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"Susan, please prepare a draft memo for the board regarding the Hendricks file."

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"Sirs: The facts are not in dispute. In October 1986, Catherine and Nicole Hendricks' car was involved in a collision with a train at a crossing. During the course of the collision, they both disappeared. They couldn't have survived, yet despite our best efforts, their bodies were never recovered."

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"Over the years, I came to the conclusion that they has somehow been transported to an alternate reality - to the other side."

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"But there was no support for my suspicions until last year. Please see the enclosed archival material from the file"

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"Anton Hendricks then disappeared. Fortunately, two months later we were able to recreate the conditions of the experiment and successfully retrieve him and his family. No. No, Susan, um - strike the word successfully."

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"Nicole Hendricks died on the return event.Her autopsy confirmed that she was still in her late teens, however chronologically, at the time of her death she should have been thirty years old."

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"I understand you've been looking for me. If only you had called me at the cottage, I could have been here sooner. How goes the project?"

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"Anton took the lead, I merely gave him the opportunities."

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Elsinger: "The cryonics chamber must have drawn too much from the main grid."
Donner: "Then why was Central Lab evaculated?"
Elsinger: "Central Lab was evacuated?"
Donner: "Come on, Frank."

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"Well, for the sake of argument, let's say that I did do all of the things that you claim. If Anton were halfway through the procedure, stopping him would have proved fatal for the subject. It would have meant irrevocable death."

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Donner: "Death is irrevocable."
Elsinger: "Until proved otherwise."

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"If you give me a few minutes, I'll have the security system stand down."

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Axon: "Who the hell are they?"
Elsinger: "They're here to help."

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Elsinger: "Step aside, please."
Praeger: "No."
Elsinger: "Doctor, when your patient revives I shall want to have a moment with her."

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Elsinger: "Matthew, I don't appreciate your tone."
Praeger: "I bet you don't."
Elsinger: "If we succeed, we have saved a life, maybe two."
Praeger: "And who put those lives at risk?"

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"Dr. Davison, do what you can for her."

Synopsis

Episode #308: "Return"
Case File #965-789
Written by James Nadler
Directed by Bruce Pittman

Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) has spent the day at the OSIR research lab, where he has been working on a secret project for OSIR head Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett). When he returns home, he is greeted by his wife, Catherine (Catherine Blythe), who has recently returned from a mysterious apportation device called the Arch, into which she vanished 12 years ago. Initially ecstatic about his wife's return, Hendricks has become increasingly suspicious that all is not what it seems. Specifically, the failure of his wife to remember anything about their deceased daughter, Nicole, has convinced him that she is not the Catherine he knew. He suspects she is an "Old One," one of the restless spirits that he encountered while he was in the Arch looking for Catherine and Nicole.

OSIR pathologist Dr. Claire Davison (Soo Garay) joins Hendricks and his wife for dinner. Hendricks reveals his suspicions about Catherine to his colleague, who suggests that the woman's memory loss may be caused by Alzheimer's rather than a possessing spirit. At Hendricks' request, Davison has a private conversation with Catherine but finds no indication that she is possessed.

The next night, Hendricks races into the OSIR research facility, pursued by Davison. Before she can enter, Hendricks extracts a vial from the lab's display cabinet and releases a virus into the lab, setting off an automatic security system that seals the entrance. He feverishly begins working on Elsinger's secret project--contained in a coffin-sized chamber. OSIR case manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) and chief science analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) arrive but can't convince Hendricks to tell them what he's doing. Meanwhile, Davison has determined that Hendricks has released the deadly Ebola virus into the lab.

Axon devises a way to gain short-term access to the lab by convincing the computer-operated security system that the virus is not dangerous. Accompanied by senior data analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich), Praeger and Davison rush into the room. While Donner whisks Hendricks out the door, they hurry to the chamber containing the secret project. Praeger frantically scrapes away the frost that covers the chamber window, then turns away, horrified. It is Catherine. She is dead--sealed inside the chamber and cryonically frozen. Suddenly the lab door automatically locks again, this time trapping Praeger and Davison.

Hendricks informs Donner that Praeger and Davison are in no danger: The virus is inactive, released by him only to keep the others out of the tab. He also admits killing his wife. Earlier that day, he had confronted the spirit within Catherine, verbally renouncing the "old one" and causing his wife to experience some sort of seizure. He took her to the lab and put her in the cryonics chamber on the slim chance that he might be able to revive her. He provides his research notes for Donner to forward to Davison.

Back at the research lab, Davison and Praeger desperately try to save Catherine-and, in the process, stop their friend from facing murder charges. With the help of Hendricks' notes, they are successful in reviving Catherine who, after a brief hospital stay, is reunited with her husband. Reassured by his wife's recollections of their daughter, Hendricks accepts her as the "real" Catherine.