Lila Kyle (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and the loss of their young daughter some years ago. Writer Liz Heldens works to explain Brad’s change of heart regarding Amy by connecting it to his estranged wife Dr. Soon, Clark is hot on Brad and Amy’s tail as they crisscross the nation with alarming speed, moving from Tennessee to Texas to Wisconsin in what seems like the span of a commercial break.

The conceit of a pending vampire apocalypse is placed on the back burner so that Brad and Amy’s surrogate father-daughter relationship can take center stage as he makes the moral decision not to take her Colorado, but instead go on the run, despite having little in the way of an actual plan. What unfolds next is essentially the broadcast networkification of Cronin’s sprawling texts. After several small successes, the project determines that only a child’s immature immune system will allow the virus to offer all the benefits of vampirism (i.e., health, strength, prolonged life) with none of the nasty side-effects (i.e., sucking people’s blood and generally looking like roadkill).Īs you may have guessed, Amy is that child and Brad is the agent sent to pick her up from a foster home, so she can become the next test subject.

The project is headed up by the D.O.D., as the military has characteristically perverted the original intentions of the project - to prolong life and create a vaccine to battle an impending Bird Flu pandemic - and in doing so has enlisted the help of Vincent Piazza’s Clark Richards to supply them with death row inmates who will test the latest iteration of the virus. After finding what they are looking for, Fanning becomes a light snack and, jump forward three years, he’s now a semi-catatonic lab rat for a research project called Project Noah. Tim Fanning (Jamie McShane, Bloodline) venture down to South America in search of a man who is reportedly 250 years old. More: True Detective Review: A More Humble Season 3 Aims To Relive Past GloriesĪn opening sequence sees Henry Ian Cuskick’s Dr. While The Passage wastes no time informing the audience that vampires exist (continuing the trend of recent years by turning vampirism into a viral outbreak), it’s in no hurry to get to the part where these powerful bloodsuckers are taking over the world and putting humankind on the menu.

Not that you would know that by watching the pilot episode, or even the hour that follows.

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