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Guest Stars: Gwynyth Walsh (as Emma Shetterly) John Pyper-Ferguson (as Ben Fisher) Genele Templeton (as Clare McKenna) Garry Davey (as Ray McKenna) Brendan Fletcher (as Alex Hanes) Kristen Cloke (as Lara Means)
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9.67 |
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10 |
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Catherine and Lara investigate a girl who appears to be having visions.
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- Features the song "Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith.
- Clare says the following: "And the savior said: 'The visionary does not see with the soul or the spirit but with the mind that exists between these two. That is what sees the vision and that is what...' I bet you'll love to know what comes next." This is quote from chapter 5 of The Gospel of Mary. Lara notes correctly that "what comes next" is missing. Only fragments of The Gospel of Mary remain.
- This episode appears to be partially inspired by Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The former book theorizes that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and began a bloodline which merged with the royal bloodline of France's Merovingian dynasty. According to Baigent, et al, this bloodline survives to the present day and is protected by a secret society called the Priory of Zion. This secret society appears to be the inspiration for "The Family". The statue of the Black Virgin coming to Clare in a boat appears to be a reference to a legend cocerning a mysterious boat without oars that docked in Bologne Sur Mer, France during the reign of Dagobert I. On board was a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus in her left arm.
- The title of this episode "Anamnesis" means in Greek "calling to memory past matters" or, more specifically, "citing a past author from memory".
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Lara: "Through the years we've investigated many well-documented apparitions: Lourdes, Marpingen, Fatima. In each case, young girls were the recipients of messages that..."
Catherine: "Young girls whose bodies are changing and who feel isolated..."
Lara: "Visionaries at Medjugordje still receive messages from the Virgin and the similarities among the sightings..."
Catherine: "That's like saying alien abduction exist because abductees report the same experiences."
Lara: "The Virgin appeared to George Washington at Valley Forge and showed him the future of America without any faith."
Catherine: "It's unclear to me how you can claim to be objective when you've already made up your mind that this girl is a visionary."
Lara: "You've already made up your mind that she isn't." Catherine: "Before launching into gnosticism, she parroted a speach that the preacher gave this morning. If all hell hadn't broken loose, maybe she would have added a little 'It was the best of times; It was the worst of times' just to keep things lively." Lara: "I know who you are."
Ben Fisher: "Then we're even. Since The Family and The Millennium Group split, this is our first time knocking heads with you people. And honestly, I am not that impressed. I expected someone more formidable, instead I get a canidate fumbling in the dark, so obviously afraid... Not only of what she knows, but of what she doesn't know." Peter: "We've watched worse things happen with less reason." Catherine: "My own husband couldn't tell me that I was being stalked by a psychopath, I don't suppose that you could tell me why a similar psychopath is stalking a little girl. The Millennium Group doesn't uncover truths, Lara. It buries them." Catherine [reading]: "She will come in a boat, like the daughters of Danaus and the Virgin of Bologne-sur-mer."
Ben Fisher [voice over]: "She fed the saint which inspired the warrior monks to dig up the stable of a thousand horses and take their treasure to help the angels build the churches. Their treasure returned to Bethania and at the cutting of the elm they asked themselves, 'Whom does one serve by virtue of serving the Grail?' Thus, the sorcerer kings become The Family."
Clare [voice over]: "She suffered every indignity from them and she could not return to the Father. In a human body, she came to be confined. And thus, from age to age, she passed from body to body, into one female body after the other. Thus, she became the lost sheep." |
- Clare says the following: "'I know the first ones, and those after them know me... I am... the power of the powers and my knowledge of the angels who have been sent at my word... I am peace and war has come because of me. I am the first and the last... The alpha and the omega.'" She quotes bits of The Thunder, Perfect Mind a gnostic text that is part of "The Nag Hammadi Library" (a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts that was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945). Lara correctly notes that she tacts on "the alpha and the omega." It should be noted, however, that in the text of The Thunder, Perfect Mind the quote "I am the first and the last" precedes the other selections she cites.
- Lara claims that the following 'contradictions' appear in The Thunder, Perfect Mind: "I am the virgin and the whore" and "the mother and the daughter". The first strictly speaking is a misquote, but it appears to be an amalgam of "I am the whore and the holy one...I am the wife and the virgin." The second adage is not misquoted. It does appear in The Thunder, Perfect Mind, but it is not really a contradiction. Lara, however, may be referring to another passage: "I am the mother of my father and the sister of my husband and he is my offspring."
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Clare: "And the savior said: 'The visionary does not see with the soul or the spirit but with the mind that exists between these two. That is what sees the vision and that is what...' I bet you'll love to know what comes next." This is a quote from Chapter 5 of the Gospel According to Mary. More Info Claire: "'I know the first ones, and those after them know me... I am... the power of the powers and my knowledge of the angels who have been sent at my word... I am peace and war has come because of me...'" This is a quote from the gnostic text The Thunder, Perfect Mind. More Info
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