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Odyssey 5
Season One
Premiere (Parts 1 & 2)
NASA commander Chuck Taggart is on a routine mission with his astronaut son, Neil, when they
witness the destruction of Earth from on board their space shuttle, Odyssey. But Chuck, Neil
and their companions - pilot Angela Perry, scientist Dr Kurt Mendel, and reporter Sarah
Forbes - are saved from death by an alien named The Seeker, who sends the crew back in time
five years. But suddenly waking up in younger versions of themselves proves to be no easy
transition for the Odyssey crew - particularly for Angela, who finds herself in another
life-threatening situation. Chuck attempts to rally his crew together but finds his efforts
hampered by his wife, Paige, who, unsurprisingly, doesn’t believe her husband’s tales of
time travel. And it takes a tragic death for the five crew members to come together once
more in a fight to save the very planet....
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Shatterer
Sarah and Angela finally get one of the patients of the gene therapy trials to talk about
the side-effects of the treatment she was being given. And the woman’s memories lead the
Odyssey crew to an interesting, and very disturbing, discovery. Meanwhile, Chuck and Kurt
set out to stop the suicide of a scientist named Professor Chandra, who Kurt believes may
have foreseen the end of the world. However, they encounter some strong opposition in their
search for the missing scientist from a number of people - including Chandra himself. What
they know for certain is that somebody wants Chandra dead. But who is after the scientist,
and what affect would Chandra’s death have on the future the Odyssey crew have witnessed?
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Astronaut Dreams
Ever since witnessing the end of the world, Chuck has been suffering from terrible
nightmares about the event. So he doesn't particularly appreciate the news that NASA's
'Project Bright Sky' is being accelerated, with a test satellite soon to be launched. Chuck
resolves to sabotage the launch, but will he be able to do so without destroying his own
career in the process? Meanwhile, Sarah and Angela set out to prevent the kidnapping and
murder of a young girl - but succeed only in putting another child in danger. Will they be
able to find the kidnapper before it's too late?
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Time Out Of Mind
Hoping to cash in on his future knowledge, Kurt marries a woman who is soon to become a
world-famous musician. However, his efforts to bring her fame and fortune forward a few
years prove to be spectacularly unsuccessful. But while Kurt is forgetting about his
‘mission’ in order to have some fun, the rest of the Odyssey crew are experiencing some
disturbing memory lapses. One by one, Angela, Neil and Sarah lose their future memories -
forgetting about the end of the world and not remembering their fellow crewmates. Chuck and
Kurt team up to try and work out what caused their friends’ amnesia. But when Chuck also
falls victim to the same symptoms, Kurt is left with the fate of the Odyssey crew - and the
world - in his hands....
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Symbiosis
After a research scientist is found murdered and his young niece missing, Neil receives a
mysterious e-mail which suggests the girl, who is deaf, is an important part of the aliens’
plans. The Odyssey crew set out to find the child, Stevie, and eventually track her down,
taking her into their care. However, a number of unusual deaths have occurred around Stevie,
and Kurt and Sarah soon discover that the girl has her own protection system which displays
great advances in the fields of behaviour modification. Clearly this is important to the
synthetics, as they begin their own hunt for Stevie - leading them straight to the Odyssey
crew....
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The Things We Cannot Change
A mysterious man suddenly appears in the lives of the Odyssey crew, introducing himself
under a different guise every time and telling the time-travellers that ‘anything is
possible.’ Suddenly, the crew find themselves reliving important decisions that they made in
their pasts - decisions which have haunted them ever since. While Neil and Chuck get a
chance to gain closure on the consequences of their previous actions, Sarah is forced to
face up to her dilemma over Corey. Meanwhile, Kurt and Angela receive a glimpse of how the
future may have been incredibly different for them. But who is this mysterious man that
seems to have control over time - and can he be trusted?
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Rapture
Neil isn’t keen to join in with his school friends - including girlfriend, Holly - when they
start experimenting with a new drug named Rapture. However, the side effects of the drug
suggest it is a narcotic far more advanced than anything seen before. Neil learns that
Rapture was manufactured from instructions hidden on Professor Chandra’s laptop - which Neil
gave to the twins to decode. Chuck blames Neil for letting the information on the laptop be
copied, while Neil decides that the only way to redeem his mistake is to get a sample of the
drug for Kurt to analyse. But to do this Neil has to sample the drug himself - putting
himself and the rest of the Odyssey crew in danger....
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L.D.U-7
Sarah receives a videotape from an anonymous source which shows the trial of a young man
accused of murdering his parents. In his defence, the man claimed that his parents were not
who they appeared to be - that they had been ‘replaced.’ Trying to get to the truth of these
claims, Sarah manages to gain access to L.D.U-7 - the high-tech prison where the young man
in question is being held. However, once she, Chuck and Kurt are inside the prison, they
soon discover that things are not what they seem. The prison is run on an automatic system
and the few guards that walk the halls seem to disappear into thin air - literally. And with
walls moving and exits disappearing, Sarah, Chuck and Kurt are left with nowhere to run....
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Flux
Chuck and Neil are investigating an abandoned warehouse when they come across a man with a
rather disturbing skin condition who, in his haste to get away, scratches Chuck. Chuck
thinks nothing more of it until his skin starts displaying signs of the same condition.
Leaving a bewildered Paige behind, Chuck disappears to Kurt’s, where Kurt attempts to
discover what is causing Chuck’s rapidly increasing physical deterioration. However, it soon
becomes clear that Chuck isn’t dying, as he first supposed, but is simply changing.
Unfortunately, what he’s changing into is a synthetic. Meanwhile, Sarah faces the prospect
of losing her son as her husband fights her for custody of the child, and Marc agrees to
bolster his failing grades in astronaut training - by spying on his father....
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Kitten
When Neil starts getting flirtatious e-mails from a girl calling herself ‘Kitten,’ he
assumes she’s a girl from school, and treats their conversations as a bit of fun. But then
Kitten begins calling Neil on the phone, demanding his attention all the time. And when Neil
ignores her advances, Kitten shows her true colours - and her extraordinary ability to
manipulate all kinds of technology. It’s clear that Neil is dealing with no ordinary
stalker. Kitten is a sentient - a sentient that wants to know what Odyssey 5 is. And when
Neil refuses to tell her, Kitten begins to target his friends and family as a way of getting
to the truth - which leads to Angela becoming stranded on a space station that’s on a
collision course with Earth....
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Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
The Odyssey crew’s suspicions are aroused when Kurt, acting very out of character,
disappears to a small town called Lost Hills - leaving behind only a mysterious symbol.
Chuck and Neil head off after him, but don’t find the people of Lost Hills to be
particularly welcoming when they arrive - especially when they interrupt the meeting of what
seems to be a religious cult, of which Kurt is now a part. Chuck and Neil discover that the
cult have built a large tunnel-like machine, which they believe will lead God to Earth.
However, all signs seem to point to a sentient involvement in the cult’s plans. But when
Chuck and Neil try to intervene, they find themselves condemned by Kurt to be stoned to
death. Will Kurt come to his senses before it’s too late?
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Trouble With Harry
When Angela encounters a man who knows an awful lot about the Odyssey crew and their
mission, she is forced to arrange a meeting between him and the group. It soon turns out
that Harry - as he has named himself - is a sentient, currently occupying a synthetic body
that was created for another sentient. Now that sentient wants his body back, and Harry is
on the run from two ‘repo men’ sent to collect it. At first, the Odyssey crew don’t
appreciate the rather strange, but gentle, Harry bringing them further problems to deal
with. But when a rather unstable female sentient, who is hell-bent on destroying the world,
sets in motion a process that will do just that, they come to realise how important Harry
could be....
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Skin
Angela’s father is nearly killed in an assassination attempt that didn’t take place in the
previous time-line, prompting the Odyssey crew to suspect Sentient involvement. While Angela
tries to find out what her father knows about Project Bright Sky, the others investigate the
man who shot the senator, following a trail that eventually leads them to a new alien
threat. Professor Chandra returns to shed some light on the group’s new discovery - a
sentient creation known as ‘Skin’ which takes humans as hosts for short periods of time in
order to carry out its work, then moves onto another body after suffocating the first. The
crew track down the Skin, only for it to choose Chuck as its new host. Luckily, Chuck seems
to be immune to its effects. Paige, however, isn’t so lucky....
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Begotten
Still struggling to come to terms with Paige’s death, Chuck leaves town, picking up a
mysterious young hitchhiker along the way. And while Chuck is gone, his crew are getting
themselves into all sorts of trouble. Kurt’s research into the Sentients and Synthetics has
lead to him creating a Synthetic of his own, which suddenly awakens and attacks its maker
before fleeing to prowl the neighbourhood. Soon the Synthetic is attacking others in order
to become whole itself, and Angela, Sarah and Neil know they must stop it before it’s too
late. But Kurt has been left paranoid and delusional by the Synthetic’s attack - and is
convinced that his friends are the actual Synthetics....
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Follow The Leader
Sarah is disturbed by a news story she is reporting on, in which a ten-year-old boy named
Richie purposefully electrocuted his teenage sister. Digging a little deeper into the story,
Sarah discovers that another child in Richie’s class at school recently survived a fire that
killed her family. And when the name Leviathan turns up again, there seems to be a definite
Sentient link. When Chuck, Neil and Kurt visit Richie’s school, they see for themselves a
new computer lab, which was paid for by an anonymous benefactor, and begin to realise just
how the children in Richie’s class could have been manipulated. There certainly seems to be
a bigger plan at work in the school and, after capturing a synthetic, it looks like the
Odyssey crew might learn what that plan is....
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Half-Life
When Angela finds herself being stalked by a presence - what she thinks is a ghost - in the
middle of the night, the first person she calls to investigate the sighting is Kurt. Kurt
isn’t convinced that Angela’s theory is correct though. He is sure that the Sentients are
somehow involved - and yet this presence appears and disappears at will. And when Angela
recognises this ‘ghost’ as an old friend, Gus, who died two years ago, the mystery deepens.
Angela and Chuck’s investigation into Gus’ death brings up questions as to whether the pilot
really is dead and buried - and further suspicions about the Cadre’s role within NASA. In
some shape or form though, Gus has returned - and it seems he blames Angela for everything
that’s happened to him....
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Rage
When Dr Chandra is murdered in an apparently unmotivated attack, the Odyssey crew know that
the Sentients are involved somehow. However, a number of similar unprovoked murders and
attacks in a town called Lawndale suggest a bigger Sentient plan at work. Sarah recalls how
a number of riots broke out in Lawndale in the previous time-line, during which a man was
killed. Trying to prevent the riots from taking place, the team travel to Lawndale, where
they discover the residents of the town are already on edge. Caught right in the middle of
the rage that is spreading through town, can they work out what is causing Lawndale’s anger
before it’s too late?
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Fossil
Angela and Kurt are following up a lead on a Sentient hotspot when they spot a human trying
to escape from two alien captors, and Angela decides to intervene. Unfortunately, that
intervention leads to Kurt being shot in the leg and Angela being abducted. Not knowing
where to start looking for Angela, or who to trust, Chuck turns to an old friend for help -
and finds himself pointed in the direction of a sample of moon rock being studied at NASA.
Chuck and Neil manage to steal this sample for further study, and soon discover it is a far
from ordinary piece of rock. Kurt remains unimpressed by the rock-sample though, however
important it is turning out to be, and vows to find Angela. However, he finds his efforts
hampered by a police detective - who seems determined to implicate Kurt in Angela’s
disappearance....
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