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Synopsis

Sixteen murders in two months. All of them women. All of them drainedof blood. There's a vampire on the loose, but the police have no leads, nowitnesses, and no suspects.

More than anything, ex-Homicide Detective Carrie Blass [Michelle Owens] wants to getassigned to this case instead of wasting away playing social worker on theRape Crisis Squad where she was assigned after blowing a murder case inwhich her ex-husband Dennis [Michael McMillen] was the one who saved her ass. When there's abreak in the case -- a witness who was bitten but not killed by theVampire -- it becomes apparent that they need a woman to get the witnessto talk, so they bring in Carrie. Carol [Darla Grant] describes a man wearing a graypin-striped Brooks Brothers suit and an earring in the shape of a silvercross.

So far, it appears that the only way for Carrie to get moved backinto Homicide is to sleep with Captain Nicoletti [Robert Miano], something she is notabout to do. Carrie suggests that she and Nicoletti meet for drinks sothat she can run a plan past him in which she offers to serve as a decoyfor the killer. Unfortunately, the only thing in which Nicoletti isinterested is getting Carrie's pants off. Carrie refuses and threatens to havea word with Internal Affairs about sexual harrassment. The next day,Carrie gets assigned to the case with one hitch. Dennis is to be herpartner.

It's not looking good for Carrie's plan. Stake-out after stake-outand nothing happens, except for a vagrant asking for a handout. One night,on her way from her parking space into her apartment building, Carriepasses a milkman who claims to be making his rounds. Carrie notices theearring in the shape of a silver cross and begins to back away. TheVampire [Gregory A. Greer] jumps her. Carrie puts up a good fight and gets away, but notbefore the Vampire bites her arm. However, no one will believe her storyabout how she shot him once in the chest and once in the head but he gotup and walked away.

The next morning, Carrie awakens to find that she has been chewing onthe bite marks on her arm. Her eyes are extraordinarily sensitive to thesun. When two punks being booked at the station grab a gun and hold a cophostage, it is Carrie who courageously confronts them and then bangs oneof them against the wall until she cracks his skull open. That night onstake-out, she stops three punks from beating up the vagrant by tossingone guy across the parking lot and breaking another one's arm. She's aboutto bite the third guy in the neck when Dennis stops her. When interviewedby the media, she explains that it was gang related. Nicoletti places heron suspension for sixty days.

Carrie is becoming more and more sensitive to sunlight, and she feelssick all the time. She's beginning to have stomach pains and crave blood,even cutting herself for it. Her appearance on the TV was seen by theVampire, and he telephones her, explaining that being a vampire isn't allthat bad and assuring her that he'll soon be coming for her. Dennis scoffswhen Carrie tells him that she thinks she's becoming a vampire, but heaccompanies her to the morgue so that she can stake the Vampire's othervictims before they start causing problems.

Carrie thinks that Carol might also have turned vampire and drives toher house. There, Carrie finds a mess -- rats eating food from the floor,blood smeared on the walls, blankets covering the windows, human bodyparts under the bedcovers, and Carol hanging from the ceiling. Caroldoesn't like the competition for the Vampire's affections, so she jumpsCarrie, but Carrie manages to stake her with a broken chair rung.

Carrie knows that her time is getting short when she is barely ableto stop herself from drinking the blood of her pet cat. She also knowsthat she's going to have to find and destroy the Vampire really soon ifshe's to save herself from turning into one. First, though, she must haveblood. As she stands in the bathroom, ready to slit her arm with a cuticlescissors, the Vampire suddenly appears behind her. He offers to take careof her forever, but Carrie refuses. As they struggle, Dennis suddenlyappears. He fires eight shots into the Vampire and still the Vampireadvances on him. Dennis is taking the worst of it when Carrie suddenlybreaks a broom handle and stakes the Vampire with it. Surprisingly, hepulls out the stake and keeps coming. She picks up the broom handle andstakes him again, this time through the neck. It works, and he bursts intoflames.

To be sure that killing the Vampire has returned her to human, Carrietells Dennis to open the windows. As Carrie's face basks in the brightsunlight, the angels sing. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]