[Green Knight]

A lot of Millenarians say that the second year was the best, but I loved II and III equally.

Oh, that's not a slight on the first and third season. I would've never gotten into the show if the first season weren't great, and I wouldn't have stuck with it if the 3rd season weren't great, too. Just if I had to pick a "Best Season", the 2nd would be it. That year it felt like the show was firing on all cylinders in nearly every episode. Sort of like X-Files season 6, where episode after episode after episode was fantastic (At least til they hit the "giant mushroom" episode). Damn, I really miss Millennium. Frank Black was one hell of a character.

[mrustow]

Do you recall a special, stand-alone episode from the third season, called "Borrowed Time"? In it, a death angel travels around, visiting survivor groups whose members had had near-death experiences in the recent past. The survivors all felt that they were on borrowed time, and were resigned to go when their "time came." The angel would then cause each survivor in turn to "drown" (their lungs would fill up with huge quantities of water, even though there was no source for the water) on dry land.

Frank's daughter, Jordan, had had such an experience, when she'd contracted meningitis two years earlier in Seattle. But that was before the anthrax-like plague hit, and her mother let Jordan get the only antidote Frank had.

At one point, Frank confronts the angel, "Her mother died, so that she could live." "Did she?" counters the skeptical death angel.

"This isn't fair!" Frank argues with the angel. "She's the only good thing that ever happened to me! My wife died, so that she could live! She chose." "Did she?" responds the doubting angel.

Later, with Jordan in respiratory arrest, her lungs gushing with water, Frank, who never prays, shouts to the heavens, Job-like, "I tried, oh God, I tried! I did everything you asked of me. No expectations. I'm begging, don't take her away from me!"

Hearing Frank, the angel drowns in Jordan's stead.

Minutes later, Jordan tells Frank, "I saw Mommy.... Mommy said she's fine. And she said to tell you, she chose. She made the right choice. I don't know what that means."

"It means she loved you very, very much," Frank reassures her.