Shelter (television series)

Asylum is the adventure series of Dr. Helen Magnus and her aides: former forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, technical genius Henry, her daughter Ashley, and scammer Kate Freelander. Together, they track, study and guard the strange and terrible creatures that secretly invaded our world. Together with Magnus Will, Ashley and Henry, and later Kate, they use a unique combination of instincts, medicine and advanced technologies to find creatures that are hiding in the corners of our civilization.

In 2007, the first version of the series was released. In 2008, some of the actors were replaced, and scenes with them were re-shot. After remastering, a new "Vault" was released on the American television channel Sci Fi. The first season of the series ended in January 2009, and on October 9, 2009, the show began the second season of the series ^[2] . and October 16, 2010 - showing the third. ^[3] . Channel Sci Fi closed the series after the fourth season ^[4] .

Protagonists

Dr. Helen Magnus ( Amanda Tapping )

Born in England in 1850 . By profession, surgeon and pathologist , as well as a doctor of philosophy and theology , cryptozoology and xenobiology . Like a true Englishwoman, she hates coffee, consuming only tea. It gained immortality thanks to an injection of serum based on vampire blood.

Dr. Will Zimmerman ( Robin Dunn ) ( Provost Darien )

Psychiatrist. He works in the police, previously worked at the FBI . For a long time he was engaged in therapy . Since childhood, he is pathologically afraid of monsters, after one of them killed his mother.

Ashley Magnus ( Emily Ullerup )

Daughter of Helen Magnus and John Druitt. It has some skills, but acts most often thoughtlessly. From the father inherited increased aggressiveness. For a long time, she believed that her father was killed by an abnormal. It was captured by Kabbalah and reprogrammed into a teleporting vampire-like killer. Together with similar killers, she destroyed several Vaults in different countries, including Tokyo and London . During the storming of New York Shelters, Helen managed to "reach out" to her daughter, and Ashley sacrificed herself to save her mother.

Montagu John Druitt ( Christopher Heyerdahl )

Helen's first patient, also her lover and father Ashley. He's Jack the Ripper . Got the ability to teleport through space-time thanks to a serum based on vampire blood. Arriving in the 19th century , he met Helen, who learned that every teleportation irrevocably degrades a specific area of ​​his brain. This in the end leads to a loss of reason and inexplicable hatred of prostitutes . Attempted to kill Helen led to the return of reason . Later it becomes known that it was not teleportation that was to blame, but a kind of non-spatial creature that entered Druitt during one of the teleportations. Later, this creature was expelled, moved into a "refuge", was again expelled and moved back to Druitta.

Henry Foss ( Ryan Robbins )

Weapon designer and brilliant programmer. It is later revealed that he is a werewolf . He grew up in refuge and for a long time was afraid of his true identity.

Bigfoot ( Christopher Heyerdahl )

An intelligent bigfoot (this is how Tesla characterizes him in the 16th episode of Season 3), who is also a butler, driver and bodyguard of Helen. It becomes known that he is an outcast of his people.

Kate Freelander ( Agam Darshi )

Former bondage scammer in Kabbalah. He has great knowledge of the underworld and abnormals. After she was betrayed by the Cabal, she joins the Vault team. Born in Mumbai , but her family moved to America as a child. Meets with an abnormality with Earth Hollow.

Nikola Tesla ( Jonathon Young )

Based on the image of the real Nikola Tesla, a charming and charismatic vampire who loves Helen, but she may not be. Then - an even more charming and charismatic person with electromagnetic superpowers and unrivaled intelligence. Later again becomes a vampire thanks to the blood of the vampire queen. He was among the number 5. It was most altered by the vampire serum, becoming, in fact, almost a real vampire, although also possessing the ability to throw lightning.

Declan McRae ( Robert Lawrenceon )

Head of London Shelter after the death of James Watson. After destruction London Shelter agents Kabbalah, becomes one of Helen's assistants. Returns to London after the restoration of the Vault.

Minor Heroes

Members of Group 5

Dr. Helen Magnus, Montagu John Druitt, Nikola Tesla, Nigel Griffin, Sir James Watson.

Kabal

• sanctuaryforall.com - the official website of the series
• Asylum on the Internet Movie Database
• Site of Jonathon Young (Nikola Tesla) (Russian)