The series follows centuries-old scientist Helen Magnus and her team: daughter Ashley; protégé Will Zimmerman; computer tech and Lycan Henry Foss and “Bigfoot”; and con artist Kate Freelander.
Dr. Helen Magnus runs an organization called The Sanctuary, an organization that seeks out extraordinarily powerful creatures and people, known as Abnormals, and tries to help and to learn from them while also having to contain the more dangerous ones.
| 2.07 Veritas | Air Date: November 20, 2009 |
Magnus is charged with murdering Bigfoot, and London Sanctuary head Declan McRae takes charge. Will’s efforts in clearing Magnus only incriminates her further. A trio of telepaths known as the “Triad”, headed by Emma, to understand her, but they fail to read her mind as Magnus has lost her mental stability. Will later discovers that Magnus may have kept alive “Big Bertha”, apparently the most dangerous abnormal on Earth Magnus was thought to have killed. He also discovers that Emma believes she is alive and tries to find her, but Will and Kate are able to fool her into capturing a decoy, and they convince her Big Bertha really is dead. In the end it is revealed Bigfoot faked his death as his skin was thick enough to stop a bullet with a venom to feign the signs of death. Magnus reveals that she designed this deception to catch Emma, whom she suspected for several years, and rendered herself immune to the Triad by attaching an Ozone Beetle to her brain to mimic her instability.
| 3.13 One Night | Air Date: April 25, 2011 |
Will and Abby Corrigan are kidnapped by a gang of assassins named the Vendetta Crew whilst they are out on a dinner date, and are forced to save the life of their leader Horatio Gibbs, a human/abnormal hybrid who has been poisoned. While at first believing the “date” has gone well, the rest of the Sanctuary team suspect otherwise when they hear Corrigan purchasing red listed abnormals. They find the two but Magnus denies the team clearance to rescue them, because by stopping the Vendetta Crew the Sanctuary will not know the location of a missing ship that is housing abnormals. After Will saves Gibbs, he lures the Sanctuary team to the ship and is arrested.
| 4.02 Uprising | Air Date: October 14, 2011 |
With Magnus missing in action after Praxis’s destruction, Will Zimmerman is appointed the head of the Sanctuary Network. However, his authority is ignored by the United Nations, which gives the private company Lotus Defense Corps all jurisdiction over the abnormal refugee camp and the abnormal hordes advancing from three calderas. After the abnormal leader Thelo dies in an explosion, Garris takes control of the abnormals, attempting to resolve the rioting peacefully. Henry Foss enters the camp and convinces Garris to release the hostages. LDC General Villanova launches a cruise missile attack against the Chilean caldera, so Will appoints girlfriend Abby Corrigan to break into the LDC computer system, where they learn Indonesia is the next target. Magnus resurfaces and finds that the Indonesian caldera is located over a basilisk feeding ground where an attack could result in a cataclysmic seismic event that would pave the way for the abnormals’ invasion. This indeed is later revealed as the master plan of Fallon, an abnormal who had faked her death to instigate the war. Running on this information, Villanova stands down. Crisis averted, Garris arrests Fallon and agrees to have his people return to Hollow Earth to rebuild their society with Kate Freelander appointed to oversee the rebuilding.
