Pilot (Secret Circle)

Pilot is the first episode of the first season and therefore the series premiere of the CW television series The Secret Circle.

Summary
After a sudden family tragedy, Cassie Blake moves in with her grandmother in Chance Harbor, Washington, the town where her mother lived years before. Cassie quickly starts to learn from her new classmates that there things about her past that she never knew about--like the fact that she and her new friends are all witches, and they want Cassie to join them in creating a new generation of the Secret Circle. As Cassie starts to unlock her new powers, she uncovers a dark side to her abilities and soon comes to realize that with her new found destiny comes a level of danger.

Main Cast

 * Britt Robertson as Cassie Blake
 * Thomas Dekker as Adam Conant
 * Shelley Hennig as Diana Meade
 * Phoebe Tonkin as Faye Chamberlain
 * Jessica Parker Kennedy as Melissa Glaser
 * Louis Hunter as Nick Armstrong
 * Gale Harold as Charles Meade
 * Natasha Henstridge as Dawn Chamberlain
 * Ashley Crow as Jane Blake

Recurring Cast

 * Adam Harrington as Ethan Conant

Guest Cast

 * Emily Holmes as Amelia Blake

Quotes

 * Amelia: "My sweet Cassie, I didn't want you to have this life, but destiny is not easy to run from."


 * Faye: "So you're the new girl."
 * Cassie: "Yeah, that's me."
 * Faye: "You're very pretty."


 * Adam: "I saw you at school today. How was your first day?"
 * Cassie: "It's not over yet. I'll get back to you."


 * Faye: "Adam's a hottie and he really does go with the sad delicate type."


 * Cassie: "This town, it's freaking sideshow."


 * Diana: "We're different, you're different."
 * Faye: "Oh for God's sake, spit it out! You're a witch. You're a full-blooded, hundred percent witch. We all are. There, done."
 * — telling Cassie Blake's a witch too.


 * Cassie: "This is beyond crazy."


 * Faye: "Don't pretend you don't believe us. Deep down you know it's true."
 * — to Cassie.


 * Diana: "I believe we can do great things with our power. It doesn't have to be bad, but we have to control it."


 * Diana: "You can't make it rain just 'cause you want it!"
 * Faye: "Yes, we can. We can do anything we want!"
 * Diana: No Faye!

Notes and Trivia

 * This episode was watched by 3.05 million viewers.
 * The pilot episode was filmed during March 24, 2011 and April 5, 2011
 * The pilot episode was released on iTunes a few days before the series premiered.
 * Amelia Blake is the first being, witch, and female to die in the course of the series. She is killed in a fire created by Charles Meade.
 * Jake Armstrong is the only main character that didn't appeared in the series premiere.
 * In the original pilot script, Doug was part of the seven-member coven of witches which the pilot focused on. He was a football player who was bumped from up from third-string to starting quarterback thanks to the coven's powers. In January, The Vampire Diaries showrunner and executive producer Kevin Williamson was brought in to rewrite Miller's script and soon the project was picked up to pilot, but Doug was no longer in it.
 * Melissa is the only main character up to this point that does not exist in the books, but is loosely based off of Deborah Armstrong, Melanie Glaser, and Suzan Whittier.
 * Cassie's mother dying never happened in the books as she plays a supporting role in the entire book series. Kevin explains at Comic Con that “they had already decided to kill her,” but that he came in and re-wrote how it happened to connect the story by killing off her mom.