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Back in the command center, Will learns that Fallon is normally responsible for communicating with Kali, and the two begin to compare their experiences. Meanwhile, the rest of the team begins to work on a cure for Kanaan. Henry and Kate go off to an engineering lab to create a personal portable ipod sized heat-shield emitter to protect the group from deadly temperatures and toxic fumes. The device is needed as Kanaan has now dug to a depth just above the mantle layer. Magnus asks Ranna if their medical teams can create a steroid-based form of insulin to hopefully restart Kanaan's kidney functions. She also then figures that it was Ranna who convinced Kanaan to save Asia from Kali's deadly tidal wave; to which Ranna admits that they both believe that harmony is preferable to conflict.
 
Back in the command center, Will learns that Fallon is normally responsible for communicating with Kali, and the two begin to compare their experiences. Meanwhile, the rest of the team begins to work on a cure for Kanaan. Henry and Kate go off to an engineering lab to create a personal portable ipod sized heat-shield emitter to protect the group from deadly temperatures and toxic fumes. The device is needed as Kanaan has now dug to a depth just above the mantle layer. Magnus asks Ranna if their medical teams can create a steroid-based form of insulin to hopefully restart Kanaan's kidney functions. She also then figures that it was Ranna who convinced Kanaan to save Asia from Kali's deadly tidal wave; to which Ranna admits that they both believe that harmony is preferable to conflict.
   
At the same time, Adam hacks a security panel to enter a locked vault and proceeds to steal a number of weapons components.
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Having made his way into the city, Adam hacks a security panel to enter a locked storage vault and proceeds to steal a number of weapons components.
   
Will learns from Fallon that Praxis was founded by an early race of humans after a long war against the [[vampire]]s, and that it has seen nothing but progress while the rest of humanity suffered through wars, catastrophes, and the dark ages.
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Will learns from Fallon that Praxis was founded by an early race of humans with extraordinary intelligence (builders and thinkers) who came there after a long struggle with the [[Vampire|Akhkharu]], and that it has seen nothing but nonstop progress while the rest of humanity suffered through wars, dark ages, and crusades.
   
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In Ranna's chambers, Helen and Ranna watch security footage of Adam stealing items from the storage facility he broke into. Ranna confronts Helen about Adam's appearance back in the city, demanding to know what he plans to do next and what outland tribes he's in league with. Magnus honestly can't answer, telling Ranna that the last she was aware was that he was in custody at her home Sanctuary, and that him back in the city possibly means that her Sanctuary has now been compromised. Ranna only eases up to Helen when Magnus mentions that he's s much her enemy as he is theirs, and questions how it was possible for Adam to get back into the city undetected. Ranna admits that he managed to find a way to shield himself and that Toland is working on a way to track him. Thinking it useful information, Magnus mentions Adam's time-dilation rifts to which Ranna said that they are aware of his continuum experiments as they are responsible for a whole section of their city being destroyed. Since his rifting leaves a very distinct power signature, Ranna thinks that Praxis' systems may be able to track it. Helen then offer's Will as an aid to help track Adam as he knows Adam's psychological profile and history.
Ranna wants to take a mixed team on a mission to find and save Kanaan, but Will insists that they first receive the means to cure Helen's radiation poisoning. Afterwards, they begin their journey through the labyrinths of Hollow Earth.
 
   
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Back at the command center, Ranna, Helen and Kate are now suited up for their trip down in the hazardous tunnels. Ranna is leading the mixed team on the mission to find and save Kanaan, but before they go, Will insists that they treat Helen's radiation poisoning, to which Ranna wordlessly hands over a medical device as she had already decided to cure Helen prior to entering the room. Afterwards, Ranna, Helen, and Kate begin their journey through the labyrinths of Hollow Earth, leaving Henry and Will behind at the command center to focus on finding Worth.
Will learns that after his arrival, Adam began to experiment with time dilation, eventually causing a terrible accident with hundreds of deaths. He was executed, but someone revived him a few months ago. Will also analyses Adam's behavior, believing him to seek a way to be remembered for doing the impossible.
 
   
 
After secretly getting a DNA sample from Toland to bypass a bio-metric lock, Henry is able to get into Praxis' secure database to look up Worth's classified records. Will learns that after his arrival, Adam began to experiment with time dilation, eventually causing a terrible accident with hundreds of deaths. He was executed, but someone revived him a few months ago. Will also analyses Adam's behavior, believing him to seek a way to be remembered for doing the impossible.
In the labyrinths, the team encounters an Abnormal spider that is easily overcome, and moments later, Gregory Magnus appears and greets his daughter.
 
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In the labyrinths, the team encounters an [[Predatory Trachnoid|predatory trachnoid]] that is easily dispatched by Ranna's energy weapon. Following moments later after moving closer to inspect the abnormal creature, Gregory Magnus appears and greets his daughter.
   
 
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=== Act III ===

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Template:Infocard Episode "Pax Romana" is the eleventh episode of the third season of Sanctuary.

Synopsis

The team's struggle in Hollow Earth continues; Adam steals a device that uses anti-matter, and the team is revived to help find him, while Helen must operate on a lava Abnormal.

Plot

Opening scene

Near the underworld city of Praxis, Adam Worth visits a physically restrained John Druitt in a dungeon, and informs him that Helen Magnus and her team have been executed. Druitt does not take his words for granted, and learns that Adam plans to lead Hollow Earth's lower inhabitants in an uprising. Adam leaves, letting two dangerous-looking abnormals armed with blades loose on Druitt.

Act I

Helen Magnus is resurrected in the very chamber where she and the others were executed. Fallon, chief council of Ranna Seneschal, greets her and gives her a protein drink to counter the effects of her recent suspended animation; she also informs her that Ranna and the Senate have questions for her. Magnus is brought before the leader of Praxis, who tells her that Gregory Magnus has disappeared after abandoning his life as a respected citizen of the city and breaking their most sacred laws by infiltrating the Avatar Chamber. Ranna also informs her that the society of Hollow Earth has existed for thousands of years with the one goal to maintain order and peace above and below the surface of the planet.

Magnus asks Ranna about Kali, but Ranna refuses to answer, ordering Fallon to return the prisoner to the execution chamber and reverse the revival process. Magnus, however, overwhelms the chief council easily and tells Ranna at weapon-point that she obviously needs the surface dwellers' help; guessing that the city's geothermal systems are betraying them due to the increased amount of seismic tremors the city is experiencing and that something has gone wrong with the city's alliance with the super-abnormals and that they have no idea of how to fix it.

Meanwhile, Adam overcomes a number of guards at one of the city's gates, stating simply that it is "nice to be back where I belong".

Helen is brought to a command center where Ranna introduces her to Commander Juno Toland, the head of Praxis' security. He is hostile toward her, saying that he doesn't care that she is the daughter of Gregory Magnus and that she doesn't exist anymore, but Ranna calms him down, saying that none of them will exist anymore without her help. She then tells Magnus that she was right about the earth tremors and their alliance with the super-abnormals not working. Ranna admits that she has tried in vain to communicate with Kanaan, one of the hyperspecies abnormals who form the Avatar Council, for weeks, but he hasn't responded to any of her attempts nor attempts from Kali to contact him, and that has never ignored the city for this long. He usually helps the city with its geothermal energy production by controlling the magma pockets below it by digging tunnels to create levees to release the building pressure. If they cannot reach him soon, the erupting lava will destroy all life both in Hollow Earth and on the surface, as the magma chamber is also linked to several dormant volcanoes on three of the surface's continents.

Act II

Ranna and Fallon show Helen a holographic representation of Kanaan's actual form; he is a huge, fish-like creature, over a thousand years old and now suffering from an unknown illness. Thanks to her long experience with Abnormals, Magnus needs only moments to point out what is potentially wrong with him; after asking for the image to be de-saturated to account for the heat distortion, she points out striations on Kanann's right flank similar to markings found on Tunisian serropods, indicating renal failure of some kind. In addition to her request to see all of Praxis's recent scans and scientific research on Kanaan to confirm her diagnosis and to form a treatment plan, Magnus also requests that her team be revived.

Down in the stasis room, Helen informs the newly reanimated team that they aren't leaving Praxis just yet, that instead they need to stay to help the city as the situation they are facing is beyond grave, for all of them.

Back in the command center, Will learns that Fallon is normally responsible for communicating with Kali, and the two begin to compare their experiences. Meanwhile, the rest of the team begins to work on a cure for Kanaan. Henry and Kate go off to an engineering lab to create a personal portable ipod sized heat-shield emitter to protect the group from deadly temperatures and toxic fumes. The device is needed as Kanaan has now dug to a depth just above the mantle layer. Magnus asks Ranna if their medical teams can create a steroid-based form of insulin to hopefully restart Kanaan's kidney functions. She also then figures that it was Ranna who convinced Kanaan to save Asia from Kali's deadly tidal wave; to which Ranna admits that they both believe that harmony is preferable to conflict.

Having made his way into the city, Adam hacks a security panel to enter a locked storage vault and proceeds to steal a number of weapons components.

Will learns from Fallon that Praxis was founded by an early race of humans with extraordinary intelligence (builders and thinkers) who came there after a long struggle with the Akhkharu, and that it has seen nothing but nonstop progress while the rest of humanity suffered through wars, dark ages, and crusades.

In Ranna's chambers, Helen and Ranna watch security footage of Adam stealing items from the storage facility he broke into. Ranna confronts Helen about Adam's appearance back in the city, demanding to know what he plans to do next and what outland tribes he's in league with. Magnus honestly can't answer, telling Ranna that the last she was aware was that he was in custody at her home Sanctuary, and that him back in the city possibly means that her Sanctuary has now been compromised. Ranna only eases up to Helen when Magnus mentions that he's s much her enemy as he is theirs, and questions how it was possible for Adam to get back into the city undetected. Ranna admits that he managed to find a way to shield himself and that Toland is working on a way to track him. Thinking it useful information, Magnus mentions Adam's time-dilation rifts to which Ranna said that they are aware of his continuum experiments as they are responsible for a whole section of their city being destroyed. Since his rifting leaves a very distinct power signature, Ranna thinks that Praxis' systems may be able to track it. Helen then offer's Will as an aid to help track Adam as he knows Adam's psychological profile and history.

Back at the command center, Ranna, Helen and Kate are now suited up for their trip down in the hazardous tunnels. Ranna is leading the mixed team on the mission to find and save Kanaan, but before they go, Will insists that they treat Helen's radiation poisoning, to which Ranna wordlessly hands over a medical device as she had already decided to cure Helen prior to entering the room. Afterwards, Ranna, Helen, and Kate begin their journey through the labyrinths of Hollow Earth, leaving Henry and Will behind at the command center to focus on finding Worth.

After secretly getting a DNA sample from Toland to bypass a bio-metric lock, Henry is able to get into Praxis' secure database to look up Worth's classified records. Will learns that after his arrival, Adam began to experiment with time dilation, eventually causing a terrible accident with hundreds of deaths. He was executed, but someone revived him a few months ago. Will also analyses Adam's behavior, believing him to seek a way to be remembered for doing the impossible.

In the labyrinths, the team encounters an predatory trachnoid that is easily dispatched by Ranna's energy weapon. Following moments later after moving closer to inspect the abnormal creature, Gregory Magnus appears and greets his daughter.

Act III

Gregory explains that he learned of Adam's escape and saw the need to inform Helen. He also tells them that he already tried the treatment they created on Kanaan -- to no effect. However, Helen concludes that the hyperspecies abnormal has been infected by a parasite, and that they must operate on him to remove it and save him.

Back in Praxis, Henry has detected an interference that could be Adam, and Fallon orders a team to investigate. They soon corner him in a dark street, but he is protected by a group of the camouflage-using Abnormals he previously sent to scan Will's brain.

Magnus and Ranna enter the magma chamber where the ill Kanaan rests in a lake of molten rock. When they begin to operate on his back, causing him to straighten himself, almost making Ranna fall into the magma lake.

Act IV

Magnus is able to save Ranna, and they begin to operate on Kanaan, and are able to remove the predatory trachnoid queen. Magnus throws it into the magma, killing it instantly.

Meanwhile, Henry has discovered that Adam was tampering with an enourmously powerful energy source, and that he had likely returned to retrieve the parts he needs to complete it. Will and Henry confront Commander Toland, who finally tells them that the device in question uses antimatter and is extremely dangerous. Will concludes from the fact that this is not mentioned in Adam's criminal record that the system has been hacked, a deed that could only be done by Ranna -- or someone who could mimick her biometric security clearance. Will realizes that the only person capable of doing this is Fallon.

On their way back from Kanaan's chamber, Magnus and the others are trapped by a tunnel collapse.

Act V

Ranna programs the emergency elevator to crush a way through the debris, while Fallon arrives at the room where Adam has just retrieved the antimatter device. She has made a deal with him to use it to save Praxis without help from Kanaan. He taunts her about her goals being too humble, stuns her, and leaves.

Magnus and the others arrive back in the streets of Praxis. She and her team confront Adam, but he escapes in a transport module. However, when it reaches its destination, and the doors open, Adam finds himself before a brutally injured but alive and seething John Druitt, who tells him that they have "unfinished business".

The team watches the transport module return; it contains only the stolen device, and a message written on the floor in blood: All Debts Paid In Full. John

Some time later, Ranna thanks Helen, but informs her that the senate has yet to approve contact with "surface dwellers". Having been fully reinstated, Gregory has agreed to stay in Praxis as humanity's ambassador to Hollow Earth. He promises his daughter to contact her as soon as possible, to which she responds by asking him to be less cryptic than the last time.

Credits

Guest Starring

Featuring

Background

This is the first episode to air in 2011; in the pause since "Hollow Men", Sanctuary had been renewed for a fourth season.

Bigfoot does not appear in this episode.

Notes and References

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