Owls and Roosters

Owls and Roosters

They say that light is stronger than darkness... pray they're right...

Chris Carter's original idea for Millennium was a series that would present a more mature point of view of the world from the perspective of a law enforcement officer than offered in his companion series The X-Files. To this end, the character of Frank Black was envisaged to be portrayed by an older actor than David Duchovny. Carter favoured Lance Henriksen in the lead role and pushed studio executives at 20th Century Fox to approve Henriksen's casting. Carter also pursued Henriksen personally and finally persuaded the actor to take the role of Frank Black by leaving a copy of the pilot script outside of his hotel room. Henriksen signed up on the strength of the writing.

Carter pitched Millennium to Fox as Seven set in Seattle. The mise en scène of a dark, rain-soaked city and a world-weary detective's hunt for a religiously-inspired serial killer have clear parallels with the pilot episode. The pilot served to introduce the Black family, consisting of Frank, wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) and daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady). The family was depicted returning to Seattle where Frank was born and raised because Frank wanted to protect his family from the evil with which his job as a criminal profiler with the FBI brought him in to daily contact. The end of the episode saw Frank receiving a series of Polaroid photographs of his wife and daughter in an envelope with no return address, setting up a stalking thread that would be resolved in the second season. It is often misconstrued that Frank is "psychic", but Chris Carter has reiterated in commentaries on the Millennium Season One DVD that Frank simply had "a gift", which Frank also stated was "a curse"; there was no tie to being a psychic.

Lance Henriksen - Frank Black

Brittany Tiplady - Jordan Black

Megan Gallagher - Catherine Black

Klea Scott - Emma Hollis

Terry O'Quinn - Peter Watts

Stephen J. Lang - Det. Bob Giebelhouse

Bill Smitrovich - Lt. Bob Bletcher

Stephen E. Miller - Andy McClaren

Kristen Cloke - Lara Means

Peter Outerbridge - Barry Baldwin

We live in a world where too many people won't go far enough... won't do what they know is right... what they believe. I don't know how or why it got this way but the world has become so complicated, to involve yourself in someone else's problems is to invite them needlessly on yourself.

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