Richard, who is a bit scattered, finishes up work for the day and gets on the elevator. His boss, Johnson, stops him before he leaves. Johnson is very happy that Richard landed the Rodriguez account, which the firm has been after for years. Richard lets Johnson know he's landed even more, as he's shooting for a bonus this quarter. On the elevator, Richard chats with Carl, who asks him if he's going to a dance party called Spellbound later that night. Richard says he'll be there and Carl, who is 17, says he wishes he could go. Richard tells him he'll be there next year.

Richard plays basketball on a public court, swishing shots with ease. The rest of his team is upset at him for not passing or playing a team game, despite the fact that they win. The other players clearly don't like him.

Richard gets cleaned up and ready to go out, complete with Axe Body Spray. He wears a mismatched suit and thinks he looks awesome. He goes to the Spellbound Night Club, a place where he's been before. He tries to be cool and slip the bouncer a $20 as he goes in, but he unwittingly drops it. He gets the bouncer's name wrong.

Richard and his mismatched suit seem out of place at Spellbound, a night club that is essentially a rave. Richard orders a drink and annoys the bartender with his lack of knowledge and decisiveness, so she leaves. He waves down a different bartender, Sherrie, and orders vodka. She asks him what kind and he doesn't know, so she gets him the most expensive shot in the bar. He has that and another.

He turns to a woman at the bar and asks if he can buy her a drink. She orders an expensive drink and then meets up with her boyfriend. They laugh at Richard, but he's oblivious. He turns to flirt with a couple of women, but he's flirted with them before and they walk away before he can even talk to them. He drinks some more and then switches to beer.

Nate arrives, calling Richard Dickie. Richard hates it. He brags that bought a drink for a woman, but Nate calls him out for not getting her number. Richard is eternally optimistic. Nate cautions him to slow down on the drinking and chides Sherrie for ripping him off when she brings the most expensive beer in the bar. She says Richard can afford it, but Nate tells her to get a regular beer. Nate sees a woman he knows and walks away.

Richard turns towards the dance floor and watches Nate walk away. He sees Jenny, the most attractive woman in the club. And she's staring at him. She comes over and introduces herself to Richard. She is very flirty and he's shocked. He offers to buy her a drink, but she already has one. Richard starts to walk away but she stops him, she wasn't rejecting him.

Nate returns and Richard introduces him to Jenny. Nate tries to flirt with her, but she's only interested in Richard and Nate gets the hint and wanders away. Jenny asks Richard if he wants to go somewhere more private. He's interested, but he asks why she's interested in him. She says it's because he's different. She leads him out the door and Richard forgets his credit card. Sherrie adds a big tip.

Jenny leads him to a nice apartment, clearly ready for sex. Richard says this is the best night of his life and Jenny tells him he has no idea. They go into the apartment and the doorknob falls off. Richard is so aroused, he doesn't notice. They go into the bedroom and have sex.

In a darkened control room, a technician speaks to his boss, Rand. The technician tells Rand that "it" has begun, whatever that is.

Jenny sleeps while Richard goes through agony throughout the night. A light comes on in the bathroom. In the morning, Jenny is awake and smoking a cigarette as Richard lays dead on the bed. From off-screen, Tiger and Rock ask if Richard is dead yet. Jenny checks and says he's just about dead. Tiger comes in from the bathroom with Rock and Load, big beefy types.

Jenny complains about always having to do the dirty work and Tiger replies that it's easier to get men. Load and Rock are hungry, but Tiger says they have to let him finishing changing and then he'll taste sweeter. Jenny warns them there is something different about this one. She did the proper background check in compliance with the treaties. She makes it clear Richard is a loser and nobody cares about him.

Richard stirs and he thinks Jenny drugged him. Then he sees Tiger and his goons. Richard says last night was the worst night of his life. Tiger says it was the LAST night of Richard's life. That's when Richard sees that they're all vampires.

Jenny leaves the room and the others prepare to eat Richard. Tiger informs Richard that they will treat him humanely as required by the treaties. Rock and Load don't want to, but Tiger doesn't want something called M.H.I. on his ass. The treaties say that vampires are allowed to feast upon people that no one else cares about. They tell him that he's no loner a human, he's a vampire now and that all the monsters and things of legend are real, but the details are wrong. The vampires are going to EAT him, not suck his blood.

The vampires close on Richard and he leaps from a laying position to crouched and ready. This was an ability he never had before and he's surprised he can do it. Rock and Load rush him, but he sees a set of crossed katanas on the wall. Quicker than the vampires, he grabs a katana from the wall. He slices off Rock's arm. He stabs Load in the heart, which causes him to disintegrate into black liquid. Richard slices off Rock's head and he turns to black liquid as well.

Tiger is shocked and asks how Richard can be so powerful. Tiger is still overconfident and he lunges at Richard, who sidesteps and knocks him to the ground. Tiger leaps to his feet again and rushes Richard. He slices off Richard's earlobe, but he's not hurt bad. He rushes at Tiger and smashes his fist into Tiger's head, knocking him to a knee. Tiger brings down the katana and takes off Tiger's head. The vampire turns to black liquid, dead.

Richard turns toward the bathroom and tells Jenny she can come out now. She does and sees that Richard has killed her fellow vampires. Jenny asks if Richard is going to kill her now, but he says not yet, because he needs answers. Jenny says none of this was her idea, but Richard tells her to stop lying. She says okay and tells him that he shouldn't have been able to take out three vampires. He IS actually different.

Jenny tells Richard he is now a vampire. Richard says he wasn't bitten but Jenny tells him to free his mind, things aren't like everyone has been told. The real rules are different. Vampires don't sparkle or suck blood and they aren't hurt by daylight. Vampires don't like to eat humans because humans taste terrible and vampires call them rats. Vampirism is like an STD, if you have sex with a vampire, you become one. It takes about 24 hours. Tiger made Jenny turn Richard into a vampire so they could eat him. Vampires are cannibalistic, but they eat other monsters, too.

It's getting dark outside again and Jenny says they have to move quickly. She tells him that the things that live in the shadows at night are much worse than vampires. They have to leave quickly and they have to keep it quiet that Richard is different. If others learn about it, he'll attract unwanted attention. He gets dressed.

The technician sits in his booth. Rand occupies the center screen and the other screens around him are filled with a Black man, a white woman, an Asian woman and a white man, none of whom are identified. These are the members of the Council. The technician says the sign has been seen. He describes that Richard took out three vampires in 5 minutes without prior combat experience. Rand tells the technician to keep him informed.

Outside, Richard continues to carry the katana, but conceals it. They make their way quickly through city streets. Jenny says he should've left the katana behind, but he doesn't feel safe without it. She says it makes them conspicuous on the streets. He asks why they didn't just stay at her apartment. She says it wasn't really her apartment, with the implication that Tiger and friends killed the owner. She reveals that her name isn't really Jenny, it's Elektra. She says her real named died when she died. Richard refuses to call her Elektra.

Jenny reveals that there a lots of people who know what he did and will be on the lookout for him: the Council, humans, hunters. He complains that none of this was his fault and she tells him to grow up. Regardless of who he used to be, someone who can take out three fully-morphed vampires is someone that people want to know more about. She tells Richard that they have reached the safe house.

Jenny looks into a security camera and conjures a small ball of blue fire. The door opens and they go inside. They meet Sy who checks their weapons, since none are allowed inside the safe house. Sy makes fun of Richard for having a human name, which might make him a target. Jenny says Richard is different and Sy is impressed by the endorsement. Sy puts their weapons away and they go inside.

Jenny and Richard enter an impossibly large room that resembles a homeless shelter. A few of the residents are human, but most of them are various monsters, some alien and unfamiliar, some version of familiar monsters like wolfmen. Jenny tells Richard that it's important that he be careful and acts like he belongs. If not, the monsters will pounce on him. There's no fighting allowed, but if he's found to be weak, they'll pounce the second Richard and Jenny leave the safe house.

Richard turns and comes face-to-face with David Letterman and two hairy goons, the Wolf Brothers. It's not Letterman, of course, it's a 'ganger named Granger. Jenny clearly hates him and his friends Reign and Mott. She makes fun of the Wolf Brothers, but they don't get it. Granger's features waver and Richard sees his true lizard face.

Granger and the Wolf Brothers get very aggressive with Richard and he tells them he took out Tiger and the boys. Granger doesn't believe him, he sniffs and can tell Richard is a newborn vampire. Jenny confirms it, though. Granger says he'd prove Richard is lying if fighting were allowed in the safe house. Richard says that's what Tiger said right before he killed him. Granger flinches and asks what Richard's name is. Richard declares his name to be Rex. Granger and the Wolf brothers laugh and walk away. Jenny and Richard find cots while she makes fun of his choice of "Rex." She worries that maybe he's doomed. Maybe they're all doomed.

Richard wakes up face-to-face with Jenny. She says she's feeling a little frisky and wants to kiss him. Richard starts to freak out when it turns out to not be Jenny, but Granger instead. Richard punches him in the face and Granger changes form several times. The two men wrestle to the floor and the Wolf Brothers rush to join the fight. Security guards gather them all up and escort them out of the main room.

The technician talks to the council. He tells them Phase One has been initiated. They're going to pin the crimes of a serial killer, the City Stalker, on Richard so he can't get help from the humans. Phase Two begins tomorrow.

Security guards escort Richard, Jenny, Granger and the Wolf Brothers outside of the safe house, from which they are now banned. Sy apologizes to Jenny and throws everyone's weapons on the ground. Granger and Richard scramble for the weapons. Granger grabs his gun and gets the drop on Richard. He's busy insulting Richard rather than killing him when a spike bursts through his chest from behind.

The spike is attached to a slimy gray tentacle emerging from the darkness of the alley next to the safe house. Other tentacles come out, some with spikes, some with mouths, etc. Richard slices off the tentacle closest to him. It spews black liquid onto the ground.

Jenny runs away from the alley as Reign and Mott try to pick up their weapons. Reign chops one of the tentacles in half, but Mott's head is swallowed by one of the mouthed tentacles. Another tentacle, one with smaller finger-like appendages, grabs Reign and immediately starts to burn his skin. He drops his axe and tries to fight it off. Richard slices off another tentacle.

Jenny is back. She casts some kind of magical spell and a shaft of light emerges from her hands and explodes a big blue firework just above the building. One of the tentacles impales Reign's face. Jenny yells for Richard to get out of the alley, help is on the way. He manages to escape the alley and various homeless men converge on the alley. Jenny tells Richard that they are homeless people, and they're here to save them, as they are an interdimensional monster police force. Richard is tired of all the new things he's learning and tells Jenny he hates her. She rejects his hate and tells him that there's more to come. He says he hasn't decided whether or not he's going to kill her. She says she knows he isn't going to kill her and she kisses him.

The homeless people are fighting off the shadow beast with magical blue fireballs and orange energy shields. They drive the monster back into the shadows.

Nate arrives and he's shocked by what he's seeing. Richard is happy to see him, the first normal thing he's encountered in hours. Jenny is less excited to see Nate. Nate congratulates "Dickie" for scoring with Jenny. She defends Nate and Richard explains what happened. All of it. Nate is flabbergasted, but he's totally in on whatever adventure comes next.

Jenny says they need to get to somewhere that is well-lit. Nate says Richard should lay low, since he's been on the news. Richard has been accused of murdering four people and that he's the top suspect as a local serial killer. Jenny says this is the work of whatever shadowy forces she's alluded to earlier. She says they sicced the humans on him. Richard tells Nate he's different now and Nate is excited that his best friend is a vampire. Jenny notes that the reaction from the shadowy forces is stronger than usual. They're worried about Richard. Jenny says the humans are heavily armed and can easily take him out if he's not careful. Jenny says they need to talk to the Sage. They all get in Nate's car.

Jenny drives Nate's car, Nate's in the back. He's having fun. Richard says he chose Rex as his vampire name and Nate reveals that the name is actually taken from Richard's dog. Nate makes fun of Richard's vampire skills. They arrive at the Sage's home. They park and get out. Nate thinks they're in front of a closed-down bodega, but Richard and Jenny see a giant wooden building with sculptures of monsters and angels and demons and stuff. It's masked to human eyes.

In the control booth, the technician tells council members that phase 2 is complete. They were behind Granger and the Wolf Brothers attacking Richard at the safe house to get them banned and put on the local watch list. He tells rand that phase 3 is already in progress. The Sage is one of their men and the hunters will be ready after that. The technician says this will determine if Richard really is the chosen one. Either he'll be dead or he'll survive the phase, which has never happened before, he says.

Nate finally gets close enough to see through the magic and he's in love with the Sage's house. Jenny creates a blue fireball and throws it at the wooden entrance. It becomes a door and they walk through.

They are escorted into the Sage's home by two women, Storm and Allie. The women make fun of Nate.

Inside, they meet the Sage, whose name is Lock. A small ball of orange fire lights his elegant home. Lock is effeminate, but is dating BOTH Allie and Storm. He greets them and he already knows who Richard is. He ignores Nate, but treats Richard like a celebrity. Allie makes them magic-infused drinks called mellifluents. Nate and Jenny love them, Richard thinks it's kinda strong. Jenny makes fun of him, but Lock defends him as the savior.

Richard, Nate and Jenny start asking questions. Lock tells Nate that humans can't do "magic," which is called "ananab," but Richard can. It requires body parts that don't exist in normal humans. Lock tells them that nothing "normal" is real and everything they were taught as humans was a lie. Monsters are real. Magic is real. Aliens, other dimensions and prophecies are real.

Nate keeps interrupting until Lock tells him to shut up. Lock continues by telling them that sages exist to chronicle the real world, more accurately than historians and journalists, who only report on the cover story. There are also seers, who can predict the future. The best of them are almost always accurate. Lock reads everything that the various sages and seers write. He's one of the most knowledgeable living people. They are living in a time that has been predicted by seers. Something is coming. Something big and bad that can only be prevented by the chosen one.

Lock questions Richard to confirm that he's the chosen one, asking him about his transition and his improved abilities and skills. The improvements were almost instantaneously, Richard says, and the transition was relatively easy for him. The fact that Richard fended off a shadow beast is impressive to Lock. Richard's answers confirm to Lock that Richard is unprecedented and is very powerful.

Lock tells Richard that he IS able to be killed, but that he likely will live a very long life and won't die from natural causes. Most monsters aren't immortal, they just live much longer than humans. But regular weapons can do some damage and magical weapons can completely kill him.

Lock tells Richard that there are others that know about hm and they consider him to be a threat. He says that Granger and the Wolf Brothers wouldn't have acted alone. Everything they do is being watched.

He says that the supposed homeless people they see are actually Guardians, akin to an interdimensional national guard that protects everyone from things that come through barriers into this dimension. They aren't heroes, though, they're non-ideological. They don't get involved in disputes, they protect both humans and monsters from bigger threats. They follow the treaties strictly, but this doesn't prevent them from reporting information to those who are seeking it.

Lock reveals that the treaties are a series of agreements worked out over the centuries between monsters and humans. They are designed to prevent either side from wiping out the other. The related conspiracies go MUCH higher than local government officials.

Richard asks what all this has to do with him. Lock says that an ancient powerful demon, Cyath, a death god is not just a myth. He's real. And many monsters believe in him and act upon those beliefs. The legend is that Cyath has the power to destroy all of existence. And with the right tome of magic, it's possible. Lock reveals that Rand has the book with the deathspell in it. Rand is head of the Council, which oversees monster society and administers the treaties. Rand has managed to fill the Council with members of the Cult of Cyath. Cyath's followers believe that destroying the world will create a new world where the architects of the downfall of the old world will be kings of the newness.

Lock tells Allie and Storm to order "dinner." Jenny asks if Rand et al. already have the tome, how is everyone still alive. Lock thinks they are missing an essential ingredient for the endspell, but they are likely to find it soon. The seers who foresaw the prophecies learned that the Cult of Cyath could be stopped by the chosen one. The bad guys will want to kill Richard as they learn he's the chosen one. Lock says they'll have many plans and make many attempts to kill him.

Lock tells them they are welcome to come back and ask more questions. He tells Richard that the way to stop them is to kill them and destroy the tome. Lock says Richard has an advantage because the villains don't know how powerful he is and because Jenny is going to take him to a place where he can learn magic.

Allie alerts them that two squads of Monster Hunters Inc. (M.H.I.) are here to get them. The company is publicly known and pretends to be engaged in bounty hunting and bail bonds, but it's a cover for monster hunting. Sages are protected under the treaties, so he's safe. Allie shows them the house's security cameras and they get a look at Quinn Dexter, the leader of the M.H.I. squads, who prepares his men to take them. They are heavily armed. Also, Dexter is a psycho. But because of the treaties, Lock tells them they have to leave.

Nate is scared that they have to go outside and face the M.H.I. squads, but Lock assures them that if Richard is the chosen one, they'll be able to defeat the human soldiers. And they have to go out the same direction as M.H.I. because of beasts lurking in shadows of any other exit.

Storm escorts them out and locks the door behind them. After they are gone, Allie playfully calls Lock a monster and he owns it.

Jenny says that the only member of M.H.I. they need to worry about is Dexter. The others won't be any trouble. She says that Dexter is secretly a monster and not even Lock knows. She says he's very dangerous, but the chosen one should be able handle him and the M.H.I. troops.

They stash Nate and sneak towards the front of the house. They sneak up to Nate's car and hide behind it, unseen by the M.H.I. troops. Jenny says Nate is faster, so he should take out as many of the M.H.I. troops as possible while she distracts Dexter until they can both take him on. She suspects they aren't there to kill them, either to test or capture them. Richard doesn't like the plan, but he doesn't have a better one.

Before they attack, Richard kisses Jenny passionately. She returns the kiss. He gets his katana from the back seat of the car. They kiss one more time.

Richard runs towards the troops, but they don't see his quick movements in the dark. He leaps into the air and flips over a car and the troops hiding behind it. When he lands, he easily takes out to M.H.I. soldiers. The others fire, but he easily dodges them.

Dexter sends the other troops after Richard. Richard impales one solider and takes out a second that runs at him. Jenny sneaks up behind Dexter with two small daggers. He catches her, though. He puts her gun away and he begins to stalk her. Richard stabs another soldier, but another soldier smashes into him from behind, knocking him to the ground.

Jenny advances on Dexter, but he's much bigger than she is. She lunges, but he knocks the dagger out of her hand. She slashes his face with the other dagger. He rushes Jenny and knocks her to the ground. As she falls, she slashes his leg and draws blood

The last soldier drops his gun and runs. Nate comes running their way and distracts Dexter. Jenny buries her dagger in his thigh. Richard closes in on him. Dexter thinks they're all coming for him, so he limps away.

Nate says he was running from some kind of monster. Richard and Jenny are ready for whatever it is, but it's a cat-sized lizard creature. He tries to play it off. Jenny tells them they need to get out of there quickly.

Nate is driving. He asks where they are going. Jenny says it's time for training. Nate can't train because he "doesn't have the parts," but they have fun weapons he can try out.

In the control booth, the technician tells Rand that Phase Three went as expected. The Sage fed him the appropriate information and the Hunters attacked. They have confirmed that he is the chosen one. The technician tells Rand that everything is set up for Phase Four. They're going to bring him in and the trial will take place tomorrow. Godfrey will be in charge, which excites Rand.

Nate drives them to Camp White Pine, what appears to be a Boy Scout campground. Jenny tells the security guard they are here for the box car races and that they were referred by Jimmy Carter. The guard lets them in. Nate is excited to be dealing with secret passwords. He repeatedly flirts with Jenny, but she forces him to slam on the breaks and smack his own head against the steering wheel.

They park and go towards a shed a little bigger than a porta-potty. They go inside and the interior of the shed is MUCH larger than the outside. Like magically larger. They check in at the front desk with Sar, then head to one of the practice ranges.

Richard is annoyed that while Nate gets to practice with sci-fi weapons, he only gets to work with toothpicks. Jenny tells him he's got the more powerful weapon, but he doesn't buy it until she shows him. She takes a toothpick and throws it at a target while making a strange sound with her throat. The toothpick bursts into blue flame as it flies and destroys the head of a straw man target down the range.

Nate uses some kind of laser blaster. He's not good.

Richard tries his first toothpick and it falls to the ground harmlessly.

Nate tries a metal disc weapon that extends blades as it flies. Nate throws it into the ceiling instead of the target.

Richard does better this time and gets the toothpick to blast into blue flames, but it totally misses the target.

Sar shows Nate a laser whip.

This time, Richard throws the toothpick and destroys the target. Jenny tells him to try it without the toothpick.

Nate does the best he's done all day when he tries the laser whip.

Richard creates blue-flamed fireballs this time, destroying two targets at the same time.

Quinn and the M.H.I. troops surround them, as to Council troops. Sar and everyone else in the training center move away from Richard, Nate and Jenny. They are put under arrest. Richard wants to resist, but Jenny talks him out of it. There will be a time for fighting later, she says, now they need information. The surrender.

Later the three of them sit in an energy cell at the Council's courtroom location. Jenny says it appears they are going to be put on trial. Jenny says that this will be a show trial that leads to their executions. Security guards arrive to take them to the courtroom.

In the courtroom, Godfrey is the representative of the council. The council is present, except for Rand. The courtroom is filled to the brim. Godfrey begins his presentation, saying that Richard is not one of them and is instead a traitor and an enemy. Nate finds something strange about Godfrey's speech.

Godfrey asks Richard to explain why they are in the courtroom. Richard says it's because someone is afraid of him. Godfrey makes fun of that and continues to make his case against Richard. As he goes on, Nate realizes that Godfrey is just using old movie and TV quotes. The whole thing is a joke.

Richard decides it's time to break out of the courtroom. On the count of three, Richard attacks Godfrey with blue fireballs and kills him. Jenny takes out the security guards. Richard blasts his way through the exit. They escape.

Nate drives down a country road, complaining that court is more intense in person. Jenny suggests they go right after the bad guys. They won't stop pursuing Richard until he's dead, so they should go on the attack. Richard says he's exhausted and they should rest first.

The go to a motel and Nate gets his own room while Richard and Jenny get their own room. In the room, Richard and Jenny are finally loosening up around each other. He forgives her. He tells her he likes her and wants to kiss her. She's into it. They have sex.

In the control booth, the technician talks to Rand. Rand tells him to wait to launch Phase Five until they get the signal from the Sage.

Jenny, Richard and Nate return to Lock's house. Jenny says they need more information. Storm answers the door and tells them Lock can't help them. She won't answer their questions or let them inside. The only advice he has for them is to take a more direct approach in dealing with the council. They go off to practice some more.

Lock, Allie and Storm share drinks. Lock reveals that Richard isn't actually the chosen one, but keeps the real identity secret. He says even the Council doesn't know.

In the control booth, the technician tells Rand that the Sage turned them away. Rand says that it's time for the final stage to begin. Rand tells the technician to let him know when they arrive and then the original plan will be completed.

Jenny drives back to the motel and they discuss what Lock said. Jenny says that it means they should go ahead attack the bad guys and go on offense. Richard agrees, but Nate's worried.

As they approach the motel, it's surrounded by police cars. Quinn Dexter speaks with the hotel manager. They don't stop. They end up sleeping in Nate's car over night. They aren't rested. She decides to drive to Council HQ so they can save the world.

The technician tells the council that Richard, Jenny and Nate have arrived.

They approach the front of the building, which is guarded by security, but they are let inside with no problem. Jenny tells them to expect a trick. They are brought into the council chamber.

The Council is seated in the chamber as Richard, Jenny and Nate are escorted in. Rand relishes stretching things out and toying with Richard and his friends. Finally, Rand says this is the part where he kills Richard and the world ends.

Rand offers Richard a deal. If they face off one-on-one, he'll let Richard's friends live. If they get involved, everybody dies. On top of that, the winner chooses the fate of the world. Richard agrees. Rand offers to face him unarmed. Richard is reluctant but he gets to keep his katana, so he agrees.

Richard powers up the sword with newly-learned magic. Richard lunges at him. Rand sidesteps the attack easily and smashes him in the nose. Richard drops the sword as he falls to his knees, bleeding profusely. Rand grabs the sword, slices Richard across the face and then buries the katana in Richard's chest. Rand says Richard wasn't chosen to save the world, but to end it. Rand pushes home the death blow and nothing happens. They thought the killing blow against Richard would end the world.

A giant blue fireball kills Rand. Everyone turns to see that it is Jenny. The other conspirators scatter. Nate is shocked that Jenny was the real chosen one.

Richard lays dying. Nate makes jokes. Jenny chastises him, but Richard says it's okay. Richard thanks them then passes away. Jenny and Nate walk away.