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"Bank Job" is the third episode of the third season of Sanctuary, and the twenty-ninth episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
The Sanctuary team are forced to stage a bank robbery after a routine mission to retrieve an abnormal egg goes wrong.
Plot[]
Cold Open[]
Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, and Kate Freelander are in a small town in Washington (state) to retrieve something from a bank deposit box in BMM Bank. Magnus enters the bank's secure vault while Will and Kate wait in the lobby. However, the deposit box has been broken open, with only some broken egg shells and a slimy substance left in it and on the walls. Magnus tells Kate and Will that the abnormal has hatched, and that they have to keep everyone from leaving the building until they know who its host is. For lack of a better plan, Kate takes out her gun and stages a robbery.
Act I[]
Magnus comes back to Will and Kate and after adopting an American accent she begins the usual robbery procedures of rounding up the hostages and taking their phones. The bank teller manages to trip the alarm before Kate catches him. Magnus shoots out one of the cameras while Henry hears the police response communications from his post outside.
After having the manager lock the doors Magnus has Kate turn on the air conditioning to slow the gestation of the creature.
Will tries to calm down all of the hostages and asks them to sit down. The elderly woman tells his she has to pee.
Magnus talks to Henry over the comms and explains that she must have missed the creatures birth by minutes due to the faulty air conditioning in the vault speeding up the incubation. Once the creature reaches maturity it will burst from the host, killing them in the process.
Will drags the bank manager into his office to access the banks security footage but the manager won't give up the password to his computer. Magnus estimates they have about 45 minutes until they can no longer extract the creature safely. Will attempts to glean the password from memorabilia inside the office.
Kate estimates they have five minutes before local authorities show up and the FBI Seattle field office is twenty miles away. Magnus doesn't want to call in any government favors so they can't get their hands on a dangerous red-list abnormal.
Will puts in the name of the manager's dog "Taco" and gains access.
Kate is searching the hostages for anything unexpected. One girl shows interest in Will, which only grows even after Kate convinces her that he brutally murdered his last girlfriend. The next guy tries to bond with Kate in order to get better treatment but fails miserably when she calls him on it and threatens to "blow his head off".
Henry investigates the ferropodous and Magnus explains that it secretes a natural inhibitor to sedate its host but in humans the effects would be imperceptible, resulting in only a delayed reaction time in the eyes sensory organs. However they have no instrument to test this.
The security footage Will got is useless and since the ferropodous maintains a temperature close to that of the human body no one would have notices it crawling into them. As they speak one of the hostages, one of the bank workers, gets sick just as the police arrive. They may have found their host but now there is no way to get her out.
Act II[]
The police call in and Magnus hands off any police interactions to Kate due to her experience. Kate lists off random demands to keep the cops busy.
The worker is running a fever which is too soon a symptom by estimates. Magnus suggests surgery in order to remove it but needs confirmation that she actually is the host.
While Kate takes pictures of building blueprints the flirtatious hostage tries to hit on Will. The police call in to say that the helicopter Kate requested is on its way, but she knows he couldn't have gone through the proper channels to make that happen in three minutes and threatens to make him regret lying to her again. She suggests to Will that they might have to escape through the toilets due to recent construction.
Magnus isn't convinced that the worker is the host based on her symptoms. Will and Kate look through the bank for anything useful and Will finds a reflective bill scanner.
Act III[]
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Act IV[]
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Act V[]
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Cast[]
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Quotes[]
| [first lines] KATE: Small towns make me nervous. WILL: Why? KATE: Do I look small town to you? WILL: [laughs] Right. |
| [last lines] MAGNUS: You handled yourself really well. KATE: Holding up the bank? It's nothing I haven't done before. MAGNUS: Nevertheless, you did a good job. KATE: You could've taken over anytime, but you let me run with it. MAGNUS: You had it covered, right down to the empty gun in your waistband. Very clever. KATE: Thanks. MAGNUS: There's just one thing that bothers me. KATE: What's that? MAGNUS: All that money, and you didn't even take any. KATE: [looking down] I... MAGNUS: Isn't that depressing? KATE: [both smiling] Terribly. |
Notes[]
- Trivia: This episode is directed by Peter DeLuise who was a regular director in "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate Atlantis" in which Amanda Tapping starred.
- Casting: Christopher Heyerdahl does not appear in this episode.
- Trivia: After Helen Magnus, Kate Freelander, and Will Zimmerman enter BMM Bank, the order the patrons queue is: Grace, Cheryl, Sean, and Dave.
- Continuity Error: The ferropodous egg is commonly mistaken for an expensive Imperial Fabergé Egg. A Fabergé egg has a highly ornate external design. When Magnus opens the safety deposit box however, viewers only see multiple broken pieces of a thin plain lightly colored silvery blue/purple hued shell with a white interior.
- Trivia: At the beginning of the episode, Kate Freelander fires seven rounds into the bank ceiling, emptying her magazine.
- Trivia: To create a false persona during the hold-up of the bank, Helen Magnus adopts a somewhat standard / westernized American accent to throw off and confuse the hostages in being able to properly identify her by voice, as her natural English accent in a small US town just outside of Seattle, Washington would be a pretty unique and noticeable feature.
- In-joke: As Dave smirks at George for writing a will, George comments, "I knew that British accent was fake!" It's a small in-joke reference to Amanda Tapping donning a worldly British accent for Helen Magnus, then changing to an American accent similar to when she played Sam Carter on Stargate SG-1.
- Trivia: On the police scanner Henry Foss is listening to, the location of the episode takes place at "BMM Bank" at the address "47 Main Street". A few minutes later, Kate Freelander states that they are only twenty miles from the Seattle FBI field office, placing this small town in Washington.
- Reference: "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) - Henry Foss refers to Helen Magnus, Kate Freelander, and Will Zimmerman as "Bonnie, Bonnie and Clyde".
- Character Error: When Helen Magnus is talking to Henry Foss on her ear piece after police are alerted by the silent alarm George tripped, she says, "Judging by the placental viscosity, I just missed it by minutes." Creatures that hatch from eggs do not have a placenta; only viviparous animals do (most predominantly it is a defining characteristic of live-bearing placental mammals) as it connects the embryo/fetus's umbilical cord to the mother's uterus. Magnus should have said "albumin viscosity" instead.
- Three actors in this episode were also in "Stargate SG-1", Peter Flemming who played 'Malcolm Barrett', Gary Jones who played 'Sgt. Walter Harriman', and Robin Mossley who played 'Malakai' in "Window of Opportunity".
- Scientific Error: Acetylcholinesterase is not an enzyme inhibitor, but is instead an enzyme itself. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter, it carries nerve signals from one neuron across the synapse to the next. Acetylcholinesterase breaks down acetylcholine after it has done its job.
- The suffix "-ase" is used to signify an enzyme. In enzyme naming, an enzyme is denoted by adding -ase to the end of the name of the substrate on which the enzyme acts. It is also used to identify a particular class of enzymes that catalyze a specific type of reaction.
- Trivia: Helen Magnus states that she has operated on patients in the muddy rat-infested trenches of Verdun, France; indicating that she was involved medically in some capacity during the Battle of Verdun in World War I. The Battle of Verdun in northeastern France lasted over 300 days from February 21st, 1916 to December 18th, 1916 and there were almost a million casualties. WWI trench warfare was infamous for its squalor and lack of proper supplies.
- Medical Error: Sean has a grazing bullet wound on his upper arm and Helen Magnus applies a tourniquet above the wound. Tourniquets are not a first choice in these cases because cutting off blood to everything below the tourniquet can kill a lot of the arm's tissue. A thick compression bandage directly on the wound will almost always control bleeding without risk to the rest of the arm. Magnus would have known this fact as it's part of triage, similarly like how she knew the medical history of super glue and applied it to properly treat the degree of his wound; having Kate top it off with an alcohol swab and simple bandage to help protect it from future potential infection.
- Trivia: Unusual to Helen Magnus, who is normally very well reserved and patient when reacting to people that are rude to her, and normally doesn't resort to physical violence outside of it being self-defense or as a way to assert her dominance around a criminal, punches the mouthy hostage Dave in the side of the face when he pesters her, knocking him out cold to the floor in a single hit. To her credit, the team was starting to run out of time to locate and isolate the soon-to-be very deadly creature and Dave did taunt her about not having the guts to shoot him and tried to revolt against her, questioning, "What's there to stop me from walking out the front door?", to which Magnus responded with her fist to unequivocally shut him up and put him back in his place once and for all.
- Trivia: In the credits on IMDb, actor Tobias Slezak's character is listed as being named "Adam". The only time the character is identified by name in the episode is near the end right before he and the majority of the group of hostages get released from the bank. As Will Zimmerman and Helen Magnus discuss his possible motive as to his calm behavior and wanting to stay, Magnus mentions him by the name of "Sean" instead of "Adam".
- Scientific Error: The creature is continuously referred to as being an "embryo" and that it needs a host to complete its "gestation". While "gestation" is an acceptable term as the creature is currently undergoing a process of maturation within a mammalian body, the physical state of the creature however is definitely not that of an embryo, as an embryo is an early developmental or life cycle stage prior to birth or hatching; this creature has already hatched. The creature's current stage more closely relates to it being a larvae.
- Character Error: When George collapses at the end of the episode, Helen Magnus says "We've only a few minutes before the creature hatches". She should have said i.e. "emerges" as the creature has already hatched from its egg.
Gallery[]
References[]
- "Bank Job" on The Internet Movie Database
- Watch "Bank Job" on Vudu
- sanctuaryspoilers: "Bank Job"
- "Bank Job" on Wikipedia
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| ● 01 Kali, Part III ● 02 Firewall ● 03 Bank Job ● 04 Trail of Blood ● 05 Hero II: Broken Arrow ● 06 Animus ● 07 Breach ● 08 For King and Country ● 09 Vigilante ● 10 The Hollow Men ● 11 Pax Romana ● 12 Hangover ● 13 One Night ● 14 Metamorphosis ● 15 Wingman ● 16 Awakening ● 17 Normandy ● 18 Carentan ● 19 Out of the Blue ● 20 Into the Black ● |