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Characters
  • Maiza Avaro (マイザー・アヴァーロ)

    Avaro Maiza

    Main

    Bookkeeper of the Martillo family and one of the Advena Avis immortals. His younger brother, Gretto, was one of the first to be "devoured" for knowledge of the elixirs recipe.In the 1970s, he leaves his post as bookkeeper to Firo and along with Czes begin...

  • Huey Laforet (ヒューイ・ラフォレット)

    Laforet Huey

    Main

    One of Advena Avis immortals. Aside from Elmer, Huey sees everyone, including his own children, as possible test subjects for his experiments.Huey has many groups, of both humans and non-humans (his homunculi), working under him, like the Lemures and the ...

  • Czesław Meyer (チェスワフ・メイエル)

    Meyer Czesław

    Main

    The youngest Advenna Avis immortal. His guardian, Fermet, tortured him to test the limits of immortality. Czesław manages to devour Fermet, ending his suffering. Unfortunately, he learns from Fermets memories that he was simply being tortured for Fermets ...

  • Firo Prochainezo (フィーロ・プロシェンツォ)

    Prochainezo Firo

    Main

    Classification: Immortal humanGender: MaleAge: 18 (1930) ; 90 (2002)Height: 169 cmEye Color: AmberHair Color: BrownOne of the youngest members of the Martillo family and is a skilled fighter. He was orphaned at the age of ten and picked up by the head of ...

  • Jacuzzi Splot (ジャグジー・スプロット)

    Splot Jacuzzi

    Main

    A crybaby who is nonetheless capable of exceptional courage and leadership ability when the situation calls for it. At first, Jacuzzi seems almost cripplingly shy, even with a tendency to stutter in front of strangers. However, when his loved ones are in ...

  • Claire Stanfield (クレア・スタンフィールド)

    Stanfield Claire

    Main

    The youngest train conductor for the Flying Pussy Foot, he tells Miria and Isaac the story of the dreaded "Rail-Tracer," a story about a brutish beast that causes passengers in a train to disappear one by one. He also seems to be the only one who knows ho...

  • Adele

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  • Aging (エイジング)

    Aging

    Supporting

    A member of the Mask Makers in the 2000's. She has a noticeably muscular build and is over two meters tall....

  • Aile (アイル)

    Aile

    Supporting

    The leader of the Rotten Eggs, a gang composed of disgruntled aristocratic youth.(Source: TV Tropes)...

  • Elmer C. Albatross (エルマー・C・アルバトロス)

    Albatross Elmer C.

    Supporting

    One of the Advena Avis immortals. Elmer was born into a religious cult where the sole purpose of his existence was to be an object of abuse. He later moved to Lotto Valentino where he went to the same alchemy school as Huey and Monica.Elmer wants everyone...

  • Carla Alvarez Santonia

    Alvarez Santonia Carla

    Supporting

    Loyal bodyguard of Lucrezia Dormentaire. She was sent to Lotto Valentino in 1711 in order to find the fugitive who killed Lucreza's brother ten years prior. This is a cover story. The real mission is to determine the truth behind the rumors of the elixir ...

  • Angelo (アンジェロ )

    Angelo

    Supporting

    A professional assassin currently working for a South American drug cartel, Angelo is seeking revenge for his recently-assassinated boss. He is working with the Demolisher to fight the Mask Makers on the Entrance. He runs into Firo at the ship's casino, a...

  • Gretto Avaro (グレット・アヴァーロ)

    Avaro Gretto

    Supporting

    Gretto is the younger brother of Maiza Avaro. He is one of the Advenna Avis immortals.Maiza gave him some of the knowledge on how to make the immortality elixir. Szilard then "devours" Gretto in order to gain this knowledge....

  • Sonja Bake

    Bake Sonja

    Supporting

    Sonja Bake is a gunwoman and a member of Vanishing Bunny. Sonjas parents worshiped guns and imparted their beliefs on her, training her to shoot from an early age. After Vanishing Bunny rescues Spike (whod been thrown off the Flying Pussyfoot), Sonja begi...

  • Maria Barcelito (マリア・バルセリート)

    Barcelito Maria

    Supporting

    She was initially hired as an assassin by the Runorata family, but was opposed to them and eventually pledged her loyalty to the Gandor Family. Despite her womanly looks, she's still very childish in nature. Maria fights using two samurai swords named "Mu...

  • Manfred Beriam (マンフレッド・べりアム)

    Beriam Manfred

    Supporting

    A senator whose wife and daughter are held as hostages aboard the Flying Pussyfoot. Doing this, the terrorists are trying to get his support in freeing Huey Laforet.In the novels, Beriam has close ties with Nebula and works with them against Huey. Beriam ...

  • Mary Beriam (メリー・ベリアム)

    Beriam Mary

    Supporting

    The young daughter of Senator Manfred Beriam, she and her mother Natalie are held as political hostages aboard the Flying Pussyfoot....

  • Esperanza C. Boronial (エスペランサ・C・ボロニアル)

    Boronial Esperanza C.

    Supporting

    A member of the Spanish nobility, the lord of Lotto Valentino. He is known for his strange appearance, with star tattoos under both of his eyes. He loves women and has a gentlemanly attitude toward them. When it comes to men, his personality can be unpred...

  • Bride (ブライド)

    Bride

    Supporting

    The current leader of the cult known as SAMPLE. "Bride" is not his real name, but the title of the cult's leader. He leads the cult in the hijacking of the cruise ship "Exit."...

  • Renée Palamedes Brinvilliers (ルネ・パルメデス・ブランヴィリエ)

    Brinvilliers Renée Palamedes

    Supporting

    An older generation immortal. In the 1700's she worked as an alchemy teacher in Lotto Valentino. In the 1930's she is a scientist working for Nebula and cares little for anything unrelated to her experiments. Though she seems very innocent and air-headed...

  • Jon Burnell (ヨウン・バーネル)

    Burnell Jon

    Supporting

    He work as a barman aboard The Flying Pussyfoot, it is in fact a cover job since he is a friend of Jacuzzi Splot and a member of his gang....

  • Luchino B. Campanella (ルキノ・B・カンパネルラ)

    Campanella Luchino B.

    Supporting

    The head of the group of assassins known as the Mask Makers, Luchino is a stage magician who boards the Exit under the cover of a performer. However, he dislikes the feeling of killing, to the point of physical sickness (usually manifested in a great deal...

  • Monica Campanella (モニカ・カンパネルラ)

    Campanella Monica

    Supporting

    Monica Campanella, a novel only character, is a citizen of Lotto Valentino in Italy during the 1700s. She was a classmate with Huey Laforet and later Elmer Albatross on Valentino's Alchemy Library under the watch of Dalton Strauss and Renee Paramedes Bran...

  • Carol (キャル)

    Carol

    Supporting

    Bikkys childhood friend. She states that she doesnt want to date anyone until shes eighteen, because thats when her father, who is currently in a police hospital, met her mother. She is not a stranger to crimeshe hopes to collect enough money to pa...

  • Chaini

    Chaini

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Christopher Chareau de Red (クリストファー・シャルドレード)

    Chareau De Red Christopher

    Supporting

    A homunculus created by Huey Laforet in the late 1800s, and a member of the organization Lamia. He has constantly bloodshot eyes and razor-sharp teeth. Due to being rather unnatural himself, Christopher is obsessed with nature and often frantically talks ...

  • Hong Chimei

    Chimei Hong

    Supporting

    The oldest homunculus within Lamia. He may not be the strongest, but is the most rational and most experienced. Hong is a close range fighter, and easily the fastest whithin Lamia. Hes part of the team that comes to New York in 1933 to back up Tim, and sh...

  • Conductor (年配の車掌)

    Conductor

    Supporting

    Conductor of the Flying Pussyfoot.He was murdered by Claire Stanfield....

  • Lucrezia de Dormentaire (ルクレツィア・デ・ドルメンテル)

    De Dormentaire Lucrezia

    Supporting

    Lady Lucrezia de Dormentaire is a member of the wealthy and powerful House Dormentaire of Spain. In 1711, she fakes her own death, publically detaching herself from her family and the rest of the European aristocrat scene.She becomes a complete immortal a...

  • Isaac Dian (アイザック・ディアン)

    Dian Isaac

    Supporting

    Isaac Dian forms one half of the bumbling thief couple, who seem to cross into everybody's story in one way or another. He's in love with Miria, and they've robbed everything and anything, from doors to the entire Genoard household. He's completely cluele...

  • Edith (イーディス)

    Edith

    Supporting

    Roy Maddock's girlfriend and frequenter of the Alveare. She works as a waitress for the Gandor brothers. After she kept information from them, they discussed how to punish her. Eventually Tick came up with the idea of cutting off her hair....

  • Ennis (エニス)

    Ennis

    Supporting

    Szilard's homunculus, although not his first creation. She was created as his subordinate, and is supposed to have no thoughts or emotion when executing his commands; recently, however, she has been gaining more human emotions, as well as independent thou...

  • Fermet (フェルメート)

    Fermet

    Supporting

    Fermet was one of the original immortals from 1711. He was guardian to the orphaned Czeslaw Meyer. Sometime after they became immortal, Fermet began to "experiment" on Czeslaw by torturing him, claiming that this was all in the name of determining the lim...

  • Frank

    Frank

    Supporting

    A member of Lamia whose body is proportioned like a child, but is over 7 feet tall. Frank is one of Rails closest friends.(Source: TV Tropes)...

  • Gabriel

    Gabriel

    Supporting

    One of the four elemental angel who governs wate and the former Chief of the Cherubim, Jibril was rendered comatose and imprisoned in the Water Garden by Sevothtarte. Her soul was forced to be Alexiels guardian angel, and was reincarnated into Sara Mudo b...

  • Keith Gandor

    Gandor Keith

    Supporting

    Keith is the oldest of the Gandor brothers (being somewhere in his late twenties or early thirties) and with his two younger brothers Berga and Luck inherited the Gandor mafia family from their father. Throughout the course of the anime he never speaks an...

  • Berga Gandor (ベルガ・ガンドール)

    Gandor Berga

    Supporting

    Berga is the second oldest Gandor son and with his two brothers runs the Gandor family mafia. Of the three brothers he seems to enjoy violence the most (this is excluding Claire, their "4th" brother), and seems to do most of the mafias dirty work alongsid...

  • Luck Gandor (ラック・ガンドール)

    Gandor Luck

    Supporting

    Intelligent executive of the Mafia Gandor Family. The third of the brothers and childhood friend of Firo, having grown up in the same apartment block.Although he and his brothers lead the Gandor family, Lucks close ties with Firo makes the Gandors allies ...

  • Begg Garrott (ベグ・ガロット)

    Garrott Begg

    Supporting

    One of the 1711 immortals. He studied together under the same alchemy teacher as Fermet. In the 1930's Begg works for the Runorata Family. Begg spends his time trying to create the perfect drug to bring people "happiness."In 2002, Maiza visits him in a Ne...

  • Eve Genoard (イブ・ジェノアード)

    Genoard Eve

    Supporting

    Eve is the little sister of Dallas Genoard. Despite her quiet personality and aristocratic upbringing, Eve has very little fear of the New York streets, going directly against the mafia as she searches for her brother. Eve truly believes that Dallas has a...

  • Dallas Genoard (ダラス・ジェノアード)

    Genoard Dallas

    Supporting

    Eve Genoards brother and a troublemaker.Dallas comes from the wealthy Genoard family that has close ties with the Runorata Mafia Family. He is Eves only living relative as both their father and older brother were killed by Gustavo, the second-in-command m...

  • Giuliano (ジュリアーノ)

    Giuliano

    Supporting

    Twin brother of Gabriel....

  • Miria Harvent (ミリア・ハーヴェント)

    Harvent Miria

    Supporting

    Another eccentric thief, she is the partner and lover of Isaac Dian. Miria wholeheartedly believes and supports everything Isaac says, often even going so far as to mimic his body language. Together they appear extremely stupid, whimsical and oblivious, b...

  • Nice Holystone (ニース・ホーリーストーン)

    Holystone Nice

    Supporting

    Explosives expert with a mellow disposition. Nice makes top-notch explosives, but lost her right eye and has extensive scarring on her body from an accident with her homemade explosives when she was a child. She and Jacuzzi are childhood friends, she expl...

  • Illness

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  • Tock Jefferson

    Jefferson Tock

    Supporting

    Ticks brother. Unlike his older brother, Tock is a genius. When his brother was sold to the Gandors by their stepfather he ran away and shortly after he met Huey (and Chane too) who at the moment was searching for Claire. He became Hueys subordinate and ...

  • Tick Jefferson (チック・ジェファーソン)

    Jefferson Tick

    Supporting

    A young man always seen smiling with a pair of scissors. The son of a clockmaker, as a child he was sold by his stepfather to a young Luck Gandor as a means of payment for an $2500 loan his stepfather couldn't pay off. Helps out in the Gandor family by "...

  • Carnea Kaufman

    Kaufman Carnea

    Supporting

    A stowaway girl who runs into Bobbys gang while trying to find a hiding place. She stowed away on the Entrance in order to find Angelo.(Source: TV Tropes)...

  • Lua Klein (ルーア・クライン)

    Klein Lua

    Supporting

    Ladd's lover and fiance. She is fair-haired and beautiful, despite sporting a somewhat vacant (albeit serene) expression. She is completely devoted to Ladd and is likely a masochist, as she seems to take pleasure in his promise that he will be the...

  • Leeza Laforet (リーザ・ラフォレット)

    Laforet Leeza

    Supporting

    Chane's younger sister. Leeza is actually the first vessel for Hilton's hive mind....

  • Chane Laforet (シャーネ・ラフォレット)

    Laforet Chane

    Supporting

    The beautiful, dagger wielding daughter of Huey Laforet. Although her father is one of the original immortals who had been aboard the Advena Avis in 1711, she is actually mortal. Chane is thoroughly devoted and at a young age, she requested that Huey remo...

  • Lana

    Lana

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Lia Lianshan

    Lianshan Lia

    Supporting

    A Chinese American, Lia Lianshan works at one of the Martello Familys speakeasiesthe one that also serves as the secret meeting place of the Cammora. She became an Immortal the same night as the other members of the Martello hierarchy, along with F...

  • Life

    Life

    Supporting

    A member of the Mask Makers. He constantly keeps his face hidden, and is in charge of smuggling weapons onto the Entrance and planting poison gas in the ventilation systems. Life ends up chasing after Bobby and Carnea when they accidentally stumble on his...

  • Sylvie Lumiere (シルヴィ・リュミエール)

    Lumiere Sylvie

    Supporting

    An Advena Avis immortal and only woman aboard the ship. She saved her share of the immortality elixir and drank it a few years after the rest of the passengers. After her lover, Gretto, was devoured by Szilard, she decided to devote her life to seeking re...

  • Roy Maddock (ロイ・マードック)

    Maddock Roy

    Supporting

    Roy is a drug addict with hypersensitivity: basically, he feels the effects of drugs better then anyone else. Begg finds great potential in him and wants to use him to create the perfect drug. Roy, on the other hand, while drugged up, causes a lot of trou...

  • Melody

    Melody

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Melvi (メルヴィ)

    Melvi

    Supporting

    A mysterious newcomer to the crime world with connections to the Runorattas and a suspicious physical resemblance to Maizas late brother, Gretto. Cold and vindictive, Melvi bears a strong grudge against Firo for stealing what he sees as rightfully his&mda...

  • Felt Nibel (フェルト・ニベル)

    Nibel Felt

    Supporting

    Dezs son. He is kinder and more open-minded than his father.(Source: TV Tropes)...

  • Dez Nibel (デズ・ニベル)

    Nibel Dez

    Supporting

    The mayor of the village. Highly suspicious and hostile toward outsiders.(Source: TV Tropes)...

  • Nick

    Nick

    Supporting

    Nick is a motorball technician who is on Valdiccis pit crew....

  • Niki (ニキ)

    Niki

    Supporting

    A witness of the Mask Maker's serial killings. Niki meets Huey and Monica during an unfortunate run-in with a group of thugs. She is later saved by Elmer from those same thugs, and ends up staying at Esperana's estate as Elmer's guest. Niki is act...

  • Nile (ナイル)

    Nile

    Supporting

    One of the Advena Avis immortals. On the Advenna Avis, he saves Sylvie from Szilard. After becoming immortal, he begins to visit various battlefields in order to not forget the meaning of death but ends up desensitized to it instead. Nile is easily provok...

  • Pamela (파멜라)

    Pamela

    Main

    Orphaned at age eleven when her mother was burned at the stake for witchcraft in the Dark Ages of Europe, Pamela was raised by a dragon named Ash, who ultimately became both her lover and her tormentor. Ash was murdered, and whilst dying in Pamelas arms, ...

  • Goose Perkins (グース・パーキンズ)

    Perkins Goose

    Supporting

    The head of Huey's group who are on the Flying Pussyfoot....

  • Phil (フィル)

    Phil

    Supporting

    A mysterious girl Elmer meets in a secluded town in the middle of the forest. She has little to no personality or so it seems....

  • President of the Daily Days (DD新聞社社長)

    President Of The Daily Days

    Supporting

    The president is the unseen head of the Daily Days. His office is filled with paper and the sound of ringing phones. His age is unknown due to the large mountain of papers on his desk, but he is described as having a young voice.(Source: Wikipedia)...

  • Szilard Quates (セラード・クェーツ)

    Quates Szilard

    Supporting

    200 years old immortal alchemy teacher wanting to know what he could not know. Doing anything in his will to get it.A seemingly geriatric alchemist who gains immortality during the 1711 incident aboard the Advena Avis. After the incident he desires to kno...

  • Rachel

    Rachel

    Supporting

    Rachel is the current Claymore #5 and is an offensive type warrior. She is good friends with fellow Claymore, #3 Audrey....

  • Rail (レイル)

    Rail

    Supporting

    A member of Lamia created less than 15 years ago. Rail is an explosives specialist with an outspoken hatred of his master and creator Huey. He hero-worships Christopher, who befriended him after a particularly traumatizing experiment.Later in 1934, Rail l...

  • Zank Rowan (ザンク・ローワン)

    Rowan Zank

    Supporting

    A Polynesian alchemist. Along with Denkuro, he visits Lotto Valentino to investigate the events that are happening in the city.He is an Advenna Avis immortal but not listed among those still living by Maiza and Czes in 2001....

  • Bartolo Runorata (バルトロ・ルノラータ)

    Runorata Bartolo

    Supporting

    Boss of the Runorata family....

  • Carzelio Runorata

    Runorata Carzelio

    Supporting

    Carzelio Runorata is Bartolo Runoratas grandson. He is next in line to inherit the Runorata Family.Carzelio has a very sheltered upbringing due to his status, and is subsequently naive and unfazed by dangerous situations.(Source: Baccano! Wikia)...

  • Ricardo Russo (リカルド・ルッソ)

    Russo Ricardo

    Supporting

    A young relative of the Russo crime family. Is under protection by Christopher Chareau de Red in 1934, and later is accompanied by Graham Specter as well.For years Ricardo passes herself off as a boy, but after 1934 events it's revealed that his&rd...

  • Placido Russo (プラチド・ルッソ)

    Russo Placido

    Supporting

    Ladd's uncle, and the don of the Russo family. Placido is very brash and will not tolerate any error from his thugs, though he seems to genuinely care for his grandchild Ricardo. After Ladd leaves the family, he begins to lose the power he once had.Later ...

  • Ladd Russo (ラッド・ルッソ)

    Russo Ladd

    Supporting

    Ladd is a sadistic hit-man for the Russo family. His love for acts of violence truly shows in the maniacal glee he exhibits while fighting or killing. He is exceptionally skilled in hand-to-hand combat—particularly boxing—and the use of firearms. He is mo...

  • Nader Schasschule (ネイダー・シャズクール)

    Schasschule Nader

    Supporting

    Nader Schasschule is a con-man and an ex-member of the Lemures after his attempted uprising against them failed. To punish him for his betrayal, Chan Laforet severed his right hand. He thinks negatively of himself, and wishes he could be the hero...

  • Ronny Schiatto (ロニー・スキアート)

    Schiatto Ronny

    Supporting

    The Martillo familys secretary.Ronny is the demon who was summoned aboard the Advena Avis. After Elmer falls overboard while chasing Szilard, he meets Ronnie who is intrigued by him and gives him one wish. Elmer asks Ronny to watch over Maiza as a human a...

  • Shaft

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  • Sickle

    Sickle

    Supporting

    An incomplete ageless homunculus created by Huey. Sickle specializes in a kick-based fighting style that, despite her protestations to the contrary, are reminiscent of Capoeira. It is implied that her blunt, scornful demeanor is a defense mechanism used t...

  • Raz Smith (ラズ・スミス)

    Smith Raz

    Supporting

    An assassin who was hired by Gustavo Bagetta in 1932. Underneath his overcoat, Raz carries dozens of guns that he uses in his line of work. Raz was defeated by Berga Gandor in their confrontation at the Daily Days office, and sent to Fred's hospital. He r...

  • Graham Specter (グラハムスペクタ)

    Specter Graham

    Supporting

    Graham Specter is a mechanic and one of Ladd Russos loyal devotees. He is one of the powerhouse fighters of the Russo Family, taught how to fight by Ladd himself.A young man who was not directly involved with any of the main events in the anime. He harbor...

  • Spike (スパイク)

    Spike

    Supporting

    Spike worked as a sniper for the Lemures in 1931. He acted upon the instructions of their leader, Goose Perkins, in order to take over the Flying Pussyfoot and blackmail Senator Manfred Beriam into freeing Huey Laforet.Thanks to Claire Stanfield, Spike is...

  • Bobby Splot (ボビー・スプロット)

    Splot Bobby

    Supporting

    The leader of a small gang of delinquents. He (along with the gang) stows away on the Entrance in order to get revenge on the Martillo Family for taking back the camera they stole. Bobby is the great-grandson of Jacuzzi and Nice, though he has none of Jac...

  • Gustav St. Germain (ギュスターヴ・サンジェルマン)

    St. Germain Gustav

    Supporting

    The vice president of the Daily Days. He works with his assistant Carol primarily on incidents involving immortals.St. Germain is a pseudonym he borrows from the famous alchemist the Count of St. Germain....

  • Dalton Strauss (ダルトン・ストラウス)

    Strauss Dalton

    Supporting

    Headmaster at the alchemy school in Lotto Valentino.He is from an older generation of immortals and works as a librarian in Lotto Valentino during the 21st century....

  • Victor Talbot (ヴィクター・タルボット)

    Talbot Victor

    Supporting

    A 1711 immortal. During the 1930s, he serves as an agent of the government body now known as the FBI. He and a select group of subordinates deal with all cases involving immortals. He is thought to be responsible for Huey's arrest. In the novel The Rollin...

  • The Mask Maker

    The Mask Maker

    Supporting

    A masked Serial Killer who terrorizes the city of Lotto Valentino in 1705. Very little is known about himnot even his gender or approximate age. The Mask Makers victims are all stabbed to death with a stiletto and their faces are covered with the s...

  • The Poet

    The Poet

    Supporting

    "The Poet" is Lamias resident wannabe gentleman. As his name suggests he is very fond of poetry and likes to recite them at any time given, and much to everyones dismay, he happens to recite them or make his conversation into a rhythmic banter pretty much...

  • Denkuro Tougo (東郷 田九郎)

    Tougo Denkuro

    Supporting

    An Advenna Avis immortal. After landing in America in 1711 he attempts to walk back to Japan but ends up buried in ice somewhere around the North Pole. He is eventually found by a Soviet nuclear submarine and ends up going on the run from the KGB for most...

  • Charon Walken (シャロン・ウォーケン)

    Walken Charon

    Supporting

    A famous child stunt double. Unlike his sister, he dislikes being in the spotlight.Charon is a lot like great-grandmother Chane - though according to Firo it apparently has a lot to do with him staying with Keith Gandor while growing up....

  • Claudia Walken (クローディア・ウォーケン)

    Walken Claudia

    Supporting

    A world-renowned child actress who is aboard the Entrance to promote her new movie. Claudia is noted to be very similar in personality to her great-grandfather Claire.At the end of the 2002 arc, she sets out to rescue the kidnapped Illness....

  • Nicholas Wayne (ニコラス・ウェイン)

    Wayne Nicholas

    Supporting

    Nicholas Wayne is a young man who works for the newspaper....

  • Mark Wilmans (マーク・ウィルメンス)

    Wilmans Mark

    Supporting

    A young boy who tries to commit suicide before Elmer C. Albatross intervenes. After witnessing Elmer's immortality, Mark tries to find out the truth behind the immortals.Mark is really the serial killer Ice Pick Thompson who is wreaking havoc in New York ...