"Forever And A Day, Part 1"

Episode 321
(aired the week of 5/10/1999)
Case # 29-8321

Log line: While investigating the case of a psychic healer, the team becomes embroiled in a trail of deception and murder which leads to the upper echelons of the O.S.I.R.

Synopsis: Psychic healer Nicholai Mosher and his wife, Katrina , have just successfully restored the sight of a blind woman when they are interrupted by a group of men who identify themselves as OSIR agents and take Nicholai into custody. Nicholai is taken to the OSIR central lab, where Elsinger has enlisted the aid of Hendricks to test the man's healing powers. Michael Byrne, a terminally ill 12-year-old boy, is brought into the lab and Nicholai is asked to heal him. Not only is he unsuccessful, but the boy dies during the experiment.

The next day, Praeger confronts Elsinger, furious that the boy had been involved in the experiment instead of being in the hospital. Frustrated by Elsinger's apparent lack of concern, Praeger decides to have his team investigate, and find out why Elsinger is suddenly so interested in psychic healing. Donner meets with Hendricks and asks who else attended the experiment. Hendricks says Elsinger had observed from a separate, darkened room with a couple of other men, but he couldn't see their faces. Donner then accesses the central lab's computerized security system, to find that Grant Tessler, the head of Tessler Industries, was on the list of visitors the night of the experiment. She also watches surveillance footage and sees the man who brought Nicholai to the lab is a military friend of Elsinger's. While Donner and her colleagues have encountered the man while working on other cases involving Elsinger, they do not know his identity.

Praeger and Donahue take a photo of the mysterious man to the Moshers, who identify him as the man who had taken Nicholai into custody, falsely identifying himself as an OSIR investigator. Thinking he is about to be charged with fraud given the boy's death during the experiment in which he took part, Nicholai strikes Praeger and flees. Praeger and Donohue give chase, only to find Nicholai dead on the street just seconds later. He had been stabbed.

Axon attains a copy of an OSIR surveillance videotape that was shot while the Moshers were curing the blind woman. He enhances the tape with infrared imaging, which shows that there was no aura of energy extending from Nicholai to the woman. Instead, it emanated from Katrina. She is the real healer. Katrina decides to use the powers that help her heal in a very different way - to avenge Nicholai's death. She targets the observers who watched the experiment in the lab. The day after the military man dies in what appears to be a case of spontaneous combustion, Grant Tessler is killed in his office by an apparent windstorm. Katrina's next victim is Tessler Industries president Dr. Kristine Amrose, who inexplicably drowns while in a sealed room in which there isn't so much as a glass of water. It becomes apparent to the team that Katrina is using each of the four elements - earth, wind, fire and water - to avenge her husband. Praeger and Donohue take her into custody.

Donner receives a mysterious phone call requesting a late-night meeting in an alley to discuss the case. She attends the rendezvous and finds herself staring at her former OSIR colleague, Michael Kelly. He tells her she and the team screwed up, and they should have let Katrina finish her work.

Starring:
Matt Frewer - Case Manager Matt Praeger
Barclay Hope - Peter Axon
Nancy Anne Sakovich - Lindsay Donner
Colin Fox - Dr. Anton Hendricks
Dan Aykroyd - Host

Guest Stars:
Victor Young - Nicholai Mosher
Tamsin Kelsey - Katrina Mosher
Alex House - Michael Byrne
Janet Kidder - Dr. Kristine Amrose
Michael Moriarty - Michael Kelly
Marcus Parilo - Man

Written by: James Nadler
Directed by: Ron Oliver