The Damned (Psi Factor)

The Damned is the tenth episode of the second season of "Psi Factor", and the 32nd overall.
== Synopsis ==
Something is drowning the members of a rich family of land developers headed by a ruthless greedy old patriarch and plagued by a psychotic gangster with a thing for power drills, who thinks Matt is behind the killings.The Damned - IMDB - Retrieved 27 November 2021
== Plot ==
=== Cold Open ===
While feeding the fish in his aquarium, Harrison Sheffield asks his servant whether his grandchildren are still in the pool. The servant states that he would make sure that they kept quiet to allow their father to sleep. Meanhile, Katie noisily swims through the pool toward her husband, Jimmy Sheffield. They begin to make out while Jimmy's brother Robert sits in a chair next to the pool, trying to ignore them. As he looks at them, Katie teasingly looks back at him before pushing Jimmy away, telling him he has to go back to work. Robert asks his brother whether he remembered to file a notice for a variance. Jimmy dodges the question while Robert grows frustrated. Katie finally pushes her husband away and climbs out of the pool, joining Robert at the side. While his brother swims underwater, Robert yells that he's an idiot, before the pair walk outside. As they get outdoors, Robert complains about financial woes and pressure from John Harley before Katie pulls him towards her and begins kissing him passionately. Robert pushes her away, concerned about their infidelity being discovered, but willingly leaves with Katie for a part of the grounds where they won't be noticed. Back in the poolhouse, Jimmy finally notices the disappearance of the two, before the water in the pool suddenly turns tumultuous. Jimmy struggles to escape, but is helpless to escape from whatever is controlling the frothy water, which whips him around from side to side before finally pulling him under. Meanwhile, the elder Sheffield notices that a castle inside his aquarium has been cast aside while the water within bubbles unusually, unaware that the body of his drowned grandson is laying at the bottom of a pool.
=== Main Plot ===
=== Epilogue ===
==Cast==
===Guest===
*James B. Douglas as Harrison Sheffield
*Charmion King as Bridget Jamieson
*Carl Marotte as Robert Sheffield
*Melissa DiMarco as Katie Sheffield
*Peter MacNeill as Ray Donahue
*Andy Velasquez as Jimmy Sheffield
*Rod Wilson as Rico Armand
*Alex Rutsey as Bridget at 7
*Hardee T. Lineham as John Harley
==Notes==
=== Continuity===
*Peter Axon goes undercover at the Sheffield Mansion as a pool technician.
* Praeger and Axon are established to be golf players.
*The town in which the episode goes unnamed, leaving only the Sheffield Mansion and the Sheffield Reservoir as named locations. While even the country goes unstated, Praeger jokes that Bridget Jamieson may be receiving psychic signals from Moose Jaw. Donahue also states that he will make inquiries with the DMV, a name largely used in the United States. While Nunavut has a Division of Motor Vehicles, the territory only came into existence in 1999, and thus cannot be the DMV in question. Assuming that the term wasn't just included in the script for the benefit of American viewers, it's likely the episode was intended to be shown as occurring in America.
*Donner and Praeger claim to be writers for Business Illustrated to Sheffield.
* While being interrogated by Harley, Praeger claims his OSIR ID meant he was a part of the "Organization of Young Socialists", before giving up on that part of the ruse in favour of claiming he was an author writing a scandalous tell-all. Harley then asks whether he was a "pinko".
*Praeger jokingly compares banshees to his second wife, while Donner states that she had grown up with people like the Sheffields, comparing her father to them. Donner's father would later be revealed to have been a biochemist with whom she had an estranged relationship.
==Links==
*The Damned on IMDB
==References==
Category:Fiction
Category:Psi Factor Episodes
Category:Psi Factor Season 2