Blood Ties
Blood Ties, set in Toronto, Ontario, centres on Christina Cox as Vicki Nelson, a former Toronto Police Service who left the force to become a private investigator after beginning to lose her eyesight, due to a beginning Retinopathia Pigmentosa. Through her work she teams up with the 470-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy, who happens to be the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. The mutual attraction between them is complicated by Vicki's relationship with former partner and lover, Mike Celluci. In the beginning, he doesn't believe in the supernatural and thinks that Vicki is losing her mind along with her eyesight. Also in the picture is Vicki's assistant Coreen, who was hired because of her knowledge of the occult and to keep her quiet about Henry. Coreen is thoroughly enamored with both the occult and Henry, which can get her into trouble.
- 2007-2007
- 2 seasons
- Lifetime Television
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense
- TV-14
Blood Ties, set in Toronto, Ontario, centres on Christina Cox as Vicki Nelson, a former Toronto Police Service who left the force to become a private investigator after beginning to lose her eyesight, due to a beginning Retinopathia Pigmentosa. Through her work she teams up with the 470-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy, who happens to be the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. The mutual attraction between them is complicated by Vicki's relationship with former partner and lover, Mike Celluci. In the beginning, he doesn't believe in the supernatural and thinks that Vicki is losing her mind along with her eyesight. Also in the picture is Vicki's assistant Coreen, who was hired because of her knowledge of the occult and to keep her quiet about Henry. Coreen is thoroughly enamored with both the occult and Henry, which can get her into trouble.
Season 2 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2007
Episode 1
D.O.A.
Fri, Oct 12, 2007 43 mins
Vicky takes yet another strange case when she's hired by the ghost of an undercover cop, Paul 'Dirty' Deeds. He doesn't know how he died and his body has not yet been discovered. He remembers that he was at a biker bar, a hangout for the Wolverines, known drug dealers. Mike Celucci learns that Deeds' supervisor thought her undercover cop might have gone over to the other side. Henry begins to doubt Deeds' story and with good reason when Deeds turns up alive at the police station. His spirit is still around however and Henry concludes that Deeds' body has been taken over by an ancient Babylonian spirit, an Ikamu, that is jumping into different bodies.
Episode 2
Wild Blood
Fri, Oct 19, 2007 43 mins
Det. Mike Celucci asks Henry and Vicky for their help when he concludes a suspected murderer and burglar is a demon. The victim was torn to pieces and decapitated and it has all the markings of a wild animal attack. He thinks the killer is Felicia Bannick, who denies having anything to do with it.The woman has no history going beyond 7 months and Vicky's research shows she comes from a very odd family. It all points to Felicia being a shape-shifter but the attack makes them think it's a revenge killing.
Episode 3
5:55
Fri, Oct 26, 2007 43 mins
Vicki is reliving the same day over and over again. She awakes at 5:55 and is hired by antiquities dealer Jakob Keller who is looking for a business associate, Benoit Fournier, who had found an expensive piece for but hasn't heard from him for a month. As Vicki chases the object down she finds Fournier dead and the antique in question to be a box with the power of life and death. As she relives the day, she's able to use the knowledge gained from her previous experiences to change the outcome.
Episode 4
Bugged
Fri, Nov 2, 2007 43 mins
Vicki agrees to investigate a number of strange deaths at a Goth club frequented by her assistant Coreen. She's certain that drugs are somehow involved but soon realizes that they're dealing with very specialized drugs that will lead to certain death. Coreen agrees to go in and see who might be behind it all. Henry meanwhile believes there is another vampire killing and feeding on his territory. He doesn't want to involve Vicki so he turns to Det. Mike Celluci for help, something that puzzles Vicki given their previous animosity to one another.
Episode 5
The Devil You Know
Fri, Nov 9, 2007 43 mins
When Henry discovers another vampire, Alexander, is hunting in his territory, he believes he has a turf war on his hands and later discovers his own creator, Christina, may have lured Alexander there. Vicki has her doubts about Christina's true motives.
Episode 6
Drawn and Quartered
Fri, Nov 16, 2007 43 mins
When Henry's artist friend Maya comes under suspicion for the murder of an art gallery owner, he asks Vicki to help him find the real killer. The dead man drowned - though it's not water they find in his lungs but paint. Vicki enlists Coreen's help and they go to a new exhibit at the gallery. Coreen is particularly keen on going, all the more so after she meets Tyrone King, whose work she really admires. Maya has her detractors however and Mike Celluci thinks she might be guilty, which annoys Henry to no end.
Episode 7
Wrapped
Fri, Nov 23, 2007 43 mins
After a criminal gang hijacks a truck destined to a local museum an Incan mummy, Pacha Kamaq, comes to life by sucking the life force out the criminals and sets about looking for Henry in the hopes of gaining his immortality. For his part, Henry has been having nightmares about Pacha Kamaq and eventually concludes that they have a psychic connection. He tells Vicki to stay out of his business but she refuses and turns to black magic as a way of saving him. Her choice may cause a permanent rift between them.
Episode 8
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Fri, Nov 30, 2007 43 mins
A serial killer from Vicki's biggest case as a detective contacts her from prison taking back his confession and claiming the real killer is about to strike again. When the murder happens as he describes, Mike and Vicki butt heads trying to determine if it's supernatural or human.
Episode 9
We'll Meet Again
Fri, Nov 30, 2007 43 mins
A teenager who claims he and his true love have been reincarnated throughout the centuries runs into trouble when he finds she's created a new life without him, Mike continues to feel pressure at work because of his association with Vicki, and Henry makes a break.
Episode 10
Deep Dark
Fri, Dec 7, 2007 43 mins
During her weekly visit with tarot card reader Madame Andrea, Asteroth takes over Coreen's body. As Vicky soon learns, she is the ultimate quarry. She gets Mike Celucci to help her but they're quite busy investigating the kidnapping of a young girl, Hannah Tang, daughter of a wealthy local businessman. They manage to find the possessed Coreen and keep her prisoner at Henry's apartment. Henry turns to an old friend, a priest with experience in exorcism, but they discover that Coreen's heart is missing. As a result of his absence from work, Mike is forced to hand in his badge. Vicky is faced with several choices, all of which could change lives forever.