I don't know if it's good acting or good directing, but the little girl was very good. Also, I found the threat very convincing. She was so small and cute. It's hard to reason with a very small child, and when she can kill you in under a minute just because you've ticked her off ... it felt genuinely threatening.



I liked that Vicki was the one taking the lead in the investigating, with Henry willing to play sidekick until someone needed a little extra convincing. Vicki is the trained investigator, after all.



However ...



Why was Henry involved in the case at all? Since when is he working with her? In the first two episodes there was very clear motivation for why they should team up. If Henry is now Vicki's PI partner, we got no explanation for it. He's richer than God, so he's not doing it for the money. In the beginning of this case, there is no reason to suspect anything supernatural, so why does Henry let Vicki literally call him away from feeding in order to inspect a cold crime scene for clues the police didn't find? He even told the girl he was feeding on that it was "important." Looking for a missing dad.



They walk into the house where a woman was murdered, have a conversation in the dark, and it's only when they turn on a light and reveal the big blood stain that Henry reacts to it. He even refers to its smell, but he couldn't smell, not to mention see it before the light came on? Vicki threatens Cobb with her expanding baton thingie as if it were a knife, and he reacts like it was one. That's not an offensive weapon unless you start swinging it. Holding it to someone's neck - not scary. How did Henry know Vicki's father had abandoned his family when she was young? I get why Mike knew, but suddenly Henry knows too.



I liked Mike checking out Henry and following him. I liked Henry knocking down the door Mike couldn't budge, but they should have left it at that. There was no reason, given the standoff in the room why Henry had to "vamp out." All he was doing was pinning Cobb to the wall. It didn't take much beyond ordinary human strength to do that. Henry does tend to go a little creepy when he's "influencing" someone, but he wasn't influencing Cobb. And why not, I ask? That would have been an easy solution to the problem. The little girl trusted Cobb, so make Cobb tell her to stop. Usually Henry's pretty blithe with the "influence." I realize that it was time in the show's overall narrative for Mike to find out about Henry being a vampire but it was an opportunity wasted. I would have rather seen it be something that really mattered and where Henry had to choose between revealing himself to Mike or some dire consequence. The little girl realizes "It wasn't Buttercup, it was me. You're the one who lied to me." I thought that was horrible. Why was it necessary for her to realize it was all her fault? All she needed to do was decide she did want to go with daddy after all and that would have stopped what was going on. Are we to understand that since she now sees she's the one responsible, she'll be good and not do it anymore? And what's going to happen when she realizes she killed her mother? Good gracious, that was supposed to be a happy family reunion ending?



When Mike confronts Henry out by the car,Henry should have either wiped Mike's memory or killed him, not just let him go. Henry's vulnerable during the day, and Mike, *a cop,* knows where he lives. Mike thinks he's some evil hellspawn, does Henry think Vicki is going to be able to keep Mike from staking him? Henry admitted, back in the pilot, that trusting Vicki instead of just "eliminating" her was a risk, and Mike was never in that equation. There is no way Henry could just walk away from that. But we'll see what the next episode brings.



The little girl is in this school for the "gifted" because she's such a good artist. But her art wasn't very good. It looked like any child's drawings, didn't you think? I wish they had had her there only ostensibly for art, but really there for the telekinesis and Henry could spot that her art was nothing special, because he's an artist. He could have contributed something to the investigation from his expertise, instead of from what he is. That would have been great! Darn it. I just don't understand why they won't check with me first. ;-)

Great show this week, I like the idea but they could have gone alittle deeper or given more backround to it. And that fact that a imaginary friend could be used to kill someone is wow not something you hear everyday. And the headmaster of the shcool should be locked in a little room with EST, big jerk!!! I am glad the little girl figured it out. And the touching ending with the father was sweet, glad to see that not all dads are dead beat. Vicky has got some issues there. I would have like a little more sexual tension again this week with Vicky and Henry but don't want to rush a good thing.

Ok Mike's charector is getting on my nervous, what a dork following Henry and stuff. And his reaction to finding out Henry is a vampire and yelling at Vicky just pushed her away more and into Henry's arms which isn't bad thing. But should be interesting to see how Mike keeps the secert.

This episode was really slow. I found myself looking at the time more than once while watching this episode. I did like the banter between Vicki and Henry in this episode. In this episode you find out that Vicki's father left when she was a child and she still harbors some resentment from this and that influences how she approaches the case. Sara ends up having the power to bring her imaginary friend to life. While Vicki is investigating the mother's death, Mike is investigating Henry. Vicki finds out that the headmaster is experimenting on the kids at Sarah's school and that is why her imaginary friend is out of control. Long story short Vicki ends up needing Henry's help and Mike finds out that Henry is a vampire. I had a lot of problems with this episode. I did not particularly like the storyline. I don't understand how Henry has been able to keep his secret underwraps for 450 years since he keeps turning into a vampire in front of people. Another thing I don't understand is how the women that he feeds off of never question the bite marks on their necks. Are we suppose to assume that he makes them forget that he bit them? They sure have not shown that. At the end of the episode Vicki says to Sarah that she will be alright. How is she going to be alright now that she knows that she killed her mother? I guess lots of therapy is in order. In this episode they keep referring to Sarah's power as telekinesis. Last time I checked telekinesis is being able to move physical objects with your mind not to conjuring up things from one's mind and making them physical. I will stick with this show. I just hope it gets better. It has so much potential