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Hand of God

Episode Number: 6    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Monday March 31, 2003    Prod Code: 108
Paul comes under investigation by the police after a woman is found murdered in her home, leaving behind her diary where she had sketched his name and image, along with the words "God is nowhere". Shocked by this irrefutable reference to his own paranormal experience and unable to get a straight answer from Alva, Paul breaks into the locked files on hemography and discovers that three other individuals who experienced the same phenomenon have also been murdered. Angry with Alva for keeping such vital information secret, Paul sets out on his own for Denver to warn a fifth person, a woman, of the unknown threat. Before he is able to reach her, he is apprehended by the police and taken in for questioning. While there, he receives word of her murder. Paul is released from custody, and goes to find the killer's final target, a man living in Oregon. Paul hurries to the man's house where both he and the intended victim are accosted by a boy, Chad Goodwell. He is shocked to learn that this young man has also been visited by Tommy Ferguson, and that a voice he believes is God, has sent him on this holy crusade the wipe out the evil that was his past victims. Before killing himself, Chad tells Paul "it's up to you now".

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Writer: Richard Hatem
Director: Bill D'Elia
Star: Skeet Ulrich (Paul Callan),  Angus MacFadyen (Alva Keel),  Hector Elizondo (Father 'Poppi' Calero),  Marisa Ramirez (Evelyn Santos)
Guest Star: Blake Bashoff (Chad Goodwell),  John Thaddeus (Detective Victor Krantz),  Pat Skipper (Detective Bander),  Gina Gallego (Danielle Franklin),  Robert Clotworthy (Steve Jones),  Peter Murnik (Detective Wilson Estap),  Steven A. Gonzales (Kenneth Webster),  Teddy Lane Jr. (Officer Richmond),  Jack Hannibal (Dr. Lyman),  Benita Scheckel (Gretchen Albright),  Jeremy Flynn (Uniformed Officer),  Joshua Gordon (Deputy #1)

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The song that plays frequently during this episode is Apple of Sodom, performed by Marilyn Manson. It appears on the Lost Highway soundtrack. (edit)
This was the last aired episode on ABC. "You Are My Sunshine" was originally scheduled, but the series was canceled. After this episode millions of fans began working to save the show. (edit)
Alva's mother died around 1984. (edit)
Alva decided to investigate miracles in 1985 after spending time recording bird calls for a project and hearing the voice of his mother call out to him. (edit)
We learn in this episode that there are nine God is Nowhere people, with five dead. There were only two known God is Now here people, with one dead and Paul being the last. This information was kept hidden by Alva all along. (edit)

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Paul: Where'd Keel take off for?
Evelyn: He's at a physics lecture at Boston University with some old friends.
Paul: He has friends? (Evelyn laughs) (edit)
Alva: Paul is on a spiritual journey. This is something few of us ever take and, in Paul's case, it is not that one chooses, but rather one is chosen. (edit)
Alva: She'd been dead for over a year when I heard her voice speak my name on that tape. (sigh) No train and I didn't see God's name written in my own blood. It doesn't take much to change the course of a life. Sometimes a single word will do it. (edit)
Paul: (Explaining to Evelyn why he feels he needs to go to meet one of the other people who experienced hemography, even though he might be on the killer’s list, too) She knows my father. Or she might. On the transcripts I found in Keel’s office she talks about three dreams she had. The first is about me getting pneumonia when I was seven. That happened, back at St Jerome’s. I spent two weeks in the hospital, almost died. Second is about me getting in a car accident and being healed by a boy. She had that dream in 1983. (He hands Evelyn a paper) that’s the third.
Evelyn: (reading) The man whose name is Paul Callan is sitting at a sidewalk café. There’s a fountain behind him. He’s talking to a man. That man is his father. The man is saying something. Paul is angry. And then the water in the fountain turns red.
Paul: I never even met my father… I don’t know a single thing about him. (edit)
Alva: ...I’ve never seen anything like this before. People are being murdered simply because they all shared a paranormal experience. Now is a time for keeping one’s head down. (edit)

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