Parallax is the first episode of the first season of the TNT television series Witchblade.
Synopsis[]
When Sara and her new partner Jake McCartey answer a call to a shooting scene, they learn of a now defunct secret military program to create assassins known as the Black Dragons. One of the remaining Black Dragons, Hector Mobius, seems to be on the rampage.
Plot[]
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Yancy Butler as Det. Sara Pezzini
- David Chokachi as Det. Jake McCartey
- Anthony Cistaro as Kenneth Irons
- Will Yun Lee as Det. Danny Woo
- John Hensley as Gabriel Bowman
- Eric Etebari as Ian Nottingham
Recurring Cast[]
- Lazar Rockwood as Lazar
Trivia[]
- Kenneth Irons says the Witchblade is a mystery wrapped in a riddle and cloaked in the conundrum. In 1939, Winston Churchill said about Russia that it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Variations of that phrasing have become a standard, if not pretentious, description of anything that is puzzling.
- The Velvet Uderground nightclub shows movie clips on its walls, which included footage from The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, both 1950s B-movies.
- Moby intones to Irons, "On the hungry craving wind my spectre follows thee behind". In 1800, William Blake wrote a poem titled 'My Spectre around me night and day'. The spectre seems to be pursuing someone who killed seven someones. Blake was an extreme mysticist; scholars have built entire careers arguing what he ever meant.
- Ghost Danny says to Sara, "So foul a sky clears not without a storm". In Act 4 of Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John, things are really starting to fall apart for King John. Enter a messenger with troubled expression. John says, "So foul a sky clears not without a storm: pour down thy weather: how goes all in France".
- This is the first episode where the Witchblade's bracelet form changes from the one depicted in the pilot film into a different form. It is unknown why it did this, but it likely did so in the past, as later episodes revealed the bracelet form in a painting of Joan of Arc and a depiction of it on a statue representation of a woodland goddess.