Sanctuary

Sanctuary

Season 4 The season four premiere picks up where season three left off, with Helen Magnus (AMANDA TAPPING) standing on a cobblestone street, far from her own time or the modern Sanctuary resources. Having followed her longtime nemesis Adam Worth (IAN TRACEY) through a collapsing time vortex, she is stunned to realize they have both traveled back to London…1898. Worth is determined to change the course of his own history in order to save the life of his daughter -- even at the risk of destroying the entire future – and Magnus must track him down and stop him before he can make changes too large to remedy. Magnus’ dear friend James Watson (PETER WINGFIELD), history's greatest detective and the inspiration for the fictional Sherlock Holmes, deduces the truth about her mission, and together they must find a way to stop Worth. But Victorian London contains unexpected pitfalls for modern-day Magnus, who's frustrated by the return to a time when so many doors were closed to her. Crossing paths with her own past self, and with her star-crossed lover John Druitt (CHRISTOPHER HEYERDAHL) -- otherwise known as Jack the Ripper -- Magnus is at constant risk of unintentionally altering the timeline. And with someone murdering women in Whitechapel again, a decade after the original Ripper killings, Magnus knows more than she wishes about both the future and the past. As she battles to stop Worth, stay hidden from her past-self, and avoid taking any action that might change the events of history, Magnus must also figure out how to get back to her own present day timeline. New to Sanctuary?: Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus. She’s a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population — a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings known as “abnormals” that hide among humans. Although dismissed as monstrous figments of our imaginations and the stuff of our childhood nightmares, Magnus recognises that the world is full of nature’s mistakes and triumphs and has the spectacular proof that they are indeed real. With her new recruit, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, her fearless daughter Ashley and quirky tech-whiz Henry, they use their unique combination of instinct, medicine and cutting edge technology to find track down, study and protect the strange and often terrifying creatures whilst unlocking the mysteries behind their existence. Helmed by some of the innovative talents behind Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, Sanctuary is one of the first series to shoot extensively on green screen, using virtual sets and extraordinary visual effects.