"The 13th Floor"

Episode 117 - Part 1
(aired the week of 4/12/1997)
Case # 95-7176

Log line: A possessed woman takes a horrible vengeance on her philandering husband.

Synopsis: Mrs. Olivia Vega is the quintessential gorgeous, glamourous resident of Manhattan - but, apparently, residing within her is something unknown and evil. For some inexplicable reason, when trapped with Ken Todd, the lusting elevator operator in her highrise, she is possessed by a strange force and - eyes glowing red and letting loose an inhuman roar - leaves him badly wounded. Her rampage continues: In their penthouse apartment, after yet another angry verbal battle with her violent, philandering power-player husband John, Olivia morphs again into the powerful monster. Without even touching him, she sends John flying across the room and leaves him lying in a bloody heap.

Called in by the N.Y.P.D. - after two of their own case investigators are nearly killed - the O.S.I.R. sets up heat and motion sensors and cameras to observe her. After initial study, Anton Hendrick finds no reason for demonic possession, yet believes Olivia might be controlling the power psychokinetically, instead of vice versa. Despite the danger, Case Manager Connor Doyle and investigator Lindsay Donner set out to carefully confront Olivia and rescue John. Immediately, Olivia greets them with superhuman bolts of energy, resonating animal noises and arctic wind. Only when Doyle shoots her with a tranquilizer gun can he, Donner and a seriously-wounded John Vega escape to safety.

As Olivia mounts threats to blow up her apartment building if her cheating husband isn't returned to her rooftop lair (and certain death), the O.S.I.R. pursues assorted leads...credible and otherwise. After John offers to speak to his wife, the O.S.I.R. gives him an innovative opportunity: they rig up a camera, patch into the building's cable system and feed John's image and words into Olivia's television.

At first, Olivia is entranced by his sudden appearance and kind words. But, suddenly, she blasts his on-screen image. The huge bolt of energy she unleashes races toward those at the other end of the cable hook-up - John and the O.S.I.R. - and threatens to backfire in a explosively deadly way.

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

Guest Stars:
Olivia Vega - Leah Pinsent
Ken Todd - Greg Spottiswood

Written by: Jean Hurtubise
Directed by: Clay Borris

"The Believer"

Episode 117 - Part 2
Case # 28-4145

Log line: A kidnapper transmits his extortion demands psychically.

Synopsis: In the midst of a scientific presentation, Nobel Prize-winning physics professor Leon Schraft is overcome by a mental flash of his beloved wife, Helen, screaming and fighting off an assailant. Leon, too, screams painfully, then his hand uncontrollably scrawls a peculiar symbol and the words "I will kill her" - all in a foreign signature - across the presentation board. Helen is gone. Her office is a mess. And, despite Leon's vision, the police and F.B.I. believe she has either taken off following a fight with her husband, or he killed her. As it joins the case, the O.S.I.R. has an unexpected connection to it: Peter Axon is Leon's former student.

With the O.S.I.R., Leon secretly shares the experience of his self-admitted "flash," his mysterious scrawlings and his belief that she was abducted. Axon readily believes him...although his colleagues have doubts about what the professor is - and isn't - telling them. As he's watched in his sleep by O.S.I.R. monitors, Leon has another violent vision and, trancelike, writes more indecipherable messages in a handwriting not his own. While Axon believes Leon's actions point to latent remote viewing ability - seeing beyond the five known senses - Case Manager Connor Doyle suspects instead it is psychic mind control. But, if the latter, who is pulling Leon's cerebral strings? Seeking a connection between Leon and this psychic phenomenon, the O.S.I.R. finds a videotape of a TV appearance where the professor badly embarrassed lunatic-fringe psychic power advocate Earl Cornell, who was espousing a plot about assimilating mankind through mind control. Then, seen in an instant, is Cornell's ring... bearing the same odd symbol drawn by Leon.

Promising news about his wife surfaces when a letter in Helen's handwriting, but in Cornell's language, is delivered to Leon. The professor faces a deadly dilemma: either go on television and endorse Cornell's crackpot theory, destroying his own professional credibility, or have his wife - locked up by the maniac in an anonymous building - be killed.

Old loyalties and long-simmering mistrust threaten to split the O.S.I.R. team as it desperately hunts for more clues that will lead them to Helen. But under hypnosis, Leon brings forth seemingly-disjointed details; Axon convinces his colleagues that the physicist, deeply attached to his spouse, is offering them clues about her location. Using Leon's mental landmarks as directions, Doyle and investigator Lindsay Donner set out to find the hiding place of Helen Schraft. If it exists. And if she still does as well.

Starring:
Peter Axon - Barclay Hope
Lindsay Donner - Nancy Anne Sakovich
Connor Doyle - Paul Miller
Frank Elsinger - Nigel Bennett

Guest Stars:
Professor Schraft - Daniel Kash
Helen Schraft - Wanda Cannon
Earl Cornell - Julian Richings

Written by: Damian Kindler
Directed by: Craig Pryce