Empty Quiver
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Seven Days: Season Three: Empty Quiver
In the early 1990's a young girl, Molly, works with Isaac Mentnor to perform remote viewing in an effort to guide a Delta Team in releasing hostages and defeating terrorists. She makes a wrong call and the building with the hostages and terrorists explodes when a booby trap is triggered. She is mentally scarred.

In 2001, Militia members set a satellite uplink to an "empty quiver" atom bomb; Olga is teaching Parker fung shei. The bomb goes off taking Washington, DC with it, so the team prepares to Backstep. Frank's ginseng tea accidentally shorts the Backstep computers and the Sphere launches without Parker; luckily, he had his bag of mission equipment placed inside the Sphere ahead of time.

Project Backstep is mystified; aside from the bag and the Sphere, they have no way of knowing how the Sphere launched on its own, why it did so and even if there is an emergency. Isaac calls in Molly who figures some clues by touching the empty quiver backup key. The militia retrieves the bomb. Isaac, Frank, Craig and Molly go searching for more clues in order to track down whoever will launch the bomb. They run into the militia, and take out a couple of members, but Molly has a vision that Frank might die. Luckily, Frank's training saves his life and he lives beyond what she saw.

They terrorists split up but the team manages to track both using the girls's abilities and Hooter's prowess. She tells off Mentnor for using her as a "magic eight ball", but the team takes out the terrorists with 14 miliseconds to spare, ven though Molly had a vision of herself with blood on her face. Isaac apologizes to Molly and she is proud that the visions was of the lead terrorist's blood on her face and not her own. Molly sees the Sphere accident when she touches Frank and advises him not to take up the fung shei.

Molly is played by Jewel Staite from the tv show Flash Forward.
By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 6:28 pm:

Great line (by Hooter, announced over the hanger loudspeaker): Would you guys just have sex already?

He managed to speak what we've all been thinking. Someone is tired of this "will they or won't they" teasing.

The cabin used by the militia members seems similar to the one used by Nate's brother in Brother, Can You Spare a Bomb? Also, when the girl touched Frank, one of the clips she saw was of Dunwych exploding.

By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 6:53 pm:

I love Olga's new hair do. Plus, a bonus seeing her do yoga. Not to mention that Molly was cute.

Of course, always nice to see Nate jumping on Frank's back, even without evidence that Frank did anything wrong.

By Hardly Psychic on Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 9:02 pm:

Did any body catch the name of the actress who played Molly? I know I've seen her before...

By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Wednesday, March 21, 2001 - 11:31 pm:

I thought she looked familiar, but I was late for the episode. By the time I joined in, she was halfway (at least) through her guiding the Delta Team and the only other credit was the "special guest star" one for Norman Lloyd.

If anyone caught her name, feel free to let us know. She seems SO familiar...

By Hardly Psychic on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 8:01 pm:

It took some searching, but I *finally* found it at http://sevendays.tktv.net/

Jewel Staite is the name

By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 9:13 pm:

Ah, I thought I recognized her. She was on an old Canadian show during her late elementary/early junior high years whic hnow reruns on The Disney Channel. The series was called Flash Forward (she coostarred with Ben Foster who is now in the film Get Over It). In the series, as the two youngsters proceeded through life, they could occassionaly stop the action and do self-reflexivity.

She has really grown up over the past few years, evidently.

By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 2:35 pm:

I heard a nitpick on alt.tv.sevendays that I found interesting, and we should have picked up on. Parker's bag of equipment which Backstepped had the key in it. Yet, when the key broke later, there was a duplicate... but that couldn't have been the original key, because everyhting that Backsteps replaces the original, as we know from not having hundreds of Parkers running around or hundreds of Spheres at the hanger.

By Hardly Psychic on Saturday, March 24, 2001 - 7:07 am:

I did wonder about that key.

I thought for sure that when the guys were fiddling with earlier that they'd notice the key was gone and that would cause them to do something else and that would have a temporal chain reaction.

But that didn't happen (obviously)

By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Saturday, March 24, 2001 - 7:30 pm:

They obviously had a BACKUP backup key. :)

Either that, or God decided to help Frank out of an explosive situation (again) by miracuously giving him another key.

By Electron on Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 1:54 pm:

Nukie was lost in 1954. At this time such a multimegaton warhead would have been much larger and heavier than the handsome one in this episode.

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