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The pilot episode of the American television series ''Forever'' premiered on September 22, 2014, on ABC. It was written by series creator Matt Miller and directed by Brad Anderson, who also served as the series executive producer. The episode introduces the characters of Dr. Henry Morgan, an immortal New York City medical examiner, his friend Abe, Henry's stalker, and New York Police Department (NYPD) Detective Jo Martinez. It follows Henry and Jo as they investigate a fatal subway train accident, which Henry survives, while Henry attempts to determine the identity of his stalker, who knows about Henry's immortality. The episode shows both Henry's original death and how Henry first met his wife Abigail and Abe in flashbacks. "Pilot" introduced two season-long story arcs, Henry and Abigail's relationship and the identity of Henry's stalker, as well as several aspects of Henry's immortality. Production occurred in New York City, with filming occurring primarily around New York's Lower East Side. Filming the scene of Henry's rebirth occurred at a university swimming pool and recreated with computer-generated imagery. ABC previewed the pilot several times before airing on network television. When the series premiere was broadcast, "Pilot" received mixed reviews with critics divided over the believability of the crime and the believability of the series' immortality aspect. ==Plot summary== A few minutes after Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) boards a New York City subway train, it crashes and kills everyone aboard, including Henry. Henry reemerges naked in the East River and is promptly arrested for indecent exposure. Later that day, New York Police (NYPD) detective Jo Martinez (Alana de la Garza) arrives at the crash, where she learns that investigators had determined that the engineer had died of a heart attack. She goes to the medical examiner's office, where Henry and Assistant Medical Examiner Lucas Wahl (Joel David Moore) are processing the bodies of the crash victims. Henry informs Jo that he believes that the engineer was poisoned. An anonymous phone call and an envelope containing both a photograph of Henry and his wife Abigail (Mackenzie Mauzy) dating to 1955 and a newspaper clipping about the accident convince Henry that the train accident was an elaborate plot to expose Henry's immortality. Henry wants to leave New York City after the phone call, but his friend and roommate Abe (Judd Hirsch) convinces him to stay and confront the stalker. To determine the stalker's identity and to find the engineer's murderer, Henry and Abe test a sample of the deceased engineer's blood on Henry. Henry determines that the killer used a fast-acting form of aconite as the murder weapon. Meanwhile, Jo finds video footage of Henry boarding the train and brings him in for questioning. Henry convinces Jo that he could not be the killer by reminding her that he stated that the cause of death was poison. Later, a fingerprint Henry and Lucas found on the engineer's body leads Jo to Hans Kohler (Lee Tergesen), whose wife was killed in a subway crash involving the deceased engineer; the revelation disproves Henry's theory about the motive behind the accident. When Henry and Jo arrive at Kohler's house, they find a large amount of monkshood plants and schematics of Grand Central Station, indicating to them that Kohler planned an attack on the station to avenge his wife's death. Kohler ambushes them on the roof and shoots Jo. Henry attempts to talk Kohler out of his plan, but Kohler fatally shoots Henry. Henry throws Kohler off the roof, killing both men. Later, Henry visits Jo in the hospital. She tells him that she thought she had seen both men fall off the roof; he denies it. Henry's stalker calls him again and reveals that the stalker is immortal also. Three separate flashbacks occur during the episode. In the first one, Henry is shot and thrown overboard for attempting to treat a slave aboard a slave ship in 1814. The second flashback shows Henry and Abigail being photographed in 1955 and the couple discussing Henry's purpose in life. In the third one, set at the end of World War II, Henry walks up to a nurse, Abigail, who hands him an infant boy, Abe, who was rescued from a Nazi concentration camp. The scene following the third flashback reveals that Abe is Henry and Abigail's adopted son. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilot (Forever)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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