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These stories are inspired by the actual case files

of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research.

So how did you talk Myers into swapping shifts?

I told him you and me wanted some hot sex.

You did not!

I lent him some comic books. He's such a moron.

What the hell was that?

You see anything?

No.

It's probably just lightning.

No, it sounded more like artillery.

There's something out there.

If we miss it,

colonel McCloud will skin us alive.

One-two, this is One-Two Charlie. Come in. Over.

Turn on the channel.

One-two, this is One-Two Charlie. Come in. Over.

Nothing.

Better have a look.

Wait here.

No, we should stick together.

That's an order, Private Smythe.

Del ?

No !

No !

Del ?

Reports of unidentified flying objects number in the tens of thousands.

This is one of my favorite areas of supernormal research.

Many UFO sightings are difficult to substantiate.

Others are far more convincing.

In case file 267-210, the OSIR had the opportunity for an actual close encounter.

Case managers log.

We're responding to a formal request from the Park Service

to investigate the sightings of bright objects

over the Saints Trail Conservation Area.

Prager out.

Hey, you need some help with that?

No.

Then I'd have to admit we're lost.

This way.

How'd it go this morning?

The park ranger swears that the whole sky lit up and then went dark again.

There were no weather systems in the area.

Check and see if there were any meteor showers.

Rumor has it that someone was abducted by a UFO last night.

Some of those happen to a friend of a friend of my cousin kind of things.

Ah, yes, the classic urban myth.

And when the myth becomes fact, print the myth.

The man who shot Liberty Valance.

Hey.

It's kind of been here long.

I'm picking up readings.

Slight electromagnetic discharge.

This way.

Ashes from a campfire?

No, it's too white and too pure.

What's this?

Dog tags.

Caster, Delanor M.

Serial number 676455655.

This resin is strange.

It's definitely not sap.

Look at this.

Military issue.

You see that?

Anton, you read me?

Matt...

Just a second. Hendricks?

Just lay the weapon down nice and calmly.

We have a problem here.

Welcome to the club.

Sir, we don't need civilians involved in this operation.

Maybe not.

Your point is noted, Captain.

Stand at ease, Private.

You know, those will stunt your growth.

My wife says they'll kill me.

Genuine Cuban.

Or perhaps I can offer you a cup of coffee.

Thanks so much for the hospitality,

but you mind telling me what's going on with your little scout jamboree here?

You are trespassing on military property.

At ease, Captain.

Actually, the Park Service authorized special forces

to use this area for military exercises.

Your people are just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

You didn't need to hold us at gunpoint to tell us that.

You didn't even ask us who we were.

Captain Hastings.

Prager.

Matthew.

38 years old, mechanical engineer.

Worked on Interpol anti-terrorist efforts.

Currently a case manager for the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research.

You brought seven of your colleagues with you,

three of them foreign nationals.

Those darn foreigners, they get everywhere.

You have a history of depression and three ex-wives.

Well, you're thorough.

You want to go for double jeopardy?

And you're Colonel Andrew MacLeod,

commanding officer of this dog and pony show.

You most recently served in Somalia and Bosnia,

and now you need my help.

And you know all that?

CNN.

And the fact you're bothering to talk with me.

Come with me.

Corporal Castor was on sentry duty last night

when he reported missing.

My search parties turned out nothing except for you.

What do you want, Colonel?

I wouldn't know Corporal Castor to spit out him.

He was one of my men, and I want him back safe and sound.

I want to use your lab.

It would take me four generals and a month of Sundays

to requisition resources like that.

I'm betting you have equipment.

Maybe a thermographic scanner we can use.

Colonel, there's a good chance your missing man

is tied to the resin we found on those trees.

Now, please, just let me do my job.

There's no time to hone your ghost busting skills.

On this detail, you report to me.

I don't work that way.

Here you do.

I need to bring in my chemist.

Captain Hastings is a chem PhD out of McMaster.

You'll find he has the right stuff.

Find my corporal.

And if I can't?

Then I want to know exactly who or what took him down.

Like I told the captain, I saw nothing, ma'am.

Kristen...

I prefer to be dressed as Private Smythe, ma'am.

Fair enough, Private Smythe.

I know that as a woman in the armed forces,

you are held to a higher personal standard than any of the men around you.

So I would understand if you omitted something about that night

that could be misconstrued or reflect unfairly on your record.

You and Corporal Castor...

You're... involved?

Yes, ma'am.

Do you think he's okay?

We're still looking for him, Kristen.

If there is something out there, help us to understand what we're dealing with.

There was something there.

Office of Scientific Investigation and Research.

Hello?

Hello?

Can I help you?

Hello?

Frank Elsinger, please.

Thank you.

When I was in South Africa, I saw more burned bodies than I care to recall, but...

They're always bone fragments, bits and pieces, never...

Never total disintegration.

What's this ash composed of?

Carbon, nitrogen, protein, salt.

Building blocks for a human being.

Just add water.

Normally, if a body is burned, the DNA is impossible to recover from the ash.

But these remains are different.

We got a perfect DNA match from a sample taken from Corporal Castro's hairbrush.

Guess we should notify the friend of a friend of his cousin.

Look at this.

Gold dental crown. Found there, too.

Gold should have melted first. It did survive the attack.

As did all the other metal he was wearing.

Dog tags, zipper, even his pocket knife.

This is impossible.

We run into that a lot. You'll get accustomed to it.

Speak for yourself.

And there was a meteor shower.

But no impact craters. No fires.

All we have is very angry maple syrup.

There doesn't seem to be any damage to the trees.

Anything you care to add here, Captain?

I wish I could.

Have you analyzed this resin yet?

We'll be retrieving a sample shortly.

I'll join you.

It's wonderful.

It's hallucinations, seizures, migraines, Mr. Elsinger.

It is not wonderful.

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

This photograph came over the wire from my case manager in the field.

What you've drawn here is a perfect match.

The team is there now at the very nexus of what you're seeing.

Nearly 1,000 miles away.

A man with a rifle.

Something happened there?

Catherine, come and join us at the site.

Isn't this why you called me?

To let me know what was happening here?

My remote viewing has always required intense concentration,

both to send and to receive.

But these images, they have just invaded my mind.

The only way to refine your gift, Catherine, is to use it.

Come with me.

How can I be sure that things will be different this time?

You have my word.

Stay here. No one enters this area until I give the all-clear. Is that understood?

Yes, sir.

We can separate the organic elements back at the lab.

We'll be able to isolate the chemical compounds.

Have you swept this area for radiation?

All clear.

A great comfort to those of us in our childbearing years.

Okay.

Look at that.

Yeah, I see it.

Oh, come on. The sky flickered. There was something up there.

I saw nothing.

What? You must have seen something.

Sorry.

So, Captain, I have to ask.

Are you guys testing anything around here?

Yeah, some kind of new stealth technology?

If we were, it would be classified.

MacLeod, do you copy?

MacLeod?

Excuse me, I have to check with the old man.

Yeah, thanks so much for the help.

Any other suggestions?

How about plotting an EM field?

Worth a shot. Can you rig it?

Of course.

That's what I like about you, Axon.

You're always so resourceful.

Excuse me, I've got some work to do.

I take it this isn't a social call.

Katherine Azzopardi.

I don't know, Frank.

Katherine Azzopardi's not a trained operative.

She's a professor of romance languages.

Something against romance?

The book on racine is her quadri.

The science supporting remote viewers is dodgy at best.

The ability to mentally discern shapes and images from afar...

Even across country.

It's never been absolutely proven.

The military spent millions trying to develop remote viewers for warfare.

They gave up.

It was simple disinformation.

Frank...

I've read her file.

She had a total meltdown a few years back.

She's fine now.

Ask her yourself.

You brought her with you?

Gentle.

I don't bite.

Mr. Elsinger didn't tell me this was gonna be a military mission.

We're not working with them, Miss Azzopardi, we're working around them.

Matt Prager.

Call me Katherine.

You're quite a talent.

I do those on the plane coming here.

What did you first think you were a remote viewer?

Always.

Only I thought it was a game. I thought everyone could do it.

You just close your eyes and you see a whole new world.

Shapes, faces, simple things.

Like a black taxi cab driving down a cobblestone road.

Except, where I grew up, the cabs weren't black.

And they drove on the right-hand side, not the left.

I'm pretty sure I've seen cabs do that.

So why did you retire from remote viewing?

The Gulf War.

Generals called me in.

I said they thought I could help save lives,

prevent collateral damage, is what they called it.

Do you see a bridge, Katherine? Is there a building beside that bridge?

What's in the building? Just take a look and sketch it out for us.

And then they'd send the smart bombs in. So smart.

They knew exactly who to kill.

And when the bombs came down, I was still there.

I could feel the people cry out, I could feel the death.

Yes. Yes, I know.

Do you? Do you really?

I couldn't shut off my gift, so I had to shut myself down.

I had a little nervous breakdown.

And you feel you've recovered?

Well, I thought that part of my life was over, until I started receiving these images.

Men screaming, these trees.

The trees moving, or at least something on the trees that seemed to move.

Something shiny and slippery like skin.

How did you...

Miss Azzopardi, we don't know what we're dealing with here.

Neither do I, Mr. Prager.

But whatever this is, I feel it reaching out to me.

I can help you if you let me.

Event site is off limits.

Kristin, I'm sorry about Del...

Ma'am, sir, new orders from Captain Hastings were to keep all personnel to the periphery.

Yeah, well we can't do our jobs from the periphery.

Sir, please, step out of the way !

It's okay.

- Can we do some testing around here ? - So long as you stay out of the woods.

Okay.

It's okay, it's all right come on.

Thanks a lot.

Let's just say that what we saw in the sky was an aircraft

using some kind of new stealth technology.

Why would the military be keeping us around?

Maybe they want to see if we can detect it.

Yeah, be part of the test.

Right.

I'll tell you one thing.

We will be able to detect it if we can set up the perimeter grid for the EM field.

We just got to get closer to the event site.

Come on.

Come on.

Well, she comes with a risk.

I'm not sure she can define the line between reality and fantasy.

Who can?

Ready, Katherine?

As ready as I'll ever be.

Okay, let's see if he can remote view into Anton's locker.

You sure about that, huh?

I've nothing to hide.

Okay.

I see a black bag, and in the bag are some white circles.

More like tablets.

And there's a magazine.

No, it's a...

A book of some sort, or a journal, maybe.

I'll go get my bag.

And there's a tube,

a stick of some kind,

a toothpaste and a toothbrush.

The bag's gone.

Where'd you ever learn how to slip through security like that?

Breaking out of private girls' school.

Oh, see, there's the problem.

I was always breaking in.

OK, worm.

One down, one to go.

Let's go over this way.

How's everything in here?

Katherine's astounding, you know, I'm sure.

She's doing just fine.

Yeah, Katherine, what I really want to know is what's inside Frank's filing cabinet?

OK.

No, that won't be necessary.

Katherine, what's happening?

Noise.

- Katherine ? - Static.

What do we do ?

It's too loud.

I want !

I want !

Want ? What do you want?

I want !

What do you want?

What do you want?

Well, if there are any stealth aircraft out there, we'll know about them.

Okay, it's armed.

Did you hear that?

Come on.

Don't touch the fence.

Careful. Careful.

You still got your camera?

Yeah.

It's all right.

I got it.

Easy now. Easy.

Hey!

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't like it when your people shoot up my people!

Your people were in an unauthorized area. They've been warned.

They were doing their job!

Are you prepared to tell me what's going on behind the razor wire?

Certain things have to remain on a need-to-know basis.

Exactly. I need to know.

It's classified.

You kept saying it was too loud. What was too loud?

The noise. It was static.

Electrical interference, like a bad signal.

It may be that whatever you're in tune with

is out of sync with the natural electric impulses of the brain.

That might explain the migraines you've been having.

Maybe.

I could try giving you something to block the pain.

No. That could interfere with communication.

Communication with what?

Thank you.

During your seizure, you said you wanted something.

No, not me. It was the entity I connected with.

The entity?

Yes. It was alien.

This it?

Looks like a man-of-war.

A jellyfish.

I don't know.

Matt, Captain Hastings is on his way over to do the final chemical analysis on the resin.

Oh, swell. Okay, better prep the lab.

Okay.

I guess we'll try again tomorrow.

Thank you for believing in me.

Yeah, well, we'll see how things go.

Oh, while you were out mind-surfing,

you didn't happen to get a peek behind that fence they have out there, did you?

No, I didn't. I that why you brought me here?

Let's be clear. I never asked for your involvement.

Excuse me.

Matt, we need to talk.

You may not believe her, but she's risking a total mental collapse to help us.

She deserves a little more respect than that.

- Hey. - Hey.

What?

What the hell are we dealing with here?

Excellent.

We've extracted any impurities.

This is a concentrated form of the corrosive.

We'll only need a few cc's to start with.

So what happens now?

We determine the chemical compounds, see what we're dealing with.

Once we know that, there should be a way to neutralize its effects.

Gaseous compounds. Hydrogen, sulfur dioxide. It's got a...

Captain !

Had to have your own toys, didn't you?

What are you talking about?

What the hell was he doing, Colonel?

Taking a free sample?

We are only here conducting standard maneuvers and war games.

Tell that to Hastings.

Let me tell you this, Prager.

I would never in peacetime put one of my men and women in harm's way.

Can you two say the same?

Maybe it's best if I liaise with MacLeod.

You just concentrate on your team.

Matt, Anton thinks there's a way to shield Ms. Azzopardi

from the electrical interference of her... um...

... communication, I guess you'd call it.

He's concerned for her safety, and so am I.

Do we risk putting her through it again?

Is all this with people dying?

That's your call.

And all the transponders are in place.

I've adjusted them so they'll create an electric magnetic field

in the immediate area.

So, say this entity releases electromagnetic radiation.

Is that what Azzopardi picks up as a signal?

Her communications seem to be associated with EM events, yeah.

So the electromagnetic field will create a bridge to that signal.

That's the theory.

Of course, it hasn't been tried since 1943.

Yeah.

1943...

So, what are you gonna do?

In the morning?

Wire her up, if she's game.

I'll be there.

Someone with your gift shouldn't need to eavesdrop.

My ears were burning.

So what happened in 1943?

The military's first attempt at stealth technology.

In Philadelphia Harbor,

they rigged the USS Eldridge to surround it in a highly charged EM field.

The theory was that EM radiation would interfere with radar

and the ship would disappear.

The scientists in navy brass stood by as the switch was thrown and...

... the Eldridge disappeared from the radar screens.

Brilliant success.

Only one tiny glitch.

The servicemen on board were incinerated.

So you think

all this is for some big secret test.

I'm hoping you can tell us that.

Alright.

I'll try.

What do you see?

It's a can.

No. No.

Oh no !

Oh my God !

Katherine, don't touch it!

Napalm !

Colonel, you cannot napalm this area.

Why didn't you just nuke the place before Hastings dropped the ball?

Until then, I wasn't sure what we were dealing with.

And now you are?

Please enlighten us and we can all go home.

I'm not authorized to do that.

Well, you're authorized to torch a forest?

To let Hastings die?

Hastings wasn't operating under my orders.

And who was he working for?

He was placed under my command on a need-to-know basis.

They never told me squat.

I tried to check him out, but when it came to Hastings,

the word classified kept popping up like it was his middle name.

So you honestly don't know what was going on in that compound?

No, Mr. Prager, I do not.

There's got to be a better answer to this than napalm.

I'll give your people one hour to complete their operation and pull up stakes.

What are we waiting for?

- There you go. - Thanks.

Hang on, Katherine.

The EM dishes are up and running. We're ready to generate the field.

Good work.

We're recording.

You know, we're not really even sure if we're going to improve our link.

Let's find out, shall we?

You got it.

Katherine, I want you to pull back if you need to.

I understand.

Okay, we're a go.

This is as much Yam Force as we can safely maintain.

According to my contact at Defense,

the late Captain Hastings was in charge of a covert operation called Red Tide,

developing chemical weapons.

Did MacLeod know?

I suspect that he's using this situation as an excuse to destroy the experiments.

So this entire exercise could be nothing more than just another military cover-up.

Vitals are rising. Her heart rate's nearly doubled.

EM levels are peaking.

***?

No, it could be a reaction to EM field.

Peter?

One needs to reconnect, must unite with the nine!

What is this?

Are you getting this too?

Yeah, what's going on here?

It could be some variation on photography.

She's projecting an image from her mind onto the screen.

But is it a message that she's receiving?

Or her thoughts that she's generating?

There's no way to be sure.

We recording this?

Yeah, the tape's still rolling.

All right.

Hang on for a buy us some more time.

Okay.

Incomplete!

**** vision !

Coordinate with Lieutenant Cooper. On the double, soldier!

On the move!

Get your people out of the blast zone!

Look, at least hold off till we can get Azzopardi out of there.

What are you talking about? The area's been sealed!

It's hard to explain, but if you detonate now, you could endanger her.

She's...

She's projecting her mind into the area.

Have her...

Withdraw her mind.

Colonel, I know about Red Tide.

I know why you're torching the area.

Now, let's work together to find another way.

What's Red Tide?

Katherine, where are you now? What do you see?

Must reconnect with the nine!

The nine? What is she talking about?

The flames did pass!

Get off the road!

You think the brass won't know the real reason you torched this place?

Every army has an endless supply of Haistings,

and it'll go on and on until good men like you stand up and refuse to play along!

Scrub the blast.

He's receiving fuel from the tall trees!

The trees? What is she talking about, the trees?

The one last journey must rejoin the nine!

It must be part of a bigger group.

Or what matters, she's projecting her own thoughts.

The one where we connect to the nine!

I talked them down. We're clear for...

Is this for real?

The one is fueled! It's starting! The nine!

It's lifting! It's lifting! It's lifting!

They're leaving.

They're taking her with them.

Katherine, come on, pull out of it! Katherine! Pull out of it, Katherine, come on!

Katherine!

We're losing her.

All right, put this chair back. We'll do CPR.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. She's stabilizing.

It was on a mission.

It was separated from the rest of the group by the meteor shower.

And they used the trees to repair itself somehow.

That's what caused the resin.

You're back with us now, you're alright.

I think so.

Did you know that a man of war is part of a colony?

Several different organisms that work together.

You mean like your entity?

It was part of a colony.

The deaths were accidental.

They were a by-product of the entity trying to repair itself.

You really believe that, don't you?

You saw it yourself, Matt.

What I saw was a remarkable phenomenon created by a gifted woman.

Unfortunately, our tapes are all blank.

It could be from the electromagnetism we created or...

Maybe there was nothing there to record.

I'd like to believe, Katherine, I really would.

But you don't.

What about the trees, the resin?

Well, MacLeod thinks it was related to Hastings black ops.

I know what I saw and what I felt.

Drop me an email sometime, just to keep in touch, hm?

As long as you promise to answer.

Try me.

Ciao !

Frank, what about my report?

I've been speaking with the military.

There'll be an announcement that a meteor crashed in the conservation area.

With the resulting fire, there were a few minor casualties.

Really?

And this was all meaningless?

Oh, I don't think so, Matthew.

I look forward to reviewing your report.

Just one thing.

I'm not sure how to phrase this in my report.

You remember how you told us about Operation Red Tide?

Yeah.

After the experiment with Azzopardi began.

Yes. What about it?

You couldn't have used your cell phone.

The EM field would have scrambled the signal.

You knew what Hastings was up to from the beginning, didn't you?

Really, Matthew...

Why would I keep a thing like that from you?

Could prove dangerous.

Humankind's natural curiosity

inspires us to reach for increased understanding of the multiverse we inhabit.

Maybe beings from other worlds possess the same spirit of exploration.

As in this case,

the answers may lie in the development of new communication methods,

which could open windows to worlds beyond.

For Psi Factor, I'm Dan Aykroyd.

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