"The Undead"
Episode 113 - Part 1
(aired the week of 2/1/1997)
Case # 76-3139
Log line: A homeless man revives during his autopsy and escapes.
Synopsis: In a rundown urban back alley, teenagers Darren and Melissa,
who live on the street, discover a dead body - resembling a homeless man they
knew who had died two weeks earlier. In the middle of Coroner Sally Torrance's
autopsy, however, the John Doe somehow comes back to life and vanishes.
With only a photograph of the escaped corpse and the street kids' word to follow, O.S.I.R. investigators start their search for the missing (and presumed dead) man at a local mission with Darren and Melissa. While the O.S.I.R.'s Dr. Anton Hendricks gains no useful information from mission proprietor Aubrey Le Selles, the psychiatrist notices that Le Selles' sister Adelina has placed voodoo items around the rundown facility. As Hendricks considers their meaning, a zombie-like stranger wanders into the mission's kitchen. Darren and Melissa are horrified as they identify him as the missing corpse and dead street person. The undernourished stranger, however, suffers from amnesia and is unable to help sort out the mystery.
After matching soil found at the autopsy to that on the stranger's clothing, the O.S.I.R. takes him to a local cemetery in an attempt to trigger his memory. Suddenly, the zombie takes off running, only to stop at a grave for Cary Edwin Hicks, who had died in 1996. The O.S.I.R. exhumes the coffin and finds it empty; more startlingly, it appears to have been dug out from inside.
The O.S.I.R. uses autopsy records and photos to identify the zombie as Cary Hicks...but cannot understand how this man apparently repeatedly died and came back to life. Hendricks sets out to determine whether zombification is part of the puzzle - and whether the voodoo ornaments around the dead man's mission home are more than decoration.
Starring:
Connor Doyle - Paul Miller
Dr. Anton Hendricks - Colin Fox
Lindsay Donner - Nancy Anne Sakovich
Guest Stars:
Cary Edwin Hicks - Sten Eirik
Written by: Will Dixon
Directed by: Clay Borris
"Stalker Moon"
Episode 113 - Part 2
Case # 56-9135
Log line: A cult film actress is being stalked again by her violent, obsessive longtime fan. But this time, it might be from the grave.
Synopsis: Jackie Kinley, star of a cult film who's attempting a comeback, is terrified to find she is being stalked by Corben Dean, a crazed fan supposedly serving a five-year prison sentence for attempting to murder her. Dean mysteriously vanishes - only to later appear in the middle of a road in front of Kinley's speeding car. Yet rather than striking and killing Dean, Kinley passes through him.
Investigating this freak occurrence, the O.S.I.R. learns that Dean's pathological passion for Kinley had been obsessive and violent. He'd watched her cult classic endlessly and stolen props from it. Ultimately, his obsession with Kinley earned him five years in prison for aggravated assault and attempted murder. But Case Manager Connor Doyle also discovers that Dean was released from prison early after suffering a heart attack and assumed to be dead. Doyle and the Agent Lindsay Donner track Dean's last known address and, at the trailer park, find a new resident: R.K. Kelly. Thinking they've reached an impasse in their investigation, the O.S.I.R. gets a break when they uncover a collection of memorabilia from Kinley's old movie in the trailer and that the resident knows where Kinley is now filming.
The O.S.I.R. reach a troubling contradiction. The weakened Dean might impossibly still be alive and actively relaunching his pursuit. Or Kinley is receiving a telepathic signal and, in turn, is casting it into Dean's apparition - allowing her obsessive fan to pursue her from the grave.
Starring:
Connor Doyle - Paul Miller
Dr. Anton Hendricks - Colin Fox
Lindsay Donner - Nancy Anne Sakovich
Guest Stars:
Jackie Kinley - Kristin Lehman
Corben Dean - John Ralston
Written by: Alex Pugsley
Directed by: Clay Borris