Zero Hour

Episode 1

Strike

Fri, Feb 1, 201343 mins

Hank Galliston (ANTHONY EDWARDS) publishes the magazine Modern Skeptic, which focuses on the paranormal. His wife Laila (JACINDA BARRETT) buys a unique-looking clock from a boardwalk vendor before being abducted. FBI Agent Riley (CARMEN EJOGO) arrives to show Hank and his copy editors, Arron (SCOTT MICHAEL FOSTER) and Rachel (ADDISON TIMLIN), video footage of Laila's abduction. The screen freezes on mercenary White Vincent (MICHAEL NYQVIST), with whom Riley is familiar. Hank disassembles Laila's clock to find a flawed diamond. With light shone through it, the stone refracts a map. Hank shows the map and its markings to Father Mickle (Charles S. Dutton), a priest and old friend who says the map uses a language that died in the Second century. The priest also mentions the Rosicrucians, a group of Christian mystics of the 17th century, and says that the map points to a place called New Bartholomew. Hank leaves the map diamond with the priest, but Vincent assaults him, collecting the diamond. Hank follows a copy of the map to where New Bartholomew should be with Agent Riley in tow, as she tells him White Vincent's terrorist history. Meanwhile, Arron and Rachel travel to Bavaria to find the clock maker (Jan Tríska), who wears a Rosicrucian cross. He informs them that after the Nazis created a new "eternal life," the Church appointed twelve new "apostles" that assembled in 1938 to protect the war-torn world from doom. A clock was created for each, and they scattered to hide from the Nazis. New Bartholomew was not a place, but one of the apostles. Hank finds the location, which turns out to be a German submarine, stuck in Canadian ice, full of bodies. One of the bodies is New Bartholomew, who looks exactly like Hank. Outside, Vincent arrives as the clock maker's voiceover warns of the approaching tumultuous "zero hour."