After jumping back in time for a series of adventures, Dan Vasser (
Kevin McKidd) soon finds himself on a quest for a serial kidnapper. The exploration begins in tonight's episode of
Journeyman entitled “Emily.”
Broadcast on NBC,
Journeyman follows Dan Vasser, a reporter who uncontrollably shifts through time and space, enabling him to make some changes in a person's destiny that doesn't always turn out for the better. In the present, he has a wife named Katie (
Gretchen Egolf), who knows what is going on with her husband's time-traveling, and a son named Zack (Charles Wyson), while in the past, Dan reconnects with Livia Beale (
Moon Bloodgood) his ex-fiancée whom he lost in a plane crash.
Tonight's episode is part one of a special two-part arc that revolves around a kidnapping case. Dan travels back to the early '90s where he appears to be on a search for a kidnapper, who is played by Raphael Sbarge (
24). Katie contemplates on how Dan's disappearances are affecting Zack when she is called into his school, while Dan's brother Jack (
Reed Diamond), who works as a police detective and still has feelings for Katie, continues to be cynical but begins to see evidence that his brother might be telling the truth about his time travels.
"The next episode that's being shown on Monday night is the beginning of a two-parter. It's quite exciting, I remember reading it and thinking uh oh, something's bubbling. In the second episode, everything comes to a head. It's pretty gruesome. I don't want to tell you too much, but let's just say that I'm in an intense and high-pressured situation, with my life in danger. There was some pretty heavy-duty acting with a wonderful actor named Raphael Sbarge. It reached a level of intensity in terms of the writing that none of us had seen before this particular script,” Egolf told About.com.
According to Egolf, the writers of the show have positively developed
Journeyman and have realized how much further they could go on with the convention of time travel. She also emphasizes on the diversity of depicting the consequences of changing the past, which have made the show more interesting.
Journeyman airs tonight at 10/9c on NBC.
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: About.com
(Image courtesy of NBC)