he scans the graffiti scrawls, doesn't see anything. whistler switches to infra-red. a previously unseen vampire glyph is now revealed, hidden amongst the haphazard graffiti. just beneath the glyph are a pair of loading doors set flush into the concrete sidewalk. the view pans from the hotel entrance to scud's van. whistler has just enough time to register chupa, the handgun pointed directly at him. us before noticing something else just beyond chupa. nomak savages the guards, flinging them into the air. a guard's body hits the v-gap in the door and obscures our view as --