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Pilot

Episode Number: 1    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday October 23, 1998    Prod Code: 196646
Detective Ezekiel Stone was murdered in 1983 and sent to Hell for having previously murdered his wife's rapist. Now he is being sent back to Earth to help track down escaped demonic souls, giving him a second chance.

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Writer: Cyrus Voris, Ethan Reiff
Director: Felix Enriquez Alcalá
Star: John Glover (The Devil),  Peter Horton (Ezekiel Stone)
Guest Star: Genevieve Langlois (Rosalyn Stone),  Jack Duffy (Irwin Dollinger),  Jean Daigle (Tourist),  Lindsey Connell (Desk Clerk),  Kristin Booth (Miss Julian),  Brandon Bone (Altar Boy #2),  Currie Graham (Det. William Kane),  Michael Harney (Det. Charlie Hirsch),  Peter Woodward (Father Edward Salinas),  Gene Mack (Tibbetts),  Maria Ricossa (Curator),  Albert Hall (Father Horn),  Austin Di Iulio (Altar Boy),  Peter Windrum (Gilbert Jax)

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Mark Patrick Carducci, who worked on several horror movies and wrote the Plan 9 From Outer Space Companion. (edit)
John Glover is listed as Special Guest Star, as at the time they were filming the pilot they didn't anticipate him becoming a regular. (edit)
This original pilot episode was filmed considerably before the series was picked up. Thus it is set in New York City (the rest of the episodes are in L.A.), while Rosalyn Stone and Gilbert Jax are played by different actors than the ones who would be cast as the same characters in later episodes. (edit)

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Stone: I'm very, uh, flattered, but I'm married.
Museum Lady: Well, that's too bad.
Stone: Not to mention dead. (edit)
Kane: Tell me what you know about this case.
Ezekiel: You wouldn’t believe me if I did?
Kane: What makes you so sure?
Ezekiel: Because you seem like an intelligent man.
Kane: You know what, maybe I’m not as bright as I look. Try me. (edit)
Ezekiel: Brightest light you’ve ever seen. Think you’re going to Heaven and you wake up somewhere else.
Father Horn: How do you know that?
Ezekiel: I knew someone who was shot in the face.
Father Horn: Did he survive?
Ezekiel: No. (edit)
Ezekiel: He was stronger than me, faster. He even burned a hole through a chain-link fence!
The Devil: Well, after all, he was my guest for nearly a century. You were with me what, fifteen years? The longer you are in Hell, the more it becomes a part of you, literally. Some of those that escaped have been mine since the dawn of time, and have the powers to prove it.
Ezekiel: Terrific, nice odds. (edit)
Desk Clerk: Your room's upstairs. The elevator's broken, you'll have to walk, but it's only three floors.
Ezekiel: As long as I'm going up. (edit)

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Stone pays $62.50 per night at the hotel in NYC, cash up front, but when he died, he had only $36.27 on him. It's later specifically established that $36.27 is therefore what he wakes up with each morning. So, how did he pay for the hotel in NYC? (edit)

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