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 * "What Lies Beneath" at TV.com Episode Guide
 * "What Lies Beneath" at ABC.com Episode Guide
 * "What Lies Beneath" at TV Rage.com Episode Guide
 * "What Lies Beneath" at TV Rage.com Episode Guide

The Gates: Pilot
The Gates is an upper-class, isolated gated community catering to residents who enjoy the feeling of living in a safe and respectable neighborhood. One of the residents, Claire Radcliff is trimming roses while her daughter Emily Radcliff is playing out in the street on her skateboard. The skateboard gets away from her and Emily chases it out into the road. A motorist named Mark Woodbury nearly hits her, but swerves his truck around at the last second, colliding into a power box. Claire rushes over to see if Emily is okay. Afterward, she notices that Mark has a severe laceration across his forehead and invites him inside so she can tend to it.

While cleaning him up, Claire learns that Mark is a contractor with no wife or girlfriend. Mark flirts with her, but it is not his appearance that enraptures her, but rather the sight of his blood. Claire is a vampire. She seduces Mark and the two begin making out on the kitchen island. She bites down on his neck and drinks his blood until he falls over dead. His blood drains into the kitchen sink.

Later in the morning, the Monohan family arrive at the Gates. Nick Monohan is the new police chief for the neighborhood. He drives up to the community gates with hiw wife Sarah and his children Charlie and Dana. They are greeted by a friendly security guard named Eddie Barnes who gives Nick a welcome packet and keys to their new home. The Monohans drive up to their new home and they are all astonished by how large and opulent it is. Dana Monohan is particularly pleased to find a pool and an outdoor Jacuzzi.

At the Radcliff residence, Claire takes a shower and scrubs the caked-on blood from her body. After which, she applies a thick layer of lotion to herself to help protect her from the deadly rays of the sun. She misses a spot though and as she passes near a window, a ray of sunlight touches her leg, causing it to blister. She rubs more lotion on the affected spot. Nick Monohan goes to the police station for his first day on the job. He meets his two deputies, Leigh Turner and Marcus Jordan. Marcus tells him that the old police chief, now retired in Mexico, liked to keep a Spartan staff. Marcus shows him their advanced security system, which monitors all activity on the perimeter of The Gates, making it one of safest communities to live in. He takes note of a brief period of time when the cameras went down after Mark Woodbury's truck hit the power box. Woodbury has turned up missing and Nick wants to check the situation out.

Meanwhile, Claire Radcliff goes to the Monohan home to welcome them to the neighborhood. She presents Sarah with a lasagna dish and Sarah invites her inside. While they talk, Sarah complains about the stress of moving to a new location. Claire recommends seeing a woman named Peg Mueller, a specialist in holistic medicine. Sarah hopes that the move will help to ease the tension between her husband and he. She mentions how he used to be a homicide detective in Chicago and how he tends to get caught up in his work.

Meanwhile, Charlie attends class at Gates Academy. He meets an attractive young woman named Andie Bates as well as her boyfriend Brett Crezski. Crezski doesn't care for Charlie, mostly because he manages to show him up in front of the teacher during Lit class. After class, Andie goes out to the quad to talk to Charlie. She likes Charlie and recommends that he should join the school's debate team. The two talk for a bit and eventually go their separate ways. Brett comes out and notices that Andie had been talking with Charlie. His dislike for the new student begins to grow.

Later, Claire's husband Dylan Radcliff returns home early from work. He notices that the garage door appears to be stuck. This is because Claire has hidden Mark's battered truck inside and doesn't want anyone to see it. He goes inside and can smell the blood on Claire's breath. Angrily pinning her to the wall, he demands to know what she did with her latest victim. Claire tells him that he's in the wine room. Just then, Nick Monohan and Marcus Jordan arrive at their home. They question the Radcliffs about the missing persons report filed for Mark Woodbury. Claire tells him that she patched him up and sent him on his way. She is convincing in her lie, but something about this seemingly meager incident makes Nick suspicious. Despite this, he thanks the Radcliffs for their time and leaves. Once they are gone, Dylan admonishes Claire for her actions and putting their lifestyle at risk.

Elsewhere, Sarah visits Devon Day Spa on Main Street. She meets the proprietor Devon, an apparent colleague of the woman that Claire had mentioned earlier. Devon prides herself on the fact that she offers the same products and services as Peg Mueller, but at half the price. She is very cordial and offers to help Sarah find whatever she needs.

At Gates Academy, Charlie goes out by the football field where he finds Andie setting up a lie detector booth for a charity event. The idea is that people will pay money for her to determine whether they are lying or not. Charlie is incredulous at the idea and doesn't think she'll make any money. Andie is slightly embarrassed and says that it was her friend Mia Mueller's idea. From the field, Brett Crezski sees Andie getting chummy with Charlie and one of his teammates taunts him over the matter, suggesting that Andie is cheating on him. Crezski suddenly turns feral and violently tackles Ford to the ground. Coach Ross comes over and breaks them up.

After school, Brett is walking home when a boy named Lukas Ford comes up to him. He says that he heard what happened on the football field and is surprised to see that Brett has violated "the code". He reminds him that such behavior inside The Gates is not the way that the Pack operates. The tension between them mounts and there is a deep rivalry between the two.

At the Monohan residence, the family sits down for dinner. Charlie and Dana talk about school while Sarah tells Nick how she received gifts from Devon and Claire Radcliff. Nick doesn't feel its right for the wife of the police chief to be accepting gifts, especially seeing as how Claire Radcliff might be involved in a possible missing persons case.

As darkness falls, Dylan Radcliff drives off beyond The Gates to dispose of the body of Mark Woodbury as well as his truck. He dumps him by the river and tosses a bunch of empty beer cans around the area. To cover up Claire's bite marks, he savagely tears at the corpse's throat to make it appeared as if he had been gnawed on by a pack of wolves.

The Gates
It's more than just a place to live.


 * Gates acadmey is more ivy league than any school in teh state.


 * Located near a town named Franklin.


 * Main Street.


 * Devon Day Spa

Andie
moved to teh gates from seattle three years agao after her mom died.

Kindred Episode: The Rise and Fall of Eddie Fiori
lillie as wolf spies on julian and caitlin.

diner; lillie hires pi, Mister Bennington; "cheating boyfriend". gives him photos and money; wants to sabotage their relationship. "I'll pay you enough for a very long vacation. Now, do you want this job or not?" pi accepts job, but when he looks up, Lillie is gone.

Cyrus and two brujah goes to Eddie's office at the Dock Worker's Union. making out with girl. "I am sick of having to fight Luna to hold on to what is already mine. - Eddie; "You're thinking what this town needs is a Brujah prince - someone who will let the clans do business the way they want... someone like you. - Cyrus. cyrus agrees to help. it will give him a toehold into san francisco. Wants to use the assamites to depose luna. "I did not take over L.A. by muscle alone. I had to lay the ground work". - Cyrus. "Amazing thing about Assamites - they're chameleons. They can shape-shift into anything did you know that?" reveals assamite to be girl that eddie was making out with.

assamite skulks about caitlin's house. julian calls her while the assamite watches from the shadow.

haven; julian, Archon and cash meet with eddie. cyrus and his goons are present. cyrus criticizes julians' approach to working within human laws. he recommends trying a new approach. "Don't test me, Eddie. There's an end to my patience." - Julian. sasha comes in to see cash, but he tells her that this is not a good time. he walks off and sasha breaks glass in her hand. she goes upstairs to see lillie. they bond because they both are in love with men who push them away. lillie looks out window of parlor and sees her pi watching julian. pi follows julian to caitlin's house. he gives her a present.

cash and billy; sasha comes out; cash apologizes for brushing her off, but tells her that the gangrel cannot see him being soft on the brujah, any brujah. while cash talks with sasha, the assamite comes down from tree and beheads billy the gangrel with a large knife. julian gives caitlin a telescope. "I could mesmerize you, but I won't". - Julian. pi keeps snapping pictures as they kiss. from outside, cash hears the snapping of the camera. julian leaves and goes to car where billy is waiting. its not billy. its really the assamite. cash walks back and sees billy's body. he warns julian and the two begin fighting. the assamite breaks free of julain's grip and grabs sasha. she uses her for cover long enough to get away.

eddie's office. assamite arrives and is silent. cyrus and eddie know that she has so far failed to kill julian. eddie grows nervous because he knows that julian now knows that he set him up. cyrus insists that hte assamite will finish the job.

julian's house; sasha feels bad and blames herself for eddie's death. julian doesn't blame her. "I'm not Eddie Fiori just because I have his blood." "You could have embraced me... made me Ventrue like you."

haven; cash argues with lorraine; "Fiori orders a hit on our Prince. He nearly dies. And where were you? You were off with your Brujah bitch." - Lorraine. sasha is there. she tells cash that he was right about the nature of her brujah blood. brujah and gangrel cannot coexist. she turns to leave. cash tries to stop her, but she keeps on walking.

diner. lillie meets with pi. he shows her new photos of julian and caitlin; photos also show julian fighting with assamite and billy's decapitated body. lillie wants the negatives, but bennington won't give up the ones of julain fighitng the assamite. he says he left them with a good friends who still works on the force. wants more money; lillie follows him to his apartment and attacks him in elevator; drinks his blood.

lillie goes to see frank; frank has the negatives; "Ever since Alexandra died, I always thought this was what I wanted... something to bring down Julian Luna. Something to prove to the rest of the world that I wasn't crazy. Now I'm not so sure." - Frank. she tells frank that eddie fiori tried to have julian killed. if eddie became prince of the city, frank's lifespan would become greatly decreased. reveals that she hired pi friend because she was jealous; begin making out.

san francisco times: frank shows photos to caitlin. says "In our job we see things. Things we can't believe, but we do. Not just because its in black and white or in our metro section, but because we know out there in some hearts this brutality really exists." warns caitlin to stay away from julian.

caitlin takes photos to julian. tells him that a pi took them and they found their way back to her. "These photographs scare me. Your world scares me. Yeah. you scare me to". - Caitlin. leaves Julian.

julian goes to haven; meets with lillie in private. lillie reveals that she hired the pi. julain says she risked the masuerae, but lillie retorts that he's done the same by involving himself with a journalist. "You're afraid you disgust her. She'd never understand the things you've done. I'd forgive you anything, Julian. I'm asking you to forgive me now." Angry, Julian leaves.

eddie later visits lillie in her parlor. he asks where julian is. she says she doesn't know. eddie ponders whether julian would rather be human. sensing lillie's issue with julian, he tries to cater to her emotions. eddie wants lillie's help and the support of her clan. eddie lets her know that he plans on getting rid of julian. he wants her to set up a meeting with him and julian.

cyrus tells eddie that he's sending in teh assamite as backup. eddie suspects that cyrus is lookign to take san fran for himself. he now feels that his sire is setting him up.

later. lillie sees caitlin sitting alone at the haven. caitlin tells lillie that they broke up. she's not sure why she's come here. i guess i just wanted to be near the things he close to. asks lillie if julian and she were ever involved. "Right when I met him, this equation came into my head - multiplying the time that we'd be together by how long it would take me to get over him once he was gone." - Caitlin.

julian meets with "Lillie" in the library of his home. he instantly recognizes her as the assmite. she whips out a knife, he pulls a gun. he pushes her away then stalks off to another part of the house. julian runs into office nad finds cash. ashs for gun. eddie fiori is in his office chair. wheels around and fires double-barrel shotgun. eddie runs off and tells lillie that julian is dead. but this julian is actually the assamite. lillie, guilt-ridden goes to daedalus' warren and tells him that she arranged the meeting between julian and eddie knowing that eddie was going to kill him.

conclave at eddie's office; "Retribution will find you, Fiori. Some night when you're feeling the strongest, you'll bleed until you're dry." Julian enters with his Ventrue. he tells him that eddie killed his own assassin. eddie is nothing without hte backing of hte primogen. lillie picks up samurai sword and decapitates eddie. he tells the other brujah that they must choose a new primogen. he'll honor any choice they make, but htey must choose carefully.

caitlin meets iwth julian outside his mansion. she tells him that although he scares her, what scares her more is the though of losing him. the two kiss.

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