Knowing that the disease would kill both him and his fiancée, he contacts an occult group called the Brotherhood, which is being led by a man named Singleton.
Singleton calmly confesses the deed, telling Arthur the "young man" will never return from Transylvania.
Dracula murders Harker, assumes a youthful appearance after drinking his blood, and is soon en route to England aboard the Demeter.
In the basement, surrounded by crosses made of twigs, he finds Professor Abraham Van Helsing, living like an animal, who insists they must free him at once.
He eventually found Dracula and was released with a message to the Brotherhood: he would come to them if invited, but only if provided with property.
Seward confronts a grief-stricken and remorseful Arthur, who explains that his syphilis prevented him from consummating his marriage.
Seward, Arthur, and Van Helsing meet her at her home, where they agree to go after Dracula, just before dawn, where he will be at his weakest.
Van Helsing distracts Dracula with a cross, giving Seward the chance to stake him from behind.
Additional cast members include Benedick Blythe as Lord Godalming, James Greene as Dr. Blore, Ian Redford as Hawkins, Tanveer Ghani as Cotford, and Rupert Holliday-Evans as DI Burton.
[1] The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review wrote that "the film does finally gain some sizzle when it comes to the scenes of Marc Warren’s Dracula seducing Sophia Myles’s Lucy but added that "Warren occasionally creates a dark magnetism, but mostly looks too cute and boyish to fill a role as big as Dracula".