Dark Skies

Original title : The Awakening (1/2)
First Aired : 21.09.1996 (USA) 17.10.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Tobe Hooper
Writing credits : Bryce Zable & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Robin Gammell (Dr. Carl Hertzog), Lee Garlington (Betty Hill), Paul Gleason (Nelson Rockafeller), Francis Guinan (Mark Simonson), John M. Jackson (Congressman Charles Pratt), G. D. Spradlin (Elliot Grantham), Scott Allan Campbell (Campbell Popejoy), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Basil Wallace (Barney Hill), Don Moss (Hubert Humphrey), Marilyn Rockafellow (Mrs. Lincoln), Al Sapienza (Francis Gary Powers)

The Story : In 1961, young lovers discover an alien influence over humanity. Arriving in Washington D.C. on the heels of the election of President John F. Kennedy, Kimberly Sayers finds work at the White House as boyfriend John Loengard plunges into his job as an aide to Congressman Charles Pratt. Sent to look into the Air force's investigation of UFO sightings, John meets a couple who claim to have been abducted by aliens. And back in Washington, he's accosted by the mysterious Navy Captain Frank Bach, whose history with UFO's dates back to when spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was downed over the Soviet Union while pursuing an alien spacecraft...

Original title : The Awakening (2/2)
First Aired : 21.09.1996 (USA) 17.10.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Tobe Hooper
Writing credits : Bryce Zable & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Robin Gammell (Dr. Carl Hertzog), Lee Garlington (Betty Hill), Paul Gleason (Nelson Rockafeller), Francis Guinan (Mark Simonson), John M. Jackson (Congressman Charles Pratt), G. D. Spradlin (Elliot Grantham), Scott Allan Campbell (Campbell Popejoy), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Basil Wallace (Barney Hill), Don Moss (Hubert Humphrey), Marilyn Rockafellow (Mrs. Lincoln), Al Sapienza (Francis Gary Powers)

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Original title : Moving targets
First Aired : 28.09.1996 (USA) 24.10.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Thomas J. Wright
Writing credits : Bryce Zable & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Richard Fancy (James V. Forrestal), Richard Gilliland (Jesse Marcel), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), James F. Kelly (Bobby Kennedy), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Hansford Rowe (Harry Truman), Leon Russom (Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter), Mary Kay Adams (Alicia Bainbridge), Terry Bozeman (Goodwin), Jack Lindine (Jack Ruby), Brad Blaisdell (Base Commander), Stephen James Carver (Clark Balfour), William Frankfather (Local Cop), Brent Huff (Clint Hill), Locky Lambert (Jackie Kennedy), Ashley Smock (Corporal), Andrew Walker (Ground Control Worker)

The Story : Loengard and Kimberly meet an eyewitness to the first alien encounter in Roswell, N.M. Following the Kennedy assassination, Bach heads for Dallas to recover the artifact Loengard used to prove the alien invasion to the President. However, when he's sent by Robert Kennedy to get it too, John meets Jesse Marcel, a government official who was in New Mexico when President Truman learned firsthand of the invasion, and who claims that an alien craft long suspected to have crashed there was really shot down.

Original title : Mercury Rising
First Aired : 19.10.1996 (USA) 31.10.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Tucker Gates
Writing credits : James D. Parriott
Cast : Tim Kelleher (James Steele), John Mese (Ty Yount), Natalija Nogulich (Dr. Helen Gould), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Peter Van Norden (Henry Kissinger), Pat Crawford Brown (Clarice Brown), Glenn Morshower (Mission Commander), Steven Barr (Patrolman), Don Clark (TV Anchor), Darryl Rocky Davis (Gate Guard), Henry Harris (Fisherman), Todd Jeffries (Gary Augatreux), George Lugg (Bartender), Grant Mathis (Cloaker)

The Story : The couple heads to Cape Kennedy where they discover an alien plot to sabotage the next manned space launch. A dream is drawing Sayers to Florida. And though Bach isn't far behind, Loengard reluctantly agrees to help find the astronaut she's seeing. As Majestic prepares a space probe to locate the alien base, Kim and John arrive in Cape Canaveral where she spots Ty Yount, an astronaut who she thinks was with her on the alien ship. And while Yount admits he's been dreaming about her too, he's hustled away by crew mate Gary Augatreux - but not before slipping Kim a note requesting that they meet. Meanwhile, having survived his seemingly fatal encounter with the Loengard family in California, Majestic cloaker-turned alien Jim Steele continues his pursuit of John and Kim.

Original title : Dark Day's Night
First Aired : 26.10.1996 (USA) 07.11.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Matthew Penn
Writing credits : Brent V. Friedman & Brad Markowitz From a Story by Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Kathleen Garrett (Donna Hargreave), Stanley Kamel (Ron Burnside), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Gina Phillips (Marnie Lane), Joseph Carberry (Cabbie), Earl Carroll (Doorman), Carey Eidel (Brian Epstein), John H. Freeland, Jr. (Usher), Jerome Patrick Hoban (Ed Sullivan), Sandra Ellis Lafferty (Mrs. Weatherly), James Lancaster (Kenneth Parkinson), Karen Maurise (Neighbor), Dominic Oliver (Technician), Chris Weal (Michael Hagerty)

The Story : Loengard and Kimberly discover the aliens plan to exploit the Beatles appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show.". Tracing alien radio transmissions received in New York City, Loengard and Sayers suspect the Hive is planning an operation around the American debut of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. At the studio where preparations are underway, they find nothing suspicious. However, after learning the radio operator they're tracking died recently in a mysterious traffic accident, they find a second phone number for another suspect operator. Meanwhile, Bach stumbles onto evidence that the Hive has been rejecting some abductees.

Original title : Dreamland
First Aired : 02.11.1996 (USA) 14.11.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Winrich Kolbe
Writing credits : Steve Aspis
Cast : Joey Aresco (Jack Gettings), Jack Conley (Rawlings), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Tyler Layton (Susan Swenson), Madison Mason (Howard Hughes), Louan Gideon (Tammy), Andrew Hawkes (George Dover), Scott Jaeck (Cochran), Gary Carter (Cashier), Paul Terrell Clayton (Lieutenant), Mark McPherson (Doorman)

The Story : Billionaire recluse Howard Hughes joins Loengard and Kimberly's investigation of an underground base near Las Vegas; the aliens gather in the desert. With $500 in poker chips they found on Steele, Loengard and Sayers head for Las Vegas. As John makes his way to the gaming tables, Kim lands a job and meets Susan Swenson, a cocktail waitress who already knows more than she wants to about a scheme to use casino winnings to finance a Hive operation. Meanwhile, as John zeroes in on some big winners he suspects are using telepathy beat the odds, he and Kim are brought in to meet with the eccentric casino owner, Howard Hughes.

Original title : Inhuman Nature
First Aired : 09.11.1996 (USA) 21.11.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Rodman Flender
Writing credits : Melissa Rosenberg
Cast : John Dennis Johnston (Kester Boehm), James F. Kelly (Bobby Kennedy), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Deborah May (Mrs. Elwood), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Maury Sterling (Mark Waring), Ronald William Lawrence (Kaufman), Zach Hopkins (Oldest Boehm Son), Jeff Juday (Activist), Suzanne Anderson Kennedy (Marian Boehm), Seth Murray (Youngest Boehm Son), Vanessa Munday (Jennifer Bach), Nancy Stevens (Mrs. Bach), Lauren Zabel (Boehm Daughter)

The Story : Loengard and Kimberly recruit a veterinary student to help investigate a series of Midwest cattle mutilations bearing alien markings. Following some sightings in Wisconsin, Loengard and Sayers question dairy farmer Kester Boehm about the strange lights he's been seeing and the unusual deaths of some of his herd. Finding one of his cows implanted with a trio of triangular nodules, they head to the University of Wisconsin to see Mark Waring, a veterinary school graduate student familiar with Boehm's problem. Though already warned by Majestic against discussing the case, Waring is persuaded to talk and reveals that the implants found in Boehm's cow were not unique.

Original title : Ancient Future
First Aired : 16.11.1996 (USA) 28.11.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Lou Antonio
Writing credits : Gay Walsh
Cast : Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Eric Steinberg (Reverend Gary Barrow), Sam Vlahos (Tug Barrow), Steven Ford (Phillips), Dana Gladstone (Ernst Mittermeyer), Joseph Whipp (General Thompson), Robert Arce (Hiver), Don Clark (Anchorman), Dan Erickson (Mission Control), Roger Hewlett (Safe Suit Man), Dale Ishimoto (Tlingit Chief), Matt Roe (Traveler)

The Story : The couple is in Alaska when an earthquake creates a fissure revealing a ghostly alien ship. Following up on some mysterious magnetic disturbances, Loengard and Sayers head North to Chiliwack, Alaska. There, Reverend Gary Barrow, a local minister, introduces them to his uncle, Tug Barrow. Told of an old Tlingit Indian legend about a star that fell from the sky 2,000 years ago, John and Kim suspect the tribe had contact with the Hive long ago and may even be guarding a ship that crashed near their village in 100BC. But, while investigating the sacred Tlingit site, John and Kim are caught in the massive Alaskan earthquake of 1964.

Original title : Hostile Convergence
First Aired : 07.12.1996 (USA) 05.12.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Perry Lang
Writing credits : Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Cast : Robert Carradine (Lonnie Zamora), Diane Cary (Cassie), Jamie Denton (Rob Winter), Stephanie Faracy (Joan Sayers), Richard Gilliland (Jesse Marcel), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Jack Lindine (Jack Ruby), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Lisa Waltz (Andrea Sayers), Sam Whipple (J. Allen Hynek), Conrad Bachmann (Mayor Holm Bursum), David Brisbin (Joe Edermeyer), Terrence Evans (Clark Balfour), Mike Kennedy (Allen Dulles), Wendy Robie (Kate Balfour)

The Story : Loengard finds the government trying to rebuild an alien craft at Area 51; the Hive tracks Kimberly to her sister's wedding; Bach questions Jack Ruby. In "Hostile Convergence," Loengard's wife Kim decides that she cannot miss her sister's wedding in Denver and sneaks away from John while he meets with one of the few people who know his terrible secret. The man that Kim's sister is planning to marry is Rob Winter (JAMIE DENTON), but he isn't what he appears to be ... he's a Majestic agent. During the course of his assignment, Rob really does fall in love with Kim's sister and in the end, kills the people sent to harm Kim and her family instead of doing the job that he was sent to do.

Original title : We Shall Overcome
First Aired : 14.12.1996 (USA) 12.12.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Oscar Costo
Writing credits : Bryce Zabel et Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Roger Aaron Brown (Langston Poole), Tracy Fraim (Andrew Mendel), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Dean Norris (Clayton Lewis), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Raphael Sbarge (Mark Simonson), Wayne Tippit (J. Edgar Hoover), Lorraine Toussaint (Etta Mae Tillman), Mike Kennedy (Allen Dulles), Kim Robillard (Allen Dalton Rogers), Art Bell (William Paley), Arell Blanton (General Nathan Twining), Edward Edwards (Agent Foote), Terence Mathews (Lance Taylor), Sean A. Moran (Lionel Tilman), Don Moss (Humbert Humphrey)

The Story : The Hive cultivates pods for human implantation by exploiting the racial strife over the murders of civil-rights workers in Mississippi. Following a message from his congressional colleague Mark Simonson, John and Kim are drawn to Meridian, Mississippi, where the struggle for voting rights is clouded by the disappearance of three civil rights workers. As Kim senses the Hive's presence in the town, news that Loengard is in Mississippi prompts Bach to act. Then, after being contacted by Etta Mae Tillman, John and Kim are led to where Simonson is hiding after escaping the deadly fate of his three missing civil rights co-workers.

Original title : The Last Wave
First Aired : 04.01.1997 (USA) 19.12.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Steve Beers
Writing credits : Melissa Rosenberg
Cast : Brent David Fraser (Jim Morrison), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Brittany Powell (Gina Abbott), Christopher Wiehl (Nat Heller), Mark Bramhall (Mr. Whitman), Daniel Markel (Robert Dewey), Carl Ciarfalio (Supervisor), Kristoffer Ryan Winters (Surfer)

The Story : Loengard and Sayers discover an alien plan to destroy the ocean food chain, and befriend Jim Morrison. Following the suspicious suicide of college classmate Robert Dewey, John and Kim arrive in Los Angeles to see their old friends Nat Heller and Gina Abbott. Learning that Dewey's corpse was mysteriously confiscated by someone claiming to be with the coroner's office, Kim heads to the funeral home to investigate. Upon discovering a cameraman lurking in the bushes, she meets film student Jim Morrison, who has documented the removal of Dewey's body. And though John is suspicious, Kim befriends Morrison to find out just what he knows.

Original title : The Enemy Within
First Aired : 11.01.1997 (USA) 26.12.1997 (FRANCE)
Director : Jim Charleston
Writing credits : Brad Markowitz From a Story by Bryce Zabel & Kim V. Friedman
Cast : Dorie Barton (Lucy Loengard), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Kent McCord (Dick Loengard), Joan McMurtrey (Jo Loengard), Sean O'Bryan (Ray Loengard), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Terry Bozeman (Goodwin), Tim Choate (Dr. Jeff Gale), Mike Kennedy (Allen Dulles), Ed Beechner (Deputy), Annie O'Donnell (Waitress), Don Pugsley (Earl Jarvis)

The Story : Loengard lands in a mental hospital when he discovers his brother has been implanted with an alien ganglion. Following the deaths of both President Kennedy and his assassin, Bach realizes that the alien hive has planted a spy inside Majestic - and all the evidence points to his trusted aide, Jim Steele. However, Steele escapes into the Majestic complex after a failed attempt to eject the alien ganglion from his body. Meanwhile, Loengard and Sayers return to John's childhood home in California, where an uneasy reception from John's older brother Ray revives long-standing tensions between them.

Original title : The Warren Omission
First Aired : 18.01.1997 (USA) 02.01.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : Perry Lang
Writing credits : Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), Jay Acovone (Max Kincaid), James F. Kelly (Bobby Kennedy), Gary Lockwood (Earl Warren), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Drew Snyder (Gerald Ford), Arthur Taxier (George Barrett), Wayne Tippit (J. Edgar Hoover), Susan Griffiths (Marilyn Monroe), Mike Kennedy (Allen Dulles), Gunther Jensen (Captain Norman Schwartzkopf), Jack Ritschel (Clyde Tolson)

The Story : Robert Kennedy convinces Loengard to testify before the Warren Commission; Bach puts the squeeze on J. Edgar Hoover to discredit Loengard. With the Warren Commission looking into the assassination of his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asks John to testify. Despite Bach's warning, Kennedy paves the way with his own testimony before Loengard describes the events that led him into Majestic. And while John has a long way to go before convincing a skeptical Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and his fellow commission members of his story, Bach decides to thoroughly discredit him anyway.

Original title : White Rabbit
First Aired : 01.02.1997 (USA) 09.01.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : James Contner
Writing credits : Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), Art Chudabala (Tay Ma), Brian Cousins (Lev Stolnatchky), Jennifer Hetrick (Mrs. Bach), Tom O’Brien (Corporal Kellogg), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Arell Blanton (General Nathan Twining), Ray Chang (VC Soldier #2), Bradford English (General Brown), Pavel D Lynchnikoff (Josef), Ingo Neuhaus (Hodgson), Phong Vo (VC Soldier #1), Thomas A. Woolen (Radio Operator)

The Story : Viet Cong capture Bach and Loengard when they go to South Vietnam to retrieve a downed alien ship before the Russians can find it. When Soviet operatives fire on a Hive ship over the Gulf of Tonkin, Bach claims that US naval vessels were their target and starts the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. After air strikes down a Hive ship, Bach kidnaps Loengard for a reconnaissance mission. Yet, when military officials express reservations about having Majestic's Juliet Stuart co-ordinating with Russians also tracking the Hive, Bach joins Loengard for the trip himself. Teamed with Vietnamese guide Tay Ma, Loengard comes across a crazed American soldier as he finds a Gray's severed head. And when John finds that the crash site has been visited by the Viet Cong, Bach orders him to destroy it while requesting an air strike that could kill them all.

Original title : Shades of grey
First Aired : 08.02.1997 (USA) 16.01.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : Perry Lang
Writing credits : Brad Markowitz
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), David Carpenter (Dale Gresham), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Conor o'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Jamie René Smith (Monica Gresham), Grant Mathis (Pyne), Liza Smith (Svetlana)

The Story : Bach's plan to trap an alien spacecraft reveals the Hive's plot to brainwash Earth's children. Despite tensions between Loengard and Albano, Bach is determined to get a glyph decoder held by Juliet. Realizing that it's just the weapon that could help with a takeover of Majestic, Juliet agrees to let Bach use it to attract an alien ship. As Loengard, Sayers and Juliet work to replicate the crop circles suspected to denote landing sites, the young daughter of a widowed farmer slips into where they are working. And upon taking her home, John and Kim can only hope Monica Gresham hasn't seen too much. Then, as their ruse succeeds in attracting a ship, an attempt to capture it and the crew goes awry. So Bach gives John and Kim time to find a wounded Gray on their own. Seeking refuge at her father's farm, the alien enlists Monica's help by promising her a chance to see her dead mother. Sensing that the Gray is nearby, Kim and John set up surveillance. Finding Monica looking for another critical artifact left behind by the ship, they follow her home to where the Gray is hiding. And though Monica is told to kill them, she's stopped by Juliet. After convincing Monica that it's not her friend, John, Kim and Juliet bring the alien to Majestic. And once its ganglion is removed, Kim begins getting telepathic messages telling her that Monica is in danger of being taken by the Hive.

Original title : Burn, Baby, Burn
First Aired : 01.03.1997 (USA) 23.01.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : Steve Posey
Writing credits : James D. Parriott
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Duane Davis (G.T. Briggs), Keith Diamond (George Lewis), Paul Lieber (Dr. Mark Merrick), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Vaughn Armstrong (Lee Minkus), Troy Winbush (Quentin), Dean Denton (Cop), Stephen Quadros (Lab Worker), Vince Ricotta (Simon Rodia), Marquette Frye (Garland Whitt)

The Story : A man helps Loengard search for pregnant Kimberly amid the Watts riots, after aliens abduct her in Los Angeles. When Kim feels strangely compelled to have her baby in California, Bach sends her to a doctor working with pregnant mothers who were at one time abducted by the Hive. As Kim arrives on the West Coast where she will be observed along with expectant mother Ruby Thomas, race riots have broken in Watts. Then, as Loengard befriends fellow father-to-be George Thomas, the Gray being kept under observation at Majestic emerges from its coma as Kim and her unborn son are kidnapped in L.A. by the Hive. And using one of Majestic's alien artifacts to communicate with Gray, Albano learns that it feels betrayed by Kim.

Original title : Both Sides Now
First Aired : 08.03.1997 (USA) 30.01.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : James Contner
Writing credits : Melissa Rosenberg
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Jeff Juday (Ben Kendall), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Timothy Omundsen (Jerry Rubin), Don Stark (Michael Gallagher), Bradford English (General Brown), Brett Wagner (Hive Inductee)

The Story : Anti-war demonstrations led by Jerry Rubin sweep up Loengard and Juliet on a mission in Berkeley, Calif., to shut down a Hive operation. As Steele works on Sayers to willingly accept returning to the Hive, Loengard seeks anyone he believes can lead him to his wife. So, when Bach Juliet to Berkeley where the Hive is infiltrating the growing antiwar movement, John insists that he go along, to, unaware that he's being used to locate Kim. Although John spots her, he is unable to stop Kim from Joining Steele on a trip to visit her son. And as John and Juliet question antiwar activist Jerry Rubin about here whereabouts, back in Washington Bach sees that the Vietnam War can be used to increase funding for Majestic.

Original title : To Prey in Darkness
First Aired : 15.03.1997 (USA) 06.02.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : Thomas J. Wright
Writing credits : Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), Robin Gammell (Dr Carl Hertzog), Spencer Garrett (Ed Hawkins), James Karen (Harry Carruthers), Jack Lindine (Jack Ruby), Marilyn McIntyre (Dorothy Kilgallen), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Mitchell Ryan (William Paley), Ryan Cutrona (NYPD Detective), Alan Gelfant (Beat Poet), Barry Grayson (Technician), Fred Saxon (Reporter)

The Story : The search for the Roswell alien-encounter film leads Loengard and Juliet to crusading columnist Dorothy Kilgallen and a TV news network. When film of Truman's meeting with the aliens is stolen, Bach sends Loengard to see Carl Hertzog, a retired Majestic doctor. After denying any knowledge of its whereabouts, Hertzog is hanged to death in what appears to be suicide. Then, as Albano discovers the film in the hands of TV personality Dorothy Kilgallen, Kim learns that her child is destined for greatness with the Hive. Once Loengard and Juliet track her down to New York, Kilgallen asks reporter Ed Hawkins to air the film if anything should happen to her. And when Kilgallen refuses to heed Loengard's warnings, Albano's surveillance of her apartment spots Steele trying to recover the film. But before anyone can get there, she is killed. Meanwhile, as Kim infiltrates CBS as an assistant to their network news anchorman, Albano turns to network president and Majestic board member William Paley for help.

Original title : Strangers in the night
First Aired : 24.05.1997 (USA) 13.02.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Levine
Writing credits : Brad Markowitz
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), Simon Billig (Radio Operator), Wolfgang Bodison (Major Powell), Charley Lang (Dr. Charlie Halligan), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Beata Pozniak (Ludmilla), John Saint Ryan (Colonel Dmitri Mironov), Joseph Urla (Dr. Carl Sagan), Silas Weir Mitchell (Kuleshov), Kirk B. Woller (Pavel), Grant Mathis (Pyne), Wiley Pickett (Lead MP)

The Story : In 1966, Loengard and Juliet join Maj. Colin Powell to survey the remains of the Russian counterpart of Majestic 12 in Chernobyl; Carl Sagan joins Majestic team. Following a disturbing message from the Soviet Union's counterpart to Majestic, Bach assembles a team that includes Loengard, Juliet and Army Major Colin Powell to investigate. While the team discovers most of Aura-Z's personnel are dead, they find a pair of researchers who survived. As Ludmilla and Pavel tell of experiments with prisoners that backfired and of the convicts who are now holding the head of Aura-Z and Juliet's mentor, Colonel Dmitri Mironov, back in the US, Bach enlists astronomer Carl Sagan in an effort to find the Hive's home planet.

Original title : Bloodlines
First Aired : 31.05.1997 (USA) 20.02.1998 (FRANCE)
Director : Perry Lang
Writing credits : Bryce Zabel & Brent V. Friedman
Cast : Jeri Lynn Ryan (Juliet Stuart), Tim Kelleher (James Steele), James F. Kelly (Bobby Kennedy), Mike Kennedy (Allen Dulles), Ernie Lively (Dr. Cliff Rasmussen), Don Most (Dr. Timothy Leary), Conor O'Farrell (Captain Phil Albano), Christopher Thomas (William Paley), Joseph Urla (Dr. Carl Sagan), Bryan Clark (Ronald Reagan), Lindsey Lee Ginter (Sergeant Barry Linson), Don Moss (Hubert Humphrey), Sydney Anderson (Nancy Reagan), Arell Blanton (General Nathan Twining), Erin MacArthur (Subject), Jonathan Zabel (Loengard's Son)

The Story : In 1967 Loengard and Juliet pose as hippies in San Francisco where Timothy Leary helps stage Loengard's abduction by the hive. Alerted to a planet size object transmitting a message to Earth, Bach orders Dr Carl Sagan to decode it while he keeps the news from Majestic's directors. And though he's kept in the dark, Albano agrees to ask the captured Gray to shed some light on its contents. Meanwhile, Loengard and Juliet use Dr Timothy Leary to find the San Francisco lab where the Hive has been producing a hallucinogen under the direction of Steele and Kim. And when Kim tosses the drug into John's face, it causes him to see their son aboard a Hive ship.