Storyboard #8 - Part 4

As the battle ends between the two vampires, Alyce runs out of the building to safety. Nick leaves soon after, but is forced to take refuge in the trunk of his car for the day. When the illegally parked Caddy is impounded, Schanke goes to pick it up. He decides to drive the Caddy to the hospital blood bank to follow up a hunch he has about the murder victims, completely unaware that he has a passenger in the trunk.

While Schanke attempts to get information about blood donors from an uncooperative duty nurse, Nick has slipped out of the trunk and is doing a little snooping into the hospital computer records. As Schanke continues to cajole the nurse into bending the rules, the man who took blood from him at the precinct happens by. Realizing that Schanke is getting close to the truth, Fenner makes casual conversation to verify the type of car the detective is driving, then goes into the parking lot and cuts the brake line on Nick's Caddy. He clears the parking lot with his own keys jingling loudly only seconds before Nick returns.

Back on the road, Schanke finds out the hard way that the brakes aren't working. The car collides with several objects before he's able to bring it to a safe stop. The Caddy gets banged up quite a bit and Nick gets jostled about in the trunk, but is otherwise unhurt. The Caddie is towed back to the police garage where Nick soon makes his presence known. Although upset about the damage done to his ride, he knows that the accident was not Don's fault, and that Schanke was right about the case they've been working on.

Unable to reach Nick by phone, Alyce goes over to his loft. Remembering Nick mention that some hieroglyphs he saw at the museum used the same digits as his alarm code, Alyce is able to let herself in. While there, she hears the elevator and assumes that Nick has arrived. Instead, she finds an injured, disoriented Jeanie. Meanwhile, Nick and Schanke return to the hospital, reasoning that the person who sabotaged the Caddy is their murderer. While questioning the duty nurse, Nick nearly collapses from hunger, but insists that he'll be all right. He's more interested in catching the killer than worrying about his own health.

Back at the loft, Alyce calls for an ambulance, then starts a fire in the fireplace and wraps a blanket around Jeanie to keep her warm. At the hospital, with help from the duty nurse, Nick and Schanke identify a likely suspect in Jack Fenner, a man whose mother died from hepatitis after receiving some infected, donated blood. Apparently, he blames all the homeless blood donors with O-negative blood for the death of his mother. After putting out an APB on Jack Fenner, Nick calls home to check his messages. Alyce picks up and tells him about Jeanie.

Assuming that the paramedics are on their way up in the elevator, Alyce has Nick to hold the line while she unwittingly goes to greet the killer. Jack Fenner immediately attacks her, striking her with his fist and sending her hurtling over a table onto the floor. Hearing her screams, Nick informs Schanke that Fenner is at his place and to meet him there. He then rushes to the rescue, leaving Schanke to wonder how he plans to get there.