"Second Sight"

Episode 119 - Part 1
(aired the week of 4/26/1997)
Case # 29-5143

Log line: A kidney-transplant recipient has frightening visions.

Synopsis: Andrea Best, 24, is experiencing more than depression after a recent kidney transplant. She sees a total stranger yet believes she knows him...has a vivid psychic flash of an unfamiliar woman in a torn dress...then thinks she envisions an octagonal symbol burning into a brick wall before her. As O.S.I.R. investigator Lindsay Donner questions Andrea, the young woman has another psychic experience: seeing another person's reflection in the mirror and the burning image on a wall. This time, an amazed Donner witnesses it, too.

Andrea's doctor believes her patient, who has clairvoyance in her family, is actually experiencing someone else's thoughts. While the O.S.I.R. explores the possibility that drugs required for the transplant recovery are causing the hallucinations, investigators Connor Doyle and Dr. Anton Hendricks interview Andrea's cousin and donor, Leslie Norvell; they discover he had previously received a double cornea transplant that restored his vision, which sparked his willingness to help his relative. While Leslie has had no problems following his transplant, the O.S.I.R. does find a bizarre connection: Leaving the young man's home, they spot the most recent result of his renewed hobby - featuring the same octagonal symbol, an image that simply came to him while at the canvas.

Digging into whether memory can be passed through transplanted organs, the O.S.I.R. begins to uncover a strange chain of relationships and interconnected incidents, reaching back to the donor of the corneas who saved Leslie's sight. As Andrea follows these leads, almost all the mysterious fragments that have haunted her - the woman in red, the male stranger, the unfamiliar house - suddenly get answered. Satisfied that Andrea's visions are ended, the O.S.I.R. closes its file. But the case continues...taking a strange, deadly twist that intertwines Andrea and her sole link to the very first donor into a tangled web of deceit.

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

Guest Stars:
Andrea Best - Robin Brule
Hazen McKay - Frank Pellegrino
Leslie Norvell - Andrew Sebaston

Written by: Sherman Snukal
Directed by: Milan Cheylov

"Chocolate Soldier"

Episode 119 - Part 2
Case # 73-4138

Log line: A cult leader has power over women.

Synopsis: When Shawn and Carolyn Starling attempt to wrest control of their beautiful, 20-year-old runaway daughter Jill away from the charismatic Bruce Farrell, they have no luck. Even more frightening, Carolyn herself picks up odd sensual sensations from cult leader and, inexplicably, is drawn into a passionate kiss with the man before her husband pulls her away.

The Starlings explain the strange circumstances to the O.S.I.R.: When their daughter first met Farrell, she was totally uninterested in him; yet, days later, she disappears with him and forwards a request for $3000. Initial research determines Jill is, in fact, part of a classic pseudo-religious cult - the only difference is that Farrell is strangely able to draw in women with just a few minutes' eye contact. While investigator Connor Doyle establishes secret surveillance of the cult's remote farm retreat, the O.S.I.R.'s Lindsay Donner - wired for biostat monitor analysis - stages a "chance meeting" with Farrell. Despite her training, Donner falls for the stranger's hypnotic powers - like Carolyn Starling, she forcefully kisses him and nearly is lured back to his compound before the O.S.I.R'.s Dr. Davison intervenes. Being debriefed, Donner remembers nothing...except for Farrell's powerful control over her.

While Doyle continues his surveillance, the Starlings and two deprogrammers unexpectedly appear at the retreat and kidnap Jill...while nearly losing Carolyn again to Farrell's mind control. As soon as they take her, Jill convulses and lapses into a coma. Then, as another follower falls into an identical coma upon being forced out of the compound, the O.S.I.R. dig into Farrell's past, uncovering an unusual incident that apparently changed his personality 180o - yet whether his newfound power is physical, paranormal or psychological cannot be determined.

Unbeknownst to the O.S.I.R., Farrell is at work on a dangerous plan to bring his message to the masses - and cause mass destruction in its wake. As he nears completion of his deadly project, Donner - on her own - appears at the madman's door. Is the investigator there with a plan to end his powers? Or has she, too, subconsciously been drawn into the cult?

Starring:
Connor Doyle - Paul Miller
Dr. Claire Linda Davison - Soo Garay
Lindsay Donner - Nancy Anne Sakovich
Dr. Anton Hendricks - Colin Fox

Guest Stars:
Shawn Starling - Bruce McFee
Carolyn Starling - Mimi Kuzyk
Jill Starling - A.J. Cooke
Bruce Farrell - James Gallanders

Written by: Will Dixon
Directed by: Milan Cheylov