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Dark Oracle Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Dark Oracle
23 mins
So there they are... Cally (Paula Brancati) and Lance (Alex House) Stone in the Gamerz Cave Comic Book Store, in front of a rack of comic doing what twin brothers and sisters do best arguing. Cally waves a copy of "Space Babes meet the Dreaded Vikons" and rants on that all the time and money Lance spends on his ridiculously childish obsession with comic books and Gamer paraphernalia is a useless waste of his life. On the other side of the stand, is the owner of the store, Doyle (Mark Ellis). He's stocking the rack, not paying any particular attention to the two kids... but the little green toad on his shoulder has his eyes fixed on Cally and Lance as they continue to bicker. His tongue suddenly lashes out and ZAPS the comic book Cally's holding. The "zapped" comic book is suddenly no longer "Space Babes". It's now a dark, moody issue that features the adventures of fraternal twins, Violet and Blaze. It's called "Dark Oracle", and it's the beginning of an adventure that Cally and Lance would never have envisioned in their wildest imaginations. Cally shoves the comic back on the shelf and they exit the store together, but not before Lance notices Sage (Danielle Miller), the cute dark haired girl working behind the counter. At home, Cally discovers the weird comic book in her bag. Convinced that Lance planted it on her to get her into trouble she drags him back to the store to return it. Doyle however, refuses to take it back, claiming it didn't come from his store. Cally flips through the comic, seeing some panels that show the Violet character getting a love note from a secret admirer. The other pages are blank and a frustrated Cally tosses it away. The next day, when Cally finds a love note stuck in her own locker, she thinks she's simply having a weird deja vu. But things escalate to the point that she can't possibly ignore the connection between the comic world and her real life. She tries to convince Lance but her brother is skeptical. After finding another note asking her to come to a meeting after school, Cally jumps to the conclusion that it's her secret crush, Jack (Jack Manchester) who is writing to her. But it's not Jack who meets her in the empty classroom, but Hutch (Philip Riccio), a school bully who it turns out has been watching her from afar. In a horrifying turn of events, as Violet confronts her own version of Hutch, the comic world and the real world collide and Cally experiences the first of many SHIFTS, plunging her into uncertainty and danger. Lance feels the SHIFT at home and doesn't know what's going on until he picks up the comic book and sees events from the past twenty four hours in the panels before him. He sees a terrified Violet in a school classroom and heads off to find his sister. Cally grows increasingly nervous as Hutch's reaction towards her rejection escalates from hurt to angry. Hutch snaps and starts chasing her through the empty corridors at school. Just as 11 Lance arrives, Hutch is backing Cally up against a wall. His intervention causes the world to suddenly SHIFT back to normal... the real world touches the comic world and the course of destiny is changed back. Both a little freaked out, Lance and Cally return home, now ready to believe that no matter how crazy and weird it may be, the comic book really does have the power to foretell their future. They only hope it's the last issue they ever set their eyes on. But it's not. Their lives are about to be forever changed... and it's all thanks to a little green toad named Nemo.
Episode 2
Masquerade
23 mins
The comic book is back! Lance (Alex House) finds it under his mousepad and he's horrified to discover that it predicts a very nasty end for him. After Cally (Paula Brancati) complains of sleepless nights and a math test that's stressing her out, Lance makes the difficult decision not to tell her about his discovery. Things start to look up when a strange kid, Vern (David Rendall), overhears Lance giving his buddy Dizzy (Jonathan Malen) some gaming tips. Impressed, Vern dazzles Lance with stories about an underground live action gaming group, then flatters him by inviting him to join. Lance struggles with the decision alone, not wanting to end up like Blaze does in the comic, but curious and thrilled to be recognized for his gaming talent. Ultimately, he decides to go and join Vern and his shady friends, and finds himself caught up in a midnight graveyard initiation that almost costs him his life.
Episode 3
Meeting of the Quarter Moon
23 mins
The comic book predicts a romance between Violet and the Hunk, the comic counterpart of Jack (Jack Manchester), and Cally (Paula Brancati) couldn't be happier. At last a prediction she can live with. While Cally remains starry eyed Lance (Alex House) goes into research mode and starts to make connections between the comic and Gamerz Cave. Especially when an Ankh sign on a door featured in the comic is identical to one he discovers on the door to Doyle's back room. Helping Sage (Danielle Miller)out by working her shift at Gamerz, Lance finds himself trapped in the back room, witnessing Doyle (Mark Ellis) lead members of a mysterious secret society in a very weird ceremony. Meanwhile, despite her feelings for him, Cally helps Jack sort out problems with his girlfriend but when the comic book and real world collide, Cally sees a side of Jack that she wasn't prepared for.
Episode 4
Paintball Wizard
23 mins
"Dark Oracle" predicts a massive gang war and both Cally (Paula Brancati) and Lance (Alex House) are on edge, not knowing when or how it's going to hit. Between his worries about the comic book, and his escalating crush on Sage (Danielle Miller), Lance needs to let off some steam, and does so the only way he knows how: by dancing around his room in his underwear, while wielding a giant plastic axe. This private embarrassing moment would have remained just that private if it hadn't been for Dizzy's video camera secretly taping the whole thing. When Vern (David Rendall) gets a hold of Dizzy's camera, the whole school is able to watch and make fun of Lance, jumping around his bedroom in his boxers. Lance is humiliated. He feels that this has ruined his chances with Sage and he blames Dizzy (Jonathan Malen) for showing the video to Vern in the first place. Meanwhile, a paintball tournament is going down at Area 51 and both Dizzy and Lance are invited. The twins realize this paintball game might be the gang war connection, and when the comic book predicts Dizzy will be in serious danger during the game, Cally insists that Lance go along. Reluctantly, Lance goes to the tournament to protect Dizzy, but once he's out on the field, Blaze's world collides with the real world and all of Lance's hurt and resentment comes out and he winds up lashing out at his best friend in a way that he never thought himself capable of.
Episode 5
'Fashion Queen'
23 mins
Cally (Paula Brancati) has been selected to run the grade ten fashion show, but when "Dark Oracle" predicts the show will be a disaster, all her excitement disappears. In a desperate attempt to thwart Violet, Cally comes up with a plan she thinks is foolproof. She'll do the opposite of whatever Violet does, and therefore she'll get the opposite result. Violet's show will be a disaster, but Cally's will be a success. Despite Cally's failsafe logic, things do not go quite as planned. The models get frustrated with Cally, when she seems to constantly be changing her mind. Annie (Barbara Mamabolo), who has promised to help, feels that Cally is being an impossible primadonna. At the eleventh hour, almost all of the models drop out, leaving Cally with a few hours to pull her show together. Meanwhile, Sage (Danielle Miller) is struggling to face up to a gang of bullies who are terrorizing her at school. Matters come to a head when they whip raw eggs at her. Lance (Alex House) takes a distraught Sage back to his house, where he washes her hair in the sink and a tender bond is formed. Back at school, the fashion show starts off shaky, only to degenerate into a cross-dressing nightmare when Violet's fashion show collides with Cally's and the world SHIFTS. The boys wear the girl's clothes, the girls wear the boy's clothes and Cally has to make a difficult choice between shutting the whole thing down, or going with the flow.
Episode 6
Scavengers
23 mins
A scavenger hunt is on at school and teams of two are competing for the top prize. Cally (Paula Brancati) feels her victory is assured, since "Dark Oracle" predicts it that way, and Lance (Alex House) desperately wants to win so that he can impress Sage (Danielle Miller), and finally ask her to be his girlfriend. A whirlwind ensues as the kids run around town, trying desperately to beat each other to the prize. In a strange twist, the comic book predicts Blaze and Violet going on a shoplifting spree, and the items they steal wind up being clues from the real scavenger hunt. As Cally and Lance fight over the comic, Annie (Barbara Mamabolo) grows suspicious and Sage struggles with crank phone calls from an anonymous caller. Things take a turn for the worse when Lance realizes that the strange caller is Violet! In the end, Lance must decide how much like Blaze he's willing to be. Will he steal to win the scavenger hunt and impress Sage?
Episode 7
Crushed
23 mins
Cally (Paula Brancati) is on the outs with Annie (Barbara Mamabolo) and when a very cool new girl, Claudia (Sarah Gadon), arrives at school she is determined to make a new friend. Claudia is Cally's opposite, a hedonistic, throw caution to the wind, risk taker. Cally is in awe of her and is soon dressing, talking and acting like her clone. Lance (Alex House) gets more and more concerned, realizing that Cally is refusing to see the comic prediction for what it is, a dire warning that she is out of her league and that Claudia will lead her down a road of temptation that will end in disaster. Claudia makes Cally believe she is playing cupid with Jack (Jack Manchester) on her behalf but when Violet and Cally's worlds inevitably collide, Cally learns the hard way that her friendship was disastrously misplaced. Dizzy (Jonathan Malen) also has an identity crisis and in an attempt to change his look and his luck with the ladies he adopts a new wardrobe and a new name... The Dizster.
Episode 8
Recruitment
23 mins
A seemingly innocent night of games at Gamerz Cave turns out to be more than Lance (Alex House) bargained for. In spite of "Dark Oracle"'s prediction that the evening will end badly - Blaze being throttled by a giant snake is an indication and Cally's (Paula Brancati) plea to her brother to pass on it, Lance goes and proves victorious over fellow gamers, Vern (David Rendall), Simone (Carson Quarrington), Dizzy (Jonathan Malen) and Sage (Danielle Miller). His 14 victory is a double edged sword when he finds out that as a result he is Doyle's (Mark Ellis) chosen recruit for his secret society of Necromancers. But first he has to pass a test. When the real world and the comic book world collide, Doyle's little test of the power of the mind becomes the life and death struggle that Blaze finds himself in and yes, snakes are a deadly part of it. Meanwhile, after many repeated but unsuccessful attempts to escape the prison of Doyle's back room, Nemo the toad manages to make a daring escape, and finds himself in, of all places, the Stone household.
Episode 9
Idolized
23 mins
Cally (Paula Brancati) is devastated. She has tried everything to make up with Annie (Barbara Mamabolo), but nothing has worked. And now Annie has a new best friend. With only her new pet toad, Nemo, to confide in, she decides to follow Violet's example in the comic and tries out a magic spell. After all, Violet wishes she was a rock star and as a result of the spell, it comes true. In spite of Lance's (Alex House) warnings that she shouldn't mess around with it, Cally feels she has nothing to lose and takes the plunge. At first it looks like the spell actually worked. Cally finds herself the center of a group of friends and even Annie looks like she is about to come around. But when the real world and the comic world collide, her popularity spirals completely out of control and she is mobbed by a throng of adoring fans, who Cally fears will kill her with kindness if they ever get hold of her. In the meantime, Dizzy (Jonathan Malen) is feeling a bit left out in the cold by Lance and Sage's (Danielle Miller) relationship. He finally speaks his mind about it and Lance agrees that they should do more stuff together, just like old times. But spending time with Dizzy and trying to keep Cally out of trouble create his first serious rift with Sage.
Episode 10
Ticking Clock
23 mins
"Dark Oracle" reveals Blaze on the edge of a building about to leap to his death. A clock behind him shows the stroke of midnight. Despite Lance's (Alex House) assurances that he's fine, Cally (Paula Brancati) worries that her brother is depressed. Things are not going well with Sage (Danielle Miller), he's doing badly in school, and now this comic book prediction is like a dark cloud hanging over his head. Lance knows she's right, but he can't seem to do anything about it. When he approaches Sage to try and work things out, she breaks up with him, sending him into a tailspin. Meanwhile, Cally who is frantically looking for clues in the comic discovers that the real jeopardy isn't Lance's jump, but Sage's death. As the clock ticks on and things snowball 15 toward their inevitable conclusion, the question remains can Lance save Sage from certain death? Can he save their relationship, and can he save himself?
Episode 11
Trapped
23 mins
A misplaced kiss transforms Nemo the toad into Omen (Kristopher Turner), a young necromancer with revenge on his mind. After having been cooped up in that cage for months, Omen is now free and determined to take his frustration out on Doyle (Mark Ellis), his former mentor. Omen's plan is to get Doyle, and he's not above using Cally (Paula Brancati) to do it. After stalking Doyle throughout the day, he engineers a meeting at the school late at night in which he plans to use Cally as a hostage. Despite Lance's (Alex House) misgivings, Cally attends the late night meeting, steadfastly refusing to believe there is anything wrong with Omen, the beautiful new student who pays her so much attention. Fortunately, Omen's plan is foiled when Lance and Doyle join forces, and the meeting at the school becomes a showdown for an elaborate game of cat and mouse. Will the apprentice defeat his master? Will Cally and Lance get caught in the middle?
Episode 12
Marionette
23 mins
Cally (Paula Brancati) is completely upset by Omen's betrayal and when Lance tells her that she's better off without him pulling her strings, she loses it, especially when the cover of "Dark Oracle" portrays Violet as a marionette. In a fit of anger, Cally rips the comic to shreds and starts a chain of events that will ultimately end in disaster. At first, she's relieved to be rid of the burden of the comic, but Lance (Alex House) is full of misgivings. Not unfounded. Cally goes to school and it begins to dawn on her that no one sees her or acknowledges her. Even Dizzy (Jonathan Malen) says hello to Lance and totally and uncharacteristically ignores her. And when a crazy fortune telling psychic who has been helping to channel Nemo's whereabouts for Doyle (Mark Ellis) accidentally calls Lance and Cally by their comic counterparts names Blaze and Violet and reluctantly reveals that she sees no future for Cally, Lance knows his fears are justified. The next day Cally doesn't wake up. She's lost in a nightmarish, nether world, strung up by strings, a marionette manipulated by an unseen puppet master. And then she comes face to face with Violet, each of them controlling the other. Lance desperately tries to mend the destroyed comic book in an attempt to bring Cally back into the real world.
Episode 13
Full Circle
23 mins
After a joint appearance of toad and comic, Cally (Paula Brancati) and Lance (Alex House) turn Nemo back into Omen (Kristopher Turner) when they discover that he was the one who caused the comic to come into their lives in the first place. Unfortunately, their hopes that he will be able to destroy the comic are dashed when his first attempt fails. Cally and Lance are left with the comic showing Blaze and Violet, determined to exact revenge. When Violet's arm comes through the mirror and tries to grab Cally, the twins know that time is running out. Violet and Blaze are getting bolder. They have to get rid of this thing fast. In an attempt to track down Omen, they crash a secret Necromancer ball that Doyle (Mark Ellis) is hosting. An enraged Cally taunts Omen, suggesting he has no idea how to get rid of the comic. She calls him "a fraud." Things go from bad to worse, when during the SHIFT, Blaze and Violet chase Omen and the twins through a labyrinth of mirrors. In the end, they drag Omen back into the comic book world. Back at the house, Cally and Lance breathe a sigh of relief. The comic book is gone! The old issues have gone blank. At last - it's out of their lives. Or is it?