Moonlight had an impressive line-up of episodes, but which are the best, as determined by IMDb?
Moonlightonly had one season, consisting of 16 episodes, running from 2007-2008. Its protagonist, and narrator, was Mick St. John (Alex O'Loughlin), a vampire that had been unwillingly turned decades earlier by his ex-wife. He uses his vampire abilities in his profession as a private investigator, trying to make the best of his situation.
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Mick feels it is his duty to protect human reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles) from harm given he saved her in the past, and the two begin falling for one another, despite being in very different worlds. The two often worked cases together. Their story was cut short, and the series has since developed a cult following. Several memorable episodes came from Moonlight, but there were some that truly stood out from the rest.
Mick and Beth land in hot water when their cases crisscross. Mick is looking for a woman his best friend Josef has had an on-again, off-again relationship with, and Beth is digging into a model's overdose. Turns out, the woman Mick is looking for is killing vampires and selling their blood as drugs to humans, which makes humans feel invincible and sexy, but if given too much, proves fatal. Beth takes the drug to see for herself its effects, and she attempts to seduce Mick and pushes him to turn her, though he resists.
Mick gets the shock of his life when Beth asks him to help her friend Morgan retrieve her stolen cameras. Morgan is a dead ringer for Coraline, Mick's ex-wife, who was supposedly dead for years. Mick becomes obsessed with trying to find out more about Morgan, convinced she's Coraline, but confused by the fact that she's human. Finally, Mick accepts that Morgan is just a look-alike, but audiences know better by the end, when they see the fleur-de-lis tattoo on Morgan that confirms she is, in fact, Coraline.
When Mick and Beth look into the kidnapping of a young boy, Mick finds his past coming back to haunt him when he finds he may have a connection to the boy and the rest of his family.
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Considering he had an affair with the boy's grandmother several years before, he wonders if he may be the boy's grandfather as he tracks down the boy and his kidnapper. He later finds the DNA results to be negative, but it gets both him and Beth thinking about a future family. Beth, in the meantime, is offered a new job after she quits her present one.
Beth, still grieving the loss of her boyfriend Josh, is trying to put his affairs in order. While doing so, she discovers that he was going to propose to her, and her heart breaks all over again. Meanwhile, two vampires show up at Mick's, and ask for his help to find Coraline. He finds her as a vampire once more, and working on the compound that will cure vampirism. She gives it to Mick, and is subsequently taken away to be punished for her wrongdoing by the two vampires, her fate left unknown.
Mick and Beth get a harsh reality check of the consequences of a vampire-human relationship when they head to New York City to help Josef, Mick's best friend and fellow vampire.A dying man hires a hitman to go after Josef for murdering his daughter decades before. Mick and Beth learn the truth from Josef, who admits that he fell in love with the man's daughter, and when he tried to turn her into a vampire so they could be together forever, something went wrong and she went into a comatose state; she's been comatose the whole time, and hasn't aged a day. Mick takes care of the hitman. Back in Los Angeles, Coralineis once again a vampire and takes off from the hospital.
Mick, now human thanks to a "cure", is enjoying all the things (like food and sunlight) he's missed out on since having been turned into a vampire decades before. However, the cure is temporary. Beth investigates the murder of her boss Maureen alongside Mick.
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New district attorney Benjamin Talbot is investigating the murder as well. When Beth and Talbot are kidnapped by the vampire that killed Maureen, Mick is forced to become a vampire once more, turned by Josef, to save them. It proves how much Mick loves Beth, as he was willing to give up his chance at humanity.
Beth hasn't known of Mick's vampire nature for long when she's put to the test in this episode. Josh is out to prosecute a dangerous arms dealer, and his star witness, Leni, has taken off, fearing for her life. Josh hires Mick to find Leni, protect her, and bring her back. Mick finds her before the hitmen do, but the two become stranded in the desert, putting Mick's life at risk given his prolonged exposure to the unforgiving sunlight. While Josh hunts down a leak in his department, Mick has Leni call Beth for help and when she arrives, she realizes Mick needs blood to survive. Mick is against the idea, but Beth insists that he feed on her blood; this changes their relationship to a degree, as they have to figure out how to move past the event.
Beth narrates instead of Mick, which provides a different perspective compared to the other episodes. Beth, jealous of Mick and Morgan working together, decides to dig into Morgan's past. Meanwhile, Morgan drops several hints as to her real identity, and makes advances on Mick. Mick, since having met Morgan in a previous episode, has suspected Morgan to be his supposedly dead ex-wife Coraline, given her close resemblance. Morgan's real identity is confirmed as Coraline when Mick sees her fleur-de-lis tattoo. In the meantime, Beth realizes that Morgan is the woman who kidnapped her as a child, andshe makes the mistake of driving a wooden stake through Morgan's heart, not realizing she is now somehow human, and not a vampire.
The series finale finds Beth and Mick unsure of their future together. When Beth meets a vampire who turned the man she loved so they could be together forever, it seems like a sweet love story. That is, until the couple are later killed for treason by other vampires. Beth isn't sure if she's willing to join Mick's world, and as Mick can't revert to mortality, Beth breaks things off with him.
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For a heart-stopping moment, it seems their story has come to an end, but Mick returns to her apartment and kisses her, assuring audiences they still love each other, and that their story isn't quite over, even if the show is. The finale also ended on something of a cliffhanger, given Beth's new boss had a list of names of all the vampires in Los Angeles, including Mick's.
When Josh goes after a dangerous LA gang, intending to prosecute one of its members, everything starts going downhill fast. The gang has a reputation for going after spouses, so Josh arranges for Beth to have police protection. The thing is, he needed it more, given he's later kidnapped by the gang. Beth and Mick chase after him, but when they catch up, Josh is mortally wounded. A grieving Beth begs Mick to turn her boyfriend into a vampire, but Mick refuses, as he'd promised himself he'd never turn someone. Josh dies, and Beth grieves, angry at Mick, creating a rift between them.
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