Aahana Swrup
In ‘Talamasca: The Secret Order,’ Guy Anatole finds himself thrown into an eccentric world, one full of vampires, witches, and ghosts. However, the young mind-reader occupies a distinctly red-tape role in this supernatural world. He gets recruited as a newbie Talamasca agent by Helen, charged with the responsibility to shadow Jasper, the vampire, who has overtaken the London Mother House. The centuries-old vampire is looking for something invaluable to the Intelligence Agency: The Seven Five Two, a book which is said to contain all the information the Talamasca have ever collected since their inception in 752 AD. By the time the finale rolls around, allegiances have been betrayed in the service of self-preservation, and new mysteries have been introduced to the forefront. While many of these mysteries stay unsolved, Guy and Helen uncover some answers, for better or for worse. SPOILERS AHEAD!
Detective Ridge Takes Guy and Doris Into Custody
Despite previously agreeing to flee the country with Guy in order to shake Jasper off their trail, Doris decides to slip away under the night’s cover. Nonetheless, she only gets so far before her partner-in-crime finds her. However, before any actual line of questioning can follow, the duo’s attention is diverted by the news of the mass killing of the Maide Vale witches. Unfortunately for the pair, when they arrive at the crime scene, they’re accosted by Detective Ridge, who has been investigating Keves’s death for a long time. In the interrogation that follows, the law enforcement agent presents Guy with the various CCTV footage she has that puts him in and around Keves’ murder. Still, the mind reader remains unbothered since all her evidence is only circumstantial.
That is, until Ridge pulls out the ace up her sleeve. As it turns out, they were able to extract some DNA evidence from the crime scene. Surprisingly enough, the DNA had been a match for Helen, who has also been repeatedly photographed in and around Guy. Eventually, the detective’s line of questioning is put to a stop when Olive, in her MI5 disguise, enters the picture and takes the case from under Ridge’s nose. Yet, although this gets Guy and Doris out of the police station, it isn’t much of an improvement for either party. After all, Olive is actually a double agent who is working for Jasper. Fortunately, the mind reader is able to catch up to her intentions in time, leading to a violent altercation. As the duo escapes from that situation, Guy learns a new secret about Doris: apparently, the witch is actually a vampire.
Helen Learns the Purpose of Talamasca’s Twin Experiment
While Helen works on preparing fake passports for Guy and Doris, she also runs a particularly sensitive errand of her own. The Talamasca agent’s investigation into Jasper, and subsequently the Seven Five Two, is an off-the-books affair. As it turns out, much like Guy, she’s also looking for a ghost from her past: her twin sister, Emma. Helen’s parents died when she was a young child. However, in the aftermath, she and her sister were taken in by the Talamasca to be a part of some mysterious experiment. The process involved putting pairs of identical twins through a number of tests, and the entire thing was shut down a few years in. By the end, Emma was sent away elsewhere, while Helen, whose real name is Fiona, went on to train with the Talamasca to become an agent. Over the years, the twin has remembered her sister, who seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
Even so, her latest lead takes her to a man named Jameson, who might just hold the answers to her age-old query. Upon visitation, Jameson’s nurse, Patricia, initially remains hostile toward Helen. Nonetheless, the old man himself seems willing to talk to the agent. Thus, she finally learns the truth about the experiment she had participated in as a child. With their twin experiment, the Talamasca were looking for a unique talent, which they ultimately found in Emma. The young girl had an intensely sharp memory and could retain the smallest or most verbose of details in her mind. The reason Helen hasn’t been able to track her down is that, much like the agent, the Agency also gave the twin a different name.
Welles Stands Up to Jasper and Pays the Price for it
Jasper’s hold over the London Talamasca Mother House was largely due to its head, an agent named Welles. The latter was diagnosed with late-stage cancer and was swiftly running out of options. For the same reason, he had agreed to do the bidding of the vampire in exchange for his immortal blood. Although the blood wouldn’t entirely cure the disease, it seems to be slowing down its spread exceptionally well. Nonetheless, despite their past partnership, the London Head decides to finally draw a line. After taking over the Mother House, Jasper hasn’t simply been using the Agency’s resources to look for the Seven Five Two.
The vampire has also been working on creating hybrid vampires, lacking in humanity and loyal to do his bidding. In fact, he even turned a Talamasca Agent, Checkers, into one such creature of the night. Therefore, it seems he had finally reached the end of Welles’ potential for treachery. The Talamasca Head lets Jasper know the same, as he establishes that he has also reached out to the Amsterdam headquarters for help. In the end, the vampire ends up ripping Welles’ throat for the perceived betrayal. However, his victory is short-lived as the agents from the Amsterdam branch arrive shortly afterward. Armed with the right equipment and shackles, they manage to kidnap Jasper, while a different team torches the Mother House’s dungeons, where his hybrid vampires are kept captive.
Talamasca The Secret Order Ending: Why Does Hausman Want Jasper to Make More Vampires?
Initially, as the Amsterdam Headquarters takes over the London Mother House and ssubjugatesJasper, it seems like the vampire will finally meet his end. His list of crimes is endless, and he has wreaked more than enough havoc in the last few months alone by hijacking a Talamaca Mother House. However, instead of imprisonment, death, or worse, something entirely different awaits him at the Talamasca HQ. As it turns out, Hausman, a high-ranking agent who has been helming the Amsterdam department for many years, has a proposition for Jasper. In exchange for his freedom, Hausman wants the vampire to turn a roomful of dead bodies into fellow fanged beings of the night. Although no definitive explanation is given for this demand, the reason behind it is likely connected to the Seven Five Two.
In 1985, Hausman offered a very similar opportunity to another vampire: his freedom in exchange for turning a dead human. This was done with the explicit purpose of using that human as a living codex for the centuries of knowledge and information that the Talamasca had amassed. Simply put, he wanted a living Seven Five Two, whom he turned immortal to ensure they can always be used as a tool by the Agency. However, recently, the Talamasca had lost control over the same human. Therefore, it’s possible that Hausman is trying to recreate the same effect, this time with multiple people. Since he no longer has control over one human who has the capacity to remember endless knowledge, he might be creating “editions” of the Seven Five Two by forcing Jasper to turn multiple humans into vampires. Alternatively, it’s also possible that these dead humans are individuals like Helen’s sister, who possess powers that were uncovered through the twin experiment.
Does Guy Find the Seven Five Two?
Locating the Seven Five Two had been the center of Guy’s mission from the very beginning. Even outside of the Talamsca, he has a certain personal vested interest in finding the elusive book. Initially, after Keves’ death, he believes that the hefty book carried by the vampire must be the coveted book of the omnipresent Agency. However, shortly after learning about Doris’ identity as a vampire, he also learns that Keves’ book is only a simple scrapbook. Afterward, he convinces Doris to trust him and allow him a peek into his mind to share the entire truth of the Seven Five Two with him. As it turns out, there was never a book containing all the information Talamasca has gathered over the years. Instead, there was only ever a person who had the sea of information stored in their brain.
During the twin experiment, the Talamsca had uncovered one promising individual, Emma, Helen’s sister, who had a supernatural memory. She could memorize everything and anything at a single glance, retaining that information for years to come. Therefore, she was the perfect candidate for the Seven Five Two project. Throughout her childhood, the Agency fed her book after book of knowledge, storing every piece of information that they had gathered inside her brain. Afterward, they staged the library fire on their own to establish the disappearance of centuries’ worth of knowledge. Meanwhile, they maintained possession of all this knowledge themselves by keeping control over Emma. Thus, all this time, instead of a book, Guy had actually been looking for a person. It just so turns out that the same person was in front of his eyes this entire time.
Who is Helen’s Twin? What Happened to Her?
After Talamasca began training Emma, they gave her a new identity: Doris. Furthermore, in order to ensure that their database of endless information remains eternally functional, the Agency also forcibly turns her into a vampire in order to grant her immortal life. For the same reason, despite being an identical twin to Fiona, aka Helen, Doris’ identity as her sister was never made apparent. After the vampire managed to run away from the Agency’s grasp, she ended up finding a new home for herself with Keves, whom she watched grow up in front of her eyes. The duo had a loving, close relationship, which finally brought meaning back into Doris’ life.
For the same reason, after Keves’ death, Doris started following Guy. Given her unique identity as a powerful individual for the Talamsca, she knows that every person who gets close to her ends up in harm’s way. Thus, she wanted to ensure that the mind reader doesn’t end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. She even ends up rescuing him from a near-fatal situation more than once. Nonetheless, now that Jasper had murdered the Maide Vale coven, she knows London is no longer a safe space for her. As such, she has no choice but to trust Guy and run away with him.
Does Helen Get Arrested? What Will Happen to Her?
Although Guy and Doris have the opportunity to flee from London, their entire escape plan relies on Helen’s ability to get their fake passports to them in time. However, this becomes complicated when the agent becomes the prime suspect in the murder of Keves. As it turns out, the official forensics report of the crime scene had come back with a DNA match for Helen. Although the latter had no connection to Keves’ murder, she shares her DNA with Emma/Doris, who was responsible for Archie’s murder after she arrived at Keves’ apartment too late to save her life. Yet, in the absence of her forensics record, the system had flagged Helen as the suspect.
The fact that legal authorities even have Helen’s DNA match in their systems to begin with reeks of internal sabotage, either at the hands of Olive or another Talamsca agent. Either way, it effectively turns the agent into a criminal. This results in an intense sequence at the train station, where Helen manages to subtly pass the passports to another unwitting traveler. Meanwhile, she allows herself to get arrested so that Guy and Doris can escape from the Talamsca agents on the scene. Ultimately, Helen ends up in the back of a police car, and her future remains ambiguous. On the other hand, Guy and Doris manage to board a ship out of London, headed towards safety from the Talamasca and Jasper. However, before the episode ends, the vampire tells the mind-reader that she might have some information about his missing mother, Alice.
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