"Guardian is proud to be partners with our Companions in making fixed-link interdimensional travel the reality." "Your father has made the trip from L.A. to New York 3 times." "There's no reason to be scared." "Scared?" "No." "It's a scanner." "It records your genetic codes so we could track you in interdimensional." "We wouldn't want you to get lost in there, would we?" "Step through, please." "Your journey to the portal in Manhattan will take approximately 10 minutes." "But what will be experienced by you is virtually instantaneous due to the effect of stasis on interdimensional mode." "Don't let go of my hand, okay?" "I'm sorry, there's no contact allowed." "Okay?" "Guardian wishes you safe and happy journey, as you enjoy wonders and convenience of the new age of travel." "We hope you have a peasant trip." "Welcome to New York City, ladies and gentlemen!" "Please exit to your left." "Here we are." "Come this way." "Welcome to New York!" "It's all right." "You're just experiencing a little disorientation." "Welcome to New York!" "Welcome to New York!" "Where am I?" "Welcome to New York!" "Jamie?" "Where's my son?" "Jamie!" "Subtitled by Axarion" "Three years ago they came, forever altering the future of humanity." "William Boone's life has been destroyed." "A man caught between two worlds." "Assigned protector to the Companions;" "undercover agent for the Liberation." "An alien implanted cyber-virus expands his mind." "Controlling a bio-engineered weapon of unprecedented power." "William Boone searches for the truth." "How long has the boy been missing?" "Over 15 minutes." "Everything possible is being done to locate your child and to bring him safely out of interdimensional." "No!" "We were assured that this new technology was safe!" "Oh, it is, it is." "The portal engineers are adamant that your sun is no danger." "Isn't that correct, Dr. Walkin?" "That's our hope, yes." "Your hope?" "!" "I want my son!" "Excuse me." "We can't afford the press." "And make sure that the mother understands this, okay?" "Ms. Sims," "Ms. Sims, this gentleman will help you." "Hi, Ms. Sims, I'm William Boone." "I'm with Interspecies Relations." "Is there anything that you haven't told Agent Sandoval about your son?" "He was born deaf." "Could that be what caused this?" "No." "No, I don't think so." "Please try not to worry about this." "We're doing everything possible to find your son." "The portals must be closed." "The technology was tested for over a year." "It's been running for two months." "Thousands have used it without incident, Doctor." "There have been other anomalies." "Cases where passengers have been delayed in interdimensional well beyond their arrival time." "There has not been one injury." "Not yet." "But it's inevitable." "How do you think the public will react when they find out we lost a little boy there?" "No one will be told about this incident." "Do you understand, Dr. Walkin?" "I'm not waiting for somebody to get hurt." "There he is!" "Oh, Jamie!" "Jamie!" "Oh God, Jamie!" "I don't understand..." "I can hear!" "You can speak?" "The Companions can take Jamie's hearing away as easily as they gave it to him." "And they will take it away if anyone hears about this delay in the portals." "I won't tell anyone, I promise!" "A crisis has been averted." "The press did not learn of the boy's disappearance." "And what of the next crisis?" "And the next?" "The time delay of the child was and an aberration." "There will be no repetition of this nature." "You uttered those precise words when the last aberration occurred." "The security of the portals does not concern you." "Any threat to the Taelon agenda concerns me." "Does the Synod question my stewardship of the portal project?" "No, the Synod supports your work." "At this moment." "Belman says we can trust Dr. Park?" "Absolutely." "She's been with us since the very beginning." "Finally got her sent to Washington to work with Dr. Belman." "Will his hearing last?" "Very hopeful." "Well..." "I never let myself dream of this even when I saw all the wonders the Companions could do." "He seems like a really smart kid." "He's very bright." "Nothing could hold him back." "Excuse me a moment." "I just need to talk to Cmdr. Boone." " Okay." " Okay..." " I found something." " What is it?" "This." "The CVI?" "They're implanting children?" "It's an implant, though it's not as fully developed as yours." "And that restored his hearing." "Yes, although I don't think that that's its primary function." "Why would there be another kind of CVI that they're not telling you about?" "Hey, Jamie." "How are you feeling?" " All right." " Yeah?" "A bit overwhelmed, I guess." "Can you tell me what do you remember about your time inside the portal?" "I only remember going in and out." "But that's how we should experience interdimensional mode." "Isn't it?" "Yeah." "Jamie, are you all right?" " Here's your mum." " Jamie!" "Doctor says my hearing won't go away." "I know!" "Please tell Agent Sandoval that I won't tell anyone about what happened." "Ms. Sims, it's okay..." "No!" "I am not gonna let anything happen to my son!" "You tell him!" "I will." "I will." "We don't know the effects of the boy's implant yet, except for that it gave him his hearing." "Other than that, Dr. Park thinks it's currently non-functional." "If it is, it won't be for long." "They're not gonna go all this trouble for nothing." "Well, Jonathan," "It's impossible for them to surgically implant every traveler given the limited time a traveler spends in interdimensional." "I don't find that very reassuring." "The implants are obviously designed to control us in some way." "And we're talking about technology that's used to cross galaxies." "Jamie Sims could've been taken anywhere instantaneously." "And the people using this technology are politicians, businessmen." "The very ones they need to manage the levers of power." "I've studied the portal technology." "The director of the program spoke at the Sorbonne last year." "Doctor..." "Yeah, Dr. Steven Walkin." "We met..." "Sandoval's running a security check on him now." "This is what my CVI looks like." "And this is what Dr. Park found inside the boy." "My guess is..." "All it needs is some more components to grow into a full-blown CVI." "Components that could be added during other trips through the "New York" " L.A." portal." "Or the "New York" " London" portal which opens next month, or the "Moscow" " New Delhi" route which is already being tested..." "Within a year this portal technology will be spread across the globe." "Incoming call." "So, how's my big brother?" "Hey!" "Where are you?" "Oh, I came East for a few days." "I'm doing the rounds of the job interviews at the universities." "One looks good." "That's great." "Do you think the Companions could spare you for dinner?" "Sure, but..." "How about breakfast tomorrow?" "Can you come into my office?" "Okay." "See you then, Willie!" " Willie?" " Don't start!" " Willie?" "!" " Don't even start!" "Boone!" "There's been a security breach at the New York portal." "Report there immediately." "Will do." "Dr. Walkin?" "I don't know." "Dr. Walkin had a history of instability." "It's tragic." "If Companion Security can be of any help, I'm at your service." "Thank you, sir." "This was no suicide." "Data concerning the security of the portal project is missing." "It wasn't found in his office or on his person." "What kind of data?" "Critical data." "How do you know Dr. Walkin stole it?" "Zo'or wants it recovered immediately." "When Dr. Walkin was arguing with Sandoval, he threatened to go public with the portals' problems." "If he did steal the data he didn't have much time to hide it." "There is nothing in his car." "No, I'm at the impound yard right now." "Other than hypodermic, the only things he had were his keys and a digital notebook that he used to run a security check." "But that was thoroughly checked." "At 8:15 he checked security code 4201." "At 8:30, which was Walkin's last entry, notepad indicated that 4201 needed to be checked again." "According to security guidelines code 4201 only requires monitoring every hour." "Maybe Walkin was trying to leave a message?" "I'll check the portal documentation, see what security code 4201 is." "Will?" "Hey!" "Have I come at a bad time?" "No, no, no!" "Come on in!" " Hi!" " Hi." "Here, sit, sit." "What's the matter?" "I'm pregnant." "Are you disappointed?" "No, I'm just surprised." "So was I." "I was kinda worried how you'd react." "I kept thinking about what mum and dad would say if they were alive." "I think, they might have surprised you." "How long?" "Almost three months." "I didn't find out myself till two weeks ago." "It's a boy." "Great." "Hey, mister!" "And the father?" "Is?" ".." "It's Dug..." "But we broke up two months ago." "Does he know?" "No." "He has the right to know, you know." "I know." "I just wanted to tell you first." "I wanted to be sure that you'd stand by me." "Of course, I will." "You just tell me what you wanna do." "I wanna keep the baby, Will." "Good." "I'm not naive." "I know how difficult it can be for uh... a single mother, even in Companion America, but..." "I really wanna do this, Will." "Okay." "Then we'll figure out a way to do it." "Excuse me." "Yes, Da'an." "I require your presence, Commander." "I uh..." "I'm on my way." "I'm sorry, Sarah, I gotta go to Washington." "All right?" "Could we still do that dinner that you wanted to do tonight?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Hey." " Don't worry." " Okay." "Okay." "I understand from Agent Sandoval the data critical to the security of the portal project has gone astray." "Yes, we're searching for it now." "When you recover this material" "I wish to see it before it is brought to Zo'or." "It is an unusual request." "Zo'or and I differ on the merits of the new technology." "I wish to evaluate the data with the discretion." "Have you made the same request to Agent Sandoval?" "I understand." "Hey, Sandoval already tore the terminal lockers apart." "Looks like he drew a blank." "I checked the portal documentation." "The number Dr. Walkin highlighted, 4201, it's a security code for emergency redirection of the portal." "I'm transmitting the data to you right now." "Great." "It's a reroute code that was used when they were testing the portal." "The engineers would use it as a emergency safety zone." "But uh..." "I'm not sure where that reroute code will take you." "We're about to find out." "I'll talk to you soon." "Excuse me, Companion Security, excuse me." "Is there a problem?" "Excuse me, Companion Security." "We have to delay the next portal projection for emergency inspection." "Do it now, please." "Security." "We apologize for any inconveniences." "Sorry folks." "The next portal projection is delayed, momentarily delayed." "Companion Security." "I'm just doing an emergency portal check." "You have petitioned the Synod to suspend the interdimensional portal project!" "I have made no secret of my opposition." "I demand an explanation for this betrayal!" "Your work with the portals poses a serious threat to the success of our mission on Earth." "Interdimensional technology has been successfully introduced and the response of the humans to it has been overwhelming." "As the portal technology spreads it will make air travel increasingly redundant giving us access to million upon millions of human travelers." "The discovery of such wide scale manipulation of humankind will surely result in a serious backlash against the Taelons." "A human backlash?" "Your fear of this human species is as irrational as your fascination with them." "Your leadership of the portal program is seriously flawed." "The Synod does not agree." "Sensitive data has been stolen from the New York portal." "Information that will undermine the position of trust that we must maintainwith our human partners." "The missing data will be recovered." "Indeed." "But recovered by whom?" "Come on." "Thank you, Dr. Walkin." "The scanner function is quality control." "It assesses each traveler's genetic make-up." "The key variable is intelligence." "So, those are the one selected for implantation, the ones with extremely high intelligence?" "Yes, almost always." "And as you suspected, they are some prominent names too." "Judges, politicians not selected for intelligence." "This plan." "It's perfect." "If Taelons want control, this is the first group they're gonna want to target." "It's also the reason why they helped young Mr. Sims with his hearing." "They certainly would want him to be able to effectively communicate all the wonders of the Companions." "Could the implants be done in interdimensional or they have to be taken to a facility?" "A facility." "Any implant is a complicated procedure." "The delay the boy experienced shows that they haven't refined the process yet." "We have to find where they are being taken." "Well, only one way to do it." "Somebody has to go through the portal, and allow us to track them to the Taelons' facility." "The traveler would have to be unknown to the Taelons, but with the characteristic they seem to covet most..." "Extremely high intelligence." "Obviously, yes, I fit the profile." "But I'm not going to get myself anywhere near that portal." "Implants in my head, bad for business." "I imagine..." "I fit the profile as well." " You sure about this?" " I am." "Contact Dr. Park to get him ready." "Sahjit, this is dangerous." "You haven't done anything like this before." "That's true, but what other choice do we have?" "Chicken." "Boone!" "Yeah." "Sarah?" "Your sister used the portal from L.A. to New York." "About 3 weeks ago." "Yeah." "She's listed under procedure." "They gave her an implant?" "No, it's a completely different group." "Experimental subset?" "Yeah, consisting of women between the ages of 24 and 34." "Prime childbearing years." "Listen, Sarah, there's something I have to talk to you about." "You took the new L.A. to New York portal a few weeks age, right?" "Do you remember anything unusual about it?" "No." "It was fantastic." "What?" "I think that something may have happened through that experience." "What are you talking about?" "This is the name of a doctor I'd like you to go see." "What kind of doctor?" "Companion doctor." "She may be able to tell you some things that the others can't." "Does this have something to do with my baby?" "Sarah, just trust me and, please, go see her." "Boone!" "Hey, Augur!" "May I meet this enchantress?" "This is my sister, Sarah." "Sarah, meet Augur." " Augur?" " Yes." "Are you an auspex, a seer?" "Oh, I like this girl!" "Yes, I am." "And your brother would be helpless without me." "I like your new friends." "Yeah, well, don't like them too much." "You must be adopted." "Excuse me." "Yeah, Lili." "Sahjit is ready." "We're waiting for you." "Yeah, you're right." "I'll be right there." "I'm sorry, I lost track of the time." "I'll make it up to you, all right?" "I'll give you a call." "See you soon." "The neuro-stimulator will keep you conscious." "You'll come out of the stasis on the other side of the portal." "The tracking device will be activated once you pass through the scanner." "How will I know it's working?" "You'll get a signal in your inner ear repeated every 5 seconds." "And if I don't hear the signal?" "You'll be one your own." "Shall we?" "I think it's time we peer through the looking glass." "Remember, your job's to do nothing, no heroics." "All we want to do is to trace you to the Taelon facility." "You go though, you get to L.A. in 10 minutes, end of story." "I'll be horribly embarrassed if they don't select me." "It will be the first exam I ever failed in my life." "Who wouldn't wanna dissect the mind like yours?" "We're backing you up, don't forget that." "Scanning complete." "Please proceed." "It's far safer than any airplane." "Where's Sahjit's signal?" "I don't know." "He's not there." "They should be able to shield it!" "Then find him." "What's happening?" "We've lost him." "My God!" "Passengers should arrive in L.A. any minute." "I want to be informed as soon as they do." "Excuse me." "Yeah, Sandoval." "Where are you?" "With the New York portal investigating the stolen data." "Excellent." "I'll join you there." "We have a new problem." "Sarah, what I have to tell you... is unusual to say, at least." "My obstetrician told me the baby is perfectly normal." "For a three-months old fetus, yes." "What's wrong with that?" "Sarah, the child inside of you was conceived three weeks ago." "It has developed at an extraordinary rate." "No, that's impossible." "I verified the dating with the sample of the placenta." "I haven't been with anyone since Dug and I broke up." "That's almost two months ago!" "The DNA scan indicates that" "the fetus has no connection to you." "The embryo must have been surgically implanted." "I am so very sorry." "Oh, my God!" "You're lying." "Why are you doing this?" "Sarah." "Let's go." "Stand aside." "The missing subject is a doctor Sahjit Jinnah." "Search the various containment chambers." "Assume he has come with a hostile intent." "Where are we?" "Find the doctor." "Step through the scanner please." "You just wait right here." "Thank you." "Sahjit!" "Sahjit!" "Where are you?" "Sahjit..." "Sarah?" "Step aside, Cmdr. Boone." "Do you have some special interest in this person?" "This is my sister." "But, of course, you already knew that." "Of course." "Are you concerned about the child she is carrying?" "I'm concerned for Sarah's safety and her child's." "What if the child is not hers, as you so quaintly describe it, but rather ours?" "I don't understand." "Nor should you." "Your duty lies in securing the intruder." "Nothing more." "You will not hurt her." "I found him!" "He's up here!" "Follow me, Boone." "Please try to understand." "Who wouldn't run if they found themselves in that place?" "You're not being truthful with us, Dr. Jinnah." "I am." "I believe in Companion science." "I was one of your first researchers at ComTech." "The neuro-scan revealed a sophisticated tracking device implanted within him." "Tell us how Jonathan Doors accomplished this?" "I've never even met Jonathan Doors." "Let us return him to the facility." "We have much more compelling means to force his truthfulness." "I assume you see the wisdom of cooperation." "We gotta get Sahjit out right now!" "He's not equipped to deal with this kind of pressure." "He has extensive knowledge of the Liberation activities." "If we can't get him free, we have to silence him." "That won't be necessary." "Because we're gonna get him out." "I will not ask you again, Dr. Jinnah." "Tell us everything." "I have nothing else to say." "Escort him to the portal." "A moment please." "Jonathan Doors has led you astray." "His opposition threatens your world." "Help us and yourself." "I can't." "Then I can do nothing for you." "Capt. Marquette." "Captain, we're escorting Dr. Jinnah back to the facility." "Please secure the portal for our departure." "I understand." "The Synod is loosing its confidence in the portals." "I shall continue to argue against them." "And your arguments will continue to fail." "There will be no more security breaches." "There's no need for this, Dr. Jinnah." "The Companions abhor violence." "I can tell." "Get down!" "Cover me, Boone!" "Sandoval, wait!" "Sandoval!" "Out of the way!" "Get out of the way!" "Get them off!" "You're just experiencing some disorientation." "It'll pass." "Oh, you're lucky I was still here." "We weren't expecting any more passengers." "Where am I?" "Los Angeles." "City of angels!" "What's this?" "The reason Sahjit escaped." "It masked his genetic code inside the portal." "Da'an must've put it on him." "Da'an let him escape?" "Looks like he's willing to use Sahjit to discredit Zo'or and shut down the portal program." "I should've listened to you." "I never should've taken that portal." "What can you remember?" "I woke up in a hospital room." "They said they brought me from the L.A. portal." "And I had already lost the baby." "You work for them, Will." "You've got to find out what happened." "I will." "I don't care what Dr. Park said." "That baby was mine!" "I felt it." "I believe you, Sarah." "I believe you." "Now he never stops talking." "It's the greatest sound I've ever heard." "I can imagine." "And the Companions are letting me study at the new science academy." "Ah, really?" "And what are you studying there?" "The physics of interdimensional portal travel." "You take good care of yourself, young man." "And your mother too." "Bye." "Incoming call." "You were right." "Your sister's medical records have been sealed." "The hospital must be involved in the experiments." "Sarah never had a miscarriage." "The child, if that's what it even was, was removed by the Taelons before she returned through the portal." "Will, Dr. Park said the embryo was artificially created." "It wasn't even her child." "No, they needed a human host for a reason." "Sarah is part of the being that was inside of her." "Whatever it is..." "Subtitled by Axarion"