Awakening

"" is the sixteenth episode of the third season of Sanctuary, and the forty-second episode overall in the series.
== Synopsis ==
Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla encounter Afina, queen of the vampires, while Kate Freelander once again has to deal with her past.
== Plot ==
=== Cold Open ===
In a deserted cave in East Africa, Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla are looking for remnants of a long-gone Praxian stronghold, and reminisce about when they searched for King Tut's tomb with Howard Carter. Tesla detects a power source behind a wall, and uses his electromagnetic powers to open a hidden vault. Inside, they find that the Praxian fortress had been taken over by vampires. Alarmed, Magnus tells Tesla to take off the bracelet that shields his source blood from sensors; before he can to so, he is hit by an automated energy weapon that burns a hole through his chest. Moments later, the door of the chamber closes behind them.
=== Act I ===
Tesla is able to keep his body from dying by keeping his organs in place with a force field. Meanwhile, Magnus frantically starts searching for a way out.
Meanwhile, back at the Old City Sanctuary, Kate Freelander and Bigfoot are checking emails and installing a new game console, having both waited to do so until Henry Foss was away so he would not interfere. Kate receives a message from someone called Caster which says that details on a new operation with good money in it are waiting at the usual spot. She quickly moves to leave, refusing to tell the Big Guy what is going on. That night in the streets of Old City, she recovers a package from one of her old hiding places.
Magnus tries her best to treat Tesla and keep him awake; he, on the other hand, is convinced that he will die soon. He asks her to read to him from the ancient vampire inscriptions on the walls of the chamber; they tell of an army of Praxians and abnormals who fought against their vampire enemies, but eventually retreated into Hollow Earth, leaving behind the vampires and their human slaves. The "warrior queen" Afina and her court were laid to rest in the chamber, to rise again in the "after-time". Magnus soon discovers another hidden chamber, where the queen of all vampires rest in a giant crystal.
=== Act II ===
Nikola asks Magnus to help him get up, so he can stare at her in awe. Magnus, on the other hand, plans to open the crystal and take some of the corpse's blood to once again turn Tesla into a vampire. However, the crystal seems almost impenetrable, and Tesla faints before she can crack it. Just in time, Magnus is able to extract a few drops of the queen's blood and inject Tesla with it, causing him to turn vampire again and recover quickly.
Kate arrives in Will Zimmerman's office and informs him and Bigfoot that she has information on the whereabouts of a dealer in dangerous abnormals. Will wants to get law enforcement in on the operation, but Kate says that they have to act now.
Back in the cave, Tesla taunts Magnus about her fear to lose him, and tries to get them back out. They try to find a way through the door, they hear sounds of cracking crystal behind them; Afina's prison is breaking apart, and Magnus realizes that she is still alive.
=== Act III ===
Magnus and Tesla argue about the best way to deal with the situation; when Tesla touches the crystal, it quickly falls apart, releasing the young looking, dark-haired queen of the vampires. When she awakes, she is weak and sits down next to a pool of Tesla's blood. After tasting it, she suddenly knows Nikola's name and speaks perfect English. She asks about the whereabouts of her brother and the rest of her race, and is shocked to learn that her empire has fallen long ago and she and Tesla are the last of her kind.
In Old City, Kate and the Sanctuary intervention team raid the smuggler facility, quickly overwhelming the criminals guarding it. Kate finds numerous abnormals locked in cages, and is visibly upset.
Afina explains that the immortal royal family of the vampire civilization took turns ruling, with the other members being left in stasis. However, after Afina's brother was assassinated by his youngest son, the circle was broken and the queen was never re-awakened—until now. She is shocked to learn that Nikola feeds from animal blood, but agrees to come to the surface with them. Magnus takes Tesla aside and tries to reason with him over how dangerous Afina might be, but the vampire queen overhears them, and attacks Magnus. Tesla comes to her defense, but is quickly overpowered by Afina, who bites him and then throws him down a neighboring tunnel. Turning to Magnus, she says: "Welcome to the new age."
=== Act IV ===
Afina reveals that she plans to repopulate the world with her offspring and use Magnus as an immortal blood donor. Magnus just tells her to choke on it.
In the Sanctuary, Will comes to see Kate and asks her why the operation was so important to her. She reveals that she used to smuggle abnormals all the time, and that she seems unable to get over her past.
In the caves, Afina tells Magnus that humanity would never form a united front against her, that it is in fact in their nature to fight one another all the time. While Tesla wakes up in another trap chamber, Afina leads Magnus to a large underground hall where her court lies in crystal stasis—hundreds, maybe thousands of vampire warriors.
=== Act V ===
Shocked by the prospect of seeing the world overrun by vampires, Magnus attacks Afina, stabbing her in the chest. The vampire queen, however, overwhelms her, and her wounds heal almost instantly. Tesla, on the other hand, uses the magnetic powers the queen does not known about to draw the metal in Magnus' backpack down to his prison. Moments later, he has figured out a way to escape and comes to Magnus' defense. While the latter tries to reverse the awakening process, the two vampires fight, with Afina winning and about to kill Tesla. Magnus intervenes, showing Afina the holographic map and telling her about Praxis; if she leaves the surface alone, Magnus will give her the means to take revenge on Hollow Earth.
Afina gives them the means to escape from the cave in exchange for the password for the second level of the holographic map. Upon saying the word, Afina is scanned by the map, which recognizes her as a vampire and activates its self-destruct mode; seconds later, just as Magnus and Tesla escape through the tunnels, the whole compound is destroyed by a huge explosion.
At the Dead Bridge, Kate meets with Caster and admits that she was the one who blew his operation. He holds her at gunpoint, but she reveals that she is now an agent of the Sanctuary Network, and that he does not want to mess with her any more.
Magnus and Tesla have barely escaped the destruction of Afina's tomb, but Tesla is quite pleased with the result; not only is he once again a vampire, he has also retained his unique magnetic powers.
== Cast ==
Series regular 	Character
Amanda Tapping 	Doctor Helen Magnus
Robin Dunne 	Doctor Will Zimmerman
Agam Darshi 	Kate Freelander
Christopher Heyerdahl	Bigfoot
Guest starring 	Character
Jonathon Young 	Nikola Tesla
Aliyah O'Brien 	Afina
Featuring 	Character
Sean Rogerson 	Caster
Mentioned 	Character
Ryan Robbins 	Henry Foss
No actor 	Kalmin
== Quotes ==
TESLA: Look at her. Perfectly preserved, like an insect in amber.MAGNUS: They must have mastered crystal replication on an atomic level.TESLA: Oh, don't sound so surprised. These are vampires we're talking about, after all. Every advance we've seen in our lifetimes, nothing but a pathetic attempt to recreate what my race achieved before the humans even left the caves. Just leave me here among vampire royalty, my only peers.MAGNUS: I have a better idea.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1751629/quotes/?item=qt3075125
== Notes ==
* Historical Hodgepodge / Continuity Issue: At the beginning of the episode in the cold open, Nikola Tesla and Helen Magnus are in East Africa searching for a Praxian stronghold. Tesla recounts a similar experience of when he and Magnus where in Egypt looking for Tut's tomb and five years later Howard Carter "just points to the spot". The writer(s) wanted to take a historical event and insert their characters into it, however, the world of Sanctuary and the search for Tut's tomb doesn't mesh well. Tut's tomb before discovery did not have any significant value.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun#Tomb In fact, the rulers after Tutankhamun died tried to erase the existence of Tut and his father from written record due to his father's religious belief controversy of changing from polytheism to monotheism; making Tut little known about - his name only found on a handful of artifacts over the years, such as a cup, a jar, and a piece of linen. Howard Carter noticed this 'forgotten' pharaoh and wanted to prove the existence of his tomb.https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-discovery-of-king-tuts-tomb Carter and his team searched several locations before eventually finding it on November 4th, 1922 after five years.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter#Tutankhamun's_tomb The search itself was almost called off beforehand in early 1922, as Carter had to convince his financier to back him for one more year/season; several months later the steps to the tomb were found after digging them out of debris.https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archaeologist-opens-tomb-of-king-tut Carter finding the tomb wasn't as simple as Sanctuary made it seem. Considering that Tut was barely known about prior to the discovery of his tomb, there is no explainable factor for why Tesla and Magnus would be interested in looking for his tomb, especially in late 1917 at the same time the real Howard Carter began looking for it. There's no abnormal-spin on Tut to garner interest from members of the Five.
** Historical Fact: The real Nikola Tesla at the time in 1917 was living in at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago (he moved there on July 21st, 1917 and stayed there for the next sixteen months), having contracted with Pyle National on the perfection of his turbines.https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/timeline/1917-teslas-wardenclyffe-tower-destroyed#:~:text=The%20Blackstone%20Hotel%2C%20Chicago%2C%20Illinois,stayed%20while%20working%20for%20Pyle.
* Trivia: The writings inside the vampire stronghold consist mostly of Daedric Alphabet from the "Elder Scrolls" Saga.
* Trivia: This episode marks the third time viewers see Helen Magnus openly worry about the health and well-being of her longtime friend Nikola Tesla. Magnus truly fears that she may lose him this time due to his mortal injuries. When the vampire blood works to revamp him, she is highly relieved that he is still alive. When Tesla is surprised to see that Magnus beat the crap out of the crystal matrix to desperately save him, Magnus at first tries to play if off, but then gives in, saying "Don't let it go to your head".
* Continuity / Character Error: Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla misattribute the Praxian technology in the stronghold to have been created by vampires instead. Both the crystal matrix that entombs the vampires in stasis and the defense energy beam were items the Praxians left behind that the vampires modified by reprogramming the fort's biometric scanner technology. Originally the defense energy beam searched for vampire DNA and labeled it hostile - this was reversed so that the absence of vampire DNA was labeled hostile instead. The vampires committed regicide until they found Praxian crystal technology, turning it into a stasis with a biometric lock to open via touch from another vampire. The blood sensor for the entrance door was also a converted Praxian biometric lock. Crystals, defensive energy weapons, and biometric scanners are all associated with Praxians in Hollow Earth. None of this technology were present in Bhalasaam - the cultural location of vampires - meaning that vampires couldn't replicate the Praxian technology nor remove it from the strongholds.
* Continuity: The encounter Nikola Tesla has in this episode with the vampire queen who he ultimately dubs as an "entitled stuck-up inbred bitch with a Nazi complex" helps Tesla realize later on down the road that he quite enjoys being the only Sanguine vampiris remaining; the experience acting as a deterrent to stop him from continuing to try to resurrect his race. It brings awareness to Tesla that his previous envious thoughts about the legacy of his ancient race wasn't as glorious as he had hoped it to be, as all they seemed intent on was: human enslavement, destroying the Earth to achieve that goal, and a dislike for non-pureblood vampires such as himself; calling him a mongrel.  
* Trivia: This episode is the first and last time viewers see Ashley Magnus's bedroom again since her sacrifice. Helen Magnus had it converted into a small gym workout area.
* Trivia: This episode displays Kate Freelander's character growth since joining the Sanctuary Network. Before, she only really cared about the money from a job. Now, she's deeply upset about the devastating effects that the illegal trafficking trade has on abnormals, seeing it as inhumane and needing to be shutdown.
== Gallery ==
File:Sanctuary_-_S3_Episode_16_-_Awakening_Promo|3x16 - Promo
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_16_part_1-4|3x16 - Part 1
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_16_part_2-4|3x16 - Part 2
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_16_part_3-4|3x16 - Part 3
File:Sanctuary_season_3_episode_16_part_4-4|3x16 - Part 4
File:s03_e0316_10_130497604250__The_Sanctuary_team_on_the_job..jpg|Kate Freelander, Bigfoot, and Will Zimmerman
File:s03_e0316_08_130497604488__The_Sanctuary_trio_in_action_against smugglers..jpg|Kate Freelander, Will Zimmerman, and Bigfoot
File:s03_e0316_02_130497603978__Kate,_Will,_and_Bigfoot_continue_their_mission_to_stop_the_smuggling_of_Abnormals..jpg|Will Zimmerman, Kate Freelander, and Bigfoot
File:s03_e0316_06_130497603901___CC___640x360__Kate,_Will,_and_Bigfoot_hunt_for_those_who_might_smuggle_Abnormals..jpg|Kate Freelander, Will Zimmerman, and Bigfoot
File:s03_e0316_03_130497604425__Bigfoot,_Kate_and_Will_track_their_prey..jpg|Kate Freelander, Will Zimmerman, and Bigfoot
File:s03_e0316_01_130497604683__Tesla,_Magnus,_and_the_Vampire_Queen,_Afina..jpg|Nikola Tesla, Helen Magnus, and Afina
File:s03_e0316_09_130497604315__Tesla_and_Magnus_discover_vampiric_secrets_in_what_was_believed_to_be_a_Praxian_stronghold..jpg|Nikola Tesla, Afina, and Helen Magnus
File:s03_e0316_05_130497604148__Vampire_queen_Afina_reacts_to_the_intrusion_of_Tesla_and_Magnus_into_her_Sanctuary..jpg|Afina, Nikola Tesla, and Helen Magnus
File:s03_e0316_07_130497604071__Tesla_and_Magnus_confront_a_Vampire_queen..jpg|Nikola Tesla, Afina, and Helen Magnus
File:Sanctuary3042.JPG|Nikola Tesla and Afina BTS
File:s03_e0316_04_130497604609__Tesla_and_Magnus_discover_vampiric_secrets..jpg|Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_1.jpg|Helen Magnus, Afina, and Nikola Tesla
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_2.jpg|Helen Magnus
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_3.jpg|Helen Magnus and Afina
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_4.jpg|Helen Magnus and Afina
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_5.jpg|Afina
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_6.jpg|Kate Freelander
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_7.jpg|Nikola Tesla
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_8.jpg|Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_9.jpg|Helen Magnus
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_10.jpg|Bigfoot and Kate Freelander
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_11.jpg|Kate Freelander
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_12.jpg|Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_13.jpg|Nikola Tesla, Helen Magnus, and Afina
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_14.jpg|Helen Magnus, Afina, and Nikola Tesla
File:3x16_Sanctuary_IMDb_15.jpg|Afina and Helen Magnus
== References ==
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* "" on Wikipedia
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