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"Sanctuary for All, Part I" is the first episode of the first season of Sanctuary, and the first episode overall in the series.
This episode is the first part of the two-part season One premiere. It contains various elements from the first two of eight original webisodes released in 2007. |
Synopsis[]
The enigmatic Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) recruits an insightful forensic psychiatrist named Dr. Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne) to join her in the quest to track, study and protect the strange, and often terrifying creatures that secretly populate our world.
Plot[]
Two police officers arrive at an apartment to investigate a disturbance. After a Russian woman refuses to allow them in, they kick down the door and begin searching the apartment. Behind a locked door, they find a dead body. Under a bed is a frightened little boy. As the police try to help out, a snake-like creature stabs one of the officers in the head.
The scene cuts to several hours later. Will Zimmerman is investigating the murders, but his theories of what took place fall on deaf ears.
As he leaves the scene, he sees someone climbing down a fire escape and gives chase. A motorcycle zooms past him, causing him to be distracted and get hit by a car. The backseat passenger gets out and apologizes, saying that she never intended for them to meet this way.
Will wakes up in a hospital with a minor injury. He goes upstairs to where a male suspect found near the apartment homicide is being interviewed. The eye witness Jagna Lutrova (one of the women living in the apartment) is brought in to identify her father's killer. She says to Det. Joe Kavanaugh that the suspect in custody is the killer, but Will knows she is lying.
Outside, Will is met by the same woman whose car had hit him earlier. She introduces herself as Dr. Helen Magnus, who runs the Sanctuary. She takes him there and shows him some of the abnormals, who have either turned themselves in or have been captured. Will sees Sally, Steve, the fire Creature, Two Faced Guy, a hard-scaled creature, and the Fairy. A bald man appears outside and attempts to gain entry, but is repelled by an unknown force.
Magnus's daughter, Ashley, has been chasing the boy through the subway and is forced to beat up two transit cops.
Up stairs in Magnus's study, Magnus explains more about the role of the Sanctuary and her hope for Will to join, during which Will has his first face-to-face encounter with Bigfoot who was delivering tea to the pair. Ashley sends a text to her mother, about finding the boy, to which Magnus and Will travel to her location.
Magnus, Ashley and Will all meet together in the subway and join forces to capture the boy. The snake creature attacks both Will and Ashley, and Magnus knocks the boy out with a tranquilizer, also knocking out the snake-like appendage.
After Will and Ashley are treated, Magnus takes him to see the boy. The snake is actually an Abnormal symbiotic appendage. Magnus located Will because she needs his help in earning the creature's trust.
Cast[]
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Quotes[]
WILL: You said you were pursuing the boy. MAGNUS: Indeed. WILL: Why? MAGNUS: I suspect you know why. WILL: No. Honestly, I don't. MAGNUS: Well, then, this will be a very illuminating evening. |
WILL: You call this place a sanctuary. For whom? MAGNUS: Or what. WILL: [laughs] You know what? This was a really bad idea. I'm very sorry to have wasted your time, and I'm even sorrier that you've wasted mine. [Starts to walk away] MAGNUS: Your instincts told you that the boy was anything but normal. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here. [Will turns back] MAGNUS: Inside these walls are beings that make his qualities pale by comparison. "Sanctuary for all". It's not an empty motto. |
WILL: So, you're a doctor of... * what* , exactly? |
MAGNUS: The purpose of this sanctuary is to find and help the unfortunate creatures of this world. Some need saving. Others can't be allowed to roam free. |
MAGNUS: We have a dual obligation: to study the miraculous and to protect against the perilous. |
Extras[]
- This episode has a DVD commentary track. Commentators: Damian Kindler, Amanda Tapping, and Martin Wood.
Notes[]
- "Sanctuary for All, Part I" is the re-shot version of "Webisode 1" & "Webisode 2".
- Chronology / Production: According to Damian Kindler, the tv series pilot double-episode "Sanctuary for All" was written (from the web series) during the course of Christmas holiday break in 2007.
- Geography: In the opening scene, the camera pulls back from a close up of the skyline of New City across the river into Old City over the Old City Sanctuary, and then pans over to a police squad car responding to an emergency call. The car stops at an apartment complex located at the intersection of 149th and Cordova. The Sanctuary is seen to only be three full blocks away to the south of this location.
- Trivia: Alexei lives with his adopted family in Apartment 23 of the apartment complex.
- Trivia: The alphanumeric on the license plate of the Old City Police Department squad car (unit D47) assigned to Lawrence Birch and Albert Russo is: PLG 921.
- Trivia / Production: The entire opening scene involving the OCPD investigating the disturbance, checking the apartment and subsequently dying is a reshot version of the same scene used in webisode One.
- Trivia: In the DVD commentary, Martin Wood mentions that the working title during production for Old City was Otisburg.
- Trivia / Production: In the DVD commentary, Martin Wood mentions that the interior apartment building scenes were filmed in the decommissioned portion of Riverview Hospital, a former mental institution located in Coquitlam, Canada.
- Trivia: The comic book Will Zimmerman finds hidden in Alexei's bedroom features the faces of creator/writer Damian Kindler and director Martin Wood.
- Trivia: When Will Zimmerman gets hit by Bigfoot driving Helen Magnus's Mercedes-Benz, the front license plate can be seen. The alphanumeric is: SUM 617.
- Trivia / Geography: At the hospital morgue, the Med Tech mentions that the apartment murders occurred in Uptown of Old City.
- Trivia / Casting: In the hospital morgue scene, the corpse on the right that Eleanor is seen preparing for is played by Damian Kindler.
- Trivia / Production: The hospital morgue scene involving the Med Tech, Eleanor, and Helen Magnus is reused from webisode One.
- Trivia / Production: The hospital morgue cold room scene involving Helen Magnus examining the bodies of OCPD officers Lawrence Birch and Albert Russo is reused from webisode One.
- Trivia / Geography: John Druitt encounters a Hooker (near Circle Square [2]) and asks her where he can find a Sanctuary. She says that it's down by the water on Grayson Street.
- Trivia / Geography: After Alexei escapes his apartment building and runs away, Ashley Magnus follows him into the subway GFT entrance at Montgomery Street next to Greens' Electronics.
- Trivia / Chronology: While at the nurses station in the hospital, Joe Kavanaugh gets frustrated with Will Zimmerman who's denying Vern Kovacs as the obvious killer and instead focusing on a 10-year-old boy that no one else saw. During the scene, it's revealed that Will has only been with the Old City Police Department for the last six months since getting bounced from the Agency.
- Trivia / Production: The meeting scene outside of the hospital between Helen Magnus and Will Zimmerman was a reshot and rewritten scene from webisode One.
- Trivia / Wardrobe: Amanda Tapping made the fashion faux pas of wearing a linen coat during the rain scene featuring her character Helen Magnus following and formally introducing herself to Will Zimmerman outside of the hospital.
- Trivia: While Ashley Magnus is tracking Alexei through the subway tunnel, an express train barrels by causing her to lose sight of the boy. The platform sign says: 41st AVE. West.
- Trivia / Production: The express train subway scene is reused from webisode Two. On the DVD commentary, Damian Kindler mentions that the scene was shot in June 2006.
- Trivia / Casting: Mentioned on the DVD commentary by Damian Kindler and Martin Wood, the train driver face's is of Lee Wilson, the tv show's Visual Effects director.
- Trivia / Chronology: Meg returns to Will Zimmerman's apartment to retrieve her things. During their interaction, it's noted to be the end tail-end of a two year relationship.
- Trivia / Production: One the DVD commentary, Damian Kindler mentions that the interior scene at Will's apartment between Will Zimmerman and Meg was also filmed in Riverview Hospital.
- Chronology: This episode establishes Ashley Magnus's birthday as occurring in the summer as well as her current age. Will Zimmerman comments on Helen Magnus looking twelve years older than her daughter Ashley. Since Magnus is eternally the physical age of 35-years-old, this makes Ashley 23-years-old.
- Trivia / Production: The infirmary scene was rewritten and and reshot from webisode Two.
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References[]
- ↑ Amanda May on The Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Episode 1x02 - "Sanctuary for All, Part II"
- "Sanctuary for All, Part I" on The Internet Movie Database
- Watch "Sanctuary for All, Part I" on Vudu
- "Sanctuary for All, Part I" on Wikipedia
- "Sanctuary for All, Part I" on Wikipedia
● Sanctuary ● Season 1 ● |
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● 01 Sanctuary for All, Part I ● 02 Sanctuary for All, Part II ● 03 Fata Morgana ● 04 Folding Man ● 05 Kush ● 06 Nubbins ● 07 The Five ● 08 Edward ● 09 Requiem ● 10 Warriors ● 11 Instinct ● 12 Revelations, Part I ● 13 Revelations, Part II ● |
Story Arc : Mary Anne Zimmerman |
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● 1x01 Sanctuary for All, Part I ● 1x02 Sanctuary for All, Part II ● 1x05 Kush ● 1x10 Warriors ● 3x19 Out of the Blue ● 4x03 Untouchable ● 4x06 Homecoming ● 4x08 Fugue ● |