Bernie is a boy who lives over the road. Mitchell makes friends with him after he stops him being bullied. Mitchell lends him a Laurel and Hardy DVD , but the boy accidentally takes the vampire porn/snuff film DVD that Lauren had sent Mitchell. When Bernie's mother finds it Mitchell is branded a pedophile. Later one night, while the people from the street are rioting against George Sands and Mitchell, Bernie is hit by a car and slips into a coma from which the doctors say he will never recover. Mitchell feels so much guilt he offers to Bernie’s mother the option to turn him into a vampire, which she accepts.