Traveler: The Fourth Branch
Mar 5, 2013 17:40:12 GMT -5
Post by Eric O'Mac on Mar 5, 2013 17:40:12 GMT -5
In the television show Traveler, first aired in the summer of 2007, we meet our main characters, Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog. The two Harvard graduates students become suspects when the Drexler Museum in New York is bombed while they are pulling a juvenile prank. It appears that their friend and roommate, Will Traveler, has framed them for the bombing. Afterwards, Traveler disappears and there is no evidence that he ever existed. Jay and Tyler flee from the authorities, who believe them to be domestic terrorists. While on the run and trying to clear their own names, they attempt to delve into Will Traveler's past in hopes of discovering Will's motives for turning on his friends.
Meanwhile, Traveler goes on a similar search for answers. It is revealed that he is in fact a secret agent working for a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the Fourth Branch, and slowly a complex conspiracy is unraveled.
Jay and Tyler reunite with Will, and together the three attempt to bring those responsible to justice. They manage to kidnap Jack Freed, director of the Fourth Branch, but before they can use him to clear Jay and Tyler's names, the limousine with Jack Freed in it explodes.
And that's where this movie picks up...
The question is: "What is the Fourth Branch?"
This is the driving mystery of "Traveler: The Fourth Branch", as Will, Jay, and Tyler attempt to expose the clandestine organization which Jack Freed mentioned moments before his limo exploded in the series finale. The Fourth Branch is a secret society comprised of the oldest families in America. Many people forget that when this country was founded, Democracy was not a proven, accepted form of government. There had not been a successful western Democracy since Athens. And, in many ways, America was looked at as a great experiment. Our founding fathers wanted independence from England, and they needed to unify a fledgling country populated by a multinational constituency to win the war. What better way to rally a disparate army against the oppressors than to promise the common man a voice in the new government? This was the great promise of early American Democracy. But what if the founding fathers were also scared of the common man's power? Would they have perhaps put safeguards into place? A branch that sits above the people's three official branches of government? That, my friends, is the Fourth Branch. A group comprised of the oldest families in America who implement checks and balances on the government to guide the true course of our country. Think about the iconic families of American politics. The Kennedys. The Tafts. The Bushes. Did you ever wonder how they managed to wield so much power and influence? Their membership in the Fourth Branch plays a big part. And while our Founding Fathers believed in using the Branch to foster a youthful nation, today the Branch has become a shadow government that uses economic, political, social, and legal influence to maintain strict control. Right now, their senators are making sure that their latest Supreme Court nominee gets appointed. Their members on the New York Stock Exchange are keeping the price of oil high so we support the effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. What is the Fourth Branch? It is the realization of one of our worst fears, that though we live in the world's greatest democracy, we are not the ones steering the ship.
In "Traveler: The Fourth Branch" Burchell (original cast member Matt Bomer), Fog (Bradley Cooper), and Traveler (Jeremy Renner) have gone underground, waiting to make their next move as they seek to undercover the truth about The Fourth Branch and clear their names. A rouge CIA Agent, known only as "The Porter" (Denzel Washington) is tracking the three, not to harm them, but to assist them if needed.
FBI Agent Jan Marlow (original cast member Viola Davis) has been demoted and banned from working on the Drexler case after FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers (Jeffery Donovan) becomes suspicious that she has realized that he is working for The Fourth Branch. Marlow is secretly working on the case, trying to track down the Harvard trio, not to bring them in, but to help them expose Chambers, the man who was responsible for killing her partner, Agent Boras, and attempting to have her murdered in the series finale. Chambers has jailed Burchell's girlfriend Kim Doherty (Maggie Lawson) in a Central America prison, hoping to use her disappearance to draw out Burchell. Chambers also assigns two new FBI agents CJ Larson (Anne Hathaway) and Trent Walker (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) as the new leads on the Drexler bombing case, hoping the two agents find the Harvard trio and silence them from unearthing the Fourth Branch conspiracy and their ultimate plan, to instill a fear in the American people, to change the constitution so that the Fourth Branch and keep it's heir to their leadership, President Shears (Aaron Eckhart) in office for as long as they want, giving the Fourth Branch the power over the people, making the democracy that the America people think they have into a very real dictatorship.
Directed by Oliver Stone and written by series creator David DiGilio, Traveler: The Fourth Branch will see three ordinary Americans do their Patriotic duty to give America back to the people.
Cast and Crew:
Jay Burchell: Matt Bomer
Tyler Fog: Bradley Cooper
Will Traveler: Jeremy Renner
The Porter: Denzel Washington
FBI Agent C.J. Larson: Anne Hathaway
FBI Agent Trent Walker: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers: Jefferey Donovan
FBI Agent Jan Marlowe: Viola Davis
President Shears: Aaron Eckhart
Kim Doherty: Maggie Lawson
Jon Voight: Carlton Fog
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: David DiGilio
Composed by Bear McCreary
Meanwhile, Traveler goes on a similar search for answers. It is revealed that he is in fact a secret agent working for a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the Fourth Branch, and slowly a complex conspiracy is unraveled.
Jay and Tyler reunite with Will, and together the three attempt to bring those responsible to justice. They manage to kidnap Jack Freed, director of the Fourth Branch, but before they can use him to clear Jay and Tyler's names, the limousine with Jack Freed in it explodes.
And that's where this movie picks up...
The question is: "What is the Fourth Branch?"
This is the driving mystery of "Traveler: The Fourth Branch", as Will, Jay, and Tyler attempt to expose the clandestine organization which Jack Freed mentioned moments before his limo exploded in the series finale. The Fourth Branch is a secret society comprised of the oldest families in America. Many people forget that when this country was founded, Democracy was not a proven, accepted form of government. There had not been a successful western Democracy since Athens. And, in many ways, America was looked at as a great experiment. Our founding fathers wanted independence from England, and they needed to unify a fledgling country populated by a multinational constituency to win the war. What better way to rally a disparate army against the oppressors than to promise the common man a voice in the new government? This was the great promise of early American Democracy. But what if the founding fathers were also scared of the common man's power? Would they have perhaps put safeguards into place? A branch that sits above the people's three official branches of government? That, my friends, is the Fourth Branch. A group comprised of the oldest families in America who implement checks and balances on the government to guide the true course of our country. Think about the iconic families of American politics. The Kennedys. The Tafts. The Bushes. Did you ever wonder how they managed to wield so much power and influence? Their membership in the Fourth Branch plays a big part. And while our Founding Fathers believed in using the Branch to foster a youthful nation, today the Branch has become a shadow government that uses economic, political, social, and legal influence to maintain strict control. Right now, their senators are making sure that their latest Supreme Court nominee gets appointed. Their members on the New York Stock Exchange are keeping the price of oil high so we support the effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. What is the Fourth Branch? It is the realization of one of our worst fears, that though we live in the world's greatest democracy, we are not the ones steering the ship.
In "Traveler: The Fourth Branch" Burchell (original cast member Matt Bomer), Fog (Bradley Cooper), and Traveler (Jeremy Renner) have gone underground, waiting to make their next move as they seek to undercover the truth about The Fourth Branch and clear their names. A rouge CIA Agent, known only as "The Porter" (Denzel Washington) is tracking the three, not to harm them, but to assist them if needed.
FBI Agent Jan Marlow (original cast member Viola Davis) has been demoted and banned from working on the Drexler case after FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers (Jeffery Donovan) becomes suspicious that she has realized that he is working for The Fourth Branch. Marlow is secretly working on the case, trying to track down the Harvard trio, not to bring them in, but to help them expose Chambers, the man who was responsible for killing her partner, Agent Boras, and attempting to have her murdered in the series finale. Chambers has jailed Burchell's girlfriend Kim Doherty (Maggie Lawson) in a Central America prison, hoping to use her disappearance to draw out Burchell. Chambers also assigns two new FBI agents CJ Larson (Anne Hathaway) and Trent Walker (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) as the new leads on the Drexler bombing case, hoping the two agents find the Harvard trio and silence them from unearthing the Fourth Branch conspiracy and their ultimate plan, to instill a fear in the American people, to change the constitution so that the Fourth Branch and keep it's heir to their leadership, President Shears (Aaron Eckhart) in office for as long as they want, giving the Fourth Branch the power over the people, making the democracy that the America people think they have into a very real dictatorship.
Directed by Oliver Stone and written by series creator David DiGilio, Traveler: The Fourth Branch will see three ordinary Americans do their Patriotic duty to give America back to the people.
Cast and Crew:
Jay Burchell: Matt Bomer
Tyler Fog: Bradley Cooper
Will Traveler: Jeremy Renner
The Porter: Denzel Washington
FBI Agent C.J. Larson: Anne Hathaway
FBI Agent Trent Walker: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
FBI New York Field Office Director Fred Chambers: Jefferey Donovan
FBI Agent Jan Marlowe: Viola Davis
President Shears: Aaron Eckhart
Kim Doherty: Maggie Lawson
Jon Voight: Carlton Fog
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: David DiGilio
Composed by Bear McCreary