Season 1 • Episode 9
LatestCrackpot Web adventurer Arthur Van Halen, who has been chasing shape-shifting wolves for some time, traps Ruby while she's in wolfen form after escaping from Tyler and plans to expose the Wolf Lake community to his Internet audience. Meanwhile, Luke is consumed with jealousy while spying on Sophia and orders Sophia to stay away from her new boyfriend. Not aware that Ruby is being held captive, Vivian orders a kill or capture order, for fear that her being at large will endanger the community.
"There are those among us who can move at will between the world of the wolves and the world of the humans. My people call them skin walkers." Seattle police detective John Kanin has a problem. He's in love, but shortly after agreeing to marry him, his girlfriend disapears. His search leads to her home town, where people are clearly hiding information from him. One of the things they are hiding is the fact that they are all werewolves, as is John's girlfriend, Ruby.
Acting
Lou Diamond Phillips committing harder than the material deserves.
Production
Pacific Northwest gloom before Twilight made it trendy.
Writing
Werewolf mythology that actually tries worldbuilding.
Creator
John Leekley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
CBS cancelled it after 9 episodes, but UPN aired all 5 unaired ones later that year. Chaos!
This debuted months before Smallville and got eclipsed, but its 'teen with secret powers in small town' DNA is unmistakable. Mary Elizabeth Winstead was 17 here!
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