NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - A Traitor Among Us
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/20/1996
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
- 5.6/1023 votesLoading...
#2 - Darkside
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 8/21/1998
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1022 votesLoading...
#3 - The Mephisto Strain
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 10/8/1999
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1048 votesLoading...
#4 - The Crystal Scarab
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/28/1996
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
- 6.2/1027 votesLoading...
#5 - Armies of Night
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 8/14/1998
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1021 votesLoading...
#6 - Infernal Affairs
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 11/5/1999
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: N/A
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
- 6.4/1077 votesLoading...
#7 - Pilot (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/21/1996
Alex has telephoned Derek and Nick and told them where Julia is. They headed to the antique store looking for her. Meanwhile, the possessed antique store owner goes to Rachels place. He tells her that he has fixed the box. She opens it and a bright white light emerges, appearing to hypnotize Rachel. The antique owner then turns into Rachels dead husband, Patrick. The two of them proceed to kiss and eventually have sex. However, during sex, he changes back into his original form. Rachel screams and Derek and Nick, who are close by, hear her screams. When Nick bursts in Rachels room, the demon runs, Nick pursues it into a field and kills it. Once the demon is destroyed, Nick glances over to a cross placed in the middle of the field. When he gets closer, he notices that it is Julia on the cross, - dead. Nick breaks down in tears.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Brad Wright, Frank Abatemarco
- 6.5/1059 votesLoading...
#8 - The Twelfth Cave
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/17/1996
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
- 6.5/1022 votesLoading...
#9 - The Portents
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 9/17/1999
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1024 votesLoading...
#10 - Gaslight
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 9/24/1999
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
- 6.6/10125 votesLoading...
#11 - Pilot (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/21/1996
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
- 6.6/1064 votesLoading...
#12 - The Tenement
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/10/1996
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
- 6.6/1047 votesLoading...
#13 - Revelations
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/16/1996
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
- 6.7/1061 votesLoading...
#14 - Man in the Mist
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/24/1996
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 Philip Azzopardi
Writer: James Cappe
- 6.7/1025 votesLoading...
#15 - The Choice
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 8/17/1997
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1077 votesLoading...
#16 - Sins of the Father
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/26/1996
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
Writer: Brad Wright, Garner Simmons
- 6.8/1041 votesLoading...
#17 - The Reckoning
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/13/1996
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
- 6.8/1031 votesLoading...
#18 - Trapped
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 8/10/1997
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1029 votesLoading...
#19 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 5/29/1998
Alex begins having dreams that cause her to sleepwalk. Grandma Rose worries for Alex's health and asks her to come home. Alex agrees and Nick accompanies her to see Rose. The dreams continue and grow more intense as the days go by. Rose begins to tell Alex of her ancestor, La Belle, and so the search for the truth behind Alex's dreams becomes clearer. A spirit from the past looks to come back through a familiar spirit...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1030 votesLoading...
#20 - The Painting
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 4/9/1999
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: N/A
- 6.8/1024 votesLoading...
#21 - The Possession
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 4/16/1999
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: N/A
- 6.9/1057 votesLoading...
#22 - Ghost in the Road
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/31/1996
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
- 6.9/1046 votesLoading...
#23 - The Inheritance
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/30/1996
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
- 6.9/1027 votesLoading...
#24 - The Enlightened One
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/1998
Kristin arrives in San Francisco from Boston to join the group's investigation of a series of church fires. What she doesn't tell them is that she thinks her younger brother may have joined the cult that the setting the fires.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1026 votesLoading...
#25 - Metamorphosis
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/24/1998
A psychiatric patient of Rachel's attacks her during a session as time progresses Rachel becomes aggressive and exceedingly paranoid. The rest of the team try to help by investigating but she keeps pushing them away. Soon they have no choice but to step in and force Rachel to again come to terms with her demons before its too late.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy
Every episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy!
The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.
Genre:Drama
Network:Showtime
Worst Episodes Summary
"A Traitor Among Us" is the worst rated episode of "Poltergeist: The Legacy". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Brenton Spencer and written by Bill Froehlich, it aired on 9/20/1996. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Darkside".