TV GUIDE PROMO
Hel, Sarge and Cleopatra are
forced to break up a happy family when they learn that the father
is a Betrayer.
When a father is exposed as a Betrayer, his family must be broken up.
AIRING AND RATING INFORMATION
1st RELEASE: 03/06/00
An AA average of 2.5
Competition from Syndicated Action Dramas:
The X-Files 3.7
3rd Rock 3.7
Xena 3.3
Stargate SG-1 3.2
Back2Back Action 2.5
Profiler 2.4
Beastmaster 2.4
Earth: Final Conflict 2.4
The Lost World 2.0
Relic Hunter 1.9
2nd RELEASE: 06/12/00
An AA average of 2.4
Competition from Syndicated Action Dramas:
X-Files 3.2
Xena 2.8
Stargate Sg-1 2.6
Back2Back 2.4
Earth Final Conflict/Profiler 2.3
Relic Hunter 2.1
Voyager 1.9
Outer Limits 1.7
3rd RELEASE: 09/04/00
An AA average of 2.2
Competition from Syndicated Action Dramas:
The X-Files 3.1
Xena 3.0
Back2Back Action 2.2
Invisible Man 2.0
Earth: Final Conflict 1.9
Stargate SG-1 1.9
Voyager 1.8
The Outer Limits 1.4
Relic Hunter 1.4
SYNOPSIS:
This synopsis is by
Bret Ryan
Rudnick
.
Teaser:
On a snowy landscape, with twinlking holiday lights in
the background, a team leader and his team are attacked
by a Betrayer whose face is not seen. The leader's in trouble
and calls to Voice for help.
Our heroines answer the call, jumping into a shaft
and going deep below ground. They arrive at a
position Voice identifies as "correct", but see
no entrance to where they have to go. Sarge
shoots at the walls, the floor dissolves,
and the trio find themselves (after a short
fall) in Christmastown, a snowy landsacpe
illuminated with holiday lights.
ACT I:
Hel confirms they are still underground in an
ASE -- Artifically Simulated Environment.
20th century earth, winter, great "attention
to detail."
The trio eavesdrop on a father talking to
his little girl about "monsters", but he
tells her for each monster a guardian angel
watches over.
A dead team member is found by townspeople.
Voice says he has to be indentified. Cleo is
called upon to help out and identifies herself
to the crowd as "Marshall Sam Gerrard -- from
the U.I.A. -- Underground Intelligence Bureau,
Association."
Cleo works the crowd and puts them at ease
with 20th century cop television banter.
Hel and Sarge discover the dead team member
is not the leader, but he was killed by Betrayer
robot gunfire. Sarge is all for wasting Betrayers, but
Hel reminds her that this is still a rescue mission.
Cleo notices the townspeople dancing to the
Macarena, known here has "Kom Yo Pa". She
chats with a little girl named Alexa (from the
family they saw earlier). Meanwhile, Sarge
finds the team leader who is very badly wounded.
As the trio talk with the team leader (Zev)
and they head back to town, Hel determines that
the Betrayer is Alexa's father. Sarge readies
her weapons.
ACT 2:
Hel says they have to leave -- Voice says to get
Zev out of there. Zev and Sarge want to destroy
the Betrayer. Cleo points out that even though
he's a Betrayer, he's still the only father that
Alexa knows. Hel retorts that the Bailies have
made the Betrayers nearly perfect, and he knows
everything the original did, and the original
is probably dead. The group leaves as per
Voice instructions.
Zev breaks off to return to Christmastown
to kill the Betrayer. Hel breaks off and
follows. Sarge and Cleo are left behind,
but they soon follow as well.
Zev finds the Betrayer and attacks, but
soon runs out of juice. The Betrayer kills
Zev. Hel crashes into the room and there
is a big fight. Hel has the Betrayer on the
ropes and the creature pleads for its life.
It wants Hel to remove its killer instinct.
Hel relents, but it was a ruse! The Betrayer
gets the upper hand. But Sarge comes in
just in time and the Betrayer is destroyed.
REVIEW
This review is by
Bret Ryan Rudnick
.
Barely a minute into the show and
Cleo is screaming again.
Cool line from Sarge: "I didn't do that. Did I do that?"
Hel is supposed to be picking up snow, but that stuff
is either soap flakes or foam, it ain't snow.
Before he kills Zev, the Betaryer says ominously,
"The Voice and those who follow it are the true
Betrayers."
In the last firefight, a stuffed and mounted fish over
the mantle is blasted. Tribute to Rob Tapert?
This was a very thought-provoking episode. It
blurs further just who the good and bad guys are
or who they might be. Although we are no closer
to learning the origins of Betrayers and Bailies,
we see that resolve on both sides is very strong.
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