Considering the title, this episode took quite a while to make its blood-sucking reveal. The result is a modern-day London tale about a backstreet casino that fronts for medical experiments by genetically-engineered vampires. Thankfully it is more Daybreakers than Twilight, with pseudo-science explanations instead of a sparkle-based mythology, but the fact it is a vampire story is enough for me to lose interest.
The idea that vampires were actually made in a Captain America-style super soldier experiment during the First World War was interesting, and a variety of built-in weaknesses as a precaution seemed promising, but by the end of the episode the Doctor and Evelyn have had very little to do and the story wraps up in a short and disappointing finale.
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