A generation lost. The future unknown.

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Episode(s): 1.02 “The Long Road: Part 2″
Role: Sarah (guest appearance)
Status: Original airdate March 3 2002 (U.S.)
Series Creator(s): J. Michael Straczynski
Other Cast: Luke Perry, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Byron Lawson, Sean Astin, Kimberly Hawthorne, Ingrid Kavelaars, Kandyse McClure, Peter Stebbings, Daniel Gillies (guest)
Network: Showtime

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• Memorable Sarah Quotations
• Said of Jeremiah
• Jeremiah Episode Trivia
• Reception: Awards & Personal Thoughts
• Jeremiah Online

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Series and episode overview by Tricia Helfer Fan:

Jeremiah is a post-apocalyptic Showtime drama series set in the year 2021, 15 years after “The Big Death”, a strange virus that killed everyone above the age of puberty. The show follors the lives of a couple of the oldest survivors, Jeremiah and Kurdy, living on the scraps of the world while trying to find a way to rebuild it. The series lasted for two seasons (2002-2004).

In episode “The Long Road: Part 2″, the second part of the series’ two-hour pilot, Jeremiah (Perry) meets the mysterious Simon (Gillies), who later turns out to be an “investigator” from the Thunder Mountain refuge. The refuge turns out to be a complex originally built to survive a nuclear attack, where a group of people are now living in isolation, protecting both themselves and their supplies from the outside world. When Simon is later fatally wounded, he asks Jeremiah to warn the people at Thunder Mountain that “The Big Death” might soon be returning, and so Jeremiah and his new travel partner Kurdy (Warner) make their way to the mountain, before embarking on another adventure.

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Tricia Helfer portrays Sarah, a small supporting role as a Thunder Mountain refugee in charge of newcomer integration and orientation. Sarah introduces Jeremiah and Kurdy to the premises of the mountain.

“This place was built to survive a nuclear attack. It would’ve taken decades before the outside environment was livable.”

“If we let the outside world know we’re here, they’ll swoop down, take everything they can carry with them, burn the rest and we’ll be right back where we started! It’s not my decision. Or yours.”

“Don’t get too excited. It’s not as good as it looks.”

“Markus is the heart of this place. Without him, I think the whole thing would fall apart. He’s an extraordinary man. He believes in things. He believes in us, this place… in the future. And he has this amazing ability to make other people believe in things, too. Before I came here, I didn’t think there was a future to believe in anymore.”

Select quotations regarding the show from Tricia Helfer and her co-workers: Coming soon/not available.

• In the two-part pilot episode, Tricia Helfer is accompanied by among others actress Kandyse McClure, whom Tricia would later co-star with on Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica. The two share a scene in the episode, but while Tricia would not be seen on Jeremiah beyond the pilot, McClure was to make appearances as Elizabeth in six more episodes of the show.

• Although Tricia is often credited as appearing in both parts of the pilot episode, she actually only makes an appearance in “The Long Road: Part 2″, i.e. the second hour of the two-hour pilot.

• Tricia’s guest role in Jeremiah was one of her first ever acting gigs.

• Although Tricia’s character Sarah is not seen again on the show after the pilot episode, her fate is never explained.

Jeremiah episode 1.02 “The Long Road: Part 2″ has not received any awards or nominations.

Personal Thoughts

Sandra: I don’t really have a lot to say regarding this show, to be honest, simply because I’m not at all acquainted with it. I was fairly young when it originally aired in the U.S., and it has to my knowledge not aired in my country at all.

In the pilot episode, however, Tricia has a very small and relatively uninteresting role as Sarah. Despite Sarah and Jeremiah’s differences in opinion when it comes to how to best utilize the resources of Thunder Mountain, Sarah is a warm, sensible and inviting personality, as well-conveyed by Tricia, however beyond that Sarah is of little relevance to either the show or the arc of the episode. Still, if you’re a big fan, the episode is definitely worth checking out as Tricia nevertheless makes more than a five-second turn in it, has several lines, and therefore serves as a great look at Tricia’s early career and roles.

Below are some Jeremiah related links that may be of interest to you.

• Jeremiah official site
• Jeremiah TFL-approved fanlisting
• Jeremiah TFL-approved Sarah character fanlisting
• Jeremiah on IMDb.com
• Jeremiah on MetaCritic.com
• Jeremiah on Wikipedia.org

• Kandyse McClure on Illuminate: Kandyse McClure
• Luke Perry on LukePerry.com
• Sean Astin on SeanAstin.com