John Doe

Imagine my surprise when I found this favorite replaying on the SCIFI network last night at 7 p.m.! I think Dominic Purcell ("John", currently playing Lincoln Burroughs on Fox's "Prison Break") is a great actor, and this was a GREAT TV show. For a quick recap, John was an amnesiac with incredible mental powers (it seemed as though he knew everything there was to know about everything, except, of course, for his identity)and who also only saw in black and white, except for the occasion burst of color (later leading into some sort of psychic ability). His two friends were a cop, Frank, and Digger. Over the course of the season John solved several mysteries and helped many people all while searching for the truth about himself and keeping out of the way of The Phoenix Group, an organization who, as it turns out knew more about John than John. In the series finale, it was exposed that Digger was a member of the Phoenix Group.

Purcell had recently given an interview and revealed the following:

"'Apparently I was the messiah returned," Purcell said, confirming an earlier report in Entertainment Weekly. As for the Phoenix group? 'They were working for the Vatican. ... The Catholics. They didn't want it to be revealed that the true Christ had returned.'

Purcell's character had actually either died or come near death, when all knowledge is revealed, then returned with no memory of his past life."

Purcell did not reveal, however, John's true name.

Interview courtesy of SCIFI Wire.