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Canon Black unexpectedly asks Strange for help, after his sister is killed, and her body drained of all blood. More deaths follow, and each time the same result, could a cleaner from Herzegovina have any clue as to what's been happening?

Another high quality, really enjoyable mystery, one of the darkest entries, this one definitely pays homage to Dracula and such like. I did start to wonder if there'd be a blood sucking story, they didn't disappoint.

Very well written, we have a mix of folk law, modern day (for the time) prejudices and good old fashioned horror.

Interesting to learn more about Strange's past, and to discover what actually happened between him and Black. The pair shared some really good scenes.

A particularly good performance from Ralph Ineson, him and that fabulous voice, good to see that he seems to have really made it. Always good to see Neil Maskell, I'm glad he moved beyond playing these types of characters.

Cracking episode.

9/10.

**SPOILERS** John Strange, Richard Coyle, gets the surprise of his life when Canon Black, Ian Richardson, the man who had him defrocked paid a visit to his rundown and dilapidated cellar dwelling on the Cathedral grounds.

It turns out that Canon Black does in fact believe in what Strange has been trying to prove all these years, and what got him drummed out of the ministry, about demons being among us in human as well as animal form. The Canon's own 71 year-old sister, Liz Daniels, has become one of these demons latest victims! Canon Black's sister was found dead in her home with a large gash on her forehead and with her blood completely drained out of her body. As we soon learn the blood sucking demon that killed Mrs. Black comes from a haunted forest in the far off Balkans and has somehow entered the UK undetected and is now in the process of killing people there in order to live off their blood supply.

Canon Black now has his hands full in keeping this story under raps when he in fact just about admitted, in a rare moment of honesty, that it's true to Strange himself. Known as the Dubik back in its native Herzegovina this blood-sucking demon is almost impossible to track down in the fact that it can be anywhere and in a number of places at the same time! Strange for his part is the last person to figure out just what this Dubik really is even though its identity becomes evident to his very on the ball girlfriend Nurse Jude Atkins, Samantha Janus.

***SPOILERS***For once it's Nurse Jude Atkins who comes to Strange's rescue not the other way around when Strange is strangely, when he should have known better, tricked by the clever Dubik in the final moments of the movie or TV episode. The life and death battle that follows with Atkins chopping away at the now exposed Dubik, after pretending to be Strange's deceased fiancée Helen Baxter (Kenny Elkins), has it not only catch fire from an overturned lantern but explode as it's life force, the icky green stuff that runs through its entire body, detonate when the flame enveloped it.

In the end Canon Black now knows that Strange is on to him in his fanatical attempt to keep the lid on what Strange knows to be the truth. This will not only vindicate Strange but expose the Canon in a major cover-up of Watergate-like proportions! A cover-up that's to be uncovered with the new and irrefutable evidence, of demons among us, that Strange obtained from the Canon himself!