Haven (Max and Logan help a traumatized young boy in Cape Haven)
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Dark Angel: Season 1: Haven (Max and Logan help a traumatized young boy in Cape Haven)
She was designed to be the perfect soldier. She was trained to be a human weapon. But then she escaped. They came after her, and she knew they would never stop looking. She was lucky. A few months later, terrorists triggered an electro-magnetic pulse that wiped out America's cyber infra-structure. The U.S. became a third world country overnight. It was easy for a girl to disappear. Ten years later she's still looking over he shoulder. She's found an unlikely ally in Logan Cale. Born to a life of privledge, he's now an underground cyber-journalist crusading against a corrupt government. He wants to save the world, or what's left of it. She just wants to find the others like her. Together...who knows.

Max scores some sector passes so that she and Logan can leave the city and finally go on a short vacation at the mountains. Logan eventually agrees to the vacation, but takes Max to the small town of Cape Haven instead. He has learned that the witness to the murders of 18 protesters by cops during the 2009 pulse is now the head officer in the town, and Logan wants to find out what really happened.
While Max isn't happy with her situation, she does befriend a boy named Sage. During a seizure attack, she tells him she has a secret, but he tells her he has one too. Eventually, she finds him staring at a grave, and he tells her that he sees the dead boy in the night, like a ghost. He also shows her the burned-down house the boy died in, but he runs away before she can ask him anything else. A local troublemaker and pervert named B.C. catches him and makes him promise silence.
Meanwhile, Logan finds out about the murders from Herman, the witness. Herman was a cop in the city during the time immediately following the pulse. That summer, looting and killing was commonplace, and the cops believed that by killing the 18 protesters, they would be averting future violence.
Max and Logan find out the truth about Sage from his aunt. B.C. and his gang burned Sage's house and killed his parents when he was a boy because they suspected them of knowing about the pulse attack. Sage's aunt, a witness to the act, had Sage believe he wasn't the boy who was "killed" in the fire. She even made a fake grave for his "body." Max and Logan decide to protect Sage when he comes to see them again, but Max's seizures have forced her to stay in bed. B.C. and his gang arrive, but officer Herman sends them off, before being attacked and killed. Logan and Sage set up multiple traps for the gang, and stop them before they can kill anyone else. As the episode ends, Logan and Max return home, and Sage finally has a chance at moving on with his life.

THOUGHTS
-Another filler episode. Good, though.

-Loved the back-and-forth between Max and Sketchy in the teaser for the episode. Just why would Normal need lingerie?

-Good thing Sage couldn't really see ghosts, bc this episode would have ended up having some glaring similarities to "The 6th Sense" or "Stir of Echoes."

-I wish I could play pool with Max.

-In the commercials for this ep, there was a shot that showed Max in the dirt, slinking towards the camera. This seems to have been cut out of the episode (wither thator it came from another episode, like "411 On The DL" when Max slinks into the impound lot .

FAVORITE QUOTE
"Where the men are men and the tourists are afraid."
-Max, with her own motto for the town.

NITS
-Again, Logan drives. In the last ep, we saw that he could barely move his legs.

-Logan's fallen wheelchair changes positions during Max's barfight.

-One slap from B.C., and Sage's nose bleeds? And it didn't even look like B.C. hit him near his nose.

-Why doesn't Logan shoot B.C. or his gang after they attack officer Herman, who fells to the ground? He had a clear shot.

-Max still has a bit of the implant in her head? How come we haven't seen or heard about this before?

-When Logan siphons the gas from his van, it drains into the contianer as red liquid, but the tube is clear!

-The bullet-proof vest Logan has just happens to fit Sage.

-MAx is startled awake by the explosion of B.C.'s truck. So she didn't hear the shotgun shots?

-B.C. looks the same in the flaskbacks!
By Brian Lombard on Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 5:13 am:

Here's a date for future reference. The pulse hit at 12:05 a.m. on June 1, 2009. Anyone know if there's any significance to that date? And nice continuity as usual for this series. Logan once said that the pulse hit shortly after midnight, when he was out at sea on his family's boat.

Well, since Emily was born in 1984, and died in 2009, I'm assuming she was Sage's mother, not another kid.

How old is Sage anyway? The actor looked like he was 9 or 10, but the pulse happened 11 years prior. Sage would have to be about 14, but he sure didn't look it. Poor casting on his part.

Regarding the implant, they did make reference to it still being in Max back in "Red." Logan was able to fry the thing, but he couldn't remove it.

On a personal note, Logan really needs to get his priorities straight. Hot mega-babe wants to go away for a weekend vacation, and all he cares about is work. I just found that a little difficult to believe.

By Lauren Mag on Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 11:20 am:

I actually like this ep a lot. The fact that it was different from the usual running away from manticore thing and that Max for once couldn't save everything in the end.

I did think the big shoot out at the end was a little hard to believe.

By Brian on Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 10:25 am:

-Again, Logan drives. In the last ep, we saw that he could barely move his legs.

agian not a nit. They do make cars that can be driven without your feet. Senator Max Cleland from my home state of GA has 1 arm and no legs and can drive a car. I know this because before he was a senator he came and spoke at my church on veterans' day and drove himself. GO MAX (Cleland)!

By Jadyn on Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 3:14 pm:

Another comment about the driving part. Anyone notice that Logan was checking the pedals after that guy shot and destroyed one (I'm not sure gas or brake). This suggests that he needs the pedals to drive, or else he would have gotten Max and Sage the hell out of there. Now why he needs the pedals when he can't use his legs is beyond me.

By S. Na on Friday, March 30, 2001 - 2:28 pm:

About the bulletproof vest--I had the same initial reaction and then I realized that it may be Max's.

She doesn't look much bigger than I am and I wear a child's sized vest.

By Butch Brookshier on Saturday, March 31, 2001 - 10:18 pm:

Jadyn, you're mistaken. What the bad guy shot and Logan was looking at was the Police radio in the truck. The bad guy was cutting off all possible communication. I still have the episode taped and I checked to be sure I was remembering correctly.

By Anonymous on Thursday, April 05, 2001 - 8:31 pm:

about the "checking the pedals", Logan wasn't checking the pedals, he was checking the CB radio that B.C. shot.

As for the shoot out at the end, what was with that corny line "We are armed, leave now or you will be met with forceful resistance."?? Where'd the writers think that 'gem' up?

By Luigi Novi on Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 7:42 pm:

Since the board for the April 17th episode featuring Cindy's old flame isn't up yet, I decided to post this here:

First off, I have a question: Do "Dark Angel" episode titles appear anywhere in the episode? I never bothered to look, but when I tried to find one in the April 17th ep featuring Cindy’s old flame, I couldn’t find one anwhere in the opening teaser or beginning of Act 1. If they don’t appear, much as those of most TV shows, where do you get them from? Are there press kits or sources I can find them at? Since they don’t appear, and there is therefore no way to easily identify an episode by title, would you consider putting (very) brief synopses of the eps on the episode listing page, kinda like the ones seen in TV Guide? That way, if someone want to find an episode they know by plot, but not title, they don't have to click onto every episode and read the synopsis there. Just a suggestion.

As for my nits for the April 17th episode featuring Cindy’s old flame:

When Cindy offers to give Max a manicure in the teaser, Max declines because it’s too "girly," and because she doesn’t believe in "pampering" herself. I guess Max considered that red dress she wore to Logan’s cousin’s engagement party a "manly" dress? Perhaps a legtimate substiute for combat fatigues?

Luigi Novi

By Brian Fitzgerald on Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 8:42 pm:

Luigi, their's a diference between dressing for a fomal occasion or getting your hair done and getting a manicure or peticure.

By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 10:21 pm:

>I guess Max considered that red dress she wore to Logan’s cousin’s engagement party...a legtimate substiute for combat fatigues?>

The short answer is yes. The only wore the dress to blend in with the "enemy". Combat fatiuges would have been to conspicious, the red dress was an approiate subistitute. Bottom line, the dress was a necessary, the manicure (in tonight's ep) was not.

By Mike Ram on Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 10:42 pm:

Luigi: I get all my info from either the official site, or darkangeltv.com (see the links page). And I'll take your request under consideration.

By Rodney Hrvatin on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 5:36 pm:

The only thing I enjoyed with this one was Logan realising that just because people shot other people, didn't make them homicidal maniacs. The interchange between him and the police officer was one of the best in the series- really points out the other view.
Whilst it may not be an absolution for the police, it at least gives him pause for thought. The fact that he then goes on to kill someone later makes him no better than those he would hunt.
Love it.

otherwise, it was just another "character piece". Ugh! I hate those.

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