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| Airdate = 2001/07/24 | | Airdate = 2001/07/24 | ||
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| Writer = | | Writer = Roderick Taylor & Bruce A. Taylor (teleplay); Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie (story) | ||
| Director = | | Director = Neill Fearnley | ||
| Guests = | | Guests = | ||
| Episode list = [[List of Witchblade episodes]] | | Episode list = [[List of Witchblade episodes]] | ||
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* Sara is forced to endure a test by the Witchblade -- the periculum -- to determine her "worthiness" to wear the blade. | |||
==summary + spoilers== | |||
* Sara is forced to endure a test by the Witchblade -- the periculum -- to determine her "worthiness" to wear the blade. She gets to visit with various blade-forebearers, including [[Jeanne d'Arc]], Emily Bronte, and her Irish pre-incarnate. She is told that she is not so much a reincarnation as the same person as Emily Bronte and all the other bearers. | |||
* Audience learns that Emily Bronte was killed by Kenneth Irons. | * Audience learns that Emily Bronte was killed by Kenneth Irons. | ||
* Evil cop boss offers Jake membership in the "white bull" club -- a club of cops he describes as killing the guilty that got off, and taking their ill-gotten gains, and looking out for each other's wellbeing. | |||
* At the end of the episode there's a suggestion that Sara's father was a member of the white bulls. | |||
Latest revision as of 09:50, 6 August 2009
| Witchblade episode | |
|---|---|
| “Periculum” | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 7 |
| Writer(s) | Roderick Taylor & Bruce A. Taylor (teleplay); Ralph Hemecker & Richard C. Okie (story) |
| Director | Neill Fearnley |
| Production no. | |
| Original airdate | 2001/07/24 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "Maelstrom" | "Thanatopsis" |
summary + spoilers
- Sara is forced to endure a test by the Witchblade -- the periculum -- to determine her "worthiness" to wear the blade. She gets to visit with various blade-forebearers, including Jeanne d'Arc, Emily Bronte, and her Irish pre-incarnate. She is told that she is not so much a reincarnation as the same person as Emily Bronte and all the other bearers.
- Audience learns that Emily Bronte was killed by Kenneth Irons.
- Evil cop boss offers Jake membership in the "white bull" club -- a club of cops he describes as killing the guilty that got off, and taking their ill-gotten gains, and looking out for each other's wellbeing.
- At the end of the episode there's a suggestion that Sara's father was a member of the white bulls.
see also
- "Helpless", episode in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which she is forced to undergo the "Cruciamentum", a test of her worthiness, administered by "the Council"