Webisode 5

"" is the fifth episode released online of the original Sanctuary web series.
: The last four webisodes (, , , and ) were rewritten for the TV series episode "".
== Synopsis ==
While investigating an ancient crypt on a remote island, Helen Magnus and her team encounter deadly creatures and three women with a mysterious past. Ashley Magnus decides to address the issues of her father's existence head-on.
== Plot ==
At the Magnus residence in London during the in early-mid 1860s, a young Helen Magnus is sitting on the floor next to the wall just outside of her father's study. She's listening in to her father Gregory Magnus with two other Victorian era doctors warning him that the medical board is running out of patience with him and his work. Gregory defends his work, saying that the board has a closed-minded imagination, that with his work, they are on the verge of unlocking scientific secrets. The two other doctors remain ignorant though, saying that they can't accept his hysterical and outlandish case studies as fact. The two men then decide to take their leave, dismayed that Gregory may tragically lose his license if he continues down his current path, as they see how talented he is. One of the men addresses Helen as they walk out of the house.
As they leave, Helen stands up and walks forward to her father who's now standing just outside of his study's doorway. Gregory apologizes for her having to hear their conversation, to which Helen wonders why they (other doctors from the board) are always so angry at him. Helen presses to know what her father has done as she understands the seriousness of those men meaning to end her father's career. Gregory continues to try to placate his daughter, telling her to put it out of her mind. With Helen still pleadingly insistent, he turns away and walks back into his study, apologetically saying "I can't" just before closing the doors to his study.
Cut to present day Oilean of Arracht, an island in the North Sea located one hundred miles off the coast of Scotland. Magnus, Ashley, and Will are found hiding in the island's graveyard; their objective being a crypt potentially containing an elixir that is capable of prolonging life for centuries. A talkative clueless Will questions Magnus about this location being the right place and as to why they are currently hiding as it's just a crypt, not the Pentagon. Magnus hands him her telescopic lens to see keepers of the dead guarding their target. Magnus and Ashley communicate with hand signals; Ashley wanting to go straight in and Magnus wanting her to go around. The group then moves forward into position. Before Will can distract the keepers away, the keepers attack. During the fight that's mostly filled with Magnus and Ashley shooting keepers, Ashley hesitates when one of the keepers grabs her from behind and puts it's hand over her mouth, reminiscent of how John Druitt did the same thing to her when he abducted her.
As the three of them regroup to a position they can hold out from in front of the crypt's entrance (Ashley and Magnus not liking information about a hostile encounter being left out of Ernest's intel about the place), Magnus tells Will to go to the crypt. Once in, he walks down the stone steps towards three stone coffins (each separated from the other by a 120 degree angle) around a central circular design. Will walks forward and stands on the inner design, causing green liquid to drain from the coffins. When the liquid reaches the center of the design, the tombs simultaneously open to reveal three alive, but asleep, women inside. As the barrage of keepers becomes manageable for one person to hold off, Magnus leaves Ashley to check in on Will, finding him couched down beside one of the coffins, looking in on one of the three women.
After the opening title sequence plays, the group are now seen back at the Old City Sanctuary. Will is on his cellphone trying but failing to get in touch with the same man whom Will has missed his call five times so far due to his recent trip to Scotland. Will ends the call just as the descending elevator he's on comes to a stop at the lab level, opening its gated door to an awaiting Ashley. As they exchange places, Will offers his psychiatrist services to Ashley, letting her know it's okay if she wants to verbally open up about everything she's going through with knowing about her father. To this, she annoyedly declines his offer and then proceeds to flip the switch on the elevator to close the gate and ascend.
Will makes his way over to Magnus who's in the medical science research lab running tests on the three comatose women, each now lying on a gurney attached to an IV drip of a blue liquid. Magnus informs Will of what she knows about their physical condition so far and her efforts to wake them with a timed-release stimulant. Magnus then moves over to the dead keeper lying on a movable table. She removes the external skull helmet from the keeper, fascinated by the fluid she finds underneath. She offers Will the opportunity to help her gather fluid samples, but it disgusts him, forcing him to decline in order to more preferably go back up to his office to prepare for when the women wake up.
At an unknown location in Old City, Ashley walks out from behind the corner of a building to walk down an alleyway on the lookout for any activity. She looks up to see a threatening abnormal clinging to the side of a brick building, raising her arm to shoot at it with a type of electronic gun. The prototype weapon fails to fire and the abnormal jumps down on top of her, knocking her to the ground. The abnormal turns out to be Steve (a Sanctuary resident), the whole encounter being a test for the sonic weapon (an LRAD) in Ashley's hand. Ashley calls for Henry, who walks out and over from the original location of where Ashley had come from. Henry adjusts the weapon and is successfully able to fire it, breaking off pieces of brick from a building. With this being the weapons damage output on its minimum setting, it makes Steve uncomfortable at being the weapon's intended test target. Ashley and Henry discuss the current state of readiness of her usual weapon arsenal, to which Ashley isn't satisfied and gives him a Friday deadline for when they need to be ready. As Ashley walks off, Henry figures out that Ashley plans to go on an unsanctioned abnormal killing hunt behind her mother's back.
Back at the Old City Sanctuary, the three women have been moved to the infirmary. One of the women stirs like she's having a bad dream and then bolts upright, screaming wide awake.
Will's in his office on an upper level floor currently on a phone call with his boss from his previous job, making sure that his resignation papers were processed. During the call, an abnormal hidden behind Will's bookshelf knocks off some of his stuff. Will's former boss hangs up on him before Will can ask for his recommendation. Bigfoot quietly comes into the room to tell Will that he's needed in the infirmary; Will grabs his white doctor's coat on his way out of his office.
Will greets the newly awake women in the infirmary; Magnus down in the medical science research lab performing an autopsy on the keeper turns around to briefly watch Will on the monitor behind her before turning back to her work examining the keeper's hand. The woman suddenly leans forward to grab a hold of Will, pulling him close to her. After she releases him, she introduces herself as Danu and the two begin to talk. Danu's confused about her strange new surroundings and is scared about not being able to remember anything. Eventually she reveals to Will that the last thing she can remember is mourning the loss of her priest to the miasmas, a sickness affecting many villages around her.
Up in Ashley's bedroom on the residential floor, she's packing her motorcycle saddle bags with weaponry and other items. Magnus having just been notified by Henry via phone call of Ashley's intended plan(s), walks into her daughter's room to dissuade her from doing something that's incredibly dangerous. As Ashley fights back with her mother, Magnus realizes that she's doing this hunt as a confidence builder to overcome the fear she now has as a result from Druitt previously holding her prisoner against her will. Magnus doesn't believe that going on a hunt for contraband list abnormals is the appropriate action to take; instead believing it to be a suicide quest. Ashley on the other hand sees herself worthless if she can't overcome this new fear of hers. Ashley walks out of her room with gear in hand as Magnus strongly urges "Please don't do this." Ashley is then seen leaving the Sanctuary property like a bat-out-of-hell on her motorcycle while riding through rain.
Magnus is now back down in the medical science research lab, recording her verbal notes as she continues to perform her autopsy on the keeper; she's now moved on to dissecting it's abdomen. Will walks in to discuss with Magnus the information he gained from Danu. From Will's research into the history of the area of where Danu is from, he finds that the last time the miasmas had a significant outbreak occur in Scotland was back in 800 A.D. Will's denies a person being able to survive that long, instead believing Danu to be a normal, yet delusional, woman. Even if he accepts the 1200 year old “magic bath products” theory of the green elixir keeping them alive, Will still disagrees with the possibility of it based on the fact that she wouldn't be able to speak and understand the same vernacular of English as they do. Magnus however wants to focus on the bigger question of why these women were being anxiously protected by the keepers; why the keepers want to keep them hidden.
In the infirmary, all three women are now awake. The two women (Tatha and Caird) still in their beds reach over the sides of their beds to join hands. The woman in the left bed (Tatha) then reaches to join her hand with Danu who's standing on her right. Once all three of the women are physically linked together, objects on a nearby medical cart behind Danu start to rattle and shake.
== Cast ==
Series regular 	Character
Amanda Tapping 	Doctor Helen Magnus
Robin Dunne 	Doctor Will Zimmerman
Emilie Ullerup 	Ashley Magnus
Featuring 	Character
Miranda Frigon 	Danu
Leah Cairns 	Tatha
Laura Mennell 	Caird
Christopher Heyerdahl	John Druitt / Bigfoot
Ryan Robbins 	Henry Foss
Jim Byrnes 	Gregory Magnus
Emily Tennant 	Young Helen
Christopher Gaze 	Victorian Doctor 1
Simon Webb 	Victorian Doctor 2
Ian Browne 	Voice of Steve
== Quotes ==
[Will grows inpatient as Magnus, Ashley, and Will prepare to approach a crypt on a Scottish island.]WILL: I said, are you sure this is it?MAGNUS: Keep your voice down! We're trying to remain undetected. That does require a modicum of silence.[Magnus and Will are down on the ground with Magnus looking through a small telescope at something in the distance.]WILL: Modicum. Right. [short pause] Why are we hiding? We're on an island in the middle of nowhere. And it's a crypt, not the Pentagon.MAGNUS: A crypt potentially containing an elixir capable of prolonging life for centuries. Such secrets are rarely left unguarded.WILL: -Yeah, but why can't we just --MAGNUS: -Look. [Hands Will the spyglass.][Will sighs and looks at a nearby cave, spotting some cloaked and hooded creatures.]MAGNUS: Keepers of the dead. Best be avoided if at all possible.
[Will witnesses Magnus and Ashley communicate via hand signals.]WILL: Okay. I got "I'm going in" and "go around", but what was that wiggly one that you did?MAGNUS: "I'm cutting off your allowance." Let's go.
[Will enters the crypt and accidentally activates the coffins, causing a liquid to drain and the lids to open. He looks inside and finds a living woman in each. Magnus enters shortly after.]WILL: This might be my first crypt, but aren't they supposed to hold dead people?
[Ashley, Henry, and Steve are in an alleyway testing the LRAD. It fails, and Henry arrives to fix it. He then fires it at a building and knocks some of the wall down as rubble.]HENRY: There you go. A calibration issue. These Long-Range Acoustic Devices get a bit wonky when you jostle them, so....ASHLEY: Henry, I do a lot of jostling when I work.HENRY: So choose a different a different weapon. I got a case of new tech nines in the truck. They've still got that new gun smell and everything.STEVE: [Pointing at the damage to the building] That was minimum?ASHLEY: I want my usual gear ready for Friday, including the LRADs. Calibrated to handle jostling.HENRY: Okay, well, the regular stuff is no problem, but the sonics, you're dreaming. Besides, these are only good if you're going after -- No, no, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're not thinking of trying to kill what I think you're thinking of trying to kill.ASHLEY: Just make it happen, Henry.HENRY: Ash, that is a completely unsanctioned --ASHLEY: Friday.HENRY: I'm going to tell your mother!
[Ashley's in her bedroom packing for a trip with lots of weapons as her mother Helen walks in.]MAGNUS: I understand you have quite the weekend planned.ASHLEY: Thank you, Henry.MAGNUS: He called out of concern for your well-being, something you seem determined to sacrifice.ASHLEY: You mean I'm going to get myself killed. God, why can't you talk like a normal person?MAGNUS: Ashley, I realize there are things that need to be discussed between us --ASHLEY: Sure, Mom. Let's bake treats and bond and do each other's hair -- Right after I go kill a bunch of ghouls for sport.MAGNUS: Those creatures are on the contraband list for a reason. There are specific rules governing their capture.ASHLEY: Well, a lot of things changed since good old dad showed up.MAGNUS: That changes nothing. -I had no reason --ASHLEY: -When he had me prisoner.... Mom, I froze on that island. Okay? I hesitated. Do you realize how major a problem that is? For both of us.MAGNUS: And you think that by going off on some insane hunt you'll suddenly overcome your fears? -Ashley --ASHLEY: -Mom, if I can't do that... ...I'm not worth a damn to anybody, am I?MAGNUS: Please don't do this.
[Magnus is performing an autopsy on a dead keeper. Will enters to update her on what he's learned from his session with Danu.]MAGNUS: -How are our guests doing?WILL: Confused. at least the one who's awake is. She mentioned a disease that was killing people in her village, called the "miasmas", which translates from the Greek meaning "poisoned air".MAGNUS: -Plague, actually.WILL: -The Bubonic plague, specifically. However, the last reported serious outbreak was in Scotland in 800 A.D.MAGNUS: -Meaning?WILL: -She's crazy.MAGNUS: Is that your professional opinion?WILL: Look, I know there's a lot of things that are outside the realm of our knowledge, blah blah blah. But logically, if she were from 800 A.D., she wouldn't speak English the way that we do. I'm guessing that linguistics and grammar have evolved somewhat since then.MAGNUS: -Some would say "de-evolved".
== Notes ==
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