Episode #201: "Threads"
Case File #262-201
Written by James Nadler
Directed by Milan Cheylov

In a frightening and bizarre late-night incident, two electricians at work on a building suddenly disappear, along with a huge part of the construction. A third electrician (Kathleen Laskey) survives, after responding to a mysterious phone call -- but not before she witnesses a blinding light enveloping her co-workers as they vanish with blood-curdling screams. Was it an alien attack? A lethal time warp? Or was it a more sinister, man-made weapon of destruction?

The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR) arrives to investigate, but it appears some secretive tenants below the damaged floor are denying the team access. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) seems determined to find a way to test his theory of apportation, or is he just trying to prove himself to the new Case Manager, Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer)? Praeger soon shows his mettle when he saves Axon's life in the crippled building. Meanwhile, emotions come to the surface when it becomes increasingly obvious that Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) still blames Axon for their previous Case Manager's death.

The team finds two more players involved in the catastrophe; a homeless man (Bill Tarling) who witnessed the blinding light, and the building's manager, Andre Brock (Tony Nappo). But time is running out on solving the case when Praeger and Security Coordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) determine the building is highly unstable, with other sections of the building in danger of disappearing. Finally they get a trace on the anonymous phone call which saved the electrician's life -- and track it back to Michael Kelly's (Michael Moriarty) base in Halifax. While Donner and Axon are sent to find out Kelly's connection, Praeger and Chief of Medicine, Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox), discover that a secret experiment with a digital beam may be the key to the mystery. When they trace the beam's arch, they find only grisly remains, including human flesh melted into electronic components.

Michael Kelly helps the team put the pieces of the case together by pointing them in the direction of Digiknight Industries -- a huge, faceless conglomerate capable of using human lives to test a potential weapons product. Donner links up Andre Brock as the Digiknight agent, but will the team get to him before the whole structure disintegrates and disappears.

Episode #202: "The Donor"
Case File #263-202
Written by Rick Drew
Directed by Milan Cheylov

In a small farming community, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR) investigates the strange mutilation and seemingly ritualistic slaughter of livestock animals. When the team arrives, the locals seem much too eager to explain away the incidents as mountain lion attacks. Is it alien activity they're trying to hide, or is there a perpetrator much more apart of their community? The sheriff Bruce Pirrie), the county vet (Les Carlson) and local farmer Katlin Jessup (Brenda Bazinet) and her teenage son Tyler (Matthew Lemche) seem eager to dispose of the remains and get on with the day's work. What do they really know about what's lurking in the woods?

Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) and the team quickly discover some strange factors in the case: all the slaughtered animals are female, and their reproductive organs have been selectively removed. They also all bear the same blue ear tags, indicating they come from a common source. But when Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) tries to use Tyler's apparent infatuation with her to get to the truth, a local posse of hunters threaten the boy into silence.

Donner uncovers the fact that many of the townspeople are employed by the same agricultural research company, GemAgro, just as the mysterious Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty) materializes with insinuations that GemAgro is an organ farming operation. As Praeger prepares to act on this information, the attacks turn more menacing and deadly, adding the first human to its toll. Even more confusing are the strange clues the killer or killers start leaving behind, including a child's battered picture book found in an OSIR vehicle. When zoological expert L.Q. Cooper (Peter Blais) makes the breakthrough that the killer's blood is both animal and human, the OSIR realizes they've stumbled into a major conspiracy of bio-technology: has GemAgro been manufacturing half-human, half-animal organ donors?

The team races to find the creature's hiding place, which they discover deep in an abandoned mine. When Donner and Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) convince Tyler to lead them into the shafts, a cave-in cuts Donner off from the group -- right in the creature's lair. But is the creature really a monster, or is it human enough to know it must stop the terrible experiments which created it?

Episode #203: "Wish I May"
Case File #360-203
Written by Will Dixon
Directed by John Bell

Deep in swamp country, Sheriff Jackson (R.D. Reid) finds the body of a missing teenager, Billy Hamilton (Andrew Tarbett), apparently drowned in a boating accident. As he tries to retrieve the body, it mysteriously disappears in the churning swamp water. At just the same time, the boy appears on his front porch, wet and bewildered. Did his mother and sister use black magic to bring him back to life?

Local county doctor Christine Lowrey (Kaya McGregor) calls in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR) to help her find out more about the backwoods family and why Billy seems to be clinically dead but somehow alive. Family matriarch Lizzie Hamilton (Donna Goodhand) is obviously protective of Billy and her strange daughter Layla (Kathryn Long). The whole family is still grieving the hit and run death of an older son, Seth (Clinton Walker). But is Seth really dead or, like Billy, has he mysteriously returned from the grave? While Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) and the team study Billy's deteriorating condition, Chief of Medicine, Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox), seems to be displaying unusual behavior himself. The team turns its attention to the swamp, and the possibility that poisonous gases are affecting people's behaviour. Temperatures and emotions continue to rise, with all fingers pointing to strange goings-on at the Hamilton's home, until Jeb Jackson (Jody Racicot), the sheriffs outlaw brother, decides to take matters into his own hands. When he begins to terrorize the Hamiltons, a shadowy figure steps in. When Jeb shoots a trespasser on his own land, it turns out to be Seth, and the team turns to new theories about Wicca potions and zombification.

In the meantime, Hendricks becomes increasingly unstable until Praeger begins to question his ability to function on the team. Hendricks finally collapses and his colleagues discover he's been hiding deadly malaria, a condition that he's been fighting since his days working at Medecins Sans Frontiers. But while everyone's attention is focused on Hendricks, the body of Seth Hamilton disappears. The team races to the Hamilton property, only to find out both Hamilton brothers are still alive, determined to protect their mother and little sister from Jeb Jackson by extracting the ultimate revenge.

Episode #204: "Communion"
Case File #245-208
Written by Peter Mohan
Directed by John Bell

Alan Tremblay (James Allodi) earns his paycheque in the employ of Montex Bioengineering, developing new chemical compositions for the billion dollar perfume industry. He is also a typical absent-minded scientist, dedicated to his personal research on a new strain of super-wheat. When he leaves the Montex building late one night, Alan is transported out of sight and out of time when a blinding light and piercing sound envelop him in the parking lot. Eventually, he is dropped back to Earth and left asleep on the ground next to his car. When he gets up off the ground in the morning, a dense patch of plants starts to grow on the asphalt where he lay.

The Office of Scientific and Investigative Research (OSIR) arrives to investigate several UFO reports in the area. The local police, questioning the OSIR's motives, give the team a hard time with their investigation. They also get little co-operation from Alan Tremblay, who insists he was at home during the time of the sightings. But Tremblay's resolve starts to crumble when he begins to remember the alien ship, and the extraterrestrials who empowered him with an unusual psychic ability. Tremblay, it seems, is able to communicate with organic matter on a cellular level, starting with his wheat plants. His confusion over his new powers adds to his problems at work, where his supervisor, Ms. Whitney (Suki Kaiser) has been tracking the time he spends on his private research and is ready to pull him from the company's pheromone project.

When Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) tries a special hypnotic procedure to tap into Tremblay's memory block, he discovers that Tremblay was indeed aboard a spacecraft. But horrible complications occur during the operation, and Tremblay suffers both an aneurysm and heart failure. Then, mysteriously, his body completely heals itself. After this experience, Tremblay refuses any more testing into his condition, even as he grows more open to the OSIR's Peter Axon (Barclay Hope), a fellow scientist. In a flash of perception he tells Axon he's infected with a dangerous parasite, which the team quickly finds out is true. Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) is now more determined than ever to study Tremblay's special gift, which further irritates Montex's Ms. Whitney. When she moves to fire Tremblay, the scientist assumes Praeger's appearance, and during a violent confrontation, kills Whitney with cellular precision.

While the police arrest Praeger on suspicion of murder, Tremblay hides in his loft apartment, terrified of what he's done. When the OSIR team tracks him down, Tremblay begs them to help him get back on the alien ship. Will the OSIR work against the police to help Tremblay escape?

Episode #205: "Frozen In Time"
Case File #417-205
Written by Tracey Forbes
Directed by Giles Walker

Deep in the interior of a national park, a strange epidemic strikes a Native American reserve, turning the residents into living statues. Caught in a strange kind of coma, they are rendered immobile and barely alive. When a park ranger (Andrew Moodie) and a visiting nun (Tita Griffin) leave the reserve to return to the outside world, they are suddenly "frozen", turned into Pompeii- like casts. The young ranger is tragically killed when he freezes in front of a speeding truck, while Sister Elizabeth enters her strange trance mid-drink in the park lodge.

The Office Of Scientific Investigation and Research's (OSIR) forensic pathologist Dr. Claire Davison (Soo Garay) is unable to break the case by studying the victims' bodies, although the team suspects they're dealing with a mutant toxin which is infecting the victims' blood. Case Manager Matt Praegar (Matt Frewer) and Senior Analyst Lindsay Dormer (Nancy Anne Sakovich) decide to travel to the wooded interior to investigate the reserve. They arrive at "Maum Keshka" with their Parks driver Carl Pillar (Dan Redican), who discovers a whole dining hall of Native Americans, immobilized at their plates. Pillar panics and tries to flee, but himself succumbs to the strange pathogen after eating some of the reserve food.

Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope), Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) and Dr. Davison join Praegar and Donner on the reserve, setting up a quarantine to isolate the epidemic. As Donner and Praegar, declared disease-free, continue to survey the reserve, they discover a little girl also frozen in time. But this patient is different, as Kaya (Alana Brascoupe) suddenly "thaws", and informs the team the epidemic is the work of the legendary Raven, a powerful spirit in the Native world.

The Native world holds very real dangers, as the team soon finds out, when Praegar is seriously injured in bear leg hold trap. The team has only one choice: to inject him with the strange toxin, to stop his blood loss by "freezing" him until they can get him out of the bush. Will the antidote Hendricks and Donner are working on save the villagers, and bring Peter out of his suspended animation in time to save his life?

Episode #206: "Devolution"
Case File #567-212
Written by John Dolin
Directed by Clay Borris

Sixty-year-old Grey Callwood has spent the last 27 years of her life in prison. The driver in a botched bank robbery, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a police officer. She lost everything, including her ten-year-old daughter Mary (Lisa Ryder), who became a ward of the authorities. Now, Grey has been taken from prison and placed in a hospital, where she lies in a coma. The only one who cares for her is a night-shift nurse called Lucy Westenra (Nicole Oliver), an eccentric young woman who dresses in "Goth" fashion.

As Grey lies close to death, Lucy says good-bye to her patient as the guard waits by the door. When Lucy leaves the room, a blinding light explodes. When the guard bursts in to investigate, a blood-covered "entity" throws him out into the hall. In the bed, nothing but a smoking, steaming "husk" remains where Grey Callwood's body had been.

When the OSIR team starts to investigate, they believe they're looking at a grisly murder, but Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) is suspicious about the crime scene. When Grey's daughter Mary refuses to help the investigation, Praeger puts Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) on Nurse Lucy's trail, suspecting her unconventional lifestyle may be connected to the bizarre occurrence. Donner goes undercover into the Goth world, where she discovers ritual sacrifice may be part of the attraction of The Pentagram Club, the centre of Lucy's circle. Two bags of blood that Donner finds under an alter are her main evidence, and she begins to suspect Grey Callwood may have been "spirited" out of the hospital building.

While Praeger joins Dormer at The Pentagram Club, Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) and Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) discover that Grey Callwood was part of a study for an experimental drug called Xaldex, a drug which accelerates cell repair in human tissue, and could potentially cause its subjects to "devolve", or grow younger. Then Praeger and Donner encounter Grey Callwood dancing at the Pentagram, when suddenly she convulses, burns and erupts, emerging from the smouldering husk some 14 years younger.

Back in the hospital, the team conducts further studies on the now youthful Grey Callwood (Marni Thompson). Dr. Hendricks thinks he can arrest her condition by flooding her system with a protein supplement. Praeger confronts the hospital administrator, Edward Baines (Michael J. Reynolds), about his unethical drug trials, and the team gets some clinical help to keep Grey's next attack at bay. But not for long. When an attempted reconciliation with Mary fails, a devastated Grey escapes, and again with Lucy's help, heads back to The Pentagram.

The team members return to the club but they're too late to rescue Grey, who, in the another terrifying transformation, emerges as a frightened six-year-old girl. This time, Mary cannot turn her back on her "mother", and undergoes a liver-splicing operation to stop Grey from "devolving" into nothingness. The operation is a success, and the OSIR helps Mary to adopt the young girl. The remains in the hospital are identified as Callwood's, now declared legally dead.

Episode #207: "The Warrior"
Case File #371-211
Written by Rick Drew
Directed by Clay Borris

O.S.I.R. Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) and Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) attend a reception at the Abbott Museum of Art. Dr. Jeffrey Tompkins (Michael Burgess), curator of the museum, and Victor Sang (Robert Ito), the Consul General of China, unveil their latest acquisition: an ancient Chinese terra cotta statue. The statue is a rendering of a great warrior; one that is, however, missing its head. Dr. Sang returns to the statue its original sword.

When Dr. Tompkins returns to the museum later that evening, he's decapitated by an unknown assailant. At the same time, the warrior statue goes missing. And, in a macabre twist, the murderer has taken Dr. Tompkins' head. Donner and Praeger return to the scene of the crime, joined by Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope). Unable to find any firm forensic leads, Donner and Praeger turn to the academic genius Hamilton Darwell (David Fox). Darwell is an expert in ancient artifacts, despite the fact that he's completely blind. He confirms that Tompkins was using the museum to sell off antiquities, and gives them background on the statue, which they discover is a likeness of General Tse, a ruthless warrior for the first emperor of China.

Under strict orders from Director of Operations Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett), the team keeps their investigation quiet. But the upstart British journalist Jonathan Tucker (Peter Cockett) has reported the full story for his Internet tabloid, including O.S.I.R. case notes. As the team tries to find Tucker, Darwell meets a gruesome end when he's beheaded in his office, with the killer leaving Tompkins' head on Darwell's body. But this time the team has a solid lead: Darwell's voice-activated computer has recorded the murder.

Praeger consults Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty) for more insight on the case, and together they lay a trap for Victor Sang, Tompkins' partner in crime. When Praeger and Donner pose as art buyers, they realize all their movements are being recorded by Tucker, who's been following them in an unmarked van. Tucker tells them he believes the warrior statue is searching for his missing head, a theory the team agrees with. Donner and Praeger discover Victor Sang has the head for sale, but before they can catch Sang with their ruse, Tucker becomes the next victim of the warrior's sword.

When Donner and Praeger meet with Sang in the Consulate basement, they are attacked by the warrior, now bearing Tucker's head. The warrior gravely injures Sang, who, at the last minute, shoots the warrior, shattering him to pieces. The O.S.I.R. case is closed on the warrior, the beheading murders officially unsolved.

Episode #208: "The Grey Men"
Case File #669-207
Written by James Nadler
Directed by Giles Walker

The Office of Scientific and Investigative Research (OSIR) is called to an abandoned industrial park to investigate a UFO sighting. There they discover what looks to be a crop circle surrounded by strange burn marks. Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) wanders off alone behind an old power plant, lost in his own personal thoughts about the approaching visit of his estranged daughter. Suddenly he hears a buzzing noise. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) and Security Co-ordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) race to find him, but Praeger has disappeared without a trace.

Far away, in another city, OSIR Director of Operations Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett) confronts Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty) about his interference in OSIR cases and warns him to stay away from the team. There is more than an implied threat contained in Elsinger's warning to Kelly. Meanwhile, back at the power plant, Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) and Chief of Medicine Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) have joined Axon and Donahue to step up the search for Praeger. Axon thinks he can trace Praeger through his comlink, but when they follow the signal into a factory building, all the team finds is a pattern of strange ovals.

Donner goes on to interview the two "experiencers" of the UFO sighting, but gets little cooperation from close-mouthed trucker (David Ferry) and cook (Paul Boretski) at the local diner. Meanwhile, Axon searches desperately for Praeger. The team discovers Praeger back on the ground, curled into a fetal ball and deep in a coma. And yet, unknown to the team, another Praeger is being interrogated in an alternate reality by "the Grey Man", an alien who has assumed the form of Michael Kelly.

Back in the mobile lab, the team becomes increasingly worried about Praeger's condition when both "experiencers" self destruct: the cook puts a knife through his heart, and the trucker drops dead after losing his will to live. In the alternate dimension, "the Grey Man" takes the real Praeger back to one of his plane crash investigations where he encounters the bodies of the cook and the trucker strewn in the wreckage: This experiment seems to be meant to test Praeger. But if he fails will he be lost in limbo forever?

Tests on the earth-bound Praeger determine he is a cloned, mirror image of his real self, and the aluminum discs are communication devices between dimensions. With extreme mental concentration, Praeger is able to switch his two "halves" and return to Earth. In the end, Elsinger refuses to accept the case as legitimate alien contact.

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?

Episode #210: "The Damned"
Case File # 905-209
Written by Toni Di Franco
Directed by Clay Borris

Robert (Carl Marotte) and Jimmy Sheffield (Andy Velasque) have taken the reins of the family business from their grandfather, Senator Harrison Sheffield (James B. Douglas). One afternoon the brothers and Jimmy's wife, Katie (Melissa Di Marco), relax by the family's pool. But when Robert and Katie go around the corner to explore their mutual attraction for each other, the pool water starts to churn and boil, leaving Jimmy thrashing in the waves. He drowns and sinks to the bottom.

Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope), poses as a pool cleaner in order to collect some samples of the water. Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich), undercover as a potential home buyer, overhears an older woman, Bridget Jamieson (Charmion King), claiming to have had visions of Jimmy's death.

Then, while posing as magazine writers, Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) and Donner speak to Harrison Sheffield. He speaks of a ghost child that appeared to him, soaking wet, at the moment of Jimmy's death. Suddenly, she appears to him again, but Praeger and Donner can only see the puddle on the floor below where Harrison points frantically at nothing.

As the team finds a connection between the puddle water and the water found in Jimmy's lungs, Hendricks begins to believe that Bridget Jamieson has true psychic abilities. As they speak, she is overcome by another vision. She is watching Katie's death play out in her mind. At the same time, Katie is left alone in the hot tub. The water begins to bubble violently. She is thrown about by an unseen attacker and drowned.

Research into the Sheffield family's history uncovers the legacy of the Sheffield Reservoir. Axon discovers a massive "box" embedded in the reservoir's floor. On further probing, the team finds the remains of an old Irish farmhouse and the bodies of family members that lived there, still trapped inside the boarded-up house.

While under hypnosis, Bridget Jamieson reveals that Harrison's 'ghost girl' is a projection of her child-self. Many years ago, Senator Sheffieid had given orders to flood the valley, murdering the entire Jamieson family. Bridget, then just seven years old, was the only survivor. Now, the child Bridget and her family's ghosts are seeking revenge from beyond the grave.

The team races to the Sheffield mansion and finds Harrison Sheffield mysteriously drowned inside his waterbed.

Episode #211: "Hell Week"
Case File # 416-209
Written by Alex Pugsley
Directed by Craig Pryce

During frosh week - Hell Week - at Braddock University, Sean Ellis (Rafael Feldman) and his girlfriend Lee Mason (A.J. Cook) are approached by a drunken jock, Jarred MacKeigan (Gabriel Hogan), who harasses Lee and knocks Sean down. Metal things - cars, lamp posts, fences - begin to rattle. A nearby chain-link fence is uprooted and hurled at Jarred, crushing him against a brick wall. Sean and Lee run off, frightened.

The Dean at Braddock, Anna Shuter (Wendy MacDonald), brings the O.S.I.R. in to investigate the incident. With Lee's help, Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) finds Sean as he uses his psychokinetic power to jimmy a pop machine. Donner and Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) question Sean about his abilities - and his identity. Sean exudes a bad attitude. He claims to have never seen Lee before. He claims to be "Alex Cleator".

As Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) tests "Alex's" apparent PK powers, the real Sean Ellis shows up. The O.S.I.R. determine that the boys are identical twins separated at birth, that they were unaware of each other's existence and chose the same university by gut instinct. Both boys possess a strange PK power that, when apart, is non-existent. The closer the boys are, the stronger the power seems to be. The psychokinesis is shared - it can flow back and forth between them. Alex convinces Sean to use the power to their advantage, to work together to pull off wild pranks, like erecting a tall bicycle sculpture. But when Alex witnesses Jarred harassing Lee again, he uses his power to rip a drain pipe from a wall and throw it at Jarred, impaling him. Alex fools Lee into believing he is Sean, just long enough to take advantage of her. The power is not 'fun' anymore.

Realizing his brother is dangerous, Sean tries to bring his relationship with Alex to a close. He can feel Alex tapping into and 'stealing' his mental force as well as his PK ability. In retaliation, Alex kidnaps Lee to force Sean into a final face-off. At the local metal scrap yard, Alex attempts to drain Sean of the last of his power. As they wrestle on the ground, the claw machine looms overhead, alternately in Sean's and Alex's control. Axon and Praeger rush to pull the boys apart, but only one boy can be pulled to safety in time. Alex is crushed by the heavy metal claw.

It would seem both boys' psychokinesis died with Alex. However, now Lee is pregnant ...with twins.

Episode #212: "The Edge"
Case File #350-213
Written by Tracey Forbes
Directed by Craig Pryce

The Office of Scientific and Investigative Research (OSIR) is called in to help locate a missing police officer. Officer Brian Campbell (Ted Whittall) pulls over a car one night with his partner, Officer Glenn Gibson (Ric Reid). When Gibson approaches the car, Campbell is horrified to see him hand his own weapon to the driver who shoots him dead. The squad car video records Campbell speaking to his partner's killer, then climbing, trance-like, into the suspect's trunk.

After the team begins their preliminary investigation, Campbell turns up at the local mental hospital, registered as a John Doe. The institution's staff had found him naked on the front steps of the building, babbling away in a state of complete psychosis. Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) is unable to get a straight answer from Campbell about who murdered his partner, and Chief Medical Officer Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) determines that Campbell is lost in a terrifying hallucination. The hospital janitor, Murphy Pomerance (Joel Bissonette) offers his help, but the team quickly brushes aside the over-eager young man. The hospital administrator, Dr. Robyn Weir (Laura Press) overhears his comments, and chastises Pomerance for bothering the investigators, shaming him in front of the others.

In the meantime, Praeger's daughter Dana (Heather Bertram) has arrived on the scene, running to her father after a fight with her mother. Praeger wants Dana to return home, but she's eager to have more time with her father. Watching the police car video, Dana spots a toad in the suspect's car. The team considers that the toad's secretions could be the cause of Campbell's hallucinations. It turns out Pomerance is using the amphibians, along with his own psychic abilities, to seek revenge on anyone who has snubbed him. After kidnaping Robyn Weir and turning her into a psychotic wreck, he gets back at Praeger by turning his attention to Dana. When he gives Dana one of the toads to bring to the lab, Praeger knows they have to capture Pomerance before he can get his daughter alone. Overcome with worry, Praeger asks Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) to drive Dana back to her mother's. But Pomerance shows up instead, hypnotizing Dana into seeing Axon behind the wheel. In reality, Axon has also been poisoned into a psychotic state, and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.

The team tracks Pomerance back to-his old school, where he is holding Dana, drugged into madness. Praeger chases who he thinks is Dana down the halls and onto the roof, where she leaps off the building. He almost goes after her when the real Dana, coming out of her hallucination, appears. They realize Praeger was also prey to Pomerance's psychic abilities, who, as he committed suicide, tried to take Praeger with him. But now Pomerance's mental hold over people is finished, and he lies dead below the building. Further investigation reveals Pomerance had trapped eleven people in his game of pay back, people who, like Axon, Weir and Campbell, could now regain their sanity and their lives.

Episode #213: "Bad Dreams"
Case File #340-212
Written by Will Dixon
Directed by Stephen Williams

Carole Sanderson (Tonya Lee Williams), recovering in her hospital bed from routine knee surgery, suddenly cries out from a terrifying dream and bleeds spontaneously from deep wounds. The Office of Scientific and Investigative Research (OSIR) arrives to secure the building following the inexplicable occurrence. The team interviews Nurse Dan Pullman (Rothaford Gray) who witnessed the event, but he is adamant that no stranger was ever in the room. Certainly the patient in the other bed remained unharmed, even though she lay helpless in a coma.

After initial interviews with Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) and Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer), Carole relates her dream to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox). She says that in her dream she was being held in an abandoned building, and was brutally attacked by a Masked Man wielding a knife. During the assault she saw a woman encircled by radiant light, but the woman was unable to help her. The next night, Lindsay dozes off while keeping watch at Carole's bedside, and, when the attacker returns in Carole's dreams, Donner also experiences her nightmare. The two women awaken, their fingers and nails shredded, as both had tried to escape from the dream and the terrifying Masked Man.

The team discovers that Carole was once a patient at the Seigel Sleep Clinic, so Donner goes undercover as a patient to find out if there's a connection. Under observation, Donner has a disturbing dream in which she remembers a tragedy from her past: a college friend was stabbed to death while waiting alone for Lindsay, who showed up late to meet her. Then the dream dissolves into another horrible attack by the Masked Man, and once more she wakes up with real injuries -- the same injuries that Carole has also sustained that same evening. But this time, Donner has found a break in the case, because she recognizes the mysterious woman from the dream as the comatose patient who shared Carole's room. She finds that Alice Ashley (Collette Micks) bears scars from the same knife wounds. It seems Donner and Carole are experiencing Alice's real life nightmare, when she was attacked and left for dead in a deserted warehouse. When she visits the real warehouse with Praeger, Donner is able to locate the knife the police never found, because she saw its location during her dream state.

Realizing she has the power to end Alice's and Carole's nightmare, Donner goes back into the netherworld for a final confrontation with the attacker. But time is running out, because Carole is also now comatose from more spontaneous injuries, consistent with being beaten with a pipe. In the dream Donner turns on the Masked Man, knocking the treacherous lead pipe from his hands, and pushing him down a flight of stairs. He lies motionless, then disappears. When she awakens, Donner finds that both Carole and Alice are out of danger, both women having miraculously come out of their comas. As the three women recuperate, further investigation reveals Alice was also once a patient at the Seigel Sleep Clinic -- could it be a refuge for the real Masked Man?

Episode #214: "Kiss of the Tiger"
Case File #936-214
Written by Damian Kindler
Directed by Carl Goldstein

Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) brings in the Office of Scientific and Investigative Research (OSIR) team to help his old friend David Vancha (Karl Pruner) save the life of his wife Zoe (Hayley Hoffbauer). Zoe has been stricken with a deadly blood disorder, and David feels the only one who can save her is an old associate from their travels in China, the herbalist and healer Dr. Chen (Peter Kosaka). When Dr. Chen arrives at Zee's bedside with David, a mysterious group of men bursts into the room. Trying to fend them off, Chen stomps his foot, creating a miniature earthquake in the hospital room. But the gang still overpowers David and disappears with Chen.

Without a substantial lead in the case, Praeger consults Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty) who informs him that Chen is "The Tiger", the guardian of the chi, or collective life force. Following ancient tradition, "The Tiger" is only supposed to practice his healing art in China, so it is highly unusual for him to be in North America, where his powers are neither revered nor understood. Meanwhile, Chen is being held captive in Chinatown, while arrangements are made to send him back to China. He's able to win over one of his captors who sets him free, but he's quickly spotted by Chung, (Russel Yuen), leader of the T'ang Dragons, the organization which is sworn to protect him. When Chung and his men try to stop Chen, "The Tiger" creates a huge wind blast which sweeps Chung off his feet. Chen disappears, trying to get back to David and Zee.

But David Vancha is not all he appears. Zee's deadly illness is part of an illicit research project into biological warfare products that David had been conducting for Gershon Pharmaceutical Corp. A sinister man named Lang (John Bourgeois) has been blackmailing David into his continued co-operation. When the horrible disease finally kills Zee, Praeger is ready to drop the case, but OSIR Director of Operations Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett) pushes the team for more answers. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope), helps Praeger track down Chen in a Chinatown restaurant. But before they can discuss the case, Chung and the Dragons scare Chen back into hiding. Meanwhile, Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) accompanies David on a visit to Zee's grave, where they're shadowed by Lang. The real reason Lang has been blackmailing David is to draw Dr. Chen out of hiding and to steal the secret to Dr. Chen's extraordinary healing powers.

Lang follows David back to his lab, where he injects him with the virus and waits for Chen's arrival. But Chen cures David without Lang finding him. Lang kidnaps Donner to force an exchange -- Donner's life for David's. Everyone meets in the graveyard for the trade, where Chen suddenly appears to confront the evil Lang. When Lang tries to shoot Chen, David jumps in front of him and is mortally wounded, redeeming himself to his friends for his final act of bravery.

Episode #215: "The Haunting"
Case File #604-215
Written by Rick Drew
Directed by John Bell

The Ashe Plaza Hotel is a wonder of modern architecture and engineering, a luxurious, high-tech haven for its guests. Businessman Nick Tanner (Ron Payne) checks in one-night with a call-girl named Dawn (Lorry Ayers), but their stay will be less than relaxing. As Tanner primps in the bathroom of room 1008, a horrifying spectre leaps out at him. The shock causes him to have a fatal heart attack and he slumps to the floor. When Dawn goes looking for her client, she also sees the phantom, and flees the hotel in terror.

Hotel-owner Clifford Ashe (David McIlwraith) calls in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR) to investigate the haunting. It's not the first time the ghost has been seen, and Tanner is not the first to die in the building. Senior Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) rigs room 1008 with a battery of sensors to track the spectre, while Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) tracks down Dawn for an interview. Senior Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) talks to the hotel manager, Mitch Galbraith (Ted Simonett), a prickly functionary who is less than sympathetic to Tanner's demise. In the middle of the case, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) informs Praeger he's taking time off. Praeger learns it is the anniversary of the disappearance of Hendricks' wife and daughter, who vanished after a train hit their car twelve years earlier. He holds hope that his family is still alive in some parallel existence, and the hotel case is renewing his desire to make contact with them.

As the team continues to monitor room 1008, they are observed by a curious female hotel guest. As the woman (Norma Clarke) passes through the hallway, she too sees a terrifying spectre, and runs to Praeger screaming hysterically. Ashe pressures the team to solve the case, but Donner discovers the hotel owner may be a suspect himself. Ashe built the hotel with a partner named Perry Fischer (Michael Rawley), who died in room 1008 four months before Tanner's death. Ashe and Fischer had a falling out, and Ashe retained sole ownership of the hotel, consigning Fischer to one room in the building. Under the influence of alcohol, Fischer slipped in the shower and died.

Axon keeps his monitors running to find out if Fischer's ghost is haunting the hotel, but his equipment is destroyed when the room is mysteriously ransacked. When the team arrives at the room, Hendricks swears he sees the spectre, causing the others to worry about his emotional health and his grief over his family. Later, Hendricks returns alone to the hotel, where he sees the ghostly images of his wife and daughter. Axon and Praeger decide to do a thorough sweep of room 1008, but strange occurances continue. The bathroom door locks behind Praeger, and Axon disappears inside a closet. A bellman releases Praeger, who then co-ordinates a search for Axon. Hendricks joins Praeger on the tenth floor, where they both suddenly see Hendricks' wife and daughter. Hendricks runs to them and almost falls down an empty elevator shaft. It's only in the last moment that he's saved by Praeger.

Praeger checks out the hotel security cameras and discovers someone's been tampering with them. He finds out one camera is being used as a holographic projector, capable of creating ghostly images. As he takes Praeger to the hotel boiler room, where they find the nerve centre of the hoax-- a table of equipment and a picture of Anton's family. They also find Axon gagged and bound on the floor, when suddenly the lights go out. During the search for Axon, Donner has discovered that Mitch Galbraith is Fischer's brother, and she races to the hotel to apprehend him. Downstairs, as Praeger helps untie Axon, Ashe is confronted by a threatening spectre the others cannot see. He grabs a fire axe to swing at it, striking a power cable which sends a massive current through his body which electrocutes him. Axon and Praeger are astounded, since the power was out when the accident occurred. The team closes the case, holding Galbraith responsible for the plot to ruin the hotel.

Episode #216: "The Night of the Setting Sun"
Case File #938-216
Written by James Nadler
Directed by E. Jane Thompson

Vickers, (Katherine Ashby), a dealer of rare animals, breaks into an abandoned factory with an accomplice, Franco (Jason Jazrawry). After they grab what they were looking for, Franco is pulled back into the complex by some unseen presence.

Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) zoologist L.Q. Cooper (Peter Blais) buys Vicker's booty, which turns out to be a passenger pigeon, a species officially extinct since 1914. Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) accompanies Cooper to the industrial-age W.K. Stephenson & Sons buildings to look for additional birds. They've also arranged to meet the current owner of the complex, Derek Stephenson (Landy Cannon). When Stephenson finally pulls up in his car he's sick and disoriented. He stumbles out of the vehicle and collapses in front of Praeger and Cooper, dying on the spot.

Pathologist Dr. Claire Davison (Soo Garay) takes the body to the coroner's lab, where she discovers Stephenson died of Spanish Influenza. The virus decimated human populations around the year 1919, then suddenly vanished as mysteriously as it had appeared. Davison places herself under quarantine, and phones the rest of the team to tell them they must remain in isolation at the factory complex until a vaccine can be developed. Meanwhile, Senior Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich), who has yet to enter the compound, searches for background on the Stephenson family and their business. She talks to their lawyer, Lisa Denning (Michele Duquet), who admits to Donner that there is still a furniture manufacturing operation on the site, even though the factory is supposed to be abandoned.

Back at W.K. Stephenson & Sons, the rest of the team continues to investigate the buildings, where they come across a group of workers. Jonas (Lubomir Myktiuk), Elena (Susannah Hoffman) and 12-year-old Sophie Schulman (Allison Pill), live at the site with five other cousins. The family is wary of outsiders, and they dress, speak and behave like turn-of-the-century people. Impossible though it may seem, the Shulmans arrived in North America more than 90 years ago, and were later hired by the Stephenson family. Somehow the immigrant workers have remained physically unchanged. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) suspects the high content of a strange mineral in the ground has changed their physiology. After taking blood, Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) determines the family has antibodies to the Influenza virus, and must have been exposed when the virus was active after World War One. The Schulmans are also active carriers, which means they could cause another pandemic in the outside world. Hendricks' tests also reveal the family members have an unusual enzyme in their systems. The enzyme inhibits their aging, but causes them to need huge amounts of iron from raw meat and blood to stay alive. The passenger pigeons they've been breeding for food would only provide a fraction of the necessary iron.

Elena starts flirting openly with Peter, who finds it difficult to resist her advances. When Jonas discovers them kissing, a melee ensues. Jonas tells his family they must leave the complex, and readies them to leave. In the meantime, the team finds the missing Franco tied up in a storage locker. France tells them that the workers have been bleeding him and drinking his blood. As Praeger tries to round up the team and get Franco to safety, the girl, Sophie, comes across them. Cooper convinces her to free the passenger pigeons if her family is leaving the complex. Elena emerges from the shadows and throws herself at Axon. Security Co-ordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) arrives just in time and shoots Elena dead. She had a knife and was going to attack Axon. As Sophie's pigeons fill the night sky, Jonas picks up Elena's body and disappears into the night with the rest of his family.

The team is forced to stay in the complex while the influenza vaccine is administered in the outside world. Donner uncovers artifacts and Cooper cares for his remaining passenger pigeon, while Axon contemplates Elena's untimely death. Praeger closes the case, with Jonas and his family still at large.

Episode #217: "The Labyrinth"
Case File #309-217
Written by Christiane Schull
Directed by Ron Oliver

City workers Ben Maxwell (Cameron Graham) and Niko Andonovski (Gerry Medicino) have climbed into an underground tunnel to investigate an isolated blackout. Suddenly, a terrifying wave of light and sound engulfs Ben, killing him. The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) is called in to investigate. When Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) and Pathologist Dr. Claire Davison examine the body, they make a strange discovery: a child's hair elastic with yellow baubles has been jammed down Maxwell's throat. He's also been splattered with a strange brown substance. Senior Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) interviews the prime suspect, Andonovski, who swears he saw a minotaur-like creature commit the murder.

The team decides to go into the tunnels with Zoologist L.Q. Cooper (Peter Blais) to search for more clues. They're surreptitiously followed by Tom Johnson (Roland Rothchild), the domineering city supervisor. As Donner encounters Johnson, they both see a strange light, which suddenly rushes toward them. The entity kills Johnson with horrible screeching and sucking sounds. Donner is unharmed, but the team is worried about her close call. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope), has determined the substance on Maxwell's body is a combination of ectoplasm and blood. Axon reports that ectoplasm is a residue that's left behind after contact with the afterlife. After further analysis, Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) discovers the blood is of such a rare type that they can trace it to one woman: a drug addict named Karen Russel (Karyn Dwyer) currently serving time for heroin possession.

Security Go-ordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) accompanies Donner to visit Karen in jail, where they see she is wearing the kind of hair elastic found in Maxwell's throat. Meanwhile, Axon and Praeger go back underground, where they meet a homeless man named Jesse (Wayne Robson) who tells them an angry spirit is loose in the tunnels. He then shows them the corpse of a dead baby. As the team waits for autopsy results on the baby, Axon and Donahue pay a visit to Karen's boyfriend, Gary (Gordon Michael Woolvett). Gary breaks down and admits Karen had a son who, through their neglect, choked to death on a hair elastic. At the jail, Donner gets the same confession from Karen, who also tells Donner they left the body in a storm drain. The team bails out Karen and takes her into the tunnel, where she calls out for the spirit of her son, Andrew. The light appears, enveloping Karen, and almost kills her before it appears to be absorbed into her body. Karen is left lying on the ground, still alive, clutching a yellow-baubled hair elastic in her hand. The city lights come back on, Jesse goes back to live in his tunnel, and the team closes the case, arranging for Karen to get detoxification and grief therapy.

Episode #218: "Pentimento"
Case File #721-219
Written by Sarah Dodd
Directed by Vincenzo Natali

Nathaniel Aznar (Sean Sullivan) is a brilliant but tortured young artist. His agent, gallery owner Victor Masaryk (Peter Millard), discovered Aznar in a mental hospital and turned him into the toast of the town. Masaryk launches an exhibition, with wealthy buyers like businessman Roy Clifton (Gerry Salsberg) in attendance. But the upscale art opening turns tragic when a horrific murder takes place. The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) and Chief Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) get a call to come to the gallery where they find Clifton's body strung from the ceiling in the back room, his clothing shredded and his eyes ground into their sockets.

Clifton's body is sent to the morgue where Pathologist Dr. Claire Davison (Soo Garay) performs an autopsy. O.S.I.R. Zoologist L.Q. Cooper (Peter Blais) also examines the remains and eliminates Masaryk's Rottweiler, Goya, as a culprit in the ferocious attack on Clifton. Searching for a more human suspect, the O.S.I.R. begins to interview everyone at the party. Donner goes to Aznar's loft to interview the artist, but she's interrupted by the protective Masaryk. Meanwhile, Praeger returns to the gallery to interview Masaryk's assistant, Holly Morton (Tara Rosling), who videotaped the party on the night of the murder. Holly insists she saw something inhuman and monstrous in the gallery that night and she hands the videotape over to Praeger. Praeger also meets another woman at the gallery, the beautiful and mysterious Ava Mingan (Denise Virieux), Aznar's overseas dealer. There is an instant attraction and Praeger asks Ava for a list of Aznar's buyers, which gives him an excuse to see her again.

Back at the mobile lab, the team scans Holly's video frame by frame. They notice a strange shadow which seems to be rising out of one of Aznar' s paintings. Back at the gallery, as Holly is closing for the evening, a menacing growl rises from the shadows. Like Roy Clifton, Holly ends up on a slab at the morgue, her eyes crushed, her body slashed. Praeger confesses to Ava that he is ridden with guilt for not protecting Holly. His attraction growing stronger, Praeger shares his raw emotions with her.

Looking for a lead on suspects, Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) brings Aznar to the mobile lab. When he questions Aznar about his psychiatric problems and strange recurring dreams, the artist reveals that, as a child, he accidentally caused his brother's death when the younger boy was strangled on the rope ladder to their tree house. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) examines Aznar's paintings and discovers that Aznar has been painting disturbing, demonic figures in his own blood, then covering them over with idyllic landscape scenes.

The team grows concerned as Praeger seems to become more detached from the investigation. Donner learns that Aznar doesn't have an overseas dealer and she wonders about Ava's true identity. Donner and Axon confront Praeger, but he is defensive and angry at their interference. They discover Masaryk hanging in Aznar's loft, blinded, slashed and strung up like the other victims but, amazingly, still alive. Security Coordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) brings Aznar to the mobile lab. The artist was found cowering in the basement of his building, disoriented and covered in blood, with no apparent recollection of the attack on Masaryk. Aznar is implicated in Masaryk's death until Donner and Axon make a startling discovery: Ava's name appears in all of Aznar's paintings, but without the artist's knowledge. They speculate that Ava is a demon who preys on people at their darkest moments and may be feeding on Praeger's negativity.

Meanwhile, Praeger and Ava enjoy an intimate evening until they are interrupted by Praeger's daughter, Dana (Heather Bertram). For a split second, Dana catches a glimpse of Ava in her demonic form. She tries to warn her father but, by this time, he is already deep under Ava's spell. Dana runs to Axon and Donner for help. Axon shows Dana one of Aznar's canvasses, the central image stripped away to reveal the demonic figure underneath. Terrified, Dana confirms the images matches what she saw.

Axon hurries to help Praeger. Donner convinces Aznar to destroy his paintings in order to free himself from the demon's control. They set fire to all of his paintings in the alley behind his loft. At the house, Praeger is giving in to Ava's dark seduction, when all of a sudden she transforms into her demonic state and attacks him. He fights for his life as, in the alley, the flames lick at Aznar's paintings. As the flames leap higher, Ava melts and crumbles, disappearing in a final flash as the last of the paintings burn. Axon rushes in to find Praeger holding a strange pendant - all that is left of Praeger's demon lover.

Episode #219: "Frozen Faith"
Case File #721-219)
Written by Matt Frewer
Directed by Ron Oliver

The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) investigates a suburban home in which the living room has become an icy chamber. The team de-ices the door, and enters the room, where it discovers a teenaged boy sitting frozen in an armchair. Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) and Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) take the boy, Henry Bruna (Patrick Thomas), upstairs to submerge him in a warm bath. Downstairs in the kitchen, Chief Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) interviews Henry's grandmother and the owner of the house, Mrs. Cynthia Bruna (Helen Hughes). Cynthia is the sole guardian of Henry whose parents were killed in a car crash. Cynthia's husband (Joe Botond) died two weeks ago, but Cynthia tells Donner she's glad he's dead. She also tells Donner the temperature in the house started dropping as soon as he died. Upstairs, as Hendricks revives Henry in the warm bath, the boy begins speaking in a deep, adult voice. When he asks Hendricks to "save him", the bathroom door flies open in a frigid blast of air. Henry then grabs Hendricks and kisses him on the forehead, sending Hendricks into a trance-like state. Suddenly, the adult presence leaves, and Henry is back to a frightened teenager, shivering and crying in the bathtub. As Praeger tends to Henry, Hendricks leaves the house, stopping to tell Cynthia the boy will be fine. Then, in a gesture that horrifies Cynthia, he takes her head in his hands and kisses her on the forehead.

Outside in the mobile lab, Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) tells Praeger he thinks that a haunting is taking place at the Bruna house. Hendricks, strangely dressed in a thick winter parka, joins the conference. Praeger orders the team to conduct further interviews. Hendricks talks to Henry who can't remember anything about being in the freezing room. When Hendricks begins to speak to him in German in the familiar voice of his grandfather, the boy bolts from the room, terrified. Hendricks begins to act strangely around the rest of the team, making bizarre comments and trying to turn the investigators against each other. Then he confesses to Axon that he visited a prostitute when he was a young man, an act totally out of character for Hendricks. Praeger asks Dr. Claire Davison (Soo Garay) to examine Hendricks. She too becomes very worried about Hendricks' behaviour and warns that he is showing signs of psychosis. Shortly after the examination, Hendricks disappears.

The team searches for Hendricks, who wakes up in a homeless shelter, disoriented, his pants soaking wet. He reads in the paper that a prostitute was drowned, and fears he may have been involved. As he leaves the shelter, he meets a priest, Father Carlisle (James Mainprize), and spits in his face. He tells the priest he is not who he appears. Meanwhile, the team finds out that Bruna was being blackmailed by a man named Martin Stossel. But Hendricks find Stossel before them, and confronts the blackmailer as he swims laps in an indoor pool. Hendricks pushes Stossel's head under the water, as Stossel, terrified, sees Bruna in Hendricks' face. Stossel manages to swim away, and Hendricks leaves the building. He then enters a church, where he finds Father Carlisle. Father Carlisle gives Hendricks sanctuary and finds Praeger to tell him that Hendricks is possessed by an evil demon. He tells Praeger he needs the name of the beast in order to perform an exorcism. Praeger is skeptical and wants to pursue other reasons for Hendricks' strange behaviour.

Axon and Donner find Stossel, who tells them that Bruna was really a Nazi named Gunter Hoffner who murdered hundreds of Jews. Hoffner would pretend to baptize his victims in a river, then would drown them and let their bodies float away. Axon and Donner tell Praeger they're convinced that the evil Hoffner is possessing Hendricks. Praeger goes to Father Carlisle for help only to discover Hendricks has escaped from the church. Praeger returns to the Bruna house to find Hendricks in the frozen living room. Praeger confronts the demon in his lair, while upstairs Cynthia Bruna drowns herself in the bathtub. Praeger finally tricks the demon into revealing his name and Father Carlisle arrives to perform an exorcism. Hendricks is freed from his possession, but does the demon live on in the body of the priest?

Episode #220: "Map to the Stars"
Case File #420-202
Written by Will Dixon
Directed by John Bell

Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) flies to Halifax to bail out Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty), who has been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. Praeger takes Kelly back to his apartment where, still inebriated, he passes out. As Praeger looks around Kelly's disheveled home, he discovers a file still active on Kelly's computer. Praeger finds the file contains personal information on a Juan Mendoza, with the cryptic classification "EXPERIMENT STATUS...INITIATED". At the same time, at a nearby location, Juan Mendoza (David McNally), a chemical plant worker, is injured in an explosion. Two Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) take Mendoza away in an ambulance, supervised by Fire Marshall Stevens (Scott Wickware). But as Mendoza rides inside the ambulance, the EMTs restrain their patient and take out a strange drill, which seems to be held by the long, skinny fingers of an extraterrestrial.

Mendoza is eventually returned to the home he shares with his mother Carlotta (Ida Carnevali). Distraught, she calls in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) to investigate her son's increasingly strange behaviour. Praeger is joined on site by Senior Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich), to find Mendoza muttering to himself in the dark, bending forks into strange V shapes. Mendoza complains of intense headaches and tells the investigators the alien EMTs drilled into his brain. Now voices are telling Mendoza to "find the Second". Unable to get more information out of their subject, Donner and Praeger go to the chemical plant. They're assured by Fire Marshall Stevens and two very normal looking EMTs that the Mendoza evacuation was done by the book.

They find he has drawn strange symbols on the wall and has also ripped out one of his molars, claiming it contains an alien microchip. To the team's surprise, Mendoza is right. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) uses dental X-rays to reveal Mendoza has three additional implants in his teeth, which they discover emit an energy pulse powerful enough to shut down computers. Donner and Praeger go back to the chemical plant to talk to the rescue team, but they find all three men assassinated. They catch a glimpse of a mysterious man with a goatee (Markus Parilo), but the shadowy figure escapes.

O.S.I.R. Director of Operations Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett) steps in to warn Michael Kelly to stay away from the case, but he's soon more involved than ever. As Senator Jill Bradbury (Ferne Downey) begins to talk on live television about an alien visit, Mendoza proclaims she is "the Second". Praeger hides both Mendoza and Bradbury at Kelly's house until he can determine how much Elsinger and the military know about the case. But the two experiencers claim there is a "Third", who may be in danger. Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) brings in the psychic "remote viewer" Catherine Azzopardi (Terri Hawkes), who leads the team to a homeless man named Joe Hempworth (Andrew Alfsen).

Security Co-ordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) takes the team to Hempworth's shelter near an abandoned warehouse where they find the homeless man drawing strange symbols just like Mendoza. Then the Goateed Man suddenly appears and fires a gun to create a diversion, and Hempworth disappears. When the team gets to Kelly's apartment to check on the others, they find Kelly knocked unconscious, with no sign of "the First" or "the Second". Kelly revives, and tells the investigators that someone attacked him. The team studies the symbols left behind by all three subjects and realize the symbols spell out the date of an eclipse -- which will occur that day in the next half hour. The symbols also map out a meeting place -- the factory where Hempworth lived.

The investigators race back to the warehouse, but they find it filled with a "rave" group, gathered together to witness the eclipse. As a sea of faces turns to the sky, the team spots Mendoza, Bradbury and Hempworth standing together. In the next instant, at the exact moment the moon eclipses the sun, the three disappear in a blinding light. In the last instant, they see a grinning Goateed Man slip from the building. The team never sees their subjects again and Axon determines the star map left behind by the experiencers was from the point of view of another galaxy.

Episode #221: "The Endangered"
Case File #104-723
Directed by Will Dixon
Written by Rick Drew

Grant MacKenzie (Terry Harford) is a seasoned trail guide and big game hunter who takes city slickers on mountain hiking adventures. He's out with a party of three co-workers, when they notice one of the group has fallen behind. MacKenzie sends Scott Benson (Andrew Miller) and Megan Cole (Marcia Laskowski) ahead to the cabin, and goes looking for their colleague, Carl Simpson (Mark Cameron Fraser). Back down the trail, Simpson sits down to sneak a cigarette, when suddenly a huge beast charges out of the woods and rips him limb from limb. When MacKenzie finds Simpson's dismembered remains, he also catches a glimpse of the creature, which whets his hunter's appetite.

The local police call in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) to identify the attacker. Zoologist L.Q. Cooper (Peter Blais) is excited by the prospect that the beast may be a legendary Yeti or Sasquatch, but Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) still wants to rule out any human suspects. Senior Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) interviews Benson and Cole, but the hikers can't provide any additional clues to Simpson's murder. In the middle of the investigation, the increasingly unstable Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty) calls Praeger, insisting he fly to meet him in Halifax. Praeger doesn't want to encourage Kelly's wild theories and ranting sessions, so he puts him off, telling him he might make a trip to see him later. Senior Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) helps Cooper test his Sasquatch theories. They manage to videotape the creature as it moves through the woods. They barely stop MacKenzie from shooting the Yeti and realize the woodsman is determined to kill it for his own fame and fortune.

Meanwhile, Kelly persists in hounding Praeger for a meeting. Axon tells Praeger he feels Kelly is interfering with the case. Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) warns Praeger that Kelly appears to be suffering from a personality disorder. Meanwhile, Scott and Meg, tired of being cooped up in the cabin, decide to make a run for the city. In no time, the beast is upon them, and Scott also meets a grisly end. Axon calls in O.S.I.R. Director of Operations Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett), who warns Praeger to break off all relations with Kelly and to concentrate on the case at hand. Defending Kelly, Praeger challenges Elsinger over information he has kept "classified" and the inside knowledge he holds on certain cases. Before the two men can resolve their differences, the team discovers a terrified Meg hiding in the woods. As Praeger and Axon face off over Praeger's conduct of the investigation, Kelly shows up on site.

Using Donner as an intermediary, Kelly brokers a meeting with Praeger, which exacerbates Praeger's differences with Elsinger and Axon. In the woods, MacKenzie shoots the Yeti with a tranquilizer gun and locks the beast in a shed. Axon and Cooper discover MacKenzie with his quarry and try to convince him to turn the Yeti over for scientific study. But the creature breaks out of the shed, kills MacKenzie, and threatens Axon and Cooper. As if understanding they mean no harm, the beast leaves the investigators alone and disappears into the woods. Meanwhile, Donner and Praeger are scheduled to rendezvous with Kelly on an old logging road. Before they get to their meeting point, they hear a gunshot. They find Kelly dead in the woods, a bullet in his temple.

Praeger closes the case on the Yeti, the three deaths unresolved. He then flies, with Donner, to Halifax, where they search Kelly's apartment. They find a CD ROM hidden inside a picture frame, addressed to "Matt". Praeger vows to find his friend's killer and to get to the bottom of Elsinger's lies.

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.