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   Recaps of The Strain episodes 6 and 7 are coming, sorry for the late posts but things have been busy.  It will be one post for both episodes which have been good so you may be caught up by the time you read them.  Also, I have written a post or two about MMA events, Bellator mostly and I also am a student of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu so I though I would share something from my school. A fall boxing camp for anyone interested that can get to North Brunswick, New Jersey please see the information in the image below. If you are a fan of combat sports it can be rewarding taking a class to further connect yourself to what you watch.

    Oddly enough this episode begins with a nice breakfast in the house where two vampires were just slain.  The worms from the bodies are crawling around somewhere, but okay...lets have toast and eggs now.  Regardless, Setrakian tells Eph his story and how he knows so much about The Master and the Strigoi . We get his story through flashbacks of a younger Setrakian in World War II and his first encounters with The Master.  He first witnesses this creature feeding on people in the work camps he was forced into by the Nazis and we also see a familiar face in command of the Nazis.  Meanwhile, Vasily Fet is looking into why so many vermin are leaving their nests and he finds out when he encounters a nest of Strigoi and barely escapes with his life.  Nora, goes to visit her ailing mother in a nursing home after ignoring calls from Eph only to see that the strain is spreading and there is an attack in the nursing home so she gets her mother out of there...

     Episode 4 picks up right where we left off, so do not read if you're not caught up with The Strain.  Eph does an emergency autopsy on the creature he killed at the end of the last episode that used to be Capt. Redfern of Regis flight 753.  Finally realizing he should have heeded Satrakian's word and decides to study the biology of what is happening to those that were afflicted on the flight. During the autopsy we learn more about what happens to the people once they catch the wormies, AKA The Strain that makes people into these vampire like creatures.  We know that it spreads through the worms like a parasite occupying a host until it consumes them completely and uses the vessel to make more works and spread those through more attacks. Meanwhile, one of the survivors that went home,  Ansle realizes his thirst after feeding on the dog and locks himself in the shed to protect his family from what he's capable of while he still has some indepe...