Tempus

"" is the first episode of the fourth season of Sanctuary, and the forty-seventh episode overall in the series.
: This episode is the season 4 premiere. This episode occurs in the past in 1898.
== Synopsis ==
The episode continues the storyline surrounding Hollow Earth, Adam Worth, and Helen Magnus's return to London in 1898.
== Plot ==
=== Cold Open ===
Having followed Adam Worth into the late 19th century, Helen Magnus hunts him through the dark streets of London. A firefight ensues, resulting in Future-Magnus being hit by a number of bricks from a wall and being left unconscious and surrounded by locals.
=== Act I ===
A policeman named Lestrade leads a much younger James Watson to the holding cell where Future-Magnus is being held in while at Scotland Yard. Watson frees her, being stunned by her strange attire and "improper" way of talking. They return to the local Sanctuary, where Watson quickly deduces that he is talking to a Magnus from the future. While Future-Magnus realizes she cannot tell him everything about what is going on because it might alter the timeline, she lets him know that they have to find Adam Worth.
On Watson's advice, Future-Magnus goes to "her" room and changes into something more proper, but is almost caught by a younger version of herself.
=== Act II ===
Having changed into clothing more proper for a woman of the time, Future-Magnus watches Watson destroy all future technology and documents she has brought with her. They decide to start looking for Future-Worth.
Meanwhile, Past-Adam leaves his daughter's bedside for a short time, just-in-time for his future self to enter and begin treating her with advanced techniques he brought with him. She awakens, finding him strangely dressed and with a new hairstyle. He tells her that he he found a cure for her, but quickly discovers that one of Future-Magnus's bullets damaged part of it.
Past-Adam arrives in the Sanctuary, as he did in the original timeline, but now finds Watson in the presence of Future-Magnus, and begs their help because his daughter has disappeared. They visit the hospital and realize Future-Worth took her, discovering that he has already altered the future forever.
Future-Magnus demands from Past-Adam to know his safehouses and plans, but he refuses. Watson calms her down and they return to the Sanctuary, where Future-Magnus arrives just in time to witness the moment her past self confronted John Druitt with her suspicion that he is "Jack the Ripper", the person who ten years earlier committed several murders similar to recent ones. He threatens her with a razor, but eventually slams it into a wall. Looking at her face, he sees only horror, and teleports away. After Past-Helen leaves the room heartbroken and severely shaken, Future-Magnus walks into the room and looks at the razor in the wall.
=== Act III ===
Future-Magnus returns to Watson, and they plan their next move, when Past-Helen arrives and wants to start working on the apparent new Ripper cases.
Some time later, Future-Magnus arrives at the Reformer Club to talk to Future-Worth. The establishment's butler grabs her and tries to force her to leave, but she easily overpowers him and is asked inside by Future-Worth. She points a concealed gun at him, but he calls her bluff and explains that they can form the future as they please. She deduces that his plans have gone wrong and he needs more money, but he makes her leave.
Soon after, Future-Magnus witnesses her past self and Watson investigate another murder of a young woman.
=== Act IV ===
Back in the UK Sanctuary, Watson asks Future-Magnus to help her with the investigation. She tells him that he should have caught the real Ripper by now, and that history has been altered again. Watson also realizes that she is working on a toxin that will kill Imogene in the "proper" way should Future-Worth be able to cure her.
She then goes hunting for Future-Worth in the rainy streets of London, when all of a sudden, Druitt materializes in front of her. Believing that she is hunting him, he attacks her, but is surprised to find her quite capable of fighting him off. She tells him to stay away from her.
Once Druitt is gone, Future-Magnus looks up to find a strange, grey-skinned abnormal with a monstrously deformed face looking down at her from the rooftops.
"Hello, Jack", is all she says.
=== Act V ===
Spring-heeled Jack jumps down from the top of the building without effort, landing in front of Future-Magnus, and realizes that she is Gregory Magnus's daughter. His abnormal powers would have allowed him to commit the recent murders. London is his hunting ground, and he is unwilling to leave and go with her to the Sanctuary.
In one of his safehouses, Future-Worth works on the cure as a fascinated Imogene watches on. She tells him that he looks tired, and he explains that once his work is finished, they will be able to go anyway they want and form the world into whatever they want it to be.
Watson and Past-Helen discover evidence for another creature possibly responsible for the recent murders -- Jack.
Future-Magnus discovers the safehouse and confronts Future-Worth. She soon realizes that he has cured Imogene already.
=== Act VI ===
Future-Magnus tells Imogene that her father (Future-Worth) will cause unimaginable harm to millions of people; Future-Worth attacks her and hunts her through the streets with a Praxian energy gun, drawing the attention of Past-Helen and Watson.
Future-Worth uses a sonic stun grenade on Future-Magnus and prepares to shoot her, but she throws a knife at his leg and escapes. He goes after her and shoots again, hitting a wall, which collapses and buries Imogene, who has followed them. Seeing his beloved daughter dead once again, Future-Worth tries to shoot Future-Magnus, but Future-Magnus uses his own energy weapon on him, vaporizing him.
Soon police and bystanders arrive, including Past-Helen and Watson, who kneel over the dead Imogene just as Past-Adam arrives. Once again, he is heartbroken by his child's loss, and puts the blame on the Sanctuary team. Although altered in some ways, the timeline remains basically intact.
On the following morning, Future-Magnus and Watson go to a rooftop. Future-Magnus indicates that she must kill herself in order to keep herself from interfering with history, but Watson offers another solution: as she is immortal, she could simply go into hiding at a remote location, and wait for 113 years, just to rejoin her team in the future the moment after she left. Future-Magnus realizes that she might actually need a "vacation", and they share the view over a peaceful London as the sun rises.
== Cast ==
Series regular 	Character
Amanda Tapping 	Doctor Helen Magnus
Christopher Heyerdahl	John Druitt
Guest starring 	Character
Ian Tracey 	Adam Worth
Peter Wingfield 	Doctor James Watson
Featuring 	Character
Margot Berner 	Imogene Worth
Andrew Kavadas 	Lestrade
Justine Harding 	Street Urchin Girl
Simon Webb 	Simon
Michael Arnold 	Street Urchin Boy
Shalaquin Epps 	Unknown
Uncredited 	Character
Robin Dunne 	Spring-heeled Jack
== Quotes ==
WATSON: Time travel is actually possible. H. G. would be ecstatic.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1975629/quotes/?item=qt3231452
== Extras ==
* Making-Of Featurette: ": Behind the Scenes"
File:Sanctuary_Behind_the_Scenes_Tempus|Tempus: Behind the Scenes
=== Extended scene: Scene 32 "You're In A Mood" ===
INT - LONDON SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - MAIN LABWATSON: Enjoying your trip down memory lane?MAGNUS: Not really. Most of what I need won't be invented for--WATSON: Decades, yes. Try to hobble your genius with archaic technology.MAGNUS: You're in a mood.WATSON: Yes I am.MAGNUS: The Ripper Case.WATSON: Yes.MAGNUS: Please don't.WATSON: But you have been through all this before. For God's sake, you could save lives!MAGNUS: We both know I can't interfere.
=== Extended scene: Scene 52 "You Bet Your Arse" ===
EXT - LONDON - ROOFTOP OVERLOOKING RIVER THAMES - DAWNWATSON: Spring-heeled Jack... the Sanctuary's newest resident.MAGNUS: I wish I could have told you earlier.WATSON: Well, what matters is that the streets of London are safe again.MAGNUS: As they should be.WATSON: Do you miss it?MAGNUS: London? Oh, it's still very much there where I come from.WATSON: I was thinking more of this era. Right on the cusp of the 20th century.MAGNUS: Honestly?WATSON: [laughs] Oh, I can hardly blame you. Must seem like the Dark Ages compared to where you're from.MAGNUS: When I left, things were far from rosy, believe me. Even if we have managed to set my timeline right, which would be a bloody miracle, there's still left a hell of a mess to clean up in my present.WATSON: [sighs] The swearing is acceptable in the future, is it?MAGNUS: If the moment fits, you bet your arse.WATSON: [chuckles] Wonderful.MAGNUS: I never meant to burden you, James.
== Notes ==
* Trivia: According to Amanda Tapping, people who liked the Adam Worth storyline would love "".sanctuaryspoilers: ""
* Casting: Agam Darshi (Kate Freelander) and Ryan Robbins (Henry Foss) do not appear in this episode.
* Trivia: The title sequence has been changed to only feature Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, Henry Foss, and Bigfoot as main characters.
* Chronology: Character ages as of early 1898 are: Future-Helen Magnus (160-years-old), James Watson (49-years-old), Past-Helen Magnus (47-years-old), and John Druitt (40-years-old).
* Chronology: As this episode takes place during the year 1898, it means that Ashley Magnus has been a frozen embryo for the last nine plus years ever since November 1888. Had she been born in the middle of 1889 like she was originally supposed to be, Ashley would have been just over eight-and-a-half-years-old if this episode takes place near the beginning of the year in ~January 1898 (exactly 113 years in the past from when Helen Magnus entered the time portal in early 2011).
* Revealing Mistake: While Future-Helen Magnus is chasing Future-Adam Worth in the past, she is shooting at him with her semi-automatic pistol. During the chase, she has obviously shot all her ammo because the slide on her gun has locked back. But right after that she is shown firing at him again with the same gun. Now she could have reloaded her gun between the two scenes, but when we later see a pile of her possessions there are no spare clips for her gun.
* Reference: As James Watson is getting Future-Helen Magnus released from jail, he speaks with a man named Lestrade. Lestrade is the nearly incompetent police detective in several Sherlock Holmes stories.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1975629/trivia/?item=tr2725379
* Trivia: It's interesting to note that it wasn't until at the London Sanctuary itself that anyone in the past had decided to investigate Future-Helen Magnus's belongings further than just collecting the items and briefly glancing at them; only thinking they looked rather odd (mentioning that they had never seen anything like it before) and simply moved on to question no further. None of the police bobbies, jail personnel, nor James Watson while at Scotland Yard had thoroughly examined her weapons, cell phone, or card carrier (which held her Old City Driver's license, Old City credit card, and Sanctuary business card). It's one thing for a person to overlook someone's odd clothing / attire, but unrealistic for perhaps at least a handful of people to not fiddle and explore strange-looking objects, especially a card holder that's easily noticeable to have an end flap that can be opened.
* Trivia: The numbers on Helen Magnus's Old City credit card are: 1900 2783 0012 5507. The expiration date is 08/12.
* Factual Error: James Watson, played by Peter Wingfield, says he's "never heard of Browning Automatic, and, yet, I know every weapons manufacturer in the world." Technically, the Browning Arms Co. wasn't founded until 1927, however, the Browning family began gunsmithing in Illinois in the 1830s, their designs were manufactured by Winchester - the names were almost synonymous - for decades. Watson would have recognized the name.
* Trivia: Helen Magnus's Old City driver's license was issued in the year 2010 and expires in 2015.
* Reference: After fighting and trouncing John Druitt in the alley, Future-Helen Magnus encounters Jack, a very tall, deamon-faced creature capable of remarkable jumps. This was Spring-heeled Jack, an urban myth popular in London from the 1830s to 1900.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1975629/trivia/?item=tr2725432
* Trivia: The Sanctuary website clarifies that "Spring-heeled Jack" did eventually give in to Past-Helen Magnus, and became the first permanent patient (resident) of the UK Sanctuary.
* Casting: Robin Dunne (Will Zimmerman) does appear in this episode, but only as the actor playing Spring-heeled Jack.
* Historical Fact: Spring-heeled Jack is a real figure from English folklore. However, except for the tendency for leaping onto rooves, the character bears little resemblance to the "real" Spring-heeled Jack who was more a horror than a killer. Jack tormented England for almost seventy years from 1837, avoiding capture by leaping onto (or in some cases, over) buildings. There were complaints made about him all over the country, from him harassing and frightening ladies by tearing at their clothes with his claws or breathing blue fire at them, to terrifying army sentries into setting traps by jumping on the roof of the guardhouse. Spring-heeled Jack was last seen in Liverpool in 1904 jumping from the street to the rooves and away into the night.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1975629/trivia/?item=tr6188759
== Gallery ==
File:Sanctuary_season_4_episode_1_part_1-3|4x01 - Part 1
File:Sanctuary_season_4_episode_1_part_2-3|4x01 - Part 2
File:Sanctuary_season_4_episode_1_part_3-3|4x01 - Part 3
File:Sanctuary_Main-thumb-380xauto-14187___Tempus.png|Martin Wood and Lestrade BTS
File:Sanctuary0437_Tempus.jpg|Martin Wood BTS
File:s04_e0401_04_131802331212__Magnus_frets_for_a_potentially_lost_future..jpg|Future-Helen Magnus
File:4x01_Sanctuary_IMDb_5.jpg|James Watson
File:s04_e0401_03_131802330874__Magnus,_encountered_here_by_Dr._James_Watson..jpg|Future-Helen Magnus and James Watson
File:4x01_Sanctuary_IMDb_4.jpg|Future-Helen Magnus and James Watson
File:4x01_Sanctuary_IMDb_3.jpg|Past-Helen Magnus and Future-Helen Magnus
File:4x01_Sanctuary_IMDb_2.jpg|Imogene Worth and Past-Adam Worth
File:s04_e0401_07_131802332135__Adam_Worth_of_the_19th_century..jpg|Future-Adam Worth
File:s04_e0401_06_131802331838__Magnus,_meeting_up_with_Adam_Worth..jpg|Future-Adam Worth and Future-Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0401_02_131802330709__Dr._Helen_Magnus,_on_the_trail_of_Adam_Worth..jpg|Future-Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0401_05_131802331480__Doctor_Helen_Magnus_on_the_trail_of_Adam_Worth_in_19th-century_London..jpg|Future-Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0401_08_131802332398__Magnus_confers_with_Adam_Worth..jpg|Future-Helen Magnus and Future-Adam Worth
File:4x01_Sanctuary_IMDb_1.jpg|Future-Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0401_01_131802330543__Magnus,_back_in_19th-century_London..jpg|Past-Helen Magnus
== References ==
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* Watch "" on Vudu
* "" on Wikipedia
Category:Season_4/Episodes