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"We funded and supervised the Shraft research."

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"Your team was sent in blind so that you could study the egress objectively."

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"When we're done with it!"

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"What are going to do? Going to throw me down the stairs and beat me?"

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"Don't you want to retrieve our friend Hendricks? Perhaps you can persuade Dr. Shraft to help."

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"I know this started off as simple physics, but what if this really is a portal to the other side?"

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"Do I have a soul? Or when I die, do I simply stop like a tin toy. Don't you want to find out?"

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"Hendricks is missing – presumed dead. Donner has resigned. Are you going to join her and your friend Praeger is some misguided display of solidarity?"

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"Or would you like to be case manager?"

Synopsis

Episode #222: "The Egress"
Case File #102-964
Written by James Nadler
Directed by John Bell

Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) Security Co-ordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) and Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) fan out through a secret research facility. They are searching for Axon's friend Dr. Leon Schraft (Daniel Kash), a colleague from Axon's MIT days. Schraft is a Nobel laureate who also possesses psychic abilities as a remote viewer. But the cavernous building is deserted except for a huge metal and stone Arch. Donahue and Axon are astounded by the structure, which suddenly throbs with swirling energy when Donahue steps over a yellow warning line.

Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) arrives, tempering Axon's anxious search for Schraft. As Axon shows Praeger the Arch, he hears a melodious choral sound, and walks toward the structure. Praeger pulls Axon away from the Arch, warning him to stay back behind the yellow barrier. Praeger goes to the mobile lab where he takes out a CD left behind by Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty) before his murder. On the CD, Kelly warns Praeger about "certain researchers" who are working without ethical restraints, looking for "the big one". He compares the project to P.T. Barnum's Dime Museum, which showcased "scientific discoveries", freaks and anomalies not unlike those encountered in recent O.S.I.R. cases. Kelly speaks of the Barnum exhibit's cryptic end, which led customers to "The Egress", a trick word meaning Exit. When Senior Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) enters the mobile lab, Praeger tells her he believes their "Egress" is also some kind of exit, to another world or the unknown.

The team re-enters the research complex, where Axon and Praeger try an experiment with the Arch. As the two men stand on opposite sides of the structure, Axon throws a baseball to Praeger through the Arch. The ball disappears in the swirling inner mass of the Arch before it reaches the other side. As Axon steps toward the Arch for a closer look, a man (Corey Haim) cries out for him to stay away from it. The man is the intern on the research project. He leads the O.S.I.R. investigators to a grisly discovery: a body with the lower torso missing. Dr. Claire Davison (Soo Garay) and Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) examine the desiccated remains, which Axon identifies as scientist Bram Page (Neil Foster). The Intern explains that a group of the scientists disappeared into the Arch, and Page was mutilated when he tried to pull him out. When the intern ran to get help from Dr. Schraft, he found the research office being pulled apart by officials, who removed equipment and documents that could be used as evidence of the secret experiment.

The O.S.I.R. investigators continue to look through the mess in the research office, and to monitor the Arch. Suddenly tragedy strikes as Dr. Anton Hendricks, who has sought a gateway to the afterworld ever since he lost his wife and daughter, walks into the Arch after hearing his family's voices. Hendricks disappears. The team is now more determined than ever to solve the mystery of the Arch. That means finding Dr. Leon Schraft. Praeger confronts the intern, who finally comes clean on the project. Praeger bursts into the office of O.S.I.R. Director of Operations Dr. Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett), who confirms the whole operation was put together and funded by the O.S.I.R. Elsinger introduces Praeger to Case Manager Curtis Rollins (Maurice Dean Wint), who was in charge of the project. Praeger learns his team was sent in blind to study "The Egress", to find out why the scientific team disappeared. He also learns Schraft is not dead, but is being held by Elsinger. Rollins takes Praeger to Schraft, who sits in a darkened room, mumbling incoherently. Praeger takes him back to the research facility to try to find Hendricks.

Tracking Hendricks' comlink, which is still sending a signal from somewhere, Schraft uses his remote viewing abilities. He sends his mind into the Arch, which he first describes as beautiful. But his impressions quickly turn horrible and painful and he collapses at the same time the Egress powers down and shuts off. Praeger is left with another victim on his conscience, with Anton still missing and his friend Michael Kelly dead. Still determined to find the leak on his team which may have led to Kelly's murder, he confronts Axon, only to have Donner reveal herself as the informant. She admits to leaking information to the press and public to get back at Elsinger and his secretive regime. The Egress case at an impasse, Praeger goes back to Michael Kelly's apartment, where he's in for another surprise. Kelly is alive, and admits he orchestrated his death to put Praeger onto the Egress project where he would realize Elsinger's complicity. With Hendricks still missing and Donner disgraced as an informant, Praeger tenders his resignation. Elsinger offers Axon the case manager job, but will the team member betray his friends to take it?