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Night Stalker :: Pilot (01x01)
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| Title: | Pilot |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday September 29th, 2005 |
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A murder shockingly like his wife's leads Kolchak to Los Angeles, where he has signed on as a reporter with the L.A. Beacon newspaper. The crime: A pregnant woman is attacked and murdered. Her husband is accused in her death, but Kolchak senses there's more to the story. Kolchak's colleague, senior crime reporter Perri Reed (Union) is just as eager to get to the bottom of things, but she's skeptical of his wild theories.
Young and ambitious photographer Jain McManus is a little more ready to go along with Kolchak. Together, they'll aid him as he tracks down the bizarre and the inexplicable, the stories you won't find printed in any newspaper.
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Footage of Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak from the original Night Stalker movie is digitally inserted into the Beacon's newsroom for a few seconds, at 17:15.
| The original Carl Kolchak's "birdfeeder" straw fedora can be seen on a hatrack in Carl's office as Perri looks around.
| For the pilot there are no opening credits: just the regulars listed on-screen one at a time followed by the guest stars and crew.
| Filming Location: 1000 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles (the Beacon office)
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •M. Craft | Dragonfly | |
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Carl: (opening voiceover) I drive at night, a police radio as my compass, looking for answers to questions I'm only learning how to ask. About things adults dismiss...but children are right to fear. Shapes that lurk in the darkness, nightmares that intrude from another realm, forces that spring not from the imagination but live amongst us, unseen. These forces have taken something from me, something I can never recover. So I stalk the night, looking... and knowing our fear of the dark never really goes away. We just learn to pretend it's not there.
| Anthony: You know, most people come in the office, meet their colleagues, get a desk, before they start snagging stories.
| Carl: All these strange deaths, like… pieces in a puzzle, a puzzle I’m trying to put together. Something terrible is happening. But no one sees it ’cause no one wants to.
| Perri: What's this prove?
Jain: That these things Kolchak's looking for were here.
Perri: Or wolves, or coyotes, or armadillos, for all I know.
Jain: Armadillos?!?
| Jain: The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis remain neutral.
Perri: Jain, what are you talking about?!?
| Jain: Seriously, I think a gun might be better.
Carl: Have you ever used a gun before?
Jain: No.
Carl: That’s what I thought.
Jain: I’ve never used a cattle prod before, either
| Perri: Oh that reminds me. I've been covering crime for four years. How long have you?
Carl: Five.
Perri: That's what I thought.
| Carl: (closing voiceover) As a reporter I seek answers to the questions that haunt me. But the stories, the real stories, you won't find printed in any newspaper. Stories of strange deaths, endless suffering, horrors we can only pretend to explain, and the hidden threats that connect them all. These are the stories I live to write, driven by the faith that one day people will read them and understand, haunted by the fear that the answers I seek lie not in the darkness without but the darkness within.
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