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Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her
Season 1
5.0/102 votesOnce Upon a Time in the City of New York
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1987
Street savvy Assistant DA Catherine Chandler hails from a rich family and works for her father’s law firm. After leaving a party early, she’s mistaken for someone else and is pulled into a van full of thugs. They slash her face and beat her up, then push her out of the van, leaving her for dead. A shadowy figure appears and carries her to secret set of forgotten tunnels below the city.
Director: Richard Franklin
Writer: Ron Koslow
8.0/101 votesTerrible Savior
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1987
A subway slasher that kills with claws and leaves the victims looking as if they were mauled by a bear is on the prowl. When Catherine learns about the case, she starts to suspect Vincent, as she remembers how he rescued her from the attackers in the safe house.
Director: Alan Cooke
Writer: George R.R. Martin
8.0/101 votesSiege
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1987
Vincent helps the residents of an apartment building defend themselves from thugs trying to chase them out so the building can be torn down—unaware the mastermind is Elliot Burch, a megabucks developer courting Catherine.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: David E. Peckinpah
8.0/101 votesNo Way Down
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1987
Upon being injured in an explosion, a half-blind Vincent is captured by a vicious street gang. Catherine, with the help of her self-defense teacher Isaac, set out to find Vincent.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: James Crocker
8.0/101 votesMasques
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1987
Able to blend in among 'The World Above' on Halloween, Vincent becomes the guardian of an Irish peace activist targeted for assassination.
Director: Alan Cooke
Writer: George R.R. Martin
8.0/101 votesBeast Within
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1987
Catherine has a nearly fatal confrontation with an ex-tunnel dweller, named Mitch Denton.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Andrew Laskos
9.0/101 votesNor Iron Bars a Cage
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1987
After Vincent is accidentally caught on film. he is captured by two men. One, Dr. Edward Hughes, is a scientist desperate to learn the truth about Vincent. The other, grad student Jonathan Gould, believes Vincent is a freak of nature, and wants to reveal him to the public and become famous. Meanwhile, Catherine considers a new job in Providence.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Unknown
9.0/101 votesSong of Orpheus
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1987
When Father ventures to 'The World Above' for the first time in decades, he is arrested for murder. Catherine and Vincent must dive into Father's past—where they learn of his true identity, Jacob Wells, a physician; his blacklisting during the McCarthy era; and, of his long-lost wife—to clear his name and reunite him with his now-dying wife.
Director: Peter Medak
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
9.0/101 votesDark Spirit
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1987
While investigating a businessman's mysterious death, Catherine becomes a target for a mysterious voodoo cult, who makes her see and experience terrifying hallucinations. They then turn her against Vincent, making her believe he is responsible for the visions.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Robin Bernheim Burger
9.0/101 votesA Children's Story
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1987
Catherine learns that renowned orphanage Ridley Foster Home holds a dark secret: selling orphaned children to criminals who force them to steal. She saves one such orphan, Eric, and brings him to 'The World Below' where he's welcomed by Father—who promises his missing sister Ellie a similar refuge—while Vincent helps Catherine find Ellie and end the child-selling racket.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: B.F. Barnett
9.0/101 votesAn Impossible Silence
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1987
Upon witnessing a shooting, deaf Laura Williams must decide if she should leave the sanctuary of 'The World Below' to free an innocent man. While Catherine is investigating the same case, she is attacked in her apartment by the men behind the murder.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
9.0/101 votesShades of Gray
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1988
'The World Below' shun Mouse for his acts of thievery, until they need him and his mechanical and engineering intelligence to help rescue Father and Vincent following a cave-in. Mouse, in turn, needs Catherine's help, which sends her reluctantly to Burch for specialized construction equipment that may free Father and Vincent in time.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: George R.R. Martin, David E. Peckinpah
9.0/101 votesChina Moon
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1988
Chinatown is the setting of a 'Romeo and Juliet'-like story of a woman who is friends with Vincent and who has fallen in love with one man, but—through an arranged marriage—has become engaged to the son of a Triad leader.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: Cynthia Benjamin
9.0/101 votesThe Alchemist
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1988
Catherine believes a deadly new hallucinatory drug on the street is supplied by someone from 'The World Below'. Catherine, Vincent and Father discover Father's former friend Paracelsus—who originally helped him build 'The World Below'—is behind it.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Unknown
8.0/101 votesTemptation
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1988
Joe spearheads the investigation of a major firm, so the firm's attorney begins using dirty tactics to derail Joe, and Catherine discovers that Joe's new girlfriend is a vital to the conspiracy. Meanwhile, Vincent travels to a deep chamber to find a gift for Catherine, in celebration of the one-year anniversary of their first meeting.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: David E. Peckinpah
9.0/101 votesPromises of Someday
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/12/1988
New Assistant DA Devin Wells turns out to be Vincent's long-lost childhood friend from 'The World Below'. His vagabond way of life began after a falling-out with Father over his endangering Vincent aboard a park carousel. The uneasy reunion leads to the revelation of one of Father's long-kept secrets, but ends in their reconciliation and with Devin now knowing he has a home to return to.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: George R.R. Martin
9.0/101 votesDown to a Sunless Sea
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1988
Vincent has foreboding dreams when Catherine's ex-fiancé Steven Bass returns, and with good reason: Catherine is barely aware Steven—whose parents are now dead and who's dying of brain disease, but whose becalmed manner at first belies that he's still a control freak—is obsessed with making her the wife she doesn't want to be, and goes to troubling extremes to make it happen.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: Don Balluck
8.0/101 votesFever
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1988
A necklace Mouse gifts Catherine turns out to be made of antique gold, found in a buried ship Mouse discovered by accident deep in 'The World Below'. When he shows Winslow and stone-worker Cullen, it leads to an unheard-of spell of raw greed among their fellow tunnel dwellers, especially when Cullen tries to claim the ship's treasure as his own for sale, until Catherine, Vincent and Father find a surprising resolution.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Michael Cassutt, Mark Cassutt
9.0/101 votesEverything Is Everything
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1988
Vincent and Catherine become involved with a gypsy boy banished from his tribe because of a crime his father allegedly committed and who claims that his father is actually innocent.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: Virginia Aldridge
9.0/101 votesTo Reign in Hell
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/18/1988
Catherine receives an unexpected visitor on her balcony: Paracelsus's minion Erlik, who captures her in a plot to lure Vincent to the lower parts of 'The World Below' and kill him so that Paracelsus can overthrow Father and take over the tunnels. Despite knowing what Paracelsus would do, Vincent goes to rescue her with the help of Pascal, Winslow, and Jamie.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
9.0/101 votesOzymandias
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/1/1988
Burch's great construction project "Burch Tower" threatens the existence of 'The World Below', and Catherine agrees to marry him if he will halt construction.
Director: Frank Beascoechea
Writer: George R.R. Martin
10.0/101 votesA Happy Life
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/1988
Depressed on the anniversary of her mother's death, Catherine struggles emotionally between her relationship with Vincent and her working life, enough so that Vincent tries to end their relationship.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: Ron Koslow