The Collector (2004)
The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year deals, Morgan Pym negotiates with the Devil for the ability to aid the damned in redeeming themselves rather than sending them to Hell. Under the Devil's mocking gaze, Morgan assists his "clients" in undoing the damage their deals have done because of the devil shifting good luck towards the client and away from others. The series is set in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where it was also filmed. CHUM cancelled the program after three seasons.
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Episode 1 - The Cowboy
Release Date: 2005-01-09Morgan's client is a formerly rich CEO who swindled millions from investors; to escape the consequences he made a deal to become a cowboy in the Old West of his childhood fantasies, to which Morgan is transported after getting the client's name. But Morgan's efforts to save his client ultimately endanger him, and it looks like the man may die at the hands of a gunslinger before he achieves his redemption.
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Episode 2 - The UFOlogist
Release Date: 2005-01-16Morgan's client is a UFO buff obsessed with alien visitations to earth; so obsessed, in fact, that he willingly sold his soul for proof that aliens exist, and believes he's received it. Morgan thinks the Devil has cheated the client, by deluding him into believing in proof where none exists, but ultimately has to play along to get the man to seek redemption.
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Episode 3 - The Dreamer
Release Date: 2005-01-23A young First Nations woman turns out to have sold her soul for a dreamcatcher that would stop the horrific nightmares that had driven to the brink of suicide, but they soon discover that the horror of her dreams seems to have spread to the Native community she left behind.
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Episode 4 - The Pharmacist
Release Date: 2005-01-30Morgan's client is a night shift pharmacist who sold her soul to be cured of the cancer that was about to kill her. But the Devil did something odd -- he gave her more of the cure than she needed for herself, facing her with a dilemma: should she try to cure others and risk exposure and an early trip to Hell?
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Episode 5 - The Tattoo Artist
Release Date: 2005-02-06Morgan's client is a tattoo artist who remembers making a deal 10 years earlier...but doesn't remember why. As they slowly uncover the secrets of his past, the client recovers his memories...and the pain that goes with them.
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Episode 6 - The Comic
Release Date: 2005-02-13Morgan's client sold his soul to be the most successful standup comedian in the world, and is on the brink of beginning a series of live comedy specials when Morgan interrupts him at the end of one of his remarkable improvisational acts at a local club. This starts a series of dominoes falling that will expose the client's bitter secrets.
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Episode 7 - The Campaign Manager
Release Date: 2005-02-20Morgan initially suspects his client of being a young, handsome, charming politician who seems to be on a straight course to the job of Prime Minister, but discovers that the deal was actually made by the power behind the throne: the candidate's campaign manager, a sharp, smart woman with a mysterious agenda. Morgan has to fight for the woman's attention as she struggles to win one last election.
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Episode 8 - The Mother
Release Date: 2005-02-27Morgan's client is a woman who sold her soul to be the perfect mother, for reasons that become clear as they uncover her past. As Morgan works to save her, Jeri Slate closes in on Morgan, and seems to be on the verge of uncovering his true identity.
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Episode 9 - The Tour Guide
Release Date: 2005-03-06Morgan is stumped when he researches his client's name and finds out that she died ten years earlier. That part of the mystery will be resolved when he meets another woman, a tour guide for a bus tour of Vancouver murder sites, but more secrets remain to be uncovered as he investigates his client's apparent death.
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Episode 10 - The Superhero
Release Date: 2005-03-13Morgan's client is a nobody, working in the bowels of the Vancouver Star as a copy editor, which leaves Morgan puzzled as to what he could possibly have bargained for. Turns out the client has a secret identity -- and secret tragedies to go with it.
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Episode 11 - The Ripper
Release Date: 2005-03-20This is the first episode that shows us Morgan during his centuries as a collector; we begin in London, September 1883, and Morgan is both unsurprised and eager to collect when the Devil tells him that his next client will be Jack the Ripper. What follows reveals a surprising truth behind the Ripper's legend.
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Episode 12 - The Historian
Release Date: 2005-03-27Morgan tries contacting his client, a history professor, but finds she mysteriously disappeared that morning. Upon trying to contact her, Morgan finds himself in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945, where he discovers that his client is a prisoner. Can Morgan save his client and return her to the present?
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Episode 13 - Beginnings
Release Date: 2005-04-03"Beginnings" juxtaposes two stories: the Devil's initial training of Morgan as the first collector, and Morgan's memories of the beginning of his 10 years with Katrina. In the course of the episode we see the origin of the memories, both tender and troubling, that maintain Morgan's humanity even after Katrina's death, and also the Devil's nearly-successful first strike in snuffing out that humanity completely.