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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.
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Synopsis[]
The enigmatic Doctor Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) recruits an insightful forensic psychiatrist named Doctor 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[]
Front: Albert Russo and Lawrence Birch
In Uptown of Old City, two police officers Albert Russo and Lawrence Birch arrive at an apartment building at the corner of 149th and Cordova. They go up to Apartment 23 to investigate a nighttime disturbance call. After a Russian woman (Jagna Lutrova) refuses to allow the officers inside, they kick open the door and begin searching the apartment. Behind a locked bedroom door, they find a dead body. Under the bed is a frightened little boy (Alexei). As Russo tries to help him out, a snake-like creature stabs Russo in the head, killing him. Alexei stands up on the far-side of the bed, revealing his abnormal appendage. Birch is left standing in horror.
At a busy restaurant for dinner, Will Zimmerman is handed a plate of food by a Waitress. He notices a tiny change in how his meal was plated and asks if it's the chef's night off. She confirms it, though is confused at how he knows. Will explains, but the conversation gets distractedly interrupted by his cellphone.
Will Zimmerman arrives at the apartment complex, much to the annoyance of Detective Joe Kavanaugh and officer Andy Fets. Will investigates the crime scene at Apartment 23, moving from room to room pointing out multiple details as he interacts with objects, but his theories of what took place fall on deaf ears.
As Will exits the building, he looks up and sees a boy walking along a perimeter ledge around the outside of the apartment building. As Will gets closer, he sees the same boy now climbing down an alleyway fire escape and gives chase. A motorcycle zooms past him (driven by Ashley Magnus), causing him to be distracted and get hit by a tailing car (driven by Bigfoot). The backseat passenger (Helen Magnus) gets out and apologizes, saying that she never intended for them to meet this way. Will then passes out.
Will wakes up (having had a flashback to the night his mother Mary Anne Zimmerman died when he was an 8-year-old child) on a gurney in a hospital's hallway with minor injuries; having been found unconscious in the alley by Andy Fets. Fets then informs Will that Kavanaugh wants Will upstairs for a witness identification.
Outside the hospital morgue at the street, the car from the alleyway is parked at the curb. A van carrying the bodies from Apartment 23 arrives at the building, backing up to the door. Magnus tells Bigfoot that she'll be a couple of hours and gets out.
Will goes upstairs to where a male suspect named Vern Kovacs (who was 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 Kavanaugh that the suspect in custody is the killer. Kavanaugh is grateful for a quick 'close' to the case, but Will knows she is lying.
As Fets begins to escort Jagna home, Will catches up to them on a lower floor and confronts her about it - which disturbs her as she simply wants to go home.
In the morgue, the Med Tech wheels in both of the cops bodies as the coroner Eleanor is preparing to saw open another body. Magnus walks in, they greet each other, and Eleanor directs her to the cold room. Magnus thanks her, and Eleanor sets up a lunch date with Magnus for next week.
Alexei is running through the streets pursued by Ashley on motorcycle. As they stop briefly, she notices him looking at the subway transit system and dismounts to continue to follow him on foot.
At the morgue, Magnus removes a sample of brain matter from Birch's forehead. It's covered in a strange bioluminescent liquid.
In an alleyway behind a warehouse near Circle Square, a Hooker is declining a cheap offer when when John Druitt suddenly appears via teleport. She attempts to sway him, however Druitt is only interesting in finding a 'Sanctuary'. She tells him there's a place down by the water on Grayson Street and says she can take him there. Druitt however decines and stabs her to death.
Alexei, followed closely behind by Ashley, travels past Greens' Electronics on his way down into the subway station entrance on Montgomery Street.
Alexei is then seen to go from the station platform down onto the train tracks. Ashley follows after him through the tunnel.
Will and Kavanaugh have a discussion at a nurses station about Jagna lying about Kovacs being the killer. Will keeps pressing his theory about the 10-year-old boy he saw which angers Kavanaugh. As Will walks away, the camera pans to the hallway revealing Helen Magnus standing nearby having listened in to part of the conversation. She follows after him.
Outside the hospital in the rain, Magnus wants to talk with Will about the case. Will realizes she's the same woman whose car had hit him earlier. She introduces herself to him, handing him her Sanctuary business card, and offers him a proposal. Will dismisses the encounter - having been creeped out by the details she knows about him, declines her offer, and leaves.
As Ashley follows Alexei in the tunnel, an express train zooms by which results in her losing sight of the boy.
At Will's apartment, Will arrives home and has a 'surprise' interaction with his now recently ex-girlfriend Meg who's there collecting her belongings. After a less-than-pleasant conversation about the end of their relationship, she leaves as Will lays on his bed.
In his apartment bathroom, as he prepares for a shower, Will contemplates his injuries and picks up Magnus's business card.
Bigfoot chauffeurs Magnus to Will's apartment, where they pick up Will who's standing outside on the sidewalk with an umbrella in the rain.
After the car arrives at the Old City Sanctuary, enters through the gate and proceeds forward, outside the property John Druitt appears and attempts to gain entry by method of teleportation, but is repelled by an unknown force.
After entering the foyer to stow their wet belongings, Magnus guides Will down a hallway as they have a conversation about the boy and his involvement with the homicide case.
In the subway, two transit cops come across Alexei. Ashley, who's been tracking the boy, beats up two transit cops when they get too close to him. Ashley's efforts to save the transit cops results in the boy disappearing again, causing her to continue her search for him.
At the Old City Sanctuary, Magnus takes Will on an elevator ride down, and he asks her about her field of study. When the doors open, she gives a brief list of her specialities and leads him on a guided tour of the main lab. She shows him some of the abnormals, of which some voluntarily live there while others have been captured. Will sees Sally, Steve, the fire Creature, Two Faced Guy, a hard-scaled creature, and the Fairy.
Upstairs 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, detailing the boy's current location in the subway.
Magnus and Will travel together through the subway tunnels, passing by the transit cops Ashley roughed up. Magnus and Will meet up with Ashley in the subway's catacombs. As Magnus condemns Ashley's actions in how she dealt with the transit cops, Will notices the boy in a crate and gets their attention. Noticing Will in imminent danger, Ashley rushes to knock him out of the way to protect him from a strike. As Ashley rejoins her mother, Alexei's appendage strikes out and hits Ashley's shoulder. Ashley recovers and Magnus shoots Alexei with a tranquilizer, knocking out both the boy and his snake-like appendage. Magnus again condemns the situation and Ashley rebuffs her mother's lecture. At Will's question, Magnus introduces Ashley to him as her daughter.
Back at the Old City Sanctuary's infirmary, Ashley receives stitches from her mother (the topic of conversation from the subway earlier about Magnus opposing Ashley's methods has continued to Ashley's annoyance). Will picks up on the sense that these types of strange events are a usual occurrence for them. This triggers Ashley to start to excitedly blab about a previous experience, to which her mother tempers her. After Magnus finishes, Ashley tells her mother that she's going out to meet weapons dealer Sylvio Rudd on the Eastside, however Magnus disagrees and directs her to stay in for the remainder of the night. After Ashley exits the room, Will searches for clarification about their mother daughter dynamic (focusing on their physical age gap of twelve years) and Magnus deftly skirts around the details, redirecting the conversation to be about work instead.
Magnus and Will are on an observation deck overlooking Alexei, who's currently being restrained in a chair in the holding cell below. The snake-like creature is a massive genetic mutation creating an abnormal symbiotic appendage. Magnus included Will in the Sanctuary's case because she needs his help in gaining the boy's trust in order to provide effective treatment (both physiological and psychological).
Cast[]
| Series regular | Character |
|---|---|
| Amanda Tapping | Doctor Helen Magnus |
| Robin Dunne | Doctor Will Zimmerman |
| Emilie Ullerup | Ashley Magnus |
| Christopher Heyerdahl | John Druitt / Bigfoot |
| Guest starring | Character |
| Kavan Smith | Detective Joe Kavanaugh |
| Kandyse McClure | Meg |
| Featuring | Character |
| Cainan Wiebe | Alexei |
| Peter Shinkoda | Andy Fets |
| Chuck Campbell | Two Faced Guy (front face) |
| Brad Proctor | Two Faced Guy (back face) |
| Darien Provost | Young Will |
| Nicholas Podbrey | Man |
| Michael Adamthwaite | Albert Russo |
| Malik McCall | Lawrence Birch |
| Diana Pavlovská | Jagna Lutrova |
| Aidan Pringle | Vern Kovacs |
| Mihola Terzic | Waitress |
| Kirsten Robek | Mary Anne Zimmerman |
| Dana McLoughlin | Hooker / John's Victim |
| David (Dan) Joffre | Transit Cop 1 |
| Dan Shea | Transit Cop 2 |
| Amanda May | Sally, the Mermaid |
| Ian Wallace | Fire Creature |
| Ivan de Leon | Med Tech |
| Ellie Harvey | Eleanor |
| Uncredited | Character |
| Yaroslav Poverlo | Jagna's Husband |
| Unnamed actor / CGI | Steve |
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.[1] |
| 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.[2] |
| WILL: So, you're a doctor of...*what*, exactly?[3] |
| 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.[4] |
| MAGNUS: We have a dual obligation: to study the miraculous and to protect against the perilous.[5] |
Extras[]
- This episode has a DVD commentary track. Commentators: Damian Kindler, Amanda Tapping, and Martin Wood.
Notes[]
- Production: "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 [6]) 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.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179688/quotes/?item=qt1449896&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179688/quotes/?item=qt4441330&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179688/quotes/?item=qt1449875&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179688/quotes/?item=qt4441331&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179688/quotes/?item=qt1449890&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
- ↑ 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 ● |