Alex O’Loughlin

The CBS Moonlight introduced most of us here in the US of A to the hunky Alex O’Loughlin. We started to anticpate every Friday with salivation and butterflies and then something tragic happened. A huge writer’s strike threw a monkey wrench in the mix and Moonlight ended after only 12 episodes.

Well, the writer’s strike looks like it might finally nearing its end. So what does this mean for Moonlight? We are not sure yet. Hopefully CBS will realize that we cannot wait until the next season to see more new episodes of Moonlight…especially since they left the show with quite a cliffhanger…Mick became temporarily mortal.

Let’s hope CBS puts the writers back to work on 12 more episodes for the current season!

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The Season One Finale of Moonlight! :(The episode opens with Mick and Beth at the police station giving statements about Josh’s death. Beth is still upset with Mick and he once again tries to make her understand that he would not want anyone to share his fate as being a vampire is detestable to him.

Vampires can smell decay and the older a vampire gets the more aroma of decay they give off. When Mick gets back to his apartment he senses that a very old vampire is inside his apartment. When he enters and goes out on to the balcony he finds two vampires. One of them, with a pitch black eye, asks him where Coraline is and shows him a copy of Mick and Coraline’s marriage certificate to demonstrates that he knows they know each other. Mick tells the man he hasn’t seen Coraline in years and that he won’t help find her.

Later Mick asks Josef about the strange man and when Josef hears about the one black eye he tells Mick that the man is named Lance and that he is very powerful and very rich and that under no circumstances should Mick get involved with or anger this man. Josef seems almost scared of Lance.

Mick looks at hospital surveillance tapes to figure out that Coraline was helped to escape from the hospital by one of Coraline’s oldest and best vampire friends. Mick tracks the friend and then later Coraline to a warehouse facility where some sort of research is being done. Mick interrupts a fight between Coraline and Lance. Lance beheads one vampire and then goes after Coraline but Mick intervenes and Coraline escapes. When Mick tackles Lance he goes flying and knocks over a bunsen burner and starts a fire. Lance’s hand catches fires but instead of turning to ash it regenerates…demonstrating that Lance is a unique vampire. Lance recovers and knocks Mick out and then disappears.

Meanwhile Beth takes possession of Josh’s personal items that he had at work and when she goes through his date book she finds that he had dinner reservations for that night with someone named Celeste. Beth calls the number and a young woman answers. Beth hangs up and decides to meet this woman at the restaurant and confront her to determine if she and Josh were having an affair. When she meets Celeste she finds out that she is a jeweler and that Josh was fitting his grandmother’s gemstone into a new setting in order to propose to Beth. Beth is devastated but also confused because she is not sure what her answer would have been had he asked her.

She seeks out and confides in Mick but they are interrupted by Coraline. Beth decides to leave and Coraline explains that her cure is only temporary and that it is an ancient formula derived from plants and created by 7 siblings (including Lance) in King Louie’s royal blood line. During the Reign of Terror vampires were being hunted and exterminated and the “cure” was created and used to throw people off and hide their true nature.

Coraline cuts Mick’s arm and put the salve into the wound beginning his temporary transformation from vampire to human. Then Coraline tells Mick that she needs to get out of town fast to avoid Lance but as they leave Mick’s building Lance confronts them and Mick is almost entirely human. Lance refers to Coraline as his sister and suddenly Mick realizes that Coraline is one of the seven royal siblings.

Mick tries to fight Lance off but he gets beaten very badly. Lance is about to kill Mick when Coraline volunteers to go willingly if he will leave Mick alone. Lance agrees and Coraline reminds him of what will happen to her if he takes her to their brother. Lance tells Coraline that she will be judged harshly for bringing Mick into the bloodline without consent and for stealing the secret formulation and he stakes her though the heart to paralyze her. Then he carries her off as Mick watches helplessly.

Mick hobbles back to his apartment in great pain but he still relishes his new found mortality. He withdraws a syringe of his own blood to preserve any traces of the cure and then he proceeds to eat with abandon and then fall asleep on the couch.

The next morning a very beat up Mick attends Josh’s funeral and upon seeing him Beth realizes that he is human. She asks how it feels and he says that it feels amazing. The episode closes with a priest declaring that everyone must live in the moment. Leaving us to wonder what Mick will do with his time as a mortal.

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Episode 1.11 of Moonlight titled Love Lasts Forever picks up after Mick helps himself to a sample of Coraline’s blood to see if he might figure out how she managed to change from a vampire to a human. In this episode he enlists Beth’s help to find a scientist that can analyze the blood. Mick doesn’t want to enlist the help of any vampires because he feels that any “cure” for vampirism might be seen as a threat to others within the vampire world.

At the same time, Beth’s boyfriend Josh (a prosecutor) is trying to indict a vicious drug lord who threatens Josh’s life when he won’t back off. While leaving work Josh is attacked and given a photo of Beth with an “X” over the face indicating that she has been marked for death if Josh does not drop his case against the drug lord.

When he returns home he explains to Beth what has happened and she talks him out of dropping the case. He and Beth connect again after weeks of tension and they make love. With all of this drama going on Beth forgets that she had an appointment with Mick to see the scientist the next morning and he shows up at her home to find Beth and Josh dressed scantily and to overhear Josh ordering round the clock protection for Beth. Despite Mick’s emotional distress over seeing the two of them so close and hearing their endearments for each other he tells Josh that he will keep an eye out for Beth during this crisis.

Mick and Beth finally make their trip to see the scientist who explains that Coraline’s blood sample is normal as far as toxicology goes, which frustrates Mick. The scientist also tells them that she had assumed this sample was from a child because it was very pure and that it is a VERY rare blood type. Beth shares that she too has this rare blood type and she an Mick discuss the possibility that somehow this may be the reason Coraline chose to kidnap Beth all those years previous.

On the way out of the building Mick’s super sonic hearing alerts him to an attack on Beth’s life and he manages to pull her to safety just seconds before getting shot in the head by a sniper. At this same time the sample of Coraline’s blood was destroyed. Mick takes Beth home and they wait for Josh, who decides to increase security around Beth.

Josh then executes a raid on the drug lord’s home and arrests him during his daughter’s sweet sixteen birthday party, humiliating him and his daughter. Unfortunately a hire powered attorney manages to arrange a 5 million dollar bail deal and the drug lord is released on bail. Upon hearing that Beth has survived his “hit” he instructs his men to go directly after Josh.

The next morning Beth witnesses Josh being abducted at gunpoint as he leaves for work. Mick and Beth race from the house and chase the kidnappers. They locate him at a park just as the assassins are preparing to shoot him. Mick attacks them and Beth works to pull Josh out of the car. Before she can get him out, one of the gunmen still in the car unloads several bullets into the trunk (where Josh is) and Josh is shot.

Mick and Beth attempt to manage his bleeding as best they can and both do CPR as Josh’s heart stops. At this point Beth begs Mick to turn Josh into a vampire. He refuses, saying that life as vampire is no life. Paramedics come and take over CPR but they declare shortly after that Josh is dead. When Mick attempts to comfort Beth she angrily tells him to stay away from her.

Mick is devastated by this response and he accompanies Josh’s co-workers to the police station to interrogate the assassins for the whereabouts of the drug lord. In a hilarious scene Mick is allowed 5 minutes to try and get one of the men to talk. Mick sits with his back to the police officers and allows his fangs to emerge and and scare the man senseless until he tells Mick where the drug lord is. Mick gives the officers a false location and he goes after the drug lord himself. After having his heart broken by Beth’s words he cares very little about people seeing who or “what” he is and he wreaks havoc on a Hispanic hideaway bar, tossing people around like rag dolls until he finds the drug lord, who he then kills with obvious satisfaction and revenge.

After this occurs Mick visits Beth who is sitting among pictures of Josh, drinking and crying. Mick asks her to remember that he while he wouldn’t turn Josh into a vampire, he (Mick) didn’t kill Josh and he wasn’t responsible for his death. Beth was unmoved and stated that Josh would still be with them if Mick had only turned him and she asked Mick if he would have made the same decision if it had been her that was dying. In his mind Mick knew that he didn’t know what he would do but he answered that he would have made the very same decision and he would not have turned her into a vampire to save her life. Beth turns away from Mick in tears and Mick disappears into the night.

This concluded the episode. Spoilers for next week leave us to believe that Coraline might inject Mick with her “cure” rendering him human….we shall see.

Here is a video recap of the episode:

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