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Witchblade Season 1 Episode 4

Diplopia

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AIRED: 6/26/01

When Sara and Jake investigate the murder of a prominent Soho art dealer, they quickly narrow their search to an artist who turns out to be one of an unknown number of identical brothers connected to the myth of the Witchblade. Sara seeks answers about the Witchblade from the incarcerated, and rapidly aging Dominique Boucher and internet artifacts dealer, Gabriel Bowman.moreless

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Anthony Cistaro	Kenneth Irons
Yancy Butler	Sara Pezzini
David Chokachi	Jake McCartey
Will Yun Lee	Danny Woo
Eric Etebari	Ian Nottingham

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Shaun Austin-Olsen	Dr. D'Angelo	Guest Star
Peter Cockett	Chris Pollack	Guest Star
Anthony Lemke	Isaac Sullivan	Guest Star
John Hensley	Gabriel Bowman	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Lazar Sighting
  Lazar is in Badlands at the beginning of the episode.
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QUOTES (11)
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- Sara: (when Jake balks at going to a gay bar undercover) McCartey, get over it.
  Jake: It...It's just a waste of time. Who's ever gonna believe that I'm gay?
  Sara: You think that everyone that goes there is gay?
  Jake: Yeah.
  Sara: Just like you can 'always tell'?
  Jake: Yeah.
  Sara: Sure couldn't tell about me. (Jake stares at Sara) Jake, good lookin' guy like you...ever wonder why I haven't made a move?
  Jake: (disbelievingly) Huh, get out. (Sara's expression remains serious) Get out!
  Sara: Seriously, we're going undercover.
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- Isaac Sullivan: I found you intriguing today.
  Sara: I get that from all my murder suspects.
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- Isaac Sullivan: Everyone's got a fantasy Jake, so I was watching you at Badlands the other day and I got to thinking what's yours.
  Jake: Your head...in a vise.
  Isaac Sullivan: No. That would be making ugliness out of beauty, and we make beauty out of ugliness, Jake...Time to get ugly.
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- Sara: Wow. You two ever date the same girl?
  Jake: Or guy?
  Isaac Sullivan 3: No. We haven't. Lose the gun.
  Isaac Sullivan 1,2,3 in unison: There's always a first time.
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- Dr. Peter D'Angelo: I didn't take life. I gave life when no life would have been possible.
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- Dominique: The 'Blade weaves a web unbreakable. It draws to itself, to you, everything you need, only what you need, to teach you, to achieve its ends.
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- Dominique: The Witchblade is orchestrating your life now.
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- Gabriel: The 'Blade punishes pretenders who aren't supposed to wear it.
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- Gabriel: I got a death threat from someone who doesn't want me talking to you about that.
  Sara: Let me guess. Tall, black hair, black overcoat, drops the temp in a room about ten degrees?
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- Gabriel: She's a cop. She can make my life very difficult.
  Ian: Difficult? I can make you pray for difficult.
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- Isaac Sullivan: Everyone has a fantasy.
  Robert Foster: Excuse me.
  Isaac Sullivan: Something so dark and private you never shared it with another living soul.
  Robert Foster: My...the direct approach
  Isaac Sullivan: I offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity. Tonight, you tell me your dream, and I will make it come true.
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NOTES (8)
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- Diplopia is the condition commonly known as double vision.
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- Music from this episode:
  "Six Piece Mcrotica" - Kathie Talbot
  "Shambala" - Three Dog Night
  "Thing" - Meg Lee Chin
  "Spirit in the Sky" - Norman Greenbaum
  "Kitten Moon" - Fluke
  "Only Human" - Kathie Talbot
  "Atom Bomb" - Fluke
  "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult
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- Irons is involved in genetic research and funded Dr. Peter D'Angelo's research that created the Isaac Sullivans.
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- Dominique calls Sara a "brood mare".
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- Dominique tells Sara that the Witchblade is orchestrating her life now. There are no coincidences, nothing happens by chance and everything is connected.
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- The blade gives its wielder strength, agility and clairvoyance.
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- The blade appears in different cultures, including Babylonian friezes and Celtic runes.
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- The Latin name for Witchblade is Digitabulum Magae.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- The Wild Hunt
  
  The Wild Hunt comes from Germanic/Scandinavian mythology, but spread into Celtic lands as well. In Wales, the Wild Hunt, which was dangerous to witness, was led by the God Arawn. Arawn is the God of the Underworld, which is called Annwyn.
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