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MP's clothes attack us as we come through the closet. Theodora thinks it's because of two different kinds of magic interacting -- Kas' house animating and Faust's portal.
Kaspar informs the party that Adrian wouldn't be an issue anymore and Marigold asks if he killed him. Kaspar admits it and Mirpuri consoles him by saying that he was an asshole anyway.
Anastasia returns while Kaspar waits on the porch. Marigold spies, Obfuscated behind the door. He tells her that Adrian is dead and that he is the new head of the California clan. She seems shocked but not too upset. She asks if he's moving to Utah and he says he's happy to leave the running of it up to her. She thinks she should be the leader because she was the chosen right hand. Theodora pops out from behind a tree and says that an Anarch has no place claiming dominion over someone else. Kaspar says that he will fight Anastasia for it if she agrees, and she does. He takes his Horrid Form. They fight and she gives in but is faking, so Kaspar gets upset and tries to kill her. Marigold tells her that she'll never beat him and Dementates her. Anastasia attacks and nearly kills Purrroborous and torpors Kaspar. Marigold gets a Compulsion and Diablerizes her. Theodora yells "CUT!" and starts talking about stagehands cleaning up. Marigold sees one of the staff taking pictures. She yells out that it's a closed set and Theodora Entrances him, telling him to go inside, where she attacks and drains him. Kaspar is taken to the basement and Theodora awakens him and informs him of what happened. Anastasia's body is taken to the basement as well.
--- NEXT NIGHT ---
Mirpuri and Kaspar hunts. Theodora uses Bloody Message to send a message to Temple: "did you get new amps recently?" Marigold tells Demetri that Anastasia was killed because she attacked Purrroborous but doesn't tell him the rest of the story. Marigold says he can stay and do whatever he wants. They talk for a bit about him becoming kindred and he mentions Boris and Gregori. Marigold leaves to steal Anastasia's phone and hunt.
Everyone returns and Marigold gives the phone to Kaspar. He calls one of the men but it goes to voicemail. He leaves a message. He tries to open the phone and can't. A woman in leather comes to the door. It's Ib. She speaks with Theodora. The amps were brought by the band. Theodora shows her the shrapnel and says it's high end. She says someone must have gotten to the band, with or without their knowledge. Ib gives her an address and says we could snoop around. Says the club is on lockdown so to continue using the mirror for now.
Address is in the Valley, Van Nuys/North Hollywood. Marigold forces a Premonition: "You see an old apartment complex. There are bad people all around. A pair of eyes in the bushes. Loud music." She is scared and tells the coterie that it will be dangerous.
Ib returns for one more thing. Asks if we invited a Mage to the party. Says a Valley Brujah (Barry or something) saw someone shove a bunch of people into a closet and confronted him, tried to bite him, and got burned to a crisp. Mirpuri denies it and says it probably has something to do with the bomb and Marigold says it was probably a Tremere. Mirpuri finally admits it but the coterie convinces her that he wasn't connected to the bombing. Theodora gives her the name Dane.
Mirpuri texts Faust and he comes into her room. He tells her what happened and that he was confronted and accused. HoST tells Kaspar that something is happening in her room and he checks on her. Faust quickly leaves.
Mirpuri drives Marigold and Theodora to the apartment complex. Marigold Obfuscates. She spots someone in an Altima that seems to be scoping the place out. Talking on the phone: tells someone he doesn't see much but two girls outside acting a little weird. Marigold whispers to act natural because of the car and they pretend to be lost and walk back to the car. Marigold gets the license plate. Dark grey altima, approximately 10 years old, late 20s latino guy, short buzzed hair. Share the Senses: a woman on the other end. He says he took a picture. Says the girl is in the apartment but no one has come to see her. Junk inside the car. Bag in the car.
Mirpuri makes him believe she's a cop with Fata Morgana. He says he's meeting his cousin in 215a, Romero Diaz. Marigold de-Obfuscates and tries to get him to look at her. She Mesmerizes him and tells him to delete all the photos that he just took of us, then Clouds his Memory. He gets back into the car and resumes the phone call. Says he doesn't know what happened. The voice tells him to take as many pictures as he can and get out. Marigold hits the ground and re-Obfuscates; Theodora and Mirpuri are back in the car. Theodora uses Bloody Message to tell Temple the license plate and the description.
MG and Theodora get messy feeds. Theodora kills someone.
Theodora plans the Coven music video. It's going to be lots of film history Draculas and other film vampires and then real Dracula (Bela) at the end. She uses Karen to get quality equipment, crew, and costumes.
Marigold asks Kaspar what he was talking about the other night when he mentioned the island crew wanting Dracula's coterie to be here. He explains that Vlad seems to support Dracula for Baron but doesn't mention the Jasper disguise. Marigold tells him that Therese wants to sell the Asylum to Nelli for $20 million and that Dracula needs to buy it instead and suggests that Vlad could help. She gets Theodoric's phone number from Kaspar.
Kaspar Fleshcrafts into a woman named Maria. Imalia brings a dress for him on Marigold's request and does his hair as well, then hangs out with Marigold Obfuscated on the roof of the real Haven, watching everyone coming in and looking for suspicious people. Imalia says Kaspar owes her some dogs or something for the dress.
Theodora uses Bloody Message to write the band's name in blood over their scenes.
Marigold sees Laszlo live streaming with some girls and he bites one on stream. She calls Theodora and Kaspar but they don't answer. She calls Mirpuri and Mirpuri yells at them about props and special effects usage without permission while the girl keeps streaming, saying she's an influencer. Marigold calls Mirpuri again and tells her to get the girl to come over. Mirpuri tells her there's a rooftop party. She then notices that the girl that Laszlo bit looks ill, and takes her away.
Marigold sees a guy with a clipboard come in at the same time that she sees the girl coming over. He shows an ID to the guard and the guards let him in. Marigold calls Kaspar and tells him, then goes to Mesmerize the girl. She makes her get back on her livestream and tell everyone that she was glad to share a sneak peak of the music video with them earlier.
Kaspar goes to confront the clipboard man. It's Barry Martinez from IATSE. They argue for a bit and then Theodora intervenes. She doesn't recognize Kaspar because he's Fleshcrafted into Maria, so Theodora has him dragged out by security. Theodora Entrances the man and he looks around but is fairly chill. A SAG-AFTRA woman, Linda Sullivan, comes in afterwards and Theodora talks to her. Marigold uses her Detect Lies Insight specialty and thinks her credentials sound legitimate but that it's strange that two reps showed up to an impromptu set in the middle of the night. Linda says there was a call about Temperance White; Theodora asks if anyone knows who it is and the live stream girl says it's the girl that the staff led away. Mirpuri explains that she got sick and Linda tries to get into the room. Theodora lets her into the room and uses Eyes of the Serpent on her. Mirpuri calls Kaspar and he comes over. Kaspar tells Linda to Forget everything and Theodora says they'll take Temperance to the hospital.
Theodora gets hungry so Mirpuri brings the influencer (Brandii Potter) over to feed on. Theodora convinces her to submit to her to help her career.
Marigold goes over to find the others but finds a nervous-looking Max. He says that Dracula might have killed someone so Marigold goes to check on the girl. She is definitely dying so Marigold calls Mirpuri. After talking and panicing, Marigold ghouls her. Her ID says Christina Sandobal.
While waiting for Christina to get better, Marigold gets a text from Fisher. Mirpuri brings her a man to feed on but Marigold is in a hurry to leave so she scares the man and they have to brawl. Marigold uses Cloud Memory on him and tells Max to stay with the girl while she goes.
Theodora tries to get everyone out of the house to wrap things up and flirts with James Dean's ghost.
Fisher arrives with two Tremere rolled up in rugs. Strider is there helping and Marigold is nervous about him knowing the location of her Haven, so Marigold asks Fisher to Cloud Memory. He tells her he found the Tremere in Nevada and they're probably Camarilla. She reiterates that Malks should stay together. After he leaves she calls Theodoric but he says he doesn't know who she is and hangs up. Marigold calls Kaspar panicing so he calls him for her. He says he doesn't know what Kaspar's talking about and he'll call him back. As Kaspar arrives home, Theodoric pulls up in a black SUV.
Marigold gives him the Tremere: a man, dark hair, 30s; and a woman, long blonde hair, 30s. She says he can just drop Sycorax and Skelter off anywhere in LA but to tell them that Marigold was the one who helped them. She asks if they have anyone named Smiling Jack there. He says they might but that he might cost 'something special.' Asks who wants to know but Marigold won't tell him, so he offers to meet. Marigold says they can meet at the Bite Club Haven and he agrees and leaves.
Theodora takes the band back to her Haven.