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"Hangover" is the twelfth episode of the third season of Sanctuary, and the thirty-eighth episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
Returning home from an overnight trip, Helen Magnus is stunned to find the Old City Sanctuary in a complete and utter shambles - only hours before a scheduled inspection by the United Nations.
Plot[]
Cold Open[]
Helen Magnus returns to the Old City Sanctuary to find the front hall in the foyer barricaded off and the security systems offline. Drawing her gun, she begins to search the facility, and finds most rooms in complete chaos. A stun weapon lies on the floor, and most of the furniture is destroyed. Someone even booby trapped a door to her study with a gargoyle statue. Inside her study, Magnus finds Henry Foss, who has taken a blow to the head. She asks him what happened, but he only says that he cannot remember, and loses consciousness.
Act I[]
Henry wakes up on a sofa, with Magnus watching over him and giving him pain medication. She tells him that it is Thursday; he has no memory since Tuesday, when Magnus left for a conference to brief the other heads of house on Hollow Earth. She also ordered the team to get the Old City Sanctuary in perfect shape for an upcoming UN inspection. Henry then proceeded to enter a new abnormal's data into the system; it is a mollox, a small, furry, horned humanoid from Sri Lanka. When he released the creature, which he named "Skippy", from its crate to feed it, it attacked him. He ran away and managed to stun it with a sonic stun weapon. After that, he has no more memory.
Back in the present, Magnus finds it odd that a mollox would attack a human, as it is not aggressive, not even a carnivore. She soon finds it docile and afraid in a corner, while Henry is surprised to find himself locked out of the Sanctuary's systems. While he hacks his own computer, Magnus alerts Declan MacRae. Henry discovers that the person tampering with the computers seems to have been Will Zimmerman; they watch a video of him, being pursued through a hallway and shot in the back with a stun gun by Henry.
Act II[]
Henry is shocked about what he did; he goes to his lab to recover the remaining footage while Magnus continues her search for the rest of the team. She soon finds Kate Freelander who has been bound and gagged. After being freed, Kate explains that she too has suffered memory loss. Her last memory is that she came to see Will when they heard Henry yell for help over the radio. They arrived at the lab, finding it abandoned and the mollox's crate empty. Kate found Bigfoot, and together they saw Henry walking through a corridor. Kate went to see him, and he started firing at her. She lured him to a corner and hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher.
Magnus and Kate discuss what to do next when they realize they have lost radio contact with Henry again. They proceed to the lab, where they are shocked to find Will angrily attacking Henry and threatening to kill him.
Act III[]
The women manage to separate Will and Henry, and Magnus angrily demands an explanation. Will says that both Henry and Kate should be locked up. His last memory is that he and Kate started looking for Henry, and that he went to the residential area, where Henry started firing at him. He later woke up and went looking for the others together with Bigfoot. When Will went to the main laboratory, the automatic lasers started firing randomly, and the sorkel's cage opened. Bigfoot arrived just in time to keep the creature from eating Will, and explained that he was attacked by the garbage compactor. Will realized what is going on.
When they confronted Henry in his lab, he attacked them, and Bigfoot knocked him out before he could transform. They then went looking for Kate, who attacked Will with her gun when he found her. Bigfoot once again came to the rescue, knocking out Kate as well.
Back in the present, the team realizes that someone – or something – has been messing with their heads, and apologize to each other. Henry then finds an email from Lilian Lee, the UN security inspector, saying that she will arrive earlier: she is possibly already in the Sanctuary. At that point, Henry hears a bell ringing in the south corridor. They follow the sound to an elevator, finding Bigfoot hanging from the ceiling.
Act IV[]
Bigfoot is angry at Will, and adds his own memory to the puzzle: after he knocked out Kate, she woke up and ran away, while Will, who had just touched her for a moment, became angry and paranoid as well, and left. After discovering that Henry has escaped, Bigfoot pumped through the Sanctuary air filtering system, collected Kate and locked her up. He then went for Will, and checked his pulse.
Henry has recovered more security footage, which shows the team acting paranoid and systematically attacking each other over and over again. It also shows Bigfoot being shot by Lee, the UN inspector.
Act V[]
Watching the video of Bigfoot finding Will again, Magnus discovers that a small creature, a pinnepex, jumps from one to the other. Its defense mechanism is to release a pheromone into the bloodstream of stronger creatures, compelling them to protect it; it has come to the Sanctuary with the mollox.
The team sees footage of Dr. Lee heading for the catacombs below the Sanctuary. Magnus injects them all with a sex-inhibitive pheromone of the red bollworm to make them temporarily immune to the effects of the pinnepex. In the catacombs, they are able to stun Lee and get a hold of the creature. Magnus explains that, like them, the UN inspector will not remember what happened, so they just have to let her sleep and use the time to clean up the place.
Lee wakes up in Magnus' study, with Magnus talking to her. When she asks what happened and why she cannot remember anything, Magnus explains that she hit her head getting out of her taxi, and has had a number of blackouts since then. Will and Kate arrive with tea and security data, both doing their best to appear extremely helpful. Lee, however, is suspicious; she can remember certain events from her arrival. They decide to tell her the truth, and Magnus tells her that the Sanctuary is not a zoo, and that they are very good at doing what they do. They also show Lee the footage of herself attacking Bigfoot, leaving her quite embarrassed. Lee decides to let the whole event go unreported, and joins the team for a tour of the facility.
Will notes that this does not seem the first time Magnus had to deal with officials in such a way.
Cast[]
| Series regular | Character |
|---|---|
| Amanda Tapping | Doctor Helen Magnus |
| Robin Dunne | Doctor Will Zimmerman |
| Ryan Robbins | Henry Foss |
| Agam Darshi | Kate Freelander |
| Christopher Heyerdahl | Bigfoot |
| Guest starring | Character |
| Françoise Yip | Doctor Lilian Lee |
Quotes[]
| [after almost having a heavy object fall on her] MAGNUS: Bloody Hell![1] |
Notes[]
- Chronology: Helen Magnus leaves the Old City Sanctuary sometime during the afternoon on Tuesday to travel to a conference in Gstaad, Switzerland. She returns on Thursday between 1:00 p.m. PST and 2:00 p.m. PST. This is based on Lilian Lee's plane arriving at 11:00 a.m. PST and Kate Freelander saying "That was like three hours ago". When Kate checked the time, it was close to 2:00 p.m. PST (or just after), as this was after Magnus had already spent an unknown amount of time searching the Sanctuary, finding Henry Foss, Skippy, Kate, and Will Zimmerman, and listening to all of their stories.
- Flight Time: Flight travel time between Vancouver, Canada, and Gstaad, Switzerland (located within the municipality of Rorschach) is 10 hours 53 minutes.[2]
- Character Error: When Bigfoot and Kate Freelander enter Magnus's study Tuesday afternoon, Kate complains about losing a recreational one-vs-one basketball game to Bigfoot, saying, "Dude, you're seven feet tall. That's an unfair advantage." Christopher Heyerdahl, the actor who plays Bigfoot, is 6'4".
- Foreshadowing: As Helen Magnus is leaving, Henry Foss says, "You won't recognize this place when you get back". It was a figurative statement about the how the Old City Sanctuary would be cleaner than normal making it unrecognizable. The ironic twist is that the facility gets trashed almost beyond recognition.
- Anachronism: As Helen Magnus is leaving the Old City Sanctuary on Tuesday afternoon, she says, "I'll see you in a day and a half"; that's roughly thirty-six hours. Had she returned in a day and a half, it would have been sometime in the early morning of Thursday around 1:00 a.m. PST. Magnus didn't return to the Sanctuary until after 1:00 p.m. PST on Thursday, almost two full days later (close to forty-eight hours).
- Feeding Schedule: The Old City Sanctuary is staffed by five people: Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, Henry Foss, Kate Freelander, and Bigfoot. With Magnus gone, it leaves four people to run the facility and care for the abnormal residents within it. With all four of them becoming intoxicated by the pinnepex pheromones, it means that absolutely none of the abnormal residents were fed for an entire two days. After Helen Magnus returns, no one is concerned about this distressing fact or mentions it. Depending on whether certain abnormals received either once-a-day or twice-a-day feedings, residents could have been without two or four meals. Realistically, some sensitive animals can easily die within that amount of time of not receiving proper prompt nutrition and fresh water.
- Continuity Error: It has been mentioned several times that there are free roaming residents (Two Faced Guy is the most prominent, who is also seen sometimes lending a hand here or there, followed by Steve). During this episode (like the mass majority of the entire series), none of the free-roaming residents are seen. They aren't even present on the security camera feeds. Surely at least one free-roaming residents would have been seen wandering around the building curious about all of the chaos going on. Before Helen Magnus left on Tuesday afternoon, she says, "And I think we should lock down some of the more aggressive residents. Especially the kryton on level four. You know how nervous she gets with new faces.". This leaves open the possibility that some more docile residents are still able to wander. It isn't until when Bigfoot is found in the elevator that Will Zimmerman says "I though all of the abnormals were secure?".
- Reshoot: When looking at photos, the scene where Helen Magnus finds Kate Freelander in a closet has noticeably been shot twice.
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- Character / Location Error: After the group finds Will Zimmerman in the small weapons lab, Helen Magnus puts both Will and Kate Freelander's stories together, and says "the two of you came down here", referencing the small weapons lab. Both Kate and Will agree. This is incorrect by two factors. 1) Both Will and Kate went to the intake area to find Henry Foss, not the small weapons lab. 2) The intake area is on a lower level. The small weapons lab is on an upper level; likely the ground floor.
- Continuity Error: When Will Zimmerman finds Henry Foss in the residential area, Henry shoots the stunner out of Will's hands. As the stunner flies, the next shot shows Henry stalking forwards; random porcelain debris can be seen scattering at his feet. This is out of order, as it's not until a few seconds later that Will runs to the end of the hallway (with Henry running after him) when he throws a porcelain object at Henry, which misses and can subsequently be heard shattering offscreen.
- Continuity / Medical Issue: There is zero reason for Bigfoot to have gagged Kate Freelander. The point of tying her up and locking her in a closet (convenience - possibly the closest room and where the extra fabric was found) was to keep her from moving and wandering around the facility. There is no need to gag her as there is no need to prevent her from talking/yelling/screaming; she's already quiet as well as now unconscious. Medically speaking, gagging or putting something in the mouth of an unconscious person is one of the top things not to do as it can obstruct the person's airflow, compromising their breathing.
- Trivia: At the very end of the episode, in Magnus's study after Lilian Lee has been told the truth and Helen Magnus offers her a tour, a yellow floor mop bucket can be seen on the left side of room, halfway hidden behind a leather lounge chair.
- Chronology: When adding all of the recollected stories together, this is what happened:
| Right after Helen Magnus leaves on Tuesday afternoon, Henry Foss processes Skippy's intake in the intake area on a lower level. When Skippy attacks, Henry radios for help. After stunning Skippy, Henry get's infected with the pinnepex. |
| Will Zimmerman is in his office when Bigfoot stops by to give him updates on the building's status. When Will asks for help filing paperwork, Bigfoot leaves to dust the building. Kate Freelander walks in right after. Will and Kate then hear the distress call from Henry over the walkie and go down to the intake area. When they find that Henry isn't there, Kate says she'll search the upper levels as Will searches the lower levels. |
| After Will finishes searching the lower levels, he travels up to the residential areas and finds Henry. Henry chases Will, and Will gets stunned. Henry walks off (going back down to a lower level). |
| Meanwhile, Kate reaches the end of her search of the upper levels, not finding Henry (this can be possible if she searched the residential area first, having left the area before Henry and Will arrived). She radios Will, and gets no response (because he's already been stunned). Kate gets frustrated and goes to Bigfoot for help, who's in Magnus's study dusting. The security footage shows Henry in a lower level. Kate then goes to the location and finds Henry. When Henry tries to shoot her with a stunner, Kate knocks him out, and gets infected (Kate leaves and goes to an upper level). |
| Will wakes up on the hallway floor in the residential corridor and radios for Kate, who doesn't answer (because she is now host to the pinnepex). He then goes to Bigfoot for help somewhere on an upper level. The plan is for Bigfoot to check the north wing and for Will to check the lab level before regrouping at Magnus's study. Seconds after they separate, Will saves the stunner he previously had (before it was shot away by Henry) as a security door drops (indicating Henry woke up and is now at the mainframe.) Bigfoot has a mishap with the garbage compactor (where ever that's at) and goes to find Will. Will who's in the main lab almost gets sliced by lasers on the automated-assist mechanism and eaten by the sorkel before Bigfoot stuns the sorkel's tentacle, saving Will. Bigfoot and Will then make their way to the mainframe and find Henry. Henry gets knocked out and Will changes the admin password and disables the security systems. |
| Henry is then strapped to a gurney and is being pushed by Will through an upper level hallway, followed slowly after by Bigfoot. Will is stopped by Kate, who then tries to shoot him. As Will is chased by Kate through the level, Bigfoot clothesline's Kate, knocking her out. Will then touches Kate, becoming infected (host to the pinnepex). Kate wakes and runs off down the hallway. Will then gets mad, shoving Bigfoot, yelling at him to stay away. Bigfoot then hears Henry awaken, and finds that he broke free of the restraints. |
| Bigfoot is now fed up and decides to go to a lower level and pump knockout gas through the main ventilation system of the facility. Kate falls unconscious in an upper level hallway. Bigfoot finds her and ties her up, leaving her in a closet. Bigfoot then finds Will who fell unconscious in the hallway of the basement. As Bigfoot grabs his arm to drag him away, he gets infected with the pinnepex and drops Will's arm. |
| Late Thursday morning, Lilian Lee's flight arrives in Old City at 11:00 a.m. PST. In an email sent prior to her arrival, she wanted to know beforehand if a car would still be sent to pick her up at the airport (the Sanctuary team never responded to this email). At not seeing a car, she calls and fails to get in touch with anyone at the Old City Sanctuary. Lee then resorts to getting a cab instead and is driven over to the Sanctuary property. Due to all of the security protocols being deactivated, she's able to walk through the front door into the foyer unimpeded. She notices all of the crates, an overturned chair, and is then approached by Bigfoot. When she presumably is touched by him or gets close enough in proximity for the pinnepex to jump to her, she becomes infected (the last host). |
| Bigfoot is chased and stunned unconscious by Lee in a lower level. Lee then hoists Bigfoot up in an elevator using a large shipping crate net. |
| Helen Magnus returns to the Sanctuary property sometime after 1:00 p.m. PST and finds Henry unconscious in her study, Skippy in an elevator, Kate in a closet, and Will fighting Henry in the small weapons lab. Will had awoken in the basement where Bigfoot left him and when he noticed Henry had accessed the system again, he sought him out. Around 2:00 p.m. PST, Magnus then finds Bigfoot in an elevator in the south corridor. When they check the security footage, they track Lee to the catacombs. Magnus then gives everyone a hastily engineered synthetic hormone blocker. They then stun Lee and contain the pinnepex. Everyone then quickly cleans the entire facility. Lee wakes in Magnus's study and the episode ends. |
- Continuity Error / Anachronism: A recurring theme is that the characters can't remember what happened on the day of Wednesday. From what is seen of the characters recounting their stories of what they could remember after Helen Magnus left Tuesday afternoon, it seems like Wednesday (and the entire rest of the time Magnus was gone: late Tuesday and Thursday morning) doesn't actually exist. Like, literally. There is no possible way that much time could have passed based on the stories put together (^ read chronology bullet point above). All of what occurred between Henry Foss, Kate Freelander, Will Zimmerman, and Bigfoot getting infected can easily take place within a single hour or two after Magnus left. A key point is the sleeping gas. Magnus returned right as the gas was wearing off and the characters woke up from it.
- It is not possible for all of the fighting and destruction seen in the security feed to have occurred unless it happened between the time Will Zimmerman touched Kate Freelander (becoming infected) and the time Bigfoot released the sleeping gas. If that were true, it means that several hours would had to have occurred in between, especially considering Will stacking all of the crates in the foyer.
- It is unknown how long the sleeping gas affected the characters. Bigfoot is never seen to turn off the gas, meaning it was left on until it ran out. By the time Lilian Lee and Helen Magnus arrive on mid-day Thursday, the gas had dissipated. Shortly after, Henry Foss, Kate Freelander, and Will Zimmerman wake up. If Bigfoot turned on the gas within an hour or two after Magnus left on Tuesday afternoon, it means that Henry, Kate, and Will were knocked out for well over a day and a half (sleeping through the entirety of Wednesday), along with an infected Bigfoot roaming around for a day and a half until sometime past 11:00 a.m. PST Thursday when Lee arrived and stunned him.
- It is unknown how long Lilian Lee was unconscious. Realistically, in order to clean the entire facility spotless and replace all of the damaged furniture, it would take several long hours to days to complete. Stunner effects on the show are shown to not last long (something that can be witnessed in this episode). This means that Lee would had to have been repeated stunned multiple times (which is definitely not healthy) or more likely been injected with sedatives and given a reversal agent to properly time her awakening in Magnus's study.
- Ethics Breach: Forced upon sedation without proper cause (such as for medical necessity to treat a patient) is a major violation of a person's autonomy. It's equivalent to keeping a person hostage against their will.
Gallery[]
"No blood."
"Have you seen either of them?"
"You think an abnormal did this to us?"
References[]
- "Hangover" on The Internet Movie Database
- Watch "Hangover" on Vudu
- sanctuaryspoilers: "Hangover"
- "Hangover" on Wikipedia
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