Night Stalker (2005-06)

CHARACTER: Agent Bernard Fain

EPISODES:

1x01 Pilot

AIR DATE: September 29, 2005

WRITTEN BY: Frank Spotnitz, Jeffrey Grant Rice (characters)
DIRECTED BY: Daniel Sackheim

SUMMARY:

Carl Kolchak takes a job at the L.A. Beacon as a crime reporter and begins investigating a strange case in which a pregnant woman has gone missing. When her body is found fingers point to the woman's husband, but Kolchak believes in the man's innocence, believing that there is a supernatural angle to the story. His investigations are frustrated when Perri Reed, the newspaper's senior crime reporter, digs into Kolchak's mysterious past. She looks up Carl’s background on the Internet and finds an expired link about the FBI interviewing Carl Kolchak. She calls the investigating agent, Bernard Fain, who tells her that Kolchak is a murderer.

1x06 The Source

AIR DATE: November 10, 2005

WRITTEN BY: Frank Spotnitz
DIRECTED BY: Steve Shill

SUMMARY:

Kolchak refuses to disclose a source in a story about a drug lord's death at the hands of a biker gang and the disappearance of a DEA agent who could shed light on the identity of Irene's killer, causing Agent Fain to return and investigate.

1x07 The Sea

AIR DATE: February 24, 2006

WRITTEN BY: Frank Spotnitz
DIRECTED BY: Elodie Keene

SUMMARY:

Perri and Kolchak must go on the run from the phantom bikers to protect their source on Agent Caleca and the mysteries behind Irene Kolchak's death. Meanwhile, Agent Fain puts pressure on Vincenzo and Jain to reveal what they know.