'Demons' Episode Guide
'Demons' premièred on ITV on 3 January 2009. It comprised 6 episodes.
Episode 1: They Bite
Air date: Saturday 3rd January 2009
Synopsis: Luke Rutherford is an average teenager – until his dead father's best friend, Rupert Galvin, enters his life, and a small hideous creature attacks him. Galvin has come to tell Luke that he is the great-grandson of the legendary Abraham Van Helsing. Luke's destiny is to fight against the supernatural entities swarming the earth after he fights a small demon. But half-life Gladiolus Thrip (Mackenzie Crook) has discovered Luke's secret as well. He kidnaps Luke's best friend Ruby, imprisoning her in a tomb and gagging her with duct tape, before his apparent destruction.
Ratings: 6.27m (UK)
Episode 2: The Whole Enchilada
Air date: Saturday 10th January 2009
Synopsis: Galvin thinks that a girl's disappearance is down to the ancient demon, Gilgamel, a fear confirmed by the priest Father Simeon (Richard Wilson). Gilgamel feasts on innocent souls, whilst masquerading as an angel. As more and more children disappear at the hands of the demon, which is impersonating the first girl who was taken, including Ruby's younger brother, Galvin Luke decide to summon the demon in order to defeat it. Using a magic sword he defeats the demon just before it feasts.
Ratings: 5.58m (UK)
Episode 3: Saving Grace
Air date: Saturday 17th January 2009
Synopsis: The return of Galvin's wife's murderer, Tobias Tibbs (Kevin McNally), a half-life who likes to experiment on humans, sets the vampire hunter on a path of vengeance. This leads to Galvin breaking into Tibbs' lair and having to be rescued from a group of half-lives. Thirst for revenge still not quenched, he and Luke find themselves walking into a trap. Ruby finds herself in a race against time to defuse a bomb placed in the Stacks by Tibbs due to a woman he was experimenting on letting him into the Vault, and with the help of Mina, must find Luke and Galvin before they succumb to a watery fate.
Ratings: 4.81m (UK)
Episode 4: Suckers
Air date: Saturday 24th January 2009
Synopsis: Bad boy vampire Quincey (Ciaran McMenamin) is on the scene and causing havoc around London with his band of half-life misfits. Galvin and Luke must stop him, but there is more to Quincey than meets the eye. Luke discovers that Mina is a vampire, and that Quincey is in fact her own son, who she made a vampire to cure him of a deadly disease in the 1800s. Finally she drinks blood, enabling her to briefly see and kill Quincey.
Ratings: 4.22m (UK)
Episode 5: Smitten
Air date: Saturday 31st January 2009
Synopsis: A strange murder in the capital raises fears for Luke's safety, providing him with the opportunity to lie low and taste the life of an ordinary teenager. However, alarm bells ring when Galvin and Ruby suspect the adolescent's new love interest is an entity that can take the form of a female to stalk its prey, and she wants revenge for the death of her two sisters. Luke refuses to believe them, and tells Galvin that he shouldn't let his feelings waiver his judgement just because his wife was killed by a half-life. However, the tables turn and Luke spots Alice hiding a body in her apartment. Confronting her as well as Galvin and the rest of the team, they defeat the harpee.
Ratings: 4.04m (UK)
Episode 6: Nothing Like Nebraska
Air date: Saturday 7th February 2009
Synopsis: Luke becomes haunted by dreams about the car crash that killed his father and Galvin's connection to it. A visit to a psychic convinces him his godfather is not the man he seems and, with Gladiolus Thrip back on the scene and showing an unhealthy interest in Luke's past, even giving him a gun, the vampire-fighting duo look set to be torn apart. Finally it is revealed that Luke's father was going to hand him over to the half-lives after he began to sympathise with them, but the car crash stopped him just as he was driving to meet them. Mina again drinks blood, increasing her speed and giving her her eyesight, she reveals Thrip is a vampire and kills him.
Ratings: 3.42m (UK)
Episode 1: They Bite
Air date: Saturday 3rd January 2009
Synopsis: Luke Rutherford is an average teenager – until his dead father's best friend, Rupert Galvin, enters his life, and a small hideous creature attacks him. Galvin has come to tell Luke that he is the great-grandson of the legendary Abraham Van Helsing. Luke's destiny is to fight against the supernatural entities swarming the earth after he fights a small demon. But half-life Gladiolus Thrip (Mackenzie Crook) has discovered Luke's secret as well. He kidnaps Luke's best friend Ruby, imprisoning her in a tomb and gagging her with duct tape, before his apparent destruction.
Ratings: 6.27m (UK)
Episode 2: The Whole Enchilada
Air date: Saturday 10th January 2009
Synopsis: Galvin thinks that a girl's disappearance is down to the ancient demon, Gilgamel, a fear confirmed by the priest Father Simeon (Richard Wilson). Gilgamel feasts on innocent souls, whilst masquerading as an angel. As more and more children disappear at the hands of the demon, which is impersonating the first girl who was taken, including Ruby's younger brother, Galvin Luke decide to summon the demon in order to defeat it. Using a magic sword he defeats the demon just before it feasts.
Ratings: 5.58m (UK)
Episode 3: Saving Grace
Air date: Saturday 17th January 2009
Synopsis: The return of Galvin's wife's murderer, Tobias Tibbs (Kevin McNally), a half-life who likes to experiment on humans, sets the vampire hunter on a path of vengeance. This leads to Galvin breaking into Tibbs' lair and having to be rescued from a group of half-lives. Thirst for revenge still not quenched, he and Luke find themselves walking into a trap. Ruby finds herself in a race against time to defuse a bomb placed in the Stacks by Tibbs due to a woman he was experimenting on letting him into the Vault, and with the help of Mina, must find Luke and Galvin before they succumb to a watery fate.
Ratings: 4.81m (UK)
Episode 4: Suckers
Air date: Saturday 24th January 2009
Synopsis: Bad boy vampire Quincey (Ciaran McMenamin) is on the scene and causing havoc around London with his band of half-life misfits. Galvin and Luke must stop him, but there is more to Quincey than meets the eye. Luke discovers that Mina is a vampire, and that Quincey is in fact her own son, who she made a vampire to cure him of a deadly disease in the 1800s. Finally she drinks blood, enabling her to briefly see and kill Quincey.
Ratings: 4.22m (UK)
Episode 5: Smitten
Air date: Saturday 31st January 2009
Synopsis: A strange murder in the capital raises fears for Luke's safety, providing him with the opportunity to lie low and taste the life of an ordinary teenager. However, alarm bells ring when Galvin and Ruby suspect the adolescent's new love interest is an entity that can take the form of a female to stalk its prey, and she wants revenge for the death of her two sisters. Luke refuses to believe them, and tells Galvin that he shouldn't let his feelings waiver his judgement just because his wife was killed by a half-life. However, the tables turn and Luke spots Alice hiding a body in her apartment. Confronting her as well as Galvin and the rest of the team, they defeat the harpee.
Ratings: 4.04m (UK)
Episode 6: Nothing Like Nebraska
Air date: Saturday 7th February 2009
Synopsis: Luke becomes haunted by dreams about the car crash that killed his father and Galvin's connection to it. A visit to a psychic convinces him his godfather is not the man he seems and, with Gladiolus Thrip back on the scene and showing an unhealthy interest in Luke's past, even giving him a gun, the vampire-fighting duo look set to be torn apart. Finally it is revealed that Luke's father was going to hand him over to the half-lives after he began to sympathise with them, but the car crash stopped him just as he was driving to meet them. Mina again drinks blood, increasing her speed and giving her her eyesight, she reveals Thrip is a vampire and kills him.
Ratings: 3.42m (UK)
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