A bunch of mercenaries known as the Wild Geese are in the middle of a battle. Some bombers drop their load onto the city, which doesn't impress the Wild Geese as it seems that their employers aren't looking out for them. Their leader, Pip Bernadotte, tells his men to shape up, but then he finds out that the palace has surrendered. Seems this civil war is over, so it means that they're out of a job. However Pip says that he's been working on something, and that their next job will by in a city of fog.



Some time later the Wild Geese are in the Hellsing HQ. Pip explains that they are going to be fighting monsters, but his men laugh at this. Integra appears and says that what Pip told them is true, they will be fighting creatures that sustain themselves by drinking human blood. The Wild Geese still aren't buying it, but Integra tells them that her organization has fighting a war against the forces of darkness for over a century. To convince those who still don't believe her, she presents them all with a genuine vampire: Seras.



Pip gets up to take a look at her and he can't believe it, even when she tells him he is. He and his men all begin to laugh at her, so Integra tells her to show them something to make them stop. Pip goes to challenge her, but all she has to do is flick his face a few times to send him flying. Pip still isn't sure, is that girl really a vampire?



Alucard then startles the Wild Geese by floating through a wall, saying she damn well is a vampire. She may be the lowest of the low, but a vampire is still a vampire. He's come here to measure up the Wild Geese, but he thinks they're a bunch of cowards. Walter then appears and says a most unusual letter arrived today. It has come from the Vatican's Iscariot Organization.



The letter proposes a meeting between Integra and the Iscariot's leader, Enrico Maxwell at a museum. Integra and Walter have gone there, but they see that Maxwell is late. Integra wonders if this is some kind of trap, but Walter doesn't think they'd dare attack in daylight in a public place. However Maxwell and another man then appear. Integra tells him not to get too close and asks what he wants. Why has the Vatican sent the Iscariot Organization, the dirtiest of their dirty little secrets? Maxwell states his name and who he works for, but Integra really doesn't care. She just wants to know what he wants. He says he hasn't come to pick a fight, but after what happened with Father Anderson in Northern Ireland, Integra doesn't believe him.



Maxwell knows full well what happened in Northern Ireland, but he doesn't care that Anderson took out two of Integra's men along with nearly killing her. He doesn't care how many protestant scum dies. He's here under order of his holiness, otherwise he wouldn't bother with such filthy creatures. He then tells Integra to just shut up and listen, before calling her a miserable English sow. This was a mistake, as it causes Alucard to appear. He doesn't like that Maxwell called his master a sow, and he doesn't like the Iscariots either. Pulling out one of his guns, he asks if Maxwell expected him to let him live after insulting his master.



Maxwell introduces himself to Alucard but then says that how can a man be expected to deal with people who put a dun in his face? The answer is to make this fight interesting, which he does by calling for Anderson. Anderson enters the corridor and starts quoting from the Bible, whilst walking towards Alucard. Maxwell really didn't actually want him to start fighting here, but he can't stop Anderson who walks straight towards Alucard.



Alucard gets the Jackal out and the two stand right next to each other. Alucard says neither of them can back down in the presence of an enemy, and Anderson tells him he won't be so lucky this time. Maxwell orders Anderson to stop, but is completely ignored. It seems a bloody battle is unavoidable up until Seras bursts in, along with the North Kasukabe elderly society. She gets the group right between Alucard and Anderson.



And suddenly, with a bunch of old people between them, Alucard says this is no time or place for a fight, and Anderson agrees, saying he may have a point. Alucard says he's going back to sleep, and leaves. Anderson also decides to leave and go back to Rome, but he does like this museum. Maybe next time Maxwell will let him bring some of the children from the orphanage? Maxwell tells him that's fine, and gets a little worried when, as Anderson walks off, he hears him say how next time he'll rip Alucard into pieces. Integra laughs and says that they both have to contend with some difficult subordinates. Now that the violence is over, Maxwell suggests he and Integra discuss things in the cafe area, so off they go.


"Well done!"


"Thank you!"


Outside, Maxwell says he knows that Hellsing has been looking into Millennium. He asks her if she wants to know what they've found out, and after she says please, he passes her a small book with more details on Millennium. It started half a century a go, during the second world war. With the Nazi party about to lose, Nazi loyalists were preparing to flee from Germany. An extraction operation began just as allied forces took the country.



They needed enough time to evacuate whilst also staying in the country long enough to not be branded as traitors. The majority of these party members and soldiers ended up in South America, where they found refuge with a number of Nazi sympathizers. Those people are now the Millennium group. Maxwell says Millennium also refers to the classified operation to move these people and supplies to South America, and the military unit who carried out the orders. The reason he knows all of this is because the Vatican helped to do it! Nearby, two people at a table inside are overhearing them. One of them doesn't believe that what they've found out matters. But he's still excited about all of this.



Back in the Hellsing HQ, Walter and Alucard discuss that it seems their troubles are the work of the Nazis again. Its been 50 years since they went to Germany and completely destroyed their undead research institute. Walter can't believe its been that long. Alucard tells him that growing old seems awful, but Walter says that to Englishmen, old age is something to enjoy. He then tells Alucard that he's being sent to South America.



Integra then enters and tells Alucard her orders are simple: search and destroy. Later on, Alucard and Pip are onboard a private jet, and Seras has also come along for the ride -although she's been left in her coffin, and can't get out of it.



The plane lands in Rio de Janeiro. The trio head to a hotel, where Alucard, under the alias of Mr. Brenner, checks in. The clerk doesn't think he can have all that luggage taken in here, but Alucard quickly sets things straight by using his powers to take over the guy's mind and make him think it's OK.



Pip goes upstairs with Alucard, who has the hotel's penthouse suite. He's quite amazed by it, as in comparison the hotel he's got in some trash heap on the edge of town. Alucard thinks cheap hotels can be charming, but Pip doesn't agree. Outside the room, a man checks in with his superiors and tells them that the guests have checked into the hotel. He then leaves when the door opens, as Pip walks out and says they'll start the investigation tomorrow. He'll come over once the sun sets, since vampires do prefer to work at night...according to the movies. Alucard says he can hardly wait.



Maxwell has returned to Rome, where he reports to the Pope. The Pope says that Iscariot and Hellsing seem to share the same interests at the moment. It will not be easy to clean up this 50 year old mess and he tells Maxwell he's sorry to keep making him do such unpleasant tasks. Maxwell tells him to please think nothing of it. Iscariot is a blade that he is to wield in whatever way he sees fit. But he thinks the sinners should fight it out among themselves. With any luck they won't only dig their own graves, but pay for the funeral as well.


"Seras...wake up, Seras!"


Seras wakes up and screams when this weird old man floats in front of her. He introduces himself as the spirit of her gun, the Harkonnen! She runs away but he tells her to stop, saying that she's been working so hard he just wants to give her his support. She can go ahead and ask him anything she wants, don't hold back. Seras says that she's been put into unfortunate circumstances, will the rest of her life be this unhappy?


"More or less."


This makes Seras cry and run away again, but the spirit tells her he didn't mean it! He tells her that this part isn't a dream: something very bad is going to happen to her any second now! Really bad...and right now!



Seras then wakes up and finds Alucard waiting for her. He says there's something interesting going on, and they then see that the power to their room has been cut. And then they see a helicopter hovering around outside. Seras looks out of one of the windows and sees an army of police men outside, along with a lot of news reporters.



The news reports state that just minutes a go, two terrorists entered the hotel and have killed several people, whilst also taking hostages and holding out on the top floor. This is seen by Pip, who can't believe it. It's also seen in England, as Walter tries to deal with calls from the round table members.



In Rome Anderson is also watching the events unfold. Outside the hotel, the police are getting ready to make a move. The higher-ups order some SWAT teams to move in and shoot to kill, they don't need to take any prisoners. As these orders are given, some of the people in the command tent ask Mr. Alhambra if they need to do anything else. He claps and tells them what they've done is very good. They're now on their way to being granted entrance to the kingdom of immortality.



The SWAT teams move in and quickly take several floors, along with the elevator that leads to the penthouse suite. Walter learns that a SWAT team has been sent in and tells Integra. Walter tells her that Alucard will most likely see them as an obstacle barring his way to the main objective, and history had made clear his favorite tactics for dealing with obstacles, even if they are normal humans. Walter reminds her that Alucard is a monster.



One of the SWAT teams bursts into the penthouse suite, and upon seeing Alucard, they fire on him. Alucard is shot up badly and crashes into a window. As the SWAT team start searching for Seras, Alucard tells them that they are dogs, and their attempt to kill him was a very good try.



As Alucard revives, he tells them that he cannot be killed by dogs. Only a man can kill a monster. Alucard then starts tearing into the SWAT team, and some of them attempt to flee.



Alucard locks the door and tells the last remaining man that it won't open. The man calls him a monster, but Alucard says he gets that a lot. Rather than face what the rest of his team went through, the man puts his gun to his head and pulls the trigger, much to Alucard's annoyance. Seras then leaves her hiding spot.



She sees what her master has done, but he just tells her to prepare for battle. Seras tells her master that these people he has killed are just humans. He asks what her point is, so she repeats that they are human beings. Alucard then grabs her and says he doesn't care what they are. They came here to try and kill them, so it no longer matters what they are. They must now die, and be slaughtered. This is just the way it is, and what has to be done. Nobody has the power to change that -not God, the Devil or her.



Seras says she knows this, but they're just...Alucard lets go of her and says that this is just the way it is. She needs to come along now, as there is no time for her to be a coward.



NOTES

This episode adapts parts of the manga's second volume (including the Wild Geese meeting Integra and Seras, and the scenes at the museum) along with all of the third volume and even part of the fourth volume. The opening scene showing the Wild Geese fighting in a war zone wasn't present in the manga. The episode also omits a scene where Seras and the Wild Geese take part in a target practice exercise, which takes place around the same time Alucard and Walter discuss how they destroyed the Nazi research institute 50 years a go. This scene will later make an appearance however, as part of the credits sequence to episode six.

The Harkonnen spirit is based on Vladimir Harkonnen from the 1984 Dune movie.

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