"UFO Duplication"

Episode 109 - Part 1
(aired the week of 11/23/1996)
Case # 62-3119

Log line: When extraterrestrials clone all the inhabitants of a remote farm - from hamsters to people- the O.S.I.R. fights to save a little boy - or is it his alien-generated double?

Synopsis: A farmer, Joan Hill, who lives in a remote area of the Midwest, is seeing double: She believes that extraterrestrials have cloned her fish, her hamster, her dog and, now, even her young son, Kyle.

When the O.S.I.R. arrives, they find two youngsters who, tests prove, share everything: DNA, appearance, blood, voiceprints, fingerprints, memories and points of view. Under hypnosis, Hill and the twin Kyles claim that aliens are responsible for whatªs happened to them.

The situation turns from peculiar to frightening when one of the goldfish dies. Then, so does one of the hamsters. When autopsies reveal that these deaths were caused by immune system failure, the O.S.I.R. and Hill question Kyleªs risky future. Through physiological test data, O.S.I.R. psychobiologist Lindsay Donner discovers that one of each pair of boys and dogs lacks the vital T-cells needed to fight viral infections. The deaths of one boy and one dog is inevitable...but will it be the original or the clone?

The situation becomes urgent when the dog lacking the T-cells becomes ill with tuberculosis. Doyle makes a crucial decision: The immune-deficient child must undergo a bone marrow transplant - and, only then, the O.S.I.R. will try to determine whether the patient is actually Kyle or an alien creation.

Starring:
Connor Doyle - Paul Miller
Lindsay Donner - Nancy Anne Sakovich
Dr. Anton Hendricks - Colin Fox
Lennox "L.Q." Cooper - Peter Blais

Guest Stars:
Joan - Paula Barrett
Kyle - Gil Filar

Written by: Robert C. Cooper
Directed by: Marc Voizard

"Clara's Friend"

Episode 109 - Part 2
Case # 84-7117

Log line: A reclusive girl is drawn out by an unusual playmate: the ghostly apparition of a young woman, which might have escaped from within someone still alive.

Synopsis: Learning that a reclusive young girl is supposedly communicating with a ghostly apparition, the O.S.I.R. steps in to investigate.

Case Manager Dr. Curtis Rollins learns that Belinda Preston apparently met Bobbie, her daughter Claraªs friend, but didnªt realize the "girl" was an apparition. While the ghostly being has significantly improved Claraªs previously solitary ways, the Prestons want the strange phenomenon stopped.

As they inspect the house, the O.S.I.R. agents encounter Bobbie...but she never registers on their scientific equipment. They do, however, get a clearer sense of the ghost from Clara; as the child reveals one of their secret conversations, the dialogue she recounts suggests that Bobbie is a spirit from the first half of the 20th century. This evidence takes on new meaning when psychobiologist Lindsay Donner interviews a woman whose grandmother, Barbara Winston, previously owned the Preston home. Barbara - known as Bobbie - had entered a coma the same time that Claraªs friend of the same name had first appeared.

Loose ends come together when, viewing an old home movie of the elderly woman, the O.S.I.R. concludes that Claraªs playmate and the old womanªs spirit are the same. Faced with a unique challenge, the investigators launch a dangerous experiment to try, via Clara, to lure Bobbieªs spirit back to the body from which it left...with no idea how it will affect the comatose woman.

Starring:
Curtis Rollins - Maurice Dean Wint
Lindsay Donner - Nancy Anne Sakovich
Dr. Anton Hendricks - Colin Fox

Guest Stars:
Belinda Preston - Catherine Colvey
Clara Preston - Kristin Fairlite
Bobbie - Lucia Graca
Barbara Winston - Jessica Booker

Written by: Will Dixon
Directed by: Marc Voizard