"The Transient"

Episode 108 - Part 1
(aired the week of 11/16/1996)
Case # 96-4131

Log line: When a series of strange, frightening and ultimately deadly incidents suggest that a dybbuk - an ancient demon- is invading the souls of innocent people, the O.S.I.R. sets out to stop it and save its next victim.

Synopsis: The O.S.I.R. is called in after a bizarre incident: an average woman, Rita Naimand, suddenly terrorizes fellow congregants at her synagogue. Joining Rabbi Reuben Rothstein, the team discovers Rita in a strange state of semi-consciousness. Members of the congregation recount Ritaªs superhuman strength when they tried to restrain her during the Episode. One witness, Carl Lowenbaum, insists that she has been possessed by a dybbuk, an ancient religious demon with the ability to transfer from one host body to another. The only cure: a ritual exorcism by the Rabbi.

After the O.S.I.R.'s scientific testing proves inconclusive, Case Manager Professor Connor Doyle permits the Rabbi to perform the ancient ritual. During it, Rita writhes, shakes, screams and emits a flare of light from her eye that explodes into a blinding flash. When the smoke clears, Rita is dead and Rabbi Rothstein has disappeared.

Searching for the Rabbi with bio-statistical monitors, the O.S.I.R. ultimately finds him dead in the middle of a street. Witnesses claim he was struck by a taxi whose driver, Antonio Valenzuela, fled the scene frantically on foot. Learning that the driver has a young daughter - the ideal host for a dybbuk - the investigators set out on a desperate hunt to locate the father and child before the demon does.

Starring:
Connor Doyle - Paul Miller
Peter Axon - Barclay Hope
Natasha Constantine - Lisa LaCroix
Dr. Anton Hendricks - Colin Fox

Guest Stars:
Rita Naimand - Dee ee Langford
Rabbi Rothstein - Peter Dvorsky
Carl Lowenbaum - Jack Duffy
Antonio Valenzuela - Tony Cordiero

Written by: Damian Kindler
Directed by: Giles Walker

"Two Lost Old Men"

Episode 108 - Part 2
Case # 86-126

Log line: The O.S.I.R. faces a strange case: two elderly men claim to actually be in their 20s...but also to have inexplicably aged 50 years after passing through a barren "dead zone" in a local forest.

Synopsis: The O.S.I.R. faces a strange case: two elderly men, Doug Kilmartin and Barry Strother, who claim to actually be in their 20s...but also to have suddenly, inexplicably aged 50 years after passing through a barren "dead zone" in a local forest.

Under the direction of Case Manager Professor Connor Doyle, O.S.I.R. tests run on the forest locale turn up no traces of hazardous materials, toxic gases or unusual geomagnetic or geothermal activity. Yet the agents see that a bird flying into the space instantaneously ages and converts into a skeleton within seconds.

Research proves that both Kilmartin and Strother are, in fact, 21-year-old tree planters. While they were somehow able to escape the mysterious region, a friend and co-worker wasn't as lucky: her badly-decomposed body is discovered there. A series of O.S.I.R. studies prove that she died of old age.

Then, suddenly, one of the two men dies. With no idea how long his remaining subject will live, Doyle sets out on a last-ditch effort to find answers to the phenomenon and save the lone, fading survivor.

Starring:
Connor Doyle - Paul Miller
Peter Axon - Barclay Hope
Lindsay Donner - Nancy Anne Sakovich
Dr. Anton Hendricks - Colin Fox

Guest Stars:
Kilmartin - Matthew Ferguson
Strother - Joel Keller

Written by: Ian Weir
Directed by: Giles Walker