Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestBarney Wheelock is almost killed, and has a near-death experience, just after being admitted. Dr. Elizabeth Baines, an old friend of Dr. Cullen, is at the hospital speaking on the "white light" near death experience. Wheelock becomes possessed by "Roger" and dangerous, kidnapping tattooed nurse Kim Peretti before killing his wife Calvette and their two sons. Roger then possesses Kim and goes after Dr. Sterling. It is revealed that "Roger" is an old "god of the dead" working through nurse Karen Waverly and has gone after Dr. Baines as the next victim. Dr. Cullen is attacked in the process, but saved by Dr. Grace.
In a Boston hospital, All Souls Hospital, Dr. Mitchell Grace tries to discover the truth about the haunting that date as far back as the Civil War. The hospital's lower levels, once a mental asylum, are haunted by ghosts of dead patients, including Lazarus, an orderly who has been benevolently haunting the hospital since his days working with Dr. Ambrosius after the Civil War.
Production
Creepy asylum sets that outshine the budget
Acting
Irma P. Hall brings gravitas to ghost lore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a brief 2001 wave of medical-supernatural shows that included 'Gideon's Crossing' and 'Wolf Lake,' all trying to replicate 'The X-Files' magic in hospitals.
Creator Stuart Gillard also directed 'Teen Wolf Too,' making this his second project about supernatural beings in institutional settings.
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