Category: Season 1

Marcus Alexander is the glue that holds the underground Thunder Mountain complex together, leading a kind of resistance movement to bring the world back to order. Jeremiah and Kurdy have allied themselves to his cause reluctantly, though Jeremiah has been very critical of Marcus’ reticence about using the former military complex’s resources – plentiful food, energy, technology and supplies – to help those “outside.” Marcus also has a secret that he’s been keeping even from his own people: a woman who survived the Big Death and now lives in a bio-isolation ward in the mountain; she carries the virus, but has somehow survived it. If she were to step out of that chamber, everyone in the mountain would be wiped out, and the Big Death might spread anew. But unfortunately for Marcus, someone has found out – and plans to tell the others about the woman’s presence. In the meantime, Jeremiah and Kurdy are on another scouting mission when a boy standing in the road forces Jeremiah to swerve into the woods, wrecking the land rover in the process. When Jeremiah comes to, the boy is standing over him, in the trademark costume of comic book hero Captain Iron. Jeremiah and Kurdy are tended to by the boy’s sister and her husband. Jeremiah learns that “Captain Iron” was a loner – a nerd by some people’s standards – even before the Big Death. Since the death of his parents, he has adopted his hero’s code of honor, helping others, defending the defenseless, and bringing inspiration to some – and derisive laughter from others, such as his brother-in-law. But when bandits attack their camp and kidnap his sister, the world’s last superhero may be in over his head – and if he gets himself killed while trying to save his sister, who will save us all then?

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Brett Dowler
music by Graeme Coleman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Roman Danylo (John), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Nathanial Arcand (Mike), Suzy Joachim (Megan), Sarah Deakins (Shelly), Russell Porter (Thug), Winston Brown (Vincent), Tyler Williamson (young John), Andrew Francis (young Marcus), Justin Ortiz (Kid), Ben Baxter (Kid), Samuel Scantlebury (Kid)

Note: Jeremiah’s inquiry about Valhalla Sector brings about a most unusual response from “Captain Iron,” and even a fleeting hint in flashback that the boy has been there – against his will.

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Jeremiah and Kurdy follow up on information sent to Marcus by one of his contacts, who says that there’s something they need to see near the abandoned McLaren Army Base. Jeremiah and Kurdy arrive at the rendezvous point just in time to see their contact executed. The base has been overrun by a thuggish young man named Michael and his band of raiders. Jeremiah and Kurdy are captured, and Michael asks them where the end of the world is. They refuse to answer, and Michael soon demonstrates his power over the people at the base – his power comes from the barrel of a gun, but he demands more than obedience. He demands worship, and those who will not pray to him are murdered. Michael later offers an exchange of information, even dropping a few tantalizing hints about Valhalla Sector. When he receives no answers to his satisfaction, Michael then drops three daisy cutter bombs onto a small town whose people also refused to cooperate. But from Jeremiah has already learned, even if Michael can be stopped, there are others like him – or perhaps worse.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Jason Priestly (Michael), Kirsten Robek (Julie), Shawn Orr (Jesse Montoya), Stu Morgan (Larry), Lynne Livingston (Cindy), Magda Apanowicz (Young girl), Paul Lazenby (Brutal man), Ben Ayres (Guard), Trevor Jones (Guard), Simon Burnett (Guard), Colin Haslett (Bad Timing guy), Michael Rinaldi (Demented guy), Miles Meadows (Prisoner), Kent McQuaid (Prisoner), Cailin Stabnyk (Prisoner), Brent Clark (Prisoner), Neil Grayston (Prisoner)

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Jeremiah and Kurdy follow up on another of Simon’s leads, traveling to an impoverished village to learn about a group of people called the Burners. On the way, they stop for the night, and Jeremiah finds a young woman siphoning their truck’s gas tank. When he goes to stop her, she gets away after fending him off. The next day, their contact, a man named Eddie who runs a pool hall, isn’t eager to talk about that topic during business hours, but invites Jeremiah to come back later. Eddie reveals that the Burners are using what was once known as hot zone biohazard gear – airtight suits and flamethrowers – as a terrifying means of enforcing their will on others. Worse yet, despite the extinction of telephones, the internet, and radio, the Burners are somehow coordinating their attacks when their cells are in completely different cities. After giving this information to Jeremiah, Eddie is murdered later that night. Jeremiah also runs into the lady gas thief once more, and discovers that she’s keeping an awful lot of a very flammable liquid around rather than selling it…

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Melissa Creider (Claire), G. Michael Gray (Eddie), Jason Gaffney (William), Meghan Black (Pregnant girl), Dalias Blake (First Guy), Mike Nyuis (Second guy), Shawn Stewart (Squatter), Gerry South (Hustler), Donny Lucas (Preacher), Martin Budny (Man), Ashley Whillans (12 year old Claire), Ben Odberg (Claire’s Dad)

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On the trail of another of Simon’s contacts, a man named Holcombe who may know whether or not the Big Death will be making a return appearance, Jeremiah and Kurdy stop to assist a wanderer whose pregnant wife has fallen ill. In the town of Slag Harbor, they catch word of a traveling doctor who may be able to help. Jeremiah is dismayed to find that this “doctor” is actually no more than the son of a doctor who still has his dead father’s medicine bag, but he’s still the only hope of those who need medical attention. But as if the would-be doctor isn’t perpetuating enough of a myth about himself, his street-savvy older brother is milking that talent for whatever people are willing to trade. When thugs beat up both brothers and steal the medicine bag, Jeremiah has to convince a man who may be the last doctor in the world that what he needs to practice isn’t a bag full of 15-year-old pills, but his compassion…and all he needs to do is step out of his older brother’s shadow.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Michael Robison
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Jake Busey (Jake), Christian Campbell (Reese), Ryan Robbins (William Steuber), Erin Karpluk (Sadie Holcomb), Shannon Jardine (Paula Steuber), Holly Ferguson (Mother), Bryce Hodgson (Tanner), Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah), Casey Beddow (Farmer), Ryan Drescher (Michael), Mike Dopud (Harlow), Nelson Leis (Jimmy Holcomb)

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Jeremiah and Kurdy rescue a girl from a gang of rapists, and Kurdy is horrified when Jeremiah seems insistent on gassing the thugs to death with the land rover’s exhaust. During the fight, Kurdy cuts one of his hands, and with that wound comes a trickle of memories of his childhood – his home, his mother, and some sort of struggle between his parents – the only memory he has of that time of his life. They bring the girl back to Thunder Mountain, where Erin tries to help her recover from his ordeal, and Kurdy embarks on one of his own. His next assignment is to ride shotgun with Jeremiah to the lab where the late Jimmy Holcomb received an experimental (and ultimately fatal) vaccine against the return of the Big Death – a lab within a short drive of Kurdy’s childhood home. Jeremiah, tired of Kurdy’s recent preoccupation with the past, drops Kurdy off there and goes off to the lab by himself, and is greeted at gunpoint. Kurdy, in the meantime, meets the one person left in the world who could possibly know what happened to his parents – and discovers that it was not the Big Death that killed them, but two bullets.

written by Sam Egan
directed by James Head
music by Graeme Coleman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Alexander), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Suzy Joachim (Megan), Karen Malina White (Ricki), Katelyn Wallace (Lydia), Michael Adamthwaite (Skinhead), Jodie Graham (Skinhead), Dominika Wolski (Chloe), Brenda M. Crichlow (Kurdy’s Mother), Malik McCall (Kurdy’s Father), Robert Moloney (Farralon), Chaynade Knowles (young Ricki), Kayden Porbeni (young Kurdy)

Appearing in footage from The Bag: Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah), Casey Beddow (Farmer), Ryan Drescher (Michael)

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Jeremiah and Kurdy investigate what seems like an unlikely tale involving biohazard-suited figures kidnapping people and performing biological tests on them. They’re stunned to find that it’s true – and even more surprised when they’re able to capture one of the suited men, but even the quickest glance through the visor of the biosuit reveals that this may be the oldest human being that anyone’s seen in a long time. They take him back to Thunder Mountain, where he awakens – and makes it plainly obvious that he knows Marcus on a first-name basis. The man turns out to be Major Quantrell, formerly one of Thunder Mountain’s top brass during the outbreak of the Big Death. Quantrell has many things to reveal – he is now based at the elusive Valhalla Sector, he’s not the only human being to have topped 40 years old, and if his young captors don’t let him go, his people will come looking for him and they’ll come well-armed. It soon becomes obvious that Quantrell and his allies intend to take control of what’s left of the world and rule by force…and anyone choosing to oppose him will need to be up for one hell of a fight.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Michael Rooker (Quantrell), Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Suzy Joachim (Megan), John Ralston (Dr. Alexander), Leah Graham (Woman), Alex Zahara (Ezekiel), Rodrigues Williams (Man), Michael Kopsa (Colonel), J.M. Landry (Aide), Charles Payne (Aide), Ray Galletti (Clese), Awaovieyi Agie (Rich), Andrew Francis (young Marcus), Carin Moffat (Jean), Chris Robson (Reporter), Nigel Johnson (Guard)

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Bandits carjack Jeremiah and Kurdy, leaving them on foot. The nearest sign of civilization they can find is an abandoned amusement park where a handful of families have taken up residence. The travelers find they’re not welcome there either – children have been disappearing at an alarming rate. When Jeremiah sees that the bandits have been through this area, using the equipment stolen in the land rover as trade bait, he offers to stay and help guard the children until the bandits return. The remaining children at the park regard Jeremiah as the stuff of legend – an avenging angel who has come to protect them from vampires. When more children disappear, their families come to the conclusion that Jeremiah and Kurdy are responsible.

written by Sam Egan
directed by James Head
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Vincent Gale (Cord Geary), Tobias Mehler (Jack), Pablo Santos (Magyar), Shawn Macdonald (Fipps), Wendy Russell (Treva), Yvonne Myers (Helen), Sharon Alexander (Chapelle), Berend McKenzie (Medicine Joe), Aleks Paunovic (Stomp), Talia Ranger (Maia), Reece Thompson (Tommy Geary), Nickol Tschenscher (Beth Geary), J.R. Messado (J.J.)

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Assigned by Marcus to make formal contact with another community, Jeremiah and Kurdy happen upon a group of people on a religious pilgrimage. Jeremiah is a little annoyed when Kurdy accepts their invitation to join them when they make camp, where the two travelers learn that these people and their leader believe that their journey to the ocean will be met with a ship that will take them to a better world. Kurdy alarms Jeremiah by joining this community on their pilgrimage, and Jeremiah continues on his mission alone. When he encounters a group of bandits planning to raid the pilgrims, Jeremiah tries to stop them but is captured. Kurdy must choose to honor his newly-taken oath of non-violence, allowing his new friends to become the victims of robbers, or save them only to lose their acceptance.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Martin Wood
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Krista Rae (Constance), Alessandro Juliani (David), Hayden Thomas (Price), Paul Dzenkiw (Group member), Travis Woloshyn (Group member), David Haysom (Man), Stuart O’Connell (Man), Shawn Stewart (Man)

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Gabriel and Elizabeth, on a scouting mission from Thunder Mountain, go to Clarefield – the town Jeremiah and Kurdy once visited which is still under the thrall of Theo and her thugs – and are promptly captured. Marcus assigns Jeremiah and Kurdy – who is furious that Elizabeth was sent on such a dangerous mission – to rescue them. There are a few problems facing them though, namely a revolt that leaves Theo out in the cold (but her successor still has the hostages). Worse yet, when they save her life from the men who used to work for her, Jeremiah and Kurdy have to trust her to help them rescue Elizabeth and Gabriel. Kurdy decides to go it alone, leaving Jeremiah to deal with Theo. And at Thunder Mountain, Marcus is faced with the possibility that a traitor at the mountain tipped Theo off to the presence of the scouting party.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Holly Dale
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Kim Hawthorne (Theo), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Ben Bass (Eric Rasmussen), Zak Santiago Alan (Sam), Alonso Oyarzun (Gabriel), Xantha Radley (Baker), Dave Nystrom (Jock), Jean-Michel Legal (Jacob Rutledge), Haig Sutherland (Keith), Martin Sims (Raymond Jaglom), Crystal Cote’ (Kate Pierce), Cobie Smulders (Deborah)

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Jeremiah and Kurdy follow up on leads about the town of Mayfair – very troubling leads, which they discover are well founded. The town is littered with dead bodies, and no apparent signs of survivors. They travel to a nearby community whose leader, Stenn, has set down an ultra-puritanical code of laws forbidding any two people to make physical contact. Any outsiders – such as Jeremiah and Kurdy – are regarded with extreme suspicion. Jeremiah discovers first-handy that there is a horrifying link to two lingering questions: what happened to the people of Mayfair, and what happens if someone breaks the law and touches another human being?

written by Sam Egan
directed by Michael Robison
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), J.R. Bourne (Stenn), Jesse Moss (Angus Deveraux), Kirby Morrow (Neal Deveraux), Amber Rothwell (Karin), Gabrielle Miller (Naomi), Jimmy Herman (The Apparition), Kirsten Prout (Elayna), Michèle Bogdanow (Bess), Justin Callan (Nicky), Martin Sims (Raymond Jaglom), Michael Eklund (Vernon Diggs), Ellen Ewuse (Marta), Darren Choo (Mine Guard), Reese Smith (Doctor)

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In keeping with his recent pledge to begin organizing with other communnities, Marcus sends Jeremiah and Kurdy to make contact with a group led by a man known only as “Steve.” When the travelers arrive at their destination, Jeremiah is met by a girl named Michelle, with whom he had a a brief but intense relationship five years earlier. It was Michelle who introduced Jeremiah to the concept of writing letters to his long-dead father, and it is Michelle who’s actually coordinating her community’s rebuilding effort, breaking the glass ceiling by claiming that all of her orders come from “Steve.” But when someone warns Jeremiah and Kurdy that she’s using the “Steve” ruse to squirrel away supplies for herself, Jeremiah worries that she may not be the same person he once knew. He’s even more surprised when Michelle introduces him to her five-year-old son Gabriel – a child who could well be his.

teleplay by Al Katz & Sara Barnes
story by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Graeme Coleman and Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Sabrina Grdevich (Michelle), Preston Cook (Doug), Spencer Achtymichuk (Gabe), Janine Cox (Anna), Jessica Heafey (Maxine), Scantone Jones (Martin), Robert Wisden (voice of Devon), Teryl Rothery (voice of Mary), Ryan Drescher (voice of Michael), Devin Douglas Drewitz (voice of young Jeremiah)

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A nightmare awakens Jeremiah, a nightmare featuring his father and Ezekiel, the man who claimed to be his brother – but also the man who killed Colonel Quantrell when he was held captive at Thunder Mountain. The next day, Marcus recalls all of Thunder Mountain’s field operatives to reassign them temporarily to a new mission, to rebuild the town of Danbury. While it seems like an incredibly generous gesture to extend to a town full of total strangers, Marcus’ intent is to establish relations with Danbury and use it as a tripwire, a means of detecting whether or not agents from Valhalla Sector are on their way to try to take over Thunder Mountain. Jeremiah spots Ezekiel talking to Lee Chen, Marcus’ right-hand-man, in Danbury, and chases Ezekiel down. But before they can even have a conversation beyond a cryptic warning of danger from Ezekiel, Lee Chen sneaks up from behind and knocks Jeremiah out. Just as Marcus is about to make a public appearance alongside Danbury’s leader, Jeremiah and Kurdy fight through the crowd to warn him of the danger – moments before a shot rings out and Marcus falls, struck in the chest by a bullet. Thunder Mountain’s leader fights for his life while Jeremiah and Kurdy fight to find the would-be assassin. It seems that only three things are certain: Valhalla Sector operatives have already taken up position in Danbury, Lee Chen can’t be trusted, and time is running out for Marcus’ vision of rebuilding the world peacefully.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kwise Ameyaw (Samuel), Robert Wisden (Devon), Alex Zahara (Ezekiel), Daniel Pepper (First Team guy), Jared Van Snellenberg (Damien), Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah)

Appearing in footage from Firewall: Michael Rooker (Colonel Quantrell)

Appearing in footage from …And The Ground, Sown With Salt: Jason Priestly (Michael), Kirsten Robek (Julie), Ben Ayres (Guard)

Appearing in footage from The Long Road: Teryl Rothery (Mary)

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Following up on information given to them by Theo, Jeremiah and Kurdy go to visit a small, tightly-knit community. They make camp on the way and Jeremiah is awakened by what he’s sure is an elephant (though Kurdy doesn’t believe this). When they reach the inn Theo told them about, Jeremiah and Kurdy are stunned when it turns out to be little more than a brothel. They each pair off with a girl for the evening, and Jeremiah finds himself quite taken with Polly, a budding artist who longs to leave the inn and find her missing daughter. She convinces him to challenge Yarbo, the inn’s gruff bouncer, to win her freedom. Kurdy feels he’s better equipped to handle a fight than Jeremiah, and, to make his point, knocks Jeremiah out cold and takes his place in the ring. Though he’s sore later, Kurdy wins Polly’s freedom, and she leads Jeremiah and Kurdy to a nearby circus where Gregory, the father of her little girl, works. Gregory is suspicious of Polly’s sudden arrival, and Polly’s daughter doesn’t even recognize her. Her fight to rebuild her family is just beginning. In the meantime, despite the fact that no one has believed his story of an elephant sighting so far, Jeremiah is eagerly recruited by the circus workers to help them find their wayward starring attraction.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Ken Girotti
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Polly Shannon (Polly), G. Patrick Currie (Gregory), Alana Husband (Cassandra), Steve Bacic (Patrick Desault), Taras Kostyuk (Yarbo), Geneveive Buechner (China), Heather Feeney (Janine), David Cook (Parker), Michael Langlois (Farmer), Tai the Elephant (Lana)

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Marcus wants Jeremiah and Kurdy to make contact with a nearby community to see if they would be willing to exchange resources and information with Thunder Mountain. When they learn that the community is an African-American separatist movement, Kurdy volunteers to go it along until Elizabeth convinces him to take her along as backup. Jeremiah, in the meantime, accompanies Erin on a mission to help her twin sister Lauren. Though the sisters have been estranged for years, ever since Lauren made off with their mother’s jewelry collection (and, according to Erin, traded it for drugs), Erin feels that intervening in her sister’s life is still important, especially when help is requested; when that help involves getting Lauren away from an abusive boyfriend, things become more difficult. In the meantime, Kurdy and Elizabeth receive a cold reception when they visit the separatists – one of their leaders feels that the intruders can’t be allowed to leave their town alive.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Brad Turner
music by Graeme Coleman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Jason George (Kwame), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Michasha Armstrong (Raheem), Monique Kavelaars (Lauren), Christian Bocher (Geronimo), Adrian Homes (Gunman)

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