MILLENNIUM-SEASON THREE-THE INNOCENTS, EXEGESIS, TEOTWAWKI
MILLENNIUM-SEASON
THREE-THE INNOCENTS, EXEGESIS, TEOTWAWKI
46 1 "The
Innocents" Thomas J. Wright Michael Duggan October 2, 1998 3ABC01 5.17[17][nb 1]
Frank Black
teams up with an intuitive FBI agent named Emma Hollis to probe a plane crash
linked to the spread of a deadly plague.
No wonder the
first FINAL DESTINATION film (and all the others, which are great horror
movies) seemed so familiar. Australia had a 1981 slow horror movie called THE
SURVIVOR which is about a haunted man who survived a plane crash. THEN, in 1984
a movie called SOLE SURVIVOR came out about a girl who survived a plane crash
and is haunted by something that kills or wants to kill her. THEN, a mini
series (for TV) had SOLE SURVIVOR in 2000 about a man who survived and is
helping a young girl that
also survived the plane crash as forces are out to kill her. WTF? ALL of these
are very well done. But really? Morgan and Wong stole these ideas from
those movies for the first FINAL.
So here we have
the same plot AGAIN (but before Morgan and Wong’s script for FINAL) and…somehow,
for me anyway and maybe only me (no one else seems to like this two parter), it
works.
LOVE Emma from
the start. I have the feeling if they introduced Emma from season one’s first
episode, the show would have been even better than it was and more stable. She’s
warm, caring, and relatable. Pity they later make her a dupe for the MILLENNIUM
GROUP but even that’s shaking things up.
I do have a few questions
though: the two Millennium men? Are they taken into custody? Are they still
down there? Did Peter get them out? And the assassin who works for Millennium Group,
is he let off the hook and gets away, too?
While on the
idea of Peter, his resurfacing in the second episode to this is totally
shocking. He’s a shadowy, shady menace here. We never find out what happened
when he went to get Lara or why Frank is now so upset with him. Does Frank know
something we not privy to? Did Peter cooperate with the Group?
A fan on FB
suggested this but as far as I know we never see this or haven’t yet: The Millennium Group grabbed him and
presumably put him through some "conditioning" to make him loyal
again.
47 2 "Exegesis" Ralph Hemecker Chip Johannessen October
9, 1998 3ABC02 4.47[18]
The probe of
an aircraft disaster leads Frank and partner Emma Hollis to an extraordinarily
gifted psychic who is on the run from the menacing Millennium Group.
Exciting
stuff really. Lots of action but not sure about the resolution and climatic
battle. The assassin could have and should have shot Emma but didn’t and failed
to stop Frank and the old woman from getting up and out; Emma and the younger
woman also escape. Did Peter do away with the assassin and the two men from the
MILL group? Is he on their side? He seems happy the four got away. What’s
happening?
Either way I
like this episode. The two parter is not without faults and not the best of episodes
but not the worst. How does Frank know definitely the Group caused the viral
outbreak? Now less people have died from it than previously reported at the end
of last season’s mess?
48 3 "TEOTWAWKI" Thomas J. Wright Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz October 16, 1998 3ABC03 4.77[19]
An
investigation of a deadly shooting spree at a high school is mysteriously tied
to a powerful group of citizens setting its own agenda for the year 2000.
Robert
Wisedon strikes again but he’s better here. At first, I thought the message:
concerns about the end of the world and the Y2K bug thing were interesting and
took a turn when the show seemed to be claiming that it’s not worth killing your
own sons over or making them kill others over but then Frank goes and reads
that book the other kid Carlton left for the girl he liked (who died in the
school gym shooting).
That’s only
the books POV but Frank, who seemed to be implying that it’s not worth saving a
world if you have to kill your own children to do so, reads the opposite: that
those who survive will have to have less a conscience and more grit to survive.
It’s an awful message vs the warmer message that if we all go, we should all go
together, weak and strong, because a world where you have to do that to survive
is not worth surviving in.
I DO appreciate
this for presenting both sides of this issue but to finish on that downbeat
ending. Eeek.
Nice to see
Giebelhouse back and alive! Not much to say between Frank Giebs though so it
feels like a wasted opportunity. He will only appear one more time. Jordan
seems more self aware in these three episodes.
TEOTWAWKI is
an acronym for "The end of the world as we know it".
So, the trio
of episodes that start off season three do so well, if not perfect. We meet Andy,
the new boss of Frank who is down to earth and tries to keep Frank out of Frank’s
own head and grounded. We meet Barry who is smarmy antagonist to both Frank and Emma played well
by Peter. And we find out the creepy Peter Watts is still alive and somewhat
stalking Jordan AND Frank. How long before he gets to Emma?
We also meet
Emma who is played wonderfully by Clea Scott, perhaps the warmest actress to
grace MILLENNIUM ever.
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