Sleepers (Episode 206)

Deep in the Australian outback, a scientist discovered a miniature space probe, which emitted a violent pulse of energy, killing the scientist. Meanwhile, on the Taelon mothership, alien scientists were trying to trace a probe which sent out a frequency that had disrupted the Taelon Commonality. Without their shared psychic connection, the Taelons' life forces would be depleted, eventually killing all members of their race. The Taelon Synod leader, Zo'or (Anita La Selva), ordered Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) to do a worldwide "sweep" of suspected Resistance members, putting the American Liberation movement in jeopardy.

At the Flat Planet Cafe, Augur (Richard Chevolleau) held a spirited debate about material wealth with Maiya (Montse Viader), who was working as a bartender at the Liberation hang out. Suddenly, riot police, led by Sandoval and Captain Lili Marquette (Lisa Howard), swarmed the cafe. Sandoval, shocked to see Maiya, was drawn to her even in the midst of the pandemonium. He was furious with Lili, who lied to him about Maiya's whereabouts. Lili had tried to hide Maiya's true identity as an Imerian warrior from another dimension. Sandoval had been led to believe that Maiya was an anthropologist named Isabel Martinez who worked in Peru. In fact, Isabel was Maiya's double on Earth.

Augur and Maiya were taken away with the other suspected Resistance members and imprisoned in a Taelon jail. Lili and Sandoval followed the prisoners and witnessed them being cut down by an energy force and taken to a lab in comatose states. Major Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) confronted Da'an (Leni Parker) who admitted the Taelons had begun "harvesting" their captives' psychic energy to mend a rupture in the Commonality. Da'an became concerned when he learned that Augur and Maiya were among the prisoners. Word about the Taelon "sweep" spread beyond Taelon headquarters where U.N. Secretary to Taelon/Human Relations, Joshua Doors (William De Vry) went public about the illegal detention of Earth's citizens. He vowed to fight for their release, at the same time intimating that his father, Liberation leader Jonathan Doors (David Hemblen), may come out of hiding to make a bid for the U.S. Presidency.

Maiya, Augur and the others lay hooked up to Taelon machinery which turns them into "sleepers," depleting their psychic energy and channeling it to the Commonality. In his unconscious state, Augur dreamed that he was walking the street of a suburban community where he encountered his dead father, Lincoln (Anthony Sherwood). Maiya pleaded telepathically with Liam to save the prisoners, when she too was whisked into a dream world.

 

She found herself back in her own Imerian world, rejoined with her dead mother Allegra (Wanda Cannon). Allegra told Maiya it was the day of her wedding to Jason, Sandoval's double in the parallel dimension.

While the prisoners' souls were happy in their dream worlds, Da'an went to the Taelon lab where he discovered that some of the subjects were close to death. Da'an confronted Zo'or, who insisted he would continue to round up Resistance suspects and sap their psychic energy until they could repair the Commonality. Fearing for the lives of his friends, Liam took matters into his own hands. He went to Dr. Melissa Park (Janet-Laine Green), asking her to duplicate the Taelon procedure on him so that he could attempt to find his friends on the psychic plane and bring them back. Dr. Park resisted, but Jonathan Doors ordered her to proceed. Before Liam was immersed into a "near death" state, Doors wished him a safe mission, his earlier hostile feelings towards Liam obviously changed.

With his life forces diverged into the Taelons' psychic field, Liam entered Maiya's dream world and interrupted her wedding to Jason. He pleaded with Maiya to return to Earth's reality, but she was so happy to be back with Jason, she refused. Back on Earth, Lili and Sandoval used the computer to narrow in on the Commonality rupture, which was being caused by the Jaridian probe in the Australian Outback. They flew in the shuttle to locate the probe and began a life and death struggle to destroy it. The probe deployed a defensive force field, as well as aggressive tentacles that struck out at Lili and Sandoval, eventually gaining a hold on Sandoval.

As the other laboratory subjects began to flatline, Augur, Maiya and Liam hovered near death. Liam appeared in Augur's dream world, but failed to convince him to return to Earth to fight the Taelons. Liam was then summoned by his own father, Ha'gel. As Augur's dream world dissolved around them, Ha'gel tried to convince Liam to leave his earthly form to join with his alien ancestors in a swirling vortex of higher consciousness. As he struggled with his conflicted desires, the spiritual entities of Augur and Maiya, having left their dream worlds, appeared, calling Liam back from the vortex.

Meanwhile, in the Australian Outback, Lili rescued Sandoval from the probe's deadly grasp and destroyed it with a detonation device. As Sandoval and Lili fly to safety in the shuttle, the probe's destruction repaired the rupture to the Commonality. The "Sleepers" in the Taelon lab were able to re-enter their bodies and burst free of their bonds, aided by Augur and Maiya, who destroyed the entire lab. Zo'or and Da'an were elated when they realized the threat to the Taelons was over.