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"Weeds"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 11
Directed by
Michael Pattinson
Written by
Frank Spotnitz
Production code
4C09
Original air date
January 24, 1997
Guest actors

Ryan Cutrona as Sheriff Paul Gerlach
Michael Tomlinson as Tom Comstock
Josh Clark as Edward Petey
Terry David Mulligan as Bob Birckenbuehl
Brian Taylor as Coach Burke
C. C. H. Pounder as Cheryl Andrews
 
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"'Weeds" is the eleventh episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 24, 1997. The episode was written by Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Michael Pattinson. "Weeds" featured guest appearances by Ryan Cutrona, Josh Clark and Terry David Mulligan.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, investigates a series of kidnappings in a gated community, finding that the real danger in the neighborhood comes from within its own walls.
"Weeds" was Spotnitz's writing début for the series, and saw the return of recurring guest star C. C. H. Pounder, whose appearance received some critical appreciation. The episode, which begins with a quote from the Book of Jeremiah, was met with a mixed reception, with reviews complimenting the interesting, but poorly-executed plot.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Footnotes 4.1 References

Plot[edit]
In the gated community of Vista Verde, teenager Josh Comstock is riding his motorcycle, unaware that he is being followed by an unseen man driving a van. He is later stopped by the driver and pacified with a cattle prod. The following morning, Comstock's mother finds a corpse in his bed—but it is not that of her son.
Sheriff Paul Gerlach (Ryan Cutrona) seeks the aid of private investigative firm the Millennium Group, who dispatch offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and pathologist Cheryl Andrews (C. C. H. Pounder) to help the investigation. Gerlach reveals that the dead boy, Kirk Orlando, had gone missing previously, and feels that Comstock's kidnapping is his fault, as he did not alert the wider community about Orlando's disappearance.
Orlando's father comes forward with a piece of evidence—his mailbox had been stuffed with shredded banknotes. That evening, Black and Gerlach visit a town meeting organised by Edward Petey (Josh Clark), where another of the residents, Bob Birckenbuehl (Terry David Mulligan), accuses Gerlach of knowing more than he is letting on. Gerlach tells the assembly that the killer is from the community.
Comstock's parents return home after the meeting to find the number 331 daubed on their son's bed in blood. The father, Tom Comstock (Michael Tomlinson) confides in Black that the number is that of the hotel room he had been using to carry on an extramarital affair, which Black persuades him to come clean about with his wife.
Birckenbuehl's son Charlie is kidnapped from his bedroom, again subdued with a cattle prod. Andrews and Black discover that the boy's goldfish had been poisoned with whiskey, which they believe to be another message like Comstock's number. The town's swimming instructor, Adam Burke (Brian Taylor) is interviewed, as he had contact with both missing boys through his coaching. Black discovers that Burke's son had been killed in a hit-and-run accident; Black also receives post containing a paint swatch with the number 528 on it, but he is unsure of its meaning..
Tom Comstock comes home the next day to find his son returned, alive but shaken. Black deduces that the paint swatch matches paint used on the vehicle that killed Burke's son; he also realizes that the boys are being kidnapped to force their fathers to confess hidden sins—Comstock's son was returned after he revealed his affair, while Orlando's son was killed because he kept a crime, involving money, a secret. From there, Black sees that Charlie's kidnapping means that Birckenbeuhl is the hit-and-run driver.
Black convinces Birckenbeuhl to confess publicly to the hit-and-run, in order to have his son returned. Birckenbeuhl does so, but continues to maintain his innocence in private. Charlie is not returned, however; instead, a cassette is sent to Birckenbuehl by the killer, who explains that since Birckenbeuhl took a life, one must be taken from him in return. Black is able to deduce from the background noise on the tape that Charlie is being held near the local high school's swimming pool. The boy is rescued, and killer—Edward Petey—is found and arrested. However, the elder Birckenbeuhl is found hanged in his bedroom, having committed suicide in his guilt.
Production[edit]


But know ye for certain ... Ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city.
—The episode's opening quotation; Jeremiah 26:13
"Weeds" is the first of fives episodes of Millennium to be written by Frank Spotnitz, who would go on to write "Sacrament" later in the first season,[1] as well as penning "TEOTWAWKI", "Antipas" and "Seven and One" in the series' third season.[2] Spotnitz was a prolific writer for Millennium's sister show The X-Files, receiving his first writing credit for that series for the episode "End Game".[3] "Weeds" also marks director Michael Pattinson's only work for the series.[1]
The episode features the second of five appearances by C. C. H. Pounder as Millennium Group pathologist Cheryl Andrews. Pounder had first appeared in the role in the earlier episode "The Judge",[4] and would go on to make another three appearances across all three seasons.[5][6][7] Terry David Mulligan, who played Bob Birckenbuehl, would go on to appear in the third season episode "Collateral Damage", in an unrelated role;[8] while Ryan Cutrona, who portrayed the town's sheriff Paul Gerlach, would later be cast in The X-Files' ninth season opening episode, "Nothing Important Happened Today", which was written by Spotnitz and Millennium creator Chris Carter.[9]
"Weeds" opens with a quotation from the Book of Jeremiah, one of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible.[10] Biblical verses were also used at the beginning of other episodes in the series, including the Gospel of Luke in "Blood Relatives";[11] the Book of Job in "Wide Open"[12] and "Dead Letters";[13] and the Book of Exodus in "Kingdom Come".[14]
Broadcast and reception[edit]

 

C. C. H. Pounder's guest role drew positive critique.
"Weeds" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on January 24, 1997;[15] and earned a Nielsen rating of 7.6, meaning that roughly 7.6 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[16]
"Weeds" received mixed reviews from critics. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode three stars out of five, describing it as "a portrait of a community in fear" that "simmers with recrimination and vigilantism". However, Shearman and Pearson felt that the individual characters lacked personality, as Spotnitz's script "spends a lot of time introducing figures as potential suspects rather than giving a great deal of depth to any of them".[15] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "Weeds" 3 out of 5, noting that "something about [the episode] just isn't right". Gibron felt that it was "one of the weaker episodes in the series, but it also had some of the greatest potential".[17] Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen rated the episode a B. Handlen felt that the "black-and-white morality" of "Weeds", and Millennium as a series, was a negative factor, adding "as always with Millennium, there's the feeling that the only life worth living is one entirely free from sin, and I can't say that I buy that". However, Handlen praised C. C. H. Pounder's guest role, finding that she "manages to put herself across quite well" despite the difficulty of standing out amidst the series' sombre tone.[18]
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
2.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Rob Bowman (director); Frank Spotnitz (writer) (February 17, 1995). "End Game". The X-Files. Season 2. Episode 17. Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 34
5.Jump up ^ Winrich Kolbe (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (February 7, 1997). "Force Majeure". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 13. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (November 14, 1997). "The Hand of St. Sebastian". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 8. Fox.
7.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Chip Johannessen & Ken Horton (writers) (November 6, 1998). "Skull and Bones". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 6. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Michael R. Perry (writer) (January 22, 1999). "Collateral Damage". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 11. Fox.
9.Jump up ^ Kim Manners & Tony Wharmby (directors); Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (November 11 & 18, 2001). "Nothing Important Happened Today". The X-Files. Season 9. Episode 1 & 2. Fox.
10.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 137–138
11.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 136
12.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 137
13.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 133
14.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 135
15.^ Jump up to: a b Shearman and Pearson, p. 113
16.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
17.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (December 4, 2010). ""El Mundo Gira"/"Weeds" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 0-9759446-9-X.

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Season 1
­"Pilot"·
 ­"Gehenna"·
 ­"Dead Letters"·
 ­"The Judge"·
 ­"522666"·
 ­"Kingdom Come"·
 ­"Blood Relatives"·
 ­"The Well-Worn Lock"·
 ­"Wide Open"·
 ­"The Wild and the Innocent"·
 ­"Weeds"·
 ­"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"·
 ­"Force Majeure"·
 ­"The Thin White Line"·
 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
 ­"Lamentation"·
 ­"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"·
 ­"Broken World"·
 ­"Maranatha"·
 ­"Paper Dove"
 

 

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Loin Like a Hunting Flame

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"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 12
Directed by
David Nutter
Written by
Ted Man
Production code
4C11
Original air date
January 31, 1997
Guest actors

William Lucking as Detective Thomas
Hrothgar Mathews as Art Nesbitt
Harriet Sansom Harris as Maureen Murphy
Barbara Howard as Karen Nesbitt
Malcolm Stewart as Vic
Tyler Labine as Gavin[1]
 
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"'Loin Like a Hunting Flame" is the twelfth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 31, 1997. The episode was written by Ted Mann, and directed by David Nutter. "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" featured guest appearances by William Lucking, Hrothgar Mathews and Harriet Sansom Harris.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, joins a fellow Group member to track a killer driven by sexual neuroses and who uses mood-altering drugs to gain control of his victims.
"Loin Like a Hunting Flame" has received mostly negative reviews from critics, with its treatment of female characters being seen as particularly poor. The episode—Nutter's last contribution to the series—contains several literary references, alluding to both Dylan Thomas and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Footnotes 4.1 References

Plot[edit]
In Boulder, Colorado, a rave is underway in a nightclub. Pharmacist Art Nesbitt (Hrothgar Matthews) approaches a young couple, offering them drugs. Later, all three of them are in a room elsewhere, with Nesbitt recording the couple having sex. When they finish, he poisons them by injection. Their naked bodies are found the following day in a botanic garden, posed to resemble the story of Adam and Eve. The Millennium Group, a private investigative firm, despatches offender profilers Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Maureen Murphy (Harriet Sansom Harris) to aid the police investigation. Detective Thomas (William Lucking) feels uncomfortable working with Murphy, believing that women do not understand male sex offenders.
Elsewhere, Nesbitt is spying on a swingers' party, and follows two women as they leave to buy more alcohol for the party. He impersonates a police officer and pulls their car over. The next day the women are reported missing by their husbands, and their bodies are found posed in a park. Nesbitt is next seen working in his pharmacy, when another young couple come in to purchase medication in preparation for an exotic honeymoon. Nesbitt instead surreptitiously gives them an MDMA-like drug, suggesting they take it immediately.
Meanwhile, the investigation has found traces of this drug in the other victims, with Black believing that the killer not only has access to it through his occupation but is likely consuming it himself while committing his crimes in order to readily act on his sexual fantasies. Black follows up on this, and investigates Nesbitt's pharmacy. Nesbitt is not working at the time, but Black realizes he must be the killer. He interviews Nesbitt's wife (Barbara Howard), finding that they have not had sex in eighteen years of marriage—however, Nesbitt has recently become interested in trying again.
Later, Detective Thomas tells Black that he really has no problem with Murphy—his true issue with the case is his own past. Having investigated sexual offences in the past, Thomas had found the cases affecting him personally, leaving him unable to have sex with his wife and leading to their divorce.
Black realizes that the killer is trying to experience the sexual encounters he missed out on before his marriage, and that he believes his victims are living the happiest moments of their lives because of his actions. He returns to the Nesbitt home, finding the honeymooning couple locked in a bomb shelter below the house. Black runs upstairs, thinking that Nesbitt will murder his wife, but arrives in time to see him commit suicide by injection instead.
Production[edit]




The episode contains allusions to Dylan Thomas (left) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (right).
"Loin Like a Hunting Flame" is the second of four episodes of Millennium to have been written by Ted Mann, who had previously written "The Judge", and would go on to write ""Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" and the first season finale "Paper Dove".[2] The episode was directed by David Nutter, and was his last directing credit for the series, having helmed "Pilot", "Gehenna" and "522666" earlier in the season.[2]
A member of Fox's Standards and Practices department was flown out to the episode's Vancouver, British Columbia filming location. She was asked to watch the episode being produced to ensure that it did not breach any of the network's censorship rules. Several of the scenes that were being produced required quite small spaces during filming, requiring Nutter to record additional coverage on a handheld camera, which he later played back to the Standards and Practices liaison for approval.[3]
The episode's title is taken from a line in the Dylan Thomas poem Ballad of the Long-legged Bait, which was first published in 1946's Deaths and Entrances; while the quotation displayed at the beginning—"Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast"—is taken from Goethe's Faust, a two-part 19th century play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Both literary allusions serve to highlight the secret life of the character of Nesbitt—the first in its subject matter, the second thematically echoing the character's two lives.[4] Several of the cast had previously worked with series creator Chris Carter on his previous series The X-Files—Harriet Sansom Harris had appeared in the first season episode "Eve"; Hrothgar Matthews had played roles in four episodes; and Tyler Labine, who briefly appeared handing out leaflets in the episode's cold open, had made appearances in two episodes of that series.[5]
Broadcast and reception[edit]


The episode wants to be both titillating and scolding; it wants us to both sympathize with women and view them as objects of evil sexual immorality. It's all but filled up with a sense of women as the original temptresses, a sense that went out of style with the medieval texts the show sometimes seems directly ripped from.
—The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff on female characters in "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" and Millennium as a whole.[6]
"Loin Like a Hunting Flame" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on January 31, 1997;[7] and earned a Nielsen rating of 8, meaning that roughly 8 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[8]
"Loin Like a Hunting Flame" received mostly negative reviews from critics. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode two-and-a-half stars out of five, finding Mann's writing to lack tension and imagination. Shearman and Pearson felt that the episode "has good moments, and is at least efficient and watchable", but believed that it "doesn't really deliver anything special, doesn't try to be anything other than average".[9] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" 4 out of 5, describing it as being "handled in a subtle, somber manner". Gibron felt that "the events unfold in this episode evenly and eerily", and it serves as an example of "what could have been done had the show's focus, both literally and metaphysically, remained on crime".[10] Writing for The A.V. Club, Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode an F, calling it "quite possibly one of the worst episodes of television I've ever seen". VanDerWerff felt that the episode's wariness of the 1990s rave subculture was particularly dated. He also felt that "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" served as a prominent example of Millennium's "social conservatism", noting that it seems "fairly closed-off from other points-of-view" than that of the character Frank Black.[6]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 122
2.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Chris Carter, Ken Horton, Frank Spotnitz, Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, David Nutter, Mark Snow, John Peter Kousakis, Mark Freeborn, Robert McLachlan, Chip Johannessen and Thomas J. Wright (2004). "Order in Chaos: Making Millennium Season One". Millennium: The Complete First Season (DVD) (Fox Home Entertainment).
4.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 138–139
5.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 127–128
6.^ Jump up to: a b VanDerWerff, Todd (December 11, 2010). ""Leonard Betts"/Loin Like a Hunting Flame" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
7.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 113
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
9.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 113–114
10.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 0-9759446-9-X.

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Millennium episodes

 
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Season 1
­"Pilot"·
 ­"Gehenna"·
 ­"Dead Letters"·
 ­"The Judge"·
 ­"522666"·
 ­"Kingdom Come"·
 ­"Blood Relatives"·
 ­"The Well-Worn Lock"·
 ­"Wide Open"·
 ­"The Wild and the Innocent"·
 ­"Weeds"·
 ­"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"·
 ­"Force Majeure"·
 ­"The Thin White Line"·
 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
 ­"Lamentation"·
 ­"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"·
 ­"Broken World"·
 ­"Maranatha"·
 ­"Paper Dove"
 

 

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Force Majeure (Millennium)

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"Force Majeure"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 13
Directed by
Winrich Kolbe
Written by
Chip Johannessen
Production code
4C12
Original air date
February 7, 1997
Guest actors

Brad Dourif as Dennis Hoffman
Morgan Woodward as Iron Lung Man
Timothy Webber as Sheriff Camden
C. C. H. Pounder as Cheryl Andrews
Mitchell Kosterman as Lieutenant
Sarah Strange as Maura
Kristi Angus as Lauren/Carlin
Peter Hanlon as Manager
Cindy Girling as Myra
Phillip Mitchell as Uniform No. 1
Merrilyn Gann as Carlin's Mother[1]
 
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"'Force Majeure" is the thirteenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on February 7, 1997. The episode was written by Chip Johannessen and directed by Winrich Kolbe. "Force Majeure" featured guest appearances by Brad Dourif, Morgan Woodward and C. C. H. Pounder.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) investigates a pair of suicides connected to a cult which has been experimenting with human cloning. Black is dogged on his travels by a strange man interested in both the Millennium Group and doomsday predictions.
"Force Majeure" features stock footage of the 1996 Saguenay Flood, and makes mention of a conjunction of planets which occurred in May 2000. The episode was viewed by approximately 6.9 million households during its original broadcast, and has received positive reviews from critics.

Contents
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2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
During a hailstorm, university students run to find shelter. One girl, Lauren (Kristi Angus), stands in the rain, lights a cigarette, and goes up in flames. Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) travels to the university to interview witnesses to the death. A teaching assistant tells Black that the dead girl was highly intelligent, pointing out an armillary sphere Lauren had constructed. She also tells Black that the previous Millennium Group contact had taken great interest in this sphere. Black did not realize the Group had sent another member, but on leaving, he meets the man in question—Dennis Hoffman (Brad Dourif). Hoffman describes his theories to Black, detailing how when several planets achieve syzygy on May 5, 2000, a series of natural disasters will bring about the end of the world. Hoffman believes that this cataclysm will be preceded by strange events and weather patterns.
Black later contacts another Group member, Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn), who tells him that Hoffman had attempted to join the Group years earlier, and although he was refused admission, has continued to track the Group's activities harmlessly. Watts also finds that Lauren is not her parents' biological child, but cannot find any record of her adoption. Group coroner Cheryl Andrews (C. C. H. Pounder) finds traces of accelerant on the body, and rules the death a suicide. She also finds an astrological symbol representing conjunction carved in the girl's thigh.
At a waterfall, another girl commits suicide by drowning. The girl, Carlin, looks identical to Lauren. Andrews performs an autopsy on Carlin as well, finding the same astrological symbol. It also becomes clear that the two girls are related—identical twins, born seven years apart. The girls are clones, produced using a technique similar to that used to create identical cattle. Black believes that this is connected to Hoffman's Earth Changes theory, that someone is breeding offspring destined to survive May 5, 2000.
Hoffman provides the Group with information leading them to Pocatello, Idaho, where a group of even more cloned girls is found living in a commune. The police fear that a cult suicide may be being planned, and they take the girls into protective custody. The girls are taken onto a bus as Black speaks to their biological father, a preacher confined to a negative pressure ventilator (Morgan Woodward). The man reveals to Black that he attempted to create a caste of pure and innocent people who could repopulate society benevolently after the cataclysm. He contacted some of the girls to let them know he would die before the apocalyptic date, and they committed suicide shortly afterwards. That night, a power cut stops the man's ventilator, killing him.
When Black leaves to meet with the girls in custody, he finds that the bus driver was another of the man in the ventilator's offspring, and has escaped with the clones; Hoffman has also disappeared. Black realizes that the building they found the girls in is located in an area of extreme geological stability, and is built on shock absorbing foundations—Black does not know where the cult has escaped to, but he does know where they will be on May 5, 2000.
Production[edit]

 

 "Force Majeure" discusses planetary conjunction (conjunction of the Moon and Venus pictured).
"Force Majeure" was the second of four episodes helmed by director Winrich Kolbe, who had previously worked on "Kingdom Come", and would return later in the first season for "Lamentation" and "Broken World".[2] The episode also marks the second writing credit in the series for Chip Johannessen, after the earlier "Blood Relatives". Johannessen would go on to write an additional eleven episodes across all three seasons, including the series' final episode "Goodbye to All That".[2][3][4] After Millennium's cancellation, Johannessen would also contribute an episode to its sister show The X-Files, 1999's "Orison".[5] Johannessen would also become one of the series' executive producers during its third season, alongside Ken Horton.[6][7]
Footage used in the episode to demonstrate cataclysmic flooding was taken from stock footage of the 1996 Saguenay Flood, a series of flash floods across the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region in Quebec. The "little white house" visible in the footage has since been converted into a museum.[8][9] The episode features the third appearance by C. C. H. Pounder as Millennium Group pathologist Cheryl Andrews. Pounder would appear in four other episodes as the character, appearing across all three seasons.[10][11][12][13]
The conjunction of several planets which Brad Dourif's character Dennis Hoffman speaks about was reliably predicted at the time of the episode's broadcast. The effects of such an alignment had been debated for some time, with studies both linking conjunction to several major earthquakes and debunking the theory entirely. Several similar alignments have occurred in the past without resulting in any additional natural activity on Earth.[14] The predicted conjunction did occur in May 2000, with no consequence on Earth.[15][16]
Broadcast and reception[edit]


"The episode is just odd enough to be distinctive (Carter is wearing his Lynch on his sleeve even more than usual), and, beyond the pleasure of the series finally stretching its legs, it's nice to have a storyline that doesn't just exist to lecture us about how we're all going to Hell".
–The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen on "Force Majeure"[17]
"Lamentation" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on February 7, 1997.[18] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 7.1 during its original broadcast, meaning that 7.1 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented 6.9 million households, and left the episode the sixty-third most-viewed broadcast that week.[19][nb 1]
The episode received positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen rated the episode an A−, describing it as "sort of kind of pretty much batshit insane". Handlen felt that the episode "was a lot of fun to watch, though, even if it didn't entirely come together. The script is Carter and company's usual hodepodge of crackpot theory and weird extemporization, but it's a huge relief to shift away, even for a week, from the grind of heavy-handed murder parties that define so much of the series".[17] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 4.5 out of 5, calling it "superb" and "very atmospheric". Gibron praised Dourif's guest role, and noted that the episode helped to lay the groundwork for the direction the series would take in its second season.[20] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Force Majeure" five stars out of five, describing it as "rich and dark". Shearman felt that the episode's plot was "borrowed from The X-Files", and came across as "just a collection of ideas". However, he praised Dourif's "barnstorming performance", comparing it to his role in The X-Files episode "Beyond the Sea", and noted that "Force Majeure" was "an episode which bravely redefines what [Millennium] is capable of".[21]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[19]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), p. 2
2.^ Jump up to: a b Millennium: The Complete First Season (Media notes). Fox. 1996–1997.
3.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Media notes). Fox. 1997–1998.
4.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Media notes). Fox. 1998–1999.
5.Jump up ^ Rob Bowman (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (December 12, 1999). "Orison". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 7. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Chris Carter, Ken Horton, Frank Spotnitz, Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Chip Johannessen, Ken Horton and Thomas J. Wright. End Game: Making Millennium Season Three (DVD). Millennium: The Complete Third Season: Fox Home Entertainment.
7.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (April 16, 1999). "Will 'Millennium' make it to 2000". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved May 10, 2012. (subscription required)
8.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), p. 9
9.Jump up ^ "Around Canada". Winnipeg Free Press. July 21, 2006. Retrieved May 22, 2012. (subscription required)
10.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume One), p. 34
11.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume One), p. 102
12.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (November 14, 1997). "The Hand of St. Sebastian". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 8. Fox.
13.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Chip Johannessen & Ken Horton (writers) (November 6, 1998). "Skull and Bones". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 6. Fox.
14.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), pp. 3–7
15.Jump up ^ Williams, David R. (December 11, 2003). "Planetary Alignment of 5 May 2000". NASA. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ "Not the end of the world". The Economist. May 6, 2000. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
17.^ Jump up to: a b VanDerWerff, Todd (December 18, 2012). ""Max"/"Lamentation" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 114
19.^ Jump up to: a b Bauder, David (February 13, 1997). "Sunday Night Gives CBS a Boost". Rocky Mountain News. Retrieved May 22, 2012. (subscription required)
20.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
21.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 114–115
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
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Sacrament (Millennium)

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"Sacrament"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 15
Directed by
Michael W. Watkins
Written by
Frank Spotnitz
Production code
4C14
Original air date
February 21, 1997
Guest actors

Philip Anglim as Tom Black
Dylan Haggerty as Richard Green
Brian Markinson as Det. Teeple
Lorena Gale as Dr. Patricia Moss
French Tickner as Store Clerk
Ken Roberts as Green's Father
Liz Bryson as Helen Black
Daphne Goldrick as Green's Mother[1]
 
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"'Sacrament" is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on February 21, 1997. The episode was written by Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Michael W. Watkins. "Sacrament" featured guest appearances by Philip Anglim, Dylan Haggerty and Brian Markinson.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) faces difficulty when his sister-in-law is abducted after her son's baptism. Meanwhile, Black's daughter Jordan begins to show signs of experiencing the same seemingly-psychic visions that have plagued him.
Spotnitz's script for "Sacrament", which he has called his favourite of those written for Millennium, draws inspiration from real life serial killers John Wayne Gacy and Dennis Nilsen. The episode has received mostly positive reviews from critics, and was viewed by approximately 6.81 million households during its original broadcast.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
Millennium Group member Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) joins his brother Tom (Philip Anglim) and sister-in-law Helen (Liz Bryson) for their newborn son's christening. After the child is baptized, Black joins his daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady), finding her in hysterics. She claims to have seen a man hurting Helen; when Black and his brother rush outside, they find the baby in the back of Tom's car, but Helen is gone.
Black's contact in the Seattle Police Department, Bob Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich), insists that Black should not get involved in the case as he is too close to the victims. However, Black insists he can be of assistance, and reviews security footage of a stranger investigating Tom's luggage after their flight. Bletcher reports that a stolen car has been found abandoned, with Helen's blood inside. Fellow Millennium Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) helps Black identify the kidnapper from a set pictures of sex offenders in the Seattle area—Black recognizes Richard Green (Dylan Haggerty) as the man from the airport footage.
Tom later searches Black's office, stealing his gun and finding Green's name and address. Tom confronts Green at his home, demanding to know where his wife is. The police, who have been watching Green's house, intervene and take Tom home before anyone is harmed. Black apologizes for keeping information from Tom, but warns him that his outburst is exactly why he did so. Watts has meanwhile tracked forensic evidence from the abandoned car to a cabin in the woods; blood found there matches both Green and Helen, and a ring is discovered which is identified as Helen's wedding ring.
Meanwhile, a mysteriously ill Jordan continues to ask about Helen's whereabouts, and her remarks about Helen's conditions lead Black to believe she is starting to experience the seemingly-psychic visions he is capable of seeing, which allow him to see the evil people are capable of. Elsewhere, Green is arrested. His property is searched but Helen is nowhere to be found—although another corpse is dug up in the garden, evidently killed nine years before. Black deduces that Green could not have killed Helen at the cabin as his house was already being watched by the police. He sees a set of tools in Green's home which he realizes were not used for murder or torture, but to immure Helen in the basement. Black and the police dismantle a newly-finished plaster wall, finding Helen injured but alive; it is at this point that Black realizes Green was simply a pawn, used by his father to lure victims to the house.
Production[edit]

 

 Writer Frank Spotnitz has called "Sacrament" his favourite Millennium script.
"Sacrament" was written by Frank Spotnitz and directed by Michael W. Watkins. Spotnitz had previously written "Weeds" earlier in the first season,[2] as well as penning "TEOTWAWKI", "Antipas" and "Seven and One" in the series' third season.[3] Spotnitz was a prolific writer for Millennium's sister show The X-Files, receiving his first writing credit for that series for the episode "End Game".[4] Spotnitz has described "Sacrament" as his favourite script for the series, finding the character of Richard Green to be "creepy" and believing that "the solution to the mystery [was] sufficiently unexpected".[5]
"Sacrament" is the only episode of Millennium to have been directed by Watkins.[2][6][3] Watkins' work on the episode led to him becoming a director and executive producer for The X-Files when that series moved production to Los Angeles.[5] The episode features the last appearance in the series by Brian Markinson as Seattle police officer Teeple; Markinson had previously portrayed the character in the earlier first season episodes "The Judge"[7] and "Blood Relatives".[8]
The treatment of the two victims seen in "Sacrament"—the immurement of Helen Black and the burial in the garden of the unidentified second victim—appear to have been based on the methods used by real life serial killers John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Nilsen and Dorothea Puente to dispose of their victims.[9] Both Gacy and Nilsen habitually murdered men they had taken home as lovers, with Gacy storing bodies in the crawl space of his home,[10] and Nilsen keeping corpses in wardrobes and under the floorboards.[11] Puente would kill her tenants for their money and bury their bodies in the gardens of the properties they were renting.[12]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Sacrament" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on February 21, 1997.[13] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.4 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.4 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented approximately 6.81 million households, and left the episode the seventy-seventh most-viewed broadcast that week.[14][nb 1]
The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen rated the episode an A−, noting that it "subvert[s] our expectations" when dealing with the fallibility of a protagonist. Handlen felt that the episode's plot was somewhat inevitable following the introduction of Black's family, but that it was handled well; he also felt positively about the episode's symbolism of the vulnerability of innocence.[15] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 5 out of 5, calling it "Millennium at its best". Gibron felt that "Sacrament" was "a taut, well-executed thriller" whose events "unfold with logic and authenticity".[16] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Sacrament" three stars out of five. Shearman felt that the plot was "a bit humdrum", finding that some emotional development was simply treated as "padding"; however, he praised guest star Philip Anglim for his performance.[13]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[14]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 24
2.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Rob Bowman (director); Frank Spotnitz (writer) (February 17, 1995). "End Game". The X-Files. Season 2. Episode 17. Fox.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Spotniz, Frank. "BigLight.com - The official website for Frank Spotnitz's Big Light Productions". Big Light Productions. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Liner notes). Fox.
7.Jump up ^ Randall Zisk (director); Ted Mann (writer) (November 15, 1998). "The Judge". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 4. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ Jim Charleston (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (December 6, 1996). "Blood Relatives". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 7. Fox.
9.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 27–28
10.Jump up ^ Sullivan and Maiken, p. 217
11.Jump up ^ Wilson and Seaman, p. 39
12.Jump up ^ Gibson, p. 112
13.^ Jump up to: a b Shearman and Pearson, p. 116
14.^ Jump up to: a b Moore, Frazier (February 28, 1997). "NBC Boasts Top 7 Shows in Weekly Ratings Battle". Rocky Mountain News. Retrieved May 15, 2012. (subscription required)
15.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (January 8, 2011). ""Kaddish"/"Sacament" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Gibson, Dirk Cameron (2006). Serial Murder And Media Circuses. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0275990648.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.
Sullivan, Terry; Maiken, Peter T. (2000). Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders. Pinnacle. ISBN 0-7860-1422-9.
Wilson, Colin; Seaman, Donald (2011). The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence. Random House. ISBN 0753547228.

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Season 1
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 ­"Gehenna"·
 ­"Dead Letters"·
 ­"The Judge"·
 ­"522666"·
 ­"Kingdom Come"·
 ­"Blood Relatives"·
 ­"The Well-Worn Lock"·
 ­"Wide Open"·
 ­"The Wild and the Innocent"·
 ­"Weeds"·
 ­"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"·
 ­"Force Majeure"·
 ­"The Thin White Line"·
 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
 ­"Lamentation"·
 ­"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"·
 ­"Broken World"·
 ­"Maranatha"·
 ­"Paper Dove"
 

 

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Covenant (Millennium)

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"Covenant"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 16
Directed by
Roderick J. Pridy
Written by
Robert Moresco
Production code
4C16
Original air date
March 21, 1997
Guest actors

John Finn as William Garry
Michael O'Neill as County Prosecutor Calvin Smith
Sarah Koskoff as Didi Higgens
Jay Underwood as Michael Slattery
Steve Bacic as Deputy Kevin Reilly
Don MacKay as Jack Meredith
Nicole Oliver as Dr. Alice Steele
Colleen Winton as Mrs. Dolores Garry
Tyler Thompson as William Garry, Jr.
George Gordon as Judge Francis Maher[1]
 
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"'Covenant" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on March 21, 1997. The episode was written by Robert Moresco, and directed by Roderick J. Pridy. "Covenant" featured guest appearances by John Finn, Michael O'Neill and Sarah Koskoff.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) travels to Utah to construct a profile on a convicted murderer (Finn) who is asking for the death sentence. Reconstructing the crime, Black begins to doubt the man's guilt.
Elements of "Covenant" were inspired by real-life murderers Albert Fish, Susan Smith and Arthur Shawcross. The episode was viewed by approximately 6.7 million households in its original broadcast. It has received positive reviews, with Moresco's script praised for its subtlety.

Contents
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2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
Millennium Group member Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) travels to Utah to meet Calvin Smith (Michael O'Neill), the prosecutor in a local murder case; and Didi Higgens (Sarah Koskoff), a pathologist for the County Medical Examiner's office. Smith and Higgens have been involved in the trial of former sheriff William Garry (John Finn), who has been convicted of killing his three children and wife. Garry pled guilty to murders, and forensic evidence has linked him to a wood-carving chisel used to commit the murders. Black has been asked to construct an offender profile for Garry, to determine whether the man is sufficiently dangerous to society for a judge to issue a death penalty. Garry himself is asking to be executed.
Black travels to Garry's home with a deputy, Kevin Reilly (Steve Bacic). Daubed in blood on the kitchen window are the numbers "1 28 15", which Reilly notes no one has been able to understand. Black also listens to a recording of Garry's confession, which details the murders meticulously. Black convinces Garry's attorney to allow him an interview, insisting he will be entirely impartial. Garry tells Black he had planned the murders for some time, motivated by hatred for his wife and monetary concerns. Black refutes this, pointing out that Garry had carved a wooden angel as a gift for his wife that same day, using the chisel that was the murder weapon. Smith, realizing that Black does not believe Garry to be guilty, dismisses him from the case.
Black discovers that Garry had been having an affair, having previously believed that Mrs. Garry was the unfaithful one; he also realizes that Garry was unaware that his wife was pregnant. Black has Higgens help him in getting the bodies exhumed, allowing the two to see that Mrs. Garry's wounds were not defensive, but self-inflicted. Black also determines that the message written in blood was in fact "I 28 15"—Book of Isaiah, chapter 28, verse 15; which is concerned with lies and falsehoods. Black pieces together the actual events of the night of the murders, realizing that Mrs. Garry killed her children before committing suicide; before she died she blamed Garry for her actions, causing him to seek atonement by admitting to the crimes. Reilly admits to having helped Garry rearrange the crime scene to incriminate himself; Black urges him to come forward with the real events to save his friend's life.
Production[edit]

 

Albert Fish's self-harm inspired Garry's desire for atonement.
"Covenant" was written by Robert Moresco and directed by Roderick J. Pridy, and was the first contribution to the series by either of the two. Moresco would go on to write "Broken World" later in the first season,[2] and also acted as a producer during the series' run.[3] Pridy would return to helm the second season episode "The Mikado".[4]
Guest star John Finn would go on to appear in Millennium's sister show The X-Files, playing the recurring character Michael Kritschgau in several episodes beginning with season four's "Gethsemane".[5][6] Sarah Koskoff, who portrayed assistant pathologist Didi Higgens, also had a minor recurring role in The X-Files, making several appearances as an alien abductee.[7][8] "Covenant" featured the last appearance in the series by Don MacKay as the Black family's neighbour Jack Meredith. MacKay had previously portrayed the character in "Pilot",[9] "Gehenna"[10] and "Weeds".[11]
The premise of a repentant murderer seeking to atone for their actions appears to have been based on the real-life case of Albert Fish, who practised severe self-harm after killing twelve-year-old Grace Budd. Fish would insert needles into his perineum and force rose stems along his urethra to be forcibly pulled out.[12][13] However, the actual murders may have been inspired by the case of Susan Smith, a mother of two who drowned her children by sinking her car in a lake.[14] Mention is also made in the episode of Arthur Shawcross, whose recidivism is cited by Garry's prosecutors as an example of why murder should warrant a death penalty. Shawcross was released from prison after serving a sentence for killing two children, only to kill eleven women while on parole.[15][16]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Covenant" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on March 21, 1997.[17] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.9 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.9 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented approximately 6.7 million households, and left the episode the sixty-third most-viewed broadcast that week.[18][nb 1]
The episode received positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B+, praising Moresco's script for its subtlety. VanDerWerff noted the premise's similarity to the Susan Smith case, and felt that the episode "actually gains strength from a certain distance from when it originally aired. Back then, it was just another ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a murderous mother. Now, it’s a crafty mystery that doesn’t reveal its cards until late".[19] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 4 out of 5, noting that the episode "broke clichés and trampled all over formulas".[20] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Covenant" four-and-a-half stars out of five, calling it "Millennium's version of Twelve Angry Men". Shearman praised Morseco's writing, noting that the episode was "tightly plotted and boast[ed] extremely good dialogue". Shearman felt that Koskoff's acting showed a "naivety that isn't as subtle as the script demands", but overall felt that the episode was "fresh and exciting".[17]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[18]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), p. 48
2.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete First Season (Media notes). Fox. 1996–1997.
3.Jump up ^ "Omnibus Lecture Series Hosts Producer Bobby Moresco". US Federal News. February 9, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2012. (subscription required)
4.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Media notes). Fox. 1997–1998.
5.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), p. 54
6.Jump up ^ R.W. Goodwin (director); Chris Carter (writer) (May 18, 1997). "Gethsemane". The X-Files. Season 4. Episode 24. Fox.
7.Jump up ^ Robert Mandel (director); Chris Carter (writer) (September 10, 1993). "Pilot". The X-Files. Season 1. Episode 1. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ Kim Manners (director); Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (February 25, 2001). "This Is Not Happening". The X-Files. Season 8. Episode 14. Fox.
9.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume One), p. 2
10.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume One), p. 12
11.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume One), p. 102
12.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), pp. 50–51
13.Jump up ^ Bardsley, Marilyn. "Alber Fish: real life Hannibal Lector — "Pins and Needles"". Crime Library. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), pp. 52–53
15.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), pp. 51–52
16.Jump up ^ Dobbin, Ben (November 11, 2008). "NY serial killer Arthur Shawcross dead at 63". Associated Press. Retrieved May 14, 2012. (subscription required)
17.^ Jump up to: a b Shearman and Pearson, p. 117
18.^ Jump up to: a b "'Seinfeld,' Friends Push NBC into Lead". Rocky Mountain News. March 27, 1997. Retrieved May 13, 2012. (subscription required)
19.Jump up ^ Handlen, Todd VanDerWerff (January 22, 2011). ""Unrequited"/"Covenant" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
20.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume One. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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Millennium episodes

 
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Season 1
­"Pilot"·
 ­"Gehenna"·
 ­"Dead Letters"·
 ­"The Judge"·
 ­"522666"·
 ­"Kingdom Come"·
 ­"Blood Relatives"·
 ­"The Well-Worn Lock"·
 ­"Wide Open"·
 ­"The Wild and the Innocent"·
 ­"Weeds"·
 ­"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"·
 ­"Force Majeure"·
 ­"The Thin White Line"·
 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
 ­"Lamentation"·
 ­"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"·
 ­"Broken World"·
 ­"Maranatha"·
 ­"Paper Dove"
 

 

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"Walkabout"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 17
Directed by
Cliff Bole
Written by
Chip Johannessen
 Tim Tankosic
Production code
4C15
Original air date
March 28, 1997
Guest actors

Željko Ivanek as Dr. Daniel 'Danny' Miller
Gregory Itzin as Hans Ingram
Ron Sauve as Tardot
Dee Jay Jackson as G.J.
Alison Matthews as Sandy Geiger
Cheryl Mullen as Sal
Nancy Kerr as Personnel Chief Dana Flender[1]
 
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"'Walkabout" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on March 28, 1997. The episode was written by Chip Johannessen and Tim Tankosic, and directed by Cliff Bole. "Walkabout" featured guest appearances by Željko Ivanek and Gregory Itzin.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, finds himself suffering from amnesia after taking part in a nightmarish drug trial. Fearing that someone may have died as a result, Black attempts to track down the doctor responsible.
"Walkabout" was the only episode of the series to feature contributions from either Bole or Tankosic. The episode, which opens with a quotation from Cicero, was viewed by approximately 6.1 million households in its initial broadcast, and earned mixed to positive reviews from critics.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
In a medical clinic, a nurse runs from a room, locking it just before someone inside can grab her. Inside the room, a group of people are screaming, panicking and self-mutilating; one man—Frank Black (Lance Henriksen)—begins pounding on a reinforced glass window until his fists bleed.
Millennium Group investigator Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) visits Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher) to tell her that Frank, her husband and a fellow Group member, disappeared on his way to Yakima, Washington. Watts combs Black's computer history for information, finding emails back and forth between Black—using the pseudonym "David Marx"—and a doctor called Daniel Miller. Catherine reveals that the pseudonym Black has been using is one he had also used to check into hotels during a previous mental breakdown.
Black is discovered at a bus depot by a police, his hands injured and bandaged. His pseudonym is found on a hospital bracelet; and he has no recollection of events save for the suspicion that someone died during the gap in his memory. Watts helps Black trace Dr. Miller (Željko Ivanek) to a hotel, where he informs them that Black was seeking a cure for his "gift"; a seemingly-psychic ability to understand others' psyches. Miller had been helping Black join a clinical trial for a drug called Proloft which would treat temporal lobe abnormalities; however, Black refutes that he would be interested in such a thing. Visiting a clinic, Black's ability reveals to him that he has been there before, during the nightmarish drug trial he cannot remember. From there, he is able to use the Millennium Group to persuade the drug company to release records which allow him to trace other participants. He finds that one participant died after gouging his own eyes out; the body of the supervising nurse is later found in a dumpster.
Research on the drug given to the trial participants reveals it to be a chiral chemical, with two enantiomer forms; one is the harmless and beneficial Proloft, the other is the dangerous hallucinogen which Black and the others ingested. Dr Miller tells Black that he had been working on drugs to cure his own visions, which he believes are similar to Black's. One night, years earlier, Miller's left him after he ran into the road amidst oncoming traffic, almost killing himself in a hallucinatory state. After Black leaves, Hans Ingram (Gregory Itzin), the doctor responsible for the trial, breaks into Miller's room.
Later, Miller is killed in a traffic accident after once again running onto a busy highway; Black finds a photograph of Ingram on his body. Watts and the police investigate Ingram's home, finding the eyeless body of the dead trial participant and sachets of something called "Smooth Time", which they ascertain to be the nightmarish enantiomer of Proloft. Watts and the Millennium Group receive news that workers at a city office building are rioting and panicking. Black realizes that Ingram had been distributing "Smooth Time" under the guise of a sweetener in order to drug a large number of people. Tracking Ingram to the office building's surveillance room, Black learns that the doctor believes that the country's dependence on antidepressants has created a nation of "zombies", and he is attempting to "wake them up" with violent hallucinogens. The doctor is arrested and taken into custody.
At home with his family, Black's motives for visiting the drug trials return to him—he is concerned about his young daughter Jordan, believing that she has inherited his abilities. He is now dissuaded from using pharmaceuticals to suppress this, opting instead to guide her to understand her gift.
Production[edit]

 

 "Walkabout" opens with a quote from orator Cicero.
"Walkabout" is the third Millennium episode penned by Chip Johannessen, after "Blood Relatives" and "Force Majeure". Johannessen would go on to write an additional ten episodes across all three seasons, including the series' final episode "Goodbye to All That".[2][3][4] After Millennium's cancellation, Johannessen would also contribute an episode to its sister show The X-Files, 1999's "Orison".[5]
Co-writer Tim Tankosic's contribution to this episode was his only involvement in Millennium.[2] The episode also marked the first and only contribution to the series by director Cliff Bole.[2] Bole also contributed episodes to The X-Files[6] and Millennium creator Chris Carter's series Harsh Realm.[7] Guest star Željko Ivanek had also previously appeared in "Roland", an episode of The X-Files.[8]
Lance Henriksen was concerned that it would be out of character for Frank Black to recklessly take untested drugs, and suggested adding a line of dialogue—"I don't even take aspirin"—to the script to help clue the audience in to the fact that his involvement in the clinical trial was an attempt to aid his daughter.[9] The episode begins with a quotation translated from classical Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero's treatise De finibus bonorum et malorum—"I remember the very things I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget". The phrase is found at the beginning of Book II of the work.[10]
Broadcast and reception[edit]


There have been a great many shows and books and movies about the so-called horrors of psych meds, and it's the sort of easy to agree with concept that gets overplayed without much in the way of nuance. This episode, thankfully, acknowledges that drugs really can help people.
—The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen on the episode's themes.[11]
"Walkabout" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on March 28, 1997.[12] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.3 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.3 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented 6.1 million households, and left the episode the sixty-seventh most-viewed broadcast that week.[13][nb 1]
The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode two stars out of five, comparing it to "Demons", an episode of The X-Files which was broadcast during the same season. Shearman and Pearson found "Walkabout" the better episode of the two, but felt that it became "a curiously passionate affair" after the first act—from the cold open until Black is found by the police. Shearman also noted that Željko Ivanek's guest performance "lacked subtlety", though praised Henriksen for a "bravura performance.[14] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "Walkabout" 4 out of 5, describing it as "a fine outing". Gibron felt that the episode "forces us to confront uneasy questions", likening the narrative to "a giant puzzle with the pieces tossed at us from all angles".[15] Zack Handlen, writing for The A.V. Club, rated "Walkabout" an A−. Handlen noted that he was pleasantly surprised that the episode did not play on clichéd amnesia tropes as he had expected, and felt that involving Black so heavily in the cold open was a good method of changing the series' usual formula.[11]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[13]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 36
2.^ Jump up to: a b c David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Rob Bowman (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (December 12, 1999). "Orison". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 7. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Cliff Bole (director); David Amann (writer) (April 2, 2000). "Chimera". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 16. Fox.
7.Jump up ^ Cliff Bole (director); Steve Maeda (writer) (April 14, 2000). "Kein Ausgang". Harsh Realm. Season 1. Episode 4. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 45
9.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 46
10.Jump up ^ Cicero and Annas, p. 60
11.^ Jump up to: a b Handlen, Zack (January 29, 2011). ""Tempus Fugit"/"Walkabout" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 117
13.^ Jump up to: a b "Oscar-Show Ratings Disappoint but Keep ABC on Top". Rocky Mountain News. April 4, 1997. Retrieved May 5, 2012. (subscription required)
14.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 117–118
15.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
References[edit]
Cicero, Marcus Tullis; Annas, Julia (2001). On Moral Ends. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521669014.
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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 ­"Dead Letters"·
 ­"The Judge"·
 ­"522666"·
 ­"Kingdom Come"·
 ­"Blood Relatives"·
 ­"The Well-Worn Lock"·
 ­"Wide Open"·
 ­"The Wild and the Innocent"·
 ­"Weeds"·
 ­"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"·
 ­"Force Majeure"·
 ­"The Thin White Line"·
 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
 ­"Lamentation"·
 ­"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"·
 ­"Broken World"·
 ­"Maranatha"·
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Lamentation (Millennium)

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"Lamentation"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 18
Directed by
Winrich Kolbe
Written by
Chris Carter
Production code
4C17
Original air date
April 18, 1997
Guest actors

Bill Smitrovich as Bob Bletcher
Alex Diakun as Dr. Ephraim Fabricant
Sarah-Jane Redmond as Lucy Butler
Michael David Simms as Special Agent Tom Babich
Andrew Airlie as Dr. Willmore
David MacKay as Pathologist
Kurt Max Runte as Federal Marshal
Jane Perry as Agent Pierce
Nino Caratozzolo as Agent Cuevas[1]
 
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"'Lamentation" is the eighteenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on April 18, 1997. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter and directed by Winrich Kolbe. "Lamentation" featured guest appearances by Bill Smitrovich and Alex Diakun, and introduced Sarah-Jane Redmond as Lucy Butler.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) searches for an escaped convict he had helped to catch, believing that the criminal's new wife Lucy Butler (Redmond) may be helping him. However, Butler may instead be a much greater threat to Black and his family than he had anticipated.
"Lamentation" marked the death of recurring character Bob Bletcher, played by Smitrovich. Smitrovich had appeared intermittently since "Pilot". The episode has been well-received critically, described as a "pivotal point" in the series. It was viewed by approximately 6.5 million households in its original broadcast.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Seattle Police Department detective Bob Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich) are hiking across the North Cascades when Black receives an urgent page from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Travelling to the Behavioral Sciences Unit, Black learns that serial killer Ephraim Fabricant (Alex Diakun) has escaped from a hospital while donating a kidney to his sister. Fabricant was arrested and convicted due to the profile constructed by Black; although he was spared execution when Black asked for leniency in order to allow Fabricant's mind to be studied.
Fellow Millennium Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) informs Black that, before his escape, Fabricant had married a correspondent he met through a prison pen-pal service. Watts and Black interview the woman, Lucy Butler (Sarah-Jane Redmond), at her home. Butler is adamant she has not seen or heard from Fabricant since his escape. However, Black finds information on Butler's computer which he believes is linked to his own home address; and photographs of a judge who he recognizes as having been murdered.
Elsewhere, Fabricant is being operated on by a nurse whose face is hidden; she removes the staples from his surgical incision. Black and Watts return to Butler's home with a search warrant, having discovered that Butler's young son had been killed with cyanide, and she had been suspected of the murder; the judge had also been poisoned with the same substance.
Fabricant is found in a hospital emergency room, collapsing from his injuries. A doctor examines him and discovers his second kidney has been removed—without anaesthesia. Black's home telephone number is found on Fabricant's hospital bracelet. Back at Black's home, his wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) finds a human kidney in her refrigerator. A strange man appears at the top of her staircase, and she runs to find her husband's gun. Bletcher arrives, letting Catherine know that her daughter Jordan is safe outside with a colleague of his. He searches the house for the intruder, finding Butler instead. As a bolt of lightning illuminates the scene, her face has distorted into that of a demon.
Bletcher's body is later found hanging from a wall, with his throat cut open. Meanwhile, Fabricant warns Black that he was taken from the hospital and operated on by the "sum of all evil"; Fabricant also warns that this entity knows who Black is and what he is capable of. Returning home, Black discovers that Butler was arrested elsewhere for a motoring offence, but was released without charge. Black takes his daughter Jordan hiking over the same North Cascades trail he and Bletcher had visited earlier.
Production[edit]

 

 The use of a kidney as a message was inspired by the From Hell letter.
"Lamentation" was the third of four episodes helmed by director Winrich Kolbe, who had previously worked on "Force Majeure" and "Kingdom Come", and would return later in the first season for "Broken World".[2] The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter. Beyond creating the concept for Millennium, Carter would write a total of six other episodes for the series in addition to "Lamentation"—three in the first season,[2] and a further three in the third season.[3]
The character Ephraim Fabricant was named for real-life murderer Valery Fabrikant, a mechanical engineering professor who shot dead four of his colleagues in what became known as the Concordia University massacre.[4] In addition, the character's back-story and demise were both intended to echo the case of Jack the Ripper—both were believed to be medically trained, while the use of Fabricant's kidney to send a message is based on the From Hell letter, sent to the police by the Ripper along with one of his victims' kidneys.[5]
The episode features the death of the character Bob Bletcher. Smitrovich had first portrayed Bletcher in "Pilot",[6] appearing intermittently throughout the first season. Smitrovich's final appearance would be in the following episode, "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions".[7]
"Lamentation" also introduces the character Lucy Butler, who would return in "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions",[8] as well as in the second season episode "A Room With No View",[9] and the third season episodes "Antipas"[10] and "Saturn Dreaming of Mercury".[11] Redmond, admittedly a fan of Carter and recurring series director David Nutter, had initially auditioned for another episode of the first season, set to be directed by Nutter. Redmond did not get the part she auditioned for but was instead contacted about portraying a minor recurring role instead, which led to her casting as Butler.[12]
Broadcast and reception[edit]


"This is Carter taking off the kid gloves, saying he’s ready to do this, in a way he never really was on X-Files. If you wanna get into the root of all evil on Earth, well, Carter’s prepared to go there with you."
–The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff on "Lamentation"[13]
"Lamentation" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on April 18, 1997.[14] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.7 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.7 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented 6.5 million households, and left the episode the fifty-seventh most-viewed broadcast that week.[15][nb 1]
The episode received positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode an A, describing it as "an episode where the show crystallizes and clarifies its central mission". VanDerWerff felt that episode's first half was "bland" and "fairly staid", but that its second half compensated for this, becoming " one of the best episodes of horror TV I’ve ever seen".[13] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 5 out of 5, calling it "one of the scariest, creepiest installments of the entire first season". Gibron felt that "with the unexpected shock ending and a wonderfully suspenseful sequence in the Black home, this is one of the best episodes of Millennium".[16] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Lamentation" five stars out of five, finding its first act to be "a classic piece of misdirection". Shearman felt that "Lamentation" was "an intentional jolt to the show", describing it as "a pivotal point" in a series which had been "radically redefining itself".[17]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[15]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 58
2.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 68
5.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 65–66
6.Jump up ^ David Nutter (director); Chris Carter (writer) (October 25, 1996). "Pilot". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 1. Fox.
7.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 69
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 70
9.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Ken Horton (writer) (April 24, 1998). "A Room With No View". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 20. Fox.
10.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (February 12, 1999). "Antipas". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 13. Fox.
11.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Chip Johannessen & Jordan Hawley (writers) (April 9, 1999). "Antipas". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 16. Fox.
12.Jump up ^ "Millennium: Lucy Butler". Sarah-Jane Redmond.com. Sarah-Jane Redmond. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
13.^ Jump up to: a b VanDerWerff, Todd (February 5, 2011). ""Max"/"Lamentation" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 118
15.^ Jump up to: a b Bauder, David (April 24, 1997). "NBC Leads Week of Reruns". Rocky Mountain News. Retrieved May 11, 2012. (subscription required)
16.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
17.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 118–119
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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Millennium episodes

 
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Season 1
­"Pilot"·
 ­"Gehenna"·
 ­"Dead Letters"·
 ­"The Judge"·
 ­"522666"·
 ­"Kingdom Come"·
 ­"Blood Relatives"·
 ­"The Well-Worn Lock"·
 ­"Wide Open"·
 ­"The Wild and the Innocent"·
 ­"Weeds"·
 ­"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"·
 ­"Force Majeure"·
 ­"The Thin White Line"·
 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
 ­"Lamentation"·
 ­"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"·
 ­"Broken World"·
 ­"Maranatha"·
 ­"Paper Dove"
 

 

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Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions

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"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 19
Directed by
Thomas J. Wright
Written by
Ted Mann
 Harold Rosenthal
Production code
4C18
Original air date
April 25, 1997
Guest actors

Richard Cox as Alistair Pepper
Robin Gammell as Mike Atkins
Rodney Eastman as Sammael
Sarah-Jane Redmond as Lucy Butler
Guy Fauchon as Martin
Dean P. Gibson as Phil Brice
Robert Moloney as Uniformed Cop Adams
Judith Maxie as Judge Myers
Allan Franz as Medical Examiner Anderson
Bonnie Hay as A.D.A. Mills
Alf Humphreys as Damon Rummer[1]
 
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"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions'" is the nineteenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on April 25, 1997. The episode was written by Ted Mann and Harold Rosenthal and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" featured guest appearances by Sarah-Jane Redmond and Richard Cox.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) is convinced to return to work after the death of a close friend. However, it soon becomes apparent that his first case back on the job is much deeper than he had expected.
"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" features the final appearances in the series by both Bill Smitrovich and Robin Gammell. The episode has received mixed to positive reviews from critics, and was viewed by approximately 6.5 million households in its initial broadcast.

Contents
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2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) is at a supermarket when he witnesses a lawyer, Alistair Pepper (Richard Cox), being attacked by a man named Sammael (Rodney Eastman). Sammael raises his hand, and a bolt of lightning arcs from his fingers to strike Pepper dead; however, when Black reaches Sammael, he finds a pistol at the killer's feet.
The rest of the episode then shifts to a flashback, with fellow Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) investigating a murder in a suburban home, in which occult paraphernalia has been laid out in a disorganized manner. Watts contacts Black for help with the case. However, Black is still recovering from the murder of his friend Bob Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich), who was killed in Black's home in the previous episode "Lamentation". Watts hangs up when he sees Sammael looking through the house's window, but by the time Watts can investigate, Sammael is gone.
Watts later shows Black a picture taken at the murder scene, showing Sammael recognizable among a crowd of people. Elsewhere, a man named Martin (Guy Fauchon) is arrested for killing a babysitter; Black believes that the man may be connected to Bletcher's murder. However, he soon starts to suspect that Martin may be innocent of the crime he has been arrested for. Black also has a dream in which a mutilated Bletcher tries and fails to speak to him, which leads Black to believe he has lost his ability to see into the minds of others.
The case against Martin falters as evidence disappears and witnesses fail to identify him in a line-up. Black is approached by Pepper, Martin's lawyer, who extends Black an invitation to join his legal practice. Martin later claims in court to have killed Bletcher. Elsewhere, another Millennium Group member, Mike Atkin (Robin Gammell), receives a telephone call from someone pretending to be Black. Meanwhile, Black suspects that the occult-oriented murder may have been committed to draw the Group, and Black, into the open again.
In his jail cell, Martin cuts open an artery with a razor blade; however, a coroner later finds that his death was caused by an aneurysm. Black believes that Pepper is somehow involved. Watts and Black find Atkins murdered in a hotel room, and chase a suspect down a fire escape, following him until they reach a supermarket. Inside, Black finds Pepper, but as Pepper moves in and out of view, his appearance seems to change to that of Martin, and then of Lucy Butler (Sarah-Jane Redmond), the woman Black suspects to have killed Bletcher. Pepper makes it out of the supermarket, where he is killed by Sammael. As Black apprehends Sammael, he is told that Pepper was killed as a "consequence of his own error"; Black takes it to mean that there is a larger mystery to which his own involvement is only tangential.
Production[edit]

 

 Christian angelic imagery features in the episode (Gustave Doré's illustration of Dante Alighieri's Paradiso pictured).
"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" is the third of four episodes of Millennium to have been written by Ted Mann, who had previously written "The Judge" and "Loin Like a Hunting Flame", and would go on to write the first season finale "Paper Dove".[2] Director Thomas J. Wright would go on to direct twenty-six episodes across all three seasons.[2][3][4] Wright would also direct "Millennium", the series' crossover episode with its sister show The X-Files.[5] "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" is co-writer Harold Rosenthal's only credit throughout the series.[2][3][4]
Both the title of the episode and the invocation spoken by the character of Sammael refer to four of the nine choirs of angels in Christian mythology.[6] Christian angelology holds that there are three groupings of three choirs each. The Thrones are the third-highest ranking choir, belonging to the group charged with attending to God, and are described as stern incarnations of holy justice. Dominions, the fourth-highest choir, belong to the group appointed to deal with God's creations. Dominions lead the lower orders and impart wisdom to humanity.[7] Powers belong to the same tier as Dominions, and are tasked with countering the threat of temptation by the devil and demons.[8] Principalities are the seventh-highest ranking choir and belong to the lowest grouping of angels, those most likely to appear to mankind. Principalities oversee those humans who rule over others, teaching kings and heads of families the skills needed to lead.[9]
"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" features the final appearance of the character Bob Bletcher. Smitrovich had first portrayed Bletcher in "Pilot",[10] appearing intermittently throughout the first season. Bletcher was murdered in the previous episode, "Lamentation".[11] The episode also features the death of Millennium Group member Mike Atkins, played by Robin Gammell, who had also portrayed the character in the earlier episode "Gehenna".[10] Sarah-Jane Redmond, who had first portrayed Lucy Butler in "Lamentation", would return in the second season episode "A Room With No View",[12] and the third season episodes "Antipas"[13] and "Saturn Dreaming of Mercury".[14]
Broadcast and reception[edit]


"Frank's obvious grief over what happened, and the way that grief throws into doubt his own faith in his abilities, makes the most out of the murder in a way that never seems belabored or needlessly manipulative. It doesn't matter that I don't really give a damn about Bob. What matters is that Frank does, and that his guilt over Bob's death is gnawing away at his seemingly unshakable calm.".
–Zack Handlen on the handling of Bob Bletcher's murder[15]
"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on April 25, 1997.[16] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.7 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.7 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented 6.5 million households, and left the episode the sixty-fifth most-viewed broadcast that week.[17][nb 1]
"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen rated the episode an A, describing it as "gleefully grim". Handlen felt that the episode represented the series coming into its own, noting that "Millennium, after weeks of hinting at possibilities without delivering much of anything, has finally started to give a real sense that yes, there is a lot of bad news happening, and it really does make a twisted kind of sense".[15] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 3.5 out of 5, noting that it shared similar themes with the direction the series would take in its second season. Gibron described the episode as "spooky and somewhat surreal", adding that "the entire installment [sic] crackles with possibilities".[18] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" four stars out of five, describing it as being "surprising, intriguing, moody and pretentious". Shearman compared the episode thematically to Mann's earlier script for "The Judge", and noted that while the story "doesn't make for an especially comprehensible yarn, it does produce an episode that is genuinely uneasy viewing".[19]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[17]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), p. 70
2.^ Jump up to: a b c David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (November 28, 1999). "Millennium". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 4. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), p. 73
7.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), p. 74
8.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), pp. 74–75
9.Jump up ^ Genge (Volume Two), pp. 75–76
10.^ Jump up to: a b Genge (Volume One), p. 2
11.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 118–119
12.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Ken Horton (writer) (April 24, 1998). "A Room With No View". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 20. Fox.
13.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (February 12, 1999). "Antipas". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 13. Fox.
14.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Chip Johannessen & Jordan Hawley (writers) (April 9, 1999). "Saturn Dreaming of Mercury". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 16. Fox.
15.^ Jump up to: a b Handlen, Zack (February 12, 2011). ""Synchrony"/"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 119
17.^ Jump up to: a b Bauder, Dave (May 1, 1997). "NBC Sustains Grip of Nielsens". Rocky Mountain News. Retrieved May 21, 2012. (subscription required)
18.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 119–120
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0712678336.
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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Broken World (Millennium)

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"Broken World"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 20
Directed by
Winrich Kolbe
Written by
Robert Moresco
Patrick Harbinson
Production code
4C19
Original air date
May 2, 1997
Guest actors

John Dennis Johnston as Sheriff Falkner
Michael Tayles and Deputy Billy
J. B. Bivens as First Deputy
Van Quattro as Willi Borgsen
Ingrid Kavelaars as Sally Dumont
Donnelly Rhodes as Peter Dumont
Jo Anderson as Claudia Vaughan
Tom Bougers as Tom
P. Adrien Dorval as Fatso[1]
 
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"'Broken World" is the twentieth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on May 2, 1997. The episode was written by Robert Moresco and Patrick Harbinson, and directed by Winrich Kolbe. "Broken World" featured guest appearances by Ingrid Kavelaars, Donnelly Rhodes and Jo Anderson.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) travels to North Dakota to track down a burgeoning serial killer who has progressed from mauling horses to attacking and killing people.
"Broken World" featured the last directorial effort for the series by Kolbe, and the last script written by Moresco; however, Harbinson would return to write further episodes in later seasons. The episode has been compared to Peter Shaffer's 1973 play Equus, and received a Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States in 1998.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
In North Dakota, a stable-hand named Sally Dumont (Ingrid Kavelaars) is attacked and left unconscious after she finds a horse has been murdered in its stall. Private investigation organization the Millennium Group send offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) to investigate, as twenty-one horses have been killed in the same manner over the past two years in the area. Black believes the culprit is in the early stages of developing into a sexually-motivated serial killer. Investigating the stables, the word "help" is found written in human blood, while semen is found near where the horse was killed. Black concludes the killer is struggling with the new feelings of having attacked a person and not an animal.
The killer—Willi Borgsen (Van Quattro)—is next seen attacking pigs in a trailer using a cattle prod. Borgsen is accosted by the pigs' owner, and responds by turning the cattle prod on him. The victim's body is later found in a nearby thicket. Black examines the scene, determining from the bootprints and evidence of the cattle prod being used that the killer works in a slaughterhouse.
Another human victim is later found on a farm, alongside another dead horse. The phrase "thank you" is daubed on a nearby wall. The North Dakota police set up an anonymous phone number to appeal for information, which Borgsen uses to taunt Black by describing the pleasure he derives from killing. Black consults with a veterinarian, Claudia Vaughan (Jo Anderson), about the case, and learns that the area is home to a Premarin farm—estrogen for pharmaceutical use is derived from the urine of mares which are kept pregnant, their foals killed for meat to be exported. Black feels the killer may have been raised on one of these farms.
Borgsen contacts Black again, confessing that his latest killing has not satisfied him. Black warns that his urges will only grow, and will never be satisfied again. When Borgsen hangs up, Black deduces that Vaughan is to be the next victim. Black, fellow Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) and Sheriff Falkner (John Dennis Johnston) track the kidnapped Vaughan to an equine slaughterhouse. Falkner is attacked and incapacitated by Borgsen as Black locates a still-living Vaughan, who has been hung by her jacket from a meat hook. Black is then confronted by Borgsen, who knocks him down with the cattle prod. Borgsen is about to kill Black with a captive bolt pistol, but is trampled to death by several escaped horses.
Production[edit]

 

 "Broken World" has been compared to the play Equus (1979 production pictured).
"Broken World" was written by Robert Moresco and Patrick Harbinson. Moresco had previously written "Covenant" earlier in the first season,[2] and also acted as a producer during the series' run.[3] Harbinson, making his first contribution to the series with this episode, would later pen a further four episodes in the third season—"Via Dolorosa", "Darwin's Eye", "The Sound of Snow" and "Through a Glass Darkly".[4] "Broken World" also marked the final episode of Millennium helmed by director Winrich Kolbe, who had previously worked on "Lamentation", "Force Majeure" and "Kingdom Come".[2]
During production, "Broken World" was instead set to be titled "Equus",[5] which is Latin for "horse" and was also the title of a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer concerning a young man with violent sexual urges towards horses.[6] The episode opens with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883–1885 treatise Thus Spoke Zarathustra—"Man is the cruelest animal".[7] Guest star Donnelly Rhodes, who portrayed Peter Dumont, would later make an appearance in the third season episode "...Thirteen Years Later" in an unrelated role.[8]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Broken World" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on May 2, 1997.[9] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.8 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.8 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented 6.6 million households, and left the episode the sixty-eighth most-viewed broadcast that week.[10][nb 1]
The episode received mixed reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a C, comparing it to the first act of Shaffer's Equus. VanDerWerff described the episode as "a bland, boring mess that ends with one of the most ridiculous deux ex machinas [sic] I’ve seen in ages", and felt that "the guest cast is uniformly poor", singling out Van Quattro as being "laughably bad".[11] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 3 out of 5, calling it " enthralling" but "not completely successful". Gibron felt that elements of the setting were "very sinister", but found the "overwhelming pro-horse mantras" of some characters to be "silly".[12] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Broken World" three stars out of five, finding it "too familiar and too tentative to make much impact". Shearman felt that the episode would have been better placed earlier in the series' broadcast order, but by this stage in the first season it had been "outgrown".[13]
"Broken World" received a Genesis Award in 1998, presented by the Humane Society of the United States in the category "Television Dramatic Series".[14]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[10]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 84
2.^ Jump up to: a b Millennium: The Complete First Season (Media notes). Fox. 1996–1997.
3.Jump up ^ "Omnibus Lecture Series Hosts Producer Bobby Moresco". US Federal News. February 9, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2012. (subscription required)
4.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Media notes). Fox. 1998–1999.
5.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 96
6.Jump up ^ "Equus". Drama for Students. January 1, 1999. Retrieved May 10, 2012. (subscription required)
7.Jump up ^ Nietzsche, p. 172
8.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Michael R. Perry (writer) (October 30, 1998). "...Thirteen Years Later". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 5. Fox.
9.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 120
10.^ Jump up to: a b "How They Rate". St. Petersburg Times. May 9, 1997. Retrieved May 11, 2012. (subscription required)
11.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (February 19, 2011). ""Small Potatoes"/"Broken World" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
13.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 120–121
14.Jump up ^ "1998 Genesis Awards". Humane Society of the United States. Archived from the original on July 6, 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (2008). Thus Spake Zarathustra. Wilder Publications. ISBN 1604593237.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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 ­"Covenant"·
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Maranatha (Millennium)

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"Maranatha"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 21
Directed by
Peter Markle
Written by
Chip Johannessen
Production code
4C20
Original air date
May 9, 1997
Guest actors

Bill Nunn as Lt. McCormick
Boris Krutonog as Yura Surova
Levani Outchaneichvili as Yaponchik
Michael Aniol as Priest
Dmitri Boudrine as Andrei Pietrovich Melnikov
Michael Cram as Paramedic
Bill Croft as Broadface
Brian Downey as Medical Examiner
Roger Haskett as E.R. Doctor
Beverly Pales as Torch Singer[1]
 
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"'Maranatha" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on May 9, 1997. The episode was written by Chip Johannessen, and directed by Peter Markle. "Maranatha" featured guest appearances by Bill Nunn, Boris Krutonog and Levani Outchaneichvili.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) aids both the New York Police Department and a Russian investigator to track down the mysterious "Yupanchik", a criminal from the Russian underworld who may be an incarnation of the biblical beast from the sea.
"Maranatha", a title which translates from Aramaic as "our lord has come", connects the 1986 Chernobyl disaster to biblical prophecies of the star of Wormwood. The episode features the first of two directorial contributions from Markle, and sees future guest star Brian Downey appear in a minor role.

Contents
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2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
In New York City, a man named Yaponchik (Levani Outchaneichvili) shoots a man in the face, preventing the victim's identification; this is the third such murder committed this way. Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) is asked to aid the New York Police Department investigate the case. Black is joined by a Muscovite investigator, Yura Surova (Boris Krutonog), and an undercover agent, Andrei Medikov (Dmitri Boudrine). Examining the victim's body, a symbol is found on the corpse resembling an inverted V, but its meaning is unknown.
Black, Medikov and Surova visit a Russian nightclub where the latter two are working undercover. As Surova and Black talk at one table, Medikov is approached by Yaponchik. Someone in the club recognizes Yaponchik, and the crowd stampede out of the building when they hear his name. After the crowd has dispersed, Black and Surova find Medikov's body at a table, his face shot off.
Surova explains to Black that Yaponchik has come to be regarded by Russians as a sort of evil folkloric figure. Meanwhile, Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) determines that the "V"-like symbol found earlier is actually a fragment of the Chi Rho, a Christian symbol. Watts also informs Black that many Russians believe Yaponchik to have directly responsible for the Chernobyl disaster, a Soviet nuclear meltdown tied by some to Biblical prophecies of the apocalypse. Black researches the disaster, finding a picture of both Medikov and Surova at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, and realizes that both men have been tracking Yaponchik for revenge.
One of Yaponchik's victims is identified as a restorer of Russian icons. Her home is searched, and it is found that she had uncovered Yaponchik's identity and attempted to appease him by sending him several icons. Black feels Yaponchik is killing in order to perpetuate the legends surrounding him by instilling fear in those who believe them. Watts and Black visit the Russian Embassy to find the man the icons were being mailed to—Sergei Stepanovich, identifiable as Yaponchik. Stepanovich is protected by diplomatic immunity; however, it becomes clear that Surova, Medikov and an Orthodox priest who aided the investigation have all been stalking Stepanovich, who they believe to be the Antichrist.
Yaponchik murders another two men at a bathhouse, but is confronted by Surova. Yaponchik tells Surova he cannot be killed. Surova ignores this, and shoots him in the head. Yaponchik is then found and rushed to hospital. Black sees the crime scene at the bathhouse, and draws a connection between Yaponchik and the beast from the sea in the Biblical Book of Revelation, who is said to survive a fatal head wound; fearing that Yaponchik will likewise survive, Black heads to the hospital. Surova beats him there, however, and confronts the recovered Yaponchik. As Surova is about to shoot his quarry again, he is convinced instead that Yaponchik is "not the one" he is thought to be. Surova helps Yaponchik make his way to the helipad on the hospital's roof. Black and Watts arrive on the roof in time to see Yaponchik escorted onto a helicopter by several men, who take off before they can be apprehended.
Production[edit]

 

 "Maranatha" makes reference to the Chernobyl disaster (model pictured).
"Maranatha" was directed by Peter Markle, making his first contribution to the series.[2] Markle would later return to helm the third season episode "Seven and One".[3] The episode was written by Chip Johannessen, who went on to write a total of twelve episodes across all three seasons, including the series' final episode "Goodbye to All That".[2][4][3] After Millennium's cancellation, Johannessen would also contribute an episode to its sister show The X-Files, 1999's "Orison".[5] Johannessen would also become one of the series' executive producers during its third season, alongside Ken Horton.[6][7]
The episode's title, "Maranatha", is an Aramaic language word translated as "our lord has come" or "come, our lord"; the word is found in the biblical First Epistle to the Corinthians[8] and is believed to have been used as a greeting among early Christians.[9] During production, the episode used the working title "The Second Coming".[8]
The character Peter Watts makes mention of the origin of the name of Chernobyl, a city in Ukraine that was the location of the Chernobyl disaster, a 1986 nuclear meltdown. According to Watts, the name "Chernobyl" translates as "wormwood", causing the disaster to be likened to the Biblical star of Wormwood prophesied in the Book of Revelation, which was said to cause death through poisoning the waters. However, the word "chernobyl" can be translated as "black grass" or "black myth".[8][10] Actor Brian Downey, who portrayed a medical examiner in the episode, later appeared in an unrelated role in the two-part second season episodes "Owls" and "Roosters".[11][12]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Maranatha" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on May 9, 1997.[13] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.7 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.7 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented 6.5 million households, and left the episode the sixty-fifth most-viewed broadcast that week.[14][nb 1]
The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen rated the episode a B+, describing it as "a ho-hum X-Files knock-off". Handlen felt that the acting was strong, and that the references to both Chernobyl and apocalyptic prophecies formed a good basis for the episode; however, he noted that the script's uncertainty as to whether its villain really was the Antichrist caused it to lose impact.[15] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 4.5 out of 5, praising its " incredibly tight script" and describing it as "one of the best examples of Millennium's careful balancing act between reality and the otherworldly".[16]
However, Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode two stars out of five, finding that its plot "gets lost in the mix" amidst the details and atmosphere of the setting. Shearman compared the folkloric feel of Yaponchik as a Russian incarnation of the devil to the American view of the devil as an invasion of the family unit, as personified by the character Lucy Butler in "Lamentation", finding the two symbols to work well in contrast to each other. However, he was unsure that the increasingly eschatological direction the series was taking was a positive move, as it left the central character Frank Black "largely forgotten".[17]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[14]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 98
2.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Liner notes). Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Rob Bowman (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (December 12, 1999). "Orison". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 7. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Chris Carter, Ken Horton, Frank Spotnitz, Lance Henriksen, Klea Scott, Chip Johannessen, Ken Horton and Thomas J. Wright. End Game: Making Millennium Season Three (DVD). Millennium: The Complete Third Season: Fox Home Entertainment.
7.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (April 16, 1999). "Will 'Millennium' make it to 2000". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved May 10, 2012. (subscription required)
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Genge, p. 107
9.Jump up ^ Ice and Demy, p. 127
10.Jump up ^ Landes, pp. 129–134
11.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (March 6, 1998). "Owls". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 15. Fox.
12.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (March 13, 1998). "Roosters". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 16. Fox.
13.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 119
14.^ Jump up to: a b "Weekly Nielsen Ratings". The Stuart Times. May 11, 1997. Retrieved May 9, 2012. (subscription required)
15.Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (February 26, 2011). ""Zero Sum"/"Maranatha" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
17.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 119–120
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Ice, Thomas; Demy, Timothy J. (2004). Fast Facts on Bible Prophecy from A to Z. Harvest House. ISBN 0736913564.
Landes, Richard Allen (2000). Encyclopaedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0415922461.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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"Paper Dove"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 22
Directed by
Thomas J. Wright
Written by
Ted Mann
Walon Green
Production code
4C21
Original air date
May 16, 1997
Guest actors

Barbara Williams as Dawn
Mike Starr as Henry Dion
Linda Sorensen as Marie France Dion
Ken Pogue as Tom Miller
William Nunn as C.R. Hunziger
Maxine Miller as Justine Miller
Frank Cassini as Agent Devlin
Judy Norton as Carol Scammel
Paul Raskin as The Figure[1]
 
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"'Paper Dove" is the twenty-second and final episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on May 16, 1997. The episode was written by Ted Mann and Walon Green, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "Paper Dove" featured guest appearances by Barbara Williams and Mike Starr.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) takes his family for holiday in Virginia, not realizing that he has been followed by an old stalker who is manipulating a local serial killer to lure Black into action. "Paper Dove" is a two-part episode, with the story continuing in the second season opening episode "The Beginning and the End".
"Paper Dove" features the first appearances of Maxine Miller and Ken Pogue, who would become minor recurring guests in the series' third season; it also marks the first on-screen appearance of the "Polaroid Man", credited as "The Figure", who had been an unseen presence since "Pilot". The episode's central antagonist is based on a composite of several real life murders, including Edmund Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
Millennium Group member Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) travels with his wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) and daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady) to vist Catherine's parents in Arlington County, Virginia. Also present are Catherine's sister Dawn (Barbara Williams and her husband Gil. In Maryland, Henry Dion (Mike Starr) follows a woman home and murders her; he is later visited by a strange man hiding his face behind dark glasses—it becomes apparent that this is the man who has been sending Black threatening polaroid pictures. Dion thanks the man (Paul Raskin) for finding the victim for him, but is chided for not committing the murder while Black was in the area. Dion takes the corpse into the woods to bury it, all the while speaking to it as though in conversation.
Catherine's father, Tom Miller (Ken Pogue), tells Black about two friends of his whose son was convicted of killing his wife. The father, C. R. Hunziger, is dying of pancreatic cancer, but maintains his distance from his son over the crime; his wife Adele, however, still believes her son to be innocent. Black visits the terminal Hunziger, hoping to change his mind, but the elderly man holds his position. Adele gives Black a folder full of documents relating to the case, which Black reviews. His knowledge of offender profiling leads him to believe that the convicted man, Malcom, is innocent; however the conviction was secured with a substantial level of physical evidence.
Black also learns of the murder in Maryland, and connects it to the killings of four other women in the locale. Ignoring the protestations of his wife, Black leaves to investigate the parkland where one of the earlier bodies was uncovered. A park ranger discusses that case with him, telling Black that the body was found by an unidentified rambler. Black believes this man was the murderer. Elsewhere, Dion returns home, where he is belittled and emasculated by his overbearing mother, Marie (Linda Sorensen).
Black and several former colleagues of his from the Federal Bureau of Investigation decide to taunt the killer into coming forward, giving a press release describing him as cowardly. A furious Dion calls the police to rebut this, betraying his identity. Police arrive at his home to arrest him, finding him sitting, covered in blood, on the kitchen floor beside his mother's body. He is apprehended, clearing Malcom Hunziger of wrongdoing. Black and his family return home to Seattle. Black carries his daughter from the airport to their car, while Catherine waits to collect their luggage. The man who had helped Dion stands to one side, watching the family. As Black returns to help Catherine with the suitcases, she has disappeared, leaving behind only an origami dove given to her by her mother.
Production[edit]

 

 Dion's murder of his mother echoes Edmund Kemper's final murder; both killed their mothers and cut out their vocal cords.
"Paper Dove" was written by Ted Mann and Walon Green, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. Wright had previously directed four episodes of the first season—"Dead Letters", "The Wild and the Innocent", "The Thin White Line" and "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"[2]—and would go on to direct a further twenty-one episodes over the series' run.[3][4] Wright would also go on to direct "Millennium", the series' crossover episode with its sister show The X-Files.[5] "Paper Dove" was Mann's last script for the series, having penned three others earlier in the season; the episode was also the only one to have been written by Green.[2][3][4]
The character of Henry Dion appears to be a composite of several real life serial killers. His fondness for conversing with his victims' bodies and the gregarious demeanour shown during this seems to be based on Milwaukee-based murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, who would also, like Dion, document his victims photographically.[6] The habit of photographing victims, and the notion of killing women to use them as props, stems from killer Henri Nadeau, who murdered several women in order to use them as mannequins for his photography.[7] The use of an overbearing matriarchal figure as a stressor harkens to Edmund Kemper, who was driven to kill young women by his hatred of his mother, who he eventually murdered before turning himself in; both Dion and Kemper cut their mother's vocal folds from their throats after killing them.[8][9]
Maxine Miller and Ken Pogue both make their first appearances as Catherine Black's parents Justine and Tom Miller in this episode; the pair would later reprise their respective roles in several episodes of the third season, including "The Innocents",[10] "Exegesis",[11] and "Seven and One".[12] The character played by Paul Raskin, credited here as "The Figure", would return in the second season opening episode "The Beginning and the End", which continues the storyline from "Paper Dove", although the character would by then be credited as "Polaroid Man", played instead by Doug Hutchison.[13] The character had been a presence in the series since "Pilot", but had previously only been alluded to without being seen.[14]
Broadcast and reception[edit]


"Carter was always obviously inspired by the works of David Lynch and Twin Peaks, in particular, and this episode feels like the most pure homage yet, particularly in the moments where Dion and his mother share screentime".
–Todd VanDerWerff on the episode's Lynchian themes[15]
"Paper Dove" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on May 16, 1997.[16] The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.6 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.6 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented approximately 6.4 million households, and left the episode the sixty-third most-viewed broadcast that week.[17][nb 1]
The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B+, calling it "a damned odd episode to end a season on, if still an effective one". VanDerWerff felt that "Paper Dove" represented "the deepest the show has pulled us into a killer’s subconscious", making it "one of the most bone-chilling episodes Millennium has come up with so far". VanDerWerff compared elements of the episode, most notably the relationship between the character of Henry Dion and his mother, to the works of filmmaker David Lynch, particularly his television series Twin Peaks.[15] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 4.5 out of 5, noting that it "caps off the series sensationally". Gibron also praised Starr's guest role, describing it as "a stellar interpretation".[18] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Paper Dove" four stars out of five. Shearman felt that the series found a comfortable "tonal nuance" in the episode that worked for it, but felt that by the end of the first season none of the supporting cast had been developed well enough to play against Henriksen's Frank Black, noting "there are half a dozen actors who could be termed regulars ... but without exception they remain functional ciphers".[19]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[17]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 110
2.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (November 28, 1999). "Millennium". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 4. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 112
7.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 115–116
8.Jump up ^ Pizzato, p. 316
9.Jump up ^ Douglas, p. 153
10.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Michael Duggan (writer) (October 2, 1998). "The Innocents". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 1. Fox.
11.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Michael Duggan (writer) (October 9, 1998). "Exegesis". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 2. Fox.
12.Jump up ^ Peter Markle (director); Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (April 30, 1999). "Seven and One". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 19. Fox.
13.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (September 19, 1997). "The Beginning and the End". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 1. Fox.
14.Jump up ^ Storm, Jonathan (October 25, 1996). "Anxiously Awaiting the 'Millennium': Chris Carter Anticipates the Hysteria". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved May 18, 2012. (subscription required)
15.^ Jump up to: a b VanDerWerff, Todd (March 5, 2011). ""Elegy"/"Paper Dove" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 122
17.^ Jump up to: a b "CBS, NBC in Ratings Tie". Rocky Mountain News. May 22, 1997. Retrieved May 18, 2012. (subscription required)
18.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 122–123
References[edit]
Douglas, John E.; Olshaker, Mark (1995). Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. Scribner. ISBN 0-671-52890-4.
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Pizzato, Mark (2010). Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-4260-3.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.

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Millennium episodes

 
­Seasons: 1·
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Season 1
­"Pilot"·
 ­"Gehenna"·
 ­"Dead Letters"·
 ­"The Judge"·
 ­"522666"·
 ­"Kingdom Come"·
 ­"Blood Relatives"·
 ­"The Well-Worn Lock"·
 ­"Wide Open"·
 ­"The Wild and the Innocent"·
 ­"Weeds"·
 ­"Loin Like a Hunting Flame"·
 ­"Force Majeure"·
 ­"The Thin White Line"·
 ­"Sacrament"·
 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
 ­"Lamentation"·
 ­"Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions"·
 ­"Broken World"·
 ­"Maranatha"·
 ­"Paper Dove"
 

 

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