Recap: What We Do in the Shadows 205: Colin’s Promotion
What We Do in the Shadows 205: Colin’s Promotion Colin gets a promotion that gives him more power than his roommates; a secret is discovered in a painting.
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Art
Nadja(Natasia Demetriou) is showing off the art collection(which I’m pretty sure they don’t realize is worth millions) in the house. She took the part of Picasso’s Guernica that had her in it. The vamps are rearranging art with Guillermo’s(Harvey Guillén) help. We learn that Laszlo(Matt Berry) invented the portrait bomb. Colin(Mark Proksch) offers to help, but is rejected. His Texas Instruments painting is also given back to him.
Promotion
At work, Colin is called to his supervisor’s office. He assumes the worst. However, he finds that he has been given a promotion. This is a pretty mean feat, as he has no idea what his company actually does. He isn’t happy with the promotion at first. But when he gives a presentation, he drains the whole room, and realizes that now his co-workers have to listen to him. Colin powers up.
The Painting
Coming home, Colin is invited to help. But high on his power, he lashes out at them. He uses his new power of telekinesis to lift a photo he says he likes best. The vamps don’t recognize it. Why would they, they have a house full of the stuff! Upon closer inspection, it is a painting of Nadja’s village being burned to the ground. Burned by Nandor the Relentless(Kayvan Novak).
Nadja’s Village
Before the pillaging by Nandor(The Persian Frank Zappa), Nadja’s village was a place of wonder. The water was like honey, and even urine was like rose water that would make you dance if you drank it. But thanks to Nandor, the village was destroyed centuries before Nadja’s birth. The villagers just didn’t catch his name, because it was windy that day. But now the truth is out.
Hearing the bickering that he caused(probably knowingly), Colin smiles and feeds.
Colin the Powerful
Colin’s power is now greater than that of his housemates. He can drain his co-workers without effort, and drains them all. His hair grows back, his head elongates. Nadja plans to kill the people that gave him a promotion, and goes to talk to him. He loves lists, so she gets all the names. But at a cost-coming back upstairs, she has aged. They’ve all aged. They are all drained, even Guillermo. Nandor decides to feed on him. Guillermo can’t be bothered to move.
Come over here and put your neck in my mouth!
Guillermo tries to confess that he is a vampire killer, but Nandor tells him to wait until he’s dead. Colin is floating down the hall-he can fly now. Coming to the vamps, he splits into three Colins. They actually bore each other to death, saving the vamps.
The Funeral
At the Colins’s backyard funeral, the vamps admit that they did like talking to Colin, and liked having him around. Colin(the original) jumps up and says he faked his death as a ploy to get the vamps to admit they liked him. Happy, he summons his other selves out of the grave-oops! They’re really dead.
Fixing Things
Colin’s workplace collapsed. No work was being done, so the business went under. Back to his usual self, he goes to a new job. He hasn’t been hired yet, although he did find a cubicle.
Laszlo fixed the painting; Nadja is now in it, breasts bared on a pile of hay, Laszlo is now where Nandor was, riding to ravage his ladywife, and Nandor is stuck inside a burning building.
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