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:: EPISODE GUIDE ::

~*~ Season One ~*~

Exactly a year after his death, Eric Draven (Mark Dacascos) returns to the site of his murder. Haunted by images of his soulmate Shelly Webster (Sabine Karsenti), and unsure if he is alive or dead, Draven painfully starts to piece together what happened the night he and his lover died. Draven was a rising rock musician with a promising career; Webster was a professional photographer. Their brutal murder by a gang of contract killers is inexplicable to both Draven and to Detective Daryl Albrecht (Marc Gomes) who, despite the opposition of his superiors, is still investigating the crime. As his disorientation gives way to rage, Draven hunts down the gang, trying to find the person who ordered the killings. After a brutal fight, that should have destroyed him, he reconnects with Sarah (Katie Stuart), a tough-talking teenager he and Shelly were close to and the only one willing to believe his story. Detective Albrecht shockingly suspects Draven of staging his own death and murdering Shelly, and everyone else thinks he is an impostor, trying to step into a dead man's shoes. As he comes closer to discovering the truth of their death, Draven also struggles to understand his growing supernatural abilities and control the murderous rage he feels whenever he transforms into The Crow.

1x02 Souled Out

Draven finds the man who ordered his death and Shelly's murder, but as he uncovers the truth is he strong enough to battlean evil that seems to have the same supernatural powers he himself possesses as The Crow?
Draven's battle with the gang of contract killers has left his old club, The Blackout, in shambles. The badly beaten gang boss and club manager is in hospital, under psychiatric care, babbling incoherently about the dead returning from the grave. The rest of his gang of contract killers is also under arrest but Draven is no closer to knowing who ordered his death.
While at The Blackout, Draven hears the song that he sang for Shelly on the night they died being played by his old band. Although never written down, the song is now owned by the band's new recording company, Reyes International, who also have an interest in the club. It is the key to the murders.
While at the company's corporate offices he comes face to face with Mace Reyes (Mark Rolston), an apparent invalid, and his wife India (Julie Dreyfus). Draven senses the woman is terrified of her husband and of his menacing Head of Security, Frank Voz (Michael Tiernan), and helps her to escape both of them. She's willing to expose her husband's murderous connections to the police, and while Detective Albrecht is still skeptical about Draven, he will do anything to discover who put out the contract on Shelly.
He goes to meet the woman, only to learn she has been forced back to her husband. Draven goes to rescue India but finds himself up against an evil he has never encountered before, an evil which seems to have all the supernatural powers he himself possesses when he transforms into The Crow.

1x03 Get A Life

In the Land of the Dead, Shelly meets a young woman Elise Franklin (Ingrid Kavelaars) whose fiancée has been framed for her murder. Draven, meanwhile is about to be evicted from the loft he and Shelly shared when she communicates the injustice to him. The loft is obviously a link-point between their two worlds and must be saved at all costs. Detective Albrecht, who has formed an uneasy alliance with Draven, advises him to "get a life and pay the rent", so when India Reyes (Julie Dreyfus) offers him a job at the Blackout Club, he agrees. Draven sets out to find justice for Gil Hedges (Peter Fleming) and expose the real murderer - the dead woman's father John T. Franklin (Donnelly Rhodes). After Draven establishes Hedges' innocence Elise is freed to move on to the Light and asks Shelly to join her. Shelly, however, isn't ready to leave - she is waiting for Draven.

1x04 Like It's 1999

Detective Albrecht investigates a series of violent home invasions that look more like parties than robberies. He asks Draven to keep his ears peeled at the Blackout for any talk that could lead to a clue. Sarah turns out to hold the real key, however, through her friend, Kyle Barber. He is deeply involved with a nihilistic cult of disenfranchised kids who are being manipulated by a charismatic, sociopathic leader, Shane Gant (actor). He uses the coming Millennium as a powerful control mechanism, urging his followers to believe in nothing but himself. Draven, a man who also has good reason to believe in nothing, is forced to put aside his own alienation. By exposing the leader, he manages to set free the followers, giving them hope in their otherwise hopeless lives.

1x05 Voices

A day at the Carnival brings back painful memories for Draven of one of his first dates with Shelly. At the fair, he and Sarah stumble across a young trance-medium whose handlers claim he can channel dead spirits. Jesse (Brendan Fletcher), a sad exploited teenager, actually has powers. He connects with Shelly who has a message for Draven, that he must continue to "set things right" as a way of finally clearing the slate to allow the two of them to be together. Draven thinks he has found the means of reaching Shelly always, but the contact is short lived. Jesse is being exploited by his handler Doc (Gerard Plunkett), who uses him as a meal ticket to identify 'marks' in the audience for robberies. When one of those robberies results in murder, Detective Albrecht turns his attention to Jesse, who seems to have predicted the killing. Draven saves the boy from Doc and his murderous henchmen, but to free Jesse from further misuse Draven must help the boy give up his powers, and in doing so, relinquish this precious link with Shelly

1x06 Solitude's Revenge

For seven long years Drew Kessler (Christopher Syher), a killer without a conscience, has been a model prisoner. Privately, however, Kessler has been creating a fully detailed revenge fantasy against the man who pursued him relentlessly and put him behind bars - Daryl Albrecht. Based on a controversial plea-bargain for manslaughter, Kessler is released for good behaviour. He immediately puts his vivid nightmare into effect, taking Albrecht to an abandoned industrial island, where the hunter will now become the hunted. The one thing he has not bargained for is that Eric Draven has followed them there and is willing to put what life he has on the line for Albrecht.

1x07 Double Take

Draven is furious when he discovers that a young woman has assumed Shelly's identity. He tracks her down but during their confrontation realizes that she has taken the ID to escape from the Mob, which has already killed her husband. Draven's intervention unwittingly exposes her to her pursuers, forcing him to save her from becoming their latest victim. Along the way, both Draven and the woman, Antonia Scanlin, are able to find that rare friend of the opposite sex who can understand how deeply in love they were with their dead partners. Draven cannot yet move on to re-unite with Shelly, but he can help Antonia to her heart's desire.

1x08 Give Me Death

Top Dollar, aka Jason Danko (John Pypher-Ferguson), has an evil plan - to die at the hands of The Crow and gain evil immortality. He breaks out of the prison asylum, killing a guard in the process, and sets out to goad Draven into a deadly confrontation. Meanwhile, Draven meets The Skull Cowboy (Kadeem Hardison) who has come to help him through the portal into the Land of the Dead and the longed for reunion with Shelly. As the cat-and-mouse game between Draven and Top Dollar intensifies, Sarah, Darla and India are drawn into danger. Despite Skull Cowboy's intervention and repeated warnings to Draven not to give way to Top Dollar's pressure, Draven loses his self-control after one of his few friends is murdered. Top Dollar and The Crow face off in a climactic battle, but the stakes are high; Eric Draven could forever lose his opportunity to reconnect with Shelly, and the Crow could unleash an evil force as deadly as himself.

1x09 Before I Wake

The loft portal has vanished and despite his frantic efforts, Eric Draven can't connect with Shelly. Desperate to help him snap out of his profound depression, Sarah suggests he go to a psychiatrist for hypnosis. Under Dr. John Dorsett's (Don Most) care, Draven regresses into a former traumatic life, as a Native American called Blackfeather. Draven's alter ego found his soulmate in a missionary's daughter who defied the wishes of her controlling, bigoted father to be with him. Blackfeather was murdered, but returned to rescue Rebecca Morgan (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Shelly Webster) from the men who killed him and threaten her. To Sarah, sitting in on the session, it seems like Draven is out of his mind; however, a Native American Masters' student, Jane Cogo, confirms that the dialect Draven is speaking is genuine. Draven can't come out of hypnosis, however, and Blackfeather seems stuck in the now until a Native ceremony brings Draven back.

1x10 Death Wish

Still trying to reconnect with Shelly, Draven visits her gravesite only to stumble upon a young boy who, apparently, only he can see. The six-year old ghost, Casey Thompson (Jared Zabel) is lonely, and worried about his stunt motorcyclist father, whom he believes will die soon. Jake Thompson, "the World's Greatest Daredevil" (John Hawkes) plans to jump three hundred feet, over 30 cars, as part of a pay-for-view television event set up by shady promoter Royal Boyd (Jason Shombing). Contacted by Draven, Jake refuses to believe that his son is desperately trying to send him a message. When Jake's stunt mechanic dies in a freak bike explosion, Draven feels compelled to intervene, despite the fact that Det. Albrecht and his uncomfortably inquisitive new partner Jessica Capshaw (Christina Cox) have been assigned the case. Draven finally persuades Jake to let him do the jump instead, since he cannot die, and they exchange talismans, but things go wrong when Draven is kidnapped by the professional killers who've been stalking Jake. The stunt daredevil is forced to take the jump and crashes, finding himself in the Land of the Dead where Shelly has been spending time with Casey. It is up to Draven and Shelly, who is still cut off on the other side, to give Jake the second chance his son so desperately wants him to have.

1x11 Through A Dark Circle

Desperately lonely, Draven attempts to re-open the loft portal door using ancient incantations. He believes he is successful when the door energizes. However, what emerges is not his beloved Shelly but the beast-like, evil force of executed serial killer Richard Lee Wilbanks (Lawrence S. Smilgys) who has been waiting for an opportunity to return and wreak vengeance on everyone who saw him die. He easily overpowers Draven, who loses his regenerative powers in the devastating fight. When several of those who were present at Wilbanksí execution are violently kidnapped Det. Albrecht and his new partner Capshaw are assigned to the case. Draven confesses to Albrecht that it was he who unleashed this terrible force and when Cordelia, who was an Assistant D.A. at Wilbanks trial, is also kidnapped, the rift between the two men seems insurmountable. A weakened Draven uncovers Wilbanksí plan for his victims but he needs Albrecht's help to save them. In a fierce battle Draven transports both himself and Wilbanks into the Land of the Damned, where Draven finally recovers his powers, and destroys the evil force he conjured up. It's obvious to Draven that the portal has to be closed, even though this may mean losing Shelly forever.

1x12 Disclosure

Strange tales have been coming out of Port Columbia's criminal underbelly and Lieut. Morgan Fine (Tim Kelleher), from Police Internal Affairs, is sent in to investigate. He is suspicious of Albrecht's secretive work habits, mysterious sources, and sudden rise in arrest success rates, so he leans on Jessica to determine if her partner is a dirty cop. The Blackout is running smoothly with Shea (Gaetana Korbin) as the new manager but when her mobster husband turns up, having bought the place, it is obvious that Frank Moran (Kavan Smith) is determined to get his wife back, by force if necessary. Draven turns to Albrecht for background on Moran and when he learns that the man is corrupt and ruthless with judges and cops on his payroll, he realizes the only way to protect Shea is to put Moran behind bars. He infiltrates the mobster's operation but in doing so exposes himself to the police investigation that has Albrecht under surveillance. A Port Columbia Councilman, Doug Fairburn (Dion Luther), was once on Moran's payroll but isn't willing to be bought any more. Draven brokers a meeting between the two at an abandoned warehouse, where Albrecht is supposed to be waiting to arrest Moran. Things go wrong when Albrecht is detained by Internal Affairs and Moran tries to kill Shea. Draven turns into the Crow to rescue her but the police are closing in. When Jessica proves that Albrecht's mysterious source is really Eric Draven, who was supposedly killed over a year ago, Albrecht is forced to hand over his badge. He is also faced with a brutal reality; Draven is going to be arrested and won't go down without a fight. To avoid tragedy, he should be the one to put the cuffs on his friend.

1x13 The People Vs. Eric Draven

Eric has hit rock bottom. After four months caged in jail he is finally on trial for the murder of Shelly but is helpless to defend the charges against him. His court-appointed lawyer, James Pearl (Jaimz Woolvett), won't believe the truth and is only sticking with the case because of the jumpstart it will give to his career. Sarah is desperate to help but her mother refuses to let her take the stand. Even when Darla does relent, Sarah's testimony, far from helping, further damns Eric. Albrecht has his own problems. He is still under suspension, Cordelia has moved out and won't even speak with him and his ambivalence about what really is the truth makes it hard for him to defend Eric on the stand. As the evidence mounts Eric is painted as a jealous lover who had his girlfriend brutally murdered then staged his own death. When Funboy takes the stand, claiming that Draven hired him then tried to blackmail him for the murder, Eric can't stand the lies and lunges for the thug, further damaging his case in front of the jury and Judge Paul Morrison (Jerry Wasserman). Pearl has had enough and confronts Eric, enraging him so much that Draven turns into the Crow before his eyes. The lawyer doesn't know what to believe but does know that with Eric refusing to turn on Albrecht and sitting in shackles in the courtroom, no jury on earth could find him not guilty.

1x14 It's A Wonderful Death

After being judged guilty of Shelly's murder Eric is languishing in jail awaiting his sentence. As he begins reliving the events that brought him so low, he starts to imagine how he could have prevented this nightmare. The Skull Cowboy (Kadeem Hardison) appears and, despite warning Draven to be careful about what you wish for, allows Draven to go back in time to the day that he and Shelly died. Suddenly transported back to the Blackout and a band rehearsal Draven blissfully reunites with Shelly, elatedly believing he can put everything right. The problem is that in changing one event everything else shifts. By traveling back to the time before he was a Crow, Draven has no special powers, and no relationship to Albrecht, who instead of helping him, arrests him as a violent lunatic. Only Sarah believes his strange story - but that makes her vulnerable. Draven turns the clock back twice, and with each vain attempt events dramatically worsen and more people die. In the end Draven is back in jail, reconciled to his fate, but warmed by his brief reunion with Shelly.

1x15 Birds of a Feather

Citing that the jury ignored his instructions, Judge Morrison overturns Dravenąs conviction and sets him free in a dramatic reversal of fortune. But a cloud of suspicion still hangs over Draven, and, because of his association with Albrecht, over Albrecht as well. Their friendship is strained, and Albrechtąs girlfriend Cordelia, leaves him too. Adding insult to injury, Albrecht is demoted to beat cop and Capshaw assumes his desk in the detective division. Treated as a pariah by the public at the Blackout, Draven goes outside where he sees a woman demolish two strong attackers in an alley fight. To his shock, Draven discovers that, she, too, is a Crow. He befriends the angry, confused woman and helps her learn the truth about her former life. She was a happily married, successful doctor, Hannah Foster (Bobbie Phillips), who along with her young daughter, was kidnapped by a colleague and left to die a horrible death. She has come back as Talon, a female Crow, but doesnąt understand that her newly found powers cannot be used for revenge without unleashing something more terrible. Evenly matched in strength and force, Draven cannot stop her from killing her murder, Slaughter (Mackenzie Grey), turning him into evil incarnate as a supernatural snake. The Crow saves Talon from destruction at the hands of the snake, but Talon learns that there is no escaping the terrible sadness that brought her back to earth.

1x16 Never Say Die

An ancient order of Russian priests is the keeper of a manuscript that holds the evil predictions of the mad monk Rasputin. When the chief guardian, Father Andrew (Stephen Dimopoulos), is brutally murdered and the book stolen, the priests turn to the police for help. Albrecht, now demoted to a street cop, steps aside so Capshaw can take the case but she is highly skeptical of the tale of evil powers, spirit transference and a fearsome prophecy that seems to be coming true. While visiting her Mom at the police station Sarah overhears the story and hurries to warn Draven that whoever stole the manuscript will need access to the portal between worlds, which is in Dravenąs loft. Alexander Sokolov (David Lovgren), who has the manuscript and intends to use it to harness untold evil power, comes to the loft but is deterred by Draven, who then tips Albrecht off to what is going on. Draven catches up with Sokolov at the waterfront but as part of the fulfillment of the prophecy, is trapped in a net, chained with weights and dropped off the pier. Albrecht and Capshaw arrive, but Capshaw is shot. The Crow emerges from the icy waters to pursue the fleeing Sokolov. They clash at the loft, where the portal is already open, allowing Rasputin to return in Sokolovąs body. Their battle carries them through the portal, back to 1918, where Rasputinąs resurrected spirit is finally defeated forever.

1x17 Lazarus Rising

Dr. Dorsett (Don Most) seeks Draven out, carrying an unusual offer from the Lazarus Group. It was this secretive consortium of powerful men who smoothed the way for Dorsett's therapy license to be re-instated and he owes them a favor. They claim to posses advanced technology which will reunite Draven with Shelly and want to test it on Draven. Unbeknownst to him, the Lazarus Group is a secret society rumored to have been in existence since the time of the Druids, and their interest in him is anything but benevolent. The society is dominated by the physically frail but still intimidating Frederick Balsam (Mavor Moore) who holds sway not only over Judge Morrison (Jerry Wasserman), who unexpectedly released Draven from jail, but also over head scientist Dr. Jack Saks (Robert Wisden), and group member Steve Fentress (Terry David Mulligan). Draven agrees to the experiment, but once hooked up to the machinery finds himself split. The Crow is the one strapped to the operating table, Draven is stuck in a psychological limbo with someone who looks like, but isn't Shelly. When Dorsett realizes that Draven is being used to be the new body for Balsam's soul, hetries desperately to put matters right. Meanwhile Albrecht, who is still estranged from Draven,has his own crisis of conscience when he is approached by a slick lawyer who wants to pursue a lawsuit of wrongful dismissal based on race.

1x18 Closing Time

Draven visits Funboy (Ty Olsson) in prison and, using his powers, forces him to relive the night he helped kill Draven and Shelly. Funboy is genuinely overcome by guilt and remorse. Before he can make amends, however, he is visited by the menacing Soleil Hazard (Gabriel Casseus), who seems to have a telepathic connection to the evil spirit of Top Dollar. Posing as a music promoter for Fadeout Records, Hazard approaches Draven at the Blackout Club and suggests he rejoin his old band. Draven refuses but is disturbed by the encounter, and by the incredible music that starts to fill his every thought. Meanwhile, Albrecht gets his Detective badge back along with his first assignment - to find Funboy -- who has broken out of prison. Albrecht warns Darla (Lynda Boyd), but she can't escape her former boyfriend, or the alcohol he forces her to drink. Draven, lost to the increasingly powerful sounds playing in his head, is oblivious to everything, including Sarah and Albrecht. Reunited with Hangman's Joke for a playoff competition against Econoline Crush (as themselves), Draven, turned into the Crow by the force of the music, spots Funboy in the audience with a knife at Darla's throat. Murderous and vengeful, the Crow takes off in pursuit, unaware that they are all being manipulated by Top Dollar's evil tune. Only Shelly can save them.

1x19 The Road Not Taken

Aimless and guilt-stricken, Hannah/Talon (Bobbie Phillips) has been wandering the streets of Port Columbia when her spirit crow leads her to a distraught mother, Nancy Meyers (Stellina Rusich), whose infant daughter has just been kidnapped. Hannah decides to intervene but her brutal methods for extracting information from anyone who may have been involved awakens interest in the police. Draven, unaware of the havoc Hannah is causing, and the trouble she is in, has gone to a special glade in the woods where he and Shelly spent time. Shelly appears and, not sure if it's real or not, Draven loses himself in the wonder of being together again. Capshaw is finally back on the job, but her nerve is gone. She was instrumental in getting Albrecht demoted but in an ironic twist, Vincennes asks him to keep an eye on her. He has his hands full though with two Crows on the loose. He plays back-up as Draven and Hannah rescue the child but Hannah takes off with the baby as a replacement for her dead child and it is up to Draven to try and put things right.

1x20 Brother's Keeper

A nightmare about his childhood and the appearance of a "ghost soldier" is the first in a series of strange things happening to Draven. When unseen blows fell him and he temporarily goes blind he struggles to get to the root of what is going on, only to realise that what he has been feeling has been really happening to his younger stepbrother Chris (Corey Feldman). Chris, with a lifelong chip on his shoulder, has always been trouble, and Draven has always been picking up the pieces. The brothers go back to Draven's loft but Chris refuses to come clean about just what kind of trouble he is in and instead rehashes the past, and his belief that both boys were abandoned by their soldier father after the evacuation from Vietnam. They argue, but Draven finally gets the truth out of Chris - that he knows where half a million dollars in stolen money is stashed. The problem is that the money belongs to a mobster, Cardosa (Colin Cunningham) who will stop at nothing to get it back. Draven goes to Albrecht for police protection but Chris takes off to get the money for himself and falls into Cardosa's trap. The Crow intervenes and safely back at the loft Draven uses his empathetic powers to get through to Chris and finally get to the truth about their past.

1x21 Dead To Rights

The Port Columbia police force is the target for a cop killer. Extremely intelligent and malevolent, the killer uses woman as bait, kidnapping them, then waiting to pick off any police who come to the rescue. Vincennes launches a verbal tirade against the killer's cowardice, vowing to use any means to catch him. When this message is televised, he becomes the target and his wife Karen (Patricia Harras) is the lure. The frantic Lieutenant brings his children Jason (Alex Pollack) and Libby (Lauren Zabel) to the precinct for safety and Albrecht persuades Sarah to help look after them. She spins them tales of a superhero who will rescue their mom. Meanwhile, the superhero she has in mind has his own problems to deal with. Draven is finding it harder and harder to control the Crow and the Crow's special powers. Meanwhile Albrecht and Capshaw do their own digging and finally, with ssome empathic insight from Draven, piece together the awful truth. The cop killer is himself a cop. Reid Truax (Anthony Michael Hall), from their own station, is known for violence. As a lowly patrolman, however, no one even noticed him. Now he has lured Vincennes into his trap and Draven and Albrecht have to find them. The trouble is, when the vengeful Crow emerges, he is becoming increasingly difficult to stop.

1x22 Gathering Storm

Frederick Balsam (Mavor Moore), the ailing leader of the mysterious Lazarus Group has successfully transferred his soul into the body of his former personal trainer James Horton (Michael Weatherly). Now young, virile and still pure evil, he has destroyed the body jump technology and is systematically eliminating anyone who knows about it. Part of his master plan is to turn the Crow into his one-man private army and destroy Draven. Meanwhile, Det. Albrecht is assigned to find out who vandalised Draven's grave, covering it in blood. In the cemetery he is approached by an extremely nervous Judge Morrison (Jerry Wasserman). A former member of the Lazarus Group, he did all their judicial dirty work. He now demands police protection in exchange for information about the secret society. Draven's grave is disturbed a second time as the Crow emerges. Balsam/Horton has split him and Draven apart to become two beings. One is malevolent and vengeful, the other good. The Crow kills Funboy (Ty Olsson) in jail, then kidnaps Morrison, severely beating Albrecht in the process. In the Land of the Dead, Shelly again meets Casey Thompson (Jared Zabel). He offers her the chance to save Eric; however, there is a catch. She can reincarnate briefly, but then will no longer be able to resist moving on to the Light. When the jealous Crow kidnaps her, Draven rushes to the rescue. He is no longer invincible and she can only watch as they battle to the death.