Brimstone (TV series)
Brimstone was a short-lived American TV series. It ran for 13 episodes, beginning in October 1998 on the FOX network.
The story was about a dead and damned, but overall decent cop, named Ezekiel Stone, whom the Devil temporarily let out of hell in order to pursue 113 demonic escapees. Each episode focused on Stone tracking down an escapee, while trying to make the most of his own second chance at life on Earth, and enduring the Devil's mindgames.
Cast
- Central cast
- Peter Horton as Ezekiel "Zeke" Stone
- John Glover as the Devil
- Recurring cast
- Teri Polo as Ash
- Lori Petty as Max
- Albert Hall as Father Horn
- Stacy Haiduk as Rosalyn Stone
Notes
The only way to "kill" the escapees and return them to Hell is to shoot out both of their eyes. This was valid for Zeke as well as for his targets. And he wakes up each morning in the exact same condition he was when he died, down to the change in his pockets, except that his body is now covered in tattoos, each one being the name of a particular escapee. Every time Zeke returns an escapee to hell, the tattoo in of the escapee's name disappears.
The reason Zeke had been damned himself, which was revealed in the first episode, was that he had shot and killed the man who had raped his wife.
Detective Ash, a recurring female character who sometimes worked in collaboration with Zeke and became romantically involved with him, was revealed in episode 8 to have been the damned soul who orchestrated the prison break from Hell, and originally a Pagan woman who had sacrificed her own child to her goddess, before being damned by a deity in whom she did not believe. When Zeke discovered her identity, she escaped.
She returned in a later episode, posing as a man (since she had the ability to shape-shift) who became Rosalyn Stone's (Zeke's widow's) boyfriend, in order to get revenge on Zeke.
See also
Similar TV shows include The Collector and Dead Like Me.
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