The essential episodes of Millennium
Watch these 25 in order and you've got Millennium — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Frank Black a retired police consultant, who once worked for the FBI has just returned to his hometown with his wife and daughter. He decides to offer his support in a case and is given resources by a mysterious organization called the Millennium Group. Frank must catch the murderer with his ability to see out of the eyes of the killers. But this case draws him back into a world which he was trying to escape. But will Frank be able to save the latest victim in time before it is too late?
- 02
Against the initial resistance of the Group, Frank travels to Portland, Oregon, to investigate a murder at an animal shelter. He meets with Jim Horn, a profiler and candidate for the Millennium Group. But Horn is distracted by his imminent divorce, and there is tension between him and Frank. When the killer strikes again, Horn is losing control, and Frank not only has to catch the killer who leaves grisly messages on his victims, but he has to contend with Horn as well who is more than ready to stop the murderer with terminal prejudice.
- 03
A juvenile delinquent begins taking advantage of families grieving the loss of a loved one with the support of a sadistic friend to a murderous end. Frank Black puts himself in the troubled boy's frame of mind to find answers as Catherine looks elsewhere, into the boy's tortured family life.
- 04
Frank pursues a killer who kidnaps teenagers from an upper middle-class neighborhood and forces them to drink human blood. After one is killed and the other is returned home unharmed because his father admitted to making a mistake, Frank is forced to set up a trap to capture the killer before he can harm the third victim.
- 05
The Millennium Group investigates the suicides of identical twin girls born seven years apart. They soon find out that a man and his bizarre family of cloned daughters are preparing for the apocalyptic disaster of May 5th, 2000, when a celestial alignment of the planets take place.
- 06
When Frank links two seemingly unrelated murders he finds that a killer seems to be committing murders in the exact style of serial killer Richard Hance, whom Frank put behind bars twenty years ago. The case warrants Frank's attention, and he is forced to his personal demons before he can help Bletcher track down the copycat killer...
- 07
Frank is asked to develop a psychological profile on a sheriff who confessed to murdering his entire family. Frank begins to think the story does not add up and finds some inconsistencies in the case.
- 08
Frank investigates when he is called in by the Millennium Group to assist them in tracking down an escaped serial killer that Frank helped put behind bars years ago. The killer, Dr. Ephraim Fabricant, was abducted from a hospital while donating a kidney to his dying sister. But during the search, Frank comes face-to-face with an even more terrifying enemy which terrorizes his family.
- 09
Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions
Frank is drawn into a murder investigation based around Satanic murders that somehow involve a mysterious attorney and a man who claims to be Bob Bletcher's killer. While on the case the Millennium Group get caught in a battle between good and evil.
- 10
Frank is called in to investigate the kidnapping of the owner of a horse-farm. Frank then hunts down a serial-killer-in-the-making who takes pleasure in slaughtering horses, but Frank fears that horses may only be the beginning.
- 11
Frank and Peter are called in by a police detective to investigate a series of ritualistic murders. They then team up with a Russian police officer, Yura Surova to help solve the case. Surova's people believe that the person responsible for these murders is a Russian mythological being called Yaponchik...
- 12
While visiting Catherine's family in Virginia, Frank is asked to help clear the name of a man accused of killing his wife. To his surprise, however, Frank finds that the situation hits closer to home than he initially thought.
- 13
When the Polaroid Man abducts Catherine at the airport, Frank is left to try and find her whereabouts. Watts arrives with some of the Millennium Group members and offers to help him track down his wife, and also offers Frank the chance to become a full member of the Group. Meanwhile, Frank must rely on his visions to track down the Polaroid Man when his profiling skills fail to help him find the Polaroid Man.
- 14
When and old couple are attacked in their RV by a pack of vicious dogs, Frank is contacted by the Millennium Group and asked to investigate the killings. Frank finds it difficult to understand why the Group should be interested in animal attacks, but it persuaded to go and upon arrival he learns more about the motives of the Millennium Group from a mysterious old man. Meanwhile Catherine puts their yellow house on sale.
- 15
Frank and Peter help in the search for a bus load of school children. When they mysteriously vanish, they soon work out that the children have been kidnapped by a man who believes that World War III has just begun.
- 16
After three teenagers accidentally witness a real-life murder on the internet, so begins the hunt for the killer to stop his crimes. Roedecker helps Frank and Peter mount a national search for the felon, that may be the infamous Avatar killer from the 1980's. One who Frank knows well from his work in trying to catch the killer in the 1980's.
- 17
When a murder, half-based on an urban legend, comes to the attention of the Millennium Group. Peter and Frank travel to the local psychiatric hospital to interview the inmates, but according to Dr. Stoller, the patients would have been unable to commit the murders. The murders continue, each one different to the last, but all matching various patients' modus operandi...
- 18
When Frank and Peter help track down Landon Brice, an ordinary teenager who recently went missing, they believe that the boy was abducted. But the investigation brings Frank to believe that Lucy Butler (the prime suspect in the murder of his friend Bob Bletcher) is behind an entire series of abductions so he sets out on a mission to avenge Bob's death.
- 19
Four devils gather at a doughnut shop and swap stories about their dealings with mankind. But one thing all the devils have in common is that at some point in their lives they have run into Frank Black who somehow has the ability to see the devils' true forms.
- 20
Frank and Peter are quarantined after they come in contact with an unknown pathogen which has caused several people to die. Meanwhile Jordan experiences a terrifying nightmare and Lara Means disappears under mysterious circumstances.
- 21
Frank continues his study of a bizarre, but extremely fatal disease as it continues to spread throughout the world. Frank also learns that he has been vaccinated for the disease and he undertakes an investigation into the Millennium Group that may cost him his life. But he finds that his wife and child, however, have not been vaccinated for the disease and that soon their life's may be at risk....
- 22
Frank discovers a connection between the murder of a federal prosecutor, a gubernatorial candidate with a frail daughter... and the evil Lucy Butler who appears to have returned to torment Frank.
- 23
A manhunt ensures when an escapee from a mental institution - who is believed to have decapitated two people - goes on the run with a deputy police officer. Leaving it is up to Frank and Emma to find the escapee. Meanwhile Emma's father grows ill.
- 24
Frank pursues a serial killer whose modus operandi is identical to that of a murderer who died in the electric chair. Meanwhile Peter offers to aid Emma's ailing father but at a price, moving her closer to the Millennium Group.
- 25
In the aftermath of the explosion, Frank continues his pursuit of the copycat serial killer, while Peter Watts offers Emma Hollis an opportunity to join the Millennium Group. Will Emma join? How far will Frank go? And how will it all end?
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