Squee! We now have official episode descriptions and cast lists for the first five episodes, listed in the order in which they will be aired.
Series Synopsis
Think you understand how the world works? Get schooled with The Dresden Files, a supernatural detective series based on the best-selling novels of Jim Butcher.
The Dresden Files tells the story of Harry Dresden (Paul Blackthorne), a regular guy with an irregular life he's a wizard, a practitioner of magic who uses his unique abilities to solve the cases that come through his Chicago storefront office; call it the next evolution in forensics.
Harry lives in the same work-a-day world we live in, but he can also operate in the world of the supernatural, the metaphysical, and the unexplainable. Dresden unravels otherworldly schemes and crimes and does battle with the forces of darkness, all while keeping his true activities veiled from Lt. Connie Murphy (Valerie Cruz) of the Chicago Police Department.
The governing body that supervises wizards is called the High Council. The Council enforces the rules and makes certain that nobody in the mundane world ever knows what's going on in the supernatural world. In Chicago, the Council's Warden is Morgan (Conrad Coates). Morgan is Harry's probation officer. Three years ago Harry used black magic to kill his uncle Justin Morningway. The Council ruled that Harry did it in self-defense, but Morgan suspects otherwise. He would be only too happy to catch Harry in another transgression.
Dresden's confidante and adviser on all things magical is Bob (Terrence Mann). Bob was a medieval wizard who took up the dark arts but went too far. He was caught and killed by the Wardens, who then bound his soul into eternal servitude as punishment. Bob haunts Harry's apartment, hoping for a chance to regain his corporeal self or at least get out for a walk in the park once in a while.
Through it all, Harry Dresden retains his wry, sardonic view of both the natural and supernatural worlds. If you ever need his special kind of detective skills, you can find him listed in the phone book. For $500 a day, with a two-day minimum, he'll take your case and bring it to a successful conclusion.
Just don't ask him how he does it.
Birds of a Feather
1x03, PREMIERES SUNDAY JANUARY 21 AT 9/8C
Logline
A 10-year-old boy comes to Dresden claiming that monsters are after him. Dresden dismisses the boy's fears until he belatedly realizes the kid is right.
Synopsis
When Scott Sharp, a frightened 10-year-old boy, begs Dresden to protect him and his mother from "monsters" that are lurking in their home, Harry at first dismisses the boy's fears as the product of an overactive imagination. But when Scott is subsequently kidnapped by sinister beings, Dresden realizes that the boy is an innocent pawn in the supernatural contest between good and evil.
The case triggers memories of Dresden's own childhood, when young Harry lived with his father, Colm, who performed low-rent stage magic in community theaters and children's parties. When Harry was Scott's age, his talent for real magic began to emerge a fact that caught the eye of his uncle, Justin Morningway, the brother of young Harry's murdered mother.
Harry's uncle wanted to take him away so that he could hone the boy's talents to serve Morningway's own malevolent ambitions. Just as Colm had to protect young Harry from his uncle Morningway, so Dresden must now rescue Scott from those seeking to exploit him for their own nefarious purposes.
CAST
Harry Dresden -- PAUL BLACKTHORNE
Lt. Connie Murphy -- VALERIE CRUZ
Bob -- TERRENCE MANN
Kirmani -- RAOUL BHANEJA
Young Harry -- MATTHEW KNIGHT
Colm Dresden -- JONATHAN HIGGINS
Scott Sharp -- DYLAN EVERETT
Sheryl Sharp -- MARIE WARD
Melissa Perrini -- HEATHER HANSON
Ms. Timmons -- DEBORAH ODELL
Raven Man -- EARL PASTKO
Justin Morningway -- DANIEL KASH
Laura Ellis -- NATALIE LISINSKA
PRODUCTION
Executive Producers -- DAVID SIMKINS, ROBERT HEWITT WOLFE, NICOLAS CAGE, NORM GOLIGHTLY
Producer -- JONATHAN HACKETT
Written by -- PETER EGAN
Directed by -- MICHAEL ROBISON
The Boone Identity
1x04, PREMIERES SUNDAY JANUARY 28 AT 9/8C
Logline
The ghost of a murdered girl can't rest until justice is brought to her killer unfortunately, he's already dead.
Synopsis
A grieving father seeks Dresden's help to exorcise the ghost of his murdered daughter, Lisa. When Dresden attempts to cleanse the restless spirit, he's forced to look into the circumstances surrounding her death.
Lt. Murphy insists that the case is closed: the killer, Gus Boone, died only a few hours after Lisa's murder, during a botched carjacking attempt. The intended victim of the carjacking Edward Miller, a wealthy young stockbroker fought back and killed Boone with his own shotgun.
As Dresden investigates further, he suspects that Miller and Boone were actually accomplices in the robbery that led to Lisa's untimely death. The stolen item? An Egyptian stone tablet that holds an ancient secret: a key to eternal life.
CAST
Harry Dresden --PAUL BLACKTHORNE
Lt. Connie Murphy -- VALERIE CRUZ
Bob -- TERRENCE MANN
Kirmani -- RAOUL BHANEJA
Charles Harding -- C. DAVID JOHNSON
Boone -- KEVIN RUSHTON
Lisa Harding -- KALEIGH NEVIN
Joseph Miller -- TOM BARNETT
Lucas Sabin --DOMENIC CUZZOCREA
Marie -- JUDY MARSHAK
Joshua Bergen -- JOHN ROBINSON
PRODUCTION
Executive Producers -- DAVID SIMKINS, ROBERT HEWITT WOLFE, NICOLAS CAGE, NORM GOLIGHTLY
Producer -- JONATHAN HACKETT
Written by -- GEORGE MASTRAS
Directed by -- JIM CONTNER
Hair of the Dog
1x05, PREMIERES SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11 AT 9/8C
Logline
When Lt. Murphy asks Dresden to help her investigate a series of ritualistic slayings, he discovers that werewolves are involved. But the werewolves aren't the killers they're the victims.
Synopsis
Murphy brings Dresden to a Chicago park, where the latest in a series of bizarre killings has taken place. A young woman is dead, her hair shorn and her canine teeth pulled out.
Dresden's investigation reveals that the victim was a werewolf, and that she was killed by a lethal dose of silver iodide administered via an aerosol inhalant. It appears that the werewolf chased someone into the park, but the lycanthrope's intended victim turned the tables and killed her with the silver iodide, then harvested the beast's hair and teeth. But why?
Meanwhile, Lt. Murphy finds herself forced off the case by an aggressive FBI agent who has been tracking the serial killer across the United States. But Dresden realizes that this is merely the agent's cover story; she's not tracking the killer she's the mastermind of this monstrous plot.
CAST
Harry Dresden -- PAUL BLACKTHORNE
Lt. Connie Murphy -- VALERIE CRUZ
Bob -- TERRENCE MANN
Kirmani -- RAOUL BHANEJA
Zachary Bushnell -- CONSTANTINE ALEX KARZIS
Joya -- KYRA HARPER
Heather Bram -- KATHLEEN MUNROE
Mina -- IPSITA PAUL
Waldo Butters -- MATT GORDON
Kelly Raskin -- KRISTA BRIDGES
FBI Agent -- DERWIN PHILLIPS
Puppeteer -- JAMES RANKIN
PRODUCTION
Executive Producers -- DAVID SIMKINS, ROBERT HEWITT WOLFE, NICOLAS CAGE, NORM GOLIGHTLY
Producer -- JONATHAN HACKETT
Written by -- LAURENCE WALSH
Directed by -- MICHAEL NANKIN
Rules of Engagement
1x02, PREMIERES SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18 AT 9/8C
Logline
Dresden tries to help a beautiful young woman whose fiance is struggling to sever his ties to some unrelenting demonic forces.
Synopsis
Dresden is hired by a beautiful young woman, who asks him to recover twenty thousand dollars that has been stolen from her Aunt Frieda.
When Dresden locates the thief, he discovers that the man has been burnt to a crisp by a deadly supernatural force. He investigates the man's death and discovers that his beautiful client lied to him about the money, about Aunt Frieda in fact, about everything.
Dresden confronts his client with what he knows, and she fires him either out of fear, or because she's in the thrall of some dark, supernatural evil. Nevertheless, Dresden risks his life to protect her as they play a dangerous game against a ruthless hellion that understands the rules of the game far better than they do.
CAST
Harry Dresden -- PAUL BLACKTHORNE
Lt. Connie Murphy -- VALERIE CRUZ
Bob -- TERRENCE MANN
Morgan -- CONRAD COATES
Kirmani -- RAOUL BHANEJA
Caryn Harris (Nikki Slovak) -- MEREDITH HENDERSON
Sirota -- KIM COATES
Sister Beatrice -- CHAPELLLE JAFFE
Matthew Jacobs -- COREY SEVIER
PRODUCTION
Executive Producers -- DAVID SIMKINS, ROBERT HEWITT WOLFE, NICOLAS CAGE, NORM GOLIGHTLY
Producer -- JONATHAN HACKETT
Written by -- CURTIS KHEEL
Directed by -- MICHAEL GROSSMAN
Storm Front
1x01, TBD
Logline
Harry Dresden (Paul Blackthorne) is a wizard the only one in the Chicago phone book.
Synopsis
When a local gangster and his girlfriend are found dead, their hearts literally exploded through their chests, local police are baffled. There's no natural explanation for the gruesome crime scene no forced entry, no sign of struggle, and no evidence that there was anyone in the room aside from the victims. That's when Chicago P.D. Lt. Connie Murphy calls upon the special services of sometime police consultant Harry Dresden, Wizard.
Not one to buy into any "magic" nonsense, the by-the-book Murphy knows one undeniable thing about Dresden whatever his methods, he always delivers results. Harry, who could use the paycheck, is happy for the work. However, when he visits the crime scene, it becomes crystal clear that the only possible explanation for what he's seeing is black magic. He turns down the case. Harry knows that the only way he would be able to solve it would be to delve into the same dark arts that were used to perpetrate the crime ? and if he did so, the High Council that governs the realm of magic would shut him down ? permanently.
While the police assume that the gangster was the prime target, Harry is convinced that the girlfriend is the key. His investigation uncovers a trail of intrigue that leads to three other murders, an encounter with the seductively lethal vampire Bianca, recurring battles with a fire-breathing demon, and a desperately futile attempt to go on a simple date with his lady friend, Susan, a local news reporter with a dangerous penchant for finding trouble.
CAST
Harry Dresden -- PAUL BLACKTHORNE
Lt. Connie Murphy -- VALERIE CRUZ
Susan Rodriguez -- REBECCA McFARLAND
Morgan -- CONRAD COATES
Ancient Mai -- ELIZABETH THAI
Bianca -- JOANNE KELLY
PRODUCTION
Executive Producers -- DAVID SIMKINS, ROBERT HEWITT WOLFE, NORM GOLIGHTLY, HANS BEIMLER
Producer -- JONATHAN HACKETT
Directed by -- DAVID CARSON
Written by -- ROBERT HEWITT WOLFE, HANS BEIMLER
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