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Pilot is the first episode of the first season of Millennium.

Guest Stars: Terry O'Quinn (Peter Watts), Stephen J. Lang (Det. Bob Geibelhouse), Bill Smitrovich (Lt. Bob Bletcher|), Brittany Tiplady (Jordan Black), Paul Dillon (The Frenchman), Stephen E. Miller (Det. Roger Kamm), Kate Luyben (Tuesday), April Telek (Calamity), Don MacKay (Jack Meredith), Michael Puttonen (Pathologist Curt Massey), Jarred Blancard (Young Man at Ruby Tip -- "Sammy"), Jim Thorburn (Coffin Man), Kimm Wakefield (Young Woman), John B. Destry (Driver on Bridge), Liza Huget (Nurse), Jim Filippone (Chopper Pilot), Fawnia Mondey (Stripper at Ruby Tip (uncredited))

Contents 1 Plot Overview 2 Notes 3 Arc Advancement 3.1 Happenings 3.2 Characters 3.3 Referbacks 4 Trivia 4.1 The Show 4.2 Behind the Scenes 4.3 Allusions and References 4.4 Memorable Moments 5 Music 6 Quotes

[edit] Plot Overview

A serial killer is stalking strippers in peep shows throughout Seattle. He watches the girls dance as he has horrific visions of blood pouring over their bodies. He writes his disturbed poetry on sheets of paper and holds it up to the glass, and any girl foolish enough to read his poetry may end up feeling his wrath. He feels that it is his personal mission to cleanse the city of the sin that has contaminated it.

Frank Black is a retired FBI agent whose expertise is in tracking serial killers. He has an uncanny power to see visions that sometimes help him in solving cases. He has moved to Seattle from Washington to start a new life with his family and to escape a derranged stalker who mails Frank polaroids of his wife and daughter. Frank has taken a new job with the Millennium Group, an organization made up of ex-law enforcement members that takes a vested interest in using their skills to solve unusual cases.

Frank meets up with is old boss Lieutenant Bob Bletcher and offers his help. Bletcher takes Frank to the latest dead stripper. Upon viewing the body, Frank sees the murder through the killer's eyes and knows that he must be stopped before he can kill another. While visiting his daughter in the hospital as she suffers from a fever, Frank receives another vision that tells him where other bodies are buried. He leads Bletcher and the police department on a search through a wilderness area at night. At first it seems that he has been misled, but Frank soon discovers wooden coffins just under the surface of the ground where the killer has buried some of his victims alive, their eyes and mouths sewn shut.

Frank continues to try and find the killer, until the evidence and his visions lead him to the police department's evidence lab. An employee in the lab, the killer attacks Frank once he knows he has been discovered. Bletcher arrives in time to put a bullet into the killer befofe Frank is hurt. Frank returns home to be with his family, but in the mail he receives more polaroids of his wife and child, along with the knowledge that his stalker has followed him here from Washington.

[edit] Notes

• The premiere of Millennium drew over 17 million viewers, the highest ratings in the network's history for a debuting drama (at the time).
• The novelization of this episode is titled "The Frenchman."

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

[edit] Referbacks

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

[edit] Behind the Scenes

[edit] Allusions and References

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Music

• "In the Hands Of Death" - Alive Cooper & Rob Zombie
• "Head Like a Hole" - Nine Inch Nails
• "Piggy" - Nine Inch Nails
• "Roads" - Portishead
• "More Human Than Human" - White Zombie

[edit] Quotes

• Stripper: "This isn't an interrogation booth."
  Frank: "I'm not a cop."
• Frank: ""I'm here because I have a wife and a kid and I want them to live in a place where they can feel safe."
• Bletcher: "How do you do it, Frank?"
  Frank: "Lucky guesser."
• Catherine: ""You think you're protecting me but you make it worse, Frank. You can't shut the world out for me. You can't ask me to pretend that I don't know what you do."
• Frenchman: "You'll have your part in the lake. The great plague in the maritime city. You'll have your part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone."