Untouchable

"" is the third episode of the fourth season of Sanctuary, and the forty-ninth episode overall in the series.
== Synopsis ==
Will Zimmerman and Helen Magnus must explain a mission gone wrong to a UN inspector before the Sanctuary's funding is cut off. Meanwhile, Henry Foss has a surprise visitor with some shocking news.
== Plot ==
=== Cold Open ===
Helen Magnus and Will Zimmerman discuss Greg Addison, a UN Security Council agent who is about to come and investigate the Sanctuary Network. Bigfoot and Henry Foss report that they have prepared the Old City Sanctuary for a total lockdown, when suddenly, the doorbell rings. It is Erika Myers, Henry's on-again-off-again girlfriend, and she has news for him: he is going to be a father.
=== Act I ===
In a flashback, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Magnus and Will search a crowded marketplace for the powerful psychic abnormal who coordinated the abnormal armies from Hollow Earth during the recent uprising. A bald man is pointed out to them.
Henry recounts the events to Erika, who asks him to find something to do her.
Greg Addison and his team arrive, and right away starts to antagonize the Sanctuary team. He accuses Magnus of letting her power and influence all over the world go to her head, but she remains calm and continues their tour. Meanwhile, Will, Henry, and Erika make the Sanctuary computer system ready for inspection. The U.N. team wants to build up their own workstations, but Magnus forbids it. When Addison teases her about the "monsters" locked away in the place, Erika partly morphs into her HAP form and angrily slams him into a wall, screaming, "We're not monsters!"
=== Act II ===
Once the others have calmed her, Erika realizes that she cannot morph, and Magnus takes her to isolation. Magnus concludes that the medication her aunt Lillian Myers gave Erika and the other lycans at the Oldham Psychiatric Institute not only suppressed their transformative abilities, but also affected their fertility, as there have been no lycan children since Erika. It appears that lycan women are supposed to be unable to morph to protect the unborn fetus. However, the pregnancy hormones also interfere with her emotions.
Meanwhile, Will and Bigfoot are quite unhappy with the way the U.N. team is settling in, but Magnus tells them that this is only the beginning, and that they should remain civil.
Back in Magnus's study, Addison, Will and Magnus discuss the situation. Magnus explains that there is a hidden leader among the remaining Hollow Earth abnormals, a crixorum with immense psychic powers. They went to Jakarta to look for him. Using music to interfere with his ability to influence their mind, they followed him, but were interrupted when armed soldiers in body armor appeared. The crixorum made these soldiers kill each other.
At that point, Will realizes that the person who sent the soldiers was Addison.
=== Act III ===
As the U.N. team continues to check the Sanctuary computers, Agent Cassidy Turner wants to check the jury-rigged weapons Henry has built in the past. Just when he explains to her that there are no blueprints for most of them, he is called to the infirmary: Erika has begun to morph uncontrollably, and is becoming more and more emotionally unstable. She accuses him of not loving her, and not wanting her around.
Magnus and Will angrily demand an explanation from Addison, who had his soldiers kill the crixorum. However, he reveals that the body his men fished out of the water had no abnormal abilities whatsoever.
=== Act IV ===
Bigfoot and Henry search for Erika, who has gotten away. Henry eventually finds her in the lab, where she has prepared some new advanced software for him. When he wants to have a look at it, Erika starts to make out with him, but Agent Turner interrupts them.
Meanwhile, Addison tells Magnus that he believes she is hiding the crixorum, the same way she hid Big Bertha by telling everyone she was dead. He also explains to her that he has people in place to freeze her assets and cut her connections if he deems it necessary; he can bankrupt her with a phone call.
Magnus and Will reveal that the fishmonger who led them to the person they believed to be the crixorum was the actual one.
Agent Turner inspects Henry's armory, while Bigfoot has a talk with Erika. She suddenly finds something in the computers.
Addison talks to Will alone, and tells him that he wants to get the whole picture of the Sanctuary. He demands to know where Will's loyalties lie, and digs into his past from his sealed file. He even suggests that Will sees Helen Magnus as a way to replace the mother who died when he was a child.
=== Act V ===
Henry explains to Magnus that someone has tried to get through their firewalls to steal their data. They agree that the whole U.N. investigation is just a cover to get people into the Sanctuary and steal information. However, Magnus refuses to kick the team out.
Addison follows Will into an elevator and tries to convince him that Magnus is bringing the place down. He also tells him that he could get Will instated as her replacement, and asks to know what really happened in Jakarta.
Will recounts how Magnus cornered the real crixorum and convinced him to return to Hollow Earth. Addison informs her that the Sanctuary is now under complete supervision of the UN Security Council, or it will be shut down right away.
=== Act VI ===
Magnus orders Addison and his team to leave immediately, accusing him of trying to gain access to her work from the beginning. He threatens to ruin her, to which she responds that the next time he comes near them, she will arrange for him to be eaten.
Once Addison is gone, Magnus and Will reveal to Henry that there are funds for the Sanctuary Network hidden in places that Addison doesn't even know exist. They also reveal that the crixorum is safely in their custody: Magnus shot him and had him sedated. Magnus also explains that having the Network cut of from the U.N. and other external influences was her plan in the first place.
Some time later, Magnus tells Henry and Erika that she can slow down Erika's pregnancy to lower the level of hormones released into her blood. She will be pregnant for almost two years, but the baby will be safe and healthy. Now, Henry has some big decisions to make.
Will and Magnus talk about the future of the Sanctuary. She has had another lifetime to think about it, and has decided that the changes that are coming make it necessary for them to be able to make their own rules.
== Cast ==
Series regular 	Character
Amanda Tapping 	Doctor Helen Magnus
Robin Dunne 	Doctor Will Zimmerman
Ryan Robbins 	Henry Foss
Christopher Heyerdahl	Bigfoot
Guest starring 	Character
Pauline Egan 	Erika Myers
Brian Markinson 	Greg Addison
Lara Gilchrist 	Cassidy Turner
Featuring 	Character
Mig Macario 	Wahid the Crixorum
== Quotes ==
MAGNUS: [to Addison] You come near us again, and I'll arrange for you to be eaten.
HENRY: [to Magnus] Uh, so, no offense, but you just told the world's governments to take a flying leap.
== Extras ==
=== Extended scene: Scene 24 "Hormones" ===
INT - OLD CITY SANCTUARY - LOWER LEVEL - HENRY'S ARRAY[Henry and Erika are making out.]HENRY: Oh, I know it's the hormones but I'm so into this.[The sound of heels can be heard approaching. Henry sees Cassidy enter the room and stops kissing Erika. Erika turns to look at Cassidy.]CASSIDY: Henry. The girlfriend's cute and all when she's not biting people's heads off, but maybe you want to wait and do the wild thing on your own time.[Erika growls.]
== Notes ==
* Chronology: This episode takes place three weeks after the Hollow Earth Invasion two-episode arc and .
* Trivia: This episode marks the end of the Sanctuary Network's long-time affiliation with the United Nations.
* Trivia: About a third of the way through the episode, Cassidy Turner name drops to Henry Foss that she just had a working lunch with Steve Jobs last month. Unfortunately, in the real world, Steve Jobs had just died on October 5th, 2011 a little over two weeks prior to the episode air date on October 21st, 2011.
** Trivia: Steve Jobs had been on medical leave of absence from Apple since January 17th, 2011 (only appearing publicly at three events since: on March 2nd, June 6th, and June 7th) and resigned as Apple's CEO on August 24th, 2011, only working for the company as the newly appointed chairman of the board until the day before his death six weeks later.
** Trivia: The episode itself was written and shot several months prior to this, before the public was fully aware of Steve Jobs's serious declining health condition. Being that Jobs died right before the episode aired, the show couldn't change anything last minute about the scene in the already finished episode.
** Chronology: This, however, isn't a continuity issue considering that the in-universe date of the episode takes place in early 2011 in the months of January / February. Cassidy Turner's claim of having met Steve Jobs could still theoretically be possible if she met Jobs sometime before he went on medical leave in mid-January.
* Trivia: Helen Magnus says the crixorum needs a daily dose of 'Vibrio phosphorae' bacteria. The more proper name is 'V. phosphoreum', the most proper name is 'Photobacterium phosphoreum'.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2005937/trivia/?item=tr2726486
* Reference: "Kung Fu" (1972) (TV Series) - Will Zimmerman tells Helen Magnus that if she starts calling him "Young Grasshopper", he's going to quit.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2005937/movieconnections/
* Continuity Error / Character Error: In the series up until this episode and even in this episode, Henry Foss is seen to embrace his and even Erika Myers's HAP physiology. One of the senses seen featured in the show is his enhanced sense of smell. In , Henry finds Robbie Meyers somewhere across Old City purely by scent alone, and in Henry's nose was affected so much by the tabors that he couldn't track them by scent, forcing him to create a modified scent tracker device. In this episode, while Erika is having an unstable physiologic reaction to her pregnancy hormones, she slips out of the isolation room, running off to one of Henry's tech areas. While Bigfoot and Henry search for her throughout the Old City Sanctuary, Bigfoot picks up her scent while Henry is depending on the building's security cameras / motion trackers. Henry gets upset at Bigfoot 'sniffing' for his girlfriend and once Bigfoot leaves Henry on his own to find her, Henry timidly tried to smell for her, clearly uncomfortable with the action, and is very relieved when his tablet suddenly pings her current location. He then gives up scent tracking and practically buries his face in his tablet as he walks off screen. While Henry is known to prefer to rely on his tech devices, this spontaneous aversion behavior from Henry in regards to using his nose to find people is very out of character for him.
== Gallery ==
File:Sanctuary_4x03_Promo_Untouchable|4x03 - Promo
File:Sanctuary_season_4_episode_3_part_1-3|4x03 - Part 1
File:Sanctuary_season_4_episode_3_part_2-3|4x03 - Part 2
File:Sanctuary_season_4_episode_3_part_3-3|4x03 - Part 3
File:s04_e0403_06_131862782367__Magnus_and_Will_at_work_in_Jakarta..jpg|Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, and Wahid
File:s04_e0403_01_131862781290__Magnus_and_Will_on_the_trail_of_the_crixorum..jpg|Helen Magnus and Will Zimmerman
File:s04_e0403_03_131862781776__Magnus_confronts_the_man_she_believes_to_be_the_crixorum..jpg|Helen Magnus and Wahid
File:s04_e0403_02_131862781474__Has_Magnus's_personality_taken_a_turn_for_the_dark..jpg|Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0403_10_131862783242__Henry_and_Magnus_have_a_heated_discussion_about_the_UN inspection..jpg|Henry Foss and Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0403_05_131862782186__Magnus,_Henry_and_Bigfoot_face_the_UN_inspection..jpg|Henry Foss, Helen Magnus, and Bigfoot
File:s04_e0403_08_131862782777__Bigfoot_with_the_UN_inspector..jpg|Bigfoot and Greg Addison
File:4x03_Untouchable_Henry_2.jpg|Will Zimmerman, Greg Addison, Helen Magnus, Henry Foss, and Bigfoot
File:s04_e0403_07_131862782564__Magnus_and_Will_discuss_the_future_of_the_Sanctuary..jpg|Will Zimmerman and Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0403_04_131862781965__Magnus_and_Will_confront_a_surprise_UN_inspection..jpg|Will Zimmerman and Helen Magnus
File:s04_e0403_09_131862783000__Will_and_Magnus_in_the_Sanctuary..jpg|Will Zimmerman and Helen Magnus
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_1.jpg|Wahid
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_2.jpg|Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, Henry Foss, Wahid (reflection), and Bigfoot
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_3.jpg|Bigfoot, Henry Foss, Wahid, Will Zimmerman, and Helen Magnus
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_4.jpg|Bigfoot
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_5.jpg|Greg Addison
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_6.jpg|Greg Addison, Will Zimmerman, and Helen Magnus
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_Agent_Cassidy_Turner.jpg|Henry Foss, inspection team member, and Cassidy Turner
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_Greg_Addison.jpg|Greg Addison
File:4x03_Sanctuary_IMDb_Wahid.jpg|Helen Magnus (right shoulder) and Wahid
== References ==
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* Watch "" on Vudu
* sanctuaryspoilers: ""
* "" on Wikipedia
Category:Season_4/Episodes