Steven Spielberg's Taken

Episode Eight - Dropping the Dishes

Airdate: December 12, 2002

Director: Jeff Woolnough

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We learn Allie hid everyone to save them. She went with Chet, Mary, and a goon.

The crowd realizes they lost two hours and Allie, they surmise that Allie did this to save all of them.

Charlie and Lisa go to Nina's house.

Chet is getting Allie into a frequency-blocking helmet, and she has an insight about Owen.

Lisa wakes up from her nap "blind" but a good swat from Nina fixes that. Charlie changes his shirt and mentions his bullet hole.

Chet and Mary discuss Eric's death, they did what they had to do. A few military personell get out of a Lincoln at the fishing docks. If they take the helmet off, the military will "see" her and show up in droves. Mary is not happy about the situation and is grasping to keep her place in the group. She has been assigned to clean the mess and gets a taste of "Crawford Family" medicine.

Chet goes with the military while holding reservation. Allie is now part of a military operation.

Lisa feels cold, she hears Allie's voice telling her she's scared.

Chet and the General discuss Allies power and abilities.

At the Crawford Family home, Mary goes over photos, the artifact and the rubbings. The engravings all match.

Benson North Dakota

Allie is sitting in a chair, everyone interested in what they might see.

Down the road, there is a roadblock, people are told that high explosive warheads are coming through.

Allie is with the lone guard. They discuss her willingness, bravery, and even Huckleberry Finn.

A spacecraft comes down

Chet and a fellow scientist are trying to determine some anamolies. Chet discusses with the General whether or not they should take the aliens alive or if they should just take the spacecraft. The remainder of the troops are discussing "the enemy".

Allie and the Guard are reading Huckleberry Finn.

Mary is trying to leverage family ties to get back on the project.

Charlie and Lisa go to the Support Group leader's home, where they learn the group leader is the connection. Lisa's not happy.

Harriet isn't comfortable, but they want to try hypnosis in an effort for Lisa to communicate with Allie.

Chet is told that they're ready to take the shield off.

Charile's not in the room with Hypnosis, byt a person outside enters the home with a gun. Lisa happens to see through Allie's Eyes. Charlie knocks the gun toting goon out with a bookend, but not before the goon shoots harriet.

Nina and Lisa discuss what Lisa saw. License Plates? Farmhouse? North Dakota? Doesn't narrow it down at all. She has a vision of "Wellington's Feed and Grain". They have a moment and reference "Moonlighting": "What would Maddie Hays and David Addson do?"

Government Flunkies involved with the project are listening to a radio show and watching the board light up when people call in. Mary sees Allie's light in Brisbane, ND.

Guard brings Allie her dinner, but she wants him to keep reading.

Charlie and Lisa are searching for Allie, no leads on "Wellington Feed and Grain", they went out of business in 1975.

They arrive at the roadblock, they are explained there's a train/truck collision ahead.

They go to a bar for the night, talk to the regulars. The train route is just a lumber and steel line, there was no spill. The military ran them out of their hunting camp. One hunter, Huey Clayton, is curious as to what's actually in those woods that the military doesn't want them to see. He takes them down a backroad into the woods to the hunting camp. They find the farmhouse, but realize that Allie's too important, so they take a nap.

Nothing happens with Allie's "other" family in 36 hours. Nobody knows the motive. Dr. Wakeman is doing a crossword puzzle, and asks for a five-letter word for "idiot".

Mary Crawford shows up at the farmhouse and grabs a guard's crotch to get in. Somehow she gets to General Beers. She slaps Wakeman and slips keys. Mary and Chet discuss that Eric is smarter than he appears. We learn that the Artifact is a transmitter and amplifier of sorts. It gathers information. Mary gets alone with Allie, and spoils the ending of Huckleberry Finn. Mary explains that she doesn't take pleasure in hurting people, but Allie says she does it anyways.

Mary is insistent to the point of raising her voice that Allie read the artifact. We see movement, faces on screen. Chet is in shock at what happened.

Huey, Charlie, and Lisa are on the summit of a hill. They explain Allie, the aliens, and the conspiracy. They see lights overhead.

Chet remarks that her brain is in "REM sleep mode in overdrive".

Huey, Charlie, and Lisa are in awe of the spacecraft, Lisa goes down the hill after Allie. The military gets ready to shoot at the spacecraft, and shoot it down. The craft crashes, slicing into the ground as it crashes. Allie is completely calm during the whole ordeal.

Lisa and Charlie argue over trying to get Allie, they find another way into the Valley.

The General has men surround the craft, Mary runs in an effort to see the inside, she's shot at, but still makes it.

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