Kel: I'd swear that I was forgetting this thing (blows the dust off the props).

Alonzo: Heaven forbid.

Kel: Well, I've got some time before the next rehearsal for the school musical... matter of fact, it's more than enough time for another installment of MISTO!

Misto: How lucky for me.

Kel: (ignoring the sarcasm in his voice) Yup. Places people! I have a very slim amount of free time 'ere and I'd like to use it wisely!

Vicky: **cough** Wisely, right.

When we last left this story oh so long ago, Alonzo was begging to be let into the business and Misto and Vicky were doing a Grade A job of ignoring him. There was also some stuff about Misto's police friend Tantomile finding out what he really was... uh, OH! and just so this next part makes sense, Tanti's father was also a policeman who was famed for his upstanding all around goodness.

Tanti: Ah, foreshadowing the irony. How cute and yet how.... obvious.

ANYhow, as we return to the events in our ever on-going storyline, Alonzo has been being more of a pest than usual, so they hire him, (not as much on merit as to get him to finally shut up about it).

Alonzo: HEY!

Misto has been doing what he does best-- brood, while Vicky... well, is Vicky. This episode opens in a flashback when Misto was still a young lad in Galway, Ireland.

Bomb: Hold on to your seats! Here comes another flashback wavy effect!!

The young and handsome Misto is chasing the servant girls around when his father, Gus storms in and gives him a good kick in the butt for it.

"You've been out drinkin' and chasing tails all night long, haven't ye?"

"Well, duh!"

Kel: Uh, Misto? I think you missed the point 'ere. He's a rebellious man from the 1700's! NOT the year 2000!

Misto: Well, pardon me for trying to update the dialogue!

"Well, as long as you live under my roof, ye won't be partakin' in such an utter DISGRACE! DO YOU HEAR ME, BOY?!

Dem: Sheesh, Gus! We ALL hear you!

Kel: Someone should take that cat to over-actors annonymous...

"Well, now. THAT can be arranged my dearest father...." Misto turned abruptly on his heel and fled the house in a teenage fit of rage.

"IF YOU GO COURTIN' TROUBLE, YOU'RE SURE TO FIND IT!" his father yelled out the door after him. Aside from the fact that most teenagers when throwing a hissy fit block out anything and everything their parents tell them, it also would end this series really fast if he went back and appologized and went quietly about his life.

Back in the present, Misto is in his offices with his new associate Alonzo, and Vicky, who is busy helping the 244 year old, and consequentially slightly out of the technical loop, pollicle install a security system in the building.

"We should make the password something that we'll know, like my birthday!" Vickt said as she poked at the control panel.

"Uh, I don't know your birthday." Misto put in his two cents while his mind was miles away on the events in Galway.

Just when Vicky was about to launch into her normal spiel about listening to others and being sensitive of their feelings, lil' miss cop feline, Tantomile enters the office. There has been an attack on a subway by an irate un-dead creature and she needs his help. Just to further complicate matters, her father was ALSO onboard at the time and he 'claims' not to know anything about what happened.

Misto: Sheesh, Kel! Could you have been any more obvious about that?

Skimble: She could have just come out and SAID that he was involved in something illegal.

Kel: Oh, but why would I since you ALREADY did that for me??

Skimble: Whoopsie. My bad.

"So this Pum was pretty cheesed off?" Misto asked.

"Must you say that?"

"What? Cheesed?"

"No, before that."

"Pretty?"

"NO! I was talking about the Pum! You should just call it.... an "evil thing"."

Misto, who knows all about paranormal as I've said before, had a sudden inspiration. "Alright. What if this "evil thing" turned out not to be an evil "evil thing"?"

Tantomile huffed. "How can you have a not evil "evil thing"?"

Munku: And forget trying to figure out the meaning behind THAT conversation, folks.

So while Misto sets about investigating the trouble, Tanti goes to have lunch with her daddy, (who is also played by Gus to save on the expenses of extras).

They have a nice Father/Daughter heart to heart, minus the actual "relating the truth to your own flesh and blood" part of the deal. As this conversation continues, we cut to Misto having another... FLASHBACK!

(Gus rushes backstage to change costumes REALLY fast)

(We have several shots of Misto going tavern hopping, chasing around the females and getting nicely boozed up. As this whirlwind of shots continues, and old familiar face appears on the scene-- That of Cassandra, Misto's sire whom he dusted in the first season and has only been in flashbacks ever since. At this point, she has not revealed to anyone what she REALLY is, and has her eyes on Misto.

Misto: Which would be kinda romantic if it weren't for the fact that she's only eyeing me as the evening buffet.

She inquires about him and later that night... (cut to the scene from Mooky's "Becoming" part of the 'Electra' parody where she digs into his neck and makes him a pollicle.

Back in the present once more, Gus sneaks out later that night to deliver a certain brown package to a group of lawyers from Cheat 'em & Howe. He warns them that Misto is hot on their trail and that he is sick of lying to his daughter, and turns to go.

As he walks away, the one lawyer picks up his cell phone and puts in a call to another one of the big boys. They instruct him to remove Gus since he is causing problems for them now.

Munku: Time for the angst to begin!

Meantime, Vicky returns to the office with some good and bad news.

"First, I'd like to say that driving around in LA looks a HECK of a lot easier in the movies..... secondly, why didn't you guys turn on the security system? What good does a highly expensive piece of electronic equiptment do us if we NEVER TURN IT ON??" Vicky griped as she entered from her undercover operation, (which Misto sent her on in another part of the plot to uncover exactly WHAT it was that Tanti's dad was hiding).

"Both absolutly riveting insights, I assure you, but WHAT ABOUT GUS??!!!" Misto yelled.

"Sheesh! Keep your shirt on!"

Kittens: Although you won't hear US complain if he DOES take it off! (whistle and swoon) Eeee!!

Kel: Kittens. Oh brother.

She relates some interesting information including the remarkably well-timed comment that she saw two guys from Cheat Em'-n-Howe discussing how to bump off the old geaser. Alarmed, Misto races off, remembering to come back and get something just as Alonzo and Vicky (who are alone and vulnerable in the office) are set upon by a couple dozen drug-addicted Pollicles. He quickly sets about kicking their tails and in doing so, discovers that they were searching for the drugs Gus has been smuggling for the lawyer cats from the lawfirm we have mentioned only too often.

"I have to go warn Tanti and her Father! Next time they may kill someone!" Misto said as he resumed his heroic exit once he'd gotten rid of the druggie-pollicles.

He races over to the appartment and arrives a precious few minutes later than the lawyers who are already there and Gus has ALREADY invited in.

Exotica: Oh, that was swift.

Gus: Do you mind? You're messing up my big scene!

The pollicles begin to slowly drain Gus' blood, but Misto arrives just in time--- to witness his death. Without Gus' invitation, he can't come in and so he is left to watch and wait for the ex-cop to die slowly at the hands of Misto's own kind. As soon as they finish their theater cat meal however, the old guy's a goner and Misto can waltz right in. In a fit of blind rage, he stakes every last one of them, knowing he is too late to save Gus.

"DADDY!" Tanti screamed as she arrived and saw Misto sitting there with her father's dead body. "NOOO!"

"Tantomile! I wanted to help.... but he wouldn't let me!" Misto tried to explain, only to have her explode in his face.

"GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!" she exploded and pushed him out the door. Distraught, Misto heads back to the office, remembering yet ANOTHER time in his past....

We are present at a fine funeral, layed out for Misto. His family is there, grieving his passing.... quick cut to later that night where Cassandra arrives and pulls Mistofelees out as he rises from his grave. They chat for a few minutes until he sees someone and decides he's a wee bit peckish. Upon his first kill, he is welcomed into Cassandra's world.

"You can have anything you want. AnyONE'S revenge.... ANYTHING." she crooned and left him alone to go stalk out the father who had tormented him in life.

Back in the present, Misto is collecting all his weapons up to go kill the other lawyers who helped kill Tanti's daddy. He takes stakes, an Anne Rice novel or two, and those cool double-stake shooters which we haven't seen since the premiere episode. He heads out, but Tanti is a step ahead of him.

Jem: (nose in the script once again) And a step closer to her grave if she ain't careful...

Kel: Do you mind leaving me SOMETHING plot-like to work with here?!

She arrives at the smuggler's hideout (heaven knows how she knew, but just take it in stride...) and comes face to face with the power behind the entire drug ring-- a mamoth-sized battle demon, high as a kite on drugs. They face off, and it appears Gus won't be lacking for a death-sleep companion, until Misto arrives on the scene to help her. A tense battle insues and the good guys come out on top as is expected in an hour long drama where killing off the lead would be a pretty bad situation to get oneself into from a director's standpoint.

"Well, that's over. We got rid of that guy." Misto said, hoping to get Tantomile to actually talk to him again.

"Leave me alone. My father was a good man!" Tanti said protestingly.

"-- Who didn't know what he was getting into. I know..."

"No, you don't. My father was a jellicle.... you don't know anything about that." she walked off, leaving Misto to have yet ANOTHER flashback. (Don't worry, we're near the end now so this is it.)

All: THANK THE EVERLASTING CAT!

Mistoffelees is sitting alone in the darkened shell of his former home. His family lays dead all around him-- victims of their relative's new state of being. As a Pollicle, he has much still to learn and is very confused when his sire arrives, not to congradulate him, but rather to question him about his actions.

"So that's it then?" Cassandra asked as she arrived and settled in next to him.

"I have won." Mistoffelees crooned, pleased with himself.

"Really?" Cassandra looked at the corpse.

"He's dead. I have triumphed."

"Curious. Your 'victory' over him took but moments. Yet his lifelong 'victory' of you will plague you forever." she sighed, trying to make things clearer for her new Pollicle. "The same love will always affect our hearts... even if they no longer beat."

Mistoffelees was genuinely perplexed now. "Is this the work of love?"

Cassandra smiled and put her lips close to his. "Darling tom. So young... still so young." they kiss and we fade back to modern times...

(Misto and Cass are still liplocked)

Kel: Uhm, alright guys! You're done with the smoochies... scene over.... GUYS?!

Lec: (pulls them apart and turns to Cassandra) Do I have to hose you two down? FOR THE LAST TIME! MY Pollicle!

Cass: (under her breath) Dang. (raises her voice) Sorry. I was........ in the moment.

Lec: Well, you'll see your head from the inside if you don't keep your mits off him!

Kel: LADIES! LADIES! We're almost done here and I've been cleaning up all this fake blood for way to long! I'd rather not add the real deal to the mix!

Tantomile is seen laying flowers at her father's grave while Misto watches from the shadows nearby. She looks as if she is about to break down, but Misto can do nothing for her since she has made it clear that she wants nothing more to do with him and his........ dark side. He is left wondering until our next installment whether or not she can ever come to accept him as Electra had...

Tugger: You just HAD to throw in that little teaser to make sure people come back next time, huh?

Rumple: You rang?

Tugger; Huh? OH! No, I said teaser, not RUMPLETEASER!

Rumple: Oh, 'k.

Kel: Lucky for you guys, I've run out of spare time for now and have to get back to the musical, but (starts to sing from "How to Succeed...") "I SHALL RETURN!"