Webisode 3

"" is the third episode released online of the original Sanctuary web series.
: The first four webisodes were rewritten for the TV series two-hour premiere episode "". and became .
== Synopsis ==
The origins of the mysterious mutant boy are revealed, as is the relationship between Helen Magnus and her old flame, John Druitt. Meanwhile Ashley Magnus seeks out Ernie Watts a weapons dealer and fellow monster hunter - only to find herself in mortal danger.
== Plot ==
At the Old City Sanctuary, Ashley Magnus is in the infirmary receiving stitches from her mother Helen Magnus after she took a strike from Alexei's appendage earlier that night to her right shoulder blade. Will Zimmerman is also nearby sitting on an adjacent bed with a cold compress to treat his head. After Ashley gets patched up and leaves to meet Ernie Watts across town on the east side in twenty minutes, Will questions the apparent twelve year physical age difference between mother and daughter. Will then picks up an irradiated fluid sample that Magnus collected earlier that night from her autopsy of one of the victims. Will freaks out and puts the sample back down when he finds out that it contains some trace amounts of low-grade plutonium.
After the opening title sequence plays, Magnus and Will are on a lower level of the Old City Sanctuary standing in an observation room looking down upon Alexei, who’s strapped into a metal chair; his appendage freely whipping around violently. Magnus relays to Will her current knowledge of the boy’s background. She then assigns Will to work with Alexei.
Bigfoot and Will enter into Alexei’s cell, in an attempt to get him to calm down and to trust them. Bigfoot leaves the room after undoing the chairs restraints, leaving the two of them alone together at Will’s request. Bigfoot then takes Magnus’s place in the observation deck as she leaves the room.
Magnus is now on the lab level in the main lab, running a trace analysis on the plutonium sample found in the liquid produced from Alexei’s appendage. Results reveal a location match to Chernobyl. Magnus then reaches over to pick up and look at the “Twelfth Night” flyer that John Druitt left for her down in Old City’s subway catacombs.
Magnus reminisces about her romance with Druitt back in London in the late 1880’s, having just left that exact same play; Druitt’s favorite. They get in a carriage, Magnus telling the driver to take a turn through Piccadilly first. Druitt wonders where Magnus is taking him and Magnus replies with “Where ever I please. I’ll not have you home before midnight, John Druitt. Not before I’ve had my way with you”. Druitt thanks Magnus for tending to his chronic illness that he sustained after the injection of the source blood and finds it the perfect time to profess his love to Magnus, proposing to her right then and there, promising to make her happy, for all eternity. Magnus accepts his proposal with a kiss and Druitt places the engagement ring on her finger.
Bigfoot walks up behind Magnus in the main lab as her memory fades, putting his hand on her shoulder to pull her attention away from her station as she needs to see the not-so-well progress of Will trying to work with Alexei. In the observation cell, Will is eventually able to calm Alexei down and have him retract his appendage when Will figures out that fear drives the appendage’s motives; the more afraid someone is of the boy, the more it wants to feed on that person’s brain. Will builds a talking relationship between himself and Alexei; Magnus watching the scene unfold from a monitor behind her work station in the main lab, extremely impressed with Will’s ability of interacting with the abnormal boy.
On the Eastside of Old City, Ashley is meeting with Ernie for a weapons buy in a large (presumably public access) concrete vehicle garage. The deal goes south when Druitt suddenly appears, hitting Ernie squarely in the chest with a throwing mace and then proceeds to get into a hand-to-hand combat situation with Ashley. During the fight, Druitt teleports behind Ashley causing her to become surprised; this easily allows Druitt to disarm her from her knife and restrain her, standing behind her back with his hand over her mouth. Druitt then teleports away with her, leaving Ernie alone to self-inject himself with some sort of first-aid autoinjector pen and to remove the throwing mace from his chest.
Back at the Old City Sanctuary, Will is tucking Alexei into bed in one of the guest rooms upstairs on an upper level after having just read to him a bedtime story. Alexei thanks Will for his kindness and also mentions to him how another man was also kind to him while down in the tunnels.
On the lab level, as Magnus is walking out of the main lab, she receives a phone call; it’s Ernie contacting her to tell her that she has a problem - that Ashley has been kidnapped by Druitt.
In some unknown location underground in Old City, Ashley is being held captive by Druitt, sitting in a chair with her hands and feet bound by rope. Druitt offers her some water and the two begin to converse. Druitt then takes his hidden rapier blade out of his cane, using it to unzip the top panel of Ashley’s leather jacket, revealing the silver pendant necklace that Ashley is wearing. Druitt then reveals to Ashley that she is his daughter.
At the Old City Sanctuary, Will meets up with Magnus on an upper level hallway to describe to her the man that Alexei told him he was with earlier, which matches the same man that Ernie described as having abducted Ashley. Will and Magnus go into Alexei’s bedroom, finding him gone with directions left behind on his pillow by Druitt to find them at the abandoned 98th Street subway station.
In Magnus's car, Bigfoot then dangerously drives Magnus and Will across Old City through the pouring rain to that location. Magnus identifies the man to Will as Montague John Druitt, her first patient. She gives Will a brief rundown of how his power negatively affects him, damaging his brain which drives him to murder, and reveals that he’s her worst nightmare; a nightmare that she now has to confront.
== Cast ==
Series regular 	Character
Amanda Tapping 	Doctor Helen Magnus
Robin Dunne 	Doctor Will Zimmerman
Emilie Ullerup 	Ashley Magnus
Featuring 	Character
Christopher Heyerdahl	John Druitt
Cainan Wiebe 	Alexei
Peter DeLuise 	Ernie Watts
== Quotes ==
MAGNUS: I apologize for Ashley's unruly behavior, Doctor Zimmerman. What she lacks in refinement, I assure you she more than makes up for in skill.
ASHLEY: Here's some free advice: kidnapping me pisses my mom off more than serving the wrong wine with fish. So I'd start running.DRUITT: Oh.... I'm not going anywhere. Why would I, now that I finally have what I've wanted for so long?ASHLEY: Yeah, What's that?DRUITT: Why, you, of course. My daughter.
MAGNUS: Each of us has our worst fears to confront, Doctor Zimmerman. John Druitt is mine.
== Notes ==
* Character Error: While Will Zimmerman is talking with Alexei in the observation room and notices Alexei's appendage isn't trying to attack him, he asks Alexei why he isn't trying to snack on his "cerebellum" anymore. This is incorrect. Based on all of the victims having injuries to their forehead (frontal lobes) and not to the base of their skull, Will should have said "cerebrum" instead. Being that the Will is a psychiatrist at the hospital, he would have known this.
* Webisodes vs TV series: The weapons buy scene was carried over and re-written in . The topic of conversation was changed, Ernie Watts was replaced by Sylvio Rudd, and the meeting location was changed from a parking garage to the interior of a warehouse. John Druitt still interrupts by injuring and incapacitating Ernie/Sylvio and fights Ashley, however instead of Druitt teleporting away with Ashley, instead the reverse occurs where Druitt allows Ashley and Sylvio to capture him. In the webisode, Ernie is left alone with his injury. In the tv series, offscreen Ashley and Henry drive Sylvio to Doctor Lim.
* Subtitle Error: When Ernie Watts calls Helen Magnus to inform her of Ashley Magnus's abduction, Ernie is mislabeled as being 'WILL'.
* Continuity Error: John Druitt is able to teleport into the Old City Sanctuary and abduct Alexei from a guest bedroom. The Sanctuary has an EM shield protecting the facility, which should make that impossible to do. The EM shield generator isn't seen until and its purpose is never discussed. This issue was correctly addressed in the TV series in where Druitt tries to teleport into the Sanctuary and is thrown backwards. This causes him to plot his way into the facility in , where he tricks Ashley into capturing him, bringing him in the facility, and afterwards forcing Henry to disable the EM shield.
* Continuity Error: At the very end of the webisode, while the camera is focused inside the hearse / station wagon, Bigfoot is seen to take an abrupt sharp left turn. Helen Magnus and Will Zimmerman in the backseat are appropriately flung to the right side of the vehicle based on inertia. However, when the camera cuts to an exterior view of the car on the street, it is very clearly seen to have made a sharp 90 degree right turn instead. If this were true, then the motions of the characters in the car would have been the complete opposite; Bigfoot would have turned right and Will and Magnus would have fallen left.
** Note: This may have been an error on the Blu-ray version as a correct sharp left turn is seen on an online digitally uploaded version of the episode.
== Gallery ==
File:Sanctuary_-_Preview_for_Webisode_3|Preview for Webisode 3
== References ==
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