Trail of Blood

"" is the fourth episode of the third season of Sanctuary, and the thirtieth episode overall in the series.
== Synopsis ==
The team travel to the mountains of Colombia to track a call for help from Nikola Tesla. Meanwhile, Bigfoot investigates the death of an old friend, and witnesses the arrival of a new enemy.
== Plot ==
=== Cold Open ===
Will Zimmerman and Bigfoot are in the process of discussing the pros and cons of having fish for breakfast, when suddenly Bigfoot hears a strange noise that leads them to the catacombs. They find a strange device that looks like a very old typewriter and seems to operate on its own. They take it to Helen Magnus, who explains it is an autotype, the last of five such secret communication devices used by the Allies during World War II.
Will asks who the message, which states simply SOS, can be coming from if this is the last surviving autotype. Magnus explains that the distress call must be coming from the machine's inventor: Nikola Tesla.
=== Act I ===
Henry Foss is able to pinpoint the location of the signal's origin in the Colombian Highlands, 300 km west of Cartagena. Magnus decides to go and find Tesla, a move Will is less than enthusiastic about. Bigfoot and Kate Freelander decide to spend the free time watching "Operation Paranormal", a mystery-themed investigative show, on DVD. After they fall asleep for a while, a news reporter reports the death of a priest, Father Nathaniel Jensen, during a burglary at his church. Visibly distraught, Bigfoot gets up and leaves.
In the mountains of Colombia, Magnus, Will, and Henry climb into a cave and start looking for Tesla. They soon discover strange large filamentous substance, hanging down like long white roots everywhere, they cannot identify. Magnus states they're hollow, somewhat vein like, in structure.
At the crime scene in the Fifth Ward, Bigfoot's memory drifts back to 1951, when he was injured and found by Father Jensen. The priest took care of him, and directed him to the Old City Sanctuary. Kate arrives, and Bigfoot explains that the priest was a good man, and a friend. When one of the policemen announces that they have a suspect on the run, a look of grim determination appears on the abnormal's face.
In the caves, the team finds Nikola Tesla trapped in said strange substance. He informs them that it is made by creatures who are "far from pleasant". They cut him free after some difficulty, but are attacked by a number of small, insect-centipede-like creatures who come crawling in from all sides.
=== Act II ===
The team retreats with Tesla and blocks the way behind them. Magnus inquires what Tesla was doing in the cave, but he gives no answer. In the end, the team is able to find out he is there for the magnetic metals in the rock, which he hopes could help him control or emphasize his magnetic powers, or 'something'... .
In Old City, small-time crook Denny Stefano is running from the police when he is suddenly caught by Bigfoot, who angrily accuses him of killing Father Jensen. Stephano tells him he's innocent, and after smelling him, Bigfoot seems unsure, too. He decides to take the young man with him.
In the cave, the team discovers what turns out to be an unmarked bunker and the actual reason for Tesla's presence. The centipede creatures reappear, and Tesla seals himself and the team inside the bunker. He then explains that the facility is a secret Cabal laboratory.
=== Act III ===
Magnus concludes that the creatures are actually the result of Cabal experiments gone awry. Henry and Tesla soon start working on restoring the lab's database.
Back in Old City, Bigfoot and Kate conclude that Denny Stephano is being set up. Kate suspects that a member of the police is the true killer. Bigfoot remembers that Stanley O'Farrell, the detective in charge of the investigation, acted strangely at the crime scene. Suspecting him to be an abnormal, they decide to "bring him in".
Henry and Tesla have found a way to hack into the lab database, and the team soon discovers that the lab contains a sample of the source blood, the original vampire blood that created the Five and turned Ashley Magnus into a monster. They also discover that the lab is the location of the insect/centipede creatures' nest. They realize that the abnormal creatures were created when the bunker self destructed and spread Source blood throughout the caverns infusing them with it in the process, hence their magnified size.
=== Act IV ===
The team considers ways to destroy the creatures, while Tesla wants them to give him time to do the necessary research to recreate the source blood. Magnus angrily refuses, and orders her team to blow the nest up - and Tesla along with it, if he refuses.
Meanwhile, Kate and Bigfoot have prepared a trap for Detective O'Farrell, using Denny as bait. Once he arrives at the scene after following their anonymous tip, he points his gun at the young man. Denny offers no resistance, but O'Farrell does not seem to be fully in control of himself. Just before he can pull the trigger, Bigfoot overwhelms him and brutally slams him into a wall. He demands to know why O'Farrell killed the priest. The policeman says he had no choice, and that "he" got everything he wanted. At that point, a hooded figure briefly appears on a roof behind Kate and Denny, and then O'Farrell suddenly dies.
In Colombia, the team is ready to blow up the nest. Tesla opens the door, allowing the creatures to enter their nesting grounds. However, they soon go after Magnus, whose body also contains source blood.
=== Act V ===
In order to save the others, Tesla cuts himself, leaving a trail of blood for the creatures to come after. He then locks himself inside the lab moments before it is blown up. After the explosion, the team finds Tesla almost unhurt, as he used his abilities to surround himself with metal for protection. Magnus and Will both realize he likely took one of the larvae, but decide to "leave him his moment".
Bigfoot is alone on a roof when a young priest, Father Clark, approaches him and tells him that Father Jensen told him a lot about the abnormals of Old City. Bigfoot explains that the Father was like a brother to him. Father Clark tells him that he hopes they will soon speak again.
Magnus later tells Bigfoot that O'Farrell died of a brain aneurysm, and that his family had been held prisoner by someone who later gave an anonymous tip where they could be found. Bigfoot realizes someone forced the policeman's hand, but he can only wonder who it was.
In an empty street, Father Clark removes his clerical collar and glasses, and throws them into the garbage. He then pulls the hood of his coat over his head, revealing himself as the hooded figure Officer O'Farrell saw, and walks away with a smile.
== Cast ==
Series regular 	Character
Amanda Tapping 	Doctor Helen Magnus
Robin Dunne 	Doctor Will Zimmerman
Ryan Robbins 	Henry Foss
Agam Darshi 	Kate Freelander
Christopher Heyerdahl	Bigfoot
Guest starring 	Character
Jonathon Young 	Nikola Tesla
Michael Rogers 	Detective Stanley O'Farrell
Featuring 	Character
Jorgito Vargas Jr. 	Denny Stefano
Fabrice Grover 	Young Father Nathaniel Jensen
Martin Christopher 	Father Clark / False Priest
Benita Ha 	Channel 13 News Reporter Sherilee Wilkins
Alexander Neveroff 	Old Father Nathaniel Jensen
== Quotes ==
WILL: It's a set-up, Magnus, a trap. That's what he does, how he rolls, his modus operandi.MAGNUS: Yes.... What if he's posing as the king of a lost mountain tribe and he wants me for his queen? Or what if he actually needs our help?WILL: Fine. I'll get my stuff together. The man comes with a hidden agenda, every time. Every time!MAGNUS: That's what makes him so interesting.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1721660/quotes/?item=qt2178089
== Notes ==
* Geography Error: Henry Foss says the SOS is coming from "300 clicks west of Cartagena in the Colombian Highlands". Cartagena is part of the western coast of Colombia; 300 miles or kilometers west of that location is the Caribbean Sea. There are highlands south and east of Cartagena.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1721660/trivia/?item=tr3022195
* Location/Continuity Error: At the start of the episode, Will Zimmerman and Bigfoot are walking down a hallway in an upper level. Bigfoot hears the machine and they go down to the catacombs. They find the machine and then bring it up to Magnus's study for Helen Magnus to look at it. After that, the three of them take it down to Henry's array on a lower level next to the main lab for Henry Foss to examine it to find the origin of the signal. Magnus then tells Henry and Will that they will be leaving with her in one hour. In the next scene, Will and Magnus are walking down a hallway in an upper level, where Will is complaining about rescuing Nikola Tesla. Will get's into the elevator to go to his room to pack while Magnus turns around and walks back the direction she came. A scene must have been cut from in-between to explain why Magnus and Will rode the elevator up to an upper level, walked to some location (best guess is Magnus's study), and are shown returning to the elevator. It doesn't make sense for the characters to not go straight to their bedroom's to pack, especially considering why Will got off on the wrong floor - as both his office and his bedroom are on the same floor one level down from Magnus's study. Had they rode together up from the Henry's array, Will would have gotten off first, and Magnus would have stayed to continue ascending to go to her study. It also doesn't make much sense for Will and Magnus to go to her study, have Magnus escort him back to the elevator, just for her to return to her study.
* Chronology: Flight travel time from Vancouver, Canada to Cartagena, Colombia is 8 hours 8 minutes.https://www.travelmath.com/flying-time/from/Vancouver,+Canada/to/Cartagena,+Colombia
* Trivia: Kate Freelander enters Magnus's study complaining of an aircrew's handling of her sub-arctic crocotta. Accounts of this mythic beast date back 2000 years. It was held to be a wolf-dog or hyena-dog of great ferocity and capable of mimicking human speech to lure people out into the night.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1721660/trivia/?item=tr3306722
* Geography: The establishing shot of the Colombian Highlands shows flat top mesas rising above heavy fog. Not like the Colombian highlands, these look exactly like the tepuis of the Venezuelan highlands in Canaima National Park.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1721660/trivia/?item=tr3306732
* Trivia: Helen Magnus eyeballs the white membranes created by the multipedes and says the material lacks the alternating crystalline structures of spider silk. Granted, spider silk is built on alternating crystalline and amorphous blocks, however, these structures are too small to be seen with light waves; it took Atomic Force Microscopy to first reveal them.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1721660/trivia/?item=tr3308085
* Factual Error: Nikola Tesla said he had been trapped in that thing Henry Foss cut him free of for over nine days, which is more than twice the time it would have taken for him to die of dehydration. Even if he could somehow manage to go that long without water and live due to his unique physiology, his mouth and throat would still be dry and he would be very hoarse by the time rescue came.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1721660/goofs/?item=gf6212190
* Reference: "The Fly" (1986) - When Nikola Tesla explains his plan, Henry Foss says to him, "Dude, did you not see 'The Fly'? You could become half-vampire, half-centipede. This is a really bad idea!".https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1721660/movieconnections/
* Revealing Mistake: At about 38 minutes into the episode, the team finds Nikola Tesla after a huge explosion. They begin speaking to him, but he says "Fortunately for me, I can't hear anything you're saying". Henry Foss immediately makes a comment. Tesla replies to him. This would not be possible (since he was deafened by the blast).
== Gallery ==
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_4_part_1-4|3x04 - Part 1
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_4_part_2-4|3x04 - Part 2
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_4_part_3-4|3x04 - Part 3
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_4_part_4-4|3x04 - Part 4
File:s03_e0304_03_129046320437.jpg|Will Zimmerman and Bigfoot
File:s03_e0304_05_129046320170.jpg|Helen Magnus
File:s03_e0304_04_129046319969.jpg|Bigfoot and Kate Freelander
File:s03_e0304_01_129046320327.jpg|Nikola Tesla and Helen Magnus
File:s03_e0304_02_129046320093.jpg|Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_1.jpg|Bigfoot
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_2.jpg|Bigfoot and Clark
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_3.jpg|Nikola Tesla
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_4.jpg|Kate Freelander and Bigfoot
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_5.jpg|Kate Freelander
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_6.jpg|Henry Foss and Nikola Tesla
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_7.jpg|Will Zimmerman, Henry Foss, Nikola Tesla, and Helen Magnus
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_8.jpg|Nathaniel Jensen and Bigfoot
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_9.jpg|Bigfoot
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_10.jpg|Will Zimmerman, Helen Magnus, and Henry Foss
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_11.jpg|Will Zimmerman, Henry Foss, and Helen Magnus
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_12.jpg|Kate Freelander
File:3x04_Sanctuary_IMDb_13.jpg|Will Zimmerman and Bigfoot
== References ==
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* Watch "" on Vudu
* sanctuaryspoilers: ""
* "" on Wikipedia
Category:Season_3/Episodes