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Blood of the Children

Episode Number: 3    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday September 23, 2005    Prod Code: 103
When a man at a fast-food restaurant is found with his head imploded, Molly and her Red Team investigate and begin to suspect the involvement of a group of military cadets.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Anne McGrail
Director: Bill Eagles
Star: Brent Spiner (Nigel Fenway),  Peter Dinklage (Arthur Ramsey),  Rob Benedict (Lucas Pegg),  Carla Gugino (Molly Anne Caffrey),  Charles S. Dutton (J.T. Baylock),  Brian Van Holt (Cavennaugh)
Recurring Role: Mark Berry (Agent Hargrave)
Guest Star: Seamus Dever (Agent Detoro),  David Gautreaux (Commander Fox),  Steven R. McQueen (Jordan Peters),  Julie Berman (Kristy Foster),  DJ Evans (Kemper),  Jake Abel (Brian Janklow),  Cameron Monaghan (Josh Foster),  Arthur Santiago (David Arroyo),  Richard Cox (Capt. Hank Mancini)

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(Molly abruptly wakes up when the team reaches the site of an alien incident)
Fenway: What's it been? Like five days since we were on that ship? Have you slept one decent night since then?
Molly: Sleep is for the weak… I'm fine, don't worry.
Fenway: Human survival may depend on you and this plan of yours. So, as your doctor, I'm ordering you: get more sleep!
(edit)
(an infectee is trying to spread the alien signal on the internet)
Molly: Brian don’t do this… think... you’re not yourself.
Brian: No… I’m not myself… I’m better. (edit)
Molly: We can't wait. If that signal gets on the internet, in 24 hours it could reach 33% of the country's internet users.
Cavennaugh: How did you reach that estimation?
Molly: Using the Paris Hilton sex tape as my distribution model. (edit)
Ramsey: Why do they call them "black boxes" if they're orange?
Lucas: Maybe the only time they look at them, is when they're charred black. (edit)
(the team reviews an attack by an infectee at a fast-food restaurant)
Lucas: I can only imagine how the signal affected marine life in the area.
Ramsey: Well, don't bother. It wasn't Flipper that went postal in the taco drive-in.
Lucas: True, but a mutated Charlie Tuna could end up on any of our plates. (edit)

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Ramsey: The pilot's blood alcohol was 20-proof, but there was no sign of genetic mutation.

The pilot who Threshold holds for interrogation had been in the vicinity of the Big Horn sighting, but neglected to mention any anomalies during the flight because he had a few drinks prior to the flight. Alcohol is nearly gone from a person's body within six hours. At 12 hours, it's undetectable, not to mention the days between the sighting and the pilot being questioned. So how could Ramsey know that the pilot had alcohol in his system? (edit)
Shooting a laptop monitor does not necessarily cause the laptop's HDD or CPU to quit functioning. Thus, when Molly shot the cadet's computer, it was still fully capable of disseminating the "virus" through the internet. (edit)
At approximately 21 minutes into the episode, Molly pushes a bookcase onto one of the cadets who is pursuing her. As the bookcase topples, books fall to the floor. However, it can be seen that a number of books are already on the floor and they are stacked in a pattern which would support the weight of the bookcase. A couple of shots later we see that the cadet is now "pinned" beneath the fallen bookcase, which is in fact resting on the stacked books, so preventing any injury to the actor. (edit)
Molly given the cover of a U.S. marshal is apparently an homage to Carla Gugino's role as U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco in the short-lived 2003 ABC drama, Karen Sisco. (edit)
The security camera tape conveniently changes angles so a better view of the action can be seen. The angle changes could have been edited by the technicians who supplied the video for the Red Team's review. Many buildings have multiple security cameras for more visual coverage. (edit)

Allusions

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Lucas: Using their social security numbers. It's amazing the information we're privy to. I mean, it's ripe for abuse. But...
Ramsey: You and Ralph Nader should have a nice chat about that over some tofu. Ralph Nader is an American attorney and political activist in the areas of consumer rights, humanitarianism, environmentalism and democratic government. (edit)
Lucas: True, but a mutated Charlie Tuna could end up on any of our plates.

Charlie the Tuna, the cartoon mascot tuna for StarKist Tuna, was created by Tom Rogers of the Leo Burnett Agency after StarKist hired Leo Burnett in 1961. StarKist Tuna is the name of a brand of tuna currently owned by Del Monte Foods, Inc. (edit)
Ramsey: Well, don't bother. It wasn't Flipper that went postal in the taco drive-in. The "Flipper" reference alludes to a series of films (1963, 1996) and TV series (1995-2000 and 1964-1968), that showed the life of a dolphin and his human friends. (edit)
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Community Reviews (10)

 
7.8
Good
Blood of the Children
"Cleverly plotted"
Darn Those Crazy Kids!
Continue » Posted Dec 15, 2005 1:47 pm PST
8.0
Great
Blood of the Children
"Adventurous"
Not on the level of the two part pilot episode, but still good.
Continue » Posted Nov 26, 2005 8:20 pm PST
9.0
Superb
Blood of the Children
"Exciting"
Not quite Village of the Damned. But very intense just the same.
Continue » Posted Oct 14, 2005 2:30 pm PST

danasdude
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8.3
Great
Blood of the Children
"Above average"
Evil is going to be to reach the world through the Internet. Nothing new there. The military cadets have taken over the academy and the "alien" is a computer virus. Pretty good. Pretty dog gone good.
Continue » Posted Sep 27, 2005 1:43 pm PST

Chrono333
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8.0
Great
Blood of the Children
"Exciting"
The second episode of 'Threshold' is not as great as the pilot. That being said, it is still an excellent episode.
Continue » Posted Sep 27, 2005 1:08 pm PST
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