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On the trail of another of Simon’s contacts, a man named Holcombe who may know whether or not the Big Death will be making a return appearance, Jeremiah and Kurdy stop to assist a wanderer whose pregnant wife has fallen ill. In the town of Slag Harbor, they catch word of a traveling doctor who may be able to help. Jeremiah is dismayed to find that this “doctor” is actually no more than the son of a doctor who still has his dead father’s medicine bag, but he’s still the only hope of those who need medical attention. But as if the would-be doctor isn’t perpetuating enough of a myth about himself, his street-savvy older brother is milking that talent for whatever people are willing to trade. When thugs beat up both brothers and steal the medicine bag, Jeremiah has to convince a man who may be the last doctor in the world that what he needs to practice isn’t a bag full of 15-year-old pills, but his compassion…and all he needs to do is step out of his older brother’s shadow.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Michael Robison
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Jake Busey (Jake), Christian Campbell (Reese), Ryan Robbins (William Steuber), Erin Karpluk (Sadie Holcomb), Shannon Jardine (Paula Steuber), Holly Ferguson (Mother), Bryce Hodgson (Tanner), Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah), Casey Beddow (Farmer), Ryan Drescher (Michael), Mike Dopud (Harlow), Nelson Leis (Jimmy Holcomb)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Jeremiah and Kurdy rescue a girl from a gang of rapists, and Kurdy is horrified when Jeremiah seems insistent on gassing the thugs to death with the land rover’s exhaust. During the fight, Kurdy cuts one of his hands, and with that wound comes a trickle of memories of his childhood – his home, his mother, and some sort of struggle between his parents – the only memory he has of that time of his life. They bring the girl back to Thunder Mountain, where Erin tries to help her recover from his ordeal, and Kurdy embarks on one of his own. His next assignment is to ride shotgun with Jeremiah to the lab where the late Jimmy Holcomb received an experimental (and ultimately fatal) vaccine against the return of the Big Death – a lab within a short drive of Kurdy’s childhood home. Jeremiah, tired of Kurdy’s recent preoccupation with the past, drops Kurdy off there and goes off to the lab by himself, and is greeted at gunpoint. Kurdy, in the meantime, meets the one person left in the world who could possibly know what happened to his parents – and discovers that it was not the Big Death that killed them, but two bullets.

written by Sam Egan
directed by James Head
music by Graeme Coleman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Alexander), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Suzy Joachim (Megan), Karen Malina White (Ricki), Katelyn Wallace (Lydia), Michael Adamthwaite (Skinhead), Jodie Graham (Skinhead), Dominika Wolski (Chloe), Brenda M. Crichlow (Kurdy’s Mother), Malik McCall (Kurdy’s Father), Robert Moloney (Farralon), Chaynade Knowles (young Ricki), Kayden Porbeni (young Kurdy)

Appearing in footage from The Bag: Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah), Casey Beddow (Farmer), Ryan Drescher (Michael)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Jeremiah and Kurdy investigate what seems like an unlikely tale involving biohazard-suited figures kidnapping people and performing biological tests on them. They’re stunned to find that it’s true – and even more surprised when they’re able to capture one of the suited men, but even the quickest glance through the visor of the biosuit reveals that this may be the oldest human being that anyone’s seen in a long time. They take him back to Thunder Mountain, where he awakens – and makes it plainly obvious that he knows Marcus on a first-name basis. The man turns out to be Major Quantrell, formerly one of Thunder Mountain’s top brass during the outbreak of the Big Death. Quantrell has many things to reveal – he is now based at the elusive Valhalla Sector, he’s not the only human being to have topped 40 years old, and if his young captors don’t let him go, his people will come looking for him and they’ll come well-armed. It soon becomes obvious that Quantrell and his allies intend to take control of what’s left of the world and rule by force…and anyone choosing to oppose him will need to be up for one hell of a fight.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Michael Rooker (Quantrell), Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Suzy Joachim (Megan), John Ralston (Dr. Alexander), Leah Graham (Woman), Alex Zahara (Ezekiel), Rodrigues Williams (Man), Michael Kopsa (Colonel), J.M. Landry (Aide), Charles Payne (Aide), Ray Galletti (Clese), Awaovieyi Agie (Rich), Andrew Francis (young Marcus), Carin Moffat (Jean), Chris Robson (Reporter), Nigel Johnson (Guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Bandits carjack Jeremiah and Kurdy, leaving them on foot. The nearest sign of civilization they can find is an abandoned amusement park where a handful of families have taken up residence. The travelers find they’re not welcome there either – children have been disappearing at an alarming rate. When Jeremiah sees that the bandits have been through this area, using the equipment stolen in the land rover as trade bait, he offers to stay and help guard the children until the bandits return. The remaining children at the park regard Jeremiah as the stuff of legend – an avenging angel who has come to protect them from vampires. When more children disappear, their families come to the conclusion that Jeremiah and Kurdy are responsible.

written by Sam Egan
directed by James Head
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Vincent Gale (Cord Geary), Tobias Mehler (Jack), Pablo Santos (Magyar), Shawn Macdonald (Fipps), Wendy Russell (Treva), Yvonne Myers (Helen), Sharon Alexander (Chapelle), Berend McKenzie (Medicine Joe), Aleks Paunovic (Stomp), Talia Ranger (Maia), Reece Thompson (Tommy Geary), Nickol Tschenscher (Beth Geary), J.R. Messado (J.J.)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Assigned by Marcus to make formal contact with another community, Jeremiah and Kurdy happen upon a group of people on a religious pilgrimage. Jeremiah is a little annoyed when Kurdy accepts their invitation to join them when they make camp, where the two travelers learn that these people and their leader believe that their journey to the ocean will be met with a ship that will take them to a better world. Kurdy alarms Jeremiah by joining this community on their pilgrimage, and Jeremiah continues on his mission alone. When he encounters a group of bandits planning to raid the pilgrims, Jeremiah tries to stop them but is captured. Kurdy must choose to honor his newly-taken oath of non-violence, allowing his new friends to become the victims of robbers, or save them only to lose their acceptance.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Martin Wood
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Krista Rae (Constance), Alessandro Juliani (David), Hayden Thomas (Price), Paul Dzenkiw (Group member), Travis Woloshyn (Group member), David Haysom (Man), Stuart O’Connell (Man), Shawn Stewart (Man)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Gabriel and Elizabeth, on a scouting mission from Thunder Mountain, go to Clarefield – the town Jeremiah and Kurdy once visited which is still under the thrall of Theo and her thugs – and are promptly captured. Marcus assigns Jeremiah and Kurdy – who is furious that Elizabeth was sent on such a dangerous mission – to rescue them. There are a few problems facing them though, namely a revolt that leaves Theo out in the cold (but her successor still has the hostages). Worse yet, when they save her life from the men who used to work for her, Jeremiah and Kurdy have to trust her to help them rescue Elizabeth and Gabriel. Kurdy decides to go it alone, leaving Jeremiah to deal with Theo. And at Thunder Mountain, Marcus is faced with the possibility that a traitor at the mountain tipped Theo off to the presence of the scouting party.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Holly Dale
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Kim Hawthorne (Theo), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Ben Bass (Eric Rasmussen), Zak Santiago Alan (Sam), Alonso Oyarzun (Gabriel), Xantha Radley (Baker), Dave Nystrom (Jock), Jean-Michel Legal (Jacob Rutledge), Haig Sutherland (Keith), Martin Sims (Raymond Jaglom), Crystal Cote’ (Kate Pierce), Cobie Smulders (Deborah)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Jeremiah and Kurdy follow up on leads about the town of Mayfair – very troubling leads, which they discover are well founded. The town is littered with dead bodies, and no apparent signs of survivors. They travel to a nearby community whose leader, Stenn, has set down an ultra-puritanical code of laws forbidding any two people to make physical contact. Any outsiders – such as Jeremiah and Kurdy – are regarded with extreme suspicion. Jeremiah discovers first-handy that there is a horrifying link to two lingering questions: what happened to the people of Mayfair, and what happens if someone breaks the law and touches another human being?

written by Sam Egan
directed by Michael Robison
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), J.R. Bourne (Stenn), Jesse Moss (Angus Deveraux), Kirby Morrow (Neal Deveraux), Amber Rothwell (Karin), Gabrielle Miller (Naomi), Jimmy Herman (The Apparition), Kirsten Prout (Elayna), Michèle Bogdanow (Bess), Justin Callan (Nicky), Martin Sims (Raymond Jaglom), Michael Eklund (Vernon Diggs), Ellen Ewuse (Marta), Darren Choo (Mine Guard), Reese Smith (Doctor)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

In keeping with his recent pledge to begin organizing with other communnities, Marcus sends Jeremiah and Kurdy to make contact with a group led by a man known only as “Steve.” When the travelers arrive at their destination, Jeremiah is met by a girl named Michelle, with whom he had a a brief but intense relationship five years earlier. It was Michelle who introduced Jeremiah to the concept of writing letters to his long-dead father, and it is Michelle who’s actually coordinating her community’s rebuilding effort, breaking the glass ceiling by claiming that all of her orders come from “Steve.” But when someone warns Jeremiah and Kurdy that she’s using the “Steve” ruse to squirrel away supplies for herself, Jeremiah worries that she may not be the same person he once knew. He’s even more surprised when Michelle introduces him to her five-year-old son Gabriel – a child who could well be his.

teleplay by Al Katz & Sara Barnes
story by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Graeme Coleman and Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Sabrina Grdevich (Michelle), Preston Cook (Doug), Spencer Achtymichuk (Gabe), Janine Cox (Anna), Jessica Heafey (Maxine), Scantone Jones (Martin), Robert Wisden (voice of Devon), Teryl Rothery (voice of Mary), Ryan Drescher (voice of Michael), Devin Douglas Drewitz (voice of young Jeremiah)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A nightmare awakens Jeremiah, a nightmare featuring his father and Ezekiel, the man who claimed to be his brother – but also the man who killed Colonel Quantrell when he was held captive at Thunder Mountain. The next day, Marcus recalls all of Thunder Mountain’s field operatives to reassign them temporarily to a new mission, to rebuild the town of Danbury. While it seems like an incredibly generous gesture to extend to a town full of total strangers, Marcus’ intent is to establish relations with Danbury and use it as a tripwire, a means of detecting whether or not agents from Valhalla Sector are on their way to try to take over Thunder Mountain. Jeremiah spots Ezekiel talking to Lee Chen, Marcus’ right-hand-man, in Danbury, and chases Ezekiel down. But before they can even have a conversation beyond a cryptic warning of danger from Ezekiel, Lee Chen sneaks up from behind and knocks Jeremiah out. Just as Marcus is about to make a public appearance alongside Danbury’s leader, Jeremiah and Kurdy fight through the crowd to warn him of the danger – moments before a shot rings out and Marcus falls, struck in the chest by a bullet. Thunder Mountain’s leader fights for his life while Jeremiah and Kurdy fight to find the would-be assassin. It seems that only three things are certain: Valhalla Sector operatives have already taken up position in Danbury, Lee Chen can’t be trusted, and time is running out for Marcus’ vision of rebuilding the world peacefully.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kwise Ameyaw (Samuel), Robert Wisden (Devon), Alex Zahara (Ezekiel), Daniel Pepper (First Team guy), Jared Van Snellenberg (Damien), Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah)

Appearing in footage from Firewall: Michael Rooker (Colonel Quantrell)

Appearing in footage from …And The Ground, Sown With Salt: Jason Priestly (Michael), Kirsten Robek (Julie), Ben Ayres (Guard)

Appearing in footage from The Long Road: Teryl Rothery (Mary)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Following up on information given to them by Theo, Jeremiah and Kurdy go to visit a small, tightly-knit community. They make camp on the way and Jeremiah is awakened by what he’s sure is an elephant (though Kurdy doesn’t believe this). When they reach the inn Theo told them about, Jeremiah and Kurdy are stunned when it turns out to be little more than a brothel. They each pair off with a girl for the evening, and Jeremiah finds himself quite taken with Polly, a budding artist who longs to leave the inn and find her missing daughter. She convinces him to challenge Yarbo, the inn’s gruff bouncer, to win her freedom. Kurdy feels he’s better equipped to handle a fight than Jeremiah, and, to make his point, knocks Jeremiah out cold and takes his place in the ring. Though he’s sore later, Kurdy wins Polly’s freedom, and she leads Jeremiah and Kurdy to a nearby circus where Gregory, the father of her little girl, works. Gregory is suspicious of Polly’s sudden arrival, and Polly’s daughter doesn’t even recognize her. Her fight to rebuild her family is just beginning. In the meantime, despite the fact that no one has believed his story of an elephant sighting so far, Jeremiah is eagerly recruited by the circus workers to help them find their wayward starring attraction.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Ken Girotti
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Polly Shannon (Polly), G. Patrick Currie (Gregory), Alana Husband (Cassandra), Steve Bacic (Patrick Desault), Taras Kostyuk (Yarbo), Geneveive Buechner (China), Heather Feeney (Janine), David Cook (Parker), Michael Langlois (Farmer), Tai the Elephant (Lana)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Marcus wants Jeremiah and Kurdy to make contact with a nearby community to see if they would be willing to exchange resources and information with Thunder Mountain. When they learn that the community is an African-American separatist movement, Kurdy volunteers to go it along until Elizabeth convinces him to take her along as backup. Jeremiah, in the meantime, accompanies Erin on a mission to help her twin sister Lauren. Though the sisters have been estranged for years, ever since Lauren made off with their mother’s jewelry collection (and, according to Erin, traded it for drugs), Erin feels that intervening in her sister’s life is still important, especially when help is requested; when that help involves getting Lauren away from an abusive boyfriend, things become more difficult. In the meantime, Kurdy and Elizabeth receive a cold reception when they visit the separatists – one of their leaders feels that the intruders can’t be allowed to leave their town alive.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Brad Turner
music by Graeme Coleman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Jason George (Kwame), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Michasha Armstrong (Raheem), Monique Kavelaars (Lauren), Christian Bocher (Geronimo), Adrian Homes (Gunman)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Jeremiah and Kurdy are sent, without much information, to retrieve some technical books which may still be in a Denver library. As they’re looking over the books – most of which are surprisingly intact and organized – they’re greeted at gunpoint by a man named Edgar, who claims he’s the librarian. Edgar fears that his visitors are with a group of people who come by and take books to use as fuel for a bonfire. Kurdy quickly promises to help Edgar defend the library, while Jeremiah takes off to hide their land rover and find some friends he met the last time he was in Denver. Kurdy’s mission turns out to be more difficult – and painful – than he anticipated, when he discovers that few of the library’s patrons are willing to defend either Edgar or his books.

written by Sam Egan
excerpts written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Brad Turner
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Sarah Strange (Maggie), Jonathon Young (Edgar), Link Baker (Red), Ty Olsson (Rourke), Jy Harris (Male patron), Carolyne Maraghi (Female patron)

Appearing in footage from The Long Road: Jennifer Carmichael

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Marcus has decided to start slowly bringing the leaders of nearby communities to Thunder Mountain to start letting them in on his renaissance plans. Kurdy and Jeremiah are assigned to pick up the first of these visitors – but they’re alarmed when it turns out to be Theo. However, as they’re bringing her back, an upheaval is occurring within Thunder Mountain’s council – which has been left in the dark about Marcus’ plans. Brothers Thomas and Andrew Kincaid, both on the council, hatch plans for a coup to remove Marcus from the council and install Andrew in his place. And as wary as they are of bringing Theo into Thunder Mountain, they plan to use her to prove their point. But with Marcus, the question remains of who leaked word to the Kincaid brothers of his intentions in the first place…

written by Sara “Samm” Barnes
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Kim Hawthorne (Theo), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Steven Grayhm (Andrew Kincaid), Suzy Joachim (Megan), Gabriel Mann (Thomas Kincaid), Crystal Cote’ (Kate Pierce), Martin Sims (Raymond Jaglom), Suzanne Bastien (Council Member), Thomas Milburn Jr. (Medic)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Marcus is making plans for a vital summit meeting of community leaders, requiring an all-or-nothing outlay of Thunder Mountain’s resources (particularly vehicles). But what seems like a well-orchestrated plan starts to unravel when Jeremiah and Kurdy uncover evidence that Lee Chen, Marcus’ right-hand man and chief of security, is a double agent for Valhalla Sector, and has removed pages from Simon’s journal of contacts and clues. When Jeremiah confronts Lee with this accusation, Lee disappears from Thunder Mountain – and Kurdy finds the missing journal page, mentioning the Brothers of the Apocalypse and the second coming of the Big Death.

With the summit plans compromised, Marcus now faces the prospect of continuing with his mission and exposing himself and everyone attending the summit to attack. Jeremiah and Kurdy set out to track down the Brothers of the Apocalypse, but do so without Marcus’ blessing – and a warning that they won’t be welcome at Thunder Mountain if they leave the base at this critical moment. Jeremiah is ready to take that risk, but Kurdy is furious with him for making that decision for both of them. Kurdy promises that when Jeremiah has located the Brothers of the Apocalypse, he’s going to take the land rover back to Thunder Mountain, and Jeremiah will be on his own.

The trail of clues leads Jeremiah back to Clarefield and Theo, who tells him where the Brothers have set up their makeshift monastery. Jeremiah and Kurdy do indeed find a group of monks there, all of whom are revealed to be in their forties or older: survivors of the Big Death. And they do, in fact, know that the disease could experience a resurgence soon, this time wiping out all life on Earth.

Elizabeth comes to Clarefield, on assignment to pick up Theo for the summit, but when she learns that Jeremiah and Kurdy have visited Theo, she diverts from her mission and tries to find them. But Lee Chen has tipped off his masters at Valhalla Sector, knowing that Jeremiah and Kurdy will be looking for the Brothers of the Apocalypse, and a vicious ambush ensues. Elizabeth is shot, and Jeremiah discovers that Ezekiel, a mysterious man who has claimed in the past to be his brother, is with the monks. Kurdy, furious that Jeremiah’s reckless risk-taking has left the life of the woman he loves in jeopardy, takes the Land Rover and leaves Jeremiah to fend for himself. Knowing now that the summit is in danger, Jeremiah and Ezekiel set out on foot to try to prevent a disaster.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Kim Hawthorne (Theo), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), David McCallum (Clarence), Alex Zahara (Ezekiel), David Abbott (Second Brother), Jessica Amlee (Little Girl), Simon Wong (Phil)

Appearing in footage from Journeys End In Lovers Meeting: Krista Rae (Constance), Alessandro Juliani (David)

Appearing in footage from The Long Road: Daniel Gillies (Simon), Curtis Bechdholt (Matthew)

LogBook entry by Earl Green