Pilot (1996)
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David Nutter
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In downtown Seattle, a strip club patron whom workers call "The Frenchman" (Paul Dillon) pays for a private show with Calamity (April Telek). Watching her dance, the Frenchman mumbles passages from poetry and the Bible, hallucinating blood pouring over Calamity, with a wall of fire surrounding her. Later that night, Calamity is found brutally murdered, with her head and fingers missing.
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