The WORST episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy
Every episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy!
'Since the beginning of time mankind has existed between the world of light and the world of darkness. This journal chronicles the work of our secret society, known as The Legacy. Created to protect the innocent from those creatures that inhabit the shadows and the night.' So the opening credits of 'Poltergeist: The Legacy' announced. 'Poltergeist was a show that tried to mix the style and success of X-Files and transport it to a more horror based genre. Mostly it succeeded and, while not having the plaudits of X-Files, managed to create and interesting group of characters and story ideas.
#1 - The Beast Within
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/12/1999
The series finale comes with an explosive end. The team has battled many enemies in the field in the past four years but the final battle is one fought in their own home. While Kristin's sacrafice held off the seal to hell from being temporarily opened it will take another to seal it completely... the question is can the Legacy team go on after losing their home and perhaps friend?
#2 - Infernal Affairs
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/5/1999
An ancient deck of tarot cards enlivens a tedious evening for Derek, Nick and Alex. However, each card underscores the high personal cost of their allegience to the Legacy. This episode, like the one previous, is in a clip based format. Nick, Derek and Alex all sit around a table in the Legacy House remembering key moments and events from the past 4 years.
#3 - Bird of Prey (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/1999
Corvus was put to death but the murders continue...Alex forms an alliance with one of the victim's fiance and vows they will find her killer. Derek and Nick trail a reporter on a scoop to find the killer and a close encounter with an early demise of her own...as Rachel becomes to object of the Harvester's obsession. The team must come together with all their new found information and find were this new killer keeps his layer in order to stop him before they lose one of their own to his monsterosities.
#4 - Metamorphosis
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/24/1998
A psychiatric patient of Rachel's attacks her during a session as time progresses Rachel becomes aggressive and exceedingly paranoid. The rest of the team try to help by investigating but she keeps pushing them away. Soon they have no choice but to step in and force Rachel to again come to terms with her demons before its too late.
#5 - The Choice
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/17/1997
Rachel decides that she is going to take Kat and leave the Legacy. She has become increasingly worried about the danger she is putting Kat in by being a member of the team and the repercussions that that causes. The rest of the team try to persuade her otherwwise so she tells them about all the danger that Kat has been put in ever since she joined.
#6 - Someone to Watch Over Me
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/25/1997
An old friend of Derek and Sloan's dies in Canada. After the funeral they think that more is involved than the authorities think. A fellow professor is snooping around, they find notes written in a language the three of them created many years ago, Derek keeps getting weird flashes and Serena, the friends wife, keeps seeing a strange creature in the triangular pond in the garden. All these things lead to Derek and Sloan staying in Canada longer than they had intended so they can investigate.
#7 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/29/1998
Alex begins having dreams that cause her to sleepwalk. Grandma Rose worries for Alex's health and asks her to come home. Alex agrees and Nick accompanies her to see Rose. The dreams continue and grow more intense as the days go by. Rose begins to tell Alex of her ancestor, La Belle, and so the search for the truth behind Alex's dreams becomes clearer. A spirit from the past looks to come back through a familiar spirit...Alex's!
#8 - Stolen Hearts
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/1998
Rachel falls in love with a man who turns out to have achieved his success by making a pact with the Devil. At the same time, Kat comes under attack by dark forces.
#9 - Song of the Raven (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/19/1999
Rachel performs a psychiatric evaluation on Raymond Corvus as Derek is convinced he is responsible for a series of murders identical to those he was tried and found guilty of committing. As Rachel struggles with the results of her evaluation and the knowledge it will put a man to death the team continues to research who is behind the newest 'harvester' type murders...
#10 - Father to Son
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/1998
Nick witnessed his father's death, but then learns that his father did not die by accident. His father's ghost asks him to help find his murderer and avenge his death. But Nick has trouble solving the case when it comes to light that his father was abusive to him when he was a child.
#11 - Fallen Angel
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/1998
The Legacy must intervene when a dead woman's spirit returns to earth from Heaven to rescue her lover's soul from Hell, not realizing the danger that he will return with new powers to commit evil.
#12 - Dream Lover
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/1998
Derek receives an ancient artifact shattered in pieces. Kristin and Alex take the task to re-assembling the package as Derek receives notice the sender, Samuel Kellig, was killed in an accident. The women discover Samuel's death may not have been an accident as they begin to put the urn back together as well as piece clues to Samuel's last dig. At the same time, Derek grows closer to Samuel's beautifully captivating fiance...a woman whose present character doesn't fit her profile.
#13 - Debt of Honor
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/1998
Nick attends a boyhood friend's military funeral and gets re-acquainted with another. After catching up and returning home Nick is called up a few days later when Joe, the deceased, begins paying John troubling visits. Nick, along with Kristin's help, must find out why his friend is out for revenge against John then its up to Nick to stop Joe before his soul is doomed forever.
#14 - The Light
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/1998
Members of the Barnard family have been dying, all under mysterious circumstances. When Rachel gets the Legacy involved to protect her old family friends, they soon realise that everything comes back to Todd's romance with Angela Sanchez, and her grandmother's pain.
#15 - Hell Hath No Fury
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/10/1998
After a freed cop killer is killed Derek and the team investigate when it becomes obvious it was a ritualistic murder. More importantly, the murder was done using an artifact stolen from a Legacy collection on display by a former member. Though, Det. Carmack is set against allowing the team to help he has no choice as the Legacy is set on solving the case and retrieving their stolen property. Soon the investigation leads Derek to a truth he had secretly hoped wasn't the truth...
#16 - Irish Jug
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/17/1998
Kat is on the job when the team is put in charge of cataloging and disbursing the bequeathed estate of Hanney Ellen Keane and Derek makes a grave error. Taking a few drinks from a cursed Irish Jug causes two ne'er-do-wellers escape from the Jug and possess Derek and Milo. Once the boys realize what year they're in and the fortune the one called Derek possesses they soon decide to stay awhile but before they can enjoy the riches they must get rid of the women. Being the only one that sees the two impostors for what they are Kat must think quickly and convince Alex to help her as Rachel is nowhere to be found.
#17 - Silent Partner
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/20/1997
Margaret and Laura Davis, two old friends of Derek and Nick's, return to San Franscisco. They perfrom seances and Margaret wants Nick and Derek to come along to one of them. It seems as if Laura is being 'taken over' by a spirit, 'Elizabeth', that is taking control of her body when she is unconscious. Rachel suggests that they need to find out more about 'Elizabeth' if they want to be able to help Laura.
#18 - The Enlightened One
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/1998
Kristin arrives in San Francisco from Boston to join the group's investigation of a series of church fires. What she doesn't tell them is that she thinks her younger brother may have joined the cult that the setting the fires.
#19 - Light of Day (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/1998
Having been bitten by a vampire, Alex's transition to one will be complete as soon as she succeeds in killing the object of her blood lust -- Nick.
#20 - Darkness Falls (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/1998
In New Orleans, Alex encounters an old college friend who is now a vampire. But when she is bitten she begins to transform into a vampire but the process will only be completed when she has taken her first human life.
#21 - Trapped
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/10/1997
Derek is possessed by his father's spirit, which intends to assemble the elements to create a gateway that will allow the demons of hell to enter our world.
#22 - Let Sleeping Demons Lie
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/3/1997
Sloan is on a jet on his way to San Francisco when they hit bad weather. Derek is on the phone talking to him when he suddenly loses contact and the plane vanishes from the radar. Derek and the team mobilise to find Sloan and the crew, if they survived, somewhere in the middle of a mountain range. Unknown to them one of the items Sloan had with him has released someone orsomething that is now holdong him prisoner.
#23 - Fear
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/18/1997
Emily, a friend of Rachels', took over administrating Westview Sanitoruium 3 months ago. Since then there has been a number of strange deaths, patients dying of supposed heart failure. To help her friend Rachel agrees to get herself admitted as a patient and investigate from the inside.
#24 - Mind's Eye
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/4/1997
A woman is being plagued by a poltergeist in her house. She calls in a spiritualist, Jeffrey Star, to help her out, unknown to her he is a fake and a conman. Her son deosn't trust him at all and calls the Legacy and Derek for help. Star is exposed as the fake he is and is thrown in a cell, where he is beaten up by a fellow inmate. After nearly dying in the cell he starts experience images in his head, he starts to believe that he know has real psychic powers. Meanwhile back at the Hoth household Derek and Alex are trying to help out and find out whether or not there really is a spirit in the house and what they can do to remove it if there is.
#25 - Shadow Fall
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/27/1997
A young american indian boy is taken into the principals office after being jumped by two bullies. He loses his phoenix talisman during the attack and his anger appears to manifest itself as a shadow warrior. The warrior attacks first the principal and then a police detective who is pushing his mother. Thrown into a cell on assault charges his only chance of freedom is from the Luna Foundation and its interest in unusaual phenomena. Derek comes to the police station to see if he can find out whether the boy is telling the truth or not about what happened.