Pilot: "The
Awakening" - Shadow007's Review
Meet John Loengard (Eric Close) and his girlfriend, Kimberly Sayers (Megan Ward). John is a young congressional aide in the early 1960's and Kimberly works for the office of the First Lady, Jackie Kennedy. While John was on a budgetary fact finding mission he uncovers the existence of a secret black-operations organization called Majestic-12. Captain Frank Bach (J.T. Walsh), Majestic-12's leader learns of John's investigations and is disturbed, so he orders some of his team to ruff him up in an attempt to discourage him from continuing his investigation. John, however, does not heed Captain Bach's advice.
Eventually, John learns enough to be recruited by Bach into Majestic-12, and John reluctantly agrees to join, however John quickly becomes disillusioned with Bach and MJ-12 because of their desire to hide the truth from the public. John and Kimberly steel a key piece of off-worldly aircraft and deliver it to President Kennedy in the hopes that he will work with them to uncover the truth.
Now branded by MJ-12 as traitors, Loengard and Sayers go into hiding.
EPISODE RATING: 4 Out of 5 Stars
"Moving
Targets" - Shadow007's Review
Following the Kennedy assassination, John and Kim continue their search for the truth. They meet an eyewitness to the Roswell, NM events that gives them an eye-opening view of what happened in 1947 that changed the course of human events forever.
John and Kim head back to Washington for JFK's funeral, and they discover an even bolder and more sinister plot by the Hive to destroy all world governments.
Meanwhile, Loengard warns Captain Bach about a turncoat within Majestic-12's ranks, while Bach, who was present during the eye-popping events in Roswell, offers his account concerning the extraterrestrial's demand for total surrender that day.
EPISODE RATING: 4 out of 5 Stars
"Mercury
Rising" - Shadow's Review
John and Kim are still on the run and uncovering more and more of the alien plot to subvert mankind's exploration of space. Kim recalls her abduction and implantation and is strangely drawn to Florida.
John reluctantly goes along with Kim's desire to travel to the newly renamed Cape Kennedy, and the couple meet astronaut Ty Yount who also was abducted at the same time as Kimberly in 1962. Under hypnosis, Kim remembers that Yount was not implanted because he's one of the people that for some unknown reason cannot be implanted, but his co-pilot was.
John and Kim decide to stop the next planned launch and uncover the plot, and by doing this they risk their own lives, but they are successful. The co-pilot is removed, and the Hive's plan is foiled. The launch goes on, and pictures of a Hive base on the moon are sent back.
Captain Bach sensors this information in the interest of national security, and he allows John and Kim to leave because of their help.
EPISODE RATING: 3 Out of 5 Stars
"Dark
Day's Night" - Shadow007's Review
The Beatles are coming to America, and the Hive has an evil plan to use this event to cause mass suicide. As John and Kim have found out, some humans aren't suitable for implantation for some, as yet, unknown reason. While these people were aboard the alien ships they were hypnotized and given a post-hypnotic suggestion that, when activated, will cause them to go into a trance of sorts and kill themselves. Captain Bach and Loengard team up temporarily on this venture to stop the Hive from broadcasting the glyph during the Beatles set on the Ed Sullivan Show, and they are successful.
The show goes on, and the Beatles become the sensation that we've all come to love. Loengard and Kim leave New York and search for their next adventure.
EPISODE RATING: 3 out of 5 Stars
"Dreamland" - Shadow007's Review
In the Spring of 1964, John and Kim
arrive in Las Vegas to change their luck, however billionaire recluse Howard
Hughes (guest star Madison Mason) believes that they are somehow involved
with a communist plot to disrupt his casino. John and Kim convince Mr.
Hughes that they are not involved, and Mr. Hughes recruits Kimberly to
help him because of her unusual ability to detect the Hive's thought transmissions.
John and Kim allow Mr. Hughes to continue to believe that the disrupters are indeed communists, because the truth is too unreal. John and Kim discover an excavated cavern that has been camouflaged to hide it from outsiders.
This is where the Hive have been massing for the purpose of constructing new Hive motherships. John and Kimberly succeed in destroying the base, which is then confiscated by Majestic and eventually becomes that now infamous Area 51.
EPISODE RATING: 4 out of 5 Stars
"InHuman
Nature"- Shadow007's Review
John and Kim investigate a series of cattle mutilations in the Midwest bearing bizarre alien markings. These markings resemble the glyph pattern found in the crop circle from the pilot episode.
John and Kim recruit a veterinary student to probe a similar living cow, and they are shocked at what they find. A third stomach seems to have been planted in the cow by the hive containing what appears to be a normal 2 year old human boy.
Unsure of what they've discovered, John and Kim flee from the approaching Captain Bach and an implanted human who is determined to take the child. While John, Kim, and the baby are asleep in the car, a bright light appears in the sky and the back door opens. The baby wakes up and exits the vehicle. When John and Kim wake up they discover that all the doors are locked and they can't open them, and they helplessly watch as the baby is teleported to the alien ship.
EPISODE RATING: 3 out of 5 Stars
"Ancient
Future"- Shadow007's Review
In the year 100 B.C. an Indian tribe in what is now Alaska witnessed the crash of a "star". The being that had ejected from the doomed craft spoke to the tribe. He instructed them to guard the "star" and when the star begins to "sing" not to remove it from the crater that it was buried in. John and Kim come to believe that the 'father" was a gray who had not been implanted.
John and Kim hear of strange floating rocks in this same region and go to Alaska to investigate where the meet up with an Indian named Gary, who's now a Catholic priest. Gary's grandfather is the one who saw the flying rocks.
While the four are exploring the area where the rocks were, an earthquake hits the area and a fissure is opened. They come back later that night to explore the fissure
Captain Bach learns about the craft and is determined to move it. While John is down in the cavern, he touches the craft and sees possible future events. He sees Bach remove the craft and it's explosion in mid-air, and further into the future, he sees that the Hive have won.
John is upset at what he saw and believes that the fight is hopeless, but Kim tells him that he should have faith in humanity, and that they can and will win. John, Kim, and the two Indians hijack a military helicopter and fly to the scene where Bach is about to extract the ship. After some discussion over the radio, Bach aborts the mission, and several seconds later, the ship explodes underground, closing the fissure.
EPISODE RATING: 4½ out of 5 Stars
"Hostile Convergance"- Shadow007's Review
"We Shall
Overcome"- Shadow007's Review
Mississippi in the 1960's was a very hostile place. Racial divides were still quite strong, but times were slowly and painfully changing. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing but the Hive had other plans for humanity.
Our own species' lack of unity provided the Hive with a weapon that, although, mostly silent, kept the people fighting amounts themselves instead of uniting to combat the real threat from the stars.
Then FBI director J. Edger Hoover and Majestic clash over who has authority in the Mississippi events, and finally one of Bach's men meets with Hoover and refuses to disclose any information to him, and this displeases Hoover, but the Hoover would be silenced. Majestic knew about Hoover's gay lover, Clyde, and Hoover agreed to drop the matter if they didn't disclose that information to the public.
This one problem was resolved, but it is now clear to John and Kim that the Hive will use any means to conquer humanity through total subversion of our culture. They will continue to exploit our weaknesses until we resolve them.
EPISODE RATING: 3½ out of 5 Stars
"The
Last Wave"- Shadow007's Review
John and Kim return to Los Angeles in the summer of 1964 to bury Dewey, a friend from College, who died under mysterious circumstances. Together with their college friends Gail, Nat, and a young Jim Morrison, they uncover a mysterious Hive plot to alter human body chemistry. This alteration will make implantation of the ganglion into human hosts much easier. The Hive plan to alter the food chain with a molecule that thrives in salt-water and bacteria. John and Kim trace the problems back to a sewage treatment plant, and stop it, while at the same time saving Gail from Dewey's fate in the nick of time.
EPISODE RATING: 3½ out of 5 Stars
"The
Enemy Within"- Shadow007's Review
John and Kim head home to Fresno, California in the summer of 1964, to see John's family and to get money to survive on. When they arrive, they are reluctant to share with John's family everything that has been going on, and a renewed strife between John and his brother Ray starts. John and Kim learn that Ray has been implanted for the express purpose of killing John, but a little bit of Ray is still fighting for survival, and Ray Loengard is unable to complete his task.
The Hive sends Steele to help Ray complete his task, but before Steele gets there, an incident between Ray and John leads their father to ask many questions. John decides to tell his father everything, and this causes his father to think that he's mentally unstable, and so he has him held over for psychiatric evaluation.
Steele arrives and talks to Ray and the two of them head off to the river. John's father sees this from the field that he is working in, and slowly he begins to see that maybe John was telling the truth.
Kim and John's sister bust John out of the psychiatric institution, and they head back to the house. John gets his gun and his dad grabs a riffle and they head up to the river to confront Steele and Ray.
When John gets to the river, he sees Steele with the glowing ball which completes the implantation process when the subject touches it. John leaps through the ball and knocks Ray to the ground, but he drops his gun. Steele picks it up and hands it to Ray and tells him to kill John, but Ray is fighting him. Then John's dad shows up and shoots Steele, who then falls back into the current of the river.
Ray falls to the ground and thanks John for saving his life again, and then he dies.
EPISODE RATING: 4 out of 5 Stars
"The
Warren Omission"- Shadow007's Review
Who killed JFK? What does the Warren Commission report not include? What will be released when all the Warren documents are released in 1999? The answer to these questions has lingered on since 1964, but perhaps the documents de-classified in 1999 will hold statements that will blow the doors off the cover-up of the century.
John Loengard testified before the commission, but his testimony was not included in the Warren reports that were made public, and perhaps his testimony wouldn't have made any real difference, but it was the first time that John and Kim told people in authority everything they knew, but it certainly wouldn't be the last.
In John's deposition, he uncovers Majestic and it's leader, Frank Bach, but Majestic, and Bach with all their power are able to discredit Loengard and his story. They uncover a film of Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe filmed on the day that she died, and this forces Bobby to withdraw his sponsorship of John as a witness before the Warren Commission.
In the end, Bach discloses some information to Chief Justice Warren, but substitutes the alien threat with that of "communists", and pleads with Warren not to release this information, and Warren agrees.
In the end, John and Kim end up right back where they started, and this time they are without the outright support of RFK, although he still wishes to help them.
EPISODE RATING: 4½ out of 5 Stars
"White
Rabbit"- Shadow007's Review
While on patrol in western Vietnam, a Soviet group similar to Majestic. These soldiers and researchers are searching for UFOs that have been reported in the area. What they find is shocking. The Hive is apparently using the Gulf of Tonken as a base to hide their craft in between missions. The Soviet group shoots down an alien craft and this peeks the interest of Bach and the Majestic team. Bach decides that he wants to go to Vietnam to destroy the craft as well as any alien survivors, but he doesn't want to go alone. He drafts John Loengard to go with him, ostensibly because he's expendable, but deep inside, Frank knows that he's the best at what he does, and will be a valuable member of his team on this mission.
When the arrive in Vietnam, Bach sends Loengard and a local to find the wreckage and destroy it. When they've finished this task, Bach comes to the site via helicopter and the three of them begin to hunt down the alien survivors. They'd found one that was already dead and destroy it, then they hunt for the other two. After a while of looking they find a hole that appears to be like a rabbit hole, and Bach instructs the local to crawl down into the hole and kill whatever is down there. After a few moments we hear the guy screaming, and so back throws a grenade in the hole and he and John move on. John was a bit upset at Bach, thinking that when they found the next hole, Bach would force John to go into the hole and face the same fate.
The Vietcong show up and capture Bach and Loengard. While in the prison camp, Bach tells John that he ordered an air strike that will come in a matter of hours. The Vietcong comes to take John out and interrogate him, but Frank stops them and tells them that he's the commander, and that John doesn't know anything, so they take Frank instead. Frank is brought back, badly beaten, and the Russian in the camp helps John get out of the "cell". John steals a machine gun, and the VC begins pursuit. John stumbles upon the last rabbit hole, and leads a trail of blood up to the hole. The VC soldier in pursuit thinks that John went into the hole and he enters the hole. After a few moments, John throws a grenade down the hole and goes back for Frank. The air strike is already on its way, and John flags down the lead helicopter and the two escape seconds before the place is leveled with napalm. The two return to the states with an artifact of some importance.
EPISODE RATING: 4½ out of 5 Stars
"Shades
of Gray"- Shadow007's Review
Both John and Kim are now working for Bach and Majestic. They plan to use the resources of Majestic to further their cause while secretly trying to take over the organization from within. Majestic's latest plan is to lure and capture an alien craft by making a fake crop circle. The plan works, but Majestic fails to down the alien craft. An injured Gray is left behind, and he scurries off into the cover of night. Bach decides to send John and Kim after the gray, because of Kim's unique ability to track them using her Ganglion-induced sixth sense.
The Gray finds a little girl named Monica and he persuades her to help him. John and Kim find the gray, but Monica almost kills them, but Juliet, the Russian operative working with Majestic shows up and saves them. They recover the Gray and head back to the Majestic base camp. A successful A.R.T. is preformed on the Gray and the now friendly Gray begins to communicate with Kim telepathically. She learns that Monica is in danger, and John and Juliet head over to the girl's house to help. They rescue her just in time.
Back at the base camp, the gray continues to communicate with Kim, and she learns a lot about the history of the Gray species before the Hive arrived. She also learns some shocking news. She's pregnant... and the child is Hive...
EPISODE RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars
"Burn
Baby, Burn"- Shadow007's Review
It's been 10 months since Kim found out that she was pregnant, and she has this recurring desire to go to California. As luck would have it, Captain Bach also wanted to take Kim to Los Angeles to be tested by a special doctor who had experience dealing with abductees who had become pregnant. The Gray that had the A.R.T. performed on it had stopped communicating with Kim... he had slipped into a coma.
Bach, John, Kim and a the Majestic team went to Los Angeles to go through with the tests, and shortly after they arrived, the Watts riots of 1965 began. The Hive had a laboratory in the Watts neighborhood, and it's not clear if they had a role in starting the riots or not.
Kim is abducted again right out of her hospital bed, and taken to this area. John is desperate to find her and his son and a black man whose wife is also being treated by the doctor helps him get into the Watts neighborhood.
John finds Kim, but she is acting very strangely, and the baby is gone. When John questions her about it she says "he's with us", and John is taken aback - he knows that Kim has been implanted again. Before he can take her out of there, Jim Steele shows up once again and the two of them are taken aboard a Gray ship.
John goes into a rage and now he truly understands why civil unrest in any form happens. The Majestic team returns to Washington, and John communicates with the Ganglion-free Gray using the thought translator device from Roswell. Both he and the Gray have a lot in common, and this frightens John a little bit. He wonders how two creatures that are so different can have such similar feelings. They both are alone. They both are scared. They both feel bad because they couldn't help Kim in time. The fight goes on and John will not give up until he has Kim and their baby back.
EPISODE RATING: 4½ out of 5 Stars
"Both
Sides Now"- Shadow007's Review
The Hive has Kim and the Loengard's son, and John is determined to get them back, before it's too late. Majestic has located her and they plan to send a team to send a team led by Juliet to get Kim back or kill her trying. The destination is Berkley and an anti-Vietnam War movement led by Jerry Ruben.
John goes on the mission, against orders, and he and Juliet infiltrate the movement.
It turns out that the Hive want desperately to stop the war in Vietnam from ever happening. Majestic's budget is in the black-ops area of funding, and it would get a substantial increase in funding if the war goes forward. The Hive consider Majestic a real threat to their success on Earth, and want it destroyed or at least severely limited by funding problems.
Jim Steele has personally taken charge of bringing Kim over to the Hive's side. He uses his knowledge of Majestic operations and Kim's son as leverage. John finds her just as she's about to touch the light and cross over into singularity. He tries and tries to convince her that he and Majestic are not the enemy, but Steele succeeds in his quest to make her touch the light by telling her that she must choose between Loengard and their son. He tells her that the war in Vietnam will cost many lives, and that someday her son might have the same future, unless she joins them.
She does, but John refuses to give up. The Hive have replaced the police's supply of tear gas with mustard gas and plan to insight a riot at the peace demonstration, forcing its use and killing many people in the name of peace. This would assuredly cause a loud cry for the end of hostilities in Vietnam and the Hive would win.
Majestic manages to stop this from happening, but John nearly losses his life when Kim beats him with a night stick. She and Steele flee the area and John whispers "I love you" as she runs away.
Back at Majestic headquarters, John vows that even though Kim may be lost to the Hive, he will get his son back - at any cost.
EPISODE RATING: 4½ out of 5 Stars
"To Prey
In Darkness"- Shadow007's Review
"There is no point, is there? Nothing makes any difference. Human or Hive, life or death. It's all the same." These words spoken by John Loengard after the events that lead to the East Coast Blackout of 1965.
Security at Majestic headquarters has become a problem. 53 feet of film depicting the first alien contact at Roswell has been stolen from Majestic headquarters by the doctor who invented the A.R.T. treatment to remove the ganglion from human hosts.
Bach sends Loengard and Juliet to retrieve the film from Dr. Hertzog, but he no longer has it. John wants to help the him, but while John is waiting outside for the doctor to pack, someone murders him. The doctor gave the film to a tabloid reporter named Dorothy Kilgowen and she is determined to get the film on the air to show the people of the world what's going on.
Kim was lost to the Hive, and as Juliet put it, she choose them over John, but John still wanted his son back. He continues to go along with Bach and Majestic because he knows that he'll never find his son without their resources.
Kilgowen enlists the help of another reporter, this one a TV journalist and future anchorman named Ed, to show the film. She hands him a key and tells him that if anything happens to her, to go get the film and broadcast it.
Steele shows up and kills Kilgowen while trying to extract information from her concerning the film. The Hive and Majestic both will stop at nothing to prevent the film from being broadcast.
Ed gets the film and plans to run the film. John and Juliet enter the tape area to stop the film from being broadcast, and Sayers and Steele, working for the Hive also want to stop it. At that point, John points his gun at Juliet and tells Ed to prepare for broadcast. Juliet is dumbfounded, but does nothing.
The operator loads the tape and plans to broadcast it, but the Hive decide that they must stop it now, so they hit a power plant in Niagara Falls, Canada with some sort of beam, and this causes a blackout over the entire north east.
In the end, the Hive recover the film, and Bach assumes that its safe in their hands; it is one thing that he can trust the Hive on, he believes.
In the briefing, Bach questions Loengard about pulling his gun on his partner, and Juliet covers for him, saying it was the good-cop, bad-cop routine, and Bach has no choice but to accept that explanation. John, later asked her why she did it, and the two end up kissing each other passionately, but they may not have been as alone as they thought.
EPISODE RATING: 4½ out of 5 Stars