Charlie Jade Complete [2005 DVD-MKV]

Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire.

The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, was moved to overnight Mon/Tue

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Broadcast...................Episode.Name...................Size
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20050416 Charlie Jade 101 - The Big Bang.mkv...............745,977,047
20050416 Charlie Jade 102 - Sand.mkv.......................716,736,173
20050423 Charlie Jade 103 - You Are Here.mkv...............760,192,503
20050430 Charlie Jade 104 - The Power of Suggestion.mkv....773,452,842
20050507 Charlie Jade 105 - And Not a Drop to Drink.mkv....856,953,716
20050514 Charlie Jade 106 - Dirty Laundry.mkv..............797,290,797
20050521 Charlie Jade 107 - Diamonds.mkv...................778,911,666
20050528 Charlie Jade 108 - Devotion.mkv...................762,727,745
20050604 Charlie Jade 109 - Betrayal.mkv...................722,439,710
20050611 Charlie Jade 110 - Identity.mkv...................735,834,057
20050618 Charlie Jade 111 - Thicker Than Water.mkv.........644,948,312
20050625 Charlie Jade 112 - Choosing Sides.mkv.............724,422,770
20050702 Charlie Jade 113 - Through a Mirror Darkly.mkv....769,834,015
20050709 Charlie Jade 114 - The Enemy of My Enemy.mkv......684,779,099
20050716 Charlie Jade 115 - Things Unseen.mkv..............716,659,704
20050723 Charlie Jade 116 - The Shortening of the Way.mkv..779,916,565
20050728 Charlie Jade 116 [Alternative] - Can of Worms.mkv.864,624,069
20050730 Charlie Jade 117 - Spin.mkv.......................792,687,151
20050806 Charlie Jade 118 - Bedtime Story.mkv..............624,618,550
20050813 Charlie Jade 119 - Flesh.mkv......................654,290,747
20050820 Charlie Jade 120 - Ouroboros.mkv..................820,817,244

DVD Bonus Material
Charlie Jade - Behind the Scenes.mkv.......................406,900,559
Charlie Jade - Promo.mkv....................................35,964,007
Charlie Jade - Recap.mkv...................................327,786,873
Charlie Jade - Production Photos.mkv.........................8,987,685

The show uses the idea of parallel universes, or a multiverse. There are several universes that coexist — each somewhat different from the others. As of the first season, these are the universes that have been explored in the TV series:

► The Alphaverse, a dystopian view of what our future could be like. It is the home universe of the main character Charlie Jade. The Alphaverse's inhabitants are segregated into "classes" of different levels (e.g., C-1, or Class 1 — which stands for Upper Class). It is dominated by five gigantic multinational firms. Prime among these is a corporation called Vexcor. Despite the Alphaverse's dystopian society, it does contain some futuristic technology that is within the level of our capability.
► The Betaverse, which corresponds to our present day actual reality.
► The Gammaverse, a rather idyllic version of our world, what it would be like if the planet's inhabitants made careful use of its resources.
► An 'unknown' universe, inhabited with primitive people living in huts.
► A universe that is home to 'men in grey suits'.

During the pilot episode, scientists from Vexcor attempt to open a wormhole from the Alphaverse to the Gammaverse in a bid to drain water from the latter to the former. In Gammaverse, terrorists Bern and Reena — aware of Vexcor's intent — prepare to sabotage the facility. Before the stable wormhole can be completed, a massive explosion at the site of the portal (a large open-air water reservoir) leads to a chain reaction explosion that moves through all three universes. This results in Charlie being thrown from Alphaverse into the Betaverse, into a different Cape Town that he is unfamiliar with. Reena is also thrown into the Betaverse.

The explosion renders the "link" between universes impassable, which leaves Vexcor employees in Beta and Gamma cut off from their head office in Alpha.

Vexcor attempts to rebuild the link, and re-establish contact. At the same time, they must deal with the P.R. fallout from the explosion, and must try to conceal the true purpose of the facility and what the company was up to. Suspicion initially falls on a Vexcor scientist named Elliot Krogg — but eventually, they discover Reena is in Cape Town, and target her as the terrorist behind the explosion.

Vexcor's attempts to cover their tracks are complicated by Charlie Jade's presence in Beta — and the fact that he soon hooks up with Karl Lubinsky, an expatriate American who runs a conspiracy website devoted to tracking all things Vexcor.

Together, Charlie and Karl gradually divine Vexcor's true intentions — and also uncover a terrible secret promoted by Vexcor's doomed scientist, Elliot Krogg. Krogg wrote a memo to Vexcor HQ detailing a possible catastrophic effect to establishing a long-term link from Alpha to Gamma. If the link is made permanent, it will collapse all matter in the Betaverse, destroying everyone and everything in 'our' world. Karl and Charlie are the only things that stand between our world and annihilation.

Meanwhile, with travel between the universes cut off, Vexcor Alpha must turn to a person who can travel between the universes without a link: 01 Boxer, the son of company founder Brion Boxer.

01 Boxer is made company courier by Essa Rompkin, CEO of Vexcor. He travels by an unknown method that involves dousing himself with water and "slipping" between universes. The method of travel is mysterious, but it results in changes to body chemistry. In later episodes, 01 Boxer's blood is used to transfuse and revitalize his father, who is sick from some genetic malady — perhaps as a result of too much travel between universes.

01 seems to manifest a different personality in each universe. In Alpha he acts like a spoiled child, in Beta he is a hedonistic adolescent, and in Gamma he is a loving husband and father to two children. 01's motivations are mysterious — he can seem like a villain, but he is definitely following his own agenda.

The series season one concludes a season arc but does have a cliff hanger ending pertaining to Charlie's fate.

Charlie Jade Complete [DVD-MKV]

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