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The movie opens in
the year 1202 AD with an army
led by three vampire elders (Markus, Viktor, and Amelia) arriving at a
Lycan ravaged village.
After killing several Lycans, Viktor and Amelia capture their target:
Markus's
brother William Corvinus, the first and most powerful werewolf. Viktor
orders
that William be imprisoned in a secret location forever.
The story then
continues the present-day timeline,
after the events of the first film. Selene takes Michael to a safe
house so
that she can return to the mansion to confront Kraven. She knows Kraven
intends
to kill Markus and plans to stop him. However, Singe's blood has
already
awakened Markus, who wipes out Kraven and his men, and destroys the
mansion. He
learns Selene and Michael's location from camera surveillance of
various safe
houses and leaves to track them down. Markus confronts Selene and
Michael, who
evade him and hide in a warehouse, and have passionate sex.
Lorenz Macaro, an
elderly and imposing man, sends
in a team of "Cleaners" to investigate the aftermath from the final
battle in the first movie. When Macaro examines Viktor's body he finds
a metal
disk attached to his ribcage which is the mate to Sonja's pendant,
which Selene and Michael
possessed. Now knowing that the pendant is of some importance to
Markus,
Michael and Selene set out to solve its mystery. Selene recalls that
she'd seen
it as a child, but doesn't know its significance. To find answers, they
travel
to the hideout of an exiled vampire historian, Andreas Tanis.
Selene and Michael
confront Tanis, who reveals
that Markus, not Viktor, was the first vampire. One of the two sons of
Alexander Corvinus, he was bitten by a bat and
became a vampire; his twin brother, William
Corvinus, was bitten by a wolf and became a Lycan. The first lycans
created
by him are entirely animal and unable to take human form again. Due to
William's wanton destructiveness, Markus approached Viktor, a warlord
dying of
old age, and offered to turn him and his army into immortal vampires in
exchange for tracking down and stopping William. Markus intended to
capture his
brother and tame him, but Viktor betrays Markus and orders William
locked away
forever. Viktor does not kill the brothers because he believes doing so
would
result in the immediate extinction of all other vampires and Lycans.
Tanis also
reveals that Selene's father was the architect who built William's
prison and
that the pendant is a key. Due to the fact that her family knew of its
location, and the recent escape of Lucian, Viktor feared that Lucian
would use
Sonja's pendent to free William, so Victor killed them and then turned
Selene
into a vampire. Tanis then refers Selene and Michael to Lorenz Macaro
for help.
Shortly after they leave, Markus arrives and questions Tanis, killing
him.
Selene and Michael
go to see Lorenz Macaro, whom
Selene realizes is actually Alexander Corvinus, the first immortal and
father
of Markus and William. He reveals he has devoted his life to containing
the
vampire-lycan war away from the mortal world. However, Alexander
refuses to
help kill Markus. Markus attacks and learns the location of William's
hidden
prison by drinking Selene's blood, killing Michael and attacking
Alexander to
obtain the other half of the pendant. Selene drinks Alexander's blood,
giving
her the power to fight William and Markus.
 Selene leads the
cleaners to the prison to
confront and destroy Markus, but he has already freed William. A battle
ensues
in which William bites the Cleaners and begins turning them into
Lycans.
Michael, presumed to be dead inside his bodybag, suddenly regenerates
and joins
the fight in his Hybrid form. Michael ultimately kills William, while
Selene
kills Markus by pushing him into the spinning blades of a crashed
helicopter.
It is revealed that Selene can now stand in the sun. As the film ends,
Selene
narrates that she fears the days ahead, but is nevertheless hopeful.
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