![]() That said, 'It Begins' does make a point of showing what exactly it means for Vanessa to be a descendant of the Van Helsing line. Though the information dump is instrumental to furthering the plot of Van Helsing, it's not exactly exciting television - nor even particularly entertaining. ![]() With Vanessa lying prostrate on a table, or chained up in the center of the room with little ability to talk or fight back, Dimitri's monologues are delivered uninterrupted. Still, while the implications of Vanessa's heritage and the legacy of her ancestors may offer compelling world-building to Van Helsing, it's largely delivered in rather tedious monologues from Dimitri. Or, Dimitri is simply referring to the Van Helsing family line from which she has descended. However, Dimitri additionally teases a larger mythology by referring to Vanessa's people, possibly indicating there was an entire group possessing the power to fight and defeat vampires. It's finally confirmed by Dimitri that she is a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing (the doctor from Stoker's Dracula who has been reimagined as a vampire hunter) - though, considering the show's name, this was largely known by the viewer. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of 'It Begins' is the episode's revelations about Vanessa's heritage. While Dimitri attempts to mentally break Vanessa so as to more easily conduct experiments on her blood, fellow vampire elder Rebecca (Laura Mennell) conspires with the human resistance. The finale offers answers to many questions established in season 1 - such as the source of Vanessa's abilities - and, more excitingly, sets the stage for bigger and badder drama in Van Helsing season 2. In 'It Begins' - written by creator and showrunner Neil LaBute and directed by sci-fi veteran Amanda Tapping - Vanessa awakes again, this time as a prisoner of Dimitri's. Now, the season 1 finale of Van Helsing proves how far the show has come since Vanessa awoke in that hospital. ![]() However, the pilot saw Vanessa awake to find herself in a fortified hospital, being guarded over by Axel (Jonathan Scarfe), and discovering newfound powers of super strength as well as the ability to turn vampires back into humans. Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.The series premiere of Van Helsing introduced Vanessa Seward (Kelly Overton), a woman who fell into a coma after being attacked - and thought to be killed - by a vampire she slept for three years while the vampires led by Dimitri (Paul Johansson) began a reign of terror, if not around the world, then at least in the northwestern United States.
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