Nowhere Man: Episode Reviews
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Starring Bruce Greenwood as Thomas Veil
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| The Chapter before the First
A brief overview of Nowhere Man |
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| Absolute Zero
Original Air Date: August 28, 1995 |
Thomas Veil, photojournalist, comes back from a quick smoke to find his wife is married to someone else and his dog doesn’t recognize him. Oh, and a secret organization wants the negatives of a photo he took of an illegal jungle execution.
Costars Megan Gallagher of Millenium. |
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| Turnabout
Original Air Date: September 4, 1995 |
Tom steals Dr. Bellamy’s identity and gets picked up by Western Operations, who don’t know Bellamy by sight. The Director wants “Dr. Bellamy” to break an Erasure subject named Ellen Combs. In exchange, he will turn over Tom’s file.
Costars Wes Craven’s wife, Mimi. |
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| The Incredible Derek
Original Air Date: September 11, 1995 |
Tom traces the humvee in Hidden Agenda to a small town in Georgia. There, he finds an unlikely ally in the form of a 10-year-old boy traveling in a psychic tent show.
Joel Surnow created 24. |
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| Something About Her
Original Air Date: September 18, 1995 |
Tom is subjected to the Moen hallucinatory induction technique and made to believe he’s in love with Trinity… I mean Karin.
Costars Carrie Anne Moss of the Matrix. |
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| Paradise on Your Doorstep
Original Air Date: September 25, 1995 |
Baited and abducted, Tom wakes in a charming village full of interesting architecture, brass band music, and other Erased people who want his negatives as much as the Organization.
Hertzog’s tribute to The Prisoner . |
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| Spider Webb
Original Air Date: October 9, 1995 |
While researching Dave Powers, Tom accidentally sees his own story being reenacted in a pirate TV broadcast. Max Webb, the writer, also seems able to predict Tom’s reactions with maddening accuracy.
Costars Kate Hodge of She-wolf of London, Richard Kind of Stargate TMP. |
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| A Rough Whimper Of Insanity
Original Air Date: October 23, 1995 |
Tom meets a reclusive hacker while delivering pizza who becomes intrigued with the fact that there’s no trace of Tom’s existence on the Internet.
Costars Sean Whalen, who’s been in, well, just about everything from The People under the Stairs to Men in Black. |
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| The Alpha Spike
Original Air Date: October 30, 1995 |
Following Dr. Bellamy’s research, Tom begins work as groundskeeper in a school full of eerily well-behaved teenagers… then there’s a murder.
Costars Bryan Cranston, who played the Ranger captain of a Whitestar on B5, but is better known as Hal from Malcom in the Middle. |
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| You Really Got A Hold on Me
Original Air Date: November 6, 1995 |
A stranger approaches Tom with details about his life and case that can’t be ignored. Gus, an Erasure victim who’s been on the run for 25 years, wants to save Tom from making his mistake.
Costars Dean Stockwell of Quantum Leap and Dune TMP. |
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| Father
Original Air Date: November 13, 1995 |
Tom returns to his childhood town and runs into a man who could be his estranged father, except the man has no proof and he keeps sneaking out to meet lurking men in suits in the middle of the night.
Written by Art Monterastelli, executive producer of Total Recall 2070 and coexec of Timecop. |
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| An Enemy Within
Original Air Date: November 20, 1995 |
Tom is shot, by coincidence, not by the Organization, and has a chance to live out a happy life in the country.
Costars Raye Birk, who appeared in the Prisoneresque episode of Babylon 5 “Intersections in Real Time“. |
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| It’s Not Such A Wonderful Life
Original Air Date: November 27, 1995 |
Tom is taken in by the justice department, who need the negatives to bring a case against members of the Organization. He is reunited with Alyson in time for Christmas, however….
Costars W. Earl Brown, from Scream. |
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Episode ReviewsEpisodes 13-19: The Palmtop Arc |
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| Contact
Original Air Date: January 15, 1996 |
Tom is contacted by a disgruntled employee of the Organization and is told he will be given information on a palmtop computer in exchange for one thing– he must kill the man who arranged his Erasure.
Robin Sachs is best known as Ethan Rayne on Buffy, as several B5 characters: (Na’Tok, Na’Kal, Hedronn, Coplann), and as General Sarris on Galaxy Quest. |
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| Heart Of Darkness
Original Air Date: January 22, 1996 |
Tom infiltrates the American Guard, the military branch of the Organization, by taking the place of a new recruit. He spends the episode being referred to as Number 6.
Patrick Kilpatrick has appeared in B5, X-files, Dark Angel, Voyager, DS9 and Minority Report. |
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| Forever Jung
Original Air Date: February 5, 1996 |
What is the connection between a nursing home, a Biogenetics lab, and a ring of pretty assassins? Furthermore, what do they have to do with Alyson?
Melanie Smith played recurring character Tora Ziyal on DS9. |
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| Shine A Light on You
Original Air Date: February 12, 1996 |
A name on the palmtop computer belongs to a man whom the locals insist was abducted by aliens. When Tom’s contact also disappears, he is determined to discover the truth.
Roy Brocksmith played Brother Alwin on B5 and Dr. Edgemar on Total Recall TMP. |
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| Stay Tuned
Original Air Date: February 19, 1996 |
Everyone who watches the Hometown Network in Darby, NY, becomes instantly hypnotized into wanting to help with a local political campaign, including Tom.
Costars Cliff DeYoung of The Craft. |
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| Hidden Agenda
Original Air Date: February 26, 1996 |
An Organization insider arranges a meeting with Tom on neutral ground. Unbeknownst to Tom, Alexander Hale is a Cyborg who is broadcasting the conversation through his new eyes.
Dwight Schultz played Lt. Reginald Barclay III on both TNG and Voyager. He also played Amis on B5 (“The Long Dark”). |
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| Doppelganger
Original Air Date: March 18, 1996 |
Tom follows the palmtop to a town which already has a photographer named Tom Veil who even has his own negatives of Hidden Agenda. When the other Tom commits murder, our Tom has to clear his name.
Ian Toynton is a regular director on 24, and also directed several episodes of Relic Hunter. |
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Episode ReviewsEpisodes 19-25: The Memory Arc |
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| Through A Lens Darkly
Original Air Date: April 8, 1996 |
Tom is subjected to Flash Regression, a type of hypnosis designed to make him relive the most painful moment of his life repeatedly until he gives up the negatives or goes insane.
Costars Sam Anderson, who played Holland Manners on Angel. |
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| The Dark Side Of The Moon
Original Air Date: April 15, 1996 |
When his negatives are stolen, Tom finds himself battling an Organization thug and a murderous street gang while a mysterious DJ playing on every radio in town seems to follow his every move.
Features the voice of Andrea Thompson (B5‘s Telepath Talia Winters) as Corrina, the sultry DJ. |
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| Calaway
Original Air Date: April 29, 1996 |
Tom’s increasingly disjointed memory and his inexplicable insomnia lead him back to Calaway, where J.C., now a doctor, informs him that his brain was rewired during his initial stay.
Reza Badiyi has a long career directing for TV, including DS9, Buffy and Get Smart. |
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| Zero Minus Ten
Original Air Date: May 6, 1996 |
Tom discovers he’s been in a coma and that everything that has happened to him was a dream. At least, that’s what Alyson tells him.
James Whitmore Jr. has directed many episodes of Buffy, The Pretender, and 24. |
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| Marathon
Original Air Date: May 13, 1996 |
Tom finds a radio code in the negative next to Hidden Agenda which leads him to the FBI, and to someone who has seen his name in a file belonging to a missing agent (presumed dead)code-named Gemini.
Nicholas Surovy has appeared on Angel, X-files, Seaquest and Voyager. |
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| Gemini
Original Air Date: May 20, 1996 |
Tom gets ahold of Gemini’s complete files on the Organization and the address to his safe house. He discovers something new about the negatives and decides to go for checkmate against the Director himself. |  |
| Major Gemini Final Episode Spoiler!!! Original Air Date: May 20, 1996 (No kidding, the last 5 minutes change everything; do not look if ya don’t wanna know!) |
Tom confronts the Director about his involvement with Hidden Agenda.
Lawrence Hertzog created and produced Nowhere Man. He hadn’t been told if it would be renewed, so they gave it this twist ending which stands on its own or could have started another complete arc. |
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