Second Season
2.1 "Doorway to Hell"
Object: A mirror
Original Airdate: 9-26-88
Writer: Jim Henshaw
Director: William Fruet
Guest Cast:
Charlie Landry........... Buddy
Elias Zarou.............. Rashid
Justin Lok............... Eddie
Synopsis
The mirror wasn't an actual antique for sale, but it did
belong to Lewis.
He tries to come back to the living world
through it and other mirrors
belonging to him. Micki and
Ryan get trapped in Lewis' old house, with a
couple of
convicts (Nothing big, just robbery), and Jack, with the help
of
his close friend Rashid, get them out.
Status
Jack closes the Doorway to Hell, Micki and Ryan
make it out of the house,
the convicts get killed, and the
mirror is smashed.
2.2 "The Voodoo Mambo"
Object: Voodoo mask
Original Airdate: 10-3-88
Writer: Agy Polly
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest Cast:
Joe Seneca............... Hedley
Rachel Crawford.......... Stacy
Suzanne Coy.............. Laotia
David Matheson........... Cole
Synopsis
There is a festival going on to celebrat the summer
soltace (I think) and
Jack's friend's granddaughter, Stacey,
is to become a voodoo priestess that
night. But the four
priests who she is to visit to have the
requirements
fulfilled, are being killed off by a young man using a
cursed
voodoo mask. Laotia, one of the most powerful
priestesses,
convinced him to use the snake mask she created many years
ago
to scare her slaves into working. She tells the young
man that if he kills
all of the priests (which includes
Stacy's grandfather, the Keeper of
Fire), he will have all
the powers of the universe at his disposal, when
she is
really the one who will have the power. As a twist, it turns
out
that Laotia was Stacy's grandmother, killed by her
grandfather to save
lives.
Status
The mask was returned.
2.3 "And Now The News"
Object: Radio
Original Airdate: 10-10-88
Writer: Dick Benner
Director: Bruce Pittman
Guest Cast:
Kurt Ries................ Dr. Kevin Finch
Kate Trotter............. Dr. Avril Carter
Stephen Black............ John Gibson
Synopsis
A young doctor who works in a mental hospital is trying
to cure her
patients and receive fame, her only goal. She
does this by using an
antique radio, on that broadcasts
special messages. When leaving this
radio in the room of a
patient, always one of her colleagues, patients'
room, it
broadcasts a terrible fate, killing people by their
greatest
phobia. For example, a woman is deathly afraid of snakes.
When
the radio was left in her room, it broadcast the fact
that thousands of
snakes were loose inside the hospital, when
in reality, the snakes were
just a figment of the woman's
imagination. She essentially died of fright.
The radio then
tells of how the doctor was able to cure won of her
own
criminally insane patients. Did that make any sense?
Status
Ryan was captured while trying to break into the
heavily secured hospital,
and was nearly killed. Micki was
attacked by a rapist\murderer, and the
doctors newest case,
although Micki was okay. The radio was returned, and
the
doctor was killed.
2.4 "Tails I Live, Heads You Die"
Object: Coin
Original Airdate: 10-17-88
Writers: Marylin Anderson
and Billy Riback
Director: Mark Sobel
Guest Cast:
Colin Fox................ Sylvan
Bill MacDonald........... Hewitt
Allen Stewart-Coates..... Nast
Jonathan Hartman......... Tiriel
Synopsis
This was a very emotional episode. A religious cult has
a ram's head coin
that has the power to give and take life.
When flipped, it lands in front
of its victim, heads up. It
then shoots up, branding a ram's head into its
victims
forehead, instantly killing you. Then, by placing the coin
on the
forehead of the dead, they will rise again. The soul,
the personality of
the person you killed would be transferred
into the person you revive. The
reason I find it so
emotional is that Micki and Jack are spying on the cult
and
are caught. They split up and run. The leader flips the
coin, and
yes, Micki *is* dead, for a good twenty minutes of
the episode :(. Ryan
blames Jack, and says that as soon as
they recover the coin, he is leaving.
Ryan and Jack trick
the cult into believing that Micki is the chosen one
they are
to revive by covering her in clay and putting her in the
ancient
corpses place. Micki comes back as herself, and Ryan
gets the coin, but
the temple begins to crumble and on the
way out, the coin is dropped.
Status
All of the cult members are killed, and the coin
is buried under tons of
rumble assumingly safe....
2.5 "Symphony in B#"
Object: Violin
Original Airdate: 10-31-88
Writer: Peter Mohan
Director: Francis Delia
Guest Cast:
Ely Pouget............... Leslie Reins
James Russo.............. Janos Korda
Synopsis
Lewis sold a cursed violin to a world renowned concert
violinist, Janos
Corda. A few months later, Corda died in a
car accident. Every year,
around the anniversary of his
death, a new Corda recording is put out, from
alleged "lost
recordings." Micki drags Ryan to the symphony, where
he
falls for the second chair violinist, Leslie, Corda's widow.
There have
also been murders around the concert hall lately.
Micki and Jack become
convinced that Leslie is the one with
the violin, the one committing the
murders. Micki even goes
so far as to search Leslie's apartment. But
Corda didn't
really die in that car crash. He survived, but not
without
becoming horribly disfigured, his hands twisted so that he
would
never play again. Murdering people with the violin bow
fixes his hands
temporarily, so that he may record a new
song. Leslie finds out, and is
horrified when she learns.
Corda forces her to help him record his newest
masterpiece.
Leslie dies saving Ryan who had fallen under Corda's
spell.
Ryan awakens from his trance and chases Corda through the
rafters of
the symphony hall. Corda, bereaved by Leslie's
death, leaps to his own
death. Think _Phantom of the Opera_
meets the symphony.
Status
The violin is returned, but I believe both
Corda and Leslie were killed.
2.6 "Master of Disguise"
Object: Make-Up Case once belonging to John Wilkes Booth
Original Airdate: 11-7-88
Writer: Bruce Martin
Director: Tom McLaughlin
Guest Cast:
John Bolger.............. William Pratt\Jeff Amory
Chapelle Jaffe........... Tanya Sloane
Synopsis
The shop loans some props to a movie, and Micki falls
for the handsome
lead. It turns out that he has a cursed
make-up case. He must kill
someone, and mix their blood with
the make up. The actor is horribly
disfigured, and the
bloody make-up gives his face a smooth, perfect look.
Micki
goes on a weekend trip with him, and, in his psychotic
state,
mistakes her for a woman who once broke his heart, whom
he
subsequently killed. Not able to find a victim, the actor
turned back
into the disfigured monster that he once was. He
made Micki tell him that
she loved him and kiss him to prove
her love. He breaks down and cries.
Jack and Ryan break in
as Micki is holding and comforting him.
Status
Make-up case recovered, though Micki suffered a
broken heart.
2.7 "Wax Magic"
Object: Handkerchief
Original Airdate: 11-14-88
Writer: Carl Binder
Director: William Fruet
Guest Cast:
Susannah Hoffmann........ Marie Chase
Angelo Rizacos........... Aldwin Chase
Synopsis
This episode was a bit confusing. In it, a wax sculptor
tours with a
carnival, displaying his scenes of real-life
horror, such as Ted Bundy,
Jack the Ripper, and Lizzie
Borden. His beautiful young wife (with whom
Ryan has fallen
for -- you know right off that she's doomed), suffers
from
severe migraines, that occasionally cause her to pass out.
However,
the headaches stop when someone is murdered. A
Louie the XIV handkerchief,
when placed on a wax sculpture,
causes the statue to come alive and kill in
order to save the
young woman. It turns out that the sculptor had a thing
for
Marie, the woman whom he made his bride, but the feeling
wern't mutual.
So he killed her and dipped her in wax to
preserve her. He uses the
hankerchief to keep her alive.
Status
The handkerchief is recovered. Marie realizes
what she has become, and
kills herself my stepping into a
fire and melting, realizing that her life
was not important
enough to cause so much death.
2.8 "Read My Lips"
Object: Silk flower (on a ventriloquist's dummy's lapel)
Original Airdate: 11-21-88
Writers: Angelo Stea and
Peter Lauterman
Director: Frances Delia
Guest Cast:
Billy Drago.............. Edgar Van Horn
John Byner............... Travis Pluckett
Linda Griffith........... Gabrielle
Synopsis
Micki's friend is marrying a ventriloquist. She has
asked Micki to be her
bridesmaid. Micki goes to a show and
notices her fiancee is very odd and
argues with the dummy off
stage. Worried, they begin checking the guy out
and find out
that murders occur in the cities he has played in. At
the
wedding, the groom freaks out and is taken to a mental
hospital.
Meanwhile another ventriloquist has gotten a hold
of the dummy. Ryan
convinces the ex-manager of the first
ventriloquist to get the dummy back.
When Ryan goes to meet
the manager later to pick it up, he find a trail of
blood to
the refrigerator. Opening the refrigerator, he finds the
managers
head and runs out of the apartment. Micki and Ryan
figure Micki's friend
is in danger so the go to her house
where they find the dummy and the new
ventriloquist. Enough
murders have been completed for the dummy to become
alive and
he kills the ventriloquist and goes after Micki's friend.
Status
Micki and Ryan save the friend. Ryan
struggles with the dummy, pulls the
silk flower out of its
pocket and it turn back into a dummy. The flower is
returned
to the vault, and the dummy is no longer harmful.
2.9 "13 o'clock"
Object: A pocket watch
Original Airdate: 1-2-89
Writer: Rob Hedden
Director: Rob Hedden
Guest Cast:
Gwynth Walsh............. Reatha Wilkerson
The owner of this watch
must murder someone within a one
mile radius from a subway station. If
this is done, the
owner gets a free hour of time, 13 o'clock. Time
freezes,
and the owner has one hour to do whatever he\she pleases,
without
worrying about the repercussions. Ryan is holding
onto the woman who has
the watch when time stops, and he sees
what happens. But, if a murder is
not committed before 1 AM,
the world continues as normal and the owner of
the watch is
frozen forever in time.
Status
Recovered and locked away.
2.10 "Night Hunger"
Object: Silver Chain
Original Airdate: 1-9-89
Writer: Jim Henshaw
Director: Martin Lavut
Guest Cast:
Richard Panebianco....... Michael Fiorno
Nick Nicholas............ Dominic Fiorno
Real Andrews............. Deacon
Synopsis
A silver chain, gives owner wish fulfillment (in this
case, it helps a kid,
Mikey, win drag races), and those he
kills to fuel it are the kids who
picked on him when he was
young. Mikey, and his dad, Dominic, own the
hardware store
next to Curious Goods. Our heroes are holding a sale,
when
Mikey's father, Dominic, stops by looking for a present. He
mentions
that Mikey used to frequent the store when Lewis
owned it. Our heroes
believe that he might have a cursed
item, so they start checking. Nothing
is found in the
manifest. Mikey's goal is to best one kid in
particular,
Deacon, who was the one Mikey's father always compared him
to
while verbally abusing him. Deacon makes Mikey race others
first, and
Mikey kills them one by one to fuel the item so he
can win the next race.
Micki and Ryan find out about the
chain, and when they chase him in a car
to get it, Mikey
crashes, and the chain crawls inside him through a
chest
wound and wraps around his heart. This gives Mikey enormous
power.
Dominic realizes his mistake (abusing his son) and
finds out about the
chain.
Status
In an act of repentance, Dominic crashes head
on with his son as he finally
races Deacon. The chain is
finally recovered.
2.11 "The Sweetest Sting"
Object: Bee hive
Original Airdate: 1-16-89
Writer: Rick Butler
Director: David Winning
Guest Cast:
Art Hindle............... McCabe
Tim Webber............... Bob Tucker
Victor Sutton............ Ben Landis
Gerry Pearson............ Purdy
J. Winston Carroll....... Normann Hendricks
David Palffy............. Fred Marr
Elva Mae Hoover.......... Joanne Hendricks
Isle Von Glatz........... Dianne
Synopsis
The Egyptians believed that honey could help preserve
ones youth. This
concept is brought back thru this episode,
in which a bee farmer has a bee
hive that turns the bees that
live in it "vampire bees." They will kill
someone by sucking
their blood out of the victim. In return, the farmer
can
change a person into a new one. Well, actually, that person
inhabits
the body of the recently deceased victim. The
farmer charges large amounts
of money for his services. When
investigating the farm, Micki gets caught
in a swarm of bees,
meaning, what though, was certain death.
Status
The hive was recovered, and Ryan used fire
extinguisher in his trunk to
save Micki.
2.12 "The Playhouse"
Object: Playhouse
Original Airdate: 1-23-89
Writer: Tom McLaughlin
Director: Tom McLaughlin
Guest Cast:
Robert Oliveri........... Mike Carlson
Lisa Jakub............... Janine Carlson
Belinda Metz............. Sylvia Carlson
Wayne Best............... Brad Farrell
Synopsis
Two terribly abused and neglected children receive a
playhouse from the
father that abandoned them. The playhouse
"takes care of the children" by
providing food, playmates and
"love." The catch? The siblings must lure
in a small child
for the house to "feed on," although the are not
killed.
Status
The playhouse is recovered, the siblings are
taken to foster homes, and the
abducted children are returned
safely.
2.13 "Eye of Death"
Object: A civil war era projector
Original Airdate: 1-30-89
Writers: Peter Jobin,
Timothy Bond, and Roy Sallows
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest Cast:
Tom McCamus............. Atticus Rock
Brooke Johnson.......... Abigail
Bernard Behrens......... General Lee
Synopsis
The projector allows one to travel back in time.
Naturally, a life must be
taken first. The projector only
burns for 3 hours, so you must come back
to the present
before then, otherwise you are stuck in the past.
Atticus
Rock, the man who has the projector, travels back to
Sharpsburg,
Maryland in 1862 to collect priceless Civil War
"antiques", with the intent
of getting General Robert E.
Lee's sword. Ryan follows him and is trapped
in time when
Atticus tricks him and knocks him out. Micki follows
Atticus
the next time he goes back, and rescues Ryan, who confessed
to
being a spy so he could get close to Lee.
Status
Micki and Ryan return to the present ahead of
Atticus, and blow out the
projector's lamp just as Atticus is
halfway through the portal, killing
him.
2.14 "Face of Evil"
Object: The afore mentioned compact
Original Airdate: 2-6-89
Writer: Jim Henshaw
Director: William Fruet
Guest Cast:
Gwendoyln Pacey.......... Joanne Mackie
Laura Robinson........... Tabitha Robbins
Monica Schnarre.......... Sandy Thomerson
Sandrine Hoo............. Kamichi
Barry Greene............. Emery Donohue
Synopsis
An aging model gets a hold of the compact. She uses it
to kill people, and
in return, she receives a little bit more
of her beauty. By flashing it
the victims eyes, and then
looking into the mirror, she can see the persons
murder, or,
rather, the disfiguration of their face. But the longer
she
goes without a murder, the older she looks.
Status
The compact is returned, the model dies of
accelerated aging, and we find
out that the compact feeds on
the owners vanity.
2.15 "Better Off Dead"
Object: Silver syringe
Original Airdate: 2-13-89
Writer: Bruce Martin
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Guest Cast:
Neil Munro............... Warren Voss
Tara Meyer............... Amanda
Camilla Scott............ Linda
Synopsis
This is one of the most violent episodes. One station
even ran a "Viewer
Discretion" thing before this episode, and
no other. In it, a scientist is
studying a rare childhood
disease called hyperviolence. He accidently left
an infected
needle lying within the reach of his young daughter, and
she
contracted the disease. He is now working fervently to find
a cure, if
only because of his own guilt. He seems to have
found the tiny gland in
the human brain that controls our
animal impulses, makes us human,
different from the animals.
He is using a silver syringe that once belonged
to Jack the
Ripper to extract fluid from this gland from prostitutes,
and
injecting it into his daughter, finding a temporary cure. By
a twisted
luck of bad fate, Micki's college friend is
visiting, and she is taken to
be the next "donor" (No, she's
not a prostitute). Micki's search for her
friend leads her
to the scientist's lab, and in a dangerous position.
Status
Micki's friend is dead, but Ryan and Jack save
Micki before she dies, but
not before a "specimen" is taken
from her, reverting her to a temporary
animal state (she was
okay by the next episode). The little girl dissolves
back
into a hyperviolent state, and kills her father. The girl is
sent to
a mental hospital, and the syringe is returned to the
vault.
2.16 "Scarlet Cinema"
Object: Movie camera
Original Airdate: 2-20-89
Writer: Rob Hedden
Director: David Winning
Guest Cast:
Jonathan Wise............ Darius Pogue
John Graham.............. Blair Westlake
Peter Messaline.......... Professor Schwartz
Julie A. Stewart......... Carissa
John Swindells........... Taylor McDougall
Synopsis
An outcast college student's greatest wish is to be come
a werewolf. He
gets a hold of an old movie camara. When he
films a person through it,
that person is killed, by a
werewolf. After three deaths, the owner gets
his wish. But
Micki, Ryan, and Jack are too close and he goes to the
store
to kill them. After practically ruining the store, he is
shot by
silver bullets.
Status
Object recovered.
2.17 "The Memphisto Ring"
Object: Ring
Original Airdate: 4-10-89
Writer: Peter Largo
Director: Bruce Pittman
Guest Cast:
Denis Forest............. Donald Wren
Doris Petrie............. Mrs. Wren
James Purcell............ Macklin
Synopsis
This was the first object listed in the Manifest, from
the 1919 World
Series. A compulsive gambler found this ring
in his mother's jewelry box.
It had once belonged to his
father, also a gambler, who was in over his
head, and was
eventually murdered. By placing it on someone's finger,
the
ring would throw you around the room until you were dead.
The owner
would then look into the stone on the ring, and see
the winner of a race or
sporting event. The owner's bookie
didn't trust him, so he got the crap
beat out of him. Twist
ending to this one.
Status
Okay, I'm gonna tell you the twist. Turns out
that mother dearest killed
her husband in '82, and then
killed her son in the present, because she
couldn't get them
to stop gambling. The ring was recovered, and Micki and
Ryan
didn't call the police on the old lady because she really
wasn't a
threat to anyone.
2.18 "A Friend to the End"
Object: The Shard of Medusa and a child's coffin
Original Airdate: 4-17-89
Writers: David Morse, Scott
J. Schneid, and Tony
Michelman
Director: David Morse
Guest Cast:
Zachary Bennett.......... J.B.
Keram Malicki-Sanchez.... Ricky
Synopsis
This was one of the few, if only, episode featuring two
cursed objects.
The episode begins with Ryan trying to
retrieve the Shard of Medusa from a
sculptress, but he fails.
The sculptress has her model hold the shard as
she draws the
preliminary sketches. After a while, the shard
constricts
the breathing and paralyzes the victim. The sculptress
then
takes the shard and stabs it into her victim, turning her to
stone,
and the newest piece of art. As he and Micki are
about to go and try
again, they find Micki's nephew J.B.
literally on her doorstep. They send
J.B. to the park to
play. Once there, some older boys tell him that he
can join
their group if he goes into an alleged haunted house and
takes a
toy. While there, he hears the voice of Ricky, the
little boy who was
murdered a century ago. The boy is alive,
though, and he and J.B. become
best friends. Meanwhile,
Micki poses for the sculptress, but as soon as
she gets her
hands on the shard, she drops it out the open window to
Ryan,
waiting below. They return to the store, where the
sculptress has a
knife to J.B.'s throat, and demands the
shard back. Ryan gives it to her
and she runs. Later, as
Micki is going through some of Lewis' old letters,
she
discovers a couple who desperately wanted a child. The were
Satanists,
and bought a small childs coffin from Lewis. When
a corpse is placed in
it, the deceased returns to the realm
of the living. However, the newly
living child must kill an
adult, otherwise, he will die. That child was
Ricky.
Status
Micki arrives at the old hose, to find J.B. in
basement, under collapsed
debris. She runs down to help him,
but Ricky hits her and she falls. J.B.
manages to convince
Ricky that Micki was caring, and Ricky turns back into
a
corpse. The coffin is returned, but the sculptress runs to
Europe with
the shard.
2.19 "The Butcher"
Object: Nazi Swastika amulet
Original Airdate: 4-24-89
Writers: Francis Delia and
Ron Magid
Director: Francis Delia
Guest Cast:
Nigel Bennett............ Rausch/Walden
Colin Fox................ Mueller
Julius Harris............ Simpson
John Gilbert............. Shaw
Synopsis
Micki and Ryan are on vacation. Jack had been having
nightmares from World
War II, in which he had been captured,
thrown into a concentration camp,
and nearly killed by a man
known as "The Butcher," who killed his victims
by strangling
them with barbed wire. But the rest of his battalion
bust
the place and save Jack, killing the butcher. But the
Butcher is
back, killing off members of Jacks regiment, using
a Swastika amulet. The
Butcher tracks Jack down to the
story, and Jack manages to grab the
Swastika. Without it,
the Butcher is powerless.
Status
Jack manages to kill the Butcher, and the
nightmares, and put the amulet in
the vault.
2.20 "The Secret Agenda of Mesmer's Bauble"
Object: A crystal pendant necklace (Mesmer's bauble)
Original Airdate: 5-1-89
Writer: Joe Gannon
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Guest Cast:
Vanity................... Angelica
Martin Neufeld........... Howard Moore
Eve Crawford............. Mrs. Burns
Tony de Santis........... Roger
Synopsis
Mesmer was the first hypnotist. He used the crystal
pendant to hypnotize
his patients. The bauble was stolen
from a jewelry store, but dropped by
the crooks, and picked
up by a homely record-store clerk, who was obsessed
with a
sexy pop singer, Angelica. The bauble granted wishes. You
could
hypnotize someone with it, and that person would do
whatever you ask, but
you must kill them. Once dead, the
bauble would grant you any wish, one
wish per death. The
clerk killed three people, and in the process, gained
good
looks, all-access concert passes, and the love of Angelica.
But it
wasn't enough. The clerk, now working for Angelica as
a publicist, wanted
to *be* Angelica. At his apartment, he
makes a wish to become Angelica,
the two of them melting
together, so the real Angelica turns into a puddle
of goo.
The new Angelica goes to her concert, and sings in her place.
Micki
and Ryan are at the concert, in the mosh pit, when they
see the bauble
around Angelicas neck. The bauble must be
worn at all times. If removed,
everything goes back to the
way it was before you made any wishes.
Status
Micki grabs the bauble as Angelica leans down
to sing to the audience.
After hideously impressive special
effects, "Angelica" turns back into the
ugly store-clerk.
The bauble is returned to the vault, but Micki and Ryan
can't
help but feel guilty for the death of the pop diva.
2.21 "Wedding in Black"
Object: Snowglobe
Original Airdate: 5-8-89
Writers: Angelo Stea and
Peter Lauterman
Director: Rodney Charters
Guest Cast:
Steve Meadows............ Calvin Collier
Guy Bannerman............ Brother Antonio
Carolyn Dunn............. Maya
Synopsis
Micki receives a mysterious package from Argentina. In
it is a snowglobe
with a model of the Magic Castle, a tourist
trap that Micki lived near when
she was young. When she
gives it a shake, an old boyfriend comes into the
store. He
convinces Micki to go with him on a weekend getaway to a
"BandB"
built as an exact replica of the Magic Castle. One
important detail I had
better mention: this ex died a year
ago. He had sold his soul to Satan,
but been killed, and was
now doing a service for Satan to prevent an
eternity of pain.
Micki leaves, but then Jack gives the globe a shake. An
old
friend, a monk who had been working in Africa when he was
killed. He
had also made a pact with Satan. Jack agrees to
go stay with his friend at
the "monastery", which turns out
to be the same place Micki went, though
Jack doesn't know
this yet. After they leave, Ryan shakes the globe, and
he
barely sets it down before an ex-girlfriend who broke his
heart came in.
She was responsible for the murders of
several elderly people with chronic
health problems. She
committed suicide. Meanwhile, Jack can see and hear
Micki,
but she can't see him. Jack finds out that she was brought
here to
bear Lucifer's child. Her ex gets her drunk, for you
must accept evil
before it can overcome you; unfortunately,
accepting one form of is the
same as accepting another.
Ryan's ex betrays Satan, and shows Ryan the way
in to the
globe. He finds Jack, and they devise a plan to drive a
found
car to the edge of the snowglobe, causing it to tip off
the desk and fall,
break, and release them.
Status
Ryan hits the edge just as Micki is trapped and
Lucifer, or his presence is
coming towards her. The
snowglobe falls, and breaks, which I don't
understand,
because cursed objects aren't supposed to break. But our
heros
are safe.
2.22 "Wedding Bell Blues"
Object: Cue-stick
Mentioned but not seen: Cursed
snowshoes. Ryan and
Jack leave to retrieve at the beginning of the
episode.
Recovered.
Original Airdate: 5-15-89
Writer: Nancy Ann Miller
Director: Jorge Montesi
Guest Cast:
Elizabeth MacLellan...... Jennifer
Justin Louis............. Danny
Steven Monarque.......... Johnny
Lolita Davidovitch....... Christy
Synopsis
Johnny was first introduced in this episode. At the
beginning, Ryan and
Jack are being sent off to look for a
pair of cursed snow shoes. Ryan
mentions that he has a guy,
Johnny, out at the local bars and pool halls
looking for a
cursed cue-stick. Johnny calls for Ryan when he notices
a
pool shark running hot and cold with his luck. You must kill
someone
with the stick (most effective is a sharp stab right
through the gut), and
in return, you have a short streak of
good luck. Johnny falls for Micki
upon first laying eyes on
her, but drives her away with rude,
self-righteous remarks
(my favorites: "Just look for the best looking guy
in the
place" and "What, you don't date guys younger than you?") all
of
which Micki handles coolly. He tries to convince her to
let him help her,
and she eventually gives in and tells him
about thecurses.
Status
Turns out the pool players girlfriend, who has
been pressuring him to marry
her for months, has been
powering the cue for him, so that he will have
enough money
(from tournaments) and confidence to marry her. He tries
to
kill her when he finds out, but not before she comes to the
tournament,
in her blood-soaked wedding dress and kills him
with a cake serving knife.
The cue is returned to safety,
and Micki, Ryan, and Jack agree to allow
Johnny to help them
in their plight. One quote that really stuck with me
was,
when asked who had the cue, Micki replied "A woman. A woman
who loved
not wisely, but to well."
2.23 "The Maestro"
Objects: Symphonia (music box)
Original Airdate: 5-22-89
Writer: Karen J. Janigan
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest Cast:
Cyndy Preston............ Grace Colwell
Colm Feor................ Anton Pascola
Synopsis
"I dedicate my body and soul to the dance." That was
the phrase uttered by
several dancers, in hopes to become the
best. Anton Pascola, a famous
dancer, injured himself and
became a choreographer, who wasn't inspired.
He was
desperately trying to choreograph "Shiva," a beautiful dance
about
anguish. By placing a dancers hand on the symphonia, a
music box that
played various metal discs, and having them
repeat the aforementioned
phrase, they would dance to the
music of the symphonia. Their dancing
would become so
frenzied that they would die one way or another in
the
middle, yet giving Anton a sequence or two of choreography.
Grace, the
daughter of one of Jack's close friends, has just
been asked to join
Anton's company. She quickly becomes the
star. Grace repeats the oath,
although she shows no fear.
She knew what she was doing, or at least that
is what you are
led to believe. By opening night, "Shiva" still is
missing
the final scene.
Status
Anton stops the music, brings out the symphonia,
and signs himself over to
the dance. He finishes that dance
with Grace, despite his injury. The two
of them die on
stage, but Anton's greatest dance is complete. The
symphonia
is recovered, but Jack is filled with anguish, and
practically
destroy's the store out of anger and fury.
2.24 "The Shaman's Apprentice"
Object: Indian rattle
Original Airdate: 5-29-89
Writer: Michael Michaelian
Director: William Fruet
Guest Cast:
Paul Miceli-Sanchez...... White Cloud
Gordon Tootoosis......... Spotted Owl
Isabelle Mejias.......... Blair
James B. Douglas......... Dr. Thomas Lamar
Heather Hess............. Sasheena
Synopsis
The son of an Indian Shaman (Indian witch doctor) is a
real doctor, and
does not hold on to any of the family
traditions, which his father
dissapproves of. He does gain
possesion of a rattle, in his family for
generations, which
was somehow cursed. By rattling it over someone, it
will
kill them, and then can float over a sick person and heal
them. The
man's sister is the next in line to become the
Shaman after her father's
death.
Status
The doctor is killed, but the father convinces
Micki, Ryan and Jack to
allow him to keep the rattle in the
family cave, where he swears it will be
safe.
2.25 "The Prisoner"
Object: Leather bomber jacket
Original Airdate: 6-5-89
Writer: Jim Henshaw
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Guest Cast:
Steven Monarque.......... Johnny Ventura
Larry Joshua............. Dayton Railsback
Lee Carlson.............. Dell Arkwright
Sean McCann.............. Vince Ventura
Synopsis
The jacket once belonged to a WW2 Japanese kamikaze
pilot. The kamikazes
actually believed that they were
invisible to their enemy. By rubbing
blood onto this jacket,
you would become invisible for a short period of
time. The
man who has it, Risback,was jailed for masterminding
the
robbery of $17 million from an armored truck, and uses it to
escape
jail for a short while. He goes to a storage company,
where Johnny's dad
happens to work as the night watchman.
Risback's partners claim the money
is here, but they were
lying, trying to cheat him out of the money. He
kills
Johnny's dad, and when the cops come, Johnny is the only one
at the
scene, and he is accused of the murder. Johnny is
sent to the state pen,
and Micki, Ryan and Jack try to clear
his name. Risback kills other
prisoners, and escapes,
killing his former partners, taking their
safe-deposit box
keys belonging to the box holding the money.
Status
Johnny and Risback have a fight, ending in
Risback's death. The warden
let's Johnny go, and the jacket
is recovered.
2.26 "Coven of Darkness"
Object: Witch's ladder (Necklace)
Mentioned, but not
seen: a sculpting tool. I don't
think it was retrieved, but we did see
it.
Original Airdate: 6-12-89
Writer: Wendy Rodreguez
Director: George Blomfield
Guest Cast:
Maria Ricossa............ Lysa
Maurice E. Evans......... Brother Gareth
Mark Wilson.............. Brother Shannon
Synopsis
Micki and Jack attend a meeting of white witches in
hopes of getting back
what is called the witches ladder.
This is really a special beaded
necklace. Whichever witch,
black or white (I'm speaking in terms of magic,
not race) has
the necklace, can then become the most powerful witch on
the
Earth. Towards the end of the meeting, Micki is shaking
hands with the
leader of the white coven, and he senses high
levels of latent occult
powers in her. Micki and Jack get
the necklace back, much to the dismay of
the leader of a
coven of black witches, lead by a woman who was Lewis'
second
in command when he had been leader of the coven. The woman
comes to
the store, flirts with Ryan, "accidently" cutting
him with her pentagram
ring, to get a few drops of his blood.
With the blood, now on a
handkerchief, the woman returns to
the coven, and they "curse" Ryan, kind
of like voodoo. He
begins to have nightmares, and sleep walks. The woman
is
trying to get him under her control enough for him to get the
necklace,
which is locked away in the vault. Micki and Jack
figure out what has been
happening, and use some of the
latent powers Micki has to try to "exorcise"
Ryan, after the
white coven leader is horribly killed.
Status
Micki and Jack build an alter in the store, and
they are able to protect
Ryan from death at the hands of the
black coven. He sneaks into the black
coven and snatches the
necklace. Micki after placing a "circle of
protection"
around Ryan, is drained of her "powers" at least for
the
moment. The necklace is returned, and Ryan is safe. At
least until
the next episode....