Against his better judgment, Mick fell in love with a mortal, intrepid girl reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles), who worked for the Buzzwire news service and who frequently accompanied Mick during his investigations.
Though obliged to drink blood and avoid sunlight to survive (luckily he was impervious to such usual vampire repellants as wooden stakes and garlic), Mick made the best of a bad situation by taking a job that allow him to work nights and to spend his days sleeping in a freezer and, good-hearted soul that he was, Mick sidestepped the embarrassing necessity of killing people for their blood by forming a strong friendship with morgue attendant Guillermo (Jacob Vargas), who provided him with an endless supply of fresh corpses. John, who'd become an 'undead' vampire way back in 1947 thanks to his fang-bearing former wife Coralyn (Shannyn Sossamon.
Alex O'Loughlin starred as LA private detective Mick St.
'Being a vampire sucks.' This pretty much summed up the attitude of the protagonist of this heady CBS mixture of suspense and the supernatural.
