The Lair

Thom, an investigative journalist, meets with a strange man who tells him that The Lair, a notorious sex club, is linked to a string of unsolved murders that have been plaguing his small city for years. When Tom's jealous boyfriend, Jonathan, also gets caught up in The Lair, things get personal.

Jonathan’s body has been found face-down in the river bank, but unlike the others he has somehow survived. While Jonathan lies comatose in a hospital bed, Damian-an ancient vampire and the leader of The Lair-speaks of finishing him off for good. Thom, unaware of the scheming vampires in his midst, pays his unconscious boyfriend a visit.

Eric rejoins the boys at The Lair, where Damian initiates him into "the inner sanctum" of fellow hunks risen from the dead. Thom visits The Lair soon after, searching for information about his comatose boyfriend. Damian responds by placing Thom in a near-fatal trance, but Laura saves him just in time. They approach Trout and Belmont for clues, but encounter only more questions. Meanwhile, Damian is coming for Jonathan once more.

With Damian imprisoned, Colin seizes control of the Lair. Ian, a hitch-hiking stranger with a dark secret, is befriended by an islander with terrifying consequences.

Damian appears to Thom in spirit form in an attempt to free himself. Dr. Jake Waldman receives a strange plant, the Lumina Orchis, for an unorthodox experiment.

The reappearance of Thom's ex-boyfriend, Richie, causes Damian to issue a veiled threat to Thom. Jake's plant starts exerting a strange influence over him.

Thom is struggling to live among the vampires of the Lair as it’s only human occupant. His monogamous relationship with Damian forces him to be the sole source of Damian’s blood nourishment and Thom is slowly wasting away. Sheriff Trout revisits an old case and is puzzled by what seems to be someone knocking at the door, only to find no one there when he goes to answer it. At the Arkham Harbor Light Tim meets, Athan a stranger who waers dark sunglasses at all times. Athan takes up Tim’s offer to rent a room in what was once Dr. Waldman’s house. After Tim leaves Athan hooks up with a young man, Charley, which results in Charley’s horrific death. Athan is a male gorgon and his stare suddenly turns Charley into stone. Damian has Richie place his painting in a hidden room, where an old disused telephone begins to ring. Answering it Richie tells Damian that the voice on the other end was Colin… and that he’s coming back! Richie places Colin’s ashes in a safe place under his bed, waiting for his next call from the dead.

Thom catches Damian with another man and finally tells him that their affair is over. But Thom can't be sure of his true feelings, suspecting that Damian may be using magic to create the illusion of what Thom truly feels. Frankie appears to Thom and encourages him to check out a new book about the island's supernatural history written by a local author, Harris Chichester. The book tells of the Ring of Erebus, buried somewhere on the island, that imparts a magical shield to whoever wears it. Thom is skeptical but agrees to think about it. Sheriff Trout has a flashback to his time spent mentoring a young man named Dennis, who we learn was the victim of an cold case murder that happened on the island two years earlier. Gary and Richie perform a ghastly blood ritual and revive Colin!

Thom goes to the bookstore and bumps into Athan, who has also purchased the book Thom is seeking. Thom meets the author, Harris, and the two hit it off. Frankie later convinces Thom to go back to visit Harris that night and see if Harris has any clue as to where the Ring of Erebus might be hidden. He also learns that the ring was buried 200 years ago with the disembodied head of the sorcerer, Carter Vane. The legend says that whoever would protect Vane's head would receive one wish… a wish that would last only for as long as that person possessed and protected Vane's head!