After last week's 'experiment', Sembene explains the transformation to Ethan through some fairly bullshit pseudo-tribal ecology ("the leopard consumes the monkey and becomes both leopard and monkey...") Sir Malcolm is increasingly lah-dee-dah about anything that isn't Evelyn Poole, even dismissing Vanessa's collapse at the party to hysteria and shaving off his beard and power moustache.
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| "Sheep's blood - because I'm worth it." |
With London looking increasingly dicey, Vanessa and Ethan head off to the moors, for study, contemplation, sexual tension and angst. She ventures into the Book of Vile Darkness and he murders sheep and trees while they both dress like something out of a knitwear catalogue. They trade shooting lessons for dance classes and almost get it on during a thunderstorm before Vanessa decides that they're both too dangerous. This pastoral idyll is disturbed by a run in with the dickhead landowner who burned her friend, provoking Vanessa to magically murder him with his own dogs to avenge the Cut-Wife, slightly before Ethan can shoot him, partly in a failed attempt to stop Vanessa becoming a killer and partly because he was a complete dick. Seriously, like... beyond dickish.
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| This was adorable, and thus doomed. |
Speaking of beyond dick, Dorian Gray is apparently over Angelique and homing in on the amnesiac innocence of Lily. Because London is fucking
tiny, he takes her to the waxworks where John Claire works, so we presume violence may ensue. It does, but not entirely in the expected fashion. On the way home, Lily stops into a pub to pick up a random bloke for sex and murder, the gruesome waxworks apparently awakening her inner creature.
Back in the plot, Lyle and Frankenstein discuss the whole great beast, Devil, Ogdoad thing they've got going on. Honestly, the Egyptian thing is pretty stretched at this point; we're in full-on Abrahamic dualism mode and everything else is window dressing.
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