The Dresden Files: The First Four Episodes

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The Dresden Files first aired on January 21, 2007.


Birds of a Feather:
We are first introduced to young Harry whose father was just a regular magician who knows that Harry has special abilities. He tells Harry that they need to keep what Harry can do a secret to keep others from using Harry, like his uncle on his mother's side. We don't know what happened... yet but we do know that Harry was partially raised by his uncle, who was a dark wizard, and that Harry killed him.
Harry is a lone wolf, his only companion is a ancient wizard, Bob, whose spirit is attached to his skull. We also know that Bob had once belonged to Harry's uncle.
In Bird of a Feather, a young boy sees Harry's phone book ad and asks Harry to help him. He tells Harry that there are monsters in his house that want to hurt him and his mom. Harry tells the boy that there are not monsters in his house and sends the boy on his way. Harry doesn't realize that the boy was telling the truth until Harry helps Lt. Murphy in a murder case where the victim was removed of all her skin. Harry knows that its a skin walker and considering that the stolen skin belongs to the boys teacher, Harry goes to the boys house to learn that he has been kidnapped. Come to find out that this boy is magically special and has been protected since the day he was born by Ravens, who are considered magically neutral.
So the boy is safe but Harry still needs to get rid of the skin walker. Bob made a magically booby trap called a Doom Box which disintegrated the skin walker.

The Boone Identity:
Harry is hired by an antiques dealer who believes that the spirit of his daughter, who was murdered a year before when the store was robbed by a convicted felon, is still haunting the shop, trying to communicate with him. Harry goes and at first just believes that its all just about a man trying to hold on to his daughter, that is until the daughter's spirit shows Harry what happened to her.
What was stolen from the antiques dealer was an ancient tablet called the Lock of Anubis and it has the power to give someone the ability to swap bodies with another person. Harry figures out that the felon, Boone, had used the lock to swap bodies with a very rich and prominent man. However, things go wrong when Boone swaps bodies with Lt Murphy and Harry has to figure out how to save Murphy before Boone jumps bodies again since the only way to jump bodies is to kill the body that your in at the time.
Harry figures out how to get Boone out of Murphy's body without killing her, lures Boone back to the antique shop and tricks Boone into placing his hand back on the Lock of Anubis which sends his soul into oblivion.

Hair of the Dog:
This episode starts with a great line. Lt. Murphy calls Harry and asks him: "Do you want to see a dead body?" Harry helps Murphy investigate the murder of a young woman, Mina, who is found naked in a park. The whole thing is weird especially when the FBI shows up and takes over the investigation and bars Harry from giving or receiving information.
Harry takes Bob to the park since Bob can sense the person's energy through their blood and take on the shape of the person temporarily. But instead of showing Harry the dead woman, he shows Harry a very big, scary dog, the woman was a lycanthrope or werewolf.
Come to find out that the FBI agent that took over the investigation was the werewolf that had turned the dead woman into a werewolf in the first place and that her partner was helping her kill those from the same bloodline in order to break the curse but not before she turned the dead woman's roommate, Heather, into a lycanthrope.
Harry know this girl is marked for death so he tries to keep her safe but the FBI agent finds them at Harry's and now Harry has two problems: trying to keep Heather from wolfing out and killing and trying to kill the FBI agent. The FBI agent accidentally kills her partner who had turned into a lycanthrope after Mina scratched him. The curse is broken but at what price?
Harry helps Heather in trying to live with her "disease" but Heather decides to leave town in order to be strong on her own. When Heather leaves Harry's, he is worried that she'll fall of the wagon and he'll have to hunt her down.

Rules of Engagement:
A beautiful young woman walks into Harry's wanting to hire him to find a man that stole money from her aunt. Harry tracks the man down to find a crispy critter instead. Harry can smell brimstone which is a definite sign of demonic activity. And to add insult to injury, the young woman didn't even tell Harry her real name or why she was really looking for this guy.
Come to find out that a major hellion player, Sirota, had turned a young man, Matthew Jacobs, into a hellion and then sent him after the young woman, Caryn, but what Sirota didn't count on was instead of turning Caryn into a hellion, Matthew fell in love with her and wanted to turn back into a human. In order to do this, Matthew needs to do a ritual and he also needed his slave chain so he stole it from Sirota but lost it.
Harry finds the chain and helps Matthew and Caryn but he also needs to get them off the magical radar so they trick Sirota into thinking that he killed Matthew. And a member of the High Counsel, Morgan, also offers them protection by keeping them off the magical radar.

Cast:

Harry Dresden: Paul Blackthorne

Lt. Connie Murphy: Valerie Cruz

Bob: Terrance Mann

Morgan: Conrad Coates

Kirmani: Raoul Bhaneja