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Most memorable scene...

posted 15 years ago by Myrl
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I stumbled upon this show when it first aired on a cable channel (USA or Sci Fi) in the states. I watched every episode but never really "got" it. It was very high concept (basically a police procedural where the suspects are blood suckers), they explained very little (they famously never say "vampire"), and theres very little action (or horror for that matter). And worst of all for television, the characters were inaccessible. Especially Vaughn Rice, a very thuggish G-man type vampire hunter played by Idris Elba. At the point in the series where the audience is still questioning whether or not these creatures are really a threat to humanity, Rice is killing them without guilt or hesitation, and dislikes the hero played by Jack Davenport.

Eventually there's a storyline involving vampires being smuggled through check-points at airports in time-locked coffins. Vaughn somehow (I can't remember/ its been too long since I saw it) gets locked inside a room full of these coffins set to spring open at sunset. As time rapidly approaches, Vaughn breaks down, calls the woman he has feelings for, hangs up without saying a word, and sticks a gun in his mouth, ready to die. Just he;s a bout to do it, he comes up with a plan and escapes just in the nick of time. Its one helluvay dramatic scene, that made me like this tough, unlikable character, and made me glad I stuck with the show till the end.

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[–] nvmoviefan 13 years ago

I have to agree about the undefined lines between right and wrong presented in this series. It made things more complex and interesting. How do you fight monsters while making sure you don't become one yourself?

Speaking of memorable scenes, one scene that still sticks to my mind is the episode about the human-vampire hybrid. Pearse wants Angie to do an abortion.
Pearse: (about the abortion) Have you ever performed a termination?
Angie: No. Have you ever sanctioned one?
Pearse: This isn't human.
Angie: It may be half-human.
Pearse: I believe that's what I said.

Another one is where they decide to let an innocent murdered priest take the blame for what happened to one of his students because there was no practicable alternative option aside from ruining that priest's reputation.
The protagonists walked a shaky and morally-questionable path.

[–] jnericsonx 11 years ago

The scene with Vaughn locked in with the coffins is my pick too. If I ever meet Idris, I will praise that scene to him.

[–] There_Is_No_Sayid 15 years ago

That's one of my two favorite scenes from the series. It really stuck with me. The other one is IIRC from the same episode. Kristy ccontacts Michael to ask to meet up after she's been out of touch for a little bit. She hasn't been seen in daylight and he becomes suspicious that she's been turned. She's not eating or drinking anything at dinner and she's flirting with him when she hadn't expressed any interest in him before. He excuses himself to go to the bathroom and crying gets out his gun to prepare to kill her. Using a brokenbb mirror to verify that she's a vampire he goes outside but before he can do anything he's tackled by two patrons and Christy runs out of the bar, her reflection clearly shown in a mirror.

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[–] dellaloraine-600-841669 14 years ago

My most memorable scene... Phillip Quast's character, newly diagnosed with cancer, is being seduced by the urbane code V - who offers to save his life. The last temptation!
Then he returns, after thinking and pacing and worrying and visiting the church..
"I'm spoken for" - and he blows the guy away!
(Sorry, I am blanking on peoples' names, and I've lent the DVD to my son and can't check...

La paura uccide la mente

[–] There_Is_No_Sayid 11 years ago

As I remember that played out rather differently. Vaugn discovers a recording of Pierce talking with their captive vampire. Since the Code Vs can't be recorded we only hear Pierce's side but it's clear that the vampire is offering him immortality. Vaugn and Angela are worried that Pierce might have been turned. Then some events happen that anger Pierce and cause him to go in to kill the guy in order to demonstrate to Michael's MI6 contact that vampires are real. When they go in the guy says something like "going back on our deal?" And THAT is when Pierce says "Sorry, I'm spoken for." It seemed clear to me that Pierce HAD in fact agreed to go over to the vampires in exchange for immortality (or maybe just a cure for his cancer). But then events forced him to reconsider.

Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything.

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[–] rooprect 10 years ago

I recently stumbled on this series for the first time. Yes, by far the warehouse scene is my fave, and it's in my top 10 list of all time greatest tv scenes. I think it's the music as well as Vaughn's utterly desperate yet controlled reaction to the situation.

In character he doesn't flip out. But you can feel the wheels in his head spinning out of control. The phone call, the gun in the mouth, these were desperate, rash ideas that he did in a very controlled manner. And again, the music was perfectly suited for it.

Another memorable scene that stuck in my throat is in the episode with the pregnant woman and what happens in the woods at the end. Disturbing to the core.

What a great show. Off the top of my head, the only other show that challenges our moral fiber as much would be Battlestar Galactica (2004). In fact there's a very interesting parallel in both shows where the "good guys" cross the line into "bad guy" territory, and on many occasions you find yourself asking, if humans really sink to this level to preserve themselves, do they really deserve to live?

[–] gregforttmags 9 years ago

Yes, the caskets in the warehouse was a very creepy scene and Dr. March facing down the vampire in the woods with the dying pregnant lady was very moving.

[–] GavEllis 8 years ago

I saw your posts title and had to have a read, and boom, you picked my favourite too. The filming, acting, premise and that music, such a dramatic scene, shame series these days don't do the same