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"Well, we'll have to agree to disagree."

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"This photograph came over the wire from my case manager in the field. What you've drawn here is a perfect match."

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"The team is there now--- at the very nexus of what you're seeing nearly a thousand miles away."

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"Katherine, come and join us at the site."

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"Isn't this why you called me? To let me know what was happening here?"

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"The only way to refine your gift, Katherine is to use it!"

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"Come with me."

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"That's what I like about you, Axon. You're always so resourceful."

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"You have something against romance? The book on Racine is required reading."

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"How's everything in here? Katherine's astounding you, I'm sure."

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"Maybe it's best that I liase with McLeod. You just concentrate on your team."

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"Colonel, you cannot napalm this area."

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"And now you are? Please enlighten us so that we can all go home."

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"According to my contact at defense, the late Captain Hastings was in charge of a covert operation called "Red Tide" developing chemical weapons."

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"I suspect that he's using this situation as an excuse to destroy the experiments."

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"But is it a message that she's receiving, or her thoughts that's she's generating."

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"I've been speaking with the military. There'll be an announcement that a meteor crashed in a conservation area. With the resulting fire there were a few minor casualties."

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"Really, Matthew. Why would I keep a thing like that from you? Could prove dangerous."

Synopsis

Episode #209: "Man of War"
Case File #267-210
Written by Deborah Nathan
Directed by Stephen Williams

The romantic tryst of Private Kristin Smythe (Jenny Levine) and Corporal Del Castor (Patrick Mavric) during night patrol is shattered by an onslaught of light and noise. When Castor enters the woods to investigate, he disappears with a scream of pain and horror.

The next day, the O.S.I.R. team, led by Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer), finds Castor's dog tags in a pile of ashes. Surrounding the, a deadly acidic resin seeps from the trees. The investigation is complicated by the military's own inquest. Seeing no alternative, Praeger reluctantly agrees to work with Captain Hastings (Matthew Bennett) and Colonel Andrew MacLeod (Richard Fitzpatrick) to find the missing Corporal. Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) questions Private Smythe who is torn between the strict direction of her superiors and her concern for Castor. Though frightened, she admits there was 'something' in the woods that night.

Nearly a thousand miles away, a second witness is bombarded with visions of the site where Castor disappeared. Catherine Azzopardi (Terri Hawkes), an academic and former O.S.I.R. operative, contacts the O.S.I.R. Director of Operations, Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett) to report her "remote viewing" experience. She claims an 'entity' is trapped in the atmosphere just above the woods. And although Catherine would rather the horrible visions just go away, she cannot escape her conscience and the anguish that comes with her 'gift'. She must go to the site and confront the phenomenon in order to be freed from her pain.

Meanwhile, Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) reports the bad news. The strange ashes found in the woods are indeed the disintegrated remains of Corporal Castor. Praeger is unwilling to accept or believe Azzopardi's remote-viewing abilities, though he is able to relate to her torment. When Captain Hastings is incinerated while attempting to steal tree resin from the lab and the military subsequently seals off the event site, Praeger begins to see there are deeper secrets than just deadly tree sap.

He allows Azzopardi to 'remote view' into the forest, past the cordon, to the nucleus of the site. She appears to contact the 'entity' which speaks through a projection of the face of Corporal Castor, reporting that the entity looks like a giant man of war - a jelly fish, who was separated from its group by a meteor shower. While using the tree resin to repair its injuries, it inadvertently took human lives. It disappears, leaving many questions unanswered - Just what were the military's seemingly malevolent intentions beyond the site perimeter? Does Elsinger know much more than he's willing to share? Can Praeger ever trust him again?