Love and Death

Broadcast 03/24/95
Written by Thania St. John
Directed by Rob Bowman

Guest Stars: George DeLoy (Boothe), Kimberly Cullum (Young Samantha), Carl Strano, Louis Turenne, Jessica Hendra, Peter Spellos, Shane Sweet, Sandra Reinhardt, Bethany Clifton, Wendy Westbrook.

Synopsis: Sydney's next assignment is to subconsciously prod Jackson Boothe, a troubled Committee employee, into returning to work. She succeeds, but discovers that he is an assassin, and that the Committee may not be as benevolent as she had first thought. The assassin kills Frank Morgan, Sydney's Committee contact, and a file Dr. Morgan had sent to her slips through Sydney's fingers.

Observed Data

VR: Sydney seems to be unique in her ability to survive "high-end" VR, let alone in getting it to work; six or seven people (in Dr. Morgan's experience) have died in VR; the Other's subconscious can "remember" VR.5 events from one contact to the next; Joseph Bloom was apparently part of a team that broke through on VR.3 (Flight Simulation?)--he was important in early VR research, and wrote a paper called "Cyberhelix Recombination".

The Committee: TC can "disappear" bodies; TC hires assassins (I guess this ain't the "Knight Foundation for Law & Government"!); Boothe mentions two Committee names: Peters and Hayes; TC may have kept the fact that Sydney survived the crash from Nora, allowing her to attempt suicide.

Miscellaneous: Nora Bloom seems to have tried to commit suicide by taking pills--Sydney may have been the one to discover her; Dr. Morgan published his Ph.D. ("Human Brain Reaction to 3-Dimensional Stimulus") in 1979, making him an academic contemporary of Joseph Bloom; Duncan knows a lot about secret societies.