Sanctuary Webisode 2

A blonde girl follows a man through a subway tunnel until he reaches the platform, where an impossibly tall, bald-headed figure helps him up onto the platform. The blonde girl throws herself against the wall of the tunnel, and is narrowly missed by a speeding train – and by the time it has gone through, the couple have vanished.

Outside, it is raining. It seems to do nothing but rain in Old City. Indoors the camera pans across the floor of someone’s bathroom, clothes are scattered everywhere. Someone is getting showered when the toilet flushes, and there is an exclamation from inside the shower curtain (this is a nice touch, not hitting the viewer over the head with the fact that the flushing toilet cuts off any cold water keeping the shower bearable). “Okay, who the hell just used my can?” Zimmerman (Robin Dunne) calls. Moments later the shower curtain is ripped away to reveal a long hairy arm ending in claws, and Zimmerman faints.

After the credits to webisode 2 of Damian (Stargate SG-1, Stargate:Atlantis) Kindler’s new series, a black sedan pulls into an archway and waits in front of a pair of heavy gates as the driver enters a code into the gate’s lock.

Down in the subway platform, a passing patrolman sees the tall man leaning up against a pillar. When the man refuses to acknowledge him, the patrolman backs away and radios in, but fatally, turns his back. Moments later, he slumps, a sword in his upper back.

“Privacy, please,” the tall man says in an English accent. “We’re just getting to know one another.” He looks at a child behind him. It is the same child who killed the policeman in the first webisode.

Zimmerman wakes up in an ornately furnished bedroom that is clearly not his. He thinks he’s got lucky. Examining the photographs arranged around the room, they are all pictures of Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) taken throughout the twentieth century. But in each picture she looks no older.

“Good, you’re awake,” Helen says from the doorway.

He’s not so sure. Especially when the same hirsute giant steps out of the shadows behind Helen, and he faints again.

Down in the subway, the cop is still alive, but even though he is in agony the tall man is hanging him up on a pylon. He invites the boy to feed – if the boy will help him find “an old friend.”

Back in Helen’s apartment, she admits that the hirsute giant is butler. Zimmerman wants to go, but she warns him that outside her door far worse perils await him. “Sanctuary for all is not an empty motto,” she says.

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