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Episode Title: "Banshee"
Original Fox Air Date: 08/04/1997
Sci-Fi Air Date: 04/23/2003
Conor's efforts to unite with a rival clan are hampered by his inclusion of a young woman thought to be a death spirit. Heath Ledger. Catlin: Vera Farmiga. Fergus: John Saint Ryan. Diana: Lisa Zane. Tully: Alonzo Greer
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The Kulan tribe has been hearing the cry of the banshee at night, and two of them have died since the terrifying wails began. Conor helps the Kulan leader Morvern hunt for the banshee but stops him from killing a beautiful girl they find in the forest. Conor decides to bring the girl back to his own tribe, to protect her from Morvern, but along the way the girl has a vision that she believes predicts Conor's death. Suddenly she screams, and Morvern and his men leap from the forest and attack her and Conor.
Conor is wounded by a bolt from Morvern's crossbow. The girl drags Conor into the forest, where she removes the poison from his wound. Morvern's men are killed but he escapes. The girl tells Conor her name is Shannon, and she admits that she has visions of people's deaths. But she has saved Conor's life, and his tribe accepts her out of gratitude. But her welcome is soon worn out when she screams at the same time as a baby is born dead.
Conor agrees to take Shannon back to her own village, Mount Kisare, but Shannon has the same vision of Conor's death and flees into the forest, where she meets Longinus. He wants to know that he can die, but Shannon cannot foresee his death.
Conor's group finally reaches Mount Kisare, but Shannon's mother will not allow the girl in, because by saving Conor she defied an ancient custom. Conor takes Shannon to the river Tanis, where she drinks the magical waters and loses her prophetic powers. At the last moment, however, Morvern leaps from hiding and fires his crossbow. The bolt strikes Shannon and kills her – it was her own death she had foreseen, not Conor's. As she dies the clan hears the Roar again for the first time in weeks.
Heath Ledger [Conor]
Lisa Zane [Diana]
Sebastian Roche [Longinus]
Vera Farmiga [Catlin]
John Saint Ryan [Fergus]
Alonzo Greer [Tully]
Created By
Shaun Cassidy
&
Ron Koslow
ROAR
Guest Stars
Brigid Brannagh [Shannon]
Robert Carlton [Morvern]
Peter McCauley [Culann]
Amanda Wenban []
Music By Jon Ehrlich
Co-Executive Producer Michael Nankin
Co-Producer Lawrence Meyers
Co-Producer Brian Chambers
Consulting Producer Jefery Levy
Producers Paul Barber
& Larry Barber
Produced By Howard Grigsby
Written By Lawrence Meyers
Directed By Lou Antonio
Executive Producer
Ron Koslow
Executive Producer
Shaun Cassidy
Associate Producer Todd London
Co-Starring
Kathryn Hartman Finnegas's Wife
Patrick Dickson King Derek
Alan Flower Merchant
With
Charles Anthony Soldier
Peter Best Person #2
Boris Brkic [?] Druid
Andrew Buchanan Guard
Brendan Glanville Person #1
Rene Perri Henchman #1
Warwick Rimmer Finnegas
Michael Roughan Slavemaster
Director of Photography Levy Isaacks
Production Designer Bernard Hides
Edited By Casey Brown
Unit Production Manager Gina Black
First Assistant Director Peter Fitzgerald
Second Assistant Directors Angella McPherson
Vera Biffone
Casting by Megan Branman, CSA (L.A.)
Maura Fay
Lynne Ruthven (Australia)
Set Decorator Ken James
Art Director Eugene Intas
Additional Photography John Stokes
Supervising Sound Editor Charlie Crutcher
Music Editor Eduardo Ponsdomench
Visual Effects Supervisors John F. K. Parenteau
Branden L. Smith
Production Services Village Roadshow Pictures
Sound Mixer Bob Clayton
Panaflex(R) Camera and
Lenses by Panavision (R)
Costume Designer Jean Turnbull
Make-up/Hairstylist Viv Rushbrook
Prosthetic Make-up The Frampton Institute
Set Designer Jacinta Leong
Stunt Coordinator Danny Baldwin
Filmed at
Warner Roadshow Movie
World Studios,
Queensland
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