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"Sanctuary for None, Part II" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season of Sanctuary, and the fifty-ninth episode overall in the series.

This episode is the second part of the two-part season Four finale. This episode marks the series finale of Sanctuary.

Synopsis[]

After Helen Magnus has announced the existence of abnormals to the world, her great plan is set into motion. Meanwhile, Nikola Tesla realizes he may have handed SCIU the means to build a doomsday weapon.

Plot[]

Cold Open[]

Helen Magnus has announced the existence of abnormals to the whole world in a live television interview. Greg Addison and his team are working on ways to get the situation under control; he tries to enlist Will Zimmerman's help, but he refuses. Will gets a call from Magnus, who tells him detaining the abnormals will not be SCIU's final move, and that he must stay in place for the time being.

Act I[]

Magnus explains to Henry Foss that she saw a situation similar to the one they are facing now when she witnessed the Nazis enter the Warshaw Ghetto in 1943 and raze it to the ground, and that walling the abnormals up is the first step on the road to extermination.

Addison gets a video call from a man named Fordis, who tells him that the tech upgrades he took from Nikola Tesla will be very useful for the production of new weaponry. Realizing that he does not have control of the situation, Addison offers Will a deal; he is given access to the SCIU network and promises to find out Magnus' plans in turn.

Caleb, leader of the abnormal insurgency, meets with Bigfoot and shows him a vial with a blue liquid. He tells him that when all his done, abnormals will rule the surface and the humans will worship them as gods.

Act II[]

Meanwhile, Tesla and Henry realize that Tesla may have handed SCIU the means to build a doomsday weapon: his multi-spectrum containment concept is applied all around the homeland project, and could be turned into a giant electrified web.

Magnus sneaks into the Fifth Ward and meets with Kate Freelander and Bruno Delacourt. She is led to Caleb and tries to convince him that the Insurgency should go into hiding for the time being. She also tells him about the containment field, but he decides that he and his kind should make their stand.

When she leaves, Magnus tells Kate and Bigfoot that she does not trust Caleb, and orders Kate to put Bruno on his tail.

However, Bigfoot turns against them and catches Bruno, telling him he needs a lesson in loyalty.

Act III[]

Some time later, Bruno delivers the blue liquid to the Sanctuary; Bigfoot gave it to him after all.

Bigfoot has decided that Caleb has to be dealt with. Kate tries to convince him to leave with her, but he says it is too early.

Will and Abby Corrigan discover that the Tokyo, Dallas, Brisbane, and Cape Town Sanctuaries have all been closed, bringing the total number of closed facilities in the last eight months to twelve. The two try to figure out what Magnus is up to by tracing her steps after she left London in 1898 following her voyage back through time. They discover she visited Tesla in New York, where he was working on the Warden Clyffe Tower. She influenced history under the name "Helen Bancroft" (her mother's maiden name) and made contact with Albert Einstein and Buckminster Fuller. She also established various businesses on several continents. Will realizes that the recent 12-minute shut-down of Wall Street was used to hide the fact that Magnus was liquidating her assets. Whatever she is doing, she is almost ready.

Magnus and Tesla try to figure out what the blue liquid is; they eventually discover that it is a virus that could awaken the latent abnormal DNA in all humans on Earth.

Act IV[]

Will meets with Magnus, and figures out that she never did truly trust Caleb. He is disappointed that she did not trust him, but she did not trust anyone. Whatever SCIU is doing will happen tonight. She asks him to trust her a little longer, and play his part.

Caleb discovers that the virus is gone, and angrily demands Bigfoot be found.

Kate overhears Caleb's orders and warns Bigfoot. He acts as if he wants to leave with her, but then locks her away behind a massive door. Moments later, Caleb and the others arrive, and start kicking and hitting him as he goes to the ground.

Act V[]

Will meets with Addison, who is about to send more troops into the homeland. Will convinces him to give him the access codes to the electrified grid. Tesla and Henry can use them to shut down the grid for a short time.

In her study in the Sanctuary, Magnus arms herself and prepares to leave.

As the grid is shut down, Will and Abby get into the Fifth Ward with a small team.

At the same time, Magnus finds Bigfoot's limp body at the Sanctuary's front gate, and he is not alone: Caleb and his abnormal brothers have come to take back the virus. Magnus sarcastically welcomes them to her home, gun in hand.

Act VI[]

Magnus fires a number of shots at Caleb, which hardly slows him down. She retreats and tells Henry to lure the intruders to the main lab. Henry and Tesla both gear up and prepare for battle.

Will and Abby arrive in the homeland project and start evacuating the abnormals.

Tesla and Henry use their abnormal powers to overcome two of the intruders, while the rest go after Magnus. They catch up with her in her study, but she is able to slip away.

Will finds and frees Kate, and they soon realize what the pool of blood on the floor means. Minutes later they and the others are on their way out of the Fifth Ward.

Old City Falls

The end of the Old City Sanctuary.

Magnus arrives in the main lab and sends Tesla off with a kiss. He locks her in the lab just before Caleb and two of his brothers arrive. The automated guns take his companions out, but Caleb hits Magnus, sending her flying through the room. However, Magnus directs his attention to a self destruct sequence running in the background. He orders her to stop it, but she only spits, "My house, my rules!" and punches another button on her control pad; an automated arm with a giant drill punches through Caleb's upper body from behind, killing him. Magnus puts on Henry's Full Outer-Shell Safety Shield System as the countdown reaches zero.

Will, Abby and Kate watch on as the Old City Sanctuary is blown to pieces by a series of enormous explosions. Abby notes that Magnus is surely okay, but Will thinks otherwise.

Some time later, Will makes his way through an underground corridor and eventually discovers a door with a retinal scanner. He is let inside, and soon comes across Magnus, who appears completely at peace for a change. As she once did years ago, she offers him a glimpse into a world he always wanted to see -- unless he already has a job. When he notes that he quit SCIU a week ago, she leads him deeper into the caves, to a sight that leaves him speechless: she has secretly created a new Underground Sanctuary, with modern habitats and Praxian technology, large enough to hold all the abnormals of the world.

"I get a raise, right?" Will asks, overwhelmed.

"Absolutely not", Magnus answers. "Shall we begin?"

Cast[]

Series regulars
Guest starring
Uncredited

Quotes[]

MAGNUS: [to Will] If you still want to arrest me, I'll be very disappointed.
CALEB: I greeted you like a brother, and this is the thanks I get?
BIGFOOT: You're not my brother.

Extras[]

Extended scene: Scene 55 "How Are Things?"[]

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Deleted scene: Scene 61 "113 Years Of Seclusion"[]

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Deleted scene: Scene 62 "Why I Hate People"[]

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Deleted scene: Scene 71 "New York, 1901"[]

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Notes[]

  • Chronology: This is the final episode of Sanctuary.
  • Chronology: In a deleted scene labeled: Scene 61 "113 Years Of Seclusion", Will Zimmerman and Abby Corrigan are discussing Helen Magnus' trip back through time. Will states that he has worked for Magnus for four years and that the events of the Hollow Earth uprising arc and Magnus going back in time in Episode 3x20 - "Into the Black" happened one year previously. Abby also states that Magnus is now 274 instead of her previous assumed age of 161; placing this episode after her birthday on August 27th, 2011.
  • Chronology: Being a year since Episode 3x20 - "Into the Black", events of this episode "Sanctuary for None, Part II" take place in early 2012 as events of "Into the Black" regarding the Hollow Earth Invasion happen four to five months before its air date in early 2011. Math helps support this as 2011 - 113 = 1898, indicating that the events of "Sanctuary for None, Part II" happen about one to two months after the episode's late December 2011 air date.
  • Factual Error: About twenty minutes into the episode, when Will Zimmerman and Abby Corrigan are trying to trace the whereabouts of Helen Magnus during her century of waiting to catch up with the timeline: Abby mentions a Helen Bancroft was a guest at a private symposium during 1921 in London where she met Albert Einstein. However, the photo that she pulls up is from the 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The conference participants are seen seated on the steps to the Solvay conference building in Leopold Park, which has since become the Lycée Emile Jacqmain, a public secondary school of the City of Brussels.
  • Trivia: Will Zimmerman and Abby Corrigan reviewing the recent property records in this episode solves an apparent financial issue seen in the beginning of previous Episode 4x11 - "The Depths". That episode opens with Will looking over financial reports in which he comments that the Sanctuary Network is spewing money and recommends that some of the smaller Sanctuaries be merged. Helen Magnus disagrees, describing the matter as being a difference of perspective. Here in "Sanctuary for None, Part II", it is stated that Magnus has closed several Sanctuaries around the globe over the course of the past year; multiple others having just been listed for sale or lease resulting from the recent Maneuver Delta Epsilon seen executed by Richard Feliz in Episode 4x12 - "Sanctuary for None, Part I". Theory: Based on this, Magnus mostly likely had Feliz create almost a year's worth of false global expense reports for Will to read in order to hide the closures from him.
  • Dramatic Irony / Character Error: When Will Zimmerman and Abby Corrigan are looking into Sanctuary closures and the history of Helen Bancroft, Will makes the connection to Wall Street, saying of Helen Magnus, "You had Feliz shut down Wall Street for twelve minutes... So you could liquidate everything without anyone knowing. 'Cause you're almost done, aren't you?" There is no possible way Will would have known this. The only people present during that moment in the Old City Sanctuary's foyer was Magnus and Richard Feliz. Later in this episode, when Will and Magnus meet and Will connects the dots, Magnus says that she never told anyone about what she was doing. Realistically, there is no reason for Will to have ever connected Helen Magnus to a random out-of-the-blue temporary shut down of Wall Street that could have been caused by any myriad of reasons. The only possible way he could have known about a Wall Street shutdown for twelve minutes is if it made national breaking news in Canada. Will also shouldn't have connected Feliz to the shutdown either, as Will has no knowledge of Feliz even having the capability to shut down Wall Street as all that Will knows about Feliz is that he's a banker who 'hides things off the grid'.
  • Dramatic Irony / Character Error: In deleted scene: Scene 71 "New York, 1901", Helen Magnus is seen walking down the upper level hallway towards her study talking on her cellphone to a random person who had been helping her with some long-term project. When she gets into her study, she shoos Nikola Tesla out of her chair at her desk and sits down. Tesla proceeds to interrogate her about lies / hiding things from her team and him, saying "Secret phone calls, shutting down Sanctuaries, Wall Street."[1] This is a major error, as 1) the first and only time Magnus is seen on a 'secret phone call' is in this deleted scene, and 2) it was Will Zimmerman and Abby Corrigan who looked into the Sanctuary Network property records and Will who connected this to Wall Street.
  • Trivia: At the moment of the Old City Sanctuary's explosion, all of the buildings in the entire block directly to the east across the street from the Sanctuary property have their power / lights flicker and cut out except for one single room and the street lights.
  • Trivia: After the Old City Sanctuary has been destroyed there is a scene where Will Zimmerman and Kate Freelander survey the destruction, behind them is a group of abnormal refugees. Amongst the group is an abnormal of the same species as Terrance Wexford. This is the first and only time another member of his kind are seen.
  • Continuity Error: The destruction of the Old City Sanctuary has no basis. It pointlessly involves the tropes of "Collapsing Lair" [2] / "Self-Destruct Mechanism" [3] in order for the main location to switch from the Old City Sanctuary to the new Underground Sanctuary; the intended focal point of the cancelled Season 5. Throughout the fourth season, there is no buildup or allusion to this aside from the foreshadow in Episode 4x03 - "Untouchable" of Helen Magnus saying that she'd sooner "burn it to the ground" than to hand over her work to Greg Addison. There's a rush at the end of the season of suddenly 'there must be something she's hiding' as seen at the end of Episode 4x11 - "The Depths" with Will Zimmerman saying that Magnus has been hiding something since she got back from her time loop, yet it's not until Episode 4x13 - "Sanctuary for None, Part II" (an entire year later) that Will even considers that Magnus didn't actually stay there entire time on a mountain top in Nepal and actually went searching to evidence of Magnus doing something else. That information only supports the building of Underground Sanctuary; it does not support the destruction of the Old City Sanctuary. In this episode, the main two conflicts are SCIU potentially committing mass murder / raiding the homeland and the Sanctuary team figuring out Caleb's true plan - using a virus to turn humans into abnormals.
    • The priority is stopping SCIU from activating the death nodes around the abnormal homeland. The goal is for Nikola Tesla and Henry Foss to disable the nodes remotely so Will and Abby Corrigan can evacuate and save the abnormals inside. As Will and Abby start, Magnus tells Will that she's on her way to join him. As she turns to head out, she gets stopped from leaving by being distracted by Caleb invading to retrieve the vial she stole from him. Will finds Kate and collects her as the abnormals are loaded onto trucks and they head back to the Sanctuary and the Sanctuary is then seen to self-destruct for no reason. Addison across the river says "Hell of an exit", but why? He has no reason to believe Magnus committed suicide by still being in the building and there's no reason for her to blow up the building as the UN / SCIU weren't invading it. The giant explosions should have been concerning and surprising, wondering what the hell just happened. For Will at least, his concern should have been for Henry and Tesla and all of the Sanctuary's residents who would have still been in the building as the last he knew was that Magnus was leaving the property to join him at the homeland in the Fifth Ward.
    • The actions inside the building are hastened unnecessarily, where Magnus decides to initiate a self-destruct sequence out-of-the-blue at the same time Caleb invades. During Caleb's invasion, Magnus also explains nothing to anyone about setting off a self-destruct sequence.
      • As Magnus preps for leaving to go to the homeland, she stops into her study to collect a semi-automatic pistol from a desk drawer. She has a moment of nostalgia as she picks up the century-plus-year-old revolver she had back in 1898 London, puts it back down, collects the the other handgun, and takes a 'last look' at her study almost as if it's one of the last times she'll ever see it again. (The only way this would make sense is if she already planned to destruct the Sanctuary that night, but intended to do it after dealing with the homeland.)
      • Magnus and Caleb's group are in the foyer while Tesla and Henry are up in the research lab. Magnus shoots at Caleb then runs off, she's then seen seconds later walking through a residential hallway. She orders Tesla and Henry to secure only the armory and to lure the invaders to the main lab, fighting them in close-quarters. Caleb and two of his men are then seen to exit the elevator on the same floor as Magnus's study. Magnus (now somehow upstairs) then lays down and shoots at the invaders from around the corner. Caleb's group then retreats back into the elevator. Henry and Tesla are now in a subterranean level, saying they are going to shunt access to the lab (but don't) as they fight off two of Caleb's men. Magnus say's she'll meet them there, after stopping by her study to purge the data from the computer systems, transferring it onto the cloud (the only reason to do this is before a self-destruct occurs, as Caleb has no interest in it). Caleb and his guys then return to the same level, ambushing Magnus at her study. Magnus flees, taking a stairwell down to the main lab, with Caleb and his two guys close behind. Tesla is there waiting for Magnus and Henry is off "securing the last sector" - That is not what Magnus ordered him to do. The goal was to get them into the main lab, which they are already doing by following Magnus; the only area to be secured was the armory which is on an upper level floor.
      • Suddenly all of the resident abnormals are now inexplicably gone from their enclosures out from under everyone's awareness.
      • Magnus gives a farewell kiss to Tesla (the kiss wasn't written into the script - it was something the actors added) that doesn't make sense, as only Magnus knows she may die because she intends to set off the self-destruct, but that's getting too ahead of herself as the current threat is subduing Caleb (which can be done without blowing up the building).
      • The kiss for Tesla would be confusing as he doesn't know why Magnus is seemingly mortally afraid of a few intruders who could easily be dealt with together. All that Henry and Tesla knew was that Magnus planned to fight them in close-quarters and they'd potentially make a 'last stand' of sorts in the main lab. Because of this, Tesla went to the main lab to help out. Yet now out-of-character Tesla just wordlessly obeys when she randomly says "go" (she did not say to evacuate) without giving any explanation as to where or why, leaving her behind by herself to deal with multiple intruders alone. For some reason Tesla also closes off the hallway he exits through even though all three of the other hallway branches to the main lab are still open. To do so, he presses his right thumb on a touch-sensitive tablet screen with more force than necessary as if he's pressing a physical button.
      • Magnus initiates the self-destruct before Caleb is dealt with, adding an unnecessary time constraint.
      • Tesla (sans tablet) is then seen with Henry, blocking a lower lever door (there's no reason to do this except to help block the blast they shouldn't know about). They then immediately turn and runaway - which would only be possible for them to know to escape is if the tablet Tesla was holding also had a pop-up auto-destruct timer display on it, yet the tablet is nowhere in Tesla possession, meaning that he dropped it somewhere during the minute after he left Magnus. Henry must have also finished what he was doing and was close to the main lab for Tesla to find him so quickly and make their way to the nearest escape tunnel.
  • Continuity Error: At the very end of the episode, Will Zimmerman uses a device to follow a signal down into a subterranean maintenance tunnel which leads him to a hidden door. He then steps up to a retinal scanner which activates and proceeds to scan his eye(s). His clearance is granted and the doorway opens to allow him passage into the cavern tunnel leading to the new Underground Sanctuary. This is considered a continuity issue, as for a retinal scanner to work, a person's eyes must be previously scanned to create a profile for the system's database to match. No such profile for Will is known to exist to allow him entry. At no point within the series are staff at the Sanctuary Network required to use any sort of biometric security features (finger prints, retinal scans, DNA, voice profiles, etc.) to access any facility, room within a facility, or database on their computer systems. The only security measure(s) used are simple digital passwords / alphanumeric keypads, both of which only require minimal input character counts.
    • There have only been three points in time Will's eyes were specifically looked at by Helen Magnus:
      • The first time was seen in Episode 1x03 - "Fata Morgana" as a short exam with a penlight to test his pupillary response for potential concussion / brain injury after Will had been affected by the Morrígan using their kinetic powers on him.
      • The second time was seen in Episode 4x06 - "Homecoming" as a brief medical checkup in response to a serious injury he had sustained to his eyes days prior while away in Liberia visiting Yusuf, the head of the Monrovia Sanctuary.
      • The third time was seen in Episode 4x12 - "Sanctuary for None, Part I" as a quick penlight check up after Will had gotten into an altercation a little earlier in the morning while defending a Hollow Earth abnormal named Jebal who accidentally got lost and wandered away from the Fifth Ward and was subsequently chased and attacked by a mob of regular humans.

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References[]

  1. ↑ [YouTube - Sanctuary Season 4 - Deleted Scenes - New York: 1901]
  2. ↑ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CollapsingLair
  3. ↑ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SelfDestructMechanism
● Sanctuary ● Season 4 ●
● 01 Tempus ● 02 Uprising ● 03 Untouchable ● 04 Monsoon ● 05 Resistance ● 06 Homecoming ● 07 Icebreaker ● 08 Fugue ● 09 Chimera ● 10 Acolyte ● 11 The Depths ● 12 Sanctuary for None, Part I ● 13 Sanctuary for None, Part II ●
Story Arc   :   Abnormal Insurgency
● 3x11 Pax Romana ● 3x19 Out of the Blue ● 3x20 Into the Black ● 4x02 Uprising ● 4x03 Untouchable ● 4x05 Resistance ● 4x08 Fugue ● 4x10 Acolyte ● 4x12 Sanctuary for None, Part I ● 4x13 Sanctuary for None, Part II ●
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