The Phantom (Pilot Episode)

The Phantom (Pilot) is the first episode of the first season of CW's The Phantom, premiering on October 21, 2014.

Summary
Five years after witnessing the death of his parents by a supernatural ghost, 14 year old Danny Fenton begins High School with his friends Sam and Tucker, and living with his 22 year old sister, but his life changes when he is caught in an explosion of ecto radiation in his parents' lab, putting him in the hospital. Waking up, Danny discovered he has ghost powers and must use them, and a suit, created by his parents, that Tucker and Sam designed, to stop an evil ghost that escaped from the portal.

Synopsis
5 years ago, Jack and Maddie Fenton, scientists working on exploring the supernatural, finish building a large device meanr to view an alternate world full of supernatural creatures. When they finish and finally turn it on, it is successful and shows straight through to the Ghost Zone, but it begins malfunctioning. Upstairs, their son, Danny Fenton, wakes up, hearing a large bang coming from their lab and notices the lights flickering. When he goes downstairs to their lab, he sees green streaks of energy flying from the portal, when suddenly the energy surrounds his parents and sees a ghostly creature fly out of the portal, but before seeing the creature kill them, the ghost portal explodes, causing Danny to fly back against the wall.

In Present Day, a 14 year old Danny is living with his 22 year old sister Jazz and is attending his first day of High School with his best friends, Tucker Foley and Sam Manson, in which Sam begs Danny to take her down to his parents' old lab, but Danny ignores her and tries walk up to his life long crush, Valerie Gray, until being tripped by Dash Baxter. Valerie helps him pick up his books. Before going to class, Sam begs again and Danny finally caves and agrees to take her and Tucker to the lab.

After School when returning home with Sam and Tucker, Danny notices Jazz balancing her checkbooks, in which she is having a hard time with the bills. Danny takes Sam and Tucker down to the lab, where they look through all the tech, while Danny stares at the ghost portals, remembering haunting images of that night, and slowly walks inside, but trips and accidentally pulls the safety lever they installed in case it needed to be shut off from the inside, but it activates and he gets caught in a large beam of green energy before the portal explodes with him in it, causing a large shockwave. After all the smoke clears, Tucker and Sam find Danny unconscious.

Two months later, Danny wakes up in the hospital completely covered and finds his death certificate on the countertop. He walks out of the room, to see a doctor about to tell Jazz that they lost Danny, but before he does she sees Danny and embraces him, as the doctor watches in awe on how Danny's alive, as they just watched him die. The doctor tells Danny that they should check him, but Danny says that he's okay and wants to go home. Sam and Tucker meet Danny at his house, in which Sam jumps into Danny's arms and asks why Danny isn't resting at the Hospital, but again, Danny states that he's doing fine. While Jazz is in the other room talking on the phone, Sam notices Danny's hand turning invisible and his feet not touching the ground. Then he uncontrollably flies straight through the wall and around the block before crashing in a dumpster. When he returns to the house, they use the Fenton Lab computers to check his vitals and DNA, and learn that the ecto energy from the ghost portal explosion changed his DNA, making him half ghost and test his abilities.

Meanwhile, a green puff of smoke appears at the Hospital and forms into a green ghostly creature as the lights break and the power goes out, causing everybody to run in fear from the ghost.

That night, Sam walks down to the lab, where Tucker is testing the difference between a humans vitals and Danny's half-ghost vitals, and tells them about the mysterious attack on the Hospital. So they sneak into the hospital to investigate. Tucker uses some of the Fenton's old ghost geat to detect any ecto radiation, while Danny begins seeing blue mist coming from his mouth. As they leave, the green puff of smoke is seen leaving through the vents.

The next morning at School, Valerie talks to Danny to see of he's ok, and he walks her home after school. While walking home with Valerie, Danny notices blue mist coming from his mouth again, when a truck instantly swerves out of control and nearly hits them, but Danny grabs Valerie as she closes her eyes, and phases through the truck before it crashes. Danny sees the green ghost form and confronts it, but it attacks him and knocks him back, before Danny can counter attack, a car driving buy ramps off of the crashed truck, so Danny phases into the car and saves the driver before the car crashes. When he looks back up, the ghost is gone. He, Sam, and Tucker return to the lab, where Tucker says that multiple unknown elements came from the portal, along with a sizeable amount of ectoplasmic energy, theorizing that multiple ghost from the Ghost Zone and Danny states they need to capture all the ghosts that were unleashed from the portal explosion, so Tucker shows Danny one of the safety suits his parents wore while working on the portal, which he modified to Sam's design, replacing the orange and black, with black and white, and added a white "D" with a "P" inside symbol also designed by Sam, but Danny is still puzzled on how he's supposed to find the ghost, so Tucker tells him about the vital readings and informs him that the blue mist coming from his mouth is actually his "ghost sense". Danny puts the suit on and tracks down the ghost. While flying though Amity Park to find it, the ghost knocks Danny to the ground. Danny gets back up and begins battling the creature. After a short fight, Danny defeats it and traps it in the "Ghost Thermus", and returns to the lab.

The next day, while walking through the cemetery, Danny finds Valerie at her mother's grave and they talk to eachother about their parents. After Valerie leaves, Danny visits his parents' grave and talks about the last couple of days, while images of Danny learning to transform, him hanging out with Sam, Tucker, and Valerie, him hugging Jazz before leaving for school, and of him in his ghost form flying through Amity Park, as "The Phantom".

Cast

 * Dylan Sprayberry as Danny Fenton/The Phantom
 * Cooper Timberline as 9 year old Danny
 * Kira Kosarin as Sam Manson
 * Trevor Jackson as Tucker Foley
 * Galadriel Stineman as Jazz Fenton
 * Zendaya Coleman as Valerie Gray
 * Bob Joles as the smoke-formed ghost creature
 * Rene Lavan and Amy Adams as Jack and Madeline Fenton
 * Paul Giamatti as Mr. Lancer
 * Robbie Ammel as Aaron "Dash" Baxter
 * Daniella Monet as Paulina
 * Anna Galvin as the Doctor