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What's the Frequency, Kolchak?

Season 1, Episode 10

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Kolchak is kidnapped while working late at the Beacon, by a man who believes that Kolchak has somehow been sending him coded messages in his stories. The man takes Kolchak back to his apartment where he tells him more about the mysterious "old man" that lives in the apartment.moreless

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Reggie Lee

Todd Hoffman
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Mike Batayeh

Stanley Kim
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Pat Healy

Paul Krieger

Gabrielle Union

Perri Reed
Eric Jungmann

Jain McManus
Cotter Smith

Anthony Vincenzo
Stuart Townsend

Carl Kolchak

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QUOTES (5)
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- Carl: (about Paul) Do you know him? Stanley: (nods) I'm Stanley Kim, his caseworker. L.A. Department of Mental Health. Carl: Oh, yeah. I'd say he definitely needs you.
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- Jain: But...Kolchak loves you! I mean, he doesn't... well... he doesn't "love" love you, he... he "like" loves you. Respects you, as a professional. A meeting of the minds. Perri: Jain, what exactly are you drinking?
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- Perri: Jeez--boring Tony and his weird preoccupation with printing verifiable facts. Carl The big words indicate sarcasm, right?
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- Perri: (opening monologue) There are countless stories in the city, about the lives lived here, about how the fates of others intertwine with our own in ways we can never expect, or predict. I'm a reporter; this is my job: to see, to understand. But there are stories behind these stories. Stories about terrors I've only begun to train my eyes to see. I've learned this seeing carries a heavy burden: because once opened to the darkness, our eyes can never be closed again.
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- Perri: (closing monologue) If you look into the darkness long enough, your eyes adjust...and you start to see. That there are evils in the dark. But in seeing, you learn a terrible truth – that you have not found these evils at all, but rather...they have found you.
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- Kolchak dosn't do an opening narration or a closing narration, for the first time in the series. Rather, Perri does the opening and closing narrations.
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- This episode never aired during the original run on ABC in the fall of 2005. It made its television debut on the Sci Fi Channel October 13, 2006. Appropriately enough, it was a Friday the 13th.
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- Title The title alludes to the phrase used by a man who attacked Dan Rather in October 1986 and kept asking him the question, "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" R.E.M. later released a song, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" for their 1994 album "Monster." Vocalist Michael Stipe described the assault as "...the premier unsolved American surrealist act of the 20th century."
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