“Out of the Blue” is episode nineteen of season three of Sanctuary.
After a varied recap of clips from several episodes, a garbage truck is pulling off as a suited Will Zimmerman runs out from a driveway after it carrying too bags. Will fails to catchy it and then a pregnant woman – Abby Corrigan – comes out of the same driveway. The baby is Will’s and he is on the way to work, with a comment that surgery can’t start without him. Before Will can leave for work, he has to remove a cat from the boot of his car and take it to his neighbour. Magnus. The cat is called Henry. Something is not right here.
This new Will and Magnus are not on the best of terms but, before Will can leave, he sees something very weird in the house behind Magnus. It disappears when he enters. Magnus – who appears to be a painter – does not take his entering her house uninvited well.
Will is a cardiologist and, when he is talking to Abby that night and she mentions his mother, he suddenly gets some strange visions. Magnus is asleep on the couch and, in her dreams, she sees herself and Will partially immersed in tanks of water with people hovering around and various pieces of equipment in some sort of lab. Will has a similar nightmare that night. John Druitt is in the papers as he’s a DA who appears to be running for mayor. Will does not trust Druitt, but he doesn’t know why (Druitt also appears to be Magnus’ ex – again or still).
Magnus has some more visions whilst painting a landscape and starts drawing a strange blue symbol – that appears to have similarities to the infinity symbol and perhaps the double helix – that both she and Will have seen on the canvas. They both also possess knowledge outside of the areas that the people they appear to be should have. Knowledge in the areas that they actually do know things. This Will and Magnus start to realise that something is wrong, and they start seeing each other as they should – as well as forgetting items connected to their supposed lives.
Whatever is happening in the lab, those doing it appear to want something from Will and Magnus. The latter are both resisting, and starting to break out of what is happening when they are asleep. The Will and Magnus in this reality start realising that the other person is also having similar visions. How do they break free of the world of the visions when whatever is happening in real life keeps sending them back under, at increasingly greater risks to their lives?
Things are definitely what they seem and there is something much, much stranger going on.