3x07 - Breach
Written By : Damian Kindler
Directed By : Martin Wood
Guest Stars : Ian Tracey
Airs : Syfy (US) 26-Nov-10
Directed By : Martin Wood
Guest Stars : Ian Tracey
Airs : Syfy (US) 26-Nov-10
NOTE : entries with a double asterisk are included tentatively as they have been identified with an episode based solely on a rough shooting schedule. They may not belong to this episode.
Short Episode Descriptions
Magnus responds to an anonymous call for help at an abandoned building. When she gets trapped inside, she discovers whomever made the call had a very different agenda.
Source : CTV/Space Press Release
An anonymous call for help brings Magnus, Will and Kate to an eerie, abandoned building, where Magnus encounters a violent assailant.
Source : TVguide.com
Source : CTV/Space Press Release
An anonymous call for help brings Magnus, Will and Kate to an eerie, abandoned building, where Magnus encounters a violent assailant.
Source : TVguide.com
16-NOV-10
Is Sanctuary's Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) a murderess? Fans of the Syfy series will learn that the kindly, 158-year-old scientist was forced to kill her fellow Oxford student Adam Worth (Ian Tracey) back in the Victorian era. Now this same man — a genius psychopath and the inspiration for Jekyll and Hyde — has time-warped to the present to raise hell. Creator Damian Kindler says, "Magnus must make a deal with the devil because Adam has information about Hollow Earth — an entire world that has been hidden from us for a very good reason."
Source : TVguide.com - Sci-fi Preview
Source : TVguide.com - Sci-fi Preview
10-NOV-10
From A Q&A session on Twitter with SanctuarySeries
Q - @TxZodiac: Will there be some fantastic fight scenes this year?
A - Yes! Breach (ep 7) has AMAZING fight scenes and a little later in the season, we have an ep that is a fight scene extravaganza with a humorous twist! /
Source : Twitter - SanctuarySeries
Q - @TxZodiac: Will there be some fantastic fight scenes this year?
A - Yes! Breach (ep 7) has AMAZING fight scenes and a little later in the season, we have an ep that is a fight scene extravaganza with a humorous twist! /
Source : Twitter - SanctuarySeries
23-OCT-10
What's your favourite episode of Season 3?
Agam Darshi: I love the episode Breach, I'm not really in that one very much but reading it was really different, it's... it's not an episode that we've ever done on Sanctuary before and it's actually a very risky episode to be honest when I read it I was surprised that it was given the green light to be done, simply because it is risky.
Christopher Heyerdahl: I loved Breach just because it was such a huge... it was such a huge challenge for Amanda to go through what she had to go through in order make that episode come through and she did it with such grace and whenever I see examples of Amanda's grace it always inspires me. So that's a favourite for that and it's also the introduction of Ian Tracey who I have huge respect for his talent and it's wonderful that he was available to come and be a part of our family and play with us for a while until who knows when.
Martin Wood: What's interesting about Breach is when I started looking at it I thought okay I've done the Next Tuesdays and the Requiems where it was two handers and each of those shows tend to be the more difficult ones because you are in one place all the time. In this one I wanted to direct it a different way so what I did was take all the stuff that's in that one side of your brain that tells you.. you know it's like the autonomic breathing system it's just this is what you do when you get in this kind of situation, this is what you do, this is how you shoot this scene, this is how do this. And I changed all that by just throwing that out and every time I looked like I was going to do something the same I changed it. And it was a scary show for me it was really scary show because I went into it completely on the balls of my feet and I was shooting two shows back to back and I shot that one in six days instead of seven days and so there was a whole bunch of factors that allowed me to get scared and I did and it's probably one of the best shows I've directed.
Source : SciFi Australia - Sanctuary Season 3 Q&A
Agam Darshi: I love the episode Breach, I'm not really in that one very much but reading it was really different, it's... it's not an episode that we've ever done on Sanctuary before and it's actually a very risky episode to be honest when I read it I was surprised that it was given the green light to be done, simply because it is risky.
Christopher Heyerdahl: I loved Breach just because it was such a huge... it was such a huge challenge for Amanda to go through what she had to go through in order make that episode come through and she did it with such grace and whenever I see examples of Amanda's grace it always inspires me. So that's a favourite for that and it's also the introduction of Ian Tracey who I have huge respect for his talent and it's wonderful that he was available to come and be a part of our family and play with us for a while until who knows when.
Martin Wood: What's interesting about Breach is when I started looking at it I thought okay I've done the Next Tuesdays and the Requiems where it was two handers and each of those shows tend to be the more difficult ones because you are in one place all the time. In this one I wanted to direct it a different way so what I did was take all the stuff that's in that one side of your brain that tells you.. you know it's like the autonomic breathing system it's just this is what you do when you get in this kind of situation, this is what you do, this is how you shoot this scene, this is how do this. And I changed all that by just throwing that out and every time I looked like I was going to do something the same I changed it. And it was a scary show for me it was really scary show because I went into it completely on the balls of my feet and I was shooting two shows back to back and I shot that one in six days instead of seven days and so there was a whole bunch of factors that allowed me to get scared and I did and it's probably one of the best shows I've directed.
Source : SciFi Australia - Sanctuary Season 3 Q&A
4-OCT-10
Excerpts from an audio interview with Martin Wood & Damian Kindler, August 2010
Interviewer: So first of all we're very much looking forward to Season 3. What is your favourite episode from Season 3?
Martin: Requiem! Oh! From Season 3? Breach.
Interviewer: Breach? Yeah, I've been hearing a lot about this, so is it going to be... what, huge? You know, changing every thing?
Martin: It's great, it's great. My favourite one for Season 3. Kali 3 is good.
Interviewer: Oh it's Kali 3?
Damian: I think it's wrong for me to choose one I wrote so I'm not going to choose one.
Martin: No it's not, choose your favourite.
Damian: Breach
Martin: Breach
Damian: Breach, when I saw the Director's cut at the end I went [yells] "Oh! Yeah!" and then I realised that you were there still so I went "it was alright, hey whatever"
Martin: During screening of shows that Damian writes I almost never say anything and this one I got kind of emotional and I actually looked him and said "phew, it's pretty good"
Interviewer: and you wrote that?
Damian: Yes
Martin: and he won't let me up for air since I said that and so it's the last time I ever comment
Interviewer: So what is it about it that makes it, you don't have to tell me spoilers but is it the visual effects? Is it more of a...
Martin: it gets us into what the big arc is
Damian: we actually achieved a ginormous amount of achievement
Martin: yeah we covered a lot of ground
Damian: it's actually a giant achievement in about five different ways all in one 44 minute package. One, it got you off my back
Martin: Me off your back about doing
Damian: For three years before we even had a series Martin wanted to do an episode, both Martin and Amanda wanted to do an episode where Magnus is essentially left behind on a mission to clean up something by herself and encounters someone that no one else knew was there and it almost kills her. She somehow defends herself, gets to the bottom of the mystery and almost dies in the process of fighting this creature, this monster, this threat and then kind of wanders back into the Sanctuary and everyone is like "Hey where have you been?" and only the audience and Magnus really know what happened. That's the thing and I to my I think credit said that's a shit story, I'm not doing it.
Interviewer: [laughs]
Martin: He did! Those were his words. That is not a story it's just
Damian: running and jumping. It's a director's mastabutory exercise
Martin: and then about a week after we started fighting about it, he came down to the set and he was like "I've got it! I've got it! I've got the way in!" and came up with a character that was going to take us to the next level in this arc
Damian: We needed a new villain right?
Martin: Yeah
Damian: So I said this has to be the door into the new villain. And once we figured out who the new villain was
Martin: as soon as that happened then he said
Damian: no it was just the villain because we knew we needed a villain, I figured out what he is doing
Martin: that's right, that was on a phone call you figured it out
Damian: and the best part about it is, I'm glad we're on record here, because the best part about it is I did all this twisting and pretzel logic and I came out the other side of it and this catharsis and Martin is "See! for three year's I've been telling you there is a story there!" and I'm like, I've been up in my office killing myself trying to make your idea! - you know, he wanted a really cool solo Magnus action thing and since the uh believe me until I found a way to make it good and then he went "See!"
Martin: but it's writing genius is what it is
Interviewer: and that's Ian Tracey? He's going to be playing that?
Damian: It's also directing genius and it's performance genius because it's two actors, toe to toe. Martin directed the shit out of it, it's like kinetic and fast and scary and weird and amazing and it never stops. Really it's an episode that grabs you by the throat, scares you then shocks then just pulls you along with it in an amazing ride. Reveals really cool sci-fi moments of like "Holy shit! That's what's going on here?" and then kind of releases you at a crest fall. It's actually kind of the tightest story we've ever told
Martin: Yeah it is
Interviewer: Interesting
Damian: like it goes pffft!
Martin: and we shot it in less time than we shoot a normal episode
Interviewer: is the villain someone we would knnow? Like is it going back to like uh
Damian: you don't know him but you realise he's from that era
Martin: he's ancient history
Damian: we said at Comic Con we were introducing someone who was the inspiration for Jeckyl & Hyde and that's all I'm saying
Interviewer: Oh, OK.
Damian: except that he's also mad
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Damian: the great thing about Breach is that it gives you that really kinetic kind of scary, pot boiler, scary almost like predator type story but it opens up it's like a five episode arc with this villain is there he's... you know good villains aren't just "I will kill you and destroy the word ah ha hah!", they're more like - you like them, they're funny, they're scary, they're charismatic, they pull you in and they scare you and repulse you and Ian Tracey's character does that in such an amazing kind of first act of this building and then we take it some really cool places. He's with us for five more episodes.
Interviewer: Oh cool so that's the first from there and then we go
Damian: we start literally with a bang and then we go from there, it's great.
Source : WormholRiders - Sanctuary Season 3 Secrets
Interviewer: So first of all we're very much looking forward to Season 3. What is your favourite episode from Season 3?
Martin: Requiem! Oh! From Season 3? Breach.
Interviewer: Breach? Yeah, I've been hearing a lot about this, so is it going to be... what, huge? You know, changing every thing?
Martin: It's great, it's great. My favourite one for Season 3. Kali 3 is good.
Interviewer: Oh it's Kali 3?
Damian: I think it's wrong for me to choose one I wrote so I'm not going to choose one.
Martin: No it's not, choose your favourite.
Damian: Breach
Martin: Breach
Damian: Breach, when I saw the Director's cut at the end I went [yells] "Oh! Yeah!" and then I realised that you were there still so I went "it was alright, hey whatever"
Martin: During screening of shows that Damian writes I almost never say anything and this one I got kind of emotional and I actually looked him and said "phew, it's pretty good"
Interviewer: and you wrote that?
Damian: Yes
Martin: and he won't let me up for air since I said that and so it's the last time I ever comment
Interviewer: So what is it about it that makes it, you don't have to tell me spoilers but is it the visual effects? Is it more of a...
Martin: it gets us into what the big arc is
Damian: we actually achieved a ginormous amount of achievement
Martin: yeah we covered a lot of ground
Damian: it's actually a giant achievement in about five different ways all in one 44 minute package. One, it got you off my back
Martin: Me off your back about doing
Damian: For three years before we even had a series Martin wanted to do an episode, both Martin and Amanda wanted to do an episode where Magnus is essentially left behind on a mission to clean up something by herself and encounters someone that no one else knew was there and it almost kills her. She somehow defends herself, gets to the bottom of the mystery and almost dies in the process of fighting this creature, this monster, this threat and then kind of wanders back into the Sanctuary and everyone is like "Hey where have you been?" and only the audience and Magnus really know what happened. That's the thing and I to my I think credit said that's a shit story, I'm not doing it.
Interviewer: [laughs]
Martin: He did! Those were his words. That is not a story it's just
Damian: running and jumping. It's a director's mastabutory exercise
Martin: and then about a week after we started fighting about it, he came down to the set and he was like "I've got it! I've got it! I've got the way in!" and came up with a character that was going to take us to the next level in this arc
Damian: We needed a new villain right?
Martin: Yeah
Damian: So I said this has to be the door into the new villain. And once we figured out who the new villain was
Martin: as soon as that happened then he said
Damian: no it was just the villain because we knew we needed a villain, I figured out what he is doing
Martin: that's right, that was on a phone call you figured it out
Damian: and the best part about it is, I'm glad we're on record here, because the best part about it is I did all this twisting and pretzel logic and I came out the other side of it and this catharsis and Martin is "See! for three year's I've been telling you there is a story there!" and I'm like, I've been up in my office killing myself trying to make your idea! - you know, he wanted a really cool solo Magnus action thing and since the uh believe me until I found a way to make it good and then he went "See!"
Martin: but it's writing genius is what it is
Interviewer: and that's Ian Tracey? He's going to be playing that?
Damian: It's also directing genius and it's performance genius because it's two actors, toe to toe. Martin directed the shit out of it, it's like kinetic and fast and scary and weird and amazing and it never stops. Really it's an episode that grabs you by the throat, scares you then shocks then just pulls you along with it in an amazing ride. Reveals really cool sci-fi moments of like "Holy shit! That's what's going on here?" and then kind of releases you at a crest fall. It's actually kind of the tightest story we've ever told
Martin: Yeah it is
Interviewer: Interesting
Damian: like it goes pffft!
Martin: and we shot it in less time than we shoot a normal episode
Interviewer: is the villain someone we would knnow? Like is it going back to like uh
Damian: you don't know him but you realise he's from that era
Martin: he's ancient history
Damian: we said at Comic Con we were introducing someone who was the inspiration for Jeckyl & Hyde and that's all I'm saying
Interviewer: Oh, OK.
Damian: except that he's also mad
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Damian: the great thing about Breach is that it gives you that really kinetic kind of scary, pot boiler, scary almost like predator type story but it opens up it's like a five episode arc with this villain is there he's... you know good villains aren't just "I will kill you and destroy the word ah ha hah!", they're more like - you like them, they're funny, they're scary, they're charismatic, they pull you in and they scare you and repulse you and Ian Tracey's character does that in such an amazing kind of first act of this building and then we take it some really cool places. He's with us for five more episodes.
Interviewer: Oh cool so that's the first from there and then we go
Damian: we start literally with a bang and then we go from there, it's great.
Source : WormholRiders - Sanctuary Season 3 Secrets
22-AUG-10
Interviewer: I'm looking forward to the episode with the torture and you go through the wringer...
Amanda: [joking] Holy Moly! Damian Kindler hates me! [Laughter]
Amanda: [muffled] Damian has a vendetta and he does it in a very not so subtle, let's write a crazy script kinda way. Yeah, it's a biggie. We talked about it but it's... I get beaten up in this one episode called Breach and we shot it at Riverview Psychiatric Hospital and it was very cold and we were in the tunnel and we found a dead rat, it was wet and I was soaking wet and fighting. We had fight sequences and I did a lot of my own stunts and I use a chain and I had a machete and a hammer fight, I was... it was just nuts what I was doing and yeah I got, I really go beaten up. I actually got thrown up against a wall at one point and it took me about three months to release my neck, so I look like this [laughter] for a few of the episodes. But it was really fun. Yeah I went home every night feeling I worked today.
Source : WormholeRiders - Comic Con 2010 video interview
Amanda: [joking] Holy Moly! Damian Kindler hates me! [Laughter]
Amanda: [muffled] Damian has a vendetta and he does it in a very not so subtle, let's write a crazy script kinda way. Yeah, it's a biggie. We talked about it but it's... I get beaten up in this one episode called Breach and we shot it at Riverview Psychiatric Hospital and it was very cold and we were in the tunnel and we found a dead rat, it was wet and I was soaking wet and fighting. We had fight sequences and I did a lot of my own stunts and I use a chain and I had a machete and a hammer fight, I was... it was just nuts what I was doing and yeah I got, I really go beaten up. I actually got thrown up against a wall at one point and it took me about three months to release my neck, so I look like this [laughter] for a few of the episodes. But it was really fun. Yeah I went home every night feeling I worked today.
Source : WormholeRiders - Comic Con 2010 video interview
6-AUG-10
Next up was Robin Dunne, who stopped by the table. With a smile, he asked us where we were all from, and after explaining that we had people at our table from the four corners of the world, we asked him what his favorite episodes so far for Season 3 were. He told us to watch out for the arcs between episode 5 and 6, which basically changes the entire course of the series. He also explained how the first episode, Kali 3, is extremely big for Will. One can only imagine how the Sanctuary gang was going to get us away from Big Bertha, and into the arcs that will change how we see the series.
Source : WormholeRiders - Sanctuary Experience Convention report
Source : WormholeRiders - Sanctuary Experience Convention report
6-AUG-10
The next one to show up at our table was Chuck Campbell, who you may know as “The two faced guy” but who we also learned is also a stand in for a lot of the actors on the show, and is a full time employee within the Sanctuary team. Chuck was a breath of fresh air, and made me giggle more than I had in a very long time. When we said that the trailer for Season 3 looked amazing, he jokingly added little tidbits of information about the different scenes, such as on the call sheet, Ian Tracey’s character doesn’t have a name, but was referred to as “Jekyll and Hyde”!
Source : WormholeRiders - Sanctuary Experience Convention report
Source : WormholeRiders - Sanctuary Experience Convention report
6-AUG-10
After a short intro into what the Sanctuary Experience meant to each of the actors and producers, they started mingling around the tables. First off, Producer and Director, Martin Wood stopped by our table. We asked him what his favorite episode so far in Season 3 was, and he answered ecstatically “Breach!” While talking with Martin, we discovered that it will be episode 5 in Season 3 of Sanctuary, and is an epic battle between Dr. Helen Magnus and a new character played by Ian Tracey. In fact, the episode has been such a long time coming, that Damian and Martin had conceived this episode before Season 1 even aired. When he left, our table was a buzz with excitement over the prospect that this episode was going to knock our socks off apparently.
Source : WormholeRiders - Sanctuary Experience Convention report
Source : WormholeRiders - Sanctuary Experience Convention report
6-JUL-10**
Excerpt :
Added to this, Kindler has revealed that we will see a villain this year who will likely make a nuisance of himself over a period of several episodes, and will have a key role in the overall arc. This new bad guy will be played by Ian Tracy, and Kindler couldn’t be more upbeat about the actor and what he is bringing to the show and as for the character.
“He is an amazingly complex character who has a very dualistic nature. I just don’t want to give it away, because I hope it’s an amazing revelation when we learn who he really is.
Source : SciFi Pulse - Sanctuary Returning To It's Steampunk Roots
Added to this, Kindler has revealed that we will see a villain this year who will likely make a nuisance of himself over a period of several episodes, and will have a key role in the overall arc. This new bad guy will be played by Ian Tracy, and Kindler couldn’t be more upbeat about the actor and what he is bringing to the show and as for the character.
“He is an amazingly complex character who has a very dualistic nature. I just don’t want to give it away, because I hope it’s an amazing revelation when we learn who he really is.
Source : SciFi Pulse - Sanctuary Returning To It's Steampunk Roots
17-JUN-10
Tony & Amanda were discussing Martin's penchant for each season getting Helen & Will wet and beating them up and Amanda says
"And I've actually done one this season without Robin. An episode called Breach where I do literally get beaten up"
Source : SciFiTalk - Podcast
"And I've actually done one this season without Robin. An episode called Breach where I do literally get beaten up"
Source : SciFiTalk - Podcast
11-JUN-10
VANCOUVER - Ian Tracey's face is black, blue and bloody, but he's not getting any love from a stone-faced Amanda Tapping. Dressed in black leathers and knee-high boots, the veteran actor is getting tough with this alien brand of Cybil - an "abnormal" with multiple personalities - because, well, the survival of humanity depends on it.
Welcome to the Vancouver set of Sanctuary - "the little show that could."
Source : Ottawa Citizen - Sci-fi show finds Sanctuary in Vancouver
Welcome to the Vancouver set of Sanctuary - "the little show that could."
Source : Ottawa Citizen - Sci-fi show finds Sanctuary in Vancouver
6-JUN-10
Ian Tracey, one-time star of the much-missed, Vancouver-filmed crime series Intelligence, shows up for several episodes of Amanda Tapping's gothic monster series as a mysterious guy with personality issues.
Source : The Province - Now Shooting
Source : The Province - Now Shooting
4-JUN-10
Doing notes on Sanctuary 306. The fur is flying, we see Magnus' bedroom and there's a character named Erika! What more can a girl ask for?
Source : Twitter - Erika Kennair
Source : Twitter - Erika Kennair
21-MAY-10**
Two intense weeks. Filming "animus" and "breach". So excited to go to work with Ian Tracey and then the intensely talented Jonathon Young.
We worked at Riverview, a partially shut down psychiatric hospital. I'm checking myself in!! But, man these eps are going to be good. Xoxo
We have such amazing guest stars!! Wow. I'm blown away. I LOVE this show. Thanks tweeps as always for the love and support. Xo
Source : Twitter - Amanda Tapping
We worked at Riverview, a partially shut down psychiatric hospital. I'm checking myself in!! But, man these eps are going to be good. Xoxo
We have such amazing guest stars!! Wow. I'm blown away. I LOVE this show. Thanks tweeps as always for the love and support. Xo
Source : Twitter - Amanda Tapping
23-APR-10
Holy!!!! Episode 307 of #Sanctuary is an awesome read!! Which means it will be awesome on-screen!!! Can't wait!!!
Source : Twitter - Jaclyn MacRae
Source : Twitter - Jaclyn MacRae