The Worst Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy

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   #1 - A Traitor Among Us

   S1:E229/20/1996

   Three senior members of the legacy arrive at the house and say that they have received a letter accusing Derek of running the house in an improper manner. Derek is put on trial at the house for several days where Nick and Rachel have to submit evidence about Derek. Things start to look very grim for Derek and when Rachel goes to see him in a room where he is kept locked up he asks her to bring him a shaving mirror and some sacred knives from the house's vault. Using the mirror he notices that one of the three people who came to put him on trial does not have a reflection in the mirror and that he always has the blinds closed before he enters a room. The trial is about to conclude with a guilty verdict where Derek is asked to make a closing speech. Derek says that for some time he has felt something wrong with the legacy, like a cancer growing among them, he reveals that it was himself who made the allegations against him so he could bring everyone together. He approaches the male repre

   Director:Brenton Spencer

   Writer:Bill Froehlich

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   Director:Brenton Spencer

   Writer:Bill Froehlich
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   5.6/10(29 votes)

   #2 - Darkside

   S3:E228/21/1998

   A mysterious White haired lady narrates this clip show meant to be a season ending cliff hanger. Foes from episodes past show up once again as examples of how the team's good work hasn't managed to overcome the evil that follows. Their work is hidden behind self righteous acts of hypocrisy the Lady claims as she urges one of the team members to join them...and at the end it seems she's succeeded...

   Director:Unknown

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   5.8/10(28 votes)

   #3 - The Mephisto Strain

   S4:E2010/8/1999

   Alex struggles to cure Nick, and has to keep him alive, after he is infected by a Denomic parasite which makes him see evil all around him. The episode begins with Alex working in the control room when Nick bursts in through the front door. He chases after Alex, trying to kill her. She manages to find a torch and smashes it off his head and knocks him out. She ties him to his bed. He wakes up and threatens to kill her, constantly shouting and screeming that he is going to kill Alex and shouting that he can see evil all around him. We learn that he has been infected by a demon who causes him to hallucinate. This leads Nick to remember events from the last year (evil events), in which he was hurt or people around him were hurt. As Nick remembers the past events, Alex researches the Legacy database and she realises that Nick has the Mephisto Strain. With the hepl of the Database, Alex finda a cure, which heals Nick.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.0/10(57 votes)

   #4 - The Crystal Scarab

   S1:E126/28/1996

   Clayton wants to save his daughter, Samantha, who has a fatal illness. Clayton buys a scarab and a ring from a merchant. The scared, he is told, will heal whatever it touches. However, the ring needs the life force of a human to work. Clayton puts the ring on, the life force is sucked out of him and it put into Samantha. She is now cured, and Clayton, who looks half dead, runs away. Samantha and Clayton have known Derek for years. He allows Sam to stay at the Legacy House, while they try to find Clayton and work out how Sam has been cured so quickly. Later that night, Sam collapses, Clayton has no more life force to give. She needs another source. Sam is now back in the hospital, in a coma. The scarab has let Clayton live, so that he can pass the ring onto another host. On the dock, a robber steals the ring and puts it on. The ring draws life out of him. In the hospital, Sam is once again cured.

   Director:Brad Turner

   Writer:Hart Hanson

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   Director:Brad Turner

   Writer:Hart Hanson
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   6.1/10(33 votes)

   #5 - Armies of Night

   S3:E218/14/1998

   The Legacy is under siege and their assailants are unknown. Alex has gone for help, Nick has been taken down and away by their attackers leaving only Derek to decipher who's behind their attack. As he remembers past foes who may have come back for revenge Derek searches for Nick and guards his own back from threat. Further into his search the clues to who is trying to bring them down becomes obviously clear when Alex returns not quite herself and Derek comes face to face with the foe he should have known all along.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.2/10(28 votes)

   #6 - Infernal Affairs

   S4:E2111/5/1999

   An ancient deck of tarot cards enlivens a tedious evening for Derek, Nick and Alex. However, each card underscores the high personal cost of their allegience to the Legacy. This episode, like the one previous, is in a clip based format. Nick, Derek and Alex all sit around a table in the Legacy House remembering key moments and events from the past 4 years.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Grant Rosenberg

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   Writer:Grant Rosenberg
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   6.4/10(90 votes)

   #7 - Sins of the Father

   S1:E24/21/1996

   Derek's old friend Damon is accused of abusing his son, but he insists supernatural causes are at fault. Derek believes him, but Nick's investigation reveals a checkered family history. Rachel examines the boy's wounds, and Father Philip attempts a religious ceremony, but ultimately it is Kat who uncovers the truth.

   Director:Allan Eastman

   Writers:Frank Abatemarco, Brad Wright

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   Director:Allan Eastman

   Writers:Frank Abatemarco, Brad Wright
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   6.5/10(74 votes)

   #8 - The Tenement

   S1:E55/10/1996

   As Alex prepares to take slum landlord Kyle Vance to court, she experiences a vision of a red-haired woman in the decaying tenement building. Then, on the witness stand, she finds herself compelled to insist the judge sentence Vance to stay in the building until he completes needed repairs. Later, realizing that an evil force controlled her actions, Alex traces the building's tragic history. Disturbed by what she learns, Alex returns to the tenement to help fight the sensual manifestation of evil that inhabits Vance's crumbling family legacy.

   Director:Jerry Ciccoritti

   Writer:Frederick Rappaport

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   Director:Jerry Ciccoritti

   Writer:Frederick Rappaport
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   6.6/10(70 votes)

   #9 - The Twelfth Cave

   S1:E65/17/1996

   The Episode begins in the desert where a team of surveyors are digging in a cave. One of the men there finds a jar buried deep underground. He opens the jar and finds a scroll inside, he opens the scroll, and the writing on the scroll glows red. He seems to have become hypnotized by it. He then murders his two colleagues. In the Legacy House, Derek tells the team that an old friend, Randolph Hitchcock, wants to donate an ancient artefact to the Luna Foundation. He wants to meet Derek and the rest of the team that night. When Randolph arrives, Derek tells the other Legacy members that Randolph was once a member of the Legacy, but he was forced out years ago. Randolph gives Derek the jar from the desert. Derek opens the jar and takes out the scroll. Randolph wants Legacy to examine and preserve the scroll. On a dock, we see a man wearing a mask, holding a silver cross.

   Director:Allan Eastman

   Writer:Robert Masello

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   Director:Allan Eastman

   Writer:Robert Masello
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    6.6/10(69 votes)

    #10 - Ghost in the Road

    S1:E85/31/1996

    The episode begins with Nick in a bar. There is a couple sitting next to him. They begin to have an argument. Nick begins to talk to the woman, and her boyfriend gets jealous. Nick and the boyfriend get into a fight, Nick punches him to the ground. The couple then leave. On their way home in the car, Jerry starts slapping Wendy, she gets out of the car and walks away, he reverses into her and places her in the car boot. He then pushes the car over a cliff. Several months later, Nick is driving up that same road. He sees a woman standing in the middle of the road. He gives her a ride. He recognizes her from the bar. The next morning (they were driving all night), Nick drops her off at a Caravan site, however, she disappears. Nick asks this elderly couple if they have seen her. The couple tell Nick that Wendy has been dead for five months. Nick looks shocked! At the Legacy House, Derek and Rachel discover a secret room behind a cupboard. They find a statue of Jesus Christ.

    Director:Neill Fearnley

    Writer:James Cappe

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    Director:Neill Fearnley

    Writer:James Cappe
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    6.6/10(55 votes)

    #11 - Revelations

    S1:E178/16/1996

    A small girl has a horrifying experience at a private school and accuses one of the teachers of being a monster. As Rachel used to go to the school the headmistress calls her up to ask her for help. She hopes that Rachel will be able to find out what really happened before the school is ruined by the scandal. As she investigates Rachel realises that she has no memories of being at the school at all! She knows she went there but can remember nothing and that begins to really worry her.

    Director:Allan Eastman

    Writer:Frank Abatemarco

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    Director:Allan Eastman

    Writer:Frank Abatemarco
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    6.7/10(143 votes)

    #12 - The Legacy

    S1:E14/21/1996

    We begin in 1969 with Winston and Derek Rayne driving in their car, in the rain. They end up at a cave. Winston goes in, while Derek is told to remain in the car. Inside the cave, Winston finds a sepulcher (a wooden box). He opens the sepulcher, and a demon skeleton emerges, which tries to drag Winston back in sepulcher, however, Derek runs in and manages to close the box. The demon is trapped back inside. However, Winston dies, but before he does, he gives Derek his Legacy ring. Now in the present day, we arrive at the Luna foundation, an artifact finding organization. Derek owns the Luna Foundation, along with Nick, Alex, and Julia, who also live in the house. As a new artifact is presented to Derek, he gets a vision of a young girl in a graveyard with a wooden box, which looks like the one that Winston opened. Derek assembles Nick, Alex, and Julia in a control room, in which to get to, you must walk through an invisible wall.

    Director:Stuart Gillard

    Writer:Brad Wright

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    Director:Stuart Gillard

    Writer:Brad Wright
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    6.7/10(37 votes)

    #13 - Trapped

    S2:E218/10/1997

    Derek is possessed by his father's spirit, which intends to assemble the elements to create a gateway that will allow the demons of hell to enter our world.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.7/10(31 votes)

    #14 - The Choice

    S2:E228/17/1997

    Rachel decides that she is going to take Kat and leave the Legacy. She has become increasingly worried about the danger she is putting Kat in by being a member of the team and the repercussions that that causes. The rest of the team try to persuade her otherwwise so she tells them about all the danger that Kat has been put in ever since she joined.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.7/10(28 votes)

    #15 - The Portents

    S4:E179/17/1999

    We begin with a priest, who has sent a young lad on a mission to find out information about the Legacy House. The young lad returns with news that a gate way to hell is buried under the Legacy House. The Priest then kills the lad, as he now has what he was after. The priest sets out to be-friend Alex and Rachel (Nick and Derek are not present in this episode). He makes his way into the House where he tells them that the Gateway must be sealed, if it is not, he tells them, Rachels daughter Kat will be killed as she has been struck down with a mysterious virus. As Alex and the Preist make their way underground, the Priest attacks Alex and proceeds to make his way to find the gate and open it. Upstairs, Rachel sees Kristen, who is now an angel, who has been sent to try to stop the opening of the gate. She instructs Rachel to go and stop the priest and to have faith, no matter what. As Rachel finds Alex, they both proceed to the gate, the Priest is about to open it when he notices Rache

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.7/10(30 votes)

    #16 - Gaslight

    S4:E189/24/1999

    A patient of Rachels with a tragic past and with a life threatening asthmatic condition inherits her family mansion and becomes the target for seemingly vengeful ghosts, demons and spirits.

    Director:Martin Cummins

    Writer:Grant Rosenberg

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    Director:Martin Cummins

    Writer:Grant Rosenberg
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    6.8/10(72 votes)

    #17 - Man in the Mist

    S1:E75/24/1996

    The episode begins with a sea ship in trouble. A telescope smashes which releases a man. At the San Fransisco dock, a man appears out of the mist and heads into a bar, he stands in a puddle if water and it freezes, the bar then freezes, he shouts the name ""Carolyn"" and then collapses. He has been taken to the local hospital. There, the machines freeze, and the hospital beds also freeze. There is a sort of mini earthquake. Rachel arrives at the hospital to examine him. The Doc shows Rachel a book that he had in him, a 19th Century book in perfect condition. Rachel briefly meets him, but he escapes. He runs out of the hospital and notices a toy boat in a shop window, he begins to have visions of the trouble ship from the start of the ep. Rachel and Alex, go to the dock/bar where this man collapsed. There is another mini-earthquake, Rachel knows that he is near-by. They meet up with him, and Rachel tells him that she will help him remember his past. They call him John Doe.

    Director:Mario Azzopardi

    Writer:James Cappe

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    Director:Mario Azzopardi

    Writer:James Cappe
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    6.8/10(68 votes)

    #18 - Do Not Go Gently

    S1:E116/21/1996

    Liz Barrow, an old friend of Nicks, is with her fiance when she has an asthma attack and falls into a coma. She finds herself in a dark mysterious place and sees a young boy killed by a large monstrous shape. At that moment she awkes and watches as the boy in the next bed, the same boy from her 'dream', dies. She gets her fiance, Kevin. to contact Nick and get him to iunvestigate the hospital. Hoping he can find out what is going on there before she to falls vitim to the monster in her dreams.

    Director:Michael Robison

    Writer:John Shirley

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    Director:Michael Robison

    Writer:John Shirley
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    6.8/10(54 votes)

    #19 - The Inheritance

    S1:E198/30/1996

    Rahel recieves a letter from her aunt's lawyer informing her of her death and that as she is the last living relative she will inherit everything. She goes to her aunt's funeral, with Kat, and finds that something is happening inside the house. Derek has a premonition that sometihng is going to happen to Rachel and tells her that she needs to be careful while inside the house.

    Director:Brad Turner

    Writer:William Bleich

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    Director:Brad Turner

    Writer:William Bleich
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    6.8/10(36 votes)

    #20 - The Painting

    S4:E44/9/1999

    A patient of Rachel's mysteriously vanishes after their last session and bequeaths her a beautiful but odd painting. After learning more about the young woman's disappearance and the history behind the painting itself the team becomes convinced it must be destroyed. Kat's new friend decides to teach Kat the art of the craft and Kat learns new secrets about herself in the process but puts an old friend's life in danger.

    Director:Allan Kroeker

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.8/10(30 votes)

    #21 - The Possession

    S4:E54/16/1999

    Alex's grandmother travels to San Francisco to warn her of an evil spirit/Bocor thatis after her. She gives Alex a magic charm to protect her but falls pray to the Bocor's voodoo powers herself. With her grandmother now in a coma Alex does the only thing she can think of to help her... she releases Daniel Euwara, a powerful spirit, from the prison the Legacy trapped him in (see 'Spirit Thief')and asks him to remove the curse.

    Director:William Fruet

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.9/10(90 votes)

    #22 - Sins of the Father

    S1:E34/26/1996

    The episode begins with a young boy screaming from inside his bedroom. The door is locked, and his mother can't get in. When the police arrive, she tells them that her husband is in the room beating her/his son up. The police broke down the door and took the husband away. David tells his wife that it wasn't him who beat up his son in the bedroom, but it was some un-foreseen force. And that Michael is still in danger. The next morning Derek goes to visit David at his home, David has been bailed out of prison by his father. Derek heard about the arrest and wanted to see if it was true. David tells Derek that it wasn't him. David shows Derek a scar on his chest which he claimed he received at the hands of this unforeseen force who attacked Michael. It turns out though, that David was drunk last night. Derek asks David if Rachel will be ok to examine Michael. David agrees.

    Director:Allan Eastman

    Writers:Brad Wright, Garner Simmons

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    Director:Allan Eastman

    Writers:Brad Wright, Garner Simmons
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    6.9/10(62 votes)

    #23 - The Bell of Girardius

    S1:E137/12/1996

    Miranda Blake, the curator of one of the Legacy's museums, calls Derek when there is a break in at her workplace. When Alex checks the inventory she realises that the only thing missing is The Bell of Giradius, a mystical item reputed to bring the dead back to life. The questions the Legacy need to find out are where is the Bell, who took it and does the recent death of Miranda's fiance have anything to do with it's disappearance?

    Director:Joseph L. Scanlan

    Writer:Robert Masello

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    Director:Joseph L. Scanlan

    Writer:Robert Masello
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    6.9/10(57 votes)

    #24 - The Thirteenth Generation

    S1:E157/26/1996

    During the 17th Century a suspected witch is 'tested' by being dunked in water, as she goes to her death she curses the next thirteen generations of the Witchfinders family. While guest lecturing at a Boston University Derek gets involved in a series of murders/deaths that seem to involve the same family and could be connected to the long rumoured curse.

    Director:Brad Turner

    Writer:Garner Simmons

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    Director:Brad Turner

    Writer:Garner Simmons
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    6.9/10(49 votes)

    #25 - The Reckoning

    S1:E219/13/1996

    A 300 year old seer who helped out Derek's father on a number of occasions appears at the Legacy house to mysteriously warn him of a dead man who will return to life.

    Director:Michael Robison

    Writer:Garner Simmons

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    Director:Michael Robison

    Writer:Garner Simmons