The Hanged Man (Journeyman)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Hanged Man
Series =Journeyman


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 12
Airdate = December 17, 2007
Production = 112
Writer = Tracy McMillan
Director = Steven DePaul
Guests = Lisa Sheridan
Tom Everett
Melinda McGraw
Music = "Don't Turn Around" by Ace of Base
Episode list = List of Journeyman episodes
Season list =
Prev = Home By Another Way
Next = Perfidia (Part 2)

"The Hanged Man" is the twelfth episode of the first season of "Journeyman", and the first half of a two-episode story concluding in "Perfidia." The episode is named for the Tarot card that "expresses the relation...between the Divine and the Universe."

Plot

While saving a mother and son (Christopher) from a car accident, Dan drops his digital camera which is later recovered by Christopher. This piece of modern technology in 1984 boosts computing technology far beyond current capabilities, presumably through reverse engineering. Once back in the present, Dan discovers that his computer has a holographic screen, and that he no longer has a son — a consequence of a "nanotech" malfunction at the "Register" office on the date that Zack had been conceived — but rather a daughter named Caroline. Meanwhile, Jack looks into the life of the rogue FBI agent who was targeting Dan. After resolving the camera issue and saving Christopher's life, the psychic from Dan's alternate present comes into his home, presenting him his "birth chart". She explains that Dan's birthdate — July 6, 1972 — coincides with the passing of the Joseph-Lee Comet, believed by astrologers to have mystic properties, and that the Comet has passed the Earth only twice in the past century; the other passing occurred on Livia's birthday — March 23, 1923. Meanwhile, Jack pulls some strings to dig into Agent Garrity's casefile, and finds an old photograph, taken by Frank Vasser, of a young Dan with Professor Elliot Langley at NASA. When Dan contacts Langley, however, the professor denies knowing him.