page_title: Broken World (Millennium)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Broken World (Millennium) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Laren Raher and Brad Mays from Act II of Equus, directed by Brad Mays. May, 1979, Baltimore
context_page_description: "'Broken World" is the twentieth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on May 2, 1997. The episode was written by Robert Moresco and Patrick Harbinson, and directed by Winrich Kolbe. "Broken World" featured guest appearances by Ingrid Kavelaars, Donnelly Rhodes and Jo Anderson.
  Millennium Group consultant Frank Black travels to North Dakota to track down a burgeoning serial killer who has progressed from mauling horses to attacking and killing people.
  "Broken World" featured the last directorial effort for the series by Kolbe, and the last script written by Moresco; however, Harbinson would return to write further episodes in later seasons. The episode has been compared to Peter Shaffer's 1973 play Equus, and received a Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States in 1998.
context_section_description: "Broken World" was written by Robert Moresco and Patrick Harbinson. Moresco had previously written "Covenant" earlier in the first season, and also acted as a producer during the series' run. Harbinson, making his first contribution to the series with this episode, would later pen a further four episodes in the third season—"Via Dolorosa", "Darwin's Eye", "The Sound of Snow" and "Through a Glass Darkly". "Broken World" also marked the final episode of Millennium helmed by director Winrich Kolbe, who had previously worked on "Lamentation", "Force Majeure" and "Kingdom Come".
  During production, "Broken World" was instead set to be titled "Equus", which is Latin for "horse" and was also the title of a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer concerning a young man with violent sexual urges towards horses. The episode opens with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883–1885 treatise Thus Spoke Zarathustra—"Man is the cruelest animal". Guest star Donnelly Rhodes, who portrayed Peter Dumont, would later make an appearance in the third season episode "...Thirteen Years Later" in an unrelated role.
caption: "Broken World" has been compared to the play Equus (1979 production pictured).
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