Eli Damaskinos
Who do you think God really favors in the web? The spider, or the fly?
Scenes with Eli Damaskinos
4 scenes Eli Damaskinos
Eli Damaskinos
It has been said, "Be proud of your enemy and enjoy his success." In that case, I should thank you.
Blade
For what?
Kounen
Eliminating Deacon Frost. You did us a favor. Karel Kounen.
Blade
[noticing vampire tattoo]
You're human.
Kounen
Barely. I'm a lawyer. European Health Consortium.
Eli Damaskinos
As you may know, Vampirism is... a horrible virus, carried in the saliva of predators. In 72 hours, it spreads through the human bloodstream, creating new, parasitic organs.
Blade
Like cancer.
Eli Damaskinos
Cancer with a purpose.
Kounen
Unfortunately, viruses evolve, too. We've encountered a new one. We dubbed it the Reaper Strain. And like any good pathogen, it appears to have found a carrier.
Kounen
[Kounen places a disk into a computer. Nomak's first attack plays via a recording]
There. [Points to an image of Nomak] Jared Nomak.
Eli Damaskinos
Born a vampire, but an anomaly like you. Unlike the rest of us, however, he feeds on not just humans, but Vampires as well.
Blade
Looks like he was doing me a favor.
Nyssa
You're missing the point. They're vampire victims don't die. They turn. They become carriers.
Asad
You've got to understand. These things are like crack addicts. They have to feed daily. Nomak's been up for 72 hours. By our estimates, there are already a dozen Reapers. There'll be hundreds before the week is out. Thousands within a matter of months. Do the math.
Blade
Wait. Let me get this right. You want me to hunt them for you?
Eli Damaskinos
Once they are finished with us, who do you think they'll turn against next? Your precious humans. Not one of them will be left.
Kounen
We spent two years training a small tactical unit: the Bloodpack. We want you to lead them.
Blade
Two years?
Nyssa
We've been training to hunt you.
Whistler
Someone's been keeping tabs on us from inside.
Blade
Where are we?
Whistler
Some kind of chamber deep in their lair.
Scud
They smashed up everything. The workshop, all of it.
Whistler
They've been lying to us from day 1. The Reaper virus didn't evolve. It was designed.
Blade
What?
Whistler
Designed. Nomak told me. I saw him back in the tunnel. He let me live.
Eli Damaskinos
Did he? How generous of him. I brought you here to see the fruits of our labor. [A large canister opens next to him, revealing hundreds of vampire fetuses] For years, I've struggled to rid our kind of any hereditary weaknesses. And so... [Takes one of the fetuses] recombining DNA was simply the next logical step. Nomak was the first, a failure. But, in time, there will be a new, pure race, begotten from my own flesh, immune to silver, soon even sunlight.
Whistler
I got a question for you, you lying son of a bitch. You want to explain how Nomak got ahold of this ring? [Tosses a ring in front of him]
Eli Damaskinos
[Nyssa picks up the ring, then looks at Damaskinos]
I would have thought that was obvious by this point. I gave it to him, of course. A gift from father... to son.
[Nyssa, disgusted, leaves, followed by Damaskinos and Kounen]
Nyssa
[Nyssa closes security doors, preventing Eli Damaskinos from escaping]
I changed the security code. We're locked in.
Eli Damaskinos
Are you INSANE?! He'll kill us both!
Nyssa
Yes. Isn't it sad... that you die not by the hand of your enemy, but by that of your own children?
