MAIN GALLERIES Episode 220 "Map To The Stars"

Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer) flies to Halifax to bail out Michael Kelly (Michael Moriarty), who has been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. Praeger takes Kelly back to his apartment where, still inebriated, he passes out. As Praeger looks around Kelly's disheveled home, he discovers a file still active on Kelly's computer. Praeger finds the file contains personal information on a Juan Mendoza, with the cryptic classification "EXPERIMENT STATUS...INITIATED". At the same time, at a nearby location, Juan Mendoza (David McNally), a chemical plant worker, is injured in an explosion. Two Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) take Mendoza away in an ambulance, supervised by Fire Marshall Stevens (Scott Wickware). But as Mendoza rides inside the ambulance, the EMTs restrain their patient and take out a strange drill, which seems to be held by the long, skinny fingers of an extraterrestrial.

Mendoza is eventually returned to the home he shares with his mother Carlotta (Ida Carnevali). Distraught, she calls in the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research (O.S.I.R.) to investigate her son's increasingly strange behaviour. Praeger is joined on site by Senior Data Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich), to find Mendoza muttering to himself in the dark, bending forks into strange V shapes. Mendoza complains of intense headaches and tells the investigators the alien EMTs drilled into his brain. Now voices are telling Mendoza to "find the Second". Unable to get more information out of their subject, Donner and Praeger go to the chemical plant. They're assured by Fire Marshall Stevens and two very normal looking EMTs that the Mendoza evacuation was done by the book.

They find he has drawn strange symbols on the wall and has also ripped out one of his molars, claiming it contains an alien microchip. To the team's surprise, Mendoza is right. Chief Science Analyst Peter Axon (Barclay Hope) uses dental X-rays to reveal Mendoza has three additional implants in his teeth, which they discover emit an energy pulse powerful enough to shut down computers. Donner and Praeger go back to the chemical plant to talk to the rescue team, but they find all three men assassinated. They catch a glimpse of a mysterious man with a goatee (Markus Parilo), but the shadowy figure escapes.

O.S.I.R. Director of Operations Frank Elsinger (Nigel Bennett) steps in to warn Michael Kelly to stay away from the case, but he's soon more involved than ever. As Senator Jill Bradbury (Ferne Downey) begins to talk on live television about an alien visit, Mendoza proclaims she is "the Second". Praeger hides both Mendoza and Bradbury at Kelly's house until he can determine how much Elsinger and the military know about the case. But the two experiencers claim there is a "Third", who may be in danger. Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox) brings in the psychic "remote viewer" Catherine Azzopardi (Terri Hawkes), who leads the team to a homeless man named Joe Hempworth (Andrew Alfsen).

Security Co-ordinator Ray Donahue (Peter MacNeill) takes the team to Hempworth's shelter near an abandoned warehouse where they find the homeless man drawing strange symbols just like Mendoza. Then the Goateed Man suddenly appears and fires a gun to create a diversion, and Hempworth disappears. When the team gets to Kelly's apartment to check on the others, they find Kelly knocked unconscious, with no sign of "the First" or "the Second". Kelly revives, and tells the investigators that someone attacked him. The team studies the symbols left behind by all three subjects and realize the symbols spell out the date of an eclipse -- which will occur that day in the next half hour. The symbols also map out a meeting place -- the factory where Hempworth lived.

The investigators race back to the warehouse, but they find it filled with a "rave" group, gathered together to witness the eclipse. As a sea of faces turns to the sky, the team spots Mendoza, Bradbury and Hempworth standing together. In the next instant, at the exact moment the moon eclipses the sun, the three disappear in a blinding light. In the last instant, they see a grinning Goateed Man slip from the building. The team never sees their subjects again and Axon determines the star map left behind by the experiencers was from the point of view of another galaxy.

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