This is the kind of story Chris Carter had in mind when he created "Millennium," so it's no surprise that for his first script for the series in over a year, he and Frank Spotnitz deliver a taut, "ripped from the headlines" crime story with a heavy millennial influence.
It's almost funny to see this episode nearly a decade in to the 21st century and remember the tremendous fears about the "collapse of society" due to the Millennium Bug. But there was always that degree of uncertainty that was accompanying the move into the year 2000, and this episode captures it (and of course, dramatizes it.)
Like any good mystery story, "TEOTWAWKI" is full of misdirection. What appears to be a school shooting jumps to a shadowy cabal of corporate executives, and a suicide that really isn't sets Frank and Emma on the trail of the survivalists.
The "new family" of Season 3 gets more developed. Frank and Emma are settling into their partnership, Andy McLaren tries his best to oversee his unit and Baldwin proves to be pernicious and smug to a fault. Plus, it's great to see Stephen James Lang back as Giebelhouse, if only briefly. His interactions with Frank during Seasons 1 and 2 were always highlights. Nice turn from Robert Wisden as the CEO behind the survivalist cult.
Interesting that Carmody's warning to Frank about the Y2K bug, "You can't stop it!" echoes back to the Frenchman's dying words from the "Pilot."moreless
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Frank and Emma try to search for some answers when a gunmen fires upon high school students. Frank and Emma also learn that a survivalist group is responsible and they would even kill their own children, in order to ensure the survival of their computer corporation which is being threatened by the YK2 bug.moreless
 Klea Scott |
Special Agent Emma Hollis |
 Lance Henriksen |
Frank Black |
 Sasha McLean |
Tammy Meador |
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Jeremy Guilbaut |
Brant Carmody |
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Hilary Strang |
Mrs. Carmody |
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 Peter Outerbridge |
Special Agent Barry Baldwin |
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Stephen E. Miller |
Andy McClaren |
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Stephen J. Lang |
Det. Bob Geibelhouse |
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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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TRIVIA (1)
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In the scene in the hotel room before Geibelhouse arrives and the camera pans towards the door, you can see a boom mic in the reflection of mirror in the upper right corner.
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Frank: It is prophesied that when the end comes, it will come in darkness: a catastrophe all foresaw but few believed. Most of us will battle too late against the chaos, but not the few, the radical few, who obey no discipline. Unencumbered by conscience, they prepare ruthlessly pursuing their own preservation. If they survive, the rest of us perish.
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NOTES (2)
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Robert Wisden also appears in the season 2 episode, "Monster," but as a different character.
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The title of this episode "TEOTWAWKI" is an acronym for "The End Of The World As We Know It."
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Goodbye to All That (2)
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Via Dolorosa (1)
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Nostalgia
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Seven and One
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Bardo Thodol
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Darwin's Eye
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The Sound of Snow
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Collateral Damage
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Omerta
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Skull and Bones
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