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Episode 3 (6/26/2001) ~ Diplopia: Men dance with men, club lights flash, music with a driving beat throbs as Robert Foster, an attractive young man in a business suit, is picked up by another man with a 'your deepest, darkest, fantasy fulfilled' line and unusual eyes ~ one is black as a moonless night, the other icy blue. Foster's night of fantasy turns into his last on earth, as he's killed and his companion, Chris Pollack, is knocked out, by a man with a beautiful face ~ which is what Pollack tells Sara and Jake when they are assigned this case. They are in the Foster/Pollack apartment, the murder scene, when he also tells them about the assailant's striking eyes. A young man, Gabriel Bowman, enters the apartment with a box under his arm ~ a ghoulish-looking artifact that looks like a shrunken head ~ and his identity and purpose is confirmed by Pollack; Bowman leaves. When deciding on how to best navigate their investigation, Sara finds out her partner is apparently homophobic ~ he's reluctant to enter the 'gay' nightclub, to question people there about the killer. Sara goes alone, and discovers the man with the distinctive eyes is an artist named Isaac Sullivan; his work is displayed in the club. Sara also decides to follow up what little information about the Witchblade Dominique had given her during their last visit; her cryptic "Look it up on the internet ~ try talismans, charms". Her search turns up a local web store of interest ~ Talismaniac She decides to go there in person. Sara finds unusual artifacts and curiosities ~ as well as Gabriel Bowman, owner. He is, of course, very interested in her bracelet ~ she tells him if he tells her about it, if she does ever want to sell it, she'll give him the first refusal. He tells her little she doesn't already know, but says he'll keep in touch. Later on, Bowman is visited by Ian Nottingham, on a mission for Kenneth Irons ~ basically he offers Bowman $30,000 to stop talking to Sara. When that doesn't necessarily work, Nottingham subtly ~ well, maybe not so subtly ~ threatens him. In the meantime, there are been more murders, including Chris Pollack, but Issac Sullivan seems to have alibis ~ including Sara. He was very obscure during her investigative interview with him, and one of the things he told her was about a Celtic legend about eight brothers, who gained power as each of them was killed, so that the last would be the most powerful. Sara visits Dominique in jail again, and Iron's ex-lover has aged even more. Once again, she tells Sara little and only says "it's right in front of you", before succumbing to a fit of coughing ~ somehow this bit of advice jogs Sara's thought processes. Knowing instinctively Sullivan is involved, Sara digs deeper. She and Jake discover that the doctor who delivered Sullivan, a Dr. D'Angelo, is in prison ~ he had been a fertility specialist who used his own sperm to inseminate his patients, instead of their husbands'. Sara goes to visit the former ob-gyn and discovers he has one eye black as a moonless night and one icy blue! Apparently he'd manipulated nature on more levels than just one. In the meantime, Gabriel Bowman ~ apparently a very foolhardy man ~ has decided to pick his own friends [or maybe the Blade is just that important] and tells Sara he'll help her discover more about the Witchblade. She and Jake go to Sullivan's apartment, only to find themselves out-gunned, when three Issac Sullivans appear! The three men have Sara and Jake tied up to desk chairs (with wheels), and decide to have a little fun with Jake first. They roll him around, taunting him, while Sara is trying to activate the Witchblade. She succeeds just as they going to kill Jake, and she quickly releases herself. Jake, still tied to the chair, is flung across the room, unable to see what comes next. Sara fights all three brothers, and ultimately kills them all. She doesn't answer Jake when he asks what happened, just works to let him out of the chair. Sara later goes to visit Dominique Boucher, who is covered completely by her gray jail blanket. The Witchblade-wielder thanks the old woman but gets no response, so Sara pulls the cover away and finds Dominque dead but restored to her former youth and beauty. Outside on the street, a man in a hooded jacket, finishing up a street mural of a woman warrior, turns ~ and we can see he has one eye black as a moonless night and one icy blue... |
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Episode 4 (7/3/2001) ~ Sacrifice: Kenneth Irons reads from what appears to be an ancient book; the illustration depicts a hooded figure. Elsewhere, flames from wall torches flicker as a robed figure carefully etches a symbol on a wall, nearby is the body of a woman on what appears to be a sacrificial stone. After the figure completes the symbol, he plunges a long stone dagger into the woman. Next day, Sara and Jake are called in to investigate this bizarre crime; Sara takes special note of the symbol, as the Witchblade bracelet glows while she's near it. She also quickly sees visions, of what looks like Stonehenge, hooded figures, and the symbol carved in stone. Apparently she's learning to trust the Blade's clues, and she has the photographer take pictures of the symbol. The assistant coroner says that the woman was about forty, but that the whole thing is strange; everything isn't what it seems. Outside, Jake is speaking to Brian Reilly, the area security guard, as a young woman, Iona Cleary, runs up; she's concerned with the victim's identity since she runs a shelter nearby for homeless people. Brian stops her from going in; they are apparently friends. Later on, with Gabriel Bowman's help, Sara identifies the symbol as that of Conchobar, a legendary Celtic prince; also, the name and symbol of a modern Irish alternative singer. She then asks if he's found anything else out about the Witchblade, and he has ~ it was once in Adolph Hitler's private collection [stolen from their rightful owners, of course]. He had a thing for 'objets de puissance' ~ objects of power ~ but it was stolen by one his own SS men for his mistress. After this, Sara is working out ~ hard ~ in the station's gym, when Danny pays her another 'lesson' visit, and Jake comes by to tell her she has a visitor. He's apparently too polite to ask who she was talking too. Gabriel is the visitor, and he has tickets for Conchobar's show. He and Sara go, and he drops her like a hot potato pretty much as soon as they walk in, leaving her to check things out on her own.
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