But how will we know they're Japanese unless they're both heavily tatted up Yakuza who also drive flamboyantly colored cars? Cars that, as the company operates out of Japan, one would assume they consciously rented upon arriving in Louisiana.

Yeah, the guard-everything-but-the-barely-boarded-up-tunnel strategy seems a bit odd.

Oh yeah, they definitely de-power and re-power the vamps based on whatever is demanded at the time. It just makes no sense whatsoever to take the only rational explanation for why he hasn't ripped their spines out yet (Still too weak from the Hep V….whatever it's doing to him), and immediately resolve that issue.

Those yakuza guys are just humans with machine guns, yes? Eric has shown in the past he is fully capable of moving at a speed clearly fast enough to kill every single one of them in seconds, right? WHY THE FUCK is he still scared of them, or even negotiating with them at all? I figured maybe they'd test the cure on a…

Damn it, Phil! This time you've gone too far. I want your gun, your badge, and your turntable on my desk.