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01-26-2006, 04:56 PM
1.01 Pilot - Aired 9/29/05
1.02 The Five People You Meet in Hell - Aired 10/6/05
1.03 Three - Aired 10/13/05
1.04 Burning Man - Aired 10/20/05
1.05 Malum - Aired 10/27/05
1.06 The Source - Aired 11/10/05
1.07 The Sea - Unaired
1.01: Pilot
As Carl Kolchak stalks the night, a man bids his wife farewell as he heads off to his jobs, unaware that a figure with a red mark on his wrist lurks nearby. In the house, the woman Emily hears a noise, draws a knife, and goes to investigate. Ste steps on a nail and is distracted, putting down the knife. The lights go out and a figure comes running at her from out of the shadows. She takes cover in the garage and tries to get out the door and into the car, but is caught hauled away, screaming.
In the desert, the police are investigating and Perri Reed, a reporter with the Beacon, shows up to investigate, along with photographer Jain McManus. She’s told another reporter is already there and goes into confront the man – Carl Kolchak. He tells them they can go and reveals it’s his first day with the newspaper. He hints that the husband is responsible for the woman’s disappearance and the police believe it’s a reporter. Carl and Perri meet with their editor, Tony Vincenzo, who isn’t happy about Carl’s running start, tells them to get along, and gives the story to Perri. Perri has no luck getting the information without Carl’s contacts, and he doesn’t give them up. But he does reveal the police believe the motive is Emily’s pregnancy. In the desert, bikers find a mutilated corpse.
The husband Henry is brought in by the police while Perri determines the fetus was torn from her body and there’s no sign of a murder weapon. At the hospital, Emily’s brother Ed Madlock is called in to identify the body. He and his wife go in while Carl meets with their daughter and gives her a few words of comfort before the brother-in-law interrupts – he believes Henry is responsible but the wife doesn’t. Carl meets with Perri and reveals what happened.
At a hotel, the brother-in-law heads out, leaving his wife and daughter behind. While the wife takes a shower, something breaks into the hotel and goes after the daughter Julie, who hides beneath the bed. She sees her mother attacked and then the creature comes back for her.
After attending the press conference, Carl meets with Perri and reveals the police think a serial killer is responsible and the charges against Henry have been dropped. Perri is interviewing Henry Gale and invites Carl along. He asks Henry about whether he heard animals or actually saw anything, but he only heard some animal. Later that night, Perri looks up Carl’s background on the Internet and finds an expired link about the FBI interviewing Carl Kolchak. She calls the investigating agent, Bernie Fain, who tells her that Kolchak is a murderer.
Jain gets together with Carl and reveals that he took photos around both sites and picked up paw tracks and in the background of one shot a blurred image of a strange wolf-like creature. Meanwhile Perri meets with Agent Fain on a deserted stretch of highway where Fain claims Kolchak killed his wife. Fain reveals how Carl claimed he pulled over to avoid a head-on collision and something reached through the window and grabbed his wife and killed her. Kolchak was never charged due to insufficient evidence. Carl and Jain go out to the site of the wolf sighting and figure there’s at least two of the creatures but no drag marks. They’re interrupted by the arrival of Fain, the police, and Perri, and Fain has Kolchak arrested.
Vincenzo arrives at the police station and confronts Perri – he knew about Carl’s background and explains that he was working in Las Vegas when Kolchak brought a story to him that made both their careers. But Carl wasn’t there when the story paid off because Carl was with his wife. Kolchak is released due to lack of evidence and when Perri drops him off, she admits she isn’t convinced of his innocence. The front door of his house is open and they go in to investigate – the place is ransacked, presumably by Fain. While she checks out the house, she finds a room dedicated to recording and studying bizarre deaths. Carl confronts her and reveals that on the photo of the wife, there is a red mark on her hand and it has appeared on the hands of some victims scattered across the country. One woman was incinerated, another man committed suicide after confessing to series of murders that didn’t occur after his death. Another family moved into a house and killed themselves. Kolchak reveals a drifter was found dead in the same way, two weeks before Emily’s death. Carl reveals his wife was pregnant just like Emily was, and he doesn’t know if Emily had the mark. All he knows is there’s something tying all the deaths together. Perri is still skeptical but Kolchak is determined to find the missing girl.
Jain calls them with info on reports of wild animals near a girls’ school and they head out to investigate. Jain has found similar paw prints. While Carl checks out the area, Perri heads back to her car but hears strange noises. She runs and a creature leaps over her and comes back around, but Carl hits it with his car and they find a bizarre skinless wolf.
Fain and the examiner claim it’s a coyote and has it cremated – Kolchak is convinced Fain would eliminate any evidence that might clear Kolchak. Perri manages to get the photos of Emily’s body and it doesn’t have the red wrist-mark. Carl believes the creatures carried away the girl and she’s still alive, and they may not be what killed his wife. Carl gets a signal – he sprayed the place near the school with a chemical and one of the other coyotes ended up with it. Carl traces the signal to a cave near where Emily’s body was found and they follow it in. They lose the signal and go in on foot, armed with cattle prods. Following the girl’s cries, they locate her and Carl gets her off a ledge while the creatures close in. They make a run for the exit and Jain is grabbed and pulled back in – Carl manages to pull him out and they get into the car and head out as the creatures throw themselves at the car, shattering the windows. The girl is united with her mother while Fain and the authorities turn up nothing at the cave. Carl writes the story but without the supernatural element, much to Perri’s disappointment. He’s reluctant to print anything specific until he has the evidence, and Perri warns that “I’m watching you.” And at the end we see that Carl has a red mark on his own wrist.
1.02: The Five People You Meet in Hell
A couple is watching their son Jeffrey play softball but the wife can’t bear to watch. The father’s dad discusses the boy’s batting technique before telling his son, the father, that “he knows what he has to do.” The father, lawyer Doug Linman, picks up a baseball bat and goes over to the concession stand where his wife is, then beats her to death as his son hits a home run. The father then comes back, covered in blood but totally calm.
Perri, Carl, and Jain are at the press conference for the murder when Carl notes that the murderer claimed his dead father was at the baseball game. Vincenzo isn’t happy at Carl’s line of questioning and everyone else believes the father is insane, but the lawyer lets them set up an interview. The killer admits he did it but has no idea why. He admits he’s seen his father several times before, but not since the murder. The investigating officer, Detective Granof, and his partner Mitchell call them out and insist Kolchak drop the matter, and then cut off his access. There’s no red mark on the victim’s wrist, but Carl continues to investigate. In a prison cell nearby, a prisoner repeatedly mutters “You know what you have to do.”
Back at the office, Carl is going through Linman’s personal affects and suspects that spiritual possession was involved. He doesn’t find any “trigger” but he does find reference to an appointment, and Perri recognizes it as being for Damon Caylor, a cult leader who objected to hypocrites and had his small group cut off an executive’s head in a supermarket parking lot. Linman was the prosecutor and had claimed Caylor possessed his followers into committing the murder. Perri suggests Caylor’s followers were responsible, but Vincenzo tells them Linman killed himself in his cell earlier that morning.
Carl and Perri go back to the prison to meet with Caylor, who is in solitary after he was blinded by the other prisoners after he insulted them repeatedly. Perri can’t bring herself to meet with Caylor, so Carl comes in and the prisoner demands to know where Perri is and refuses to talk to Carl. Carl’s tape recorder mysteriously stops but then Caylor decides to talk to him. Caylor knows of Linman’s death and held a grudge since the lawyer refused a writ of habeas corpus. Caylor denies having done anything and afterward Perri believes he’s trying to manipulate Carl. At a home, a mother is preparing supper while her husband watches basketball. Her daughter calls her over to look at something, and then the woman takes her knife and goes to kill her husband. Spelled out in magnetic letters is, “You know what you have to do.”
Later at the murder scene, Granof and Mitchell find the message and Carl shows up to talk to Granof. The woman was a judge at Caylor’s trial and Granof was the one who arrested Caylor. The woman claims her dead six-year old daughter told her to kill. Granof says he hasn’t been contacted by any dead people and leaves, laughing. Jain reveals that Perri got Caylor’s wife to talk about her husband, which led to Caylor killing her. Perri meets with one of Caylor’s ex-followers, Katrina Ortega, who admits he could manipulate his followers and that he won’t stop until they’re all dead.
Caylor asks for another meeting with Carl and wants the reporter to print a message on the front page – in return the murders will stop. Caylor knows about Carl’s wife and believes he’s someone he can deal with – Carl isn’t a hypocrite as he’s out for himself. But Caylor insists he’ll only give the story to Perri. Carl believes Caylor’s blindness allowed him to focus his mind and increase his powers. When Carl mentions Granof’s partner, Perri reveals that Mitchell died six months ago. “Mitchell” confronts Granof and tells him that “he knows what he has to do.” Granof drives to a home where a woman is exercising, and prepares to shoot her. Carl and Perri get the address and Carl gets there just in time to stop Granof from shooting his own wife.
Perri agrees to the interview so no one else will die, and she and Carl meet with Caylor. He turns over his manifesto after their assurances they’ll print the story, but grabs Perri as she takes it and tells her that she “knows what she has to do.” Outside they realize the book is blank and they figure out Perri was the target all along. Carl figures Caylor needs to be in the presence of his victims to get a “lock” on them and now he is connected to Perri.
At the newspaper offices, Jain is watching Perri, much to her irritation. Granof is working to get Caylor moved to a different facility out of state, while Carl talks to Perri about her taking medication to stay asleep. She agrees and they go to her apartment where she takes some sleeping pills. In prison, Caylor is repeating his mantra over and over. At Perri’s, there’s a knock on the door and Carl opens it – it’s his wife, Irene.
Irene kisses him, while Jain reveals to Vincenzo that he believes Carl was Caylor’s target all along. Vincenzo calls Granof, who reveals he’s being transferred early, while Jain heads over to Perri’s. Carl notices that the red mark on her wrist is missing and promises it can be like it was. When “Irene” tells him he knows what he has to do, he gets a knife and starts approaching Perri. Caylor is taken off still muttering, while Jain busts in to Perri’s house. On Granof’s orders, the guards leave Caylor off with the other prisoners and they attack and kill him just before Carl can kill Perri.
1.03: Three
A young woman is walking home and stop in front of an old house – three men come out, grab her, and start drowning her in a metal tub. She manages to get away and runs through the house, only to be sealed in a shower stall as the faucets come on. The stall fills with water and she drowns.
Perri and Jain arrive to find Kolchak is already there, and Perri reveals that the woman, Liza, seemingly drowned but there no water in her lungs and no running water in the house. The police report suggests that three men tried to drown her but Carl is unconvinced – he’s found signs of a ritual and notices anointing oil on the window, inscribed with a mystic symbol. Carl identifies the symbol as the “horns of death,” a powerful occult symbol. Elsewhere, a group is holding a ceremony for the dead girl and Carl and Perri check it out. They talk with a local school newspaper reporter, Devan, where her boyfriend Jack is speaking on her behalf. Devan suggests Carl to talk to Jack – when he does, Jack reveals that Liza’s greatest fear was of drowning. As a Professor Carr speaks about Liza, Jack’s friend pulls him off and comments that they’re being watched to see how they react, and there’s a lot at stake. At the office, Jain goes over the photos and sees a streak across certain photos. Carl has him enlarge it and they can see a screaming face pattern.
Perri isn’t convinced by the photos but reveals that she looked at the pattern on the window and concluded the symbol is actually a crest for the Three Society, an exclusive secret school group that initiates three members a year and conducts a ritual where the initiate faces his or her greatest fear. Carl later figures out Perri was in a secret society herself, although she won’t confirm or deny. They meet up with Professor Carr, who provided Jack with an alibi for the night of Liza’s death. He denies everything even when Carl hints that Jack talked to them. Carr confronts Jack, who denies being the leak and wonders if Carr killed Liza. Jack suspects Carr in Liza’s murder because she turned down the professor’s advances, but Carr swears to break him if he violates their vow of secrecy.
Outside, Carr walks down the street but suddenly hallucinates falling off a tall building. He manages to hold on for a few seconds but plummets to his death. He collapses to the ground, dead as if he had fallen from a great height.
Carl and Perri sneak into the morgue to get a look at Carr’s body after Carl bribes the attendant Alex with basketball tickets. Every bone in Carr’s body is broken and there’s no indication of suicide – further, the blood splattered much further as if he had fallen 50 stories. Carl and Perri meet up with Devan and confront him over the fact he knew Liza’s fear. Devan tried to get into the Three society and Carl thinks he was trying to get revenge. Dean turns them onto Craig Boyer, who was arrested for drug use, and Liza had a powerful hallucinogenic in her body at the time of her death. Jain brings up the photo of Boyer at his arraignment and finds another screaming-image face.
They bring the photo to Vincenzo and Perri suggests they were in a mental state from the hallucinogenics where they imagined their deaths. Carl is skeptical but doesn’t have anything else to explain the image. Craig meets with Jack in jail and warns that he isn’t going to take the fall for Jack, and that drugs had nothing to do with the deaths. Craig insists Jack tell the truth about how he felt about Liza and Carr, and warns he isn’t going to go to prison over it. At the office, Carl and Vincenzo talk about how Tony got suckered in on a story – he suggests Carl start at the beginning of the story and work his way through. In jail, Craig hallucinates that a giant snake is crushing him to death, and he dies.
Perri confirms Carr didn’t have the drugs in his system. Carl finds out info about the house and has Devan to get Jack to meet them at the house. Carl reveals the house had a history going back 11 years where a double murder-suicide occurred – Charles Dunmore moved his wife and three children into the house, but was laid off and then used an axe to kill his wife and daughter. The two young boys escaped but the older son hid with the younger and then Dunmore killed himself. But when the older son came out, he discovered his younger brother had died of fear, and his is the face in the photos.
Carl explains that when someone dies of fear, their fear lingers on, and the boy’s fear has attached itself to Carr, Craig, Jack, and Liza on the night of the initiation. Jack denies everything and leaves, going to his apartment, and finds himself hallucinating he’s in the house as Dunmore comes after him with an axe. Outside the house, Jain spots concrete handprints made by Dunmore’s kids with their names – Gus and Jack. Devan reveals Jack was adopted and that the house itself is his greatest fear.
Jack is trying to fend off his homicidal father in the hallucination who is preparing to kill him, but Carl and the others arrive and snap him out of it. Later, Carl burns the house down and eliminates the fear once and for all.
1.04: Burning Man
At a gas station, a customer, Theodore Fogel, stops to get gas and warns another customer about using his cell phone. The new customer finds a small statue on his pocket as he begins to sweat, then discovers he’s bleeding from heat blisters on his face. Staggering, he pulls out the gas hoses and collapses to the ground in convulsions as the blisters cover his entire body. The guy with the cell phone sees him as his blisters cause enough heat to ignite the gasoline, blowing up the pumps.
Perri and Carl arrive at the scene to find Jain already there with the info. Carl reveals that a terrorist known as the TerrorMaker, who sent wax figurines, used some means to burn his victims from the inside but he died a year ago. Back at the office, a national reporter named Howard Gorn comes in - he worked the TerrorMaker case. They ask him about the Beacon’s one-year story and his suspicions that the FBI killed the wrong man. Gorn is dismissive of the claims of the TerrorMaker killing his victims with “hellfire.” Carl asks him about the FBI profiler, Doug Panero, but Gorn doesn’t have much to say. They go to visit Panero, but his wife doesn’t let them in. After they leave, the wife throws the file away but Panero notices it and flashes back to the case and what he profiled.
Carl and Perri don’t have much luck, as Gorn has all the notes for the book. Carl is suspicious of the TerrorMaker’s claims of a biological agent that he used to cause the fires. They hear a noise and go to find a wax statue left for them, and a message saying, “I’m Back.”
The next day they met with Vincenzo, who suggests they take it to Gorn because it’s his case if they have enough evidence…which he doesn’t think they do. Carl and Perri meet with the FBI who stick to the story the TerrorMaker is dead. Invoking Gorn’s name, they get the FBI to reopen the case and check out the figurine. While a mysterious figure creates more figurines, Panero comes in to see the team and reveals the victim was someone who worked with biological agents. The TerrorMaker targeted anyone who worked with biological agents. Panero reveals that he’s persona non grata at the FBI because of how the case went, but he wants to make sure the TerrorMaker is dealt with. After he leaves, Carl suspects that Panero is still afraid of something.
Elsewhere a woman greets a delivery boy and takes the foot to an older man. He takes out the food and finds a figurine, then he and the woman get in the pool. In mid-embrace the man’s flesh starts to heat blister and the water starts to boil around him as she tries to call for help.
The reporters get word of the death and confirm the victim was a biotech CEO. Gorn gets word of the death and takes the notes and the story. Vincenzo, Carl, and Perri confront Gorn, who notes the new figurines are different from the original and denies any charges that he’s writing what the FBI want him to. Panero gets word of Gorn’s story that the new killer is a copycat and Carl comes to him for help. Panero’s wife doesn’t want him involved but Panero meets with Carl anyway and shows him his files. Panero is still obsessed with the TerrorMaker and doesn’t believe the new killer is a copycat. Panero suspected the TerrorMaker stole the biological agent and Carl wonders how the new killer could have gotten the same agent. Carl still suspects some mystic “hellfire” is involved and offers to help Panero close the case once and for all.
Perri reveals that she and Carl have been ordered off the story by Management – Vincenzo will be in trouble if they go ahead with it. While Carl considers the situation, the mystery figure continues to work on figurines while collecting news articles of his crimes. That night he jimmies a car open and places a figurine inside. The FBI move in on him, with Jain and Gorn looking on, and get a picture of the man. The story breaks the next day, and the killer, Overton, is a trucker who transported the agents. The driver had all the stuff in his room to tie him to the murders, but Panero contacts Carl and tells him Overton was a wannabe. Carl concedes he’s dropped the story but Panero refuses to talk to anyone else, then guilts him into taking it anyway. Perri confronts Carl, who insists on getting the story right and then takes off, leaving Perri to deal with Gorn. Gorn expresses his admiration for Perri trying to get the info out of him and warns her about Carl. Perri offers to help Gorn and he considers her offer.
Carl meets with Panero, who is convinced the TerrorMaker is still alive. Meanwhile Gorn hits on Perri that night as she works with him but she brushes him off and notices a locked drawer. After he leaves she finds a key to the drawer and finds it full of “Hellfire” files. She brings the files to Jain and reveals Gorn documented various discrepancies that disprove the FBI’s biological agent theory, and Gorn bought the FBI line.
Carl finds that Gutman, the original TerrorMaker suspect, followed a certain route but Panero believes it’s a dead end. Carl checks the transactions and sees they lead to a storage locker that someone has been paying to keep it open. Carl and Panero check it out and find a box of the figurines, the molds and paraffin to make them, and the biological agent.
They return to Panero’s house but Carl puts everything together – Panero has a marker with ink that matches the note delivered to the Beacon. Carl accuses Panero of “bringing back” the TerrorMaker. It’s clear Panero crossed the line and lost himself, taking on the TerrorMaker persona. Panero draws a gun on Kolchak but his wife intervenes and tries to bring him out of it. Panero apologizes and grabs one of the figures, setting himself on fire as Carl and Panero’s wife can only look on.
After Gorn publishes another copycat story accounting for Panero’s death, Perri and Jain protest but Carl goes along with Vincenzo to support Gorn’s story, to protect Panero’s reputation. Carl is left to consider what monster he might face if he ever tracks down his wife’s killer.
1.05: Malum
A boy, Justin, is carving the word “Mal” into a tree when two older boys pick on him. Another boy, Ryan Carver, interrupts and the vice president, Mr. Jeffries, intervenes. Exekiel Seaver, the school janitor and Justin’s father, intervenes and insists Jeffries gives the knife back, threatening that Jeffries will “suffer for this.” That night, Jeffries is walking home when he hears a strange whispering sound and sees something…then screams. The next day, a janitor is running up the school flag when he feels a drop of blood and looks up – Jeffries is impaled on the top of the flag pole, 30’ above the ground, struck by lightning.
In the present, Carl is in an interview room with a detective who wants to get his insight into the case, and Carl warns him his opinions won’t stand up in a court of law. Carl starts at the beginning, describing how the vice president was supposedly struck by lightning and tossed 30’ onto a flagpole. But the lightning struck Jeffries low, when it typically strikes high, and there was no weather report of lightning. Carl, Perri, and Jain go to the school and Jain notices that the lightning pattern is the same as the roots of the tree that Justin was carving on. Ryan talks to Justin, who denies anything strange went on and Ryan says Justin needs to tell someone about his father. As part of grief counseling, Justin is drawing a picture of a bloody corpse lying in front of a wrecked car.
Later, Ryan approaches Carl and the others and tells them what happened, until Ryan’s father, a police officer, interrupts. Back in the present, The detective interviews the man, Dan Carver, and claims Kolchak fed him the idea of the “tragedy” and wants Carver to blame Kolchak – Carver denies Carl had anything to do with whatever he did.
The detective is talking with Carl about Seaver, and how he and Perri went to Mr. Seaver’s former home. They are interrupted by the neighbor, Mona Sampson, who reveals that another neighbor was killed in an incident with high-voltage wires after she complained about Justin broke into her pool. Perri believes there’s evidence of parental abuse while Carl is interested in saving lives. Justin and Ryan are at school and Ryan notices a lightning scar on Justin’s arm.
Carl meets with a Dr. Lawrence, the school psychologist, for information on Ezekiel Seaver and promises to use her as an anonymous source – she blows him off but he gives her his card. Then Dr. Lawrence meets with the boys, where Ryan has insisted Justin show her the scar, which covers his back. Ezekiel meets with his son and warns Justin that he’ll be taken away, and that everything he does is for his boy. Ezekiel claims the scarring was a result of an allergy, and has Justin reveal his back again – the scars are gone.
In the present, the detective is interviewing Dan Carver again and he reveals he called Lawrence but she as gone by then and the next morning it was “too late.” That night, Lawrence is at her house reviewing the files when the overhead fan’s fastening screw comes loose. He looks up just as the fan comes down, decapitating her.
At the Beacon, Carl has Justin’s medical files and gets word of the mysterious scarring. Perri notes that Ezekiel adopted Justin three years ago and has no record, and that he works as an electrician with high-voltage wiring. Carl goes back to the school and talks to Dan Carver about his son, warning Ryan may be in danger when he’s around Justin. Ryan disappears and Carver confronts Justin – Ryan is off in the woods, sees something, and screams. In the present, the detective continues to try to get Carver to incriminate Kolchak in the fact that Ryan was kidnapped.
Back at the Beacon, Carl reveals that he’s discovered that Ezekiel was formerly Arthur Summers, a noviate priest, performed an unauthorized exorcism on a woman who died of starvation, and that she left the son to Arthur/Ezekiel. Carl believes the evil spirit jumped from the woman into Ezekiel. In the present, Carver admits that when Carl gave him the information, he believed it.
In the present, Carl concludes the detective wants to set him up for inciting Carver to commit murder. In flashback, Carl sneaks into Ezekiel’s current house while Perri and Jain get word that Ezekiel managed to slip out of jail. While they go to warn him, Carl finds dozens of religious items and Ezekiel and Justin arrive home and hear him moving around. Carl ducks into a closet and Ezekiel finds nothing, but heads for the closet. He’s interrupted before he can go further when Perri shows up, and Carl takes advantage of the distraction to escape. As he does, he notices that Justin has carved the word “Malum” into his bed. He gets out but Ezekiel notices him running across the yard.
The next day at the Beacon, they check up on the word and discover “Malum” is Latin for “wicked” or “evil.” They figure that the word was the one Justin carved with his knife at the school, and conclude Justin is responsible. Carl concludes that Ezekiel is a watcher of lost souls and is looking after Justin, and Ezekiel is the prisoner. Further, Carl believes that Justin is trying to get rid of Ezekiel by framing him for the crimes.
In the woods, Ryan is tied up in an abandoned car and Justin shows up and gives him food, but refuses to untie him. Ezekiel notices him and goes into the woods, while Justin calls Dan Carver and asks for help. Carl figures that Justin doesn’t want Ezekiel dead – he wants him framed for murder so that he’ll be adopted by Dan Carver. Dan meets with Justin who offers to take him where Ryan is.
Carl and the others get word of the police report, while Ezekiel finds Ryan in the wood. As Ezekiel approaches the car, he clutches at his head while Dan Carver and Justin hear Ryan screaming. Carl hears him as well while Ezekiel cuts Ryan free and warns him about Justin. Dan Carver sees Ezekiel approaching his son with the knife and shoots him, while Justin looks on and Carl arrives to witness everything. The detective confronts Carl with the drawing Justin made earlier – the one that recreated the final murder scene. In the present, the detective reveals Carver was cleared, but Kolchak didn’t let it go there.
Carl talks with Carver after the shooting, pointing out that he thinks Justin was responsible. Carver didn’t believe him but reveals that later he found the picture and after Ryan warned him, he believed that Justin would kill Ryan so he’d be Carver’s only remaining “son.” In the present, Carver claims he slit Justin’s throat, but the detective pushes him to admit that Carl set up Carver to kill Justin.
Afterward, the detective release Kolchak and tells him he doesn’t want to see him again – Carver refused to incriminate him. As Carl leaves, he sees Carver in the other interview room and goes in to talk to him. Carl has to ask him one thing – why did Carver leave Justin’s body for Ryan to find him. Carl concludes that Ryan killed Justin and his father is taking the blame for it to protect his son.
1.06: The Source
A man pulls up to a luxurious house and another man greets him, searching him for weapons. The man meets with a crime boss, Felix Morales, and gives him a bag full of money, and says to forget he existed. Then they hear motorcycles outside and the crime lord sends his bodyguards out. A band of motorcyclists pull up outside and open fire, killing a bodyguard. They come barging in, shooting down Morales and his remaining men, and wounding the first man as he flees. The bikers notice his blood trail but don’t pursue him into the nearby hills. As the first man returns to the house, he sees Kolchak show up and check the dead men’s wrist, then flees over a fence. Kolchak hears him and moves in time to see him run away.
The next day Peri is reading Carl’s story about the murder of the crime lord, the head of a crime cartel, and she’s surprised he’s involved in a “normal” crime. Carl seems distracted and she picks up on it, but he leaves before she can pursue it further. FBI Agent Fain shows up to talk to Vincenzo – they know him. Fain reveals there’s a joint FBI/DEA task force and he wants Vincenzo’s cooperation – they didn’t know the crime lord was in the U.S. Fain offers a deal and Vincenzo suspects Kolchak won’t be interested, but Fain needs Kolchak to identify the shooters.
A woman, Dae, is in the Koreatown district and goes into her shop when she hears an intruder and sees blood. She finds the wounded man from the other night, unconscious from his wound. Peri is listening in as Vincenzo tries to persuade Kolchak to cooperate and he storms out. Peri talks to Jain who photographed the crime scene, and he reveals Carl wasn’t expecting the bodies and was looking for the witness, who was connected to the death of Carl’s wife.
Peri is reviewing the files on Emily Gale (from the pilot) and what Kolchak told her about his wife, when Jain gets a lead on the witness. Peri reveals Carl was in the psych ward for six months after his wife’s death, and the two of them resolve to find the witness. Dae calls a physician, Seung, to tend to the man in her store, and the doctor suggests she be cautious, and that her husband isn’t there.
Carl goes to a rendezvous and finds the place deserted except for a telephone. His contact tells him he got to the murder too late the previous night, and claims to be a friend with similar interests. He knows Kolchak has the mark on his wrist, and advises him that the witness can give Carl the answers he wants.
Fain meets with Peri and tires to persuade her to help him with Kolchak – they’re interrupted by Carl arriving, accusing Peri of betraying him, and attacking Fain then leaves. Later Vincenzo calls Peri in where Carl reveals the witness is a DEA undercover man, Victor Caleca, who is supposedly corrupt. Vincenzo wants Peri and Carl to team up so Kolchak can stay on the city – Carl isn’t too happy. Vincenzo warns that the FBI is going to pressure Carl for his sources.
Dae comes in the next day and finds Caleca in better shape, and she offers him shelter. Fain has a private meeting with Peri and warns her that the Justice Department is going to pursue matters. He also tells her of how he and Kolchak are old friends but he gave up on Carl after his weird story about Irene’s death and how Kolchak inherited his wife’s considerable money. Jain plays on her sympathy and when Peri gets back to the Beacon where Kolchak knows she met with Fain. Carl believes she is skeptical of him and there’s not much she can say.
Dae is rebandaging Caleca’s wound when he notices the picture of her and her husband, and she becomes upset. She notices a knot bracelet on his wrist which he says is as important as the picture is to her.
Peri and Jain go to a bar and track down a DEA agent, Richard Walton, who was Caleca’s supervisor. Off the record, Walton reveals that three weeks ago Caleca was caught in a storm while driving home with his wife, and she was taken and never found. They leave and a few minutes later the same bikers from the drug lord’s house arrive and open fire, apparently killing Walton.
Peri meets with Fain again and they discuss Walton, who is believed dead but his body hasn’t yet been found. Peri reveals her knowledge of Caleca and the connection to Irene Kolchak’s death. Fain notes they believe Morales had Caleca’s wife killed, and that now Walton is dead. Carl returns to the same rendezvous spot as before to “meet” with his contact by cell phone, and the contact tells Carl that Caleca has the answers but they won’t be speaking again. Caleca calls in and gets Walton, who sounds “strange” and wants to know where Caleca is. Caleca reveals the bikers are the ones who came after him and his wife Linda.
Carl comes back into the office and isn’t happy that she used Fain as a source for the story she wrote, then Vincenzo summons them back in to meet with Fain. Fain has a court order that Carl must reveal his source and Vincenzo tells him the paper’s owners aren’t going to appeal. Carl can give up his source…or go to prison.
Seung visits Dae and shows her the newspaper article about Caleca – he plans to go to the authorities but Dae asks him for time to talk to Caleca herself. Dae reveals to Caleca that her husband is dead and that her store is losing money. She refuses to marry Seung, who loves her, but she had a dream that a man will come to her in need and she will fall in love with him. Dae now believes Caleca is the man from her dream and if Caleca stays she wants it to know it’s in her heart that she wants him to stay. Caleca says he has to leave.
Carl meets with one of Jain’s friends, Edhead, a techie who is examining the ruined phone. The cell phone has no record of any calls and it was bought at a store. He asks her to try and track Caleca down electronically, then meets with Peri who reveals the staff has signed a petition to support him. Carl tells her he doesn’t know who his source is and Peri is less than thrilled with his decision. Caleca calls Walton who is still insistent on knowing his location, and Caleca tells him where he is.
Edhead and Jain get with Kolchak and she reveals Walton’s cell phone has been receiving calls from Koreatown, and Jain heads off to check it out while the police arrive and take Kolchak into custody. Edhead then gets together with Peri and reveals that Walton has been receiving calls…from Linda Caleca.
Jain arrives at the store and reveals Walton is dead, his body found. The mysterious bikers arrive outside and Caleca figures out it’s a trap – he takes off his bracelet and leaves it in the cash register. While Carl stews in prison and Fain looks on, Jain heads out the back while the Bikers arrive for Caleca and open fire. Jain hides in the back and the bikers prepare to leave until they hear him shut the door, then blast away. to be continued...
1.07: The Sea
Perri and Kolchak must go on the run from the phantom bikers to protect their source on Agent Caleca and the mysteries behind Irene Kolchak's death. Meanwhile, Agent Fain puts pressure on Vincenzo and Jain to reveal what they know.
Source: TV.com (http://www.tv.com)
1.02 The Five People You Meet in Hell - Aired 10/6/05
1.03 Three - Aired 10/13/05
1.04 Burning Man - Aired 10/20/05
1.05 Malum - Aired 10/27/05
1.06 The Source - Aired 11/10/05
1.07 The Sea - Unaired
1.01: Pilot
As Carl Kolchak stalks the night, a man bids his wife farewell as he heads off to his jobs, unaware that a figure with a red mark on his wrist lurks nearby. In the house, the woman Emily hears a noise, draws a knife, and goes to investigate. Ste steps on a nail and is distracted, putting down the knife. The lights go out and a figure comes running at her from out of the shadows. She takes cover in the garage and tries to get out the door and into the car, but is caught hauled away, screaming.
In the desert, the police are investigating and Perri Reed, a reporter with the Beacon, shows up to investigate, along with photographer Jain McManus. She’s told another reporter is already there and goes into confront the man – Carl Kolchak. He tells them they can go and reveals it’s his first day with the newspaper. He hints that the husband is responsible for the woman’s disappearance and the police believe it’s a reporter. Carl and Perri meet with their editor, Tony Vincenzo, who isn’t happy about Carl’s running start, tells them to get along, and gives the story to Perri. Perri has no luck getting the information without Carl’s contacts, and he doesn’t give them up. But he does reveal the police believe the motive is Emily’s pregnancy. In the desert, bikers find a mutilated corpse.
The husband Henry is brought in by the police while Perri determines the fetus was torn from her body and there’s no sign of a murder weapon. At the hospital, Emily’s brother Ed Madlock is called in to identify the body. He and his wife go in while Carl meets with their daughter and gives her a few words of comfort before the brother-in-law interrupts – he believes Henry is responsible but the wife doesn’t. Carl meets with Perri and reveals what happened.
At a hotel, the brother-in-law heads out, leaving his wife and daughter behind. While the wife takes a shower, something breaks into the hotel and goes after the daughter Julie, who hides beneath the bed. She sees her mother attacked and then the creature comes back for her.
After attending the press conference, Carl meets with Perri and reveals the police think a serial killer is responsible and the charges against Henry have been dropped. Perri is interviewing Henry Gale and invites Carl along. He asks Henry about whether he heard animals or actually saw anything, but he only heard some animal. Later that night, Perri looks up Carl’s background on the Internet and finds an expired link about the FBI interviewing Carl Kolchak. She calls the investigating agent, Bernie Fain, who tells her that Kolchak is a murderer.
Jain gets together with Carl and reveals that he took photos around both sites and picked up paw tracks and in the background of one shot a blurred image of a strange wolf-like creature. Meanwhile Perri meets with Agent Fain on a deserted stretch of highway where Fain claims Kolchak killed his wife. Fain reveals how Carl claimed he pulled over to avoid a head-on collision and something reached through the window and grabbed his wife and killed her. Kolchak was never charged due to insufficient evidence. Carl and Jain go out to the site of the wolf sighting and figure there’s at least two of the creatures but no drag marks. They’re interrupted by the arrival of Fain, the police, and Perri, and Fain has Kolchak arrested.
Vincenzo arrives at the police station and confronts Perri – he knew about Carl’s background and explains that he was working in Las Vegas when Kolchak brought a story to him that made both their careers. But Carl wasn’t there when the story paid off because Carl was with his wife. Kolchak is released due to lack of evidence and when Perri drops him off, she admits she isn’t convinced of his innocence. The front door of his house is open and they go in to investigate – the place is ransacked, presumably by Fain. While she checks out the house, she finds a room dedicated to recording and studying bizarre deaths. Carl confronts her and reveals that on the photo of the wife, there is a red mark on her hand and it has appeared on the hands of some victims scattered across the country. One woman was incinerated, another man committed suicide after confessing to series of murders that didn’t occur after his death. Another family moved into a house and killed themselves. Kolchak reveals a drifter was found dead in the same way, two weeks before Emily’s death. Carl reveals his wife was pregnant just like Emily was, and he doesn’t know if Emily had the mark. All he knows is there’s something tying all the deaths together. Perri is still skeptical but Kolchak is determined to find the missing girl.
Jain calls them with info on reports of wild animals near a girls’ school and they head out to investigate. Jain has found similar paw prints. While Carl checks out the area, Perri heads back to her car but hears strange noises. She runs and a creature leaps over her and comes back around, but Carl hits it with his car and they find a bizarre skinless wolf.
Fain and the examiner claim it’s a coyote and has it cremated – Kolchak is convinced Fain would eliminate any evidence that might clear Kolchak. Perri manages to get the photos of Emily’s body and it doesn’t have the red wrist-mark. Carl believes the creatures carried away the girl and she’s still alive, and they may not be what killed his wife. Carl gets a signal – he sprayed the place near the school with a chemical and one of the other coyotes ended up with it. Carl traces the signal to a cave near where Emily’s body was found and they follow it in. They lose the signal and go in on foot, armed with cattle prods. Following the girl’s cries, they locate her and Carl gets her off a ledge while the creatures close in. They make a run for the exit and Jain is grabbed and pulled back in – Carl manages to pull him out and they get into the car and head out as the creatures throw themselves at the car, shattering the windows. The girl is united with her mother while Fain and the authorities turn up nothing at the cave. Carl writes the story but without the supernatural element, much to Perri’s disappointment. He’s reluctant to print anything specific until he has the evidence, and Perri warns that “I’m watching you.” And at the end we see that Carl has a red mark on his own wrist.
1.02: The Five People You Meet in Hell
A couple is watching their son Jeffrey play softball but the wife can’t bear to watch. The father’s dad discusses the boy’s batting technique before telling his son, the father, that “he knows what he has to do.” The father, lawyer Doug Linman, picks up a baseball bat and goes over to the concession stand where his wife is, then beats her to death as his son hits a home run. The father then comes back, covered in blood but totally calm.
Perri, Carl, and Jain are at the press conference for the murder when Carl notes that the murderer claimed his dead father was at the baseball game. Vincenzo isn’t happy at Carl’s line of questioning and everyone else believes the father is insane, but the lawyer lets them set up an interview. The killer admits he did it but has no idea why. He admits he’s seen his father several times before, but not since the murder. The investigating officer, Detective Granof, and his partner Mitchell call them out and insist Kolchak drop the matter, and then cut off his access. There’s no red mark on the victim’s wrist, but Carl continues to investigate. In a prison cell nearby, a prisoner repeatedly mutters “You know what you have to do.”
Back at the office, Carl is going through Linman’s personal affects and suspects that spiritual possession was involved. He doesn’t find any “trigger” but he does find reference to an appointment, and Perri recognizes it as being for Damon Caylor, a cult leader who objected to hypocrites and had his small group cut off an executive’s head in a supermarket parking lot. Linman was the prosecutor and had claimed Caylor possessed his followers into committing the murder. Perri suggests Caylor’s followers were responsible, but Vincenzo tells them Linman killed himself in his cell earlier that morning.
Carl and Perri go back to the prison to meet with Caylor, who is in solitary after he was blinded by the other prisoners after he insulted them repeatedly. Perri can’t bring herself to meet with Caylor, so Carl comes in and the prisoner demands to know where Perri is and refuses to talk to Carl. Carl’s tape recorder mysteriously stops but then Caylor decides to talk to him. Caylor knows of Linman’s death and held a grudge since the lawyer refused a writ of habeas corpus. Caylor denies having done anything and afterward Perri believes he’s trying to manipulate Carl. At a home, a mother is preparing supper while her husband watches basketball. Her daughter calls her over to look at something, and then the woman takes her knife and goes to kill her husband. Spelled out in magnetic letters is, “You know what you have to do.”
Later at the murder scene, Granof and Mitchell find the message and Carl shows up to talk to Granof. The woman was a judge at Caylor’s trial and Granof was the one who arrested Caylor. The woman claims her dead six-year old daughter told her to kill. Granof says he hasn’t been contacted by any dead people and leaves, laughing. Jain reveals that Perri got Caylor’s wife to talk about her husband, which led to Caylor killing her. Perri meets with one of Caylor’s ex-followers, Katrina Ortega, who admits he could manipulate his followers and that he won’t stop until they’re all dead.
Caylor asks for another meeting with Carl and wants the reporter to print a message on the front page – in return the murders will stop. Caylor knows about Carl’s wife and believes he’s someone he can deal with – Carl isn’t a hypocrite as he’s out for himself. But Caylor insists he’ll only give the story to Perri. Carl believes Caylor’s blindness allowed him to focus his mind and increase his powers. When Carl mentions Granof’s partner, Perri reveals that Mitchell died six months ago. “Mitchell” confronts Granof and tells him that “he knows what he has to do.” Granof drives to a home where a woman is exercising, and prepares to shoot her. Carl and Perri get the address and Carl gets there just in time to stop Granof from shooting his own wife.
Perri agrees to the interview so no one else will die, and she and Carl meet with Caylor. He turns over his manifesto after their assurances they’ll print the story, but grabs Perri as she takes it and tells her that she “knows what she has to do.” Outside they realize the book is blank and they figure out Perri was the target all along. Carl figures Caylor needs to be in the presence of his victims to get a “lock” on them and now he is connected to Perri.
At the newspaper offices, Jain is watching Perri, much to her irritation. Granof is working to get Caylor moved to a different facility out of state, while Carl talks to Perri about her taking medication to stay asleep. She agrees and they go to her apartment where she takes some sleeping pills. In prison, Caylor is repeating his mantra over and over. At Perri’s, there’s a knock on the door and Carl opens it – it’s his wife, Irene.
Irene kisses him, while Jain reveals to Vincenzo that he believes Carl was Caylor’s target all along. Vincenzo calls Granof, who reveals he’s being transferred early, while Jain heads over to Perri’s. Carl notices that the red mark on her wrist is missing and promises it can be like it was. When “Irene” tells him he knows what he has to do, he gets a knife and starts approaching Perri. Caylor is taken off still muttering, while Jain busts in to Perri’s house. On Granof’s orders, the guards leave Caylor off with the other prisoners and they attack and kill him just before Carl can kill Perri.
1.03: Three
A young woman is walking home and stop in front of an old house – three men come out, grab her, and start drowning her in a metal tub. She manages to get away and runs through the house, only to be sealed in a shower stall as the faucets come on. The stall fills with water and she drowns.
Perri and Jain arrive to find Kolchak is already there, and Perri reveals that the woman, Liza, seemingly drowned but there no water in her lungs and no running water in the house. The police report suggests that three men tried to drown her but Carl is unconvinced – he’s found signs of a ritual and notices anointing oil on the window, inscribed with a mystic symbol. Carl identifies the symbol as the “horns of death,” a powerful occult symbol. Elsewhere, a group is holding a ceremony for the dead girl and Carl and Perri check it out. They talk with a local school newspaper reporter, Devan, where her boyfriend Jack is speaking on her behalf. Devan suggests Carl to talk to Jack – when he does, Jack reveals that Liza’s greatest fear was of drowning. As a Professor Carr speaks about Liza, Jack’s friend pulls him off and comments that they’re being watched to see how they react, and there’s a lot at stake. At the office, Jain goes over the photos and sees a streak across certain photos. Carl has him enlarge it and they can see a screaming face pattern.
Perri isn’t convinced by the photos but reveals that she looked at the pattern on the window and concluded the symbol is actually a crest for the Three Society, an exclusive secret school group that initiates three members a year and conducts a ritual where the initiate faces his or her greatest fear. Carl later figures out Perri was in a secret society herself, although she won’t confirm or deny. They meet up with Professor Carr, who provided Jack with an alibi for the night of Liza’s death. He denies everything even when Carl hints that Jack talked to them. Carr confronts Jack, who denies being the leak and wonders if Carr killed Liza. Jack suspects Carr in Liza’s murder because she turned down the professor’s advances, but Carr swears to break him if he violates their vow of secrecy.
Outside, Carr walks down the street but suddenly hallucinates falling off a tall building. He manages to hold on for a few seconds but plummets to his death. He collapses to the ground, dead as if he had fallen from a great height.
Carl and Perri sneak into the morgue to get a look at Carr’s body after Carl bribes the attendant Alex with basketball tickets. Every bone in Carr’s body is broken and there’s no indication of suicide – further, the blood splattered much further as if he had fallen 50 stories. Carl and Perri meet up with Devan and confront him over the fact he knew Liza’s fear. Devan tried to get into the Three society and Carl thinks he was trying to get revenge. Dean turns them onto Craig Boyer, who was arrested for drug use, and Liza had a powerful hallucinogenic in her body at the time of her death. Jain brings up the photo of Boyer at his arraignment and finds another screaming-image face.
They bring the photo to Vincenzo and Perri suggests they were in a mental state from the hallucinogenics where they imagined their deaths. Carl is skeptical but doesn’t have anything else to explain the image. Craig meets with Jack in jail and warns that he isn’t going to take the fall for Jack, and that drugs had nothing to do with the deaths. Craig insists Jack tell the truth about how he felt about Liza and Carr, and warns he isn’t going to go to prison over it. At the office, Carl and Vincenzo talk about how Tony got suckered in on a story – he suggests Carl start at the beginning of the story and work his way through. In jail, Craig hallucinates that a giant snake is crushing him to death, and he dies.
Perri confirms Carr didn’t have the drugs in his system. Carl finds out info about the house and has Devan to get Jack to meet them at the house. Carl reveals the house had a history going back 11 years where a double murder-suicide occurred – Charles Dunmore moved his wife and three children into the house, but was laid off and then used an axe to kill his wife and daughter. The two young boys escaped but the older son hid with the younger and then Dunmore killed himself. But when the older son came out, he discovered his younger brother had died of fear, and his is the face in the photos.
Carl explains that when someone dies of fear, their fear lingers on, and the boy’s fear has attached itself to Carr, Craig, Jack, and Liza on the night of the initiation. Jack denies everything and leaves, going to his apartment, and finds himself hallucinating he’s in the house as Dunmore comes after him with an axe. Outside the house, Jain spots concrete handprints made by Dunmore’s kids with their names – Gus and Jack. Devan reveals Jack was adopted and that the house itself is his greatest fear.
Jack is trying to fend off his homicidal father in the hallucination who is preparing to kill him, but Carl and the others arrive and snap him out of it. Later, Carl burns the house down and eliminates the fear once and for all.
1.04: Burning Man
At a gas station, a customer, Theodore Fogel, stops to get gas and warns another customer about using his cell phone. The new customer finds a small statue on his pocket as he begins to sweat, then discovers he’s bleeding from heat blisters on his face. Staggering, he pulls out the gas hoses and collapses to the ground in convulsions as the blisters cover his entire body. The guy with the cell phone sees him as his blisters cause enough heat to ignite the gasoline, blowing up the pumps.
Perri and Carl arrive at the scene to find Jain already there with the info. Carl reveals that a terrorist known as the TerrorMaker, who sent wax figurines, used some means to burn his victims from the inside but he died a year ago. Back at the office, a national reporter named Howard Gorn comes in - he worked the TerrorMaker case. They ask him about the Beacon’s one-year story and his suspicions that the FBI killed the wrong man. Gorn is dismissive of the claims of the TerrorMaker killing his victims with “hellfire.” Carl asks him about the FBI profiler, Doug Panero, but Gorn doesn’t have much to say. They go to visit Panero, but his wife doesn’t let them in. After they leave, the wife throws the file away but Panero notices it and flashes back to the case and what he profiled.
Carl and Perri don’t have much luck, as Gorn has all the notes for the book. Carl is suspicious of the TerrorMaker’s claims of a biological agent that he used to cause the fires. They hear a noise and go to find a wax statue left for them, and a message saying, “I’m Back.”
The next day they met with Vincenzo, who suggests they take it to Gorn because it’s his case if they have enough evidence…which he doesn’t think they do. Carl and Perri meet with the FBI who stick to the story the TerrorMaker is dead. Invoking Gorn’s name, they get the FBI to reopen the case and check out the figurine. While a mysterious figure creates more figurines, Panero comes in to see the team and reveals the victim was someone who worked with biological agents. The TerrorMaker targeted anyone who worked with biological agents. Panero reveals that he’s persona non grata at the FBI because of how the case went, but he wants to make sure the TerrorMaker is dealt with. After he leaves, Carl suspects that Panero is still afraid of something.
Elsewhere a woman greets a delivery boy and takes the foot to an older man. He takes out the food and finds a figurine, then he and the woman get in the pool. In mid-embrace the man’s flesh starts to heat blister and the water starts to boil around him as she tries to call for help.
The reporters get word of the death and confirm the victim was a biotech CEO. Gorn gets word of the death and takes the notes and the story. Vincenzo, Carl, and Perri confront Gorn, who notes the new figurines are different from the original and denies any charges that he’s writing what the FBI want him to. Panero gets word of Gorn’s story that the new killer is a copycat and Carl comes to him for help. Panero’s wife doesn’t want him involved but Panero meets with Carl anyway and shows him his files. Panero is still obsessed with the TerrorMaker and doesn’t believe the new killer is a copycat. Panero suspected the TerrorMaker stole the biological agent and Carl wonders how the new killer could have gotten the same agent. Carl still suspects some mystic “hellfire” is involved and offers to help Panero close the case once and for all.
Perri reveals that she and Carl have been ordered off the story by Management – Vincenzo will be in trouble if they go ahead with it. While Carl considers the situation, the mystery figure continues to work on figurines while collecting news articles of his crimes. That night he jimmies a car open and places a figurine inside. The FBI move in on him, with Jain and Gorn looking on, and get a picture of the man. The story breaks the next day, and the killer, Overton, is a trucker who transported the agents. The driver had all the stuff in his room to tie him to the murders, but Panero contacts Carl and tells him Overton was a wannabe. Carl concedes he’s dropped the story but Panero refuses to talk to anyone else, then guilts him into taking it anyway. Perri confronts Carl, who insists on getting the story right and then takes off, leaving Perri to deal with Gorn. Gorn expresses his admiration for Perri trying to get the info out of him and warns her about Carl. Perri offers to help Gorn and he considers her offer.
Carl meets with Panero, who is convinced the TerrorMaker is still alive. Meanwhile Gorn hits on Perri that night as she works with him but she brushes him off and notices a locked drawer. After he leaves she finds a key to the drawer and finds it full of “Hellfire” files. She brings the files to Jain and reveals Gorn documented various discrepancies that disprove the FBI’s biological agent theory, and Gorn bought the FBI line.
Carl finds that Gutman, the original TerrorMaker suspect, followed a certain route but Panero believes it’s a dead end. Carl checks the transactions and sees they lead to a storage locker that someone has been paying to keep it open. Carl and Panero check it out and find a box of the figurines, the molds and paraffin to make them, and the biological agent.
They return to Panero’s house but Carl puts everything together – Panero has a marker with ink that matches the note delivered to the Beacon. Carl accuses Panero of “bringing back” the TerrorMaker. It’s clear Panero crossed the line and lost himself, taking on the TerrorMaker persona. Panero draws a gun on Kolchak but his wife intervenes and tries to bring him out of it. Panero apologizes and grabs one of the figures, setting himself on fire as Carl and Panero’s wife can only look on.
After Gorn publishes another copycat story accounting for Panero’s death, Perri and Jain protest but Carl goes along with Vincenzo to support Gorn’s story, to protect Panero’s reputation. Carl is left to consider what monster he might face if he ever tracks down his wife’s killer.
1.05: Malum
A boy, Justin, is carving the word “Mal” into a tree when two older boys pick on him. Another boy, Ryan Carver, interrupts and the vice president, Mr. Jeffries, intervenes. Exekiel Seaver, the school janitor and Justin’s father, intervenes and insists Jeffries gives the knife back, threatening that Jeffries will “suffer for this.” That night, Jeffries is walking home when he hears a strange whispering sound and sees something…then screams. The next day, a janitor is running up the school flag when he feels a drop of blood and looks up – Jeffries is impaled on the top of the flag pole, 30’ above the ground, struck by lightning.
In the present, Carl is in an interview room with a detective who wants to get his insight into the case, and Carl warns him his opinions won’t stand up in a court of law. Carl starts at the beginning, describing how the vice president was supposedly struck by lightning and tossed 30’ onto a flagpole. But the lightning struck Jeffries low, when it typically strikes high, and there was no weather report of lightning. Carl, Perri, and Jain go to the school and Jain notices that the lightning pattern is the same as the roots of the tree that Justin was carving on. Ryan talks to Justin, who denies anything strange went on and Ryan says Justin needs to tell someone about his father. As part of grief counseling, Justin is drawing a picture of a bloody corpse lying in front of a wrecked car.
Later, Ryan approaches Carl and the others and tells them what happened, until Ryan’s father, a police officer, interrupts. Back in the present, The detective interviews the man, Dan Carver, and claims Kolchak fed him the idea of the “tragedy” and wants Carver to blame Kolchak – Carver denies Carl had anything to do with whatever he did.
The detective is talking with Carl about Seaver, and how he and Perri went to Mr. Seaver’s former home. They are interrupted by the neighbor, Mona Sampson, who reveals that another neighbor was killed in an incident with high-voltage wires after she complained about Justin broke into her pool. Perri believes there’s evidence of parental abuse while Carl is interested in saving lives. Justin and Ryan are at school and Ryan notices a lightning scar on Justin’s arm.
Carl meets with a Dr. Lawrence, the school psychologist, for information on Ezekiel Seaver and promises to use her as an anonymous source – she blows him off but he gives her his card. Then Dr. Lawrence meets with the boys, where Ryan has insisted Justin show her the scar, which covers his back. Ezekiel meets with his son and warns Justin that he’ll be taken away, and that everything he does is for his boy. Ezekiel claims the scarring was a result of an allergy, and has Justin reveal his back again – the scars are gone.
In the present, the detective is interviewing Dan Carver again and he reveals he called Lawrence but she as gone by then and the next morning it was “too late.” That night, Lawrence is at her house reviewing the files when the overhead fan’s fastening screw comes loose. He looks up just as the fan comes down, decapitating her.
At the Beacon, Carl has Justin’s medical files and gets word of the mysterious scarring. Perri notes that Ezekiel adopted Justin three years ago and has no record, and that he works as an electrician with high-voltage wiring. Carl goes back to the school and talks to Dan Carver about his son, warning Ryan may be in danger when he’s around Justin. Ryan disappears and Carver confronts Justin – Ryan is off in the woods, sees something, and screams. In the present, the detective continues to try to get Carver to incriminate Kolchak in the fact that Ryan was kidnapped.
Back at the Beacon, Carl reveals that he’s discovered that Ezekiel was formerly Arthur Summers, a noviate priest, performed an unauthorized exorcism on a woman who died of starvation, and that she left the son to Arthur/Ezekiel. Carl believes the evil spirit jumped from the woman into Ezekiel. In the present, Carver admits that when Carl gave him the information, he believed it.
In the present, Carl concludes the detective wants to set him up for inciting Carver to commit murder. In flashback, Carl sneaks into Ezekiel’s current house while Perri and Jain get word that Ezekiel managed to slip out of jail. While they go to warn him, Carl finds dozens of religious items and Ezekiel and Justin arrive home and hear him moving around. Carl ducks into a closet and Ezekiel finds nothing, but heads for the closet. He’s interrupted before he can go further when Perri shows up, and Carl takes advantage of the distraction to escape. As he does, he notices that Justin has carved the word “Malum” into his bed. He gets out but Ezekiel notices him running across the yard.
The next day at the Beacon, they check up on the word and discover “Malum” is Latin for “wicked” or “evil.” They figure that the word was the one Justin carved with his knife at the school, and conclude Justin is responsible. Carl concludes that Ezekiel is a watcher of lost souls and is looking after Justin, and Ezekiel is the prisoner. Further, Carl believes that Justin is trying to get rid of Ezekiel by framing him for the crimes.
In the woods, Ryan is tied up in an abandoned car and Justin shows up and gives him food, but refuses to untie him. Ezekiel notices him and goes into the woods, while Justin calls Dan Carver and asks for help. Carl figures that Justin doesn’t want Ezekiel dead – he wants him framed for murder so that he’ll be adopted by Dan Carver. Dan meets with Justin who offers to take him where Ryan is.
Carl and the others get word of the police report, while Ezekiel finds Ryan in the wood. As Ezekiel approaches the car, he clutches at his head while Dan Carver and Justin hear Ryan screaming. Carl hears him as well while Ezekiel cuts Ryan free and warns him about Justin. Dan Carver sees Ezekiel approaching his son with the knife and shoots him, while Justin looks on and Carl arrives to witness everything. The detective confronts Carl with the drawing Justin made earlier – the one that recreated the final murder scene. In the present, the detective reveals Carver was cleared, but Kolchak didn’t let it go there.
Carl talks with Carver after the shooting, pointing out that he thinks Justin was responsible. Carver didn’t believe him but reveals that later he found the picture and after Ryan warned him, he believed that Justin would kill Ryan so he’d be Carver’s only remaining “son.” In the present, Carver claims he slit Justin’s throat, but the detective pushes him to admit that Carl set up Carver to kill Justin.
Afterward, the detective release Kolchak and tells him he doesn’t want to see him again – Carver refused to incriminate him. As Carl leaves, he sees Carver in the other interview room and goes in to talk to him. Carl has to ask him one thing – why did Carver leave Justin’s body for Ryan to find him. Carl concludes that Ryan killed Justin and his father is taking the blame for it to protect his son.
1.06: The Source
A man pulls up to a luxurious house and another man greets him, searching him for weapons. The man meets with a crime boss, Felix Morales, and gives him a bag full of money, and says to forget he existed. Then they hear motorcycles outside and the crime lord sends his bodyguards out. A band of motorcyclists pull up outside and open fire, killing a bodyguard. They come barging in, shooting down Morales and his remaining men, and wounding the first man as he flees. The bikers notice his blood trail but don’t pursue him into the nearby hills. As the first man returns to the house, he sees Kolchak show up and check the dead men’s wrist, then flees over a fence. Kolchak hears him and moves in time to see him run away.
The next day Peri is reading Carl’s story about the murder of the crime lord, the head of a crime cartel, and she’s surprised he’s involved in a “normal” crime. Carl seems distracted and she picks up on it, but he leaves before she can pursue it further. FBI Agent Fain shows up to talk to Vincenzo – they know him. Fain reveals there’s a joint FBI/DEA task force and he wants Vincenzo’s cooperation – they didn’t know the crime lord was in the U.S. Fain offers a deal and Vincenzo suspects Kolchak won’t be interested, but Fain needs Kolchak to identify the shooters.
A woman, Dae, is in the Koreatown district and goes into her shop when she hears an intruder and sees blood. She finds the wounded man from the other night, unconscious from his wound. Peri is listening in as Vincenzo tries to persuade Kolchak to cooperate and he storms out. Peri talks to Jain who photographed the crime scene, and he reveals Carl wasn’t expecting the bodies and was looking for the witness, who was connected to the death of Carl’s wife.
Peri is reviewing the files on Emily Gale (from the pilot) and what Kolchak told her about his wife, when Jain gets a lead on the witness. Peri reveals Carl was in the psych ward for six months after his wife’s death, and the two of them resolve to find the witness. Dae calls a physician, Seung, to tend to the man in her store, and the doctor suggests she be cautious, and that her husband isn’t there.
Carl goes to a rendezvous and finds the place deserted except for a telephone. His contact tells him he got to the murder too late the previous night, and claims to be a friend with similar interests. He knows Kolchak has the mark on his wrist, and advises him that the witness can give Carl the answers he wants.
Fain meets with Peri and tires to persuade her to help him with Kolchak – they’re interrupted by Carl arriving, accusing Peri of betraying him, and attacking Fain then leaves. Later Vincenzo calls Peri in where Carl reveals the witness is a DEA undercover man, Victor Caleca, who is supposedly corrupt. Vincenzo wants Peri and Carl to team up so Kolchak can stay on the city – Carl isn’t too happy. Vincenzo warns that the FBI is going to pressure Carl for his sources.
Dae comes in the next day and finds Caleca in better shape, and she offers him shelter. Fain has a private meeting with Peri and warns her that the Justice Department is going to pursue matters. He also tells her of how he and Kolchak are old friends but he gave up on Carl after his weird story about Irene’s death and how Kolchak inherited his wife’s considerable money. Jain plays on her sympathy and when Peri gets back to the Beacon where Kolchak knows she met with Fain. Carl believes she is skeptical of him and there’s not much she can say.
Dae is rebandaging Caleca’s wound when he notices the picture of her and her husband, and she becomes upset. She notices a knot bracelet on his wrist which he says is as important as the picture is to her.
Peri and Jain go to a bar and track down a DEA agent, Richard Walton, who was Caleca’s supervisor. Off the record, Walton reveals that three weeks ago Caleca was caught in a storm while driving home with his wife, and she was taken and never found. They leave and a few minutes later the same bikers from the drug lord’s house arrive and open fire, apparently killing Walton.
Peri meets with Fain again and they discuss Walton, who is believed dead but his body hasn’t yet been found. Peri reveals her knowledge of Caleca and the connection to Irene Kolchak’s death. Fain notes they believe Morales had Caleca’s wife killed, and that now Walton is dead. Carl returns to the same rendezvous spot as before to “meet” with his contact by cell phone, and the contact tells Carl that Caleca has the answers but they won’t be speaking again. Caleca calls in and gets Walton, who sounds “strange” and wants to know where Caleca is. Caleca reveals the bikers are the ones who came after him and his wife Linda.
Carl comes back into the office and isn’t happy that she used Fain as a source for the story she wrote, then Vincenzo summons them back in to meet with Fain. Fain has a court order that Carl must reveal his source and Vincenzo tells him the paper’s owners aren’t going to appeal. Carl can give up his source…or go to prison.
Seung visits Dae and shows her the newspaper article about Caleca – he plans to go to the authorities but Dae asks him for time to talk to Caleca herself. Dae reveals to Caleca that her husband is dead and that her store is losing money. She refuses to marry Seung, who loves her, but she had a dream that a man will come to her in need and she will fall in love with him. Dae now believes Caleca is the man from her dream and if Caleca stays she wants it to know it’s in her heart that she wants him to stay. Caleca says he has to leave.
Carl meets with one of Jain’s friends, Edhead, a techie who is examining the ruined phone. The cell phone has no record of any calls and it was bought at a store. He asks her to try and track Caleca down electronically, then meets with Peri who reveals the staff has signed a petition to support him. Carl tells her he doesn’t know who his source is and Peri is less than thrilled with his decision. Caleca calls Walton who is still insistent on knowing his location, and Caleca tells him where he is.
Edhead and Jain get with Kolchak and she reveals Walton’s cell phone has been receiving calls from Koreatown, and Jain heads off to check it out while the police arrive and take Kolchak into custody. Edhead then gets together with Peri and reveals that Walton has been receiving calls…from Linda Caleca.
Jain arrives at the store and reveals Walton is dead, his body found. The mysterious bikers arrive outside and Caleca figures out it’s a trap – he takes off his bracelet and leaves it in the cash register. While Carl stews in prison and Fain looks on, Jain heads out the back while the Bikers arrive for Caleca and open fire. Jain hides in the back and the bikers prepare to leave until they hear him shut the door, then blast away. to be continued...
1.07: The Sea
Perri and Kolchak must go on the run from the phantom bikers to protect their source on Agent Caleca and the mysteries behind Irene Kolchak's death. Meanwhile, Agent Fain puts pressure on Vincenzo and Jain to reveal what they know.
Source: TV.com (http://www.tv.com)