 While Sophie and Chris skirt around the relationship issue between them and finally end up on a date together, Max meets a clumsy, but brilliant, scientist who has made it his life s work to invent items for battling the undead. Unfortunately, one of the items he is working on, an Anti-Vampire Gun (which fires amplified sunlight), is being sponsored by none other than Alexander Lucard. When the gun doesn t work as planned, Lucard decides to rid himself of the bungling scientist, leaving Max and Gustav to attempt a rescue before it is too late.