Looking for the modern day Brigitte Fitzgerald from Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed? See main article Brigitte Fitzgerald. This article is about the 19th century Brigitte from Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning.
Brigitte Fitzgerald was a young woman that lived in 19th century Canada. After her parents' death[1] while the family was travelling the Canadian frontier region, she and her sister Ginger find themselves in the midst of a Native American prophecy involving werewolves with implications for the far future. Brigitte is one of the main characters of Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, being largely identical in personality and appearance to the character of the same name that lived over a hundred years later in 20th century Canada in the town of Bailey Downs.
Brigitte pledges to protect her sister Ginger, but fails to prevent her from getting infected by a werewolf bite. At the end of the film, Brigitte and her sister exchange blood, infecting herself and proving her loyalty to her sister, but also beginning a curse affecting modern day Brigitte and her sister Ginger, who inherit[2] the werewolf curse.
History[]
In the winter of 1815, the two sisters found themselves lost in the wilderness after the deaths[1] of their parents. They unknowingly travel into a area that is constantly ravaged by a werewolf infestation. They find a seemingly abandoned hut and meet an old Native American woman who gives them two bird necklaces warning them to "Kill the boy, or one sister kills the other".
Later on, Brigitte is caught in a trap, but she is released by an unnamed hunter, who takes them to Fort Bailey, which is constantly attacked by hellhounds. Ginger and Brigitte are treated with suspicion by the few inhabitants, especially the paranoid Reverend Gilbert. Nonetheless, they are invited into the house of Wallace Rowlands, the Fort's leader whose wife was killed by the werewolves and whose son Geoffrey was assumed so too. But that night, Ginger hears crying within the walls, so she goes to check, and she finds out that Wallace's son is still alive and turning into a werewolf himself. Ginger is bitten, so she and Brigitte attempt to leave, but they are cornered by James, the sergeant of the Fort. James and Ginger nearly fight before a pack of werewolves attack. During the ensuing fight between the men in the Fort and the werewolves, Reverend Gilbert comes to the sisters showing them to a seemingly safe house, which turns out to have a werewolf loose in it. The sisters are saved by the unnamed hunter who found them earlier. When the sisters accuse the Reverend of attempted murder (who doesn't even deny it) he goes unpunished and the sisters are sent back to bed, where they are kept awake by the ensuing fight outside.
The next day, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey is now loose, and when he kills a man in the fort, Ginger is suspected and dragged away. Brigitte tries to help her sister before James pins her down, but he is called off by Wallace. Brigitte bribes Wallace, pointing out that his son is as cursed as his sister. The two rescue Ginger, and the Reverend backs down.
Ginger and Brigitte become determined to find a cure, convinced that killing the very same werewolf who bit her will cure Ginger. When they eventually find Geoffrey, Ginger hesitates to kill him as he is a child. The half-transformed boy then is captured by James, but is later killed by Wallace himself in a mercy kill. The depressed Wallace has Ginger exiled, and Brigitte insists on joining her sister.
They are guided out by a young man named Milo who reveals that the old woman they met before was a seer, who can explain their situation. Brigitte and Ginger follow Milo through the woods, but Milo is killed during a surprise werewolf attack. The sisters nonetheless find their way to the seer's cave with the help of the hunter who appears and repels the werewolves. The seer explains it was too late to cure Ginger, and Brigitte must kill Ginger, or Ginger will kill her. The seer begins a ceremony on Brigitte to detail a werewolf legend that says the red and the black will choose the fate of the bloodline: Brigitte goes on a vision quest where she pictures alternative realities where either Brigitte dies, and the land suffers forever, or Ginger dies, and the bloodline dies with her. When Brigittes returns to reality, she finds that Ginger has murdered the seer, and not willing to kill Brigitte, Ginger flees. The Hunter takes Brigitte back to the Fort, convinced that Ginger will eventually follow.
At the Fort, Brigitte is taken prisoner, and told by the Reverend that her sister is already lost; offended, Brigitte spits in the Reverend's eye. The Reverend calls her a witch and starts a bonfire, whilst Ginger heads to the fort, with a pack of werewolves following. The Reverend's execution attempt is caught by the Hunter and Wallace, who kill the Reverend and free Brigitte. Ginger manages to get in and fights James and his men, eventually ushering in the werewolves. The Hunter and Brigitte hold their own, while Wallace ends his own life after getting bit in the face by one of the creatures. When Brigitte gets the opportunity to kill Ginger, she instead kills the hunter, thus disproving the red and the black legend. The sisters flee the Fort together as the only survivors.
The next morning, Ginger and Brigitte sit under a tree, and Ginger cuts her hand and Brigitte's, mingling each other's blood and sealing their fates as werewolves.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ginger tells Wallace Rowlands that their parents drowned when their boat was overturned. But Brigitte seemed surprised when hearing about this, asking her sister to confirm it moments later.
- ↑ It is unlikely that Ginger or Brigitte are direct ancestors of their 20th century incarnations, as both turned into werewolves and could not have any human offspring.
| Characters in Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning |
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| Ginger Fitzgerald • Brigitte Fitzgerald |
| Hunter • Wallace Rowlands • James • Elder • Reverend Gilbert • Doc Murphy Finn • Milo • Geoffrey Rowlands • Owen • Claude • Cormac • Seamus |
| Hellhound |