The first and second season of this guide were written by the
Helpers' Network of Canada, Toronto, Ontario. My thanks go out to
them for allowing me to use their work.
The third season of this guide was written by Barbara Rodgriguez,
and was taken from a publication called "The Gathering
Place." The timeline is hers, and although I can't vouch for
its accuracy, I thought it was a novel idea, so I left it in.
| Episode 1 -
Pilot: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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Catherine Chandler,
Corporate Attorney, New York City, is kidnapped,
assaulted and disfigured by men who mistake her for
another woman at a party. Left for dead in Central Park,
she is found by Vincent and taken to his world beneath
the city. Under his care, she regains her strength,
physically and emotionally, and returns to the world
Above. Recovering from plastic surgery, eight months
later she joins the Office of the District Attorney as an
investigator. Once settled, she investigates her own
assault and is threatened once again by her attackers. In
a climatic scene, Vincent saves her and she comes to
understand the emphatic bond which ties her to Vincent.
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| Episode 2 -
TERRIBLE SAVIOR |
A caped and masked
vigilante is slashing thugs who victimize people on the
subway. Catherine suspects it may be Vincent. Further
investigation leads her to the charismatic black leader
of a "Guardian Angels"-type of organization and
his secret access to the subway tunnels. When he
threatens Catherine, Vicent rushes to her rescue. A chase
ensues through the tunnels and the vigilante plunges into
the Abyss, while attempting to swing past a trapped
Vincent (who broke through the weakened bridge boards).
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| Episode 3 -
SIEGE |
Catherine attends a
function at an art gallery, where she is introduced and
attracted to developer Elliott Burch, while Vincent saves
an elderly tenant and his building from a fire set by
hired thugs. Vincent alerts Catherine to the terrorist
tactics being used against the remaining tenants to force
them to sell. Her investigation leads to the discovery
that Elliott Burch is funding the attackers, though he
has no knowledge of their tactics. His callous response
to their plight causes Catherine to break off their
relationship. A late night attack on the tenants and
Catherine results in Vincent's coming to the rescue. The
episode ends with Catherine finding the book of
Shakespeare's Sonnets on her balcony and Vincent's voice
reciting Sonnet XXIX.
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Attempting to help
Catherine in her investigation of a youth gang slaying,
Vincent is injured in an explosion and captured (and
tortured) by gang members. His vision impaired, he
manages to escape his captors, killing one of them, but
they pursue him, wanting to kill him in revenge.
Catherine and a friend (Isaac Stubbs, her
'street-fighting' teacher) also look for Vincent. With
the aid of a prostitute (Lucy) and a 'child-like' member
of the gang, Vincent manages to gain entrance to his
world, just as Catherine (and Father) separately catch up
to him and help him home.
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On Hallowe'en, Catherine and her father
attend a masque ball in honour of an Irish author.
Vincent, who read her book, aspires to meet the author
and attends. Catherine meets a young man, who has
mistaken her for the author, as both are wearing the same
mask. Spotting the author leaving, wearing Vincent's
cloak, she and the man follow. Another man has also
followed the author and Vincent. When he pulls a gun,
Vincent knocks him out: Vincent leaves as Catherine
approaches. The young man identifies himself as an FBI
agent and when they are all in the car, kidnaps them and
kills the other man: he is an Irish Terrorist seeking
revenge on the author's father, an IRA agent. In the
dying agent's room there is a confrontation and threat
made to harm all within: Vincent comes to the rescue.
Once arrests are made, Vincent and Catherine walk the
city streets until dawn, when he once again must return
below.
| Episode
6 - THE BEAST WITHIN |
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Catherine is assigned to investigate
corruption on the docks, looking into the activites of
Mitch Denton, a former tunnel dweller. Her successful
search for a witness to a murder endangers her life when
Mitch and his men kidnap her in an attempt to discover
the witness's whereabouts. She escapes, but is shot in
the back. Vincent finds and takes her to the hospital and
then goes after Mitch. Mitch, terrified, is waiting with
his men, whom Vincent dispatches. Catherine's regaining
consciousness saves Mitch's life, but not his sanity.
Vincent visits Catherine in the hospital, where she tells
him her dream of walking down Fifth Avenue in broad
daylight with him and "... nobody looked
twice".
| Episode
7 - NOR IRON BARS A CAGE |
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Catherine accepts a job in Providence,
Rhode Island and, although he urged her to accept the
position, Vincent's turmoil lowers his caution and he is
trapped and captured by an anthropologist and his
student, who keep him drugged and caged in a laboratory.
Father alerts Catherine to Vincent's disappearance. A
chance reading of a tabloid leads Catherine to an old
lady with binoculars and eventually to Vincent's
kidnappers. In a climactic scene, the anthropologist is
killed by the student and, when the student threatens
Catherine, she manages to get him close enough to
Vincent's cage for Vincent to break his neck. Freed and
returned to his world, Catherine sits with him in his
quarters and reads Wordsworth's 'Surprised by Joy' to
him.
| Episode
8 - SONG OF ORPHEUS |
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A strange message cut from the paper and
sent to Father by a Helper named 'Lou', results in Father
returning to the world Above where he is arrested for the
murder of the lawyer who sent the message. Vincent seeks
Catherine's help when Father does not return and their
investigation leads to the discovery of his name (Jacob
Wells) and background. Catherine finds him in jail and
her attempt to meet Margaret (Father's ex-wife who is
dying) and discover the truth behind the lawyer's death
leads to a confrontation with a greedy evangelist.
Vincent aids Catherine's escape; she has Father freed and
as he returns to his world, tells him she loves Vincent.
Margaret is waiting for Father Below and she spends her
last days with him.
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An investigation into the mysterious
death of a wealthy business man leads Catherine into the
world of voodoo. After her apartment is vandalized and
she is terrorized, Vincent seeks the aid of Narcissa in
an attempt to understand what is happening to Catherine.
When the voodoo priest attempts to sacrifice Catherine,
Vincent comes to her rescue, starting a fire when he
pushes over the altar table. Mistaking Vincent for his
god, the priest walks into the fire and is destroyed.
| Episode
10 - A CHILDREN'S STORY |
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Vincent alerts Catherine to possible
wrong-doing at a well-known, renowned orphanage. Her
investigation leads to the discovery of a child-selling
scheme operated by the orphanage's owner and a thief who
uses the children to steal for him. Catherine rescues a
brother and sister (Eric and Ellie) and takes them to
live in the tunnel world.
| Episode
11 - AN IMPOSSIBLE SILENCE |
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Laura, a deaf-mute tunnel dweller,
witnesses the murder of a police officer, for which
another man is framed. She goes above with Catherine, but
is kidnapped by the real murderers, who are also police
officers. Cuffed to a pipe in the basement of the
murderer's house, Laura taps out an SOS, which is heard
by Pascal and Vincent rescues her. She decides to return
Above to live.
| Episode
12 - SHADES OF GREY |
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Attempting to aid an injured child
(Eric) in the Maze, a cave-in traps Vincent and Father.
Catherine, after facing Elliott Burch, who has agreed to
be a witness against an extortionist, senses something is
wrong and rushes to the tunnels. When her attempts to
contact someone fail, she wanders the tunnels, tripping a
trapdoor which sends her tumbling down to Mouse's
quarters. He leads her to the others. Mouse can save
Vincent and Father, but needs demolition supplies.
Catherine goes back to Elliott Burch, who gives them to
her, no questions asked. Mouse succeeds; Vincent and
Father are freed. Father is much more understanding of
Vincent and Catherine's relationship. Catherine tells
Vincent she loves him and he watches her as she returns
to her world.
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Attempting to help Lin (a
young Chinese girl whose grandfather is a Helper), escape
an arranged marriage to a man she does not love, involves
Vincent and Catherine and the tunnel dwellers in a Tong
War, after the man she does love (Henry), kills her
fiancee in self-defense. When the gang succeeds in
breaking into the tunnel world, Vincent must defend the
tunnel world and dispose of them. Afterward, Lin and
Henry are married Below.
| Episode
14 - THE ALCHEMIST |
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Catherine alerts Vincent and Father that
a drug dealer may be using the tunnels to grow the drug;
a man demands payment in gold coin. Father confronts John
Pater - "Paracelsus", a former member of their
community banished for wrong-doing who threatens the
security of the tunnel world if they do not leave him
alone. Attempting to prevent Paracelsus from returning to
the world above, Vincent is exposed to the drug and
hallucinates, injuring Father. Catherine is called upon
to help him recover. Vincent confront Paracelsus; a fight
ensues and a fire is started. Paracelsus runs back into
the fire for his gold coins and is believed to have
perished.
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As Vincent and Catherine prepare to
celebrate the first anniversary of their meeting, Joe
becomes involved with a beautiful corporate lawyer
(Erica), working for the law firm representing a man he
is prosecuting. Joe is tempted to join their firm and
leave the D.A.'s office: when that fails, he is framed
for drug possession. Catherine confronts Erica. After a
veiled threat by her boss, Erica calls on Catherine for
help and the two of them flee for their lives from a
gumman. Vincent arrives in time: Joe is cleared and
allowed to continue his prosecution of the case.
Catherine and Vincent celebrate their anniversary with
gifts to each other: a crystal on a gold chain for
Catherine and an ivory rose in a leather pouch for
Vincent.
| Episode
16 - PROMISES OF SOMEDAY |
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A new attorney joins the D.A.'s office
to work with Catherine: she follows him to the entrance
to the tunnels and warns Vincent, giving him a
description of the man (in his 30's with deep scars on
his face). He is Devin, a former tunnel dweller, who ran
away as a young boy. Many flashbacks of Vincent and Devin
as children. Father is distressed that Devin is
masquerading as a lawyer: Catherine learns the truth from
Vincent, confronts Devin with her knowledge and he agrees
to leave. Vincent accuses Father of turning his back on
Devin and learns that Devin is Father's biological son.
Catherine and Vincent trick Devin into meeting Father
again, so the truth can be told. He leaves New York as
Devin Wells.
| Episode
17 - DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA |
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The episode begins with Vincent reading
Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" to the children.
Catherine's former fiancee (Steven Bass) re-enters her
life, asking for friendship, claiming he is dying.
Vincent, after an unsettling dream, fears for Catherine's
involvement with Steven and tries to convince her to stay
away from him. Misunderstanding his fear, Catherine
refuses; is assaulted and trapped by Steven in his house
outside New York City. She temporarily escapes and runs
through the woods, while Vincent rushes to her rescue.
Vincent stops Steven from strangling her and severely
injures him. Later, Catherine apologizes to Vincent for
mistaking his motives.
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Mouse discovers a treasure ship. As the
tunnel dwellers argue amongst themselves as to what to do
with the treasure, Catherine is approached by a man,
regarding a necklace, given to her by Mouse. Cullen, one
of the tunnel dwellers, takes some of the treasure above,
attracting the attention of the man who approached
Catherine. Attempting to take more treasure above, Cullen
stabs Mouse and leaves. The treasure hunter forces
Cullen, at gun-point, to take him Below. On the edge of
the Abyss they fight and Vincent intervenes, saving
Cullen, who in turn, saves Vincent from being shot by
throwing the bag of treasure at the gumman, causing him
to lose his balance and fall into the Abyss. The treasure
is then given to a church charity for the homeless, at
Vincent's suggestion.
| Episode
19 - EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING |
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Tony, a young outcast gypsy boy, steals
Catherine's purse, then seeks her help in attempting to
prove that his father was framed for theft from his own
people, which leads to the entire family being cast out.
Later, Tony, attempting to see his grandfather (who is
the Gypsy King), is trapped by his uncle and locked up.
Catherine and Vincent come to his rescue and he is given
his chance to present his "evidence" to the
Kreesh (their court), resulting in his uncle exposing
himself as the true thief. Tony is re-instated and his
uncle made an outcast. Vincent pulls Catherine into an
embrace and they leave, hand-in-hand.
| Episode
20 - TO REIGN IN HELL |
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The episode begins with Vincent telling
the tale of Winslow's death. A disfigured Paracelsus
(with severe facial burns: see "The Alchemist")
has Catherine kidnapped and brought to him far below the
tunnels used by the community. He sends a message to draw
Vincent to his destruction. Winslow and Pascal accompany
Vincent: they are attacked and Winslow is killed. Jamie,
who followed them, saves Pascal when she hits their
assailant with an arrow from her crossbow. Vincent, after
Winslow's burial, continues on alone and confronts
Paracelsus. A battle ensues between Vincent and
Paracelsus' man, while Catherine is threatened by a fire
set close to where she is chained to the wall. Vincent
kills his attacker and saves Catherine as Paracelsus
escapes. On their return to the world above, Catherine
re-confirms her love for Vincent and that she would do
anything for him.
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Elizabeth's paintings on the tunnel walls and the
tunnel world itself are threatened by the blasting for
the foundation of Burch Tower, Elliott Burch's dream
tower. Catherine and the D.A.'s office are asked by
Elliott to investigate attempts to sabotage his building.
In an attempt to stop the building, Mouse infiltrates the
construction site, is captured by Burch's men and
Catherine goes to Elliott to have him freed. After
returning Mouse to the tunnels, Catherine finds Elliott
waiting for her at her apartment, where he proposes to
her. When a leaked story to the press regarding the
investigation halts a community group's efforts to stop
the tower, Catherine agrees to marry Elliott if he will
stop building: he refuses. Catherine discovers that
Elliott was behind the so-called sabotage and the D.A.'s
office begins to investigate him, effectively stopping
the tower. The episode ends with Vincent's voice reciting
Shelley's "Ozymandias" over a view of Elliott
in his office, staring (in distress) at his now
never-to-be-built tower.
| Episode
22 - A HAPPY LIFE |
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On the 20th anniversary of her mother's death (when
she was 10 years old), Catherine becomes severely
depressed and, when it affects her ability to do her job,
seeks help from a psychiatrist. She is, however, unable
to confide in him fully, due to her promise to Vincent.
After fleeing from a concert (when the music reminds her
of how much she wants to be with him), Catherine runs to
Vincent, who says they must part because she is in pain
and because she belongs in the world above. Catherine
goes to a friend's house (Nancy Tucker), where, after an
unsettling dream, she discusses her relationship with
Vincent with her friend. Nancy convinces her that she has
much to be proud of and that she should trust and follow
her heart. Catherine decides to return to Vincent.
Vincent, alone with his thoughts, feels her returning to
him and the two rush to meet just outside the tunnels in
the park. They share a 'kiss' after Catherine tells
Vincent that their relationship is worth
"everything". (Grieg's Piano Concerto is
featured).
| Episode
23 - CHAMBER MUSIC |
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Vincent, recognizing a drug-addicted derelict as a
once promising piano prodigy, asks for Catherine's aid in
offering the youth help.
Via flashbacks, we are introduced to 'Rolly' and learn
how he came to the tunnels, why he left and why his guilt
and despair will not allow him to accept the help offered
by Vincent.
| Episode
24 - REMEMBER LOVE |
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In this episode loosely based upon "It's A
Wonderful Life", Vincent's grief over not being able
to fulfill a wish of Catherine's (as it means leaving the
safety of the tunnels and upsetting members of their
community) leads to a dream wherein he sees how his
presence has affectd the lives of those who love him.
Vincent awakens from his dream to find Catherine by his
side and everything as it was.
| Episode
25 - ASHES, ASHES |
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Vincent rescues a defecting Russian sailor and takes
him to the tunnels, not knowing that the man is infected
with penumonic plague. Vincent enlists Catherine's help
to find the man's lost love, and we are introduced to
Peter Alcott, an old friend of Father's from college and
the doctor who delivered Catherine. When Catherine learns
that the plague has infected many of the tunnel
inhabitants, she goes Below and helps care for them.
Ellie (see: "A Children's Story") dies in her
arms and Eric (her brother) lashes out at Vincent when he
(Vincent) attempts to tell Eric of Ellie's death.
Attempting to help Eric deal with his grief over harsh
words he spoke to her before her death (and in coming to
terms with her death) Father comes up with the idea of
writing letters to Ellie and putting them on a bonfire,
where the air current takes them up into the heavens.
| Episode
26 - DEAD OF WINTER |
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Paracelsus returns: kills Lou the Barber (see:
"Song of Orpheus"), and has a mask made in his
likeness so as to masquerade as Lou. He plans to kill
Father at Winterfest, the special festival where the
tunnel dwellers celebrate the beginning of their unique
community. Catherine receives a special invitation to
Winterfest. Paracelsus severely burns and injures
Narcissa; however, she is able to alert the community to
their danger. Catherine and Vincent penetrate Paracelsus'
disguise. His plot exposed, Paracelsus escapes once
again. Catherine is welcomed as a full-fledged member of
the tunnel community. The episode ends with Catherine and
Vincent alone in the Great Hall, waltzing.
| Episode
27 - GOD BLESS THE CHILD |
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Around Christmas, Catherine, working at a crisis
hotline, becomes involved with a young, pregnant
prostitute named Lena. She approaches the tunnel dwellers
to aid Lena, who accept her into their community. Vincent
avoids Lena, so as not to frighten her, but, when she
does meet him (after hearing stories of him), she is not
afraid. Mistaking Vincent's friendship, Lena falls in
love with him. After the birth of her baby girl, Lena
approaches Vincent and asks to be with him; he rejects
her and she flees the tunnels, leaving her baby behind.
Vincent asks Catherine to find her; Catherine succeeds
and Lena returns to the tunnels and her baby. At the
naming ceremony, Lena names her baby 'Catherine'. The
children sing "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear".
| Episode
28 - STICKS AND STONES |
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Laura (see: "An Impossible Silence"),
living Above and having difficulty coping, falls in with
a gang of 'deaf-mute' criminals. One of the 'gang' is an
undercover officer working with Catherine; he is also in
love with Laura. When his identity is discovered, Laura
seeks help from Vincent to save his life, while Catherine
and the police also seek him, knowing he is in danger.
Vincent arrives just in time to save Laura from the gang
leader and the police arrive in time to arrest the
others. Laura decides to remain Above with the man she
loves.
| Episode
29 - A FAIR AND PERFECT KNIGHT |
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Michael, tutored by Vincent, has been accepted by a
college. Temporarily living with Catherine, he falls in
love with her. Vincent, aware of Michael's kissing
Catherine, is unable at first to help Michael with his
turmoil (rejected by his father and his feeling that he
has betrayed Vincent), due to his own inner feelings of
jealousy and resentment. Once Catherine convinces Vincent
that he has the right to feel as he does and that he
should not be afraid to want things that other people
take for granted in life, Vincent is able to go and help
Michael.
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A teenage boy from her apartment complex follows
Catherine when she goes to the tunnels to attend a
concert. Unable to convince two friends to join him
later, he goes to explore on his own and becomes lost.
Mouse alerts Vincent to the intruder's presence and
Vincent confronts the boy. He is locked up and the
dwellers explain their presence in the tunnels and why
they choose to live there. Promising to keep their
secrets, the boy returns, only to argue with his father.
He runs back to the tunnels. Catherine alerts Vincent to
the search parties Above, planning on exploring the
tunnels to look for the boy. Vincent find and talks to
the youth, helping him understand his father's grief,
convincing him to return Above and make up with his
father.
| Episode
31 - STICKS AND STONES |
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Devin (see: "Promises of Someday") returns
with a friend he has 'kidnapped' from a side show -
Charles, "The Dragon Man", who suffers from
neurofibromatosis (Elephant Man's disease). Mistreated by
his brother and fearful of people in general, he is
seeking sanctuary. Vincent and Charles become close,
sharing their knowledge of others' fears of their
differences. Charles, whose fear is still strong, has
difficulty joining the community. Accidentally hurting
Mouse, he runs to hide deeper in the tunnels. Devin, who
has sought Catherine's help (she is now a Deputy District
Attorney), in persuading Charles' brother to leave him
alone, returns and, learning of what has happened, seeks
out Vincent and Charles. Vincent has calmed Charles down
and Devin and Charles decide to leave together.
| Episode
32 - A GENTLE RAIN |
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Catherine discovers a tunnel dweller who has been
hiding from justice (when he jumped bail for vehicular
manslaughter while drunk). Filled with guilt after seeing
the mother of the boy he killed and then torn between
doing what is right and his own family, Catherine and
Vincent convince him to return Above to face the
consequences and the woman whose son he killed so many
years before. Finally meeting her, both Kanin and the
woman learn to forgive.
| Episode
33 - STICKS AND STONES |
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(Episode begins with Vincent quoting Walt Whitman). A
gang of violent vagrants penetrates the boundaries of the
tunnel world, killing and hurting some of the dwellers.
Their violence traps the dwellers in the Great Hall.
Catherine, seeking to discover what is happening, kills
one of the vagrants and is then threatened by the others.
Vincent, his dark side aroused by her fear, attacks and
destroys the rest except for one child, who shoots
Vincent in the left shoulder before running off. Vincent,
distressed by the seeming lack of control over his dark
side, rejects Catherine's acceptance of his dark side and
her attempt to comfort him, sending her away.
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Catherine's father dies suddenly from a stroke.
Before his death, while he lies in a coma and is
apparently aware, Catherine tells him of Vincent and
Vincent promises to care for her. After her father's
death, Catherine, unable to face her grief, seeks
sanctuary Below. While she contemplates staying Below,
she and Vincent discuss the possibility of their truly
being together. Eventually coming to terms with her
father's death (after having a vision of him), Catherine
returns to the world Above, thanking Vincent for his
understanding, with a kiss.
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The return of a former tunnel dweller (Lisa, now a
famous ballerina), seeking escape from an international
criminal and the authorities who want her to testify
against him, triggers memories (flashbacks) in Vincent,
of his first love and his guilt over an incident which
led (in his mind) to Lisa's leaving. After she is
assaulted by men searching for Lisa (and Vincent saved
her by killing one man while she killed the other),
Catherine confronts Lisa with her responsibilities, both
to Vincent and the world Above. Lisa agrees to testify.
Later, Vincent, in great distress, tells Catherine of the
incident, when, aroused by Lisa, he frightened and hurt
her. Catherine comforts him. (Ballet sequences are
shown).
| Episode
36 - WHEN THE BLUEBIRD SINGS |
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Approached by an artist in a bookstore who wishes to
paint her, Catherine learns he is supposedly dead. He
continues to approach her, once coming close to seeing
Vincent and, eventually, she allows him to sketch her. A
strange dream and the feeling of being watched in his
quarters sends Vincent to Narcissa for possible
explanations. Further investigation leads Catherine to
where the artist's work is kept and she is mysteriously
allowed to enter, where she finds Vincent waiting. They
confront the artist and he shows them his work. Catherine
arranges for a showing of his paintings. He leaves a
special one for her. Later, in Vincent's quarters they
stare at the picture, a portrait of the two of them;
Vincent seems to believe the painter is a ghost,
Catherine is unwilling to believe.
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As Catherine and Vincent begin to celebrate the
second anniversary of their meeting, they are interrupted
by a "watcher", who has been spying on
Catherine. He breaks into her apartment, steals her
possessions, harrasses her with phone calls and
eventually chloroforms and kidnaps her. Taking her to the
park, he locks her in the trunk of his car and send it
into a pond. Vincent, rushing to save her, confronts and
kills the "watcher", arriving just in time to
save Catherine, who is undergoing an out-of-body 'dying'
experience. Later, she convinces her friend, Jenny, to
leave her at her apartment and Vincent arrives to stay
with her. They later celebrate their anniversary.
| Episode
38 - A DISTANT SHORE |
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Sent to L.A. to interview a possible witness to
illegal activities within a recording company,
Catherine's bond with Vincent is so strong that he is
able to warn her of danger. As she returns to New York
City, flashbacks of her and Vincent are shown while the
song "The First Time I Loved Forever" is sung.
(Vincent reads "Acquainted with the Night" by
Robert Frost).
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Catherine is assigned the responsibility of
prosecuting a wealthy businessman for the death of his
son (as the result of a severe beating). Vincent
anguishes over the many children who suffer and cannot be
helped. Catherine wins the case by casting doubt on the
testimony of the man's daughter, who also has suffered
abuse at his hands.
| Episode
40 - A KINGDOM BY THE SEA |
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An intimate moment between Catherine and Vincent is
interrupted by CIA agents looking for Elliott Burch, who
has become involved in political insurgencies on a small
island, the result of which is an attempt on his father's
life. He calls in Catherine's and Vincent's debt (see:
"Shades of Grey") to get his father out of the
hospital. The plan goes awry when his father is killed in
a helicopter explosion and he and Catherine are pursued
by gunmen intent on killing them. Catherine aids
Elliott's escape using the tunnels and, when they part,
he has come to realize that she is in love with someone
else. Catherine returns to Vincent, who has been injured
in his fight with the gunmen and who is feeling depressed
about a kiss between her and Elliott. Catherine tells him
that when Elliott kissed her, she wished it was Vincent.
| Episode
41 - THE HOLLOW MEN |
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Vincent witnesses a murder by two young men, the sons
of wealthy parents, who kill for the thrill of it. He
tells Catherine; she alerts the police (who gather
evidence) and a witness to take them to trial. Due to the
evidence being primarily circumstantial and the lack of
credibility of the prosecution witness, the young men are
freed. Vincent then haunts them, leading them to assume
that Catherine has set him upon them and they attempt to
trap and kill her. Their plan fails when Vincent arrives
and kills them, but not before being shot in the
shoulder.
| Episode
42 - WHAT ROUGH BEAST |
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A mysterious informer sets an investigative reporter
out to investigate Vincent's existence, leading the man
to harrass Catherine for information. Believing Elliott
Burch is behind the investigation, she confronts him.
Elliott hires a private detective to get to the truth.
The informer has Catherine kidnapped and taken to the
tunnels by two assailants near where the reporter has
been told to wait. He records and takes pictures of
Vincent's rescue of Catherine, turning a deaf ear to her
pleas for mercy. Vincent tells Catherine he will flee
deep into the depths to prevent capture if the tunnels
are invaded, refusing to allow her to join him. The
reporter, confronting his informant, is faced, to his
surprise, not with Elliott Burch but with Paracelsus, who
kills him. Episode ends with Vincent sitting, shivering,
in his darkened room.
| Episode
43- CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE -
Part 2 of the Trilogy |
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Episode begins with Catherine having a nightmare and
Vincent feeling trapped, while they await the result of
the reporter's expose. Father is sent pictures of Vincent
killing Catherine's kidnappers and, following the
instructions given, goes to meet Paracelsus. Unable to
kill Paracelsus, Father apparently returns to the tunnels
and tells Vincent the "truth" about his birth -
leading Vincent to believe he was the product of an
experiment by Paracelsus on his wife, and that his birth
killed the woman. Having been sent away by Vincent, as
"it is not safe to love me", she goes directly
to Elliott to apologize and gain entrance to the
apartment where the reporter met his informer. Father is
discovered, injured and locked in a secret closet. On the
way back down, he tells Catherine the truth of Vicent's
coming into their world - it was Paracelsus' wife who
found Vincent at St. Vincent's Hospital, and that
Paracelsus' obsessive absorption with Vincent and the
killing of his wife after she gave Vincent into Father's
care, led to his banishment. They arrive just after
Vincent, driven to madness by Father/Paracelsus' words,
has killed Paracelsus. He is severely traumatized as he
believed at first that he had killed Father.
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44- THE REST IS SILENCE |
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Vincent joins Catherine to listen to Vivaldi (The
Seasons, etc.) Vincent begins to walk in his sleep,
having nightmares of his own destruction. As his mental
and physical health deteriorate, he becomes delirious and
obsessional. Catherine, concerned by his behaviour, seeks
out Father's counsel and learns that Vincent suffered a
similar illness in his adolescence, which nearly killed
him. Seeking out Catherine (to read her a quote from
Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No
Dominion") and unable to feel that she is still
Below, Vincent breaks into her apartment and collapses.
Finding him unconscious, she calls on Peter Alcott (see
"Ashes, Ashes" and "Dead of Winter")
who takes blood samples, warning her it could lead to
embarassing questions. She stays by Vincent's side for
three days and nights, nursing him through periods of
hallucination and delirium. Before returning to his
world, he tells Catherine he loves her. Once in his
quarters he again hallucinates, destroying his room:
Father stops him from running into the park and Vincent
requests that Catherine be sent for. While Father awaits
Catherine's coming (she has gone to see Peter for the
results of the blood tests, only to be told that the
blood is "not human"), Vincent has the others
meet in the council room, telling them that he is leaving
as he fears he cannot protect them from himself. Mouse
and Pascal follow him and Pascal returns to lead Father
and Catherine to Vincent. Catherine, against Father's
pleas, goes after a raging Vincent as "he is my
life". She walks into darkness and only Vincent's
growls are heard until Catherine's voice suddenly shouts
out his name. Episode ends! Season ends!
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45- THOUGH LOVERS BE LOST |
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Catherine manages to "sooth the savage
beast" and brings Vincent back from near death in
the dark cavern. Vincent has lost most of his memory of
the incident, as well as the bond he shared with
Catherine, but he will live.
A college buddy of Joe's gives him a black book, but will
not say more until he is out of the country. He is then
killed in a car explosion that also puts Joe in the
hospital. The book supposedly will reveal a terrible
conspiracy, so Catherine takes up the investigation. She
also discovers that she is pregnant.
Catherine briefs Moreno, who wants the book himself. She
agrees to copy it for him, but keeps the original. She is
then abducted by men affiliated with Moreno. They drug
her to try to gain the location of the black book, but
Catherine says nothing. While in captivity, she tries to
tap a code on the pipes, which is heard below. Vincent
comes to the building, killing the guards in his way (and
getting filmed by surveillance cameras). He is still too
late, and Catherine is taken away by the mystery man.
Months pass, and Catherine is ready to give birth. The
mystery man is no longer interested in Catherine or the
black book - all he wants now is the child. Vincent's
empathic bond returns, but now the bond is between him
and the unborn child, not Catherine. He follows the sense
to the building where Catherine is being held, but he is
again too late. The baby is born, and taken away by the
mystery man in a helicoptor. Catherine is injected with a
lethal drug before they go, and dies in Vincent's arms.
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Sept. 22, 1989 Friday
Vincent carries Catherine's body across town from the
tower at 1900-6th Avenue to her 16th (?) floor apartment,
also on 6th Avenue, facing Central Park. He breaks the
latch on her balcony to gain access to her apartment.
Partial fingerprints are found on the balcony door, but
forensics can't determine anything about the unusual
prints.
Catherine's body is discovered by the police in her
apartment. Joe sees her body and talks with the detective
investigating the case. This detective refers Joe to
Diana Bennett, special investigator, best suited to solve
the mystery of Catherine's murder. Joe gets Diana's
address from the Police Commissioner and goes to her loft
apartment. She refuses to take on his case because she's
already involved in another case.
Sept. 23, 1989 Saturday
Diana shows up at Catherine's autopsy because of her
other case. She learns that Catherine gave birth to a
baby within an hour of her death from a morphine
injection.
Sept. 24, 1989 Sunday
Diana goes to Catherine's apartment and almosts finds
Vincent there. Diana discovers that Vincent removed a
book of sonnets from the nighttable near the bed. The
nighttable is dusted again. A second set of strange
fingerprints are found. Forensics can't determine
anything about the prints.
Sept. 25, 1989 Monday
Catherine's funeral. Diana has a hidden photographer take
telephoto closeups of everyone attending the funeral.
Diana obtains photos of Elliott, Joe, Jacob Wells, Mouse,
Mary, Laura, William, Dr. Alcott, the cabbie, the hot dog
vendor, Rebecca, Lena and Catherine's best friend from
Connecticut, Nancy Tucker.
Sept. 26, 1989 Tuesday
Diana confronts Elliott Burch in his office. He denies
all!
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That night, Vincent also visits Elliott and asks him
to help.
Sept. 27, 1989 Wednesday
Elliott goes to Joe's apartment (#751) because Joe's on a
leave of absence from work in order to stop him from
investigating Catherine's death. Elliott gives Joe the
address of the building where Catherine was killed
(1900-6th Avneue, tower off of 53rd Street) and warns Joe
not to trust Moreno, the current D.A., because Catherine
was betrayed by someone working in the D.A.'s office and
because Moreno put Joe on a leave of absence and insisted
that Joe stop investigating Catherine's death.
That night, Joe goes to Moreno's office and accosts him.
He also throws the address out at Moreno and gets a
reaction! Moreno meets Gabriel and tells him about Joe's
accusations. Moreno tells Gabriel that he'll handle Joe
and dispose of Elliott Burch himself. Private
investigator Cleon Manning (working for Elliott) is
killed by Gabriel's hitmen as a warning to back off the
case. Elliott has his first meeting with Vincent at the
abandoned carousel in Central Park. Diana goes to
Catherine's apartment and finds the secret entrance to
the 'threshold Below' in the sub-basement of the
apartment building. Diana brings the withered rosebush
from Catherine's apartment back to her own.
Sept. 28, 1989 Thursday
Joe goes to Elliott at his office. Elliott refuses to
divulge his source of information about Moreno or the
building on 1900-6th Avenue. He also reminds Joe that
Moreno is crooked and on the mob payroll.
Sept. 29, 1989 Friday
Elliott's second meeting with Vincent at the carousel.
Moreno and the hitman (Arvin Gates) follow Elliott to the
carousel. Both are killed by Vincent. Vincent is shot
twice in the chest by Moreno. Elliott sees Vincent's face
for the first time. He's shocked, but not frightened. His
main concern is to help Vincent because he saved
Elliott's life and is gravely wounded. Vincent pushes
Elliott away and leaves.
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Sept. 30, 1989 Saturday
Gabriel meets Snow at the zoo and gives him a videotape
of Vincent killing Gabriel's men when he tried to rescue
Catherine at 1900-6th Avenue. Gabriel wants Snow to find
and kill Vincent. Gabriel tells Snow that he has a son
now. Snow knows that Gabriel is sterilized and can't
father any children. He takes the tape and tells Gabriel
he'll look at it. Diana continues nursing the dessicated
rosebush.
Oct. 2, 1989 Monday
Both Diana and Snow obtain partial maps of the
underground tunnels from the City Records' office. In the
evening, Snow goes to Gabriel's mansion and agrees to
hunt for and kill Vincent because "he's beautiful
and not human". He also tells Gabriel that he knows
Gabriel wants Vincent killed because he's the actual
father to the "son" Gabriel has now. Vincent
has waking visions about "snowstorms invading the
tunnels and killing everyone". Vincent is still weak
and healing from the gunshot wounds received from Moreno
at the carousel. Diana does some preliminary searching in
the tunnels.
Oct. 3, 1989 Tuesday
Diana meets Joe at his office in the Criminal Courts
Building. Joe is Acting District Attorney now that Moreno
is dead. Scandal attached to Moreno's association with a
mob hitman doesn't apply to Joe, as he was on sick leave
or a leave of absence at the time. Diana is excited and
tells Joe about the name "Vincent" that she
found among Catherine's things (the rosebush and the
subterranean passageway in Catherine's basement). That
night, both Diana and Snow explore the tunnels, searching
for Vincent. Vincent kills Snow and obtains Snow's ring,
which is identical to Gabriel's ring. Vincent leaves
Snow's body on top of the building at 1900-6th Avenue.
Gabriel is upset because Snow's ring is missing from the
body.
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49 - BEGGAR'S COMET |
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Oct. 4, 1989 Wednesday
Elliott Burch receives a note from Clarence, a street
performer playing saxophone, near the fountain in Lincoln
Plaza. That evening is the first meeting at the Compass
Rose (at the docks) between Elliott and Vincent. Vincent
gives Elliott the ring as another clue to finding
Gabriel.
Oct. 5, 1989 Thursday
The police call Joe because Elliott's chauffeur is
telling them that Elliott was at the carousel the night
Moreno was killed. The chauffeur also states that another
$100,000 has been added to his bank account and says he
received it as hush money from Elliott. Joe watches and
listens as they question the chauffeur behind a two-way
mirror.
Oct. 6, 1989 Friday
Joe obtains a warrant and arrests Elliott Burch for
Moreno's murder. Elliott refuses to admit anything or
betray Vincent to the police or to his attorney. Elliott
remains in jail.
Oct. 7, 1989 Saturday
Elliott's lawyer refuses to represent him further as his
daughter is missing. Elliott's Board of Directors file
for bankruptcy for his company without his signature.
Diana is still not speaking to Joe. She insists that
Elliott was framed, even though she has no proof.
Oct. 8, 1989 Sunday
Gabriel pays the bail for Elliott and sends Jonathan Pope
over to get Elliott to meet with him (Gabriel). That
evening they meet at Catherine's grave. Gabriel promises
Elliott all his money and power back, all criminal
charges dropped against him and revenge on Catherine's
lover, Vincent, in return for betraying Vincent to
Gabriel. After all, Gabriel reasons, why is Elliott
helping Vincent when he's the father to Catherine's son
and was actually Elliott's rival for Catherine's love.
Oct. 9, 1989 Monday
Elliott goes to the Mission at the docks and gives a note
to Clarence to relay to Vincent. "Meet me, Compass
Rose". Clarence refuses a $100 bill to give the note
to Vincent. Elliott gives it to him anyway 'for his
music'. That evening, Diana holds a vigil at Catherine's
grave on a 'hunch'; Elliott changes his mind about
betraying Vicent and steps in front of the bullet
intended for Vincent. He passes the ring back to Vincent
and tells him to take it and leave. "You would not
leave me." "DAMMIT! I WOULD! GOD DAMN
YOU!" Gabriel blows up the Compass Rose with both of
them on it. Vincent staggers to Catherine's grave,
mortally wounded from the explosion and collapses there
to die.
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50 - A TIME TO HEAL |
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Diana brings Vincent's unconscious body to her
apartment and treats his wounds.
Oct. 10, 1989 Tuesday
Diana writes her first notations in her computer about
finding Vincent. Vincent awakens in a feverish frenzy,
tears apart her bed and destroys her nighttable with one
blow of his fist.
Oct. 11, 1989 Wednesday
Vincent awakens the next day, breaks the door to Diana's
bedroom with his fists and collapses on the floor. She
leaves him there and covers him with a blanket. In the
afternoon, her boyfriend, Mark, shows up and she refuses
to let him inside the apartment.
Oct. 12, 1989 Thursday
Vincent wakes up on Diana's floor and sees her sleeping
on the chair near him. They talk all day long about
Catherine, his son and Gabriel. That evening, Joe comes
to Diana's apartment to tell her that a strange old man
kidnapped him in a cab and told him that Elliott Burch
was on the Compass Rose three nights ago. When he told
the old man that the Compass Rose blew up three nights
ago and was burnt down to the waterline, the man was sad
and left him. Diana gets rid of Joe without letting him
up in the freight elevator to her apartment, but, by the
time she gets back upstairs, Vincent is gone.
Oct. 13, 1989 Friday
That evening, Diana's boyfriend, Mark comes over to the
apartment and walks out on her because she refuses to
commit herself to him and won't explain why.
Diana returns to the tunnels, searching for Vincent.
Instead, she finds three vagrants and they assault her.
Vincent arrives and rescues her just as one of the men is
ready to shoot her in the head with her gun. He kills the
man and the other two flee. He refuses any help from her
to find Gabriel and his son because too many people have
died already in this search. He tells her to forget him.
"I can't!" "Then, remember me as you would
a dream."
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51 - IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT |
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Oct. 14, 1989 Saturday
Diana's sister and four-year old niece visit her. She
talks with her sister on her rooftoop terrace. "Has
anything ever happened to you that was so different, SO
unusual, that it just changed everything? I mean
EVERYTHING! The way their faces look when you pass by on
the street, the way you felt when you woke up in the
morning, the things you dreamt at night." "It's
about a man, isn't it?" "I don't know. Maybe,
someday, I'll be able to talk about it." That
evening, Rolly (heroin addict and ex-tunnel resident)
goes Below with a gunshot wound. Father and Vincent treat
him for his gunshot wound and for his heroin addiction.
Oct. 15, 1989 Sunday
Vincent stays with Rolly while he heals and goes through
his withdrawal from heroin (a full 48 hours for
withdrawal).
Oct. 16, 1989 Monday
Rolly begs Vincent to buy him some heroin and gives him
the description and location of his dealer. That night,
Vincent stakes out a corner and grabs the dealer in an
alley. He slashes his wrist, threatens him and releases
him. When the dealer panics and goes to the source of his
drugs, Vincent follows him to the warehouse/lab, destroys
it and it's burnt to the ground. The dealer leaves the
area before Vincent's assault. There is only one
survivor, Lou Horner.
Oct. 17, 1989 Tuesday
Joe goes to Diana's apartment and wakes her up at dawn.
He was up all night, with a fire at a narcotics
warehouse/lab. The rosebush is in full bloom now. A major
narcotics case, two victims had slash wounds similar to
the wounds on Moreno and the hitman at the carousel. The
lone survivor, Lou Horner, is severely burned and at the
hospital. Diana insists that this has nothing to do with
Catherine's case.
Later, Diana finds an envelope on her balcony that
contains Snow's ring and a note from Vincent: "This
is all I have to point me to Gabriel. I give it to you
with all my trust."
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52 - THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT |
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Oct. 18, 1989 Wednesday
Diana is captured by Gabriel's men and taken to him. He
tells her that Jacob is dying and he needs Vincent to
help save the baby. Diana is released and she contacts
Vincent in the tunnels and relays Gabriel's message. So
that his blood can be used to heal his son, he agrees at
once to give himself up to Gabriel's power. Diana tries
to talk him out of it. "Then he'll kill you! AND YOU
KNOW IT." "But, first, he'll save my son."
Vincent is captured and blood samples are taken. The
child's blood is unique, but Vincent's blood is too
different. A transfusion would kill his son. They allow
Vincent to hold his son and they bond and the child
heals.
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Oct. 19, 1989 Thursday
Diana can't return to her apartment. It's under
surveillance by Gabriel's men. She attempts to call Joe
from a pay phone but her call is intercepted by Angela,
his receptionist and transferred to Houston, a policeman
also working for Gabriel, so she hangs up before her call
can be traced. Father's 'helpers' chase her into an alley
and bring ber Below to speak with Father because Vincent
is gone and she was the last person to speak with him.
Gabriel tosses the ring into the cell with Vincent and
tells him that Diana is dead. Vincent handles the ring
and doesn't sense the psychic imprint of her death on it
and knows that Gabriel lied. Gabriel replays all of his
videotapes of Vincent killing his men during his rescue
attempt of Catherine and his recent destruction of the
warehouse/lab in an attempt to saturate, overwhelm and
brainwash him with violent images. Diana gives Father the
sketch she made (from memory) of Gabriel's floor tile.
Father brings this sketch to Joe after work hours at his
office in the Criminal Courts Building. He also arranges
for a rendezvous between Joe and Diana at the dinosaur
exhibit at the Museum the next day at one o'clock.
Oct. 20, 1989 Friday
Joe hands out copies of the sketch (of the floor tile) to
his investigators (one of whom is Houston, Gabriel's
mole). At one p.m., Joe meets Diana at the Museum. A
hitman who followed Joe is captured by 'helpers' and
handed over to police custody. Detective Greg Hughes
calls Joe on his beeper. Joe calls Greg on a pay phone
and obtains a list of possible addresses for the tile.
Diana picks Staten Island as the most likely, due to the
length of time she spent blindfolded in the helicopter
and the fact that they flew over water. Diana leaves Joe
at the Museum. She tells him she'll find her own way
inside the mansion rather than wait for him to obtain a
search warrant. That evening, she gets inside with
Father's maps of old pipe systems. She crawls inside
through an old steam pipe and helps Vincent leave with
his son before Joe gets there with the SWAT team. She
kills Gabriel with Catherine's gun.
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54 - THE RECKONING |
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This episode begins a completely new story arc,
unrelated to the whole Gabriel plot. During the
christening ceremony for baby Jacob, Father is reunited
with an former tunnel dweller, Jessica. Father joins
Jessica above for an exhibit of her photography, and they
proceed to fall in love during a romantic evening above.
Father wants to be with her, much to the chagrin of Mary,
and gathers his things to venture into the world above.
Meanwhile, a crisis threatens the tunnel community. A
serial killer has taken to killing helpers, and painting
their faces with a powder that turns out to be human ash.
The killer's name is Gregory. Diana is working on the
case, but has no leads until she discovers, through
Vincent, that the victims are connected via their
relationship to the tunnel community.
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Gregory turns out to be the son of a man who died in
a cave-in in the tunnels long ago. There were others
involved in the cave-in who survived, and Gregory is
killing them one by one, and painting them with his
father's ashes, to "make everything right."
Father has decided that he can't stay above with Jessica
while a madman is hunting his people, so he goes back
down to see what he can do. Gregory intercepts him, and
buries him alive at the site of the cave-in. Gregory then
paints his own face, and dies in an abyss.
Diana figures out what Gregory did with Father, and
Vincent comes to the rescue. Father and Jessica realize
that their relationship can never be, and they say
goodbye.
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