It's probably been longer than the 10 minutes Mick told Beth it would take for him to get there so Beth tries calling him. Weird, there is a ringing outside the door when his phone should be ringing. What's up with that?
Beth goes to the door and checks the monitor. It appears to be Mick's phone lying on the floor. Huh?
Audrey has caught on that something is wrong and starts forward but Beth warns her to stay back. She pans the monitor around. Aaaaghhhhhhh!
Beth grabs Audrey and they run into the office. Audrey huddles behind the desk as Beth goes back to the door to listen for Shepherd.
While Beth is out there, Shepherd drops in on Audrey and sets her screaming.
Beth drags her out of there and they start up the stairs as Beth calls 911 to report an intruder trying to break in.
Too late, Shepherd comes in through the roof and lands in the living room.
Beth sends Audrey upstairs and runs down towards the door. Either Beth is intending to go for help or looking to draw Shepherd away from the young woman. Or both. It seems to work. Shepherd cuts Beth off and captures her.
When she refuses to answer him when he asks where Audrey is he sends Beth flying across the floor. In the process she knocks into a few things and cuts her head.
The smell of blood causes the newly undead to vamp out. Beth gets up, circles the vampire and sees a shard of would that could serve as a stake. Donovan is commenting that she doesn't seem surprised to see him alive. She comments that she knows what he is. She grabs the wood and goes to stab him. But, being a vampire, he's faster. He grabs her arm and tells her that, if she knows what he is she should be begging for her life - not fighting. Again he asks where Audrey is and Beth spits in his face (I'm sorry, you don't even need to be a Beth fan to applaud her courage here). Donovan whips out a knife and goes to slash Beth.
The hottest hero vampire we know gets there just in time to stop Donovan. Mick sends the vamp flying and tells Beth to get out.
As the vamps duke it out, she runs upstairs to get Audrey. On their way down they distract Mick and he takes a few licks because of it. Same goes for when they get out the door.
The 'ding' from the elevator has Shepherd running out into the hallway after them. They just barely make it in before he gets there. But he stops the door from closing all the way and the scene is reminiscent of Audrey's flashback of being a child and seeing him through the closet door. We get to hear the creepy "Hello Sweetheart, I see you" again. And I'm sick to death of it about now.
Mick calls to him with a 'hey' and gets his attention. And then his head as he swings a machete with practiced ease.
The next scene takes us to the balcony. Mick is out there and Beth goes and joins him. He asks how Audrey is, and what Beth told her about Shepherd. Audrey is sleeping (again? That girl sleeps a LOT!) and she doesn't need to know more than the fact that Donovan is gone for good.
Audrey might not need an explanation but Beth says the SHE does and that she knows it was he that saved her when she was a little girl and he had to kill a woman he cared about to do it. He says that he suspected Beth knew it was him for a while abd tgat maybe he would have killed Coraline anyway. Beth acknowledges the fact but also that he did it THAT night to save her.
Mick, sounding and looking tortured turns to her and asks how he was supposed to tell her that.
She wants to know why he hid it. She then plops the file next to him on the wall aksing why he let her think it was her imagination.
He says she has every right to be angry but she says that she's not - she found her Guardian Angel. Mick laughs.
She just wishes he would talk to her (and she wipes away a tear).
Mick says that first he kills his wife and then he stalks Beth, it just gets better and better.
Her response is that she could have lived her life in fear but instead, she always felt safe.
The sun comes up and Mick lifts a hand to ward it off and Beth continues - saying that now she knows why she felt safe.
Mick tells her now she knows why it could never work. Beth tells him that since meeting him she stopped using the word 'never'. She then lifts a hand with his to protect him from the sun.
Beth leans in and gives him a chaste kiss on the cheek.
And Mick walks away leaving her out on the balcony by herself.
I love this last scene for several reasons. It's pretty for one. I like that Beth gives him a chaste kiss - sort of like a kiss from the little girl who now knows who to thank for rescuing her and keeping her safe. Also there is the symbolism of the sunlight and Beth. Mick tries to hide from both.