Thomas and Milo's relationship

Thomas and Milo’s romantic relationship and betrayal forms a personal counterpart to the financial conspiracy surrounding Scanguards: intimacy brings them together, but the trust that sustains it becomes a route for deception. Their partnership is introduced as familiar and affectionate, then recast through Thomas’s growing unease and Milo’s betrayal. Even after Milo nearly kills him, Thomas refuses to become a killer in return and ends the relationship by expelling him from the country.

A Couple Within Thomas’s World

When Delilah Sheridan meets the men around Samson, Thomas is dressed in motorcycle gear, with his helmet tucked beneath one arm. Milo stands behind him, quieter and similarly dressed. Thomas introduces him by name and places an arm possessively around his shoulder, presenting them as a couple. Their presence helps Delilah feel safer: she takes comfort in seeing two men in the room whom she believes are not there to threaten her and might even protect her. The moment makes their partnership legible through an ordinary gesture of closeness, before the story reveals the danger hidden within it.

Their relationship also belongs to the same social and professional circle. Thomas runs Scanguards’ IT department, while Milo began spending time with Samson’s group after he and Thomas became inseparable nearly nine months earlier. Work, friendship, and romance therefore occupy overlapping ground. Milo is not an outsider who enters Thomas’s life only at the moment of conflict; he has become part of the company’s wider circle and of Thomas’s daily world.

Intimacy Under Strain

By the time the relationship begins to falter, Thomas believes Milo has become more distant and that they may be nearing an end. Their outward roles have shifted: Thomas, usually the more dominant partner, sees Milo taking on that position, while Milo remains comparatively quiet and shy around Samson and his associates. Their sexual relationship continues frequently, but no longer has the passion it had at the beginning. Thomas would like to prolong what they have, yet senses that it is running down.

Milo’s secrecy sharpens Thomas’s insecurity. Thomas does not know what Milo does when they are apart, and although he recognizes that his jealousy may be unwarranted, he cannot simply suppress it. The episode links this trait to Thomas’s enduring temperament: he believes becoming a vampire did not change a person’s character so much as intensify it. His jealousy is thus neither a sudden consequence of vampirism nor proof that he understands Milo’s actions; it is a familiar vulnerability that eventually prompts him to monitor Milo’s phone conversations by placing a tracking chip in the device.

Betrayal and Thomas’s Decision

When Thomas is found gravely hurt, Samson asks who did it. Thomas answers with Milo’s name. The disclosure turns the deterioration of their romance into a direct betrayal, and Samson’s response is to tell Amaury to find Milo. Thomas later explains that the phone recordings helped expose what was happening: while listening to them, he heard Milo in the background during a call connected to Amaury’s request for help with encrypted files. Thomas’s jealousy had led him to gather evidence, but the evidence revealed a betrayal far more consequential than a failing romance.

Thomas’s final judgment names the damage in both personal and public terms. He accuses Milo of winning his trust under false pretenses, deceiving and robbing him, nearly killing him, killing innocent people, and placing those dear to Thomas in danger. He rejects murder, declares Milo unwelcome, and warns that he will pursue anyone who shelters him as well as Milo himself if he returns to the United States. Thomas then orders two guards to take Milo to the airport and ensure he leaves the country. Milo is shocked that Thomas will not kill him, but the refusal is precisely what distinguishes the verdict from revenge: their relationship ends in permanent expulsion, not reconciliation or execution.