Are
you a big fan of the vampire mythos? Do you read Anne Rice?
JOE:
I'm not much of a reader although I've seen many, many vampire
films. I haven't read any Anne Rice though I have seen Interview
With A Vampire which I thought was fantastic and was an inspiration
to me in terms of trying to find another good twist on the genre
(in Interview, the story is done from the vampires' point of
view, in Ultraviolet the story is about how real people and
organisations would react if vampires actually existed).
Surely
the biker's girlfriend with the spinal injuries [Sal in episode2]
would be in eternal pain?
JOE:
Code Fives only feel pain when exposed to daylight, UV, allicin
or carbon. (The jury's out on religion) Waldo [the Code Five
in the mercedes, in episode 2 who gets half-burnt] is in pain
because of exposure to daylight. Sal will not feel pain from
a human spinal injury once she crosses over.
How
can the video help when it gets dark if the vampires don't show
up on the video?
JOE: The video gun operates by direct line of sight through
a half-silvered mirror. The sighting system is arranged so that
the viewer is looking through a video image at the target. If
the target is human, the viewer sees the same on the video as
through the glass. If Code Five, the video image is blank but
the figure can be seen beyond it. If it's too dark to see the
target with the naked eye then the system won't work. The only
way of detecting a vampire is with human vision. The video only
proves it's not human.
Why
don't the charcoal bullets disintegrate when they're fired?
