Nick and Schanke are followed by a crew from Cop Watch, a reality television show featuring host, Tawny Teller. When she catches Nick vamping on videotape, he is surprised to discover that he is unable to hypnotize her into forgetting—until he remembers a similar incident during the American Civil War, when a photographer took a picture of LaCroix killing a wounded soldier. Vampire enforcers dealt ruthlessly with the problem then; and Nick knows that they will do so once again if he can't solve the problem himself.