Starring
Night of the savage Fugitive hunter from the future, Darien Lambert (Dale Midkiff), is contacted by a woman from London, England who is a fugitive from the 22nd century. She claims that the "Soho Savage," a modern day "Jack the Ripper", is another fugitive from the 22nd century. The killer is responsible for a series of murders in London. Darien rushes to London to see if the woman's story is believable, but she is killed before Darien meets her. Her murder fits the pattern of the Soho Savage. Now Darien believes the woman was telling the truth. He tries to get help from the local police, but they aren't very cooperative. Darien finds out that Sergeant Leeds (Peter O'Brien), one of the policemen investigating the murders, is dating Claudine Baker (Elaine Smith), an attractive reporter. Darien decides to use Claudine to learn as much as he can about the Soho Savage. He tells her that he is an American police officer. Darien meets Sergeant Callender (Steven Grives), Sergeant Leeds' partner. Callender is very coarse and sexist, behaving suspiciously. Darien stops at the hospital where they are performing the autopsy on the victim's body. There, Darien identifies himself as an American doctor. Using his holographic micro-computer, "Selma" (Elizabeth Alexander), he learns that the victim's body was drained of all its blood with a "trank," a medical instrument invented in the future. Selma reviews her memory and tells Darien that a police cadet was once suspected of killing a female cadet with a trank, but he disappeared before he could be bought to trial. Darien knows that, in using a trank for transfusions, some of the recipient's blood is spilled, as well as some of the donor's. He takes Selma back to the victim's apartment to search for a trace of the killer's dried blood. She finds a trace and, by reading the blood's DNA pattern, determines that the killer is Sergeant Leeds. Darien calls Claudine to warn her, but Leeds is with her. Leeds denies what Darien told Claudine about him. However, when Leeds acts exactly as Darien predicted he would, Claudine realizes that Leeds is the Soho Savage. Leeds knocks her unconscious and prepares to kill her. When she awakens, Leeds tells Claudine that he has a futuristic disease and, to survive, he needs frequent transfusions of fresh blood. It is this disease which forces him to kill. Before Leeds can kill Claudine, Darien confronts him and they fight each other. The London police try to arrest Leeds, but he is accidentally killed in the battle with Darien. |