Old City

: This article page is about Old City. For category page, see :Category:Old City.
 Old City is where Dr. Helen Magnus's main Sanctuary is located. It is half of a huge metropolis with its own large police force. 
Below is the history of episodes that feature events / activities occurring somewhere within the city outside of the Old City Sanctuary.
== Regions ==
=== Uptown ===
: For article page, see Uptown. For category page, see :Category:Uptown.
=== Eastside ===
	:Ashley Magnus has a rendezvous with Ernie Watts in a parking garage located on the Eastside of Old City for a weapons sale.
	:Mere minutes after Henry Foss leaves Helen Magnus's side on a lower level, Henry catches Ashley Magnus on an upper level at the elevator right before she leaves the Sanctuary. While not seen, as Ashley departs the property, she is followed by John Druitt to where she meets Sylvio Rudd at a warehouse on the Eastside of Old City. Druitt is seen to subsequently crash this meeting as a ploy to get into the Old City Sanctuary. Ashley and Sylvio 'subdue and capture' Druitt, after which Ashley (unseen) calls Henry to bring the retrieval van to pick the three of them up; dropping Sylvio off at Doctor Lim's office somewhere in the city along their way before viewers see the van returning to the Sanctuary.
=== Circle Square ===
	:Teleporting into an alleyway somewhere in Old City, John Druitt encounters a local Hooker and asks her about the location of the Old City Sanctuary. She tells him, "There’s a big old place down by the water, Grayson Street, I think." Shortly thereafter, he stabs her to death.
	:Down in a lower level of the Old City Sanctuary, while Helen Magnus is up on the observation deck viewing Will Zimmerman interacting with Alexei in the observation cell below, she is informed by Henry Foss of a working girl who was found murdered (via typical old-school stabbing) behind a warehouse down near Circle Square about four hours ago. She requests to be sent the CCTV footage from that part of town.
=== River District ===
	:Det. Joe Kavanaugh turns to Will Zimmerman to see if he has any helpful insight into the Glen Meyers suicide case that occurred two nights ago in the River District. During the Sanctuary's investigation, Will and Helen Magnus made a trip to briefly visit the residence to survey the room of Glen's death.
=== Warehouse District ===
: For article page, see Warehouse District. For category page, see :Category:Warehouse District.
=== Fifth Ward ===
: For article page, see Fifth Ward. For category page, see :Category:Fifth Ward.
=== Seventh Ward ===
	:A nest of hibernating durango bats was intentionally placed in a warehouse located in the Seventh Ward by Will Zimmerman to sabotage Abby Corrigan and her new FBI partner Agent Gavin Crealy in their attempt to track down a loose stenopelhabilis.
== Other ==
=== Web Series ===
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	:There is a subway station platform at the intersection of 41st Avenue and 76th Street. John Druitt stabs a Transit Worker on the southbound platform.
	:There is a former subway station platform located at the rail line's intersection with 98th Street. Helen Magnus explains to Will Zimmerman that the station used to be in-service before New City was built.
	:John Druitt keeps a kidnapped Ashley Magnus along with Alexei in the maintenance area of the closed 98th Street subway station as he waits for Helen Magnus to arrive.
=== Season 1 ===
 Season 1
	:Will's apartment is to be added.
	:A locator device used by the Cabal Team Leader places Old City somewhere near the far western end of the border between Northwestern US (Washington) and Southwestern Canada (British Columbia).
	:The city has a campanile among its building architecture; It is used as a landmark reference for abnormal case locations. The pawn shop Nomad and Carver rob is near to it.Oliver Braithwaite and other folding men live in the old Bryant Street corridor.The old Neptune Cannery is the location where the Sanctuary team (Helen Magnus, Will Zimmerman, and Ashley Magnus) catch Malcolm Dawkins thanks to a tip from Mr. Jones.A small chemical drug manufacture named Aridan Labs is located just three miles north of Old City.
	:Ashley Magnus drives over to a location somewhere in Old City to meet Squid. Unfortunately, it's a ploy by John Druitt to kidnap her again.
	:After the Sanctuary looks into a string of several unsolved abductions of homeless people, they follow a lead of a stolen vehicle found near the estuary. When the team investigates a former awning factory in the otherwise uninhabited location, they come across Charles L. Denton.
	:A camera sequence at the very end of the episode indicates that Old City is located on the north side of a river near Vancouver, British Columbia. Across the river to the south is "New City", the other half of the metropolis full of modern high-rises and skyscrapers.
=== Season 2 ===
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	:While down in the infirmary at the Old City Sanctuary, due to Kate Freelander's reluctance to give Helen Magnus information about the Cabal, she tells Will Zimmerman to have Henry Foss drive Kate to Mercy General hospital and drop her off at the emergency ward. Kate quickly offers up a Cabal location she once visited, which allows her to stay in the infirmary.
	:At the beginning of the episode, Will Zimmerman and Declan MacRae are on motorcycles chasing after a fleeing empath (who's trying to break free from the mob) somewhere through Old City. They eventually corner the empath in an alleyway, but are ambushed by The Adjuster who "rescues" the empath from the Sanctuary Network.Squid gives the Old City Sanctuary team a tip about the 'missing' Joseph Koster: some guy matching his description was seen acting very weird on the top floor of Saint Canare Place. When Will and Declan visit the condemned building, they find Joe's company employee badge and the half eaten carcass of someone's pet housecat that Joe had previously fed off of.
	:During the Guardian's timeline in the year 2019, Helen Magnus wakes up at the run-down Old City Sanctuary. She leaves the building to forage for supplies in the apocalyptic remnants of Old City. After escaping from being captured by Will Zimmerman, she travels down into the subway and finds Jessica Mitchell on the same platform. She eventually returns to the Sanctuary with the girl. An injured Will joins her at the Sanctuary soon after.
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=== Season 3 ===
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	:As Henry Foss tracks the Captured Abnormal via GPS that was taken by SCIU, he specifically says that SCIU transported the abnormal "across the border" reaffirming that Old City is indeed in Canada.
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	:At the very end of the episode, Bigfoot meets with three Hollow Earth insurgents / sympathizers at the rear entrance of a building called McCullough's Off Broad Street. The passcode to be invited into the building is the insurgent catchphrase: "From below, We rise".
* The location McCullough's Off Broad Street is named after Alan McCullough, the writer of the episode.
** Based on "Off Broad Street", the building is/was assumedly a theatre before being taken over and used as an abnormal hideout; this is very fitting considering McCullough is a script writer.
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=== Hospital ===
: For article page, see Hospital.
=== Dead Bridge ===
: For article page, see Dead Bridge.
=== Harbor ===
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=== Dock ===
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=== Alfredo's ===
: For article page, see Alfredo's
=== Refugee camp ===
: For article page, see Refugee camp.
== Old City Police Department ==
: For article page, see Old City Police Department.
== Channel 13 News ==
: For article page, see Channel 13 News.
== Notes ==
* The creators and producers of the show intentionally left the specific location (country) of Old City to be ambiguous outside of the assumption that it is somewhat of a "subdivision" of Vancouver. Due to this, it is naturally assumed by viewers to be in Canada.
* The city is not featured at all in: , , , , and .
** While the city itself is not visibly seen in , , and , it can be considered represented via the presence of the Old City Sanctuary being shown in some capacity including as displayed on video conference screens.
* When looking at aerial views of the Old City Sanctuary, Grayson Street is a two sided road that runs parallel both east and west along the northside of the Sanctuary property; The front gates provide access to and from the street.
=== International cooperation ===
The United Nations and the U.N. Security Council are heavy players in the metropolis (especially Old City and the Fifth Ward specifically) during the abnormal insurgency. As the Sanctuary Network was in alliance with the United Nations (funded and fully backed by the British Government) between 1908 and early 2011, Helen Magnus had particular sway with the world's governments to let her control all of the abnormal events / cases that happened around the globe, especially in 'her own backyard'. In early 2011, Magnus and Will Zimmerman could at least try to direct the actions of Lotus Defense Corps (a private military force used by the U.N.), having them place their abnormal holding camp on a large vacant lot that Magnus owned. However, three weeks later the agreement between the Sanctuary and the U.N. broke when liaison Greg Addison tried to force the Sanctuary Network under the explicit control of the U.N. Security Council. Due to this 'exile', it allowed for other agencies to get involved in 'Sanctuary affairs' around the city; the dealings with abnormals and abnormal threats.
While Canada is part of the U.N., it is only a temporary seat of the U.N. Security Council unlike the United States who is a permanent seat.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council Due to the U.N. connection and the U.S. being a defining force behind it, it allows two U.S. agencies - the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Specified Counter-Insurgency Unit (a new abnormal hunting division under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) - to infiltrate the metropolis, granting them jurisdictional power to act on Canadian grounds. The agencies set up a joint task force operations base in the FBI's field office in a high-rise building in New City which is located almost directly across the river from the Old City Sanctuary; giving them line-of-sight of the property.
Of this joint task force, Abby Corrigan (FBI) and Will Zimmerman (former FBI) were brought under the management of SCIU. Due to Will's connection with the Sanctuary, Greg Addison had reactivated him as an FBI agent in the hopes to get close to Helen Magnus due to her apparent affiliation with Caleb. Magnus, however, sent Will away to work with SCIU (the only legal option) and locked him out of the Sanctuary; preventing him from returning. Will had to resort to using his SCIU credentials to blackmail Captain Franklin (a former colleague of his) of the Old City Police Department with high connections to the city's Mayor's office to set up a false meeting to lure Magnus out in the open to arrest her. As Magnus fled the scene of the ambush, Will made Franklin call for police backup. This interaction shows that SCIU has power over local (Canadian) law enforcement, to force them into acting against their long-standing relationship with Helen Magnus. They unfortunately have to comply as the U.N. Security Council had 'blacklisted' the Sanctuary Network, practically barring anyone from working with and or aiding the network and its leader Helen Magnus; considering it a 'federal offense' if someone does so.
== References ==
Category:Old City