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Old City is where Dr. Helen Magnus's main Sanctuary is located. It is half of a huge metropolis with its own large police force.[1] [2]
Below is the history of episodes that feature events / activities occurring somewhere within the city outside of the Old City Sanctuary.
Regions[]
Circle Square[]
- For main article page, see Circle Square.
Eastside[]
- For main article page, see Eastside.
Fifth Ward[]
- For main article page, see Fifth Ward.
River District[]
 Det. Joe Kavanaugh turns to Will Zimmerman to see if he has any helpful insight into the Glen Meyers suicide case that occurred two nights ago in the River District. During the Sanctuary's investigation, Will and Helen Magnus made a trip to briefly visit the residence to survey the room of Glen's death. |
Seventh Ward[]
| Episode 4x04 - "Monsoon": A nest of hibernating durango bats was intentionally placed in a warehouse located in the Seventh Ward by Will Zimmerman to sabotage Abby Corrigan and her new FBI partner Agent Gavin Crealy in their attempt to track down a loose stenopelhabilis. |
Uptown[]
- For main article page, see Uptown.
Warehouse District[]
- For main article page, see Warehouse District.
Named / known locations[]
Alfredo's[]
- For main article page, see Alfredo's.
Aridan Labs[]
| Episode 1x04 - "Folding Man": A small chemical drug manufacture named Aridan Labs is located just three miles north of Old City. |
Bryant Street[]
| Episode 1x04 - "Folding Man": Oliver Braithwaite and other folding men live in the old Bryant Street corridor. |
Campanile[]
| Episode 1x04 - "Folding Man": The city has a campanile among its building architecture; It is used as a landmark reference for abnormal case locations. The pawn shop Nomad and Carver rob is near to it. |
Dead Bridge[]
- For main article page, see Dead Bridge.
Harbor[]
| Episode 1x06 - "Nubbins": to be added | |
| Episode 3x13 - "One Night": to be added |
Dock[]
The dock(s) is to be added.
| Episode 1x06 - "Nubbins": to be added | |
| Episode 3x15 - "Wingman": to be added |
Hospital[]
- For main article page, see Hospital.
Kindler, Tapping, and Wood Bakery[]
 to be added |
McCullough's Off Broad Street[]
| Episode 4x10 - "Acolyte": At the very end of the episode, Bigfoot meets with three Hollow Earth insurgents / sympathizers at the rear entrance of a building called McCullough's Off Broad Street. The passcode to be invited into the building is the insurgent catchphrase: "From below, We rise". |
- The location McCullough's Off Broad Street is named after Alan McCullough, the writer of the episode.
- Based on "Off Broad Street", the building is/was assumedly a theatre before being taken over and used as an abnormal hideout; this is very fitting considering McCullough is a script writer.
Mercy General[]
| Episode 2x01 - "End of Nights, Part I": While down in the infirmary at the Old City Sanctuary, due to Kate Freelander's reluctance to give Helen Magnus information about the Cabal, she tells Will Zimmerman to have Henry Foss drive Kate to Mercy General hospital and drop her off at the emergency ward. Kate quickly offers up a Cabal location she once visited, which allows her to stay in the infirmary. |
Neptune Cannery[]
| Episode 1x04 - "Folding Man": The old Neptune Cannery is the location where the Sanctuary team (Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, and Ashley Magnus) catch Malcolm Dawkins thanks to a tip from Mr. Jones. |
Old City Sanctuary[]
- For main article page, see Old City Sanctuary.
Pawn shop[]
| Episode 1x04 - "Folding Man": The pawn shop Nomad and Carver rob is near to the city's campanile. |
Refugee camp[]
- For main article page, see Refugee camp.
Saint Canare Place[]
| Episode 2x04 - "Hero": Squid gives the Old City Sanctuary team a tip about the 'missing' Joseph Koster: some guy matching his description was seen acting very weird on the top floor of Saint Canare Place. When Will and Declan visit the condemned building, they find Joe's company employee badge and the half eaten carcass of someone's pet housecat that Joe had previously fed off of. |
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  There is a subway station platform at the intersection of 41st Avenue and 76th Street. John Druitt stabs a Transit Worker on the southbound platform. | |
  There is a former subway station platform located at the rail line's intersection with 98th Street. Helen Magnus explains to Will Zimmerman that the station used to be in-service before New City was built. | |
  John Druitt keeps a kidnapped Ashley Magnus along with Alexei in the maintenance area of the closed 98th Street subway station as he waits for Helen Magnus to arrive. |
Will's apartment[]
| Episode 1x01 - "Sanctuary for All, Part I": Will's apartment is to be added. |
Unnamed / general locations[]
Season 1[]
| Episode 1x03 - "Fata Morgana": A locator device used by the Cabal Team Leader places Old City somewhere near the far western end of the border between Northwestern US (Washington) and Southwestern Canada (British Columbia). | |
  Ashley Magnus drives over to a location somewhere in Old City to meet Squid. Unfortunately, it's a ploy by John Druitt to kidnap her again. | |
  After the Sanctuary looks into a string of several unsolved abductions of homeless people, they follow a lead of a stolen vehicle found near the estuary. When the team investigates a former awning factory in the otherwise uninhabited location, they come across Charles L. Denton. | |
| Episode 1x13 - "Revelations, Part II": A camera sequence at the very end of the episode indicates that Old City is located on the north side of a river near Vancouver, British Columbia. Across the river to the south is "New City", the other half of the metropolis full of modern high-rises and skyscrapers. |
Season 2[]
  At the beginning of the episode, Will Zimmerman and Declan MacRae are on motorcycles chasing after a fleeing empath (who's trying to break free from the mob) somewhere through Old City. They eventually corner the empath in an alleyway, but are ambushed by The Adjuster who "rescues" the empath from the Sanctuary Network. | |
  During the Guardian's timeline in the year 2019, Helen Magnus wakes up at the run-down Old City Sanctuary. She leaves the building to forage for supplies in the apocalyptic remnants of Old City. After escaping from being captured by Will Zimmerman, she travels down into the subway and finds Jessica Mitchell on the same platform. She eventually returns to the Sanctuary with the girl. An injured Will joins her at the Sanctuary soon after. | |
| Episode 2x06 - "Fragments": to be added | |
| Episode 2x09 - "Penance": to be added |
Season 3[]
| Episode 3x04 - "Trail of Blood": to be added | |
| Episode 3x07 - "Breach": to be added | |
| Episode 3x09 - "Vigilante": to be added | |
| Episode 3x13 - "One Night": to be added | |
| Episode 3x14 - "Metamorphosis": to be added | |
| Episode 3x15 - "Wingman": to be added | |
| Episode 3x20 - "Into the Black": to be added |
Season 4[]
| Episode 4x02 - "Uprising": to be added | |
| Episode 4x05 - "Resistance": As Henry Foss tracks the Captured Abnormal via GPS that was taken by SCIU, he specifically says that SCIU transported the abnormal "across the border" reaffirming that Old City is indeed in Canada. | |
| Episode 4x06 - "Homecoming": to be added | |
| Episode 4x12 - "Sanctuary for None, Part I": to be added | |
| Episode 4x13 - "Sanctuary for None, Part II": to be added |
Other[]
Channel 13 News[]
- For main article page, see Channel 13 News.
Old City Police Department[]
- For main article page, see Old City Police Department.
Notes[]
- The creators and producers of the show intentionally left the specific location (country) of Old City to be ambiguous outside of the assumption that it is somewhat of a "subdivision" of Vancouver. Due to this, it is naturally assumed by viewers to be in Canada.
- The city is not featured at all in: Episode 3x11 - "Pax Romana", Episode 3x17 - "Normandy", Episode 3x19 - "Out of the Blue", Episode 4x01 - "Tempus", and Episode 4x07 - "Icebreaker".
- While the city itself is not visibly seen in Episode 1x05 - "Kush", Episode 1x09 - "Requiem", and Episode 3x12 - "Hangover", it can be considered represented via the presence of the Old City Sanctuary being shown in some capacity including as displayed on video conference screens.
- When looking at aerial views of the Old City Sanctuary, Grayson Street is a two sided road that runs parallel both east and west along the northside of the Sanctuary property; The front gates provide access to and from the street.
International cooperation[]
The United Nations and the U.N. Security Council are heavy players in the metropolis (especially Old City and the Fifth Ward specifically) during the abnormal insurgency. As the Sanctuary Network was in alliance with the United Nations (funded and fully backed by the British Government) between 1908[3] and early 2011, Helen Magnus had particular sway with the world's governments to let her control all of the abnormal events / cases that happened around the globe, especially in 'her own backyard'. In early 2011, Magnus and Will Zimmerman could at least try to direct the actions of Lotus Defense Corps (a private military force used by the U.N.), having them place their abnormal holding camp on a large vacant lot that Magnus owned.[4] However, three weeks later the agreement between the Sanctuary and the U.N. broke when liaison Greg Addison tried to force the Sanctuary Network under the explicit control of the U.N. Security Council.[5] Due to this 'exile', it allowed for other agencies to get involved in 'Sanctuary affairs' around the city; the dealings with abnormals and abnormal threats.
While Canada is part of the U.N., it is only a temporary seat of the U.N. Security Council unlike the United States who is a permanent seat.[6] Due to the U.N. connection and the U.S. being a defining force behind it, it allows two U.S. agencies - the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Specified Counter-Insurgency Unit (a new abnormal hunting division under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) - to infiltrate the metropolis, granting them jurisdictional power to act on Canadian grounds. The agencies set up a joint task force operations base in the FBI's field office in a high-rise building in New City which is located almost directly across the river from the Old City Sanctuary; giving them line-of-sight of the property.
Of this joint task force, Abby Corrigan (FBI) and Will Zimmerman (former FBI) were brought under the management of SCIU. Due to Will's connection with the Sanctuary, Greg Addison had reactivated him as an FBI agent in the hopes to get close to Helen Magnus due to her apparent affiliation with Caleb. Magnus, however, sent Will away to work with SCIU (the only legal option) and locked him out of the Sanctuary; preventing him from returning. Will had to resort to using his SCIU credentials to blackmail Captain Franklin (a former colleague of his) of the Old City Police Department with high connections to the city's Mayor's office to set up a false meeting to lure Magnus out in the open to arrest her. As Magnus fled the scene of the ambush, Will made Franklin call for police backup. This interaction shows that SCIU has power over local (Canadian) law enforcement, to force them into acting against their long-standing relationship with Helen Magnus. They unfortunately have to comply as the U.N. Security Council had 'blacklisted' the Sanctuary Network, practically barring anyone from working with and or aiding the network and its leader Helen Magnus; considering it a 'federal offense' if someone does so.
References[]
- ↑ Episode 0x01 - "Webisode 1"
- ↑ Episode 1x01 - "Sanctuary for All, Part I"
- ↑ Episode 3x08 - "For King and Country"
- ↑ Episode 3x20 - "Into the Black"
- ↑ Episode 4x03 - "Untouchable"
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council