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The X-Files - “Orison”

Written by Chip Johannessen

October 6, 1999 (DRAFT)

In this early draft before Donnie Pfaster was added, Scully’s day starts with a visit from a pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses...

Scully recalls the first time she felt touched by God...

Alternate ending:

#the x files #x files #scripts #txf #season 7 #txf s7 #txf bts #orison #script #chip johannessen #scully #mulder #david duchovny #gillian anderson #deleted scenes #alternate ending #screenwriting #tvwriting

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The Crow: Salvation has been released on Blu-ray via Scream Factory. Limited to 1,620, the 2000 third installment in The Crow franchise is available for $29.98 exclusively from Shout Factory.

Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) directs from a script by Chip Johannessen (Dexter, Homeland), based on the comic book character created by James O'Barr. Kirsten Dunst, Eric Mabius, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, William Atherton, and Fred Ward star.

The Crow: Salvation is presented in high definition with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo sound. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Bharat Nalluri, actor Eric Mabius, producer Jeff Most, composer Marco Beltrami, and production designer Maia Javan

Behind the Scenes featurette

Behind the Makeup featurette

Production Design featurette

Who's That Bird? featurette

Image gallery

Trailer

Wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer. Aided by his girlfriend's sister (Kirsten Dunst) — and under the guidance of the mysterious crow — he unmasks a tangled web of corruption and deceit in his quest for retribution and redemption.

#the crow #the crow: salvation #kirsten dunst #eric mabius #scream factory #dvd #gift #jodi lyn o'keefe #william atherton #fred ward #james o'barr #eric draven #alex corvis #bharat nalluri #marco beltrami

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tv-moments · 4 years

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Homeland

Season 8, “Designated Driver“

Director: Michael Offer

DoP: David Klein

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scullydubois · 5 years

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thoughts on Orison (7x07)

Written by Chip Johannessen Directed by Rob Bowman

Is this a jail church

I HATE that I think this prisoner guy is hot...HATE it

Glory! Amen!

You get holy water, you get holy water, you all get holy water!

He ain’t feeling the spirit

Where are they...is it a jail? Is it a factory?

Um

What...does he see in slow motion?

Oh fuck

Leave Scully alone, I swear to god

6:66 oh boy

I’m scared

Ahh it’s a prison

WAIT fuck this is the guy from Irresistible!!!

Oh god oh god oh god

He IS just plain evil and this is gonna be a good and possibly maddening episode

Y’all I’m gonna cry

He escaped at 6:06...shit

Supernatural stuff be happening around here….

Posthypnotic suggestion!

What’s up with that song

Oh god, this girl’s gonna be a victim

Uh the reverend

What the hell

That’s what I call, fucked up...he escaped with the girl and ran over the reverend

The song again...stop

Scully said “that’s nice” to the reverend

Stop harassing her with religion!

I swear to god Donnie

The reverend was once a murderer

Aww Scully’s story about the song and her Sunday school teacher

So Orison is the reverend

And he has 3 times the blood volume flowing through his brain

Did he accidentally open the gates of Hell? Gotta stay tuned to find out

Pleaseeee stop

Can he...put clothes on

Ugh, her nails and the flowing red hair

“Is your hair chemically treated” if I ever get asked that in real life, I’m RUNNING

Oh no, it’s a wig

This woman defended herself!

Don’t look any further...that’s the song

Mulder’s being way cooler with Scully’s religious connections in this than I anticipated

Kill him!

“Are you crying for your sins or for yourself”

Um HELLO?

I think I would have preferred if this didn’t go into literal monster territory

This is...weird

Still 12 minutes left...do not like where this is headed

Oh fucking SHIT

That would be Miss Dana Scully’s fucking bedroom

Oh god

Please be quiet, I’m praying

I SWEAR

Yes, go for the eyes!!

Oh my fucking god

GOOD GOD SHE SNAPPED

“Girlie girl” I literally never wanted to hear that again...so why did I

Mulder...Mulder please

And in her own goddamn apartment

I’ve never heard this song before this episode, but I certainly will never be able to hear it again after this

Gillian Anderson deserves like 43 different Emmys at this point

STOP STOP STOP

Yes ladies!!!

He’s the actual devil I’d say

Well….that was very...artful

Death! It’s what he deserves!!!!

Mulder didn’t even knock

Even if it was the devil, this man got what was coming to him...don’t worry about it Miss Dana Katherine Scully

Consensus: A great follow-up to Irresistible. I wasn’t aware such a thing existed, so this was a nice surprise.

4.5 out of 5 stars

#the x files #txf #season 7 #7x07 #orison #chip johannessen #rob bowman #4.5 stars #gillian anderson #dana scully #david duchovny #fox mulder #thoughts on

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harrypotterhousequotes · 5 years

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SLYTHERIN: "May the bridges I burn light the way." --Chip Johannessen (Dylan McKay: Beverly Hills 90210: Things That Go Bang in the Night)

#harry potter #house quotes #slytherin #beverly hills 90210 #dylan mckay #things that go bang in the night #chip johannessen #hphq

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hellyeahomeland · 6 years

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Claire on set with Chip in West Point, VA. More set pics on Instagram here.

#homeland #claire danes #chip johannessen #season seven #behind the scenes #instagram

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the-cryptid-coffee-witch · 4 years

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May the bridges I burn light my way, May their charred frames be a warning, May they mark my path and warn whoever dares to set foot in front of me, That I do not have any mercy left.

AGSD ~ May 3rd, 2020

#inspiration by #Chip Johannessen (Dylan McKay: Beverly Hills 90210: Things That Go Bang in the Night)#may the bridges i burn light my way #my the bridges i burn light the way #quote #after years of not burning any of the bridges #i have burnt two #be wary fuckers #lol #burn #fire #fuck off

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wthomeland · 7 years

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"Bring Hop.... He needs me" - Carrie obviously thinking about Quinn... finds Hop in the shower face down on the tiles... ahhhhh just kill me now show! And that's not even mentioning C tackling him so he doesn't get shot. Dying dying dead (me not Hop/Quinn bc Carrie loves him so)

OMG the whole Hop = Quinn thing was so deliciously trashy!

Thank you “Chocolate” Chip Johannessen! 😘

#Hop #6x05 #homeland #asks #chip johannessen #Anonymous

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spotlightsaga · 7 years

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Kevin Cage of @spotlightsaga Flashback Review's Homeland (S01E03) 'Clean Skin' @showtimeallaccess Airdate: October 16, 2011 Ratings: 1.08 Million :: No 18-49 Demo Available Score: 8.5/10 In the previous episode, 'Grace', I compared a scene to one from FX's 'The Americans', and there are definitely similarities... But where in 'The Americans' the show would take its time to move the mole into a dangerous position, drawing out the nuance of the complicated situation the informant found herself in... Maybe even turning the tables making it a Spy vs Spy type feel, with an almost melodic pace... 'Homeland' chooses to smack the viewer over the head with the severity of the situation. Yes, like I'm sure many before me did, I predicted the death of little Miss Lynne Reed from Sandusky, OH... A prostitute turned Homeland Security informant way in over her head. It was oh so apparent that her fate was sealed, but DAMN, with such a quickness and just like that?! All to move money through a valuable necklace? Smart, I'll give them that, but like with Nicholas, there's clearly more to the story. Not everything is as it seems, the fact that it's obvious that you know it's just not that easy, amps up the all around intensity. 'Homeland' is doing a great job at immersing the viewer in a personal battle of ethics and morals, just as you watch scene to scene... Are you assuming a man is a terrorist because he has chosen a Muslim path? Are you assuming Lynne's lover had something to do with the moving of the necklace, after all he was the one who put it on her... And what about this way that Carrie is conducting her investigation? Luring Lynne into a false sense of security, letting the girl think she had someone tailing her to prevent the exact kind of thing that ended up being her demise? What about Carrie's cameras in Nicholas' home recording his most intimate moments, his children's too? Wiretaps? What's the price to truly feel safe? How much are we really willing to pay? It's a fucked up world we live in. There are Islamic Extremists... They are driving trucks into crowds of people when they can't use guns to cause chaos. There are angry people in Quebec who are scared and walking into Mosques and gunning down innocent, peaceful human beings. There are planes being hijacked and flown right into two of the largest buildings in the US' largest city, double time. Conveniently right after 9/11 we have 'The Patriot Act' going into effect. There are liberals running in our streets and destroying our stores... Bombing our own buildings in Oklahoma City. There are conservatives killing young black men dressed in hoodies. There are threats everywhere, we are as divided as ever, and Snowden has proved that our own CIA is collecting our internet data and storing it for later, even turning on our laptop cameras and watching through a lens you may think is completely off, simply because they can. What is the cost to feel safe? Who is the real villain? Who is the real hero? What is the grand design? And who really orchestrated it to play out in such a manner? Just 3 episodes in and 'Homeland' has me reeling... And that's the mark of a great show... I am not only thinking about the plot and subplots of the show, I'm questioning everything. Now that's provocative entertainment!

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Sydney, I totally agree with all your angry hashtags on the WHY scene (part 2). Yeah, why can’t Carrie be more compassionate and give Quinn a much needed hug?! Why does she just walk away from him? The person I blame? Chip Johannessen who wrote this episode!! WTF, Chip? Should we start calling him CFJ like we do with AFG?

It just makes Carrie seem completely selfish. Oh, yeah, that’s because she is completely selfish.

#fmrf ask #anonymous #by: sydney #really carrie?#really?#am i too hard on poor carrie?#nah!

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x-files-scripts · 1 year

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The X-Files - “Orison”

Written by Chip Johannessen

October 18, 1999 (GOLD)

Alternate ending #1:

#the x files #x files #scripts #txf #season 7 #txf s7 #txf bts #orison #script #deleted scenes #alternate ending #david duchovny #gillian anderson #mulder #scully #screenwriting #tvwriting

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shadowhawksshade · 7 years

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Homeland Season 1 (TV Series Review)

In the last ten years or so, there has been a notable shift in the genre of American television series that are being put out. Following on from the terrible events of 9/11, many networks have greenlighted spy shows focused not on traditional spy antics, but on counter-terrorism and domestic terrorism. Covert Affairs, Burn Notice, Chuck, Nikita, 24, Quantico, State of Affairs, The Blacklist, and…

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tv-moments · 4 years

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Homeland

Season 8, “Threnody(s)“

Director: Michael Klick

DoP: David Klein

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pinkys143 · 6 years

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Recap Roundup

Homeland Season 7 Episode 2 list of popular recaps

Entertainment Weekly:

“So far, something just feels off about the season, and I’m not talking about the conspiracy that’s unfolding. I know we’re only two episodes in, but why is Carrie online dealing with a guy who wants to be paid by bitcoin when the real drama is happening inside the White House? Homeland loves to reflect the real world in its own funhouse-mirror way, but was there any point to having its lead battle a villain-of-the-week type hacker? This season appears to be about the paranoia of a divided nation, so shouldn’t Carrie — its most paranoid character — be at the center of that?”

Written by Shirley Li - link to recap here

TVLine.com:

“Allow me to suggest an alternate title for this week’s Homeland: “Carrie, What the @%&#$*! Are You Doing???”

“LOL at Max’s response to Carrie’s financial woes: “I can loan you 753 dollars.”

Written by Dave Nemetz - link to recap here

Dave is all of us.

AV Club:

“It only takes one lapse in judgment to throw a carefully plotted operation into disarray. That goes for Carrie Mathison as well as the writers of Homeland, in this case Patrick Harbinson and Chip Johannessen. “Rebel Rebel” is very much a stage-setting hour for the rest of the season, with most of the suspense generated by a stupid, impulsive decision Carrie makes about halfway through the episode. As so often happens, Homeland becomes a test of how much disbelief you’re willing to suspend.”

“Carrie says she’s learned her lesson and is never going to involve her niece in her work again, which means her niece is definitely going to be involved again soon.”

Written by Scott Von Doviak - link to recap here

THIS. By far the best recap (and best calling out of the show) I’ve read of Episode 2.

Vulture:

“Do you think that’s the last we’ve seen of this “Troll” or will this violent, drastic action come back to haunt Carrie? Homeland has a history of bringing back major mistakes, though sometimes it does let them slide. Time will tell.”

Written by Brian Tallerico - link to recap here

The actor, Jordan Wood-Robinson, recently appearing on The Walking Dead, is a little too big of a name to book only one episode of Homeland, no?

#Episode 2 snoozefest recaps #Recap Roundup #Homeland #Homelandedit #Rebel Rebel #Entertainment Weekly #TVLine #Vulture #AV Club

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hellyeahomeland · 7 years

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Written By: Chip Johannessen

Homeland credits: too many to name!

I was tasked–no, volunteered–to write about Chip Johannessen’s contributions to the Homeland writers’ room this week, as he wrote the script for tonight’s episode, “Casus Belli.”

It’s a daunting task, by the way. He’s written nearly two dozen Homeland episodes over the years, ranging from amazing (“Marine One,” co-written with Gansa) to not so amazing (“A Gettysburg Address,” one of my least favorite episodes).

There’s no denying, however, that he is a powerhouse and workhorse. Each season except for the last he’s written at least three, sometimes four episodes. There’s no real way to analyze all of those and not have you give up now, so my focus today will be on his work since season four, which stands to be more relevant for tonight’s episode.

In the first three seasons, Johannessen wrote with surreal and decisive precision about the Brody family, especially the tension between Dana and Jessica. Since the departure of the Brody family, though, his focus has been mostly trained on Carrie and her own personal journey. His four scripts in season four play like a perfect full-circle journey for Carrie. In “Trylon and Perisphere” he exposes her callous, selfish treatment of Quinn and trains a controversial eye on Carrie’s unhappiness at being a mother, magnified by her grief over Brody’s death.

“From A to B and Back Again,” which remains one of the single best Carrie Mathison episodes ever (rivaling “The Vest” and “Super Powers”), is Carrie’s nadir. Her detachment, manipulation, and anger–at herself and what she’s doing, at the people and the world around her–is on full display and culminates in one of the most provocative sequences this series has ever done. She orders the shot on Saul, has an angry outburst at an unwitting (though uncooperative!) soldier, absorbs Quinn’s disgust and shock, and then angrily marches off to her office to cry alone.

What comes after, however, is somewhat easier to watch (if you’re a Carrie girl, as I am). “Halfway to a Donut” plays almost as a weird mirror of “From A to B…” Instead of ordering a drone that would kill Saul, she frantically pleads with him–surrounded by Taliban operatives in a small Pakistani village–not to shoot himself, then goes back on her promise of “escape or die” and keeps him alive. Her realization with Quinn later that “there are only wrong choices” is one of the more gratifying moments for Carrie that season.

His final episode of season four, “Krieg Nicht Lieb,” is notable because it gave us Astrid and because of its almost perfect symmetry with “Trylon and Perisphere.” Again, Carrie is called back to home–not because of Sandy’s funeral but her father’s. When she Skypes with her daughter the pain and hurt from so many weeks ago is gone. “Oh my God,” Carrie says as she begins to cry. We won’t ever know if her exclamation is at how much Franny has grown, or how much she has. But we know–she knows–it won’t always be this hard. And her berating of Quinn in “Trylon and Perisphere” after he tells her he can’t come with her to Islamabad is but a distant echo now. Instead she’s pleading with him to come home with her. The roles are reversed, and now she’s the one tasked with saving him. In March 2015 when Claire talks about the “missive” Quinn asks Carrie to go on throughout season four, this is what she means.

Indeed, the most gutting part of it all is that Carrie follows Quinn’s missive–“to be human and emotionally connected”–but with another man. And she goes and makes another life, without him. Quinn surfaces in Berlin in the premiere, dressed in all black, a ghost of himself. We know he’s not the same. And we know Carrie isn’t either. He lingers, on the periphery, orbiting her world in ever smaller circles.

But it doesn’t end here. What’s ironic about the journey is that its end point isn’t what we once had thought. It ends not in Islamabad, nor back home in Washington, nor even in Missouri. It ends in Berlin. Chip Johannessen’s first of two scripts in season five is the premiere, “Separation Anxiety.” Here we learn of Carrie’s new life, acquired in a haze of broken hearts and spirits after she’s left behind by Quinn and Saul at the end of season four.

And if “Separation Anxiety” plays as the unofficial bookend to the journey that began post-Brody, then “Parabiosis” is the reflection on all of it. She tells Otto of her regret. Her words to him are punctuated with past tense. Wrapped up in all of her guilt is not just Berlin. It’s Islamabad. It’s Washington. It is Missouri.

Later, it’s New York. “You saved me,” Quinn says in “The Man in the Basement,” Johannessen’s most recent script and his first of this season. “Why?” he asks.

Of course she can’t answer. Of course she can do nothing but just repeat that last word, incredulous. “I’m trying,” she tells Max. She tries to withstand his anger and his moods, his paranoia. She tries to nurse him, she tries to comfort him, she tries and she tries and she tries.

Why? Because “I did not take care of him, not like I should have, not like he’s taken care of me.”

#homeland #homelandedit #chip johannessen #homeland meta #the man in the basement #parabiosis #separation anxiety #krieg nicht lieb #halfway to a donut #from a to b and back again #trylon and perisphere #in the writers room

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The Kill Jar - J. Reuben Appelman

The Kill Jar Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer J. Reuben Appelman Genre: True Crime Price: $11.99 Publish Date: August 14, 2018 Publisher: Gallery Books Seller: SIMON AND SCHUSTER DIGITAL SALES INC In this cold case murder investigation from “a powerful, confident voice in the new true crime memoir genre” (James Renner, author of True Crime Addict ), one of America’s most notorious sprees is cracked open. With a foreword by Catherine Broad, sister of victim Timothy King, this is a deftly crafted true story set amid the decaying sprawl of Detroit. Four children were abducted and murdered outside of Detroit during the winters of 1976 and 1977, their bodies eventually dumped in snow banks around the city. J. Reuben Appelman was only six years old when the murders began and even evaded an abduction attempt during that same period, fueling a lifelong obsession with what became known as the Oakland County Child Killings. Autopsies showed that the victims had been fed while in captivity, reportedly held with care. And yet, with equal care, their bodies had allegedly been groomed post-mortem, scrubbed-free of evidence that might link to a killer. There were few credible leads, and equally few credible suspects. That’s what the cops had passed down to the press, and that’s what the city of Detroit, and Appelman, had come to believe. When the abductions mysteriously stopped, a task force operating on one of the largest manhunt budgets in history shut down without an arrest. Although no more murders occurred, Detroit remained haunted. Eerily overlaid upon the author’s own decades-old history with violence, The Kill Jar tells the gripping story of Appelman’s ten-year investigation into buried leads, apparent police cover-ups, con men, child pornography rings, and high-level corruption saturating Detroit’s most notorious serial killer case. “Always deft, often sublime, Appelman uses his investigation to draw us into his personal journey through darkness, to light and life” (Chip Johannessen, producer of Dexter ). http://dlvr.it/R5mLCJ

#True Crime

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