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Brimstone

Brimstone (1998-1999) is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead detective whose mission (assigned by the Devil) is to return 113 spirits who have escaped from Hell to Earth.

In 1983, Ezekiel "Zeke" Stone (played by Peter Horton) was a New York City Police detective whose wife was raped. He tracked down and arrested the offender, named Gilbert Jax, who was cleared of the charges. Furious, Stone then murdered Jax in cold blood. Two months later, Stone was killed in an unrelated event and went to Hell for Jax's death. The Devil explains in the Pilot episode that this was because he took pleasure in the killing, which prevented it from being justice. He died one of the most decorated cops in NYC history.

Fifteen years later, a breakout from Hell occurs, and 113 spirits escape. Because the Devil (played to much fan acclaim by John Glover) is powerless on Earth, he makes a deal with Stone: Stone will be returned to Earth to track down these 113 escapees, and if he can return all 113 to Hell (before one of them gets him) he will earn a second chance at life on Earth, and therefore, Heaven.

The Devil seems to hinder Stone's work almost as much as he helps it, however, giving some information but withholding crucial facts, or giving only cryptic clues to where Stone will find the next of the escapees, apparently delighting in watching him become more irritable with his interference. Stone wears the name and pictographs of these souls as tattoos over his body; as each soul is sent back, his or her corresponding tattoo burns itself off.

Brimstone ran for only one partial season. Fox canceled the show after just thirteen episodes, Stone having returned only eleven spirits to Hell. Some fans have seen a grim satisfaction in the fact that the number of episodes, was in fact thirteen, tying in neatly with the demonic premise of the show. (Even though '13' as an unlucky number was invented by the Christians. 13 is actually the number of fertility from the pagan relgions. Some of that meaning still survives today wit the 'Baker's Dozen' meaning 13 loaves.

Chiller will begin airing Brimstone on Saturday July 28. 'New' episodes will then air Saturdays with replays the following Monday.

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Brimstone Episodes

Brimstone Season 1

1. 1- 1 196646 23 Oct 98 Pilot
2. 1- 2 467452 30 Oct 98 Heat
3. 1- 3 467453 3 Nov 98 Encore
4. 1- 4 467455 13 Nov 98 Repentance
5. 1- 5 467451 20 Nov 98 Poem
6. 1- 6 467456 4 Dec 98 Executioner
7. 1- 7 467454 11 Dec 98 Slayer
8. 1- 8 467457 18 Dec 98 Ashes
9. 1- 9 467458 8 Jan 99 Lovers
10. 1-10 467459 15 Jan 99 Carrier
11. 1-11 467461 29 Jan 99 Faces
12. 1-12 467460 5 Feb 99 It's a Helluva Life
13. 1-13 467462 12 Feb 99 Mourning After

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What ever happened to Zeke (Peter Horton), did he ever get a role in any other show?

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