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Millennium (TV series)

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This article is about the American television series. For the Swedish miniseries, see Millennium (TV miniseries).

Millennium
Millennium logo.jpg
Format
Horror / Thriller
 Supernatural drama
Created by
Chris Carter
Starring
Lance Henriksen
Megan Gallagher
Klea Scott
Terry O'Quinn
Brittany Tiplady
Bill Smitrovich
 Stephen J. Lang
Composer(s)
Mark Snow
Country of origin
United States
Canada
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
3
No. of episodes
67 (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
Chris Carter
Michael Duggan
Chip Johannessen
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Running time
45 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
Fox
Audio format
Dolby Surround 2.0
Original run
October 25, 1996 – May 21, 1999
Chronology

Related shows
The X-Files
The Lone Gunmen
Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, that aired on the Fox Network between 1996 and 1999. There was also a crossover episode of The X-Files titled "Millennium" (season 7, episode 4) that featured the Millennium group and Frank Black. It served as a sort of conclusion to the series. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or around Seattle, Washington. Theme music for the show was composed by Mark Snow, who also created the distinctive theme music for The X-Files.
The series takes place during the years leading up to 2000, and follows the investigations of ex-FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a law enforcement consultant with the ability to see inside the mind of criminals, working for a mysterious organization known as the Millennium Group.
Although the series premiered with impressive ratings, viewership declined throughout its three-season run, and it was finally canceled by Fox in early 1999.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Series overview
2 Cast and characters 2.1 Starring
2.2 Also starring
3 Production 3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
4 Broadcast and release 4.1 Syndication and cancellation
4.2 Home video release
4.3 Future
5 Impact 5.1 Critical reception
5.2 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
Series overview[edit]
Main articles: List of Millennium episodes and Millennium Group
Millennium featured Frank Black, a freelance forensic profiler and former FBI agent with a unique ability to see the world through the eyes of serial killers and murderers, though he says that he is not psychic. Black worked for the mysterious Millennium Group, whose power and sinister agenda were explored throughout the series.
Black lived in Seattle with his wife Catherine and daughter Jordan. Jordan was revealed to have inherited some measure of her father's "gift," suggesting that Frank's abilities may be at least partly psychic, since Jordan's are clearly natural, not learned.
The first season dealt primarily with Black pursuing various serial killers and other murderers, with only occasional references to the Group's true purpose. The second season introduced more supernatural occurrences into the show's mythology, with Frank often coming into conflict with forces that appeared to be apocalyptic or demonic in nature. The final season showed Frank returning to Washington, D.C., to work with the FBI following the death of his wife at the hands of the Group. He was joined by a new partner, Emma Hollis. Despite Frank's warnings and what she observes, Emma ultimately joined the Group. Frank is last seen escaping from Washington, having taken Jordan from school.
After the show's cancellation, the crossover episode, "Millennium", was made on the television series The X-Files, serving as a de facto series finale for Frank Black's story.
Cast and characters[edit]
See also: List of Millennium characters
Starring[edit]
Lance Henriksen as Frank Black (seasons 1–3 main character). Frank Black has a unique ability to see within the mind of a killer. A former FBI special agent specializing in serial killers, Black decided to leave and settle in Seattle with his family.
Megan Gallagher as Catherine Black (seasons 1–2 main; recurring episode 12 of Season 3) – Catherine was a clinical social worker who counseled crime victims and confronted challenging cases. Willing to sacrifice herself, she was infected with a deadly virus mysteriously associated with the Millennium Group.
Klea Scott as Emma Hollis (season 3 main), Emma is a young FBI special agent who becomes Frank's protege in Virginia. She struggles to understand the criminal mind, and has to deal with her father's Alzheimer's-like disease.
Also starring[edit]
Terry O'Quinn as Peter Watts (Season 1–3)
Brittany Tiplady as Jordan Black (Season 1–3): Jordan, daughter of Frank and Catherine, represents the light in the dark world where Frank works. Jordan must learn to deal with her own mysterious gift.
Bill Smitrovich as Lt. Robert Bletcher (Season 1): A homicide detective for the Seattle police, and Frank's best friend.
Stephen J. Lang as Det. Bob Giebelhouse (Season 1–3): Seattle detective with a cynical view of humanity and a penchant for gallows humor.
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
After Chris Carter's success with The X-Files, the Fox Broadcasting Company asked him if he would produce another series for them. He already had an idea for creating a show based around the coming millennium of the year 2000, and it was this idea that he followed up. The Fox executives gave Carter a budget of nearly $1.5 million per episode, and allowed him to create his own "look" for the show.[1] Carter has said he was influenced by the Bible, Dostoyevsky and Mary Shelley in planning the series.[2] Carter pitched Millennium to Fox as "Se7en in Seattle." The setting of a dark, rain-soaked city and a world-weary detective's hunt for a religiously inspired serial killer have clear parallels with the pilot episode. One of the show's working titles was 2000, though Millennium was chosen.[1]
For the second season, Glen Morgan and James Wong took on its management, while Carter focused on the fifth season of The X-Files and The X-Files motion picture. Morgan and Wong were consulting producers for the first season, but took over production, implementing several changes Fox wanted to try to boost ratings, which had declined during the first season.[3] Morgan said that:[4]
“ There was too much gore in the first season, and it was for shock's sake. There was no humor. Everybody wanted to know more about the Millennium Group. What was Frank's role with them? We needed to develop Frank. We had a good actress, Megan Gallagher, playing his wife, and what could we do with their relationship? Where can this go? ”
For season three, which aired in 1998, Carter took back control of the series. Morgan and Wong left to pursue their own careers. Carter said he changed direction and tried to connect with the "roots" of the first season. The show's production team hoped to make "the stories a little more accessible", and moved the action from Seattle to Washington DC.[5]
Casting[edit]
Not convinced that Lance Henriksen was right for the main role, Fox execs considered William Hurt, until learning that he had no interest in acting for television. Chris Carter sent the screenplay for the "Pilot episode" to Henriksen, who thought it was "great". When his manager told him that it was a television script, he backed out for a while until he talked to Carter directly.[6] Carter said about casting Henriksen:
“ I had tried to cast Lance Henriksen on The X-Files several times, he had always been either unavailable or uninterested. Anyway I remained a fan of his, I was in bed working in Vancouver and I realized he was working there too. So I found out where he was staying and wrote a personal note, had a fan slip it under his door, and said that I'd tried to get him on the show and hoped to work with him in the future. Little did he know when I was then writing Millennium I was writing with only him in mind, with no idea whether or not he'd actually do the project. So I wrote the project, approached him, he was very excited about it, we made a deal and the rest is now history. ”
[7]
Glen Morgan's and James Wong's changes reduced the emphasis on serial killers and explored government conspiracies and the machinations of the Millennium Group. They tried to provide a "narrative drive" for Frank Black by breaking up his relationship with his wife. Morgan and Wong introduced new characters, such as Lara Means and computer hacker Brian Roedecker, who was introduced for comic effect; some fans were negative about the effects.[3]
Broadcast and release[edit]
Syndication and cancellation[edit]
Millennium's pilot episode [8] earned a total of 17.72 million viewers in the United States.[9] The second season premiere, "The Beginning and the End", gathered a total viewership of 7.75 million in the United States.[9] Fox decided to rebuild their primetime schedules in 1997 during the second season, airing Millennium at 9:00 pm EST on Fridays.[10]
Fox renewed Millennium for a third season in May 1998.[11] During that season, the series faced problems with a declining viewership and pessimistic forecasts from industry insiders.[12] Fox benched Millennium during its summer run, airing reruns of Mad TV in its time slot, without giving any official word on whether it would be renewed for a fourth season.[13] The series was cancelled, ending on a cliffhanger.
Frank Black returned in The X-Files season seven episode "Millennium", which featured the final appearances of both Frank Black and his daughter, Jordan.
The FX cable network picked up the off-network rights for Millennium after its cancellation for $20–$25 million dollars.[14] NBC Universal's horror channel, Chiller, began airing Millennium weeknights at 7 pm Eastern (and again at 3 am Eastern the following morning) on Monday, February 4, 2008.[15][16]
Home video release[edit]
Main article: Series overview and home release
Millennium season one was released on DVD in the United States (Region 1) on July 20, 2004, season two on January 4, 2005, and season three on September 6, 2005. Millennium: The Complete Series was released on DVD on October 28, 2008.[17] On October 4, 2006 the first, second, and third seasons were released in Region 4.[18][19][20] The Complete Series was released on October 24, 2006 in Region 4.[21]
Future[edit]
The release of Millennium on DVD prompted Lance Henriksen to propose a continuation of the series. Henriksen speculated that the numbers behind the box set sales might be the key to reviving Frank Black. "I wonder if the sales of these will tell us how many people loved the show and whether or not the movie ought to be made," Henriksen told the Sci-Fi Wire. "I mean, [Frank Black] still is alive. Maybe it's a good thing there was no closure for Millennium because now, if we did a movie, it would be good closure for me."[22] Henriksen has gone on to support the Back to Frank Black campaign, a movement dedicated to the return of the character, explaining, "I really think it is a possibility."[23]
Creator Chris Carter has joined Henriksen in expressing an interest in a film based on Millennium. While promoting The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Carter commented that he and Henriksen have "talked about that over the years" and that the cast and crew who would need to be involved are interested, adding, "I have ideas about how to do it."[24][25] To date, 20th Century Fox has expressed no interest in such a project, even to the extent of publicly commenting on it.
Publishing house Fourth Horseman Press has released Back to Frank Black (2012), a book offering in-depth insight into the production of the series. The book features Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, Lance Henriksen, Brittany Tiplady and John Kenneth Muir among its writers.[26][27]
Impact[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
Keith Uhlich from Slant Magazine was positive to both season one and three of Millennium,[28] giving them both four out of five stars and calling season one: "We are racing toward an apocalypse of our own creation. This is who we are."[29] Mike Drucker from IGN called the second season a combination of the "X-Files and the violent paranoia of Se7en."[30] Variety Magazine reviewer Jeremy Gerard compared the show to Twin Peaks and was overall positive to the series, but said "I just wish it were a little more fun, that I didn't have this nagging feeling that it wants to hurt me the next time I come around."[31] Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly gave the show a B and said it had "great visuals and a commanding performance by Henriksen."[32] Justine Elias from The New York Times was mostly positive to the series and said "If The X-Files, with its offbeat humor and conspiracy theories, wonders about those things that go bump in the night, Millennium explores the darkness – and embraces it."[2] Daily Nebraskan said in their review that the show had "a lot of potential: a good lead actor, a solid premise and a feel that will keep audiences glued to their televisions."[33]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Main article: List of accolades received by Millennium
Millennium was nominated for a variety of different awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards,[34] four American Society of Cinematographers Awards, 1 Bram Stoker Awards, three Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards (three wins),[35][36] three Golden Globe Awards,[37] one People's Choice Awards[38] and five Young Artist Awards (one win).[39][40] The most nominated episode is "Matroyshka", Robert McLachlan became the most nominated crew member and Brittany Tiplady became the most nominated actor in the show's history. While Lance Henriksen became the only actor from the show to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award.[37]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Carter, Chris, Horton, Ken, Spotnitz, Frank, Henriksen, Lance, Gallagher, Megan, Nutter, David, Snow, Mark, Peter Kousakis, John, Freeborn, Mark, McLachlan, Robert, Johannessen, Chip and J. Wright, Thomas (2004). Order in Chaos, Making Millennium Season One (DVD). Fox Home Entertainment.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Elias, Justine (October 20, 1996). "Staring Into the Heart of Darkness". The New York Times. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Morgan, Glen, Wong, James, Henriksen, Lance and Gallagher, Megan (2004). The Turn of the Tide: The Making of Season 2 (DVD). Fox Home Entertainment.
4.Jump up ^ "TV's Best Kept Secret Improves In Its Sophomore Season". Millennium This Is Who We Are. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
5.Jump up ^ Carter, Chris, Scott, Klea, Tiplady, Brittany and Henriksen, Lance (2004). End Game: Making Millennium Season 3 (DVD). Fox Home Entertainment.
6.Jump up ^ Rogers, Troy and Seeton, Reg. "Lance Henriksen Talks Millennium". UGO.com. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
7.Jump up ^ "Chris Carter Introduces Us To Millennium". Millennium This Is Who We Are. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
8.Jump up ^ "Millennium". Television Heaven. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
9.^ Jump up to: a b Adalian, Josef (October 11, 1998). "High-profile dramas skid on Fox, ABC". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
10.Jump up ^ Hontz, Jenny (May 20, 1997). "Fox lineup reshaping Thursdays". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
11.Jump up ^ Hontz, Jenny (May 20, 1998). "Fox reups 20th pair, mulls shifting 'Hill'". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
12.Jump up ^ "Chris Carter's Millennium a flop". BBC News. May 7, 1999. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
13.Jump up ^ Littleton, Cynthia (May 5, 1999). "Fox's Millennium on hold". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
14.Jump up ^ Littleton, Cynthia (June 14, 1999). "FX clocks in Millennium". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
15.Jump up ^ "Chiller First quarter 2008 Lineup" (PDF). NBC Universal. Retrieved January 19, 2009.
16.Jump up ^ "Chiller website". Retrieved January 19, 2009.
17.Jump up ^ "Millennium (1996)". TV Shows On DVD. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
18.Jump up ^ "Millennium – Complete Season 1 Collection (6 Disc Set) (790013)". Ezy DVD. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
19.Jump up ^ "Millennium – Complete Season 2 Collection (6 Disc Set) (790014)". Ezy DVD. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
20.Jump up ^ "Millennium – Complete Season 3 Collection (6 Disc Set) (790015)". Ezy DVD. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
21.Jump up ^ "Millennium – The Complete DVD Collection: Seasons 1–3 (18 Disc Box Set) (785869)". Ezy DVD. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
22.Jump up ^ "Star Angles for Millennium Film". Sci-Fi Wire. September 2005. Archived from the original on December 3, 2005. Retrieved October 1, 2005.
23.Jump up ^ "Back to Frank Black Interviews Lance Henriksen". Back to Frank Black. December 13, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
24.Jump up ^ "Chris Carter Discusses Millennium Movie". Horror Asylum. March 28, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
25.Jump up ^ Telsch, Rafe (March 27, 2008). "Chris Carter Reveals X-Files Movie Secrets". Cinema Blend. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
26.Jump up ^ Munn, Patrick (May 18, 2012). "Fourth Horseman Press To Publish Book About Fox’s 1990's TV Series ‘Millennium’". TVWise. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
27.Jump up ^ Munn, Patrick (August 7, 2012). "‘Millennium’ Book Adds Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz To List Of Contributors". TVWise. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
28.Jump up ^ Uhlich, Keith (September 9, 2005). "Millennium: The Complete Third Season". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
29.Jump up ^ Uhlich, Keith (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: The Complete First Season". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
30.Jump up ^ Drucker, Mike (February 3, 2005). "Millennium: The Complete Second Season". IGN. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
31.Jump up ^ Gerard, Jeremy (October 21, 1996). "Millennium". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
32.Jump up ^ Tucker, Ken (November 8, 1996). "Scare Giver". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
33.Jump up ^ Holtmeier, Liza (June 16, 2006). "Grim scenes give 'Millennium' hope". Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
34.Jump up ^ "Advanced Primetime Awards Search". Academy of Television Arts & Science. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
35.Jump up ^ Speier, Michael. (August 1, 1997). "Cinematographer Robert Mclachlan." Digital Content Magazine. September 13, 2009.
36.Jump up ^ Angus, Don (October 1998). "An Interview with Rob McLachlan csc: Life on Millennium". Canadian Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
37.^ Jump up to: a b "Millennium". HFPA. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
38.Jump up ^ "People's Choice Awards." Washington Post. January 12, 1997. September 13, 2009.
39.Jump up ^ "Brittany Tiplady". Rotten Tomatoes.
40.Jump up ^ "Annual Young Artist Awards – Past Years". Young Artist Award. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
External links[edit]

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List of Millennium characters

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The following is a list of fictional characters in the American Fox television show Millennium.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Black Family
2 Law Enforcement
3 The Millennium Group
4 Legion
5 Serial Killers
Black Family[edit]
Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) – Born July 12, 1941, to Henry and Linda Black, Frank Black has a unique and disturbing ability which can take him inside the mind of a killer. His gift is also his curse. As an FBI agent specializing in hunting down serial killers, Black was one of the Bureau's most effective agents. Yet his immersion into the vilest recesses of the human soul took him too close to the edge. A loving husband and father, Frank could no longer allow the shadow of evil come between him and his family. He left the FBI and settled in Seattle with his wife and young daughter. Frank however, couldn't leave the horror behind. As the Millennium approaches, so will the ultimate battle between good and evil as foretold by ancient prophecies. Frank is being recruited by the Millennium Group, an underground organization dedicated to battling the forces of darkness for purposes yet to be exposed.
Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher) – A devoted mother to Jordan, Catherine Black was also a clinical social worker who counselled crime victims. This profession compelled her to confront many of the same dark forces as Frank. Yet Catherine knew she must never show any fear, no matter how appalling the evil. For if she did, Frank would ignore his mission, and dedicate himself to protecting his family. Catherine was willing to sacrifice her own peace of mind, and in the end even her safety, for the safety of us all. She was infected with a deadly virus that is mysteriously connected to the Millennium Group.
Jordan Black (Brittany Tiplady) – Jordan, daughter of Frank and Catherine, represents the light in the dark world that Frank works. She is what's good, and why Frank must catch the "bad man" to protect her. Jordan must eventually come to terms with a terrible loss, while learning to deal with her own mysterious gift – one that offers her visions into the dark world that her father investigates.
Law Enforcement[edit]
Lt. Robert Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich) – (Season 1) A homicide detective for the Seattle police. Best friend of Frank's and often enlists him to help out the crimes committed on cases in Seattle. He is murdered by Lucy Butler.
Det. Bob Giebelhouse (Stephen J. Lang) – Seattle detective with a cynical view of humanity and a penchant for gallows humor. Initially Bletcher's partner, he becomes the head of Homicide in Season 2.
FBI Special Agent Emma Hollis (Klea Scott) – (Season 3) Emma is a young FBI agent who becomes Frank's protégé when he begins working in Virginia. She struggles to understand the criminal mind, as her sister was murdered by a man with no motive. Emma also has to deal with her father's bout with an Alzheimer's-like disease (possibly induced by the Millennium group) the cure for which Peter Watts uses as leverage to coerce her into cooperating with the Millennium Group.
Assistant Director Andy McClaren (Stephen E. Miller) – (Season 3) An FBI Assistant Director who worked with Frank when he was an agent. He makes contact with Frank during Season 3. Miller also plays a store owner in the 2008 film X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Special Agent Barry Baldwin (Peter Outerbridge) – (Season 3) An FBI agent who works on the Critical Incidents Response team. Approaches every case with a smarmy, ex-captain of the football team bravado. He is killed in an ambulance by someone he believes to be a paramedic after surviving an explosion set off by the Millennium Group.
Doug Scaife (Trevor White) – (Season 3) An FBI computer specialist, Scaife appears throughout Season Three, becoming especially prominent during the final few episodes. This character provides Frank critical information in the Finale.
The Millennium Group[edit]
In Season 2, the Millennium Group is shown as divided into two factions – the Owls and the Roosters. A civil war is shown to be occurring between The Owls (who believe in a scientific natural form of Armageddon) and The Roosters (believing in a religious Apocalypse). The Owls believed that if a theological event did not occur in 672 days, a secular Millennium would result leaving them in control. Most in the group believe that the best solution is that the Old Man unites the factions. The Millennium Group utilized the following phrase to indicate their membership to members and candidates: "This is who we are" which also served as a tagline in the series titles.
Later in the season, the Old Man would explain that in the waning days of World War II, the Nazis began a secret project known as Odessa, in which high-ranking SS officers fled to countries south of the equator. One of these men, Rudolph Axmann, helped defeat their greatest enemy, Communism, in the 1980s. Now Odessa had turned its attention towards the Millennium Group and the Old Man in searching for many of the artifacts related to Judeo-Christian religious belief including the Hand of St. Sebastian and a wooden piece of the true Cross of Jesus Christ.
The Old Man (R.G. Armstrong) – The leader of The Millennium Group, the Old Man was responsible for educating candidates on the nature of Evil. Among them was Frank Black who visited Bucksnort on the request of Peter Watts. The Old Man traveled to Seattle and, through his death, reunited The Millennium Group, which had begun disintegration through the influence of Odessa. When questioned by Lara Means on what faction he believed (Owls or Roosters), he replied that he had already "seen the end of the world" when Rudolph Axmann had his parents gassed at Auschwitz. It's later revealed that The Old Man approached Peter Watts with an offer to join The Millennium Group. Watts, going through an especially difficult period, saw comfort in The Group, and agreed.
Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) – Peter Watts, a mysterious ex-FBI agent, is the first of the Millennium Group to contact Frank as soon as he arrives in Seattle with his family. Watts is extremely intelligent, knowledgeable and experienced. A man of few words, his seriousness commands the respect he deserves as a ‘Patron’ of the Millennium Group. Peter Watts left his position as Assistant Director of the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force to join The Millennium Group, which promised him, like Frank, understanding in a chaotic world. He later became a senior member of the Group and 'Patron' to Frank Black, assisting him on numerous Group assigned cases.
Lara Means (Kristen Cloke) – (Season 2) A Millennium Group member who shares visions similar to Frank's, but in the forms of angels, which are bringers of warning of imminent danger. She works with Frank on several cases. She is eventually inducted into the Millennium Group, but goes insane due to the secrets they reveal to her and the visions she receives as a result. In these visions Lara Means sees the end of the world, and also sees Frank in the form of a demon, causing viewers to question which side of the Good vs. Evil paradigm Frank is really on.
Mike Atkins (Robin Gammell) – (Season 1) Atkins was responsible for Frank's initial introduction to the Millennium Group. While investigating a doomsday cult in San Francisco, he is seriously injured upon stumbling into a crematory oven (episode "Gehenna"). He later became the final victim of Alistair Pepper (episode "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions").
Dr. Cheryl Andrews (C.C.H. Pounder) – The Group's brilliant medical and forensic advisor in season one. In subsequent seasons she is portrayed as either betraying, or being betrayed (and killed) by, the Millennium Group. Her body is placed in a mass grave under a highway construction site where roadworks were due to start.
Legion[edit]
Legion, also known historically as the Gerasene demon, is a demon found in the Bible in Mark 5:9, "And He asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many"; and Luke 8:30, "And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion; because many devils were entered into him." (Douay-Rheims Bible). Whilst there were many evil characters and killers throughout the Millennium television series, not all were directly connected with the Legion mythology which was introduced early in Season One.
Although references were made about a supernatural raw evil in Millennium's earliest episodes, it was not until the character of the Judge stated a name and thereby an explanation was directly given by the writers for the various manifestations and mortal instruments of Legion characters. The Legion character would continue to taunt Frank in various forms with visions and knowledge of a happier and safer life for himself and that of his family throughout the series. Most Legion characters were direct manifestations, demonstrating supernatural abilities and methods.
Lucy Butler (Sarah-Jane Redmond) – (Seasons 1–3) Among the most dangerous of Frank's supernatural opponents, Lucy is described as "The Devil's Liege" by a terrified serial killer. Her powers include superhuman strength, clairvoyance, and re-shaping into either an animal or another person.
Mabius (Bob Wilde) – (Season 3) It's unknown to what capacity Mabius served The Millennium Group, but he was obviously a menacing threat to Frank and Emma. He appeared in Fingus, Maine, as Emma unearthed the skulls of Cheryl Andrews and other victims (Skull and Bones). He murdered Frank's psychiatrist Dr. Luanne Chase (Judith McDowell), having approached her re-shaped as Special Agent Boxer and then literally transforming himself; indicating that he was more than human. (Seven and One).
The Judge (Marshall Bell) – (Season 1) Employed ex-convicts to carry out his vengeance on behalf of those mistreated by the United States' corrupt criminal justice system. Among his quarries are Biggs (a landlord whose negligence caused the death of an elderly tenant) and Jonathon Mellen (a detective whose false testimony sent an innocent man to prison). While possessed by Legion, the Judge propositioned Frank to join his cause; Frank naturally refused.
The Instruments – (Seasons 1–3) There were of course other characters in Millennium who were instruments of Legion conducting the requirements and tasks that they were required to perform, some more directly than others. For example, Alistair Pepper, Danielle Barbakow, Del Boxer, Long-Haired Man, Lucas Sanderson, Martin, Mr. Crocell, Ricardo Clement, Selwyn Wassenaar, Tamara Shui Fa Lee, and Teresa Roe.
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Polaroid Man (Paul Raskin, Doug Hutchison) – (Seasons 1–2) After receiving menacing Polaroids of Catherine and Jordan, Frank retired from the FBI and relocated his family to Seattle. However, the Polaroids continued to arrive and Catherine was later abducted from the Sea-Tac airport by the stalker himself. It was revealed The Millennium Group had withheld information about The Polaroid Stalker and Frank, understandably upset, continued his pursuit without their involvement. He found Catherine within the basement of an abandoned home and struggled with The Polaroid Stalker who died brutally at Frank's hand. Disturbed by these events, Catherine asked for a temporary separation in her marriage.
Ed Cuffle (Matthew Glave) – (Season 3) The son of a cleaning woman, he witnessed his mother performing sexual favors for wealthy men to procure extra income. He would later establish a pattern of videotaping upper-class couples having sex and ultimately murdering them, to release his rage. He was sentenced to death and executed in the presence of Frank.
Lucas Barr (Jeff Parise) – (Season 3) The copy-cat killer of Ed Cuffle, he saw himself as suffering like Christ and carved the stations of the cross in the homes of couples he murdered. Peter Watts explained to Frank that the Millennium Group was responsible for Barr's behavior by "switching on" the psychological process that usually ends development in infancy.

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Frank Black
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Lance Henriksen as Frank Black
 
First appearance
"Pilot"
Last appearance
"Millennium"
Portrayed by
Lance Henriksen
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Occupation
FBI Special Agent
Family
Henry Black (father, deceased)
 Linda Black (mother, deceased)
Thomas Black (brother)
Catherine Black (wife, deceased)
Jordan Black (daughter)
Birth name
Frank Black
Date of birth
July 12, 1941
Seattle, Washington
Affiliated with
Millennium Group
Frank Black is a fictional character in the Fox television series Millennium and The X-Files. Frank Black is played by Lance Henriksen. Black was a renowned, highly skilled criminal investigator with the FBI who had the gift to put himself into the killer's mind and imagine himself as the killer. He had frequent dealings with the Millennium Group after he retired and moved to Seattle, Washington. In season three, Frank re-joins the FBI and is assigned a partner, Emma Hollis.
Frank Black made his first appearance in the first season 1996 episode "Pilot". He was the son of Henry and Linda Black, the brother of Thomas Black, the husband of Catherine Black, and the father of Jordan Black.

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2 Conceptual history
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Character arc[edit]
Frank Black was born on July 12, 1941 in Seattle, Washington to Henry and Linda Black. A renowned profiler and criminal investigator for the FBI, he was able to solve cases attributable to an ability to go inside the mind of a killer. Having witnessed many atrocities during his long career in the FBI, Black was forced to retire after getting polaroids of his family in the mail. Frank started to work again after being contacted by the Millennium Group, a shadowy organization waiting for the new Millennium. Frank said yes to the offer to be a consultant for the group, after this event he and his family moved to Seattle to start a "new life".
After he moved to Seattle, he began receiving new pictures of his family in the mail. Frank worked hard to keep up the facade that his family was okay. The only people that knew about the pictures sent to him were select members of the Millennium Group. At the end of the first season, his wife Catherine Black is drugged and kidnapped in the Seattle Airport. Frank tracked down the kidnapper and killed him in a fit of rage. After this incident Catherine broke up with him, being shocked over Frank's actions.
Later on Frank realized that the Millennium Group knew that the kidnapping would happen, he also found out that the groups origin dated back to the birth of Christianity. Frank continued to consult for them, but his limits were tested when his wife Catherine died of a variation of the Marburg Virus which had infected and killed several others in Seattle. Convinced that the Millennium Group stood behind it and needed to be stopped, Frank moved back to Virginia and re-joined the FBI and became a special agent. He was teamed up with his new partner, Special Agent Emma Hollis. His career in the FBI ended after he was fired for breaking into Peter Watts' home (his dismissal from the FBI was set into motion by the Millennium group itself). In The X-Files crossover episode, "Millennium" Frank checked himself in an asylum until Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully asked for his help solving a case involving the Millennium Group. While he is reluctant at first to help Mulder and Scully, he later checks himself out of the asylum to help them. At the end of the episode he reunites with his daughter Jordan Black.
Conceptual history[edit]
Chris Carter recalls, "I had this idea for a character in mind that became Frank Black and it sort of took shape over time, but I was under the gun... A retired FBI agent, and the idea of the prophecies, Nostradamus, taking the poetry, the millennial, apocalyptic poetry: those things were sort of added on to this idea of this character, a person who wanted to retire from something but could not, and that was basically the long and short of that; it didn't require much research." Carter later comments, "I think, you know, like a good... like Shane, like any cowboy, any good movie, western movie, the hero is always very self-reliant, quiet, capable, dangerous. That's what I saw Frank Black as."[1]
According to portraying actor Lance Henriksen, "My first question to Carter was, "How are you going to make this hero a hero? I mean, it is so dark, how are you going to handle this?" And he said that the fact that the guy is a stand-up guy through all of this is what makes him a hero. Not that I was looking for a hero role, but I knew you had to care about this guy." Regarding Carter, Henriksen later notes, "He was very, very convincing. All the questions I had, he answered. The way it all went down was pretty outrageous."[1]
The Fox executives were not initially convinced that Lance Henriksen was right for the main role, and they suggested using William Hurt, until they discovered that he had no interest in acting for television. Chris Carter then sent the script for the "Pilot episode". Henriksen read the script and thought it was "great". When his manager told him that it was a television script, he backed out for a while until he talked to Carter himself.[2] Regarding his casting of Henriksen for the lead, Carter stated that:[3]
“ I had tried to cast Lance Henriksen on The X-Files several times, he had always been either unavailable or uninterested. Anyway I remained a fan of his, I was in bed working in Vancouver and I realized he was working there too. So I found out where he was staying, wrote a note and had a fan note slipped under his door and told him that I'd tried to get him on the show and hoped to work with him in the future. Little did he know when I was then writing Millennium I was writing with only him in mind, with no idea whether or not he'd actually do the project. So I wrote the project, approached him, he was very excited about it, we made a deal and the rest is now history. ”
Although Frank Black was usually played by Henriksen, A.J. Adamson also appeared as younger versions of the character in the season two episodes, "The Curse of Frank Black" and "Midnight of the Century", as well as the season three episode, "Seven and One". Additionally, Shaun Toplass played Frank Black aged 14 years old in "The Curse of Frank Black".
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Carter, Chris, Horton, Ken, Spotnitz, Frank, Henriksen, Lance, Gallagher, Megan, Nutter, David, Snow, Mark, Peter Kousakis, John, Freeborn, Mark, McLachlan, Robert, Johannessen, Chip and J. Wright, Thomas (2004). Order in Chaos, Making Millennium Season One (DVD). Fox Home Entertainment.
2.Jump up ^ Rogers, Troy and Seeton, Reg. "LANCE HENRIKSEN TALKS MILLENNIUM". UGO.com. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
3.Jump up ^ "CHRIS CARTER INTRODUCES US TO MILLENNIUM". Millennium This Is Who We Are. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
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Klea Scott as Emma Hollis
 
First appearance
"The Innocents"
Last appearance
"Goodbye to All That"
Portrayed by
Klea Scott
Information

Occupation
FBI Special agent
Family
James Hollis (father)
 Melissa Hollis (sister, deceased)
 Tamra Caffrey (half-sister)
Affiliated with
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FBI Special Agent Emma Hollis is a fictional character from the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. Hollis, introduced in the series' third and final season, is a young special agent within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During the show's final year, she was partnered with offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen). The character of Hollis was portrayed by Canadian actor Klea Scott.
Special agent Hollis made her first appearance in the third season's opening episode "The Innocents". She is the daughter of James Hollis, who suffered from alzheimer's disease. The character has been met with mixed reactions from critics; however, Scott's performance has been generally well received.

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Character arc[edit]
Hollis is a young Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent who becomes a protégée to offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) when he begins working in Virginia.[1] She struggles to understand the criminal mind, as her sister was murdered by a man with no motive.[2] She has an estranged half-sister, Tamra, who has become a heroin addict.[3] Hollis also has to deal with her father's bout with an Alzheimer's-like illness, which has possibly been induced by the Millennium Group—a secretive organisation to which Black had previously belonged, and which he now believes to be responsible for bioterrorism. Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) uses Hollis' father's illness as leverage to coerce her into cooperating with the Millennium Group.[4]
Hollis is very much aware of Black's reputation and eager to prove her worth as an investigator. Intrigued by Frank's abilities as an investigator, she strives to learn as much from him as she can, while Frank also learns to recognize her strengths as an FBI agent.[5] The respected, independent, ambitious young Bureau Agent formed a close relationship with Frank Black—and then turned her back on him to join the Millennium Group, which had agreed to cure her father of Alzheimer's.[4]
Conceptual history[edit]


"It was unusual because it was intense just to be with Lance and myself, just one actor. And if that was a bad combination, that could have been a really miserable experience. But - I speak for myself I really liked working with Lance and respected him."
—Klea Scott on Hollis and Millennium.[6]
When ending the second season, the producers and crew thought it would be the last. However, to their surprise Millennium was renewed for a third season. Many of the cliffhanger plot threads from the season finale were written off as the hallucinations of Frank Black. When creating the third season, they wanted to go back to the stand alone storytelling format used in the first season; to do so they had Frank join the FBI and receive a new "skeptical" partner with whom he could work.[6] Regarding Hollis, producer Michael Duggan said "she's not a rookie ... but she's young enough to be in awe of Frank Black's rep as a legendary crime solver".[7]
Originally, the producers were looking for a white actress to play the part. Klea Scott's agent thought she was "really right" for the part.[6] He then went down to the producers for the show and campaigned for her and guaranteed them if she did not fit for the role, he would never send another actor to the casting director of the show. Scott auditioned with four other actresses to get the part. Scott won the role, but producer Chip Johannessen recalled that "she wasn't what the network were looking, they wanted Heather Locklear or something to come. That was kind of how that went down". Fox backed down, and Scott got the role.[6] Scott had been living in Los Angeles, but relocated to the series' filming location in Vancouver when she joined the cast.[7] Scott had little input in her character's development, and admitted feeling "a little hurt" to find that Hollis had joined the Millennium Group by the end of the series; however, Scott felt this development was "believable and real".[6] Scott's first day on set was during the filming of the final scene of "The Innocents", the third season's opening episode. The actress found it difficult to adjust to the series' heavy workload, but found it enjoyable to work with co-star Lance Henriksen.[8]
Reception[edit]
Although the character of Emma Hollis has been met with mixed reception, Scott's acting has generally been seen in a positive light. Entertainment Weekly writer Ken Tucker said Scott's presence as Hollis was "bracing", finding that she "captures perfectly the way young adepts try to soak up everything about their heroes";[9] while Raymond Edel of the The Record described the character as a "quick-witted extrovert".[10] Allan Johnson of the Chicago Tribune felt that the character made the third season of Millennium "a much more watchable series than in its previous two seasons", offering a "different perspective" on the series' dark subject matter.[11] Rob Owen, of the Chicago Sun-Times, has noted that Hollis' involvement in the "a tug of war between Frank and [the] Millennium Group" gave Millennium's third season "a more personal take" on its central conflicts.[12] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, have been critical of the character of Emma Hollis, finding that she has been written in a manner that "pass[es] emotional baggage off as character development".[13] However, Shearman and Pearson were less critical of Scott's performance, noting that the character was "played well"[14] and that Scott "works hard to mine some sort of truth" out of Hollis' character.[13] Randy Miller, writing for DVD Talk, noted that Hollis' introduction left Millennium feeling "more of a curious sister to The X-Files rather than its own entity", likening Hollis and Black to the latter series' Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.[15]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Michael Duggan (writer) (October 2, 1998). "The Innocents". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 1. Fox.
2.Jump up ^ Daniel Sackheim (director); Larry Andries (writer) (October 23, 1998). "Closure". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 4. Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Michael Duggan (writer) (December 11, 1998). "Human Essence". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 8. Fox.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright (director); Ken Horton & Chip Johannessen (writers) (May 21, 1999). "Goodbye to All That". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 22. Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (October 16, 1998). "TEOTWAWKI". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 3. Fox.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Chris Carter, Michael Perry, Robert McLachlan, Chip Johannessen, Ken Horton, Lance Henriksen and Klea Scott (narrators) (2004). End Game: Making Millennium Season Three (DVD). Millennium: The Complete Third Season: Fox Home Entertainment.
7.^ Jump up to: a b Tucker, Ken (September 11, 1998). "Fall TV Preview: Black is Back". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
8.Jump up ^ Klea Scott & Lance Henriksen (narrators) (2004). Audio commentary for "The Innocents" (DVD). Millennium: The Complete Third Season: Fox Home Entertainment.
9.Jump up ^ Tucker, Ken (November 13, 1998). "Super Freaks". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
10.Jump up ^ Edel, Raymond A. (July 29, 1998). "Television news and notes". The Record. Retrieved April 16, 2012. (subscription required)
11.Jump up ^ Johnson, Allan (November 10, 1998). "Gruesome Details". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (April 16, 1999). "Will 'Millennium' Make It to 2000?". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 16, 2012. (subscription required)
13.^ Jump up to: a b Shearman and Pearson, p. 190
14.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 188
15.Jump up ^ Miller, Randy (September 6, 2005). "Millennium: The Complete Third Season : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
References[edit]
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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The Millennium Group is a fictional secret society and "criminal investigative consulting firm" featured in the television series Millennium. The Group is primarily made up of members from law enforcement and religious backgrounds, and grew out of a Christian sect which was eventually co-opted by elements within the FBI.

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2 History
3 Factions
4 Structure of the Group 4.1 The Old Man
4.2 The Elder
4.3 The Inquisitor
4.4 Patrons
4.5 Consultants and Candidates

Overview[edit]
In common with many organizations featured in conspiracy fiction, the Group claims to be in possession of a substantial body of secret knowledge - hoarding it until such time as they think it would be opportune to disclose to the public. Through the years they have tried to find the hidden motivations and agendas driving critical events in our history, looking for moments when human and inhuman intelligences have crossed paths, studying whatever clues they can find, and attempting to piece together the future. They are trying to find the appropriate branch of the future to take, the branch which will shift control from these inhuman elements and into their own hands. These objectives have forced them to ignore conventional ethics in exchange for ensuring the survival of mankind. Some junior members of the organization are unaware of its true agenda, having not yet been initiated into full membership.
The Group is led by the Old Man, who acts as a kind of spiritual leader. The symbol for the Group is the ouroboros, an image depicting a snake devouring its own tail. Time, continuity, infinity, completion, the repetition of history, and the self-sufficiency of nature can all be seen within the circular symbol. Perhaps the key meaning of the symbol is that every end is also a new beginning.
History[edit]
The Millennium Group was formed around AD 100 by a group of Christians attempting to avoid persecution. They formed the Group to defend the world against the forces of Satan. However, Group members began to turn on each other when the Hand of Saint Sebastian was discovered in the year AD 998. It was believed that whoever took possession of the Hand would have the power to destroy the Devil and win the battle between good and evil destined to take place at the end of the Millennium. Many Group members wanted the Hand; some were even willing to betray and kill each other for it. Despite the fact that this infighting was eventually resolved, conflicting views and beliefs within the Group would come back to haunt the organization centuries later.
Throughout its history, the Millennium Group had access to scientific knowledge banned or withheld from the world at large by those in power. Examples include the work of Copernicus, Galileo, and the German physicists. This enabled the Group to leap generations ahead of mainstream scientific research. It also divided the organization into two factions: the Roosters (theologians who believe in an apocalyptic event foretold in the Bible) and the Owls (their secular counterparts). Both factions share the same basic belief - that the world is coming to an end - but each has its own views regarding the source of the apocalypse.
In the 1940s, with the world on the verge of nuclear Armageddon, the two top officers of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and Clyde Tolson, decided there needed to be an independent group within the Bureau that could go above the law. A group that could do what traditional government and law enforcement couldn't. To this end, Hoover (who was already a member of the Millennium Group), Tolson, and their assistant Lily Unser decided to create their own Group. Hoover adopted the ouroboros insignia for his new organization, claiming the symbol had been discovered from a scientist named Kekulé.
Hoover and Tolson soon began recruiting members for their Group straight from the FBI. Eventually Hoover's group merged with the descendants of the original Millennium Group to form a larger, more diverse organization made up of theologians, former law enforcement personnel and scientists.
In modern times, the Millennium Group appears at first glance to be a private law enforcement consulting firm made up mostly of former FBI agents.
The phrase "This is who we are" is often uttered by Group members to one another. The phrase is a code, symbolic of the ourobouros, that sets members of the Group apart from ordinary citizens. "This is who we are" represents those on the inside of the circle, the gifted ones who know the dangers of the Millennium; "this is who they are" refers to those on the outside, oblivious to the greater struggle.
Factions[edit]
The Owls have a secular view concerning the end of the world. Their beliefs are based on cutting edge research unavailable to the general scientific community. They believe that six billion years ago, before the formation of the Earth, two neutron stars collided six billion light years away. That collision released cosmic rays with the power to transform the vacuum of space and create a tear in the fabric of our universe. The Owls claim to have proof that such a tear, an expanding cosmic bubble, will eventually reach our solar system and a new universe, its properties calculated anywhere from apocalyptic to inconsequential, will be created. They believe this apocalypse can only be avoided through the use of applied science. The Owls are the smaller and less influential of the Group's factions. They believe the Roosters create hysteria crowing about the impending doom, and that their beliefs endanger the world.
The Roosters are the dominant faction. They follow the Group's original teachings, and see Armageddon in specifically religious terms. That is, they believe that the world is facing the eschaton foretold in the Book of Revelation. They believe this end will come from something beyond the understanding of man. No one really knows what this threat is, but it will likely be directly related to the influence of Satan and the wrath of God. In this understanding the Millennium Group's role is to offer guidance for a struggling humanity.
In recent times, a small "Representative Board" has been formed where Owls and Roosters can both sit and appeal their ideas to the Elder.
Structure of the Group[edit]
The Old Man[edit]
One wise man is chosen to be the spiritual leader of the Group. This chosen one is dubbed the "Old Man". The Old Man has a number of tasks which include (but are not limited to) initiating candidates, providing moral guidance, making predictions, and providing any high priority consultation. The Old Man commands the utmost respect of all Group members, and his word is prime over all others.
The Elder[edit]
The Elder is essentially the leader of the Group. The Elder makes decisions, approves the acceptance of candidates, gives orders, and is the head of the Representative Board. All Group actions must have the Elder's approval. The Elder may consult the Old Man at his discretion.
The Inquisitor[edit]
The Inquisitor is the judge of a candidate's merit. He is the chairman of a review board that reviews the candidate's progress and achievements.
Patrons[edit]
Patrons are special Group members who are assigned to recruit consultants to the Group, then guide and educate them in the ways of the Group when the consultant is accepted as a candidate. Some Group members spend many years as a Patron.
Consultants and Candidates[edit]
After being introduced to the Group by a Patron, one can begin to work for the Group as a consultant. Consultants have limited access to the Group's resources and know nothing of the Group's origin, although they are led to believe that they have full access and knowledge.
After an unspecified period of time, and once they have proven themselves "worthy", the consultant will become a candidate for full membership in the Group. At this phase, the candidate's Patron will gradually and carefully reveal the Group's origin and wider purpose. Candidates will be given higher access to the Group's resources, and will eventually be sent to meet the Old Man. Then, he/she will go through unspecified "tests" of their ability to determine what "evil" is, as well as election sessions in which a small handful of Group members will interview the candidate and assess his or her loyalty to the Group. If the candidate passes these tests and has the Old Man's approval, the candidate will then be accepted as a full member and all the Group's resources and secrets will become available to them.

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Millenniumwas created by screenwriters Chris Carter(left)and starred Lance Henriksen(right).
Millenniumis an American crime-thrillertelevision series which was broadcast between 1996 and 1999. Created by Chris Carter, the series aired on Foxfor three seasons with a total of sixty-seven episodes. Millenniumstarred Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott, and Brittany Tiplady, with Henriksen and Tiplady. Henriksen portrayed Frank Black, an offender profiler who worked for the Millennium Group, a private investigative organisation. Black retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigationto move his wife (Gallagher) and daughter (Tiplady) to Seattle, where he began to consult on criminal cases for the Group. After his wife's death, he returned to the FBI to work with new partner Emma Hollis(Scott) to discredit the Group.
Millennium's genesis stemmed from "Irresistible", a second-season episode of The X-Filespenned by Carter.[1]Influence was also drawn from the works of Nostradamus, and the increasing popular interest in eschatologyahead of the coming millennium.[2]The series began airing in the Friday timeslot formerly occupied by The X-Files.[3]"Pilot", the début episode, was heavily promoted by Fox, and brought in over a quarter of the total audience during its broadcast.[4]
The series also attracted a high degree of critical appraisal, earning a People's Choice Awardfor "Favorite New TV Dramatic Series" in its first year.[5]At the beginning of the second season, Carter handed over control of the series to Glen Morganand James Wong, with whom he had previously worked on both Millennium's first season and several seasons of The X-Files.[6]Despite its promising start, however, ratings for Millenniumafter the pilot remained consistently low, and it was cancelled after three seasons.[7]However, an episode of The X-Files'seventh season, titled "Millennium", was written to bookend the series.[8]

Contents
 [hide] 1Series overview
2Episodes2.1Season 1 (1996–97)
2.2Season 2 (1997–98)
2.3Season 3 (1998–99)
2.4"Millennium" (The X-Files) (1999)
3Footnotes3.1References
4External links
Series overview[edit]
Seasons of Millennium

Season
Episodes
Originally aired
DVDrelease dates

Season premiere
Season finale
Region 1
Region 2
Region 4
 1 22 October 25, 1996[9] May 16, 1997[10] July 20, 2004[11] July 12, 2004[12] February 2, 2005[13]
 2 23 September 19, 1997[14] May 15, 1998[15] January 4, 2005[11] September 27, 2004[16] October 4, 2006[17]
 3 22 October 2, 1998[18] May 21, 1999[19] September 6, 2005[11] October 25, 2004[20] October 4, 2006[21]
 "Millennium" 1 November 28, 1999[22] May 13, 2003[23] September 22, 2003[24] October 20, 2003[25]
 The Complete Series 67 N/A October 28, 2008[11] October 25, 2004[26] June 20, 2012[27]
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (1996–97)[edit]
Main article: Millennium (season 1)
Millenniumseason 1 episodes

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code

1
1 "Pilot" David Nutter Chris Carter October 25, 1996 4C79[28]
2
2 "Gehenna" David Nutter Chris Carter November 1, 1996 4C01[29]
3
3 "Dead Letters" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan& James Wong November 8, 1996 4C02[30]
4
4 "The Judge" Randall Zisk Ted Mann November 15, 1996 4C04[31]
5
5 "522666" David Nutter Glen Morgan & James Wong November 22, 1996 4C05[32]
6
6 "Kingdom Come" Winrich Kolbe Jorge Zamacona November 29, 1996 4C03[33]
7
7 "Blood Relatives" Jim Charleston Chip Johannessen December 6, 1996 4C06[34]
8
8 "The Well-Worn Lock" Ralph Hemecker Chris Carter December 20, 1996 4C07[35]
9
9 "Wide Open" Jim Charleston Charles Holland January 3, 1997 4C08[36]
10
10 "The Wild and the Innocent" Thomas J. Wright Jorge Zamacona January 10, 1997 4C10[37]
11
11 "Weeds" Michael Pattinson Frank Spotnitz January 24, 1997 4C09[38]
12
12 "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" David Nutter Ted Mann January 31, 1997 4C11[39]
13
13 "Force Majeure" Winrich Kolbe Chip Johannessen February 7, 1997 4C12[40]
14
14 "The Thin White Line" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong February 14, 1997 4C13[41]
15
15 "Sacrament" Michael W. Watkins Frank Spotnitz February 21, 1997 4C14[42]
16
16 "Covenant" Roderick J. Pridy Robert Moresco March 21, 1997 4C16[43]
17
17 "Walkabout" Cliff Bole Chip Johannessen & Tim Tankosic March 28, 1997 4C15[44]
18
18 "Lamentation" Winrich Kolbe Chris Carter April 18, 1997 4C17[45]
19
19 "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" Thomas J. Wright Ted Mann & Harold Rosenthal April 25, 1997 4C18[46]
20
20 "Broken World" Winrich Kolbe Robert Moresco & Patrick Harbinson May 2, 1997 4C19[47]
21
21 "Maranatha" Peter Markle Chip Johannessen May 9, 1997 4C20[48]
22
22 "Paper Dove" Thomas J. Wright Ted Mann & Walon Green May 16, 1997 4C21[49]
Season 2 (1997–98)[edit]
Main article: Millennium (season 2)
Millenniumseason 2 episodes

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code

23
1 "The Beginning and the End" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan& James Wong September 19, 1997 5C01
24
2 "Beware of the Dog" Allen Coulter Glen Morgan & James Wong September 26, 1997 5C02
25
3 "Sense and Antisense" Thomas J. Wright Chip Johannessen October 3, 1997 5C03
26
4 "Monster" Perry Lang Glen Morgan & James Wong October 17, 1997 5C04
27
5 "A Single Blade of Grass" Rodman Flender Kay Reindl & Erin Maher October 24, 1997 5C05
28
6 "The Curse of Frank Black" Ralph Hemecker Glen Morgan & James Wong October 31, 1997 5C07
29
7 "19:19" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong November 7, 1997 5C06
30
8 "The Hand of St. Sebastian" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong November 14, 1997 5C08
31
9 "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" Darin Morgan Darin Morgan November 21, 1997 5C09
32
10 "Midnight of the Century" Dwight Little Kay Reindl & Erin Maher December 19, 1997 5C11
33
11 "Goodbye Charlie" Ken Fink Richard Whitley January 9, 1998 5C10
34
12 "Luminary" Thomas J. Wright Chip Johannessen January 23, 1998 5C12
35
13 "The Mikado" Roderick Pridy Michael R. Perry February 6, 1998 5C13
36
14 "The Pest House" Allen Coulter Glen Morgan & James Wong February 27, 1998 5C15
37
15 "Owls" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong March 6, 1998 5C14
38
16 "Roosters" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong March 13, 1998 5C16
39
17 "Siren" Allen Coulter Glen Morgan & James Wong March 20, 1998 5C17
40
18 "In Arcadia Ego" Thomas J. Wright Chip Johannessen April 3, 1998 5C18
41
19 "Anamnesis" John Peter Kousakis Kay Reindl & Erin Maher April 17, 1998 5C19
42
20 "A Room With No View" Thomas J. Wright Ken Horton April 24, 1998 5C20
43
21 "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me" Darin Morgan Darin Morgan May 1, 1998 5C21
44
22 "The Fourth Horseman" Dwight Little Glen Morgan & James Wong May 8, 1998 5C22
45
23 "The Time Is Now" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong May 15, 1998 5C23
Season 3 (1998–99)[edit]
Main article: Millennium (season 3)
Millenniumseason 3 episodes

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code

46
1 "The Innocents" Thomas J. Wright Michael Duggan October 2, 1998 3ABC01
47
2 "Exegesis" Ralph Hemecker Chip Johannessen October 9, 1998 3ABC02
48
3 "TEOTWAWKI" Thomas J. Wright Chris Carter& Frank Spotnitz October 16, 1998 3ABC03
49
4 "Closure" Daniel Sackheim Larry Andries October 23, 1998 3ABC04
50
5 "...Thirteen Years Later" Thomas J. Wright Michael R. Perry October 30, 1998 3ABC05
51
6 "Skull and Bones" Paul Shapiro Chip Johannessen & Ken Horton November 6, 1998 3ABC06
52
7 "Through a Glass Darkly" Thomas J. Wright Patrick Harbinson November 13, 1998 3ABC07
53
8 "Human Essence" Thomas J. Wright Michael Duggan December 11, 1998 3ABC09
54
9 "Omertà" Paul Shapiro Michael R. Perry December 18, 1998 3ABC08
55
10 "Borrowed Time" Dwight Little Chip Johannessen January 15, 1999 3ABC10
56
11 "Collateral Damage" Thomas J. Wright Michael R. Perry January 22, 1999 3ABC11
57
12 "The Sound of Snow" Paul Shapiro Patrick Harbinson February 5, 1999 3ABC12
58
13 "Antipas" Thomas J. Wright Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz February 12, 1999 3ABC13
59
14 "Matryoshka" Arthur Forney Erin Maher & Kay Reindl February 19, 1999 3ABC14
60
15 "Forcing the End" Thomas J. Wright Marjorie David March 19, 1999 3ABC15
61
16 "Saturn Dreaming of Mercury" Paul Shapiro Chip Johannessen & Jordan Hawley April 9, 1999 3ABC16
62
17 "Darwin's Eye" Ken Fink Patrick Harbinson April 16, 1999 3ABC18
63
18 "Bardo Thodol" Thomas J. Wright Chip Johannessen & Virginia Stock April 23, 1999 3ABC17
64
19 "Seven and One" Peter Markle Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz April 30, 1999 3ABC19
65
20 "Nostalgia" Thomas J. Wright Michael R. Perry May 7, 1999 3ABC20
66
21 "Via Dolorosa" Paul Shapiro Marjorie David & Patrick Harbinson May 14, 1999 3ABC21
67
22 "Goodbye to All That" Thomas J. Wright Ken Horton & Chip Johannessen May 21, 1999 3ABC22
"Millennium" (The X-Files) (1999)[edit]
Main article: The X-Files (season 7)
"Millennium", The X-Filesseason 7

No. in
series
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
code

143
4 "Millennium" Thomas J. Wright Vince Gilligan& Frank Spotnitz November 28, 1999 7ABX01
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^Order in Chaos, 00:03–00:45
2.Jump up ^Order in Chaos, 00:48–01:51
3.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, pp. 8–9.
4.Jump up ^Adalian, Josef (October 11, 1998). "High-profile dramas skid on Fox, ABC". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
5.Jump up ^"People's Choice Awards 1997 Nominees". Procter & Gamble. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
6.Jump up ^Soloman, Harvey (September 18, 1997). "Fall Watch; 'Millennium' takes new turn". The Boston Herald. Retrieved July 20, 2012.(subscription required)
7.Jump up ^Wen, Howard (September 9, 1999). "It's not the end of the "Millennium," after all". Salon. Salon Media Group. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
8.Jump up ^Shapiro 2000, pp. 44–54.
9.Jump up ^Shearman & Pearson 2009, p. 105.
10.Jump up ^Shearman & Pearson 2009, p. 122.
11.^ Jump up to: abcd"Millennium on DVD, Release Info, Reviews, News". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
12.Jump up ^"Millennium – Season 1". Blockbuster.co.uk. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
13.Jump up ^"Millennium – Complete Season 1 Collection". EzyDVD. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
14.Jump up ^Shearman & Pearson 2009, p. 145.
15.Jump up ^Shearman & Pearson 2009, p. 162.
16.Jump up ^"Millennium – Season 2". Blockbuster.co.uk. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
17.Jump up ^"Millennium – Complete Season 2 Collection". EzyDVD. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
18.Jump up ^Shearman & Pearson 2009, p. 188.
19.Jump up ^Shearman & Pearson 2009, p. 204.
20.Jump up ^"Millennium – Season 3". Blockbuster.co.uk. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
21.Jump up ^"Millennium – Complete Season 3 Collection". EzyDVD. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
22.Jump up ^Kim Manners, et al (booklet). The X-Files: The Complete Seventh Season(Liner notes). Fox.
23.Jump up ^"The X-Files – Season 7 Box Set DVD Information". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
24.Jump up ^"X Files, The – Season 7". Blockbuster.co.uk. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
25.Jump up ^"X-Files, The – Season 7". EzyDVD. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
26.Jump up ^"Millennium – Season 1 To 3". Blockbuster.co.uk. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
27.Jump up ^"Millennium: The Complete DVD Collection". EzyDVD. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
28.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 2.
29.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 12.
30.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 22.
31.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 34.
32.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 54.
33.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 44.
34.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 62.
35.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 70.
36.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 86.
37.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 112.
38.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 102.
39.Jump up ^Genge 1997a, p. 122.
40.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 2.
41.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 14.
42.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 24.
43.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 48.
44.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 36.
45.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 58.
46.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 70.
47.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 84.
48.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 98.
49.Jump up ^Genge 1997b, p. 110.
References[edit]
Chris Carter, Ken Horton, Frank Spotnitz, Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, David Nutter, Mark Snow, John Peter Kousakis, Mark Freeborn, Robert McLachlan, Chip Johannessenand Thomas J. Wright(2004). Order in Chaos: Making Millennium Season One(DVD). Millennium: The Complete First Season: Fox Home Entertainment.
Genge, N. E. (1997a). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Genge, N. E. (1997b). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
Shapiro, Marc (2000). All Things: The Official Guide to the X-Files Volume 6. Harper Prism. ISBN 0-06-107611-2.
Shearman, Robert; Pearson, Lars (2009). Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen. Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 097594469X.
External links[edit]
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Millennium (season 1)

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Millennium season 1
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Season 1 DVD cover
 
Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
22
Broadcast

Original channel
Fox Broadcasting Network
Original run
October 25, 1996 – May 16, 1997
Home video release
DVD release
Region 1
July 20, 2004
Region 2
July 12, 2004
Region 4
October 4, 2006
Season chronology

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The first season of the serial crime-thriller television series Millennium commenced airing in the United States on October 25, 1996, concluding on May 16, 1997, and consisting of twenty-two episodes. It tells the story of retired FBI Agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen). Black has moved to Seattle, Washington with his family and has begun working with a mysterious organization known only as the Millennium Group. He investigates cases with members of the Group and the Seattle Police Department, contributing his remarkable capability of relating to the monsters responsible for horrific crimes. He finds that his daughter has inherited the same "gift" that he has, while the cases become increasingly more personal.
Critics received season one well. Although the show got the highest number of viewers for a pilot episode for the Fox Network at the time, it steadily dropped in the ratings, which led to it losing the Sunday slot to its sister show, The X-Files. The main cast of the show were Henriksen as Frank Black and Megan Gallagher as Catherine Black.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Production 1.1 Development
1.2 Casting and characters
2 Critical reception
3 Main cast 3.1 Starring
3.2 Recurring
4 Episodes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References
6 External links
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
The original idea behind Millennium came from an episode of The X-Files Chris Carter had written about a serial killer. The episode got Carter thinking about the "monsters" who lurked in the shadows. Later, he started to flesh out a character which would become Frank Black, but he was busy working with other projects at the time. In the mid-1990s, after the success of The X-Files, the Fox Network asked Carter if he could create another show for them.[1]
Originally, the show was planned to include a new "murder mystery" each week, at the same time having a comprehensive storyline. So Carter created the idea of the new millennium, which could give the show its own "feel". He felt he "could capitalise" and at the same time have a new murder mystery every week with a "millennial" twist to it.[1] He also wanted to explore "evil", not the "scientific approach" which was the psychological explanation of "evil". Carter wanted to explore evil through an "unscientific approach", an exploration where "the Bible" played an important role. While clearly stating that the show was not supposed to be heavily grounded in religious text, he felt in many ways that the Bible explained "things on various levels" and "not just in the modern scientific way."[2]
Casting and characters[edit]
Chris Carter had envisioned Lance Henriksen portraying the character of Frank Black, long before he was ever contacted. Although Carter's colleagues responded positively to the selection, the Fox Network wanted someone younger to take the lead part. Fox asked William Hurt to play the lead role, but after finding out that Hurt had no interest in acting on television, Henriksen got the part.[1]
When Henriksen first got the script, he mistook it for a film because of its "powerful" story. He was not fond of the idea of participating in a television project. Henriksen contacted Carter about the character; his first question was "How are you going to make this hero a hero? I mean, it is so dark, how are you going to handle this?" Carter replied saying that Frank was a hero because he was able to "stand-up" against all of this. Henriksen was also worried about the dark "feel" of the show, saying that all shows needs some glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel. According to Carter "The yellow house" was the light, which Henriksen later agreed upon.[1]
Studio executive Ken Horton was very pleased with Megan Gallagher's acting experiences. After winning the audition, she was given a "secret script". Reacting positively towards the script, she later met up with Carter and David Nutter.[1]
Critical reception[edit]
Peter Wunstorf was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award for his work on the pilot episode.[1] Lance Henriksen was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Frank Black but lost to E.R. performer, Anthony Edwards.[1] Co-star Brittany Tiplady was later nominated for a Young Artist Award but failed to win.[3] The show itself was nominated for a People's Choice Award in the category "Favorite Television New Dramatic Series" but did not win. Robert McLachlan was nominated and won a Canadian Society of Cinematographers in 1997.[1][4][5]
The first season was received well by critics. Keith Uhlich of Salon magazine called the season and series "Carter's greatest series", and that, "television work always improves in retrospect; his seemingly haphazard, on-the-fly narratives become more coherent when taken out of the hellish, commercial break-happy context wherein they spawned".[6] Paul Katz of Entertainment Weekly said, "Despite the unapologetic bleakness" of the show, it was Lance Henriksen performance that was the "real killer".[7] Mark Rahner from The Seattle Times said the "X-Files follow-up was uncompromisingly grim, fascinating, cinematically crafted", and that the show was "years ahead" of such "forensic mysteries" as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.[8] USA Today writer Matt Roush said "With nightmare visions of bleeding walls, charred bodies, decapitations and a grisly live burial", the show took a new "grim view" on "drama".[9]
Although the season première received good ratings, the series gradually lost viewers as they were reportedly "turned off by the morose and unnerving story lines."[10]
Main cast[edit]
Starring[edit]
Lance Henriksen as Frank Black
Megan Gallagher as Catherine Black
Recurring[edit]
Terry O'Quinn as Peter Watts
Brittany Tiplady as Jordan Black
Stephen J. Lang as Det. Bob Giebelhouse
and Bill Smitrovich as Lt. Robert Bletcher
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of Millennium episodes
Millennium season 1 episodes

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Production
 code

1
1 "Pilot" David Nutter Chris Carter October 25, 1996 4C79[11]
Frank Black and his family move to Seattle where he tracks a serial killer whose savagely slain victims include an exotic dancer. 
2
2 "Gehenna" David Nutter Chris Carter November 1, 1996 4C01[12]
Gruesome cult slayings bring Frank Black to San Francisco, where he experiences a life changing encounter with evil. 
3
3 "Dead Letters" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong November 8, 1996 4C02[13]
On a murder case in Portland, Oregon, Frank is uneasily teamed with a troubled Group member. 
4
4 "The Judge" Randall Zisk Ted Mann November 15, 1996 4C04[14]
Gruesome remains and other evidence provide Frank Black with a lead to a murderous avenger who persuades ex-cons to do his dirty work. 
5
5 "522666" David Nutter Glen Morgan & James Wong November 22, 1996 4C05[15]
A deadly explosion in a crowded Washington, D.C. bar is traced to a cunning bomber who toys with authorities and aims to strike again. 
6
6 "Kingdom Come" Winrich Kolbe Jorge Zamacona November 29, 1996 4C03[16]
Shattered faith figures in the motive for the slayings of clerics by a killer, whom Frank tracks with a Group member he worked with on a similar unsolved case. 
7
7 "Blood Relatives" Jim Charleston Chip Johannessen December 6, 1996 4C06[17]
In her role as a clinical social worker, Catherine Black lends her expertise to a heinous case: the slayings of the recently bereaved. 
8
8 "The Well-Worn Lock" Ralph Hemecker Chris Carter December 20, 1996 4C07[18]
A case of incest draws Catherine to the plight of a troubled woman who has kept a secret for 23 years: she was violated by her well-respected father. 
9
9 "Wide Open" Jim Charleston Charles Holland January 3, 1997 4C08[19]
A shadowy killer commits heinous murders, leaving clues in the memory of a terrorized child who was forced to witness the death of her parents. 
10
10 "The Wild and the Innocent" Thomas J. Wright Jorge Zamacona January 10, 1997 4C10[20]
A reopened murder case takes Frank Black to Missouri, where he winds up on a different mission, pursuing a young girl and her boyfriend as they go on a murderous search for her baby. 
11
11 "Weeds" Michael Pattinson Frank Spotnitz January 24, 1997 4C09[21]
In a guarded, well-to-do community, the kidnappings and brutalizations of teenage boys lead Frank to suspect an avenging resident. 
12
12 "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" David Nutter Ted Mann January 31, 1997 4C11[22]
In Colorado, Frank Black and an insightful associate track a killer who is driven by sexual neuroses and who uses mood-altering drugs to gain control of his victims. 
13
13 "Force Majeure" Winrich Kolbe Chip Johannessen February 7, 1997 4C12[23]
An enigmatic man obsessed with the Millennium Group haunts Frank on a strange case involving planetary alignments, genetic cloning and Judgment Day. Brad Dourif guest stars. 
14
14 "The Thin White Line" Thomas J. Wright Glen Morgan & James Wong February 14, 1997 4C13[24]
Black is haunted by a case he worked on twenty years ago involving a serial killer who murdered three FBI agents on a stake-out that he participated in. 
15
15 "Sacrament" Michael W. Watkins Frank Spotnitz February 21, 1997 4C14[25]
The abduction of his sister-in-law embroils Frank Black in an intensely personal case that is linked to a vicious sex offender recently released from an asylum. 
16
16 "Covenant" Roderick J. Pridy Robert Moresco March 21, 1997 4C16[26]
In Utah, Frank is hired to render a profile of an admitted killer that will support a death sentence but soon comes to believe that the man's confession was a lie. 
17
17 "Walkabout" Cliff Bole Chip Johannessen & Tim Tankosic March 28, 1997 4C15[27]
An Internet connection with a disturbed doctor leads an amnesiac Frank Black into a murder case linked to experimental drugs that drastically heighten anxiety. 
18
18 "Lamentation" Winrich Kolbe Chris Carter April 18, 1997 4C17[28]
Black investigates the disappearance of a former nemesis and learns that his family may be the target of a murdering nurse. 
19
19 "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" Thomas J. Wright Ted Mann & Harold Rosenthal April 25, 1997 4C18[29]
Still reeling from a tragic loss, Frank is swept into a bizarre case of ritualistic slayings that involves an enigmatic lawyer and unearthly occurrences. 
20
20 "Broken World" Winrich Kolbe Robert Moresco & Patrick Harbinson May 2, 1997 4C19[30]
Evidence found whilst investigating the vicious murders of domesticated horses in North Dakota leads Black to suspect the genesis of a psychosexual killer, who soon preys upon humans. 
21
21 "Maranatha" Peter Markle Chip Johannessen May 9, 1997 4C20[31]
In a Russian community in Brooklyn, Frank joins forces with a Moscow cop to investigate gruesome slayings linked to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster--and to biblical prophecy. 
22
22 "Paper Dove" Thomas J. Wright Ted Mann & Walon Green May 16, 1997 4C21[32]
Vacationing in the D.C. area, Frank tries to clear an admiral's son of murder in a case that's linked to a serial killer. 
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Carter, Chris, Horton, Ken, Spotnitz, Frank, Henriksen, Lance, Gallagher, Megan, Nutter, David, Snow, Mark, Peter Kousakis, John, Freeborn, Mark, McLachlan, Robert, Johannessen, Chip and J. Wright, Thomas (2004). Order in Chaos, Making Millennium Season One (DVD). FOX Home Entertainment.
2.Jump up ^ Carter, Chris (1996). "Pilot" and "Gehenna" documentary (UK: Video Boxset documentary) (DVD). FOX Home Entertainment.
3.Jump up ^ "Nineteenth Annual Youth in Film Awards 1996-1997". Young Artist Awards. Retrieved September 28, 2009.
4.Jump up ^ Speier, Michael. (August 1, 1997). "Cinematographer Robert Mclachlan." Digital Content Magazine. September 28, 2009.
5.Jump up ^ Angus, Don (October 1998). "An Interview with Rob McLachlan csc: Life on Millennium". Canadian Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved September 28, 2009.
6.Jump up ^ Uhlich, Keith (July 25, 2004). "Millennium: The Complete First Season". Salon magazine. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
7.Jump up ^ Katz, Paul (July 30, 2004). "Millennium: The Complete First Season (2004)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
8.Jump up ^ Rahner, Mark (July 23, 2004). "Chilling with Lance Henriksen, Mr. Millennium". The Seattle Times. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
9.Jump up ^ Roush, Matt (July 18, 2004). "Millenium takes a grim view Drama offers disturbing images that 'push the level of intensity'". USA Today. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
10.Jump up ^ Wen, Howard (September 9, 1999). "It's not the end of the "Millennium," after all". Salon Magazine (Salon Media Group). Retrieved 2009-12-27.
11.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 2.
12.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 12.
13.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 22.
14.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 34.
15.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 54.
16.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 44.
17.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 62.
18.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 70.
19.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 86.
20.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 112.
21.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 102.
22.Jump up ^ Genge 1997a, p. 122.
23.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 2.
24.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 14.
25.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 24.
26.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 48.
27.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 36.
28.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 58.
29.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 70.
30.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 84.
31.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 98.
32.Jump up ^ Genge 1997b, p. 110.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997a). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Genge, N. E. (1997b). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion Volume Two. Century. ISBN 0712678697.
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A stripper standing in front of a wall covered with blood, as seen in an hallucination by "The Frenchman"
 
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 1
Directed by
David Nutter
Written by
Chris Carter
Production code
4C79
Original air date
October 25, 1996
Guest actors

Bill Smitrovich as Bob Bletcher
Terry O'Quinn as Peter Watts
Paul Dillon as The Frenchman
Brittany Tiplady as Jordan Black
Stephen E. Miller as Roger Kamm
Stephen J. Lang as Bob Geibelhouse
Kate Luyben as Tuesday
April Telek as Calamity
Don MacKay as Jack Meredith
Mike Puttonen as Curt Massey
Jarred Blancard as Young Man at Ruby Tip
Jim Thorburn as Coffin Man
Kimm Wakefield as Young Woman
John Destry as Driver on Bridge
Liza Huget as Nurse
Jim Filippone as Chopper Pilot
Fawnia Mondey as Ruby Tip Stripper
 
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"Pilot" is the pilot episode of the crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on October 25, 1996. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter, and directed by David Nutter. "Pilot" featured guest appearances by Paul Dillon, April Telek and Stephen J. Lang.
Offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, retires to Seattle with his family after a breakdown caused him to quit working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Using his incredible profiling skills, Black helps in an effort to catch a vicious murderer who believes he is fulfilling apocalyptic prophecies.
"Pilot" was filmed over the course of a month in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was inspired by the writings of Nostradamus and William Butler Yeats. Airing in the timeslot previously occupied by Carter's first series, The X-Files, the episode received a high Nielsen household and syndication rating and was generally positively received by fans and critics alike.

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2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Footnotes 4.1 References
5 External links
Plot[edit]
In a strip club in downtown Seattle, an unnamed man known to the club workers as "The Frenchman" (Paul Dillon) is mumbling poetic phrases and hallucinating blood pouring over a blonde stripper, with a wall of fire surrounding her. Later that night, the stripper is murdered. Just arriving in Seattle is Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and his family. Frank spots a newspaper about the local murder, and immediately contacts his old colleague Bob Bletcher. Frank joins the investigation as an advisor of the Millennium Group, a private investigative group composed of retired law enforcement agents.
When he views the body, Frank gets various vivid visions of the crime. His knowledge of various details unknown to the others unsettles Bletcher. Frank and a fellow member of the Millennium Group named Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) officially join the investigation.
In the meantime, the killer is hunting for his next victim. While unknown to him, the murderer is trapped in a world of grotesque hallucinations. Later that night, local police officers spot his latest victim. Frank visits the crime scene, which gives him a vision of the crime, again startling his colleague Bletcher. Later on, Frank presents his finding to the local homicide department, saying that the murderer is obsessed with apocalyptic prophecies and maddened by twisted sexual guilt.
After Frank presents his finding, Bletcher demands Frank give him the stripper girl's "rape & murder on VHS.". Frank tells him he can see what the killer sees. After telling him, Frank rushes to hospital when his daughter, Jordan Black (Brittany Tiplady) is stricken with a high fever. Getting another vision, Frank leaves the hospital and gathers local law enforcement officers to another victim.
This follows with Frank tracking down the killer to the local police department's own evidence lab. In a mad rage the killer attacks Frank, but Bletcher shows up and shoots the killer, saving Frank's life. After clearing up the case with the local authorities, Frank returns home and opens up a newly arrived anonymous piece of mail containing pictures of his family.
Production[edit]
"Pilot" 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 "Gehenna"—three in the first season,[1] and a further three in the third season.[2] Director David Nutter would also go on to direct several episodes in the first season of the series—"Gehenna", "522666" and "Loin Like a Hunting Flame".[1]
"Pilot" was filmed over the course of a month, which was an unheard-of length of time for a single television episode.[3] The episode was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia in early spring to give it a "gray" and "bleak" look. The decision to film in Vancouver was to give the show the same dark feel as its sister show The X-Files, which had also been created by Carter. The strip club, Ruby Tip, was inspired by a club in Seattle named the Lusty Lady, which is located on that city's main street. Director David Nutter had been a long-time staff member of The X-Files crew. Carter said the episode was "directed beautifully by David Nutter who added to the project in so many ways, even as it came on, things that he saw visually that were able to actually change and make the script more concise".[4] Although "Pilot" did not open with a literary quote as the series would do from the next episode onwards, its plot heavily features the 1919 poem "The Second Coming" by Irish poet William Butler Yeats.[5]
Carter called it a "pleasure" to cast Kate Luyben and April Telek, because they were "good"-looking, which he felt was a refreshing change from frequently casting "character actors" on The X-Files. Luyben would later make an appearance on The X-Files and played a prominent role on Harsh Realm. The idea behind the character "The Frenchman" came from a prophecy by Nostradamus. According to Carter, "the idea that there is something approaching at the millennium, this series being produced I think four years before the end of the century, that we were headed toward something grave and foreboding". The name of recurring character Bob Bletcher came from an attorney Carter had worked with previously. Another name, Giebelhouse was another name Carter had gotten from his childhood years. Carter said "This idea of the hard-boiled detective is a kind of cliché". But felt that the characters came "very real to life", when compared to real law enforcement personnel.[4]
Millennium was given the Friday night timeslot previously occupied by The X-Files, prompting Carter to quip that his earlier series was "being abducted". However, Millennium received higher viewing figures during its first season than The X-Files had done, while the latter show's fourth season, the one airing concurrently to Millennium, saw its ratings reach their highest to that point.[6]
Broadcast and reception[edit]


Right from the start, with the sequences of blood running down walls to the syncopated dance beat of a peepshow, this is a programme which is makring itself out as being cruder and nastier than its more obviously populist sister show - but what's remarkable is that however brutal the episode is, there's a compelling beauty to it too.
—Robert Shearman, comparing the episode to Carter's previous series The X-Files[7]
"Pilot" was first broadcast on the Fox network on October 25, 1996;[7] and gathered a total viewership of 17.72 million in the United States. In the "adults 18–49" demographic, the episode earned a Nielsen rating of 9, with a 27 share; meaning it was viewed by nine percent of television-equipped households and 27 percent of those actively watching television.[8] The rating across all demographics was 11.9.[9] The episode's broadcast set the record at the time for the most-watched program on Fox.[10]
Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handeln rated the episode a B, finding it to be "weirdly prescient of the crime dramas we wallow in today". Handlen felt that episode's tone was so "overwrought" as to be "hilarious", but still found the series to be "uncompromising" and "compelling". Handlen also noted similarities to the films Manhunter and Seven in both the episode's plot and the series' premise.[11] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 5/5, calling it "perhaps the most perfect opening episode to a one-hour suspense thriller ... ever conceived". Gibron also praised the casting of Henriksen and O'Quinn in the series.[12] An Entertainment Weekly preview for the episode noted that some of its scenes were "the grimmest ... in prime-time history".[13] 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 four stars out of five, calling it "bleak and confrontational" though finding that its symbolism was "too boldly stated". Comparing the series to its sister show, The X-Files, Shearman and Pearson noted that Henriksen portrays his role "with a confidence that makes him immediately a more credible character than Mulder or Scully would be for an entire season".[7] Writing for The Register-Guard, Renee Graham called the episode "as lurid a television show as you're ever going to see", adding that it seemed "just too horrific to be enjoyable". However, Graham noted that the episode was "by far the superior show" compared to the similar series Profiler, which aired around the same time.[14]
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 ^ 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 to: a b Chris Carter (narrator) (2004). "Audio Commentary for "Pilot"". Millennium: The Complete First Season (DVD) (Fox Home Entertainment).
5.Jump up ^ Genge, pp.130–131
6.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 8–9
7.^ Jump up to: a b c Shearman and Pearson, pp. 105–106
8.Jump up ^ Adalian, Josef (October 11, 1998). "High-profile dramas skid on Fox, ABC". Variety Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
9.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xiii
10.Jump up ^ "Millennium". Television Heaven. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
11.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (September 25, 2010). ""Herrenvolk"/"Pilot" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
13.Jump up ^ Tucker, Ken (September 13, 1996). "Friday's New Shows". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Graham, Renee (October 25, 1996). "'Millennium' is grim, gripping drama". The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon). p. 14. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0712678336.
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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"Pilot" at the Internet Movie Database

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Gehenna (Millennium)

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"Gehenna"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 2
Directed by
David Nutter
Written by
Chris Carter
Production code
4C01
Original air date
November 1, 1996
Guest actors

Robin Gammell as Mike Atkins
Chris Ellis as Jim Penseyres
Sam Khouth as Dylan
Don MacKay as Jack Meredith
George Josef as Mr. Bolow
Stephen Holmes as Eedo
 
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"'Gehenna" is the second episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on November 1, 1996. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter, and directed by David Nutter. "Gehenna" featured guest appearances by Robin Gammel and Chris Ellis.
Offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is sent to San Francisco to track down a doomsday cult which murders its brainwashed members when they disob it.
"Gehenna" sees both Carter and Nutter continue their roles from "Pilot", although it also necessitated changes in filming locations. The episode opens with a quote by W. H. Auden—the first of the series' opening quotations—and makes references to the Hebrew Bible's Gehenna.

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

Plot[edit]
In San Francisco, a group of young men drive to an abandoned factory, and drug one of their members with LSD, leaving him to be torn apart by what he perceives to be a monster. Later, a large quantity of suspicious ash found in a nearby park is proven to be from human remains. A private investigative organisation, the Millennium Group, despatches offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and colleague Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) to investigate the multiple homicide that led to this. Black believes that the victims were burnt alive; while chemical analysis of the ash leads the Group to the same factory.
In Black's home in Seattle, his wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) confides in policeman Bob Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich) her worry about Black's overprotective nature, fearing he may quit his job if he believes his family to be in danger. Catherine does not yet know that a stalker from their past has resurfaced and has been posting polaroids of the family to Black. Black has meanwhile been persuaded by his fellow Group member Mike Atkins (Robin Gammell) that his family is in no immediate risk.
Back in San Francisco, dental records matched to teeth found in the ashes lead to a young immigrant who vanished six months prior, having joined a doomsday cult. Elsewhere, this cult is seen operating as telemarketers, working in a large assembly hall as propaganda slogans are projected onto the walls around them. One of the members is apprehended by Black, and during his interrogation it becomes clear that the cult, fronting as Gehenna Industries, is brainwashing its terrified members, incinerating those who disobey.
Black returns to Seattle, researching Gehenna Industries from his home. He uncovers a warehouse address belonging to the cult, which Atkins investigates. The warehouse is full of cached weaponry, stockpiled for the cult's doomsday predictions. The cult's leader lures Atkins into the industrial microwave which has been used to immolate the victims, but the police arrive in time to save him, having been tipped off by Black that Atkins may be in danger. The weapons stockpile allows the police to bring down the cult, but Black is certain that their influence is still a threat.
Production[edit]

 

 The Valley of Hinnom, the source of the episode's title
"Gehenna" is the second episode of the series directed by David Nutter, who had previously helmed "Pilot". Nutter would also direct "522666" and "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" later in the first season.[1] 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 "Gehenna"—three in the first season,[1] and a further three in the third season.[2] "Gehenna" marked the first appearance by Chris Ellis as Group member Jim Penseyres; Ellis would go on to reprise the role in "Dead Letters"[3] and "The Judge".[4]
The episode opens with a quote from the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden, taken from the 1939 poem "Blessed Event"—"I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen", the final line of the poem's third stanza.[5] Poetry by William Butler Yeats, a contemporary of Auden's, formed a plot point in "Pilot",[6] while the title of "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" was taken from the work of yet another contemporary, Dylan Thomas.[7] As "Pilot" did not open with a quotation, "Gehenna" is the first episode of Millennium to do so.[8] The episode's title, Gehenna, is the Hellenised form of the Hebrew Gehinnom, the "Valley of the Son of Hinnom". Gehinnom was a location referred to in the Hebrew Bible where children were sacrificed by burning to the Canaanite god Moloch; this ritual sacrifice echoes the cremation of the victims in the episode.[9]
The building used for exterior shots of the Black family's home is different to the one seen in "Pilot"; the earlier house was located in an expensive neighbourhood whose residents had decided not to allow filming to continue there. The new location chosen was one which had already been used in Millennium's sister show The X-Files, appearing in that series' second episode "Deep Throat". The house's owner was an air stewardess who would frequently meet members of the cast and crew as they travelled in and out of Vancouver.[10]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Gehenna" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on November 1, 1996;[11] and earned a Nielsen rating of 8.1, meaning that roughly 8.1 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[12] The episode was watched by approximately 7.9 million households.[nb 1]
"Gehenna" received mixed reviews from critics. Writing for The A.V. Club, Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a C+, finding that it was "almost completely crippled by ... self-seriousness". VanDerWerff felt that the episode reflected Milliennium seeming simultaneously both "intrinsically of the 1990s" and "ahead of its time", find that its treatment of "the dread and shadowy fear and sense that the world held several cloaked and mysterious evils for well-to-do Americans" was a symptom of 1990s preoccupation with "the end of the world" while foreshadowing the mood of the United States following the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001. As a result, VanDerWerff described the episode, and the series, as being "the first post-Sept. 11 show".[14] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 4.5 out of 5, noting that there is "more here than just your standard serial killer show". Gibron praised the episode's "atypical storyline", which he felt was achieved through "some suggestive effects and wonderful crosscutting".[15] 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, calling it "a somewhat humdrum story". Shearman and Pearson felt that the episode's core premise—that of "a telemarking company being a front for a terrorist cult"—was intriguing, but that the "millennial flavour" that accompanies this resulted in the episode seeming "a little confused".[16]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[13]
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Millennium: The Complete First Season (Media notes). Fox. 1996–1997.
2.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Media notes). Fox. 1998–1999.
3.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 22
4.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 34
5.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 132
6.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 130–132
7.Jump up ^ Genge, pp 138–139
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 130
9.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 16–17
10.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).
11.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 106
12.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
13.Jump up ^ Meisler, p. 298
14.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (October 2, 2010). ""Home"/"Gehenna" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
15.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 106–107
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0712678336.
Meisler, Andy (1998). I Want to Believe: The Official Guide to the X-Files Volume 3. Harper Prism. ISBN 0061053864.
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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Millenniumhairtoday.jpg
A single human hair inscribed with the message "hair today".
 
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 3
Directed by
Thomas J. Wright
Written by
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Production code
4C02
Original air date
November 8, 1996
Guest actors

Chris Ellis as Jim Penseyres
Ron Halder as The Killer
James Morrison as Jim Horn
Garvin Cross as Patient
Anthony Harrison as Detective Jenkins
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"'Dead Letters" is the third episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on November 8, 1996. The episode was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "Dead Letters" featured guest appearances by Chris Ellis, Ron Halder and James Morrison.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) is sent to evaluate a prospective member of the group, who perform private investigative work and liaise with law enforcement. Meeting this hopeful member, Jim Horn (Morrison), Black is drawn to investigate a serial killer operating in the area; while Horn begins to unravel under the strain of the case.
Several of the cast and crew made their first contributions to the series in "Dead Letters", with Wright, Morgan, Wong and Ellis all returning for future episodes. Production of "Dead Letters" impressed other series regulars—series writer Chip Johannessen praised the script's attention to detail, while producer John Peter Kousaskis called positive attention to its physical and make-up effects.

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3 Reception
4 Footnotes 4.1 References

Plot[edit]
Jordan Black (Brittany Tiplady) is awakened by a nightmare, and is comforted by her father Frank Black (Lance Henriksen). However, Black is soon called to investigate a murder scene in Portland, Oregon. Black works for the Millennium Group, an organisation which offers private investigation services and consults with law enforcement on certain types of cases. Black is asked by Group member Jim Penseyres (Chris Ellis) to help a local detective on the murder case, as he is being considered as prospective member of the Millennium Group. Black believes the murder to be the work of a serial killer, and is convinced there will be a message to found from the killer.
Black meets up with the detective, Jim Horn (James Morrison), and sees that he is a competent and experienced investigator; although his family's breakup has left him distracted and on edge.
The killer takes another victim, disposing of the body in the postal service's dead letter office. Investigating, Black finds a human hair with a message etched into it—"hair today, gone tomorrow"—which he takes as an indication that the murderer is lashing out at a world that he feels has treated him as insignificant. Horn's mental condition seems to deteriorate, and he begins to take the case personally, leading Black to doubt his ability.
A third victim turns up, with another message—"nothing ventured, nothing gained". A lens from the killer's glasses is also recovered. Black organises a press release in an attempt to draw out the killer, taunting his intelligence by including a falsified profile describing him as uneducated. Black and Horn feel this will tempt the killer to show up at the latest victim's memorial service. An unstable Horn attacks an innocent man at the service, believing him to be the killer; although a cross found at the memorial with "ventured" etched upon it proves the killer did attend. Surveillance footage of the service yields two leads—a local optician recognizes the suspect as a customer having a glasses lens replaced, and the killer's vehicle is identified.
Black and Horn realize that the killer will have chosen the optician as his next victim, and agree to set another trap with her as the bait. Horn has become more unhinged throughout the case, and begins imagining the killer and his van at every turn. As he and Black wait for the killer to make an attempt on the optician's life, Horn admits that he cannot perform as he is expected, and is told to go home. However, he parks his car on the route towards the trap, feigning a flat tyre. When the killer's van attempts to pass, Horn attacks him, but the police arrive in time to stop him beating the killer to death. The attack renders any evidence found in the van inadmissible in court, although Black believes they will find enough evidence at the killer's home to secure a conviction. Later, Horn asks Black how he can stay calm when faced with cases like this regularly; Black simply hugs his daughter by way of reply.
Production[edit]
"Dead Letters" is the first episode of Millennium to be written by James Wong and Glen Morgan, who would go on to write another fourteen episodes across the first and second seasons.[1][2] The episode is also the first not to have been written by series creator Chris Carter, who had penned both of the preceding episodes, "Pilot" and "Gehenna".[1] "Dead Letters" also marked the first time Thomas J. Wright had directed an episode of the series. Wright would go on to direct twenty-six episodes across all three seasons,[1][2][3] as well as directing "Millennium", the series' crossover episode with its sister show The X-Files.[4] He had also previously worked with Morgan and Wong on their series Space: Above and Beyond.[5]
The episode marked the second of three appearances by Chris Ellis as Millennium Group member Jim Penseyres; Ellis had previously appeared in "Gehenna",[6] and would reappear in the next episode, "The Judge".[7] Guest star James Morrison, who portrayed the troubled Jim Horn, had also previously appeared as a main character in Morgan and Wong's Space: Above and Beyond, playing Tyrus Cassius McQueen;[5] his character's son in this episode is named TC as a reference to this.[8] Lisa Vultaggio, who played the optician used to bait the killer, had previously worked with Morgan and Wong in The X-Files, appearing in the first season episode "Beyond the Sea".[9]
Producer and writer Chip Johannessen felt that the scene in this episode in which a human hair is discovered with a message inscribed upon it was a "perfect" moment, in that it "told you everything about this guy [the killer] ... but you had no idea what he was or what he was going to do next ... you know what kind of crazy motherfucker would do that, but where he is or what he's going to do next, who knows".[10] The episode's opening nightmare sequence, in which Jordan Black (Brittany Tiplady) is terrified by a clown crawling along the ceiling, was inspired by the childhood nightmares of Morgan and Wong, and left Tiplady suffering from bad dreams herself for several nights after filming.[11] Producer John Peter Kousakis recalls having visited the episode's set late during production, having felt that make-up effects supervisor Toby Lindala had been doing "fabulous" work on the series' prosthetic body parts. Walking on set to find Lindala's recreation of a quartered corpse, Kousakis remarked "we're doing something special here, but we're also doing something really outrageous". Lance Henriksen also found this scene too graphic to film all at once, taking time between shots to compose himself.[10]
Reception[edit]
"Dead Letters" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on November 8, 1996;[12] and earned a Nielsen rating of 8, meaning that roughly 8 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[13]
"Dead Letters" earned positive reviews from critics. Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen rated the episode a B+. Handlen felt that the episode is "not art, not yet, but it is deeply personal", and praised the opening dream sequence, describing it as "flat-out Lynchian nightmare territory". However, he noted that the episode's dialogue felt too "flat" and "expository", adding that it serves to draw "attention to themes that were already plastered across the screen in blinding red and black".[14] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 4 out of 5, describing it as being "one of the more horrifying episodes in Season 1". Gibron added that "seeing Jim Horn go through his mental breakdown gives us insight into where Frank Black is coming from", although he felt that the lack of real insight into the killer's personality let the episode down.[15] 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 four stars out of five, describing it as a "gripping and sincere portrait of human ugliness at its most banal". Shearman and Pearson praised guest star James Morrison's acting, noting that he was "the very humanity that the show is crying out for".[12]
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Millennium: The Complete First Season (Media notes). Fox. 1996–1997.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Media notes). Fox. 1997–1998.
3.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Media notes). Fox. 1998–1999.
4.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (November 28, 1999). "Millennium". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 4. Fox.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright (director); Peyton Webb (writer) (November 19, 1995). "Hostile Visit". Space: Above and Beyond. Season 1. Episode 8. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ David Nutter (director); Chris Carter (writer) (November 1, 1998). "Gehenna". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 2. Fox.
7.Jump up ^ Randall Zisk (director); Ted Mann (writer) (November 15, 1998). "The Judge". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 4. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 27
9.Jump up ^ David Nutter (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (January 7, 1994). "Beyond the Sea". The X-Files. Season 1. Episode 13. Fox.
10.^ Jump up to: a b 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).
11.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 28
12.^ Jump up to: a b Shearman and Pearson, p. 107
13.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
14.Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (October 9, 2010). ""Teliko"/Dead Letters | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
15.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved February 23, 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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 ­"Covenant"·
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"The Judge"
Millennium episode
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Recurring guest star C. C. H. Pounder made her début in "The Judge".
 
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 4
Directed by
Randall Zisk
Written by
Ted Man
Production code
4C04
Original air date
November 15, 1996
Guest actors

Bill Smitrovich as Lt. Bob Bletcher
Marshall Bell as The Judge
John Hawkes as Mike Bardale
Chris Ellis as Jim Penseyres
Stephen J. Lang as Det. Bob Giebelhouse
Brian Markinson as Detective Teeple
C. C. H. Pounder as Cheryl Andrews
J. R. Bourne as Carl Nearman
Donna White as Annie Tisman
 
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"'The Judge" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on November 15, 1996. The episode was written by Ted Mann, and directed by Randall Zisk. "The Judge" featured guest appearances by Marshall Bell, John Hawkes and C. C. H. Pounder.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is asked to investigate a vigilante (Bell) who uses newly released convicts to execute those he deems guilty.
"The Judge" begins with a quotation from Moby-Dick, a novel that the episode has been compared to thematically. Guest star Pounder would reappear several times in the series, while fellow guest Ellis made the last of his three appearances in this episode. The episode received mixed reviews from critics.

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2 Production
3 Reception
4 Footnotes 4.1 References

Plot[edit]
In a bowling alley, ex-convict Carl Nearman (J. R. Bourne) watches another man eat his meal before following him outside, where he approaches and kills him. Elsewhere, Annie Tisman (Donna White) receives a human tongue in a package. The Millennium Group sends offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and pathologist Cheryl Andrews (C. C. H. Pounder) to investigate, as several people have received body parts in the post over the past few years. No connection between the recipients has been found, nor have the bodies the parts have been culled from.
Mike Bardale (John Hawkes) is a violent recidivist who has recently been released from prison again. He is approached by a man calling himself The Judge (Marshall Bell), who offers Bardale a position in his "court". The Judge is a vigilante, hiring convicts to mete out his version of justice against those he perceives as criminals. Bardale's first "execution" is that of his forebear, Nearman.
The body of the man killed outside the bowling alley is discovered, missing a tongue. It is identified as a retired police officer, Detective Mellen, who had given false testimony that had sent Annie Tisman's late husband to prison. Black realizes that the killer is motivated by the need to right wrongs such as this, killing those who have gotten away with crimes. Meanwhile, The Judge passes sentence on another victim—a slumlord whose negligence caused a tenant's death. Bardale is ordered to cut the landlord's leg off while he is still alive; the leg is later found in a postal depot in a package.
Forensic evidence on the package eventually leads to Bardale, and then to The Judge. The Judge is arrested for questioning, and knowing that there is not enough evidence to warrant sentencing him, he offers Black a job with him. Black refuses, but The Judge is released. Bardale is incensed that The Judge has manipulated the law to his own ends, and passes sentence on him for hypocrisy. Finding Bardale alone in a farmhouse, Black discovers that the convict had fed The Judge to his pigs.
Production[edit]


Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
—The episode's opening quote, from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
"The Judge" is the first of four episodes of Millennium to be written by Ted Mann, who would go on to write "Loin Like a Hunting Flame", "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" and the first season finale "Paper Dove".[1] The episode marks director Randall Zisk's only work for the series.[1]
The episode features the first appearance by C. C. H. Pounder as Millennium Group pathologist Cheryl Andrews. Pounder would go on to make another four appearances as the character, appearing across all three seasons.[2][3][4][5] "The Judge" also marked the final appearance by Chris Ellis as Group member Jim Penseyres; Ellis had previously appeared in "Gehenna"[6] and "Dead Letters".[7] John Hawkes, who portrays killer Mike Bardale in the episode, would later go on to work with Mann again on the series Deadwood, first reuniting on that series' first season finale "Sold Under Sin".[8]
The episode opens with a quotation from Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, taken from chapter forty-two, "The Whiteness of the Whale". Both Millennium and Moby-Dick have been described as "a basic conflict between good and evil". In addition, both are "focused on a then-modern view of the world".[9]
Reception[edit]


Also clear in this episode is just how little the show had figured out to use Catherine, as she mostly stumbles in to say, "Hey, one of my co-workers has a client who just got a TONGUE IN A BOX. You know anything about this?" before wandering off.
—The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff on the character of Catherine Black.[10]
"The Judge" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on November 15, 1996;[11] 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.[12]
"The Judge" 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 one star out of five, finding its "contrived" plot to be "barely a subtle premise", and noting that "the script unfortunately elevates the lead villain to high camp".[11] Shearman and Pearson felt that the subject of vigilantism was a suitable one for the series, and that it had "been bubbling under the surface every since the concept of the Millennium Group ... was first mentioned"; however, they ultimately felt that the episode contained "very little to engage the brain".[11] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "The Judge" 4 out of 5, describing it as being "a fine, moody episode". However, Gibron felt that Marshall Bell's character may have been better suited to a recurring role, rather than being killed off during the episode.[13] Writing for The A.V. Club, Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B-, praising the acting of both Bell and John Hawkes. However, VanDerWerff felt that "The Judge" showed Millennium to be struggling with its own concept, growing "staid" as a result of only having "the one color to play with".[10]
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
2.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 102
3.Jump up ^ Winrich Kolbe (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (February 7, 1997). "Force Majeure". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 13. Fox.
4.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.
5.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Chip Johannessen & Ken Horton (writers) (November 6, 1998). "Skull and Bones". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 6. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 12
7.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 22
8.Jump up ^ Davis Guggenheim (director); Ted Mann (writer) (June 13, 2004). "Sold Under Sin". Deadwood. Season 1. Episode 12. HBO.
9.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 134
10.^ Jump up to: a b VanDerWerff, Todd (October 16, 2010). ""Unruhe"/The Judge" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c Shearman and Pearson, p. 108
12.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
13.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved February 25, 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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 ­"Covenant"·
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522666

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"522666"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 5
Directed by
David Nutter
Written by
Glen Morgan
James Wong
Production code
4C05
Original air date
November 22, 1996
Guest actors

Brittany Tiplady as Jordan Black
Sam Anderson as Agent Jack Pierson
Robert Lewis as Agent Sullivan
Joe Chrest as Raymond Dees
Hiro Kanagawa as Agent Takahashi
William MacDonald as Agent Nolan
Roger Barnes as Agent Smith
Deryl Hayes as Officer Mark Stanton
 
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"'522666" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on November 22, 1996. The episode was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by David Nutter. "522666" featured guest appearances by Sam Anderson, Hiro Kanagawa and Joe Chrest.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) is approached by the FBI when a series of bombs are detonated in Washington, DC. Black's investigation soon reveals that the culprit seeks to be seen as a hero, setting off explosions in order to rescue people from the scenes; leaving Black to track down the fame-hungry bomber before more people are killed.
"522666" was one of many collaborations between Nutter, Morgan and Wong, with the three having worked together on several television series previously. The episode opens with a reference to existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and featured Henriksen performing all of his own stunts.

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4 Footnotes 4.1 References

Plot[edit]
Outside a bar in Washington DC, Raymond Dees (Joe Chrest) calls 911 on a payphone. He says nothing, simply typing the numbers 522666 on the phone's keypad. Later, he watches the bar from a parking garage nearby, masturbating as the bomb he has left inside detonates.
Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) watches the aftermath of the explosion on the news, knowing that the group will ask for his assistance with the case. Dees is among the rescuers seen on the broadcast. Black travels to DC and meets up with fellow group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn). The two join the FBI task force investigating the bombing, led by special agents Pierson (Sam Anderson) and Takahashi (Hiro Kanagawa). Watts and Black quickly dismiss several false claims of responsibility by terrorist groups. Black listens to the 911 call left by Dees, deducing that the numbers dialled spell the word kaboom on a telephone keypad.
Black and the FBI investigate the crime scene; Black not only realises the bomber's proficiency with explosives, but is able to work out that he viewed the bombing from the parking garage. In a bin in the garage, they find a tissue covered in Dees' semen. Black informs the FBI that the bomber is smart enough to be able to tap into their phonecalls, and volunteers to bait him into eavesdropping on his mobile phone. Black's deduction is correct, and as he attempts to stall Dees on the phone while the FBI trace the call, he realises from Dees' language that the bomber is seeking to become famous through his actions. Dees informs the FBI that he has planned another bombing for the next morning.
The FBI task force rush to locate the bomb, tracing the phonecall to a small section of the city that might house it. Scanning the area, Black notices another parking garage opposite an office block, and attempts to have the building evacuated. However, Dees has planted a second bomb which detonates fifteen minutes early, while Black is inside the building. However, he is pulled to safety by a stranger, who is interviewed on the news following the explosion—Raymond Dees.
Black comes to in a hospital bed, tended to by his wife Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher). She explains to him what has happened, and turns on the evening news to show him the interview with his rescuer. However, watching Dees speak, Black quickly realises he is the bomber. The FBI locate Dees' home, but his electronic surveillance had alerted him long before, and he has escaped before they even arrive. However, as Black sits in his car, he receives a call from Dees, who has booby-trapped the car. The FBI are able to monitor this call with Dees' equipment. Dees tells Black that they will both soon be famous, letting Black know that he has a remote detonator for the car's explosives. Before he can use it, he is killed by a police marksman.
When Black's car is searched, it is clear it was never rigged with anything—Dees had planned the whole thing, knowing that he would be killed. As news reports spread concerning the bomber's identity and his death at the hands of the police, Black sees that Dees has achieved the fame he longed for.
Production[edit]

 

 Henriksen performed his own stunts in "522666".
"522666" was directed by David Nutter, who had directed both "Pilot" and "Gehenna" previously, and would also direct "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" later in the season.[1] Writers James Wong and Glen Morgan had previously written "Dead Letters", and would go on to write an additional thirteen episodes during the first and second seasons of the series.[1][2] Nutter, Morgan and Wong had all previously collaborated on both Millennium's sister show The X-Files,[3] and the Morgan and Wong-created series Space: Above and Beyond.[4]
Guest star Hiro Kanagawa, who portrays FBI special agent Takahashi, has appeared several times in Millennium's sister show The X-Files, in the second[5] and fourth seasons;[6] as well as in The X-Files' spin-off series The Lone Gunmen.[7] Kanagawa would also make several more appearances on Millennium, acting in unrelated roles in the episodes "The Time Is Now",[8] "Human Essence",[9] and "Bardo Thodol".[10] The episode also featured a guest appearance by William MacDonald as FBI Agent Nolan; MacDonald would later reappear in the third season episode "Through a Glass Darkly".[11]
Lance Henriksen performed all his own stunts in this episode, having been introduced to acting by a stuntman friend of his.[12] The episode opens with a quote from French existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre—"I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility", which was taken from the 1943 treatise Being and Nothingness. Sarte's writing echoes the motivations of the character of Raymond Dees, with author N. E. Genge noting that both believed that "just because the individual was incapable of changing destiny alone was no reason for him to stop trying".[13]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"522666" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on November 22, 1996,[14] 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.[15]
The episode received mixed to positive reviews from critics. The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen rated the episode a B-, finding that the episode's 'cat and mouse' chase between Black and Dees was "well constructed" and "exciting", and drawing comparisons between the episode and the film Seven. However, he felt that the ending was poor, and that Megan Gallagher's portrayal of Catherine Black let the episode down.[16] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 3 out of 5, finding that the focus on technological investigative techniques was "decidedly dull", and that although the episode's premise was initially "interesting", it grew "derivative after a while".[17] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, note that the episode's premise is the first in the series "to play it entirely straight", avoiding Black's paranormal abilities. Shearman and Pearson rated the episode four-and-a-half stars out of five, describing it as not only "a chilling study of one man's madness, but an indictment upon the modern obsession with celebrity".[18] This interpretation has also been echoed by Mark Pizzato, in his work Inner Theatres of Good and Evil. Pizzato claims that the episode "reflects the media's melodramatic fetishizing of villains and heroes, showing the bomber not only as a vulgar onanist, but also as Frank's savior and a martyr to the mass audience".[19]
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Millennium: The Complete First Season (Media notes). Fox. 1996–1997.
2.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Media notes). Fox. 1997–1998.
3.Jump up ^ Edwards, p. 48
4.Jump up ^ David Nutter (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (September 24, 1995). "Pilot". Space: Above and Beyond. Season 1. Episode 1. Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Edwards, p. 106
6.Jump up ^ Edwards, p. 212
7.Jump up ^ Bryan Spicer (director); Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (March 11, 2001). "Bond, Jimmy Bond". The Lone Gunmen. Season 1. Episode 2. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (May 15, 1998). "The Time Is Now". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 23. Fox.
9.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Michael Duggan (writer) (NDecember 11, 1998). "Human Essence". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 8. Fox.
10.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Chip Johannessen & Virginia Stock (writers) (April 23, 1999). "Bardo Thodol". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 18. Fox.
11.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Patrick Harbinson (writer) (November 13, 1998). "Through a Glass Darkly". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 7. Fox.
12.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 60
13.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 135
14.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 108
15.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
16.Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (October 23, 2010). ""The Field Where I Died" / "522666" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
17.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
18.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 108–109
19.Jump up ^ Pizzato, p. 269
References[edit]
Edwards, Ted (1996). X-Files Confidential. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-21808-1.
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
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 0-9759446-9-X.

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 ­"Covenant"·
 ­"Walkabout"·
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Kingdom Come (Millennium)

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"Kingdom Come"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 6
Directed by
Winrich Kolbe
Written by
Jorge Zamacona
Production code
4C03
Original air date
November 29, 1996
Guest actors

Lindsay Crouse as Ardis Cohen
Michael Zelniker as Galen Calloway
Tom McBeath as Detective Romero
Terence Kelly as Detective Kerney
Jan Burrell as Jill Harned
Laurie Murdoch as Father Schultz
Peter Haworth as Reverend Jack Harned
Ed Harrington as Reverend Marcus Crane
 
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"'Kingdom Come" is the sixth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on November 29, 1996. The episode was written by Jorge Zamacona, and directed by Winrich Kolbe. "Kingom Come" featured guest appearances by Lindsay Crouse and Tom McBeath.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, chases a serial killer who targets clerics and holy men due to his frustration with his own faith.
"Kingdom Come" marked the first contributions to the series by Zamacona and Kolbe, who would both return for future episodes. The original broadcast date set for "Kingdom Come" was pushed back several weeks, as it was felt by the network that it would be in poor taste following the death of Chicago archbishop Joseph Bernardin.

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

Plot[edit]
When a Catholic priest is burnt at the stake, private investigative organisation the Millennium Group despatch offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Ardis Cohen (Lindsay Crouse), who had previously worked together on a case involving the murders of three clerics several years earlier. Black sees similarities between the murders and the methods of torture employed by the medieval Inquisition. This is confirmed when a Protestant minister is drowned in imitation of another ritual torture. At the scene of the drowning, two wedding rings are found—a man's in the stomach of the victim and woman's nearby.
At a church, the killer is searching through files when he is interrupted, and flees, leaving bloodied fingerprints at the scene. Black constructs a profile of the man, and deduces that his actions are attacks on faith, believing that the killer has suffered a devastating loss which has caused him to lose his own faith. As the manhunt for the killer tightens, another cleric is tortured and killed; however, Black senses that the killer has returned to where his life fell apart. He and the police are able to identify the killer as Galen Calloway (Michael Zelniker), whose wife and daughter had been killed in a house fire several years earlier. Black knows the killer's next target will be the church that held the family's funeral.
Calloway enters the church wielding explosives, taking the congregation hostage. The building is quickly surrounded by police and reporters as Calloway gives a sermon to his hostages about the loss of faith. Black believes he can connect with Calloway, and is allowed to enter the church. Calloway is initially hostile, but Black is able to talk him down, convincing Calloway that his faith has not been lost, but simply tested—despite all that has happened, Calloway has never lost his belief in God. Realizing the truth of this, Calloway surrenders.
Production[edit]

A grey stone mausoleum surrounded by a green lawn.

 The death of archbishop Joseph Bernardin (tomb pictured) deferred the episode's broadcast by several weeks.
"Kingdom Come" is the first of two episodes of Millennium to be written by Jorge Zamacona, who would also pen the later season one episode "The Wild and the Innocent".[1] The episode also marks the first of four directorial credits for Winrich Kolbe, who would also take the reins on "Force Majeure", "Lamentation" and "Broken World", all in the first season.[1]
Guest actor Laurie Murdoch, who portrayed one of the murdered priests in the episode, would later return in the third season episode "TEOTWAWKI", in an unrelated role.[2] Fellow guest Tom McBeath, who played a detective investigating the case, would also reappear in the third season, playing a prosecution lawyer in "Omertà".[3]
The episode opens with a quotation taken from the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Hebrew Bible, and one of the five books that make up the Torah. The passage used is Exodus 10:21, "And there will be such intense darkness, that one can feel it".[4] Biblical verses were also used at the beginning of other episodes in the series, including the Book of Job in "Wide Open"[5] and "Dead Letters";[6] the Book of Jeremiah in "Weeds";[7] and the Gospel of Luke in "Blood Relatives".[8]
"Kingdom Come" was the fourth episode of the series produced, postponed from its original broadcast date to be the sixth episode aired. Fox Broadcasting Company announced that the reason for this was that it would be "in poor taste" to run an episode involving the murder of clergymen soon after the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the Archbishop of Chicago. However, it was rumoured at the time that the postponement may simply have been a way to draw attention to the series, as its ratings had begun to fall.[9]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Kingdom Come" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on November 29, 1996;[10] and earned a Nielsen rating of 7.2, meaning that roughly 7.2 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[11] The episode was watched by approximately 7 million households.[nb 1]
"Kingdom Come" 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 two stars out of five, calling it "a particularly superficial addition to the series". Shearman and Pearson felt that the episode's lack of complexity was refreshing, but ultimately the "awkward" performances and "cheesy" approach to its subject matter detracted from it.[10] Writing for The A.V. Club, Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B, describing it as "an episode about a man who finds himself trying to lose his faith but being unable to do so". VanDerWerff felt that the episode suffered from "the typical Millennium problems", including "an overreliance on trite philosophical dialogue"; however, he found that it contained "something pure and believable at its core that keeps the episode moving along nicely". The episode's thematic concern with the role of religion in society was noted as being "the tension Millennium would build its best episodes on".[13] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "Kingdom Come" 5 out of 5, describing it as being "classic Millennium". Gibron felt that the episode had "an exceptional script that delightfully fails to spell everything out for us up front", and noted that it served as "the blueprint for all better Millennium episodes to come".[14]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[12]
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 (director); Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (October 16, 1998). "TEOTWAWKI". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 3. Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Michael R. Perry (writer) (December 18, 1998). "Omertà". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 9. Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 135
5.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 137
6.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 133
7.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 137–138
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 136
9.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 52
10.^ Jump up to: a b Shearman and Pearson, p. 109
11.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
12.Jump up ^ Meisler, p. 298
13.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (October 30, 2010). ""Sanguinarium"/"Kingdom Come" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Meisler, Andy (1998). I Want to Believe: The Official Guide to the X-Files Volume 3. Harper Prism. ISBN 0-06-105386-4.
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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Blood Relatives (Millennium)

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"Blood Relatives"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 7
Directed by
Jim Charleston
Written by
Chip Johannessen
Production code
4C06
Original air date
December 6, 1996
Guest actors

John Fleck as Connor
Sean Six as James Dickerson
Brian Markinson as Detective Teeple
Stephen J. Lang as Bob Giebelhouse
Lynda Boyd as Mrs. Dechant
Nicole Parker as Greer Cort
Diana Stevan as Mrs. Cort
Bob Morrisey as Mr. Charles Cort
Deanna Milligan as Tina
 
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"'Blood Relatives" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on December 6, 1996. The episode was written by Chip Johannessen, and directed by Jim Charleston. "Blood Relatives" featured guest appearances by John Fleck, Sean Six and Lynda Boyd.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is asked to investigate a killer who targets mourners after visiting the funerals of strangers.
"Blood Relatives" saw the series' first writing credit for Johannessen, who would contribute another twelve episodes across three seasons. The episode; which opens with a quotation from the Christian Gospel of Luke; went on to receive positive reviews from critics.

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2 Production
3 Reception
4 Notes
5 Footnotes 5.1 References

Plot[edit]
At a funeral in Seattle, James Dickerson (Sean Six), approaches the mourning family. He introduces himself as "Ray Bell" and pretends to have known the deceased at university. He embraces the dead man's mother lingeringly, and leaves. Later that night, the mother is visiting her son's grave, and is pulled into an open grave as she passes it. Her body is found the next day, although the rest of her family have been told they cannot see it. Speaking to clinical social worker Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher), Seattle police officer Bob Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich) reveals that the victim had been graphically mutilated during the murder.
Catherine Black's husband, offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), is asked to consult on the case as a member of the Millennium Group, a private investigative organisation. Black senses that the killer feels rage towards someone—not the victim—and is taking it out on strangers. Speaking to the family, Black finds that the victim's dead son has had a sports team badge taken from his body; he also realizes that the strange "Ray Bell" must be the killer.
Back at his halfway house Dickerson is wearing the missing badge, as the house's trustee Connor scolds him for breaking curfew—and threatens not to cover up for him any more. After Connor leaves, James finds an obituary in the newspaper and circles it. Elsewhere, Black finds the name "Ray Bell" in the same newspaper as the victim's son's obituary, and deduces that the killer may have been frequenting funerals before, probably taking souvenirs like the badge. He believes that the victim is his first, but that killing will become easier for him.
Dickerson visits another funeral, and befriends a mourner, Tina, by pretending to have been a childhood friend of the deceased. They visit a nearby lake to reminisce, but she feels something is wrong. Dickerson apologises and leaves; however, Tina is soon attacked from behind. Her body is found with the words "stop looking" carved into her stomach, and Black believes there may be a message somewhere on the first victim's body. He asks fellow Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) to look for it; Watts is also able to find fingerprints on Tina's hair clip that identify Dickerson—a paroled convict. They track him down to the halfway home, although Connor secretly helps him to escape to a nearby scrapyard. In Dickerson's room, a hidden cache of souvenirs is found, along with a journal and a stack of letters marked "return to sender".
Catherine Black identifies Dickerson as an archetypal "lost child", raised in poor foster care and neglected. He visits funerals to connect with society, leaving her to wonder what has pushed him to murder. Meanwhile, Dickerson remains in hiding at the scrapyard, while Connor brings him food. Frank Black has noticed that the "S" carved in Tina's stomach matches that seen in the logo for Skorpion Salvage, the scrapyard Dickerson is hiding in. When he and the police arrive to find Dickerson, Connor is able to escape while the yard's dogs attack Dickerson.
Catherine Black has found Dickerson's biological mother, a Mrs. Dechant (Lynda Boyd). Having given Dickerson up for adoption as a teenager, she is now a suburban housewife. Dickerson had tried several years previously to reconnect with her, though she wanted nothing to do with him. Catherine asks her for help, and she begrudgingly agrees to see her son. She recoils when he hugs her, blaming the government for making him what he is. Rejected, Dickerson confesses to the murders. Connor is able to see all of this, his connection to it not yet uncovered. Frank Black is unconvinced that everything has been wrapped up, and realizes that Connor is involved—he wants Dickerson to himself. "Stop looking" was his message to Dickerson, to stop looking for affection anywhere else.
Mrs. Dechant returns home, and is about to take a bath when she is attacked by Connor. Black has followed her, and interrupts the attack; he and Connor struggle, with Black almost being strangled until he is able to hold Connor under the bathwater until he stops fighting. Connor is arrested and charged, while the now-cleared Dickerson resumes circling obituaries in the newspaper.
Production[edit]


This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign shall be given to it.
—The episode's opening quotation; Luke 11:29
"Blood Relatives" is the first of two episodes of Millennium to be directed by James Charleston, who would return later in the first season to helm "Wide Open".[1] The episode also marks the first writing credit in the series for Chip Johannessen, who would go on to write an additional twelve episodes across all three seasons, including the series' final episode "Goodbye to All That".[1][2][3] After Millennium's cancellation, Johannessen would also contribute an episode to its sister show The X-Files, 1999's "Orison".[4]
"Blood Relatives" featured the second of three appearances by Brian Markinson as Seattle police detective Teeple; Markinson had previously played the character in "The Judge",[5] and would reprise the role in "Sacrament".[6] Guest star Deanna Milligan, who portrayed the second victim Tina, would also appear in the third season episode "The Sound of Snow" in an unrelated role.[7] Bob Morrisey, who played the first victim's husband, also appeared in the third season, playing a sheriff in "Omertà".[8]
The episode opens with a quotation from the Gospel of Luke, the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the Christian New Testament.[9] Biblical verses were also used at the beginning of other episodes in the series, including the Book of Job in "Wide Open"[10] and "Dead Letters";[11] the Book of Jeremiah in "Weeds";[12] and the Book of Exodus in "Kingdom Come".[13]
Reception[edit]
"Blood Relatives" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on December 6, 1996;[14] and earned a Nielsen rating of 7.5, meaning that roughly 7.5 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[15] The episode was watched by approximately 7.3 million households.[nb 1]
"Blood Relatives" received 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 five stars out of five, comparing it favourably to "Irresistible", a second season episode of The X-Files. Shearman and Pearson lauded Johannessen's "subtle writing", especially in the handling of the James Dickerson character; they felt the episode was "a study of a sociopath" which "humanises" its villain.[17] Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen rated the episode a B, finding that its depiction of the character of James Dickerson added "some shades of gray" to the series' usual "black and white morality". Handlen also felt that while the scene in which a woman is killed by a lake shore was "shocking without being exploitative", and was carried out in such a manner that "we don't feel as though she's targeted because she's a woman"; however, the climactic scene in which Dickerson's mother is attacked while stripping for a bath was seen as "a reminder of the show's inability to separate its lofty goals from its willingness to take the cheapest shots".[18] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "Blood Relatives" 5 out of 5, describing it as being "as shocking as it is sentimental". Gibron compared the episode to "Best Boys", an episode of the English series Cracker, and praised its "atmospheric, moody tone".[19]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[16]
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Millennium: The Complete First Season (Media notes). Fox. 1996–1997.
2.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Media notes). Fox. 1997–1998.
3.Jump up ^ Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Media notes). Fox. 1998–1999.
4.Jump up ^ Rob Bowman (director); Chip Johannessen (writer) (December 12, 1999). "Orison". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 7. Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Randall Zisk (director); Ted Mann (writer) (November 15, 1998). "The Judge". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 4. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Michael W. Watkins (director); Frank Spotnitz (writer) (February 21, 1997). "Sacrament". Millennium. Season 1. Episode 15. Fox.
7.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Patrick Harbinson (writer) (February 5, 1999). "The Sound of Snow". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 12. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ Paul Shapiro (director); Michael R. Perry (writer) (December 18, 1998). "Omertà". Millennium. Season 3. Episode 9. Fox.
9.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 136
10.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 137
11.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 133
12.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 137–138
13.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 135
14.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 109
15.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
16.Jump up ^ Meisler, p. 298
17.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 109–110
18.Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (November 6, 2010). ""Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man"/"Blood Relatives" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
19.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Meisler, Andy (1998). I Want to Believe: The Official Guide to the X-Files Volume 3. Harper Prism. ISBN 0-06-105386-4.
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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The Well-Worn Lock

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"The Well-Worn Lock"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 8
Directed by
Ralph Hemecker
Written by
Chris Carter
Production code
4C07
Original air date
December 20, 1996
Guest actors

Bill Smitrovich as Lt. Bob Bletcher
Paul Dooley as Joe Bangs
Michelle Joyner as Connie Bangs
Christine Dunford as Rhonda Preshutski
Lenore Zann as Ruthie Bangs
Sheila Moore as Clea Bangs
J. Douglas Stewart as Larry Bangs
Shaina Tianne Unger as Sara Bangs
 
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"'The Well-Worn Lock" is the eighth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on December 20, 1996. The episode was written by series creator Chris Carter, and directed by Ralph Hemecker. "The Well-Worn Lock" featured guest appearances by Paul Dooley and Lenore Zann.
Clinical social worker Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher) aids a family as they come to terms with the incestuous abuse they have suffered for decades. However, the father who is responsible still commands respect and political connections in the area, making the case a difficult one.
"The Well-Worn Lock" is the third of seven Millennium episodes written by Carter. Hemecker would return to direct an episode in each of the show's seasons. The episode opens with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson, and features several actors who would reappear in unrelated roles in both Millennium and its sister series The X-Files.

Contents
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2 Production
3 Broadcast and reception
4 Footnotes 4.1 References

Plot[edit]
In Madison Park, Seattle, a family are gathered around the television. The mother leaves to go to bed, and the atmosphere in the room grows tense. The older of two sisters, Connie Bangs (Michelle Joyner) takes her sister Sara—who is clearly much younger than she is—to her bedroom and locks her in, warning her not to let her father inside. Connie runs out of the house, fighting off her father, and is later found wandering the streets confused. She is taken to clinical social worker Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher), and admits that her father has been sexually abusing her for years.
However, given the length of time the abuse has been going on, Connie is afraid no one will believe her. The assistant district attorney assigned to the case, Rhonda Preshutski (Christine Dunford) agrees, believing the case to be weak. Child Protective Services cannot remove Sara from the household until Connie undergoes a psychiatric evaluation, although Black and police lieutenant Bob Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich) investigate the Bangs home to check up on the girl. The father, Joe Bangs (Paul Dooley), chases them off as his wife watches detachedly. Bangs wields a degree of political clout in the community, and pressures the district attorney's office to drop the case. Preshutski is furious with Black over the matter, until it is discovered from Connie's medical exams that Sara is not her sister, but her daughter.
Black is later woken in her office by her husband Frank (Lance Henriksen). She had fallen asleep there while trying to find a legal precedent to remove Sara from the Bangs home. Catherine visits Connie, who is staying with another sister, Ruthie (Lenore Zann). Ruthie also reveals that their father had abused her, until she was sectioned following mental breakdown. Black is worried that Connie might be persuaded by her mother to drop the case.
Joe Bangs finds himself unable to have the case dropped, but Bletcher still feels that Black's pursuit of it may end up costing her her job. However, Black knows she is doing the right thing and is determined to continue. Her fears for Sara are confirmed when it is discovered she and the elder Bangs have gone missing. Frank, an offender profiler, deduces that Bangs' controlling personality would cause him to take his daughter somewhere he knows, and realizes that they will be in the family's holiday cabin in the woods. A police manhunt begins, and Bangs is arrested without Sara coming to harm.
The case against Bangs is presented before a grand jury, and Black is afraid that Connie will be too afraid to testify. However, she manages to reveal the truth of her abuse to the court. Later, she is seen with the lock from her bedroom door—which had previously been used by her father to lock them both inside—which she throws into a river.
Production[edit]
"The Well-Worn Lock" was the first of three Millennium episodes directed by Ralph Hemecker. Hemecker would later helm the second season's "The Curse of Frank Black",[1] and the third season episode "Exegesis".[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 "The Well-Worn Lock"—three in the first season,[3] and a further three in the third season.[2]
Several of the actors in this episode have made other appearances in Millennium or series related to it. Michelle Joyner, who played abuse victim Connie Bangs, would later appear on Millennium's sister show The X-Files, starring in the seventh season episode "Chimera".[4] Guest star J. Douglas Stewart, who portrays Larry Bangs, later appeared in the second season episode "Monster" in an unrelated role.[5] Fellow guest Sheila Moore, who played Clea Bangs, had previously made two appearances on The X-Files, in the episodes "Deep Throat"[6] and "Excelsis Dei".[7]
The episode opens with a quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson—"The cruelest lies are often told in silence". The line is taken from Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, an 1881 collection of essays.[8]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"The Well-Worn Lock" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on December 20, 1996,[9] and earned a Nielsen rating of 6.8, meaning that roughly 6.8 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned into the episode.[10]
The episode 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 two stars out of five, noting that it "turns the complex into something easy and obvious". Shearman and Pearson felt that the character of Sara Bangs was "treated as an object by the episode", and that Carter's script "takes a very real issue and trivialises it" by presenting such an "open and shut case". However, they noted that the episode was "very well acted", and was "clearly well intentioned".[11] The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B+, noting that it "tries some interesting things with the Millennium template". VanDerWerff felt that several of the episode's scenes "are as horrifying as anything I've seen on TV", adding that "they accomplish much of this through the mere power of suggestion". However, he also noted that the character of Joe Bangs was too simplistic, claiming that he is "so damned blatant about what he does that it eventually stops being horrifying and becomes preposterous".[12] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 2.5 out of 5, finding that its focus on legal issues and counselling "fragments the tone and atmosphere" built by previous episodes. However, Gibron felt that "Carter's script handles the horrifying subject very well".[13]
Footnotes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Second Season (Liner notes). Fox.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.Jump up ^ David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Cliff Bole (director); David Amann (writer) (April 2, 2000). "Chimera". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 16. Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Perry Lang (director); Glen Morgan & James Wong (writers) (October 17, 1997). "Monster". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 4. Fox.
6.Jump up ^ Lowry, pp. 102–103
7.Jump up ^ Lowry, pp. 186–187
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 136
9.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 110
10.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
11.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp. 110–111
12.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (November 13, 2010). ""Tunguska"/"The Well-Worn Lock" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
13.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Lowry, Brian (1995). The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files. Harper Prism. ISBN 0-06-105330-9.
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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Wide Open (Millennium)

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"Wide Open"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 9
Directed by
Jim Charleston
Written by
Charles D. Holland
Production code
4C08
Original air date
January 3, 1997
Guest actors

Glynn Turman as James Glen
Stephen James Lang as Bob Giebelhouse
Pablo Coffey as Cutter
Nevada Ash as Patricia Highsmith
Eileen Kenney as Beverly Bunn
Sandra Ferens as Mary Kay Highsmith
David Neale as John Highsmith
Roger Cross as Officer Shaw
 
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"Wide Open" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 3, 1997. The episode was written by Charles D. Holland, and directed by Jim Charleston. "Wide Open" featured guest appearances by Glynn Turman and Roger Cross.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, tracks a serial killer who hides in his victims' homes and preys on those who feel most safe.
"Wide Open" was Charleston's second, and Holland's only, contribution to the series. The episode opens with a quote from the biblical Book of Job, and makes reference to author Patricia Highsmith. It received mixed reviews from critics.

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

Plot[edit]
A man, Cutter (Pablo Coffey), visits an open house viewing, where he is given a tour by the estate agent, and seems to take an interest in the bedroom of a young girl. That night, the owners have returned home, and are settling down for the evening when their daughter, Patricia, begins screaming. Later, a security guard for the family's alarm company find the bodies of the parents beaten to death on the first floor, but Patricia is nowhere to be seen.
The Millennium Group, a private investigative group, despatch offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) to examine the scene, where he meets Seattle detective Bob Bletcher (Bill Smitrovich). Black finds the house's alarm system, noticing that it did not go off until the killer left the house. He deduces that the killer stayed hidden in the house during the viewing, emerging that evening to kill the family. However, Black also notices something near an air vent—pulling it from the wall, he finds Patricia, alive but greatly disturbed.
Black's wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher), a clinical social worker, warns against questioning Patricia—although she is an important witness, she is only a child and is in a fragile mental state. Black and Bletcher visit James Glen (Glynn Turman) a graphology expert, having found the killer's signature in the viewing's guestbook. Analysis of the killer's handwriting links him to almost forty open house viewings over the previous six months.
An estate agent receives a video recording of the murders in the post, leaving Black puzzled. That same day, the killer hides in another open house, later murdering a woman with a shotgun before calling the police to the scene. Black finds an X drawn in blood under the house's welcome mat; elsewhere, Patricia has begun drawing red Xs in her crayon pictures. Black reviews the videotape, finding a reflection of the killer. Extracting a picture from this, he requests to show it to Patricia, but stops himself, realizing that the killer let Patricia live so that she could relive the events when questioned.
Cutter, a crossing guard, hides his shotgun in a dumpster, calling the police to report finding it. The police officer who takes his statement later recognizes him on seeing the video. Black has deduced the killer's motives—he is trying to undermine society's notion of safety. Black and Bletcher organize a stakeout at another open house, identifying Cutter when he arrives; however, Cutter escapes into the neighborhood. Black realizes that he has hidden in a nearby house, where he and Bletcher find the occupants tied up. Cutter ambushes Black, knocking him down, but before Cutter can escape, the family's dog lunges at him, sending him falling over a mezzanine to his death.
Production[edit]


His children are far from safety; they shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.
—The episode's opening quotation; Job 5:4
"Wide Open" is the second of two episodes of Millennium to be directed by James Charleston, who had also helmed the earlier first season episode "Blood Relatives".[1] The episode also marked the only contribution to the series from writer Charles D. Holland.[1]
Pablo Coffey, who portrayed Cutter, the episode's serial killer, would later appear in "Manus Domini", an episode of Millennium creator Chris Carter's series Harsh Realm.[2] The episode features Glynn Turman as a graphologist, portraying the discipline in an exaggerated, "near-psychic" manner; although it had been portrayed more realistically in the second episode of the series, "Gehenna".[3] Bill Smitrovich, who plays recurring character Bob Bletcher, had previously portrayed a graphologist in the 1986 film Manhunter, which has been seen an influence on Millennium.[4]
The character of Patricia Highsmith—the little girl who survives the first attack—is named for the author Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers on a Train and the Tom Ripley series of novels.[5] The episode opens with a quotation from the Book of Job, one of the poetic books of the Ketuvim, the third part of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible.[6] Another passage from the Book of Job had been used in the opening of the episode "Dead Letters".[7] Biblical verses were also used at the beginning of other episodes in the series, including the Book of Exodus in "Kingdom Come";[8] the Book of Jeremiah in "Weeds";[9] and the Gospel of Luke in "Blood Relatives".[10]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"Wide Open" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on January 3, 1997;[11] and earned a Nielsen rating of 6.9, meaning that roughly 6.9 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[12] The episode was watched by approximately 6.7 million households.[nb 1]
"Wide Open" 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 one-and-a-half stars out of five, finding that its cold open was "the most distinctive thing about the whole case". Shearman and Pearson felt that the episode's killer was unspectacular, remaining "largely anonymous"; and that his death scene was "as half-hearted a climax as he deserves".[14] Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen rated the episode a B+, describing it as "thoroughly unsettling" and "solid stuff". Handlen felt that the treatment of the episode's villain was better than most other instalments of the series, which "helps give the episode overall a stronger sense of purpose". However, it was felt that the character of Frank Black was still too vague and impersonal, coming across simply as "a generic representation of Chris Carter's idea of heroism".[15] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated "Wide Open" 3.5 out of 5. Gibron felt that the episode had "a clever premise, a great deal of suspense and some gruesomely graphic imagery", but criticized the "off-the-cuff" manner in which the killer's motives were explained.[16]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[13]
Footnotes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b David Nutter, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete First Season (Liner notes). Fox.
2.Jump up ^ Larry Shaw (director); John Shiban (writer) (May 5, 2000). "Manus Domini". Harsh Realm. Season 1. Episode 7. FX.
3.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 87–89
4.Jump up ^ Edelstein, David (October 4, 2002). "Red Dragon is no Manhunter – by David Edelstein". Slate. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
5.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 100
6.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 137
7.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 133
8.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 135
9.Jump up ^ Genge, pp. 137–138
10.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 136
11.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, p. 111
12.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
13.Jump up ^ Meisler, p. 298
14.Jump up ^ Shearman and Pearson, pp.111–112
15.Jump up ^ Handlen, Zack (November 20, 2010). ""Terma"/"Wide Open" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
16.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0-7126-7833-6.
Meisler, Andy (1998). I Want to Believe: The Official Guide to the X-Files Volume 3. Harper Prism. ISBN 0-06-105386-4.
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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The Wild and the Innocent (Millennium)

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"The Wild and the Innocent"
Millennium episode
Episode no.
Season 1
 Episode 10
Directed by
Thomas J. Wright
Written by
Jorge Zamacona
Production code
4C10
Original air date
January 10, 1997
Guest actors

Heather McComb as Maddie Haskel
Jeffrey Donovan as Bobby Webber
John Pyper-Ferguson as Jim Gilroy
Michael Hogan as Captain Bigelow
James Gallanders as Missouri State Trooper
Steve Makaj as Arkansas Trooper Flanagan
John Tierney as Preacher
Renee Michelle as Adeline Travis
Jim Swainsburg as Sam Travis
 
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"'The Wild and the Innocent" is the tenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 10, 1997. The episode was written by Jorge Zamacona, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "The Wild and the Innocent" featured guest appearances by Heather McComb and Jeffrey Donovan.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is following the trail of a murderous couple who are trying to track down a child that had been sold to another family.
"The Wild and the Innocent" makes reference to Ernest Renan, and featured several actors who would later appear in related series. The episode received mixed reviews, and has been compared to the works of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy.

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

Plot[edit]
Twenty-year-old Maddie Haskel (Heather McComb), attends her mother's funeral in Missouri, and returns to the family home afterwards. There, Jim Gilroy (John Pyper-Ferguson) attempts to rape her, but he is beaten unconscious by Haskel's boyfriend, Bobby Webber (Jeffrey Donovan). Webber and Haskel drive off with Gilroy hostage in the boot of the car, but are later stopped by a state trooper. When the trooper notices noise coming from the car's trunk, he is shot dead by Webber.
Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn), a member of the private investigative organization the Millennium Group, informs his friend and fellow Group member Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) about the Missouri shooting. Records for the car show it to be registered to Gilroy, but Watts points out that Gilroy is simply an alias, and the man is actually Jake Waterson, a serial rapist who murdered three women several years earlier before disappearing. Searching Waterson's address—Haskel's family home—for clues, Black and Watts find the word "angel" carved into a television, but do not know what it means. Black also views footage taken by the trooper's dashboard camera, realizing that Waterson is not the shooter, but is unable to identify Webber.
Elsewhere, Webber savagely beats Waterson, repeatedly asking him "where is he?". Webber and Haskel then break into a farmhouse, confronting the family with the same question. When they do not answer, Webber kills them both before realizing that Waterson had given him the address as a decoy. Webber threatens to kill Waterson unless he tells him the truth. Waterson complies, but is locked in the car's trunk again, and the car is pushed into a lake. Webber and Haskel steal the dead couple's car, and drive off.
Waterson's submerged car is recovered by police before he drowns, and he is charged with the earlier rapes and murders. However, he refuses to reveal anything about the state trooper's shooting. Black reads several letters found in Haskel's home, written to her father but never posted, and deduces that "Angel" is Haskel's son. Waterson's bank account reveals a $7,000 deposit shortly after Angel's birth—Black realizes that Waterson, who is Haskel's stepfather, sold the child for the money. Investigating the records of the lawyer who brokered the sale reveals the identity of the child's recipients, a Mr and Mrs Travis.
Meanwhile, Webber storms into the Travis' house, demanding the child be returned. When Haskel takes hold of her son, he begins to cry, and she realizes he is already in a good home. She hands the child back over to Mrs Travis. However, Webber protests angrily, causing Haskel to snatch his gun from him, and shoot him dead.
Production[edit]
"The Wild and the Innocent" is the second episode of the series directed by Thomas J. Wright, who had previously helmed "Dead Letters". Wright would go on to direct twenty-six episodes across all three seasons,[1][2][3] as well as directing "Millennium", the series' crossover episode with its sister show The X-Files.[4] The episode also marks the second contribution to the series from writer Jorge Zamacona, who had written the earlier "Kingdom Come"; this would be the last Millennium episode penned by Zamacona.[1]
The episode opens with a quote from the French philosopher Ernest Renan, taken from A Skeptic's Prayer—"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul".[5] Guest star Steve Makaj, who played one of the state troopers in the episode, would have a minor recurring role in The X-Files as assassin Scott Ostelhoff.[6][7] Fellow guest actor John Pyper-Ferguson would reappear in Millennium's second season, playing an unrelated character in "Anamnesis".[8] Pyper-Ferguson also appeared in "Leviathan", an episode of Millennium creator Chris Carter's next series, Harsh Realm.[9]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
"The Wild and the Innocent" was first broadcast on the Fox Network on January 10, 1997;[10] and earned a Nielsen rating of 7.1, meaning that roughly 7,1 percent of all television-equipped households were tuned in to the episode.[11] The episode was watched by approximately 6.9 million households.[nb 1]
"The Wild and the Innocent" received mixed reviews from critics. Writing for The A.V. Club, Todd VanDerWerff rated the episode a B-, noting that he was unsure whether it was "one of the series' very best episodes or one of its very worst". VanDerWerff praised McComb's performance, but felt that Donovan was "a kid playing dress-up as the bad guy"; he also noted the episode's similarity to the works of Flannery O'Connor, and described it as "nicely baroque, filled with lots of nice little moments and characters along the way".[13] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 1 out of 5, describing it as "irritating, poorly cast and terribly written". Gibron felt that the episode's setting "reduces Millennium to a ridiculous movie of the week", adding that the voice-over narration makes it "a chore to sit through".[14] 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 quirky failure". Shearman and Pearson felt that "The Wild and the Innocent" was a "curious mix of the cloyingly sentimental and the unremittingly bleak", finding similarities to the works of Cormac McCarthy; however, they felt that it did not work well as an episode of Millennium, finding the minimal involvement of the series' main characters and the distinct difference in setting to detract from the episode as a whole.[10]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Each ratings point represented 970,000 households during the 1996–1997 television season.[12]
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 Second Season (Liner notes). Fox.
3.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright, et al (booklet). Millennium: The Complete Third Season (Liner notes). Fox.
4.Jump up ^ Thomas J. Wright (director); Vince Gilligan & Frank Spotnitz (writers) (November 28, 1999). "Millennium". The X-Files. Season 7. Episode 4. Fox.
5.Jump up ^ Genge, p. 137
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 ^ R.W. Goodwin & Kim Manners (directors); Chris Carter (writer) (November 2 & 9, 1997). "Redux". The X-Files. Season 5. Episode 1 & 2. Fox.
8.Jump up ^ John Peter Kousakis (director); Kay Reindl & Erin Maher (writers) (April 17, 1998). "Anamnesis". Millennium. Season 2. Episode 19. Fox.
9.Jump up ^ Daniel Sackheim (director); Chris Carter (writer) (October 15, 1999). "Leviathan". Harsh Realm. Season 1. Episode 2. FX.
10.^ Jump up to: a b Shearman and Pearson, p. 112
11.Jump up ^ Genge, p. xviii
12.Jump up ^ Meisler, p. 298
13.Jump up ^ VanDerWerff, Todd (November 27, 2010). ""Paper Hearts"/"The Wild And The Innocent" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Gibron, Bill (July 20, 2004). "Millennium: Season 1: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". DVD Talk. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
References[edit]
Genge, N. E. (1997). Millennium: The Unofficial Companion. Century. ISBN 0712678336.
Meisler, Andy (1998). I Want to Believe: The Official Guide to the X-Files Volume 3. Harper Prism. ISBN 0061053864.
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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