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The TIME TRAX Episode Guide

Ver 2.0 (January 1995)

Copyright 1995 by Jeff Zahnen (number6@ufcc.ufl.edu)

This guide will be posted approximately every two weeks to 
alt.tv.time-traxx, and monthly to rec.arts.sf.tv.

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Cast

Captain Darien Lambert ............ Dale Midkiff
Selma ............................. Elizabeth Alexander
Mordicai Sahmbi (occasional) ...... Peter Donat

1st Season Opening

"It began in the future.  A scientist turning to evil, a time machine 
called TRAX, criminals who vanish, and a lawman with a mission.  He has 
one weapon and a computer called Selma.  With her, he will travel to a time
more innocent than his own.  Now he is among us, a special breed of man, 
travelling through our world, searching for fugitivies from his own,
knowing he cannot go home until he has found them all.  His name is 
Darien Lambert and this is his story."

2nd Season Opening

"It began in the future.  A time machine called TRAX, criminals who vanish, 
and a lawman who must pursue into the past.  Now he is among us, a special
breed of man.  He has one weapon and a computer called Selma.  With her,
he will travel through our world, searching for fugitivies from his own,
knowing he cannot go home until he has found them all.  His name is 
Darien Lambert and this is his story."

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Trax Info [written by Amy Bieber]

Darien Lambert

Born in 2160, he was abandoned at birth by his parents.  He grew up in an
orphanage and led a solitary life; he loved American history and greatly
admired the US Marshals of the old West.  He graduated first in his class
from the International Police Academy at West Point and soon became one of
the top Fugitive Retrieval Police Officers on Earth. He began having trouble,
however, as fugitives whom he tracked to Washington City began mysteriously
disappearing.  His arrest record declined sharply over a period of years,
due to Sahmbi's TRAX machine.  After Darien fell in love with Sahmbi's
assistant, Elissa, who agreed to help him nail Sahmbi, she got killed
by the TRAX machine while Sahmbi escaped to the past.  She died in Darien's
arms, begging him to stop Sahmbi.  Having lost the only thing in his life
that mattered to him, Captain Lambert pursued Sahmbi to the year 1993, 
to capture him and all the other fugitives who had been escaping Lambert 
for years.

Mordecai Sahmbi

Nobel Prize-winning scientist who, with the aid of Elyssa Chang Knox,
invented TRAX [Transtime Research And eXperimentation], a time machine
which sends people 200 years into the past.  Due to the limitations of
TXP, the chemical which aligns molecules for transport, the machine
is limited to this 200 year arc.  The funding for the project was cut for
this reason.  Sahmbi, wishing to continue his time travel research, resorted
to temporting criminals back to the past in order to fund his work.  He
became extremely greedy and would temport anyone who would pay his price.

SELMA

Specified Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive, a holographic supercomputer
issued only to the five top police captains on the force.  She is
programmed to look like a picture Darien drew of his mother when he
was a boy and she contains all printed material since Guttenberg's Bible.
She can interface with any 20th century electronic system and can perform
complete biological and materials analysis provided she is in contact
with the specimen.  She responds to her Captain's commands only and
may only exercise initiative if Captain Lambert is in danger.

MPPT

Miniature Pellet Projection Tube, Darien's sidearm, disguised as a car alarm.
Blue pellets knock a person out for 2 minutes, green pellets for 3 hours.
Red pellets contain TXP, the chemical required to temport the fugitives
back to the 22nd century.  Once injected with TXP, Selma sends a transmission
tone and TRAX control retrieves the subject.  Once injected, the subject 
may also be retrieved by TRAX control if Darien places an ad in the 
Washington Post classified and specifies the exact location of the fugitive. 
The classified ads are his only means of communication with the future.

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Episode Synopses (Dates are week of first showing)

First Season

A Stranger In Time (1/20/93)

After the assassin of the UN Secretary General, Sepp Dietrich, disappears
from police custody, Captain Darien Lambert learns that Nobel Prize 
winner Mordicai Sahmbi has been transporting fugitives back to the 20th 
century with his time machine.  Before he is able to apprehend Sahmbi 
though, Sahmbi murders his assistant Elyssa (whom Darien was in love with), 
and escapes to the past.  Darien pursues Sahmbi and the other fugitives
to the past.  After his arrival, he meets Secret Service agent Annie Knox 
(who looks exactly like Elyssa).  Darien stops Dietrich from assassinating 
the President.  After a lengthy chase during which Dietrich's partner is 
killed, Darien confronts Dietrich atop a waterfall.  Deitrch tells him he h
as already been exposed to TXP twice (once to teleport him from his cell,
the other to send him back in time).  Darien doesn't care and shoots him 
with a TXP pellet.  Dietrich falls off the waterfall, and appears to be 
transported.  {Mia Sara as Annie Knox / Elyssa, Henk Johannes as Sept 
Dietrich}

To Kill A Billionare (2/01/93)

Sahmbi begins disposing of nuclear waste for companies.  They believe he  
is destroying it, but he is really transporting it to the future.  He
can only transport non-living objects at this point, though.  After seeing 
a news report about the incident, Darien gets a list of nuclear waste 
shipments from Annie Knox.  He tracks down to location to an abandoned mine
in Kentucky.  Darien goes there and witnesses another transport.  He asks
the Chief to check out that location in the future.  The nuclear waste is 
there, and they have no way of dealing with it, due to the fact that
no one has used it in over a century.  Darien asks Annie to stop the 
shipments, but when she says it can't be stopped without more evidence, 
Darien goes after Sahmbi (Selma finds his address).  Darien attempts to 
inject him with TXP, but Sahmbi has a field that stops the pellet.  Darien 
tries to kill him, but Sahmbi's men stop him and take him to the roof of the 
building.  Before he is thrown off, Annie Knox rescues him and delivers the 
injunction to Sahmbi (who calls her Elyssa).  In court, Sahmbi believes he 
has won, due to the fact that the judge is a fugitive.  But Darien reminds
the judge of his family in the future, and his promise not to break
the public trust again.  The vote is split between the other two 
judges, and the other judge is about to decide in Darien's favor when
Sahmbi signals the guard working for him to shoot the judge.  Darien tries 
to stop the bullet, managing to slow it down enough so it is stopped before
it can hit the judge.  Darien leaves the judge in the present so the 
injunction against Sahmbi will stay. {Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat on The 
X-Files) as the judge}

Fire And Ice (2/08/93)

In Texas, Darien pursues a pair of jewel thieves from the future.  
He eventually sends both of them to the future.  A brief appearance 
is made by Sahmbi (he needs to raise money and blackmails the pair).

Showdown (2/15/93)

During a trip west, Darien helps an aging US Marshal capture a fugitive from 
this time.  The Marshal (whom Darien comes to respect greatly) is revealed 
to be a fugitive from the future.  Darien decides to send him back when
they catch the fugitive they are tracking, but the Marshal is killed by 
the fugitive.  Darien arrests the fugitive (the Marshal deputized him), and 
buries his friend.

The Prodigy (2/22/93)

After seeing a news broadcast of a school track meet that broke a world 
record (that was previously not broken until far in the future), Darien 
investigates.  He learns that a fugitive from the future (a bank robber) 
kidnapped his son before coming to the past.  The fugitive is killed, and
Darien returns the son to his mother in the future.

Death Takes A Holiday (3/01/93)

Darien goes to New Orleans on the trail of a criminal he had pursued in the
future.  The criminal's main tactic was to kill the family of his 
competitors, a tactic which attracts Darien's attention when a mob boss's 
daughter is killed in New Orleans.  Darien learns that he has addicted his
assistant to a drug from the future which has no cure in the present.  After
saving the life of the son of the mob boss, they help him capture the 
criminal, whom Darien gives to the family.  He sends the assistant to 
the future for medical treatment, without which she will die.

The Contender (3/08/93)

Darien is contacted by the janitor of TRAX who has come from the future
to find his son, a boxer whom Sahmbi returned after boxing was outlawed
after several deaths.  Darien is forced to enter the ring against him
to prevent him from accidentally killing another boxer (the world champion).
He returns both to the future.

Night Of The Savage (3/15/93)

Darien is contacted by a fugitive in London.  He arrives there to find
her dead.  He learns that she is the latest victim of the Savage, a serial
killer stalking London.  Darien realizes he is using a device from the
future to kill.  Darien falls under suspicion of being the Savage, but
learns that one of the policemen investigating the crimes is the Savage.
The Savage is killed during a fight with Darien.

Treasure Of The Ages (3/29/93)

Darien goes to the Florida Keys to track down a fugitive.  He arrives just
before the onset of a hurricane.  The fugitive is attempting to locate
a treasure ship off the coast that is found in the future.  Darien
is trapped by the hurricane in a hotel with the fugitive and his pregnant
wife (not from the future).  The fugitive holds them prisoner until Darien
is able to escape and return him to the future.  {Eddie Albert guest stars}

The Price Of Honor (4/05/93) [written by Amy Bieber]

While at home dismantling a weapon recovered from a fugitive, Darien hears 
a news bulletin that the Secretary of State, John Shaw, is resigning. This 
catches his attention because, not only did this man not resign his post, 
but he went on to become one of our greatest presidents.  Darien decides that 
someone from the future must be blackmailing Shaw. Selma reports that about 
fourty years from now, Shaw will reveal that he had an illegitimate son with 
a married woman when he was very young and that this had been a secret all 
throughout his career. Darien goes to Camp David to speak to Shaw; he almost 
gets hauled away by the MP's but convinces Shaw to listen to him.  Shaw 
points a gun directly at Darien's head and threatens him, but Darien 
eventually earns his trust by using Annie Knox as a security reference and 
by slipping out of his handcuffs in order to prove to Shaw that he is 
worthy of his trust.  Darien feels very strongly about this case because 
Shaw is black and Darien knows how it feels to be a minority.  From Shaw's 
description Darien identifies the blackmailer just as they receive a 
phonecall telling where to drop off the money in return for the secret not 
being made public.  They plant the money in the appropriate place, but when 
Nigel shows up to claim it Darien confronts him and threatens to temport him. 
Nigel asks Darien to join forces with him and offers to share the money; 
Darien refuses and then Nigel gets a phonecall from his girlfriend who tells 
Darien that if Nigel disappears she will go public with Shaw's secret. 
Darien lets Nigel go, but the suitcase full of money is bugged so Darien can 
follow Nigel home.  Darien then calls Nigel and says he wants to meet with 
him to discuss his earlier offer. When Nigel leaves the hotel room Darien 
goes in and steals the micro-data recorder with the damning evidence
against Shaw.  The girlfriend tries to stop him, but she is easily subdued by
Darien.  When Nigel finds out about this he kidnaps Shaw and tells Darien 
he'll trade Shaw for the micro-recorder. They meet in a warehouse, Darien 
smokes Nigel out and in the impending struggle Nigel gets killed. Darien 
takes Shaw home and when pressed by Shaw as to who he really is, he reveals
that he is from the future. Shaw doesn't believe him, and before he
leaves Darien calls Shaw "Mr. President." {Dorian Harewood as John Shaw}

Face Of Death (4/12/93)

Darien goes to South America after a copkiller from the future.  He is unable
to identify him as the fugitive has had plastic surgery.  He narrows it down
to four men on an expedition into the jungle.  Darien joins the expedition,
which discovers a temple in the jungle.  After killing one of the members,
the fugitive is revealed to be the tour leader, who is after the treasure
in the temple.  Darien sends him back to the future.

Revenge (5/03/93)

After seeing a report from Hawaii on a recent hate crime, Darien notices the 
symbol used by the group is from the future.  Darien goes to Hawaii and 
talks with the reporter about the attack.  During another attack, Darien
sees the group's leader, who appears to be an aged Sepp Dietrich.  They
track the group down to a deserted island.  Darien is captured by the group
after the reporter turns out to be a traitor.  The leader of the group
is in fact Dietrich, who after enduring much pain, awoke on the island
with his present appearance.  Darien escapes while Dietrich murders the
reporter.  Dietrich finds him and threatens to shoot him with TXP until
he finds how many will kill him, but Selma constructs a shield which
protects Darien.  Dietrich flees the island.

Darien Comes Home (5/10/93) [written by Amy Bieber]

Darien goes to Chicago, his hometown, to infiltrate a computer
company run by two fugitive brothers.  Before sending them back
Darien needs to find out what mischief they are up to.  He gets
himself hired to help them on a project of extreme importance to
them.  Upon arriving in Chicago Darien visits Sheperdton's, his
favorite restaurant back home, but finds it to be nothing like he
remembers it. The owner has no idea how to make chicken pot pies,
Darien's favorite dish.  While chatting with the owner a guy comes in and
asks for money, claiming to have a sick mother. Sheperdton tells him
to get lost, but Darien takes an interest and asks what is wrong with
the guy's mother.  The guy gets nervous and pulls a gun, so Darien
shoots him with a pellet and says, "Imagine, lying about your mother."
Sheperdton is grateful.  Darien goes to work and is assigned to assist
a computer genius from this century who is working on the project.
The kid is put off at first because he doesn't want to train Darien, but
he quickly changes his mind when he witnesses Darien's talents with the
computers.  The genius is under the impression that they are supposed to
break into a rival company's computer system because that company has been
stealing software from them.  They have lunch with the genius' sister at
Sheperdton's and the owner tries to make the pot pies since he was so 
grateful for Darien's heroics, but they turn out awful!  Back at work 
Darien goes into the men's room to talk to Selma in visual mode, but the 
brothers have a hidden camera in there so they see her.  They call Darien 
in and he tells them that he is from the future but he's a friend of 
Sahmbi's and he sought the brothers out to get a piece of the action.  
They accept that. (The fugitive in charge of the company had killed a 
treasury department official at the beginning of the show and the genius' 
sister was nearby when it happened, so she knows something is up.)  Darien 
talks to the sister and tells her he is a cop and asks her to keep her eyes 
open.  Darien figures out that the genius is assigned to break into the 
Treasury Department computer system but he is unaware that this is what he 
is actually doing.  The genius completes the break-in thanks to Darien's 
help, so the brothers prepare to transfer money to a Swiss account and 
leave town.  Darien goes to their office, but they zap him and flee.
Darien pursues them to the brothers' house where there is a gunfight 
and they take off in a helicopter.  Darien pursues in another helicopter. 
They fight it out in the air; Darien manages to temport one brother and 
kills the other.  The genius, his sister, and Darien have dinner at 
Sheperdton's again where Darien gives the owner the recipe from the future 
for chicken pot pies.

Two Beans in a Wheel (5/17/93)

While thinking about buying a used car, Darien is attacked by Ivan Mallory,
a hitman sent by Sahmbi.  Mallory is shot and falls off the dock.  Darien
meets Eve Thorne, a policewoman from the future sent to help him.  Selma
confirms that Eve is with the police, but there are no records for her
for the last few years.  Eve says this is standard procedure for an 
undercover operative.   She tells Darien that Sahmbi is after the Holy Grail.
According to their history, the Grail briefly resurfaced in the 20th century 
before disappearing again.  Later that evening, Mallory (uninjured) swims to 
Sahmbi's boat.  The next morning, Darien and Eve go to a bookstore owned by 
Simon Delacroix, who they find dead (killed by Mallory the day before).  
Selma locates several letters from Delacroix to a Brother Pio, asking for 
information about the Grail.  In one of them, Pio mentions that the Grail is 
not at Castle Corbennic.  But Delacroix never mentioned the Castle, and Selma
cannot locate any other reference to the Castle in connection with the Grail.
On the way to the monastery, Darien and Eve try to elude a car following 
them, but they crash.  Sahmbi is forced to leave when the police approach.
At the monastery, Brother Pio insists he knows nothing about the Grail, but
after Darien explains about what Sahmbi will do with the Grail, Brother
Pio shows them a manuscript which was almost as sought after as the Grail,
as it was supposed to tell the final burial place of Joseph of Arimathea
(who the Grail was supposed to be buried with).  The book indicates that
the Grail was at Castle Corbennic, but the castle no longer exists.  
Eve visits Darien later that night, and distracts him while she grabs his
PPT and shoots him with it.  Darien wakes up to find Sahmbi in the room.
While Sahmbi and Mallory go get Brother Pio, Eve tells Darien why she is
working for Sahmbi.  She was undercover in a drug ring.  She killed the
head of the operation when she saw what he did to people.  A contract
was immediately put out on her, and the police would do nothing to help
a rogue cop.  So when Sahmbi offered to send her back, she agreed (Sahmbi
wanted to have a cop he could control in the past, just in case).  Darien
is forced to have Selma reveal the location of the Grail.  Selma locates it
at San Simeon, William Randolph Hearst's estate.  The abbey of the castle
was bought by Hearst and shipped to his estate, and was never opened.
While Mallory is disposing of the guard, Darien asks Brother Pio to take
the Grail to the future to help stop the fighting in the Middle East. 
Pio agrees.  Inside the warehouse, Pio is sent to get the Grail.  He
emerges with a chest, and Darien shoots with TXP and sends the transmission
tone.  Eve shoots Mallory before he can shoot Darien.  Sahmbi flies away
in a helicopter.  Darien lets Eve go, since she cannot return to the future,
but he reminds her that he can find her anytime.  Eve says she's counting on
that.

Little Boy Lost (5/24/93)

Darien is alerted by Selma to a rescue signal being emitted by a device
from their time.  Darien investigates.  He finds his former West Point
teacher in the hospital.  He tells him he was camping with his foster son, 
a deaf boy, when he was injured.  The boy is still up in the mountains. 
Darien takes a helicopter to the site of the boy (from the signal), but
the helicopter crashes, injuring Darien.  Darien rescues the boy (with 
much help from Selma), and leaves his professor in the past.

Mysterious Stranger (10/25/93)

Darien goes after a drug dealer in Mexico, but first he is forced
to deal with an actor from the future, who keeps appearing at the wrong
time, causing Darien many problems.  After the actor is rendered 
unconscious, Darien takes care of the fugitive, then allows the actor
to remain in the present.

Framed (11/01/93)

Darien is framed for the murder of an ISA agent.  He teams up with
Tulsa Giles, a member of a government accounting office (who wants
to join the ISA).  They uncover a plot to kill the head of the ISA.
Darien is being set up to take the blame for the murder.  The assistant
head of the ISA, Charlie Burke, is revealed to be a fugitive 
(he also appeared in the pilot).  The head of the ISA is killed, but 
Burke is arrested for the murder.  He goes to a prison run by another
fugitive (of whom Darien is still unaware of).

Beautiful Songbird (11/08/93) [written by Amy Bieber]

A maid discovers a secret room full of electronic equipment in her
boss' house.  She touches a console and a holographic recording
of a country music performance begins to play.  Her boss
discovers her in his secret room and kills her.  Meanwhile, in an airport
in Kentucky, Darien spots Caitlin Carlisle, the biggest country
music star ever, and goes over to meet her. He is starstruck and tells
her he saw her on TV, but she says she is just starting out and is
only now on her way to Nashville so he must be mistaken.  Darien decides
to go to Nashville to see Caitlin perform while she is still an unknown.
He goes to her rehearsal and helps her finish a song she is having 
trouble with; they sing it together.  Caitlin asks Darien if he is 
"G.R.," a fan of hers who always sends her gifts and tells her she will 
be famous. Later that night Darien learns that G.R. brought Caitlin's 
demo tape to this nightclub in an attempt to get her a gig. The owner 
told G.R. that he was booked solid, but then one of the singers 
disappeared so the guy hired Caitlin based on the tape alone.  Darien 
tells Caitlin and she says she doesn't have a demo tape; then a pair 
a Rhinestone-studded cowboy boots arrives from G.R. (they are her 
trademark).  Selma informs Darien that the boots are 197 years old, so 
now Darien knows that G.R. is a fugitive. Darien has Selma identify G.R. 
from the fingerprints on the boots and finds out he is Gandolph Reicher,
an inventor who killed his wife, a singer, because she wouldn't allow him
to fulfill his fantasy about building the biggest singing legend ever to 
live.  Reicher is considered a dangerous psychotic. G.R. sends Caitlin 
a song and asks her to sing it at her next  performance; Darien tells 
her she can't.  She accuses him of being jealous and they argue.  G.R. 
watches from a distance and then later asks Caitlin who Darien is.  
She tells him and G.R. tells her to avoid Darien. Reicher leaves a note 
at Darien's door telling him to meet him at the operahouse. They meet 
there and talk about Caitlin, during which Darien reveals that he is
a future cop. Reicher electrocutes Darien and calls Caitlin and tells her 
Darien left town.  Darien is taken to the hospital while Caitlin performs 
and then goes to Reicher's house to meet him for the first time.  Reicher
shows Caitlin the secret room and the holographic video of her, taken 
from 2005.  He has recorded all her hits so she will never have to 
struggle as an artist. He tells her of his grand plans while Darien is 
making his way over to the house.  Reicher frightens Caitlin and she 
tries to leave just as Darien arrives.  Reicher zaps Caitlin and uses 
her as bait to trap both her and Darien in an electric cage which he 
used to kill the housekeeper.  Darien has Selma shut down the power 
and he temports Reicher.  He explains to Caitlin that they are from a 
parallel universe so if she wants success she will still have to work
for it.  Caitlin tells Darien that she is going to write a song about 
him called 'Mystery Man' and he tells her that he always liked that song.  
{John DeLancie as Gandolph Reicher}

Photo Finish (11/15/93) [written by Amy Bieber]  

Selma convinces Darien to take a trip to Australia to investigate
some historical inconsistencies that she has noted.  Several horse races
recently have had outcomes that were contrary to the historical record
in Selma's memory.  Darien goes to the track and is excited because Prince
Regal, a horse that went down in history for his undefeated status,
is about to race.  Much to Darien's surprise, Prince Regal loses the race
to an unknown longshot horse named Silent Song.  Convinced that foul play
is involved, Darien goes to the stable to examine the winning horse.  Selma 
detects a heart rate characteristic of future horses, but not ones of this 
time period. The female trainer of the horse catches Darien in the stable 
and orders him  out at gunpoint.  Darien identifies himself as Darien Lind, 
an International Horseracing Official who is required to investigate unusual 
race results.  They chat briefly and then the trainer rides the horse away; 
he is being sent to the Burning Tree Stud Ranch.  It seems that this 
particular stable has recently won several races with unknown horses and 
then retired them for breeding after just one victory.  Silent Song throws 
the trainer and dies of an exploded heart before he can be shipped off to 
the stud ranch.  Darien requests a tape of the race and leaves.  One of the 
owner's men asks the trainer about Darien; she tells the guy where Darien is 
staying.  The guy tries to break into the place but Darien chases him - he 
escapes.  The trainer stops by to drop off the race tape.  Upon reviewing 
the results Selma discovers a laser incision which suddenly appears in 
Silent Song just before his winning burst at the end of the race.  Darien 
figures out that a fugitive who invented a device called a Lechter, a 
performance-enhancing laser tool which killed an Olympic athlete in the 
future, is behind these events and that he probably has help.  Darien 
suspects the trainer of also being a fugitive so he invites her over to 
dinner to see if he can get her to tip her hand.  When this fails he decides 
to go look around at the stud ranch.  He goes there and discovers that the 
place is deserted and all of the past champion horses are dead and buried 
there.  Another race is about to start so Darien must rush to catch the 
fugitive and prevent the death of another horse.  He goes to the roof of the 
stands and finds a guy with the Lechter, about to use it.  They struggle and 
the weapon is tossed aside; just as Darien is going to temport the fugitive 
another man, the actual inventor of the device, appears on the roof and picks 
up the weapon.  He kills his associate and is about to kill Darien but they 
struggle and Darien temports him.

Darrow For The Defense (11/22/93)

Laura Darrow, a lawyer from the future once involved with Darien, comes to
the past to return one of the fugitives whose conviction was overturned.  
After checking out a lead on Sahmbi, Darien assists her in finding the 
fugitive, now a doctor in Minnesota.  They give him a day to decide 
whether to go back or not, but the fugitive is working with Sahmbi, who 
is attempting to take over the Strategic Science Center.  The
two are trapped by Sahmbi's men, but the two escape from a straitjacket
with Selma's help.  They are recaptured by Sahmbi's men.  The doctor
(who did commit the crime in the future) attempts to kill Darien, but
Darrow shoots him (it appears he was killed).  Sahmbi escapes again, 
and Darrow returns to the future.

One On One (11/29/93)

Sahmbi captures Darien and exposes him to a TXP derivative, which
allows him to slowly control Darien's mind.  After Darien attempts
to escape, the two are trapped in a mine shaft (the same one from the
second episode).  Darien attempts to reach Sahmbi, while fighting off
Sahmbi's influence.  After Sahmbi tries to make Darien jump down a mine
shaft, Darien breaks free of his control and Sahmbi is arrested by the
police.  

Second Season

Return Of The Yazuka (1/24/94)

A leader of the Yazuka from the future attempts to have Darien killed 
(Darien was the one who captured him in the future).  Darien travels to 
Japan to stop him from taking over the Yazuka.  With the aid of an undercover
policewoman in his organization, he tracks him down to a conference with
the other Yazuka leaders.  Darien convinces the other leaders that there 
is no honor in following the fugitive, and after defeating him, he 
sends him back.

Missing (1/31/94)

Late one night, Darien is robbed while making a withdrawal at a bank.
The thieves take his wallet (containing his badge and Selma).  With
the help of another policeman, Darien tracks the thieves (following
Selma's directions), who use his badge to pull off a million-dollar 
robbery at a hotel.  After arriving at the hotel, Darien stops the 
thieves and rescues Selma (who had been thrown into a fire!)

To Live & Die In Docker Flats (2/7/94)

Darien goes to Docker Flats to try to locate a fugitive.  The people in
the town claim that they don't know anything about him, even when Darien
discovers evidence that they were there.  He finds the grave of the fugitive
along with another couple at their house a few miles from town.  Darien
learns that the man controlling the village had them killed when the fugitive
recognized him as another fugitive from the future and tried to blackmail
him.  Darien recruits some help from the town, and arrests him.  He leaves
him in the past.

A Close Encounter (2/14/94)

Selma alerts Darien to the presence of an alien ship crashing on Earth.
The aliens are not supposed to be encountered by Earth until Darien's time.
Darien goes to the site of the crash, and rescues the alien from a group
out to kill it (it attacked the sheriff's brother in self-defense).  He
learns it came to rescue its mate, who is living in the town.  After
getting both of them, he sends them to the future, since there is no
way they can contact their planet in this time.

The Gravity Of It All (2/21/94)

Darien finds the inventor of an anti-gravity belt living in the past.
The inventor has perfected the belt, which had serious problems in the
future.  Darien tries out the belt.  After Darien leaves, the scientist
is kidnapped by a terrorist who wants the belt for himself.  Using the
earlier version of the belt, Darien rescues the scientist, and uses the
belt to help them escape (it was prone to explode upon sharp impacts).
The terrorist pursues them in the other belt.  Darien shoots him with
a pellet and he crashes, causing the belt to explode.  Darien allows the
scientist to remain in the present, on condition that he not create
any device from the future.

Happy Valley (2/28/94)

Tulsa Giles reappears after she has become an agent of the ISA.  She
persuades Darien to help her with a case she is working on concerning 
Happy Valley, a real estate development.  They pose as husband and wife
and purchase a house there (Tulsa borrows $50,000 from Darien's bank account), 
discovering a clause in the contract that reverts the ownership
back to Happy Valley if they leave within two years.  After stopping
one of his neighbors from shooting him at a party,  Darien discovers 
that a fugitive is driving the homeowners insane with a technique he invented
in the future to aid his patients.  It was supposed to advance their progress
toward recovery, but instead it made them hallucinate and become violent.
After seeing Darien stop the neighbor with a martial arts technique from
the future, the fugitive realizes Darien is there for him.  He uses an 
accelerated version of his procedure on the sleeping Tulsa (Darien is
awake, guarding the house).  She tries to kill Darien, thinking he is 
trying to murder her.  Darien shoots her with a PPT, confirming the
fugitive's suspcions about him.  Selma analyses the beam and determines
its source.  Darien leaves her in the bedroom with orders to reverse the
beam after five minutes.  Darien and Tulsa reach the source just as the beam 
is reversed, and the fugitive is hit with it.  He attempts to kill his
accomplice, who flees the building and is arrested by Tulsa.  Darien sends
the fugitive back and has Selma overload the equipment, causing the building
to explode (after Darien leaves).

Lethal Weapons (3/07/94)

Outside Charleston, two criminals run an armored truck off the road.  They
begin to cut open the back door with a weapon they purchased.  The setting
on the weapon is supposed to be set to two, but in order to speed up the
process, the dial is set to its highest setting.  This causes the truck to
explode, killing one of the criminals when he is thrown back against
their truck.  The other passes out.  Darien becomes involved when he sees
a news report of the incident.  He recognizes the weapon as an AP-6, a weapon
from the future.  Darien goes to Charleston posing as an ATF agent.  He
retrieves the weapon from the police and interrogates the prisoner.  Selma 
generates a delta-wave tone to cause the prisoner to answer their questions.
He does not know where the weapon came from (his brother, the one who died,
purchased it), but he knows that it was bought on an island.  On the island,
Simon Cale has just finished making his sonic demoleculizer (or "boomer").
He sends Merritt, his assistant, to retrieve the AP-6 from the police.
When he arrives at the police station (posing as a FBI agent), he is told 
about Darien retrieving the weapon, and learns Darien's location.  At his 
hotel, Darien dissassembles the AP-6, but finds a circuit board that says 
"Made In Korea".  Since Korea was integrated into the Republic Of Southeast 
Asian in 2023, this should not be there.  Selma determines that the board is 
only a few years old, which means that the weapons are being manufactured in 
the present.  Darien realizes only Simon Cale could do this.  He reviews the 
case file on Cale, which includes information on the last case of Thomas 
Able, murdered by Cale with a boomer during his arrest in 2190.  Able was 
Darien's roommate at the academy and Darien swore to get Cale.  Merritt 
attacks Darien with a boomer.  Darien is knocked out after one blast, and 
Merritt, believing he is dead, takes the AP-6 and leaves.  Selma
tells Darien it was not Cale who attacked him, but Dexter Merrit, an 
arms dealer from the future linked to Cale (originally arrested
for murdering someone with a boomer).  Later, Darien searches for the 
island Cale is using.  Selma accesses a Defense Department satellite due 
to pass over the area, looking for an island using a large amount of power.  
She locates Cale on Bull Island.  Darien goes to the island, which is   
covered in security devices (which soon alert Cale to Darien's presence).
Cale sends Merritt to kill Darien.  Darien finds one of the manequins Cale 
has been using for target practice.  He puts his West Point sweater on it and
has Selma program it to begin walking.  Merritt sees the dummy and destroys
it with the boomer, while Darien comes up behind him and hits him with a TXP
pellet.  He takes Merritt's boomer and goes to find Cale.  Cale turns
on the defense system he has installed on the island.  Selma manages to
knock out the video reception, but is unable to jam the weapons system (since
it is from the future).  Selma goes into scan mode to warn Darien when he
is near one of the detectors.  Darien avoids falling into a pit filled with
spikes (covered by a hologram), but he is caught by a tree snare.  He frees
himself by breaking the rope with his firing at it with his PPT.  Due
to the amount of energy coming from the house, Selma is unable to scan
the area and Darien sets off a detector, causing lasers to fire at him
as he runs toward the house.  He sets off another detector that causes an
electric fence to rise, but he jumps over it onto the porch.  But Cale has 
set up an electrical field on the floor that holds him in place.  Cale
emerges and takes Darien's PPT.  Darien puts Selma into visual mode,
distracting Cale, which allows Darien to shoot Cale with his boomer, killing
him.  Darien thanks Selma for breaking her general orders not to appear
in front of a third person.  Darien destroys Cale's lab on the island.
Selma tells Darien that Cale had sold 14 weapons to people around the
country (there were no names listed), which expands Darien's mission in
the past.

The Cure (3/14/94)

Darien confronts an Australian football coach who is a fugitive from 
the future.  When he is about to send him back, the coach tells him
he has been exposed to TXP twice already.  He attempts to flee, but
soon falls down, dead.  Darien learns he was a patient at an Australian
clinic that claims to cure fatal diseases.  He finds that the clinic 
is run by Sahmbi, who uses TXP to cure the patient, which does cure them, 
but soon kills them anyway.  Darien is captured, but escapes with the aid
of Sahmbi's assistant, who came to Sahmbi for treatment.  Sahmbi escapes
from Darien again.  Darien tells the assistant that a cure has just been 
found for her disease.

Perfect Pair (4/18/94)

Darien's partner from the future, who likes breaking the rules, returns to 
help him catch a corrupt police chief from the future, who framed him in
the future when he worked for him.  He brings his own hologram, Cindi, with
him.  They meet with a detective who has been kicked off the police 
force, who tells them that the chief is planning to kill the governor.
The partner is captured after trying to kidnap the police chief.  With 
the aid of Selma (who reveals that she can both change appearance, to Cindi,
and can appear solid), Darien breaks into the police station and rescues
his partner.  The police chief is sent back to the future after Darien
stops his partner from killing him.  Before he can send him back also, 
he steals Darien's motorcycle and rides off with it.

Catch Me If You Can (4/25/94)

Darien goes after a criminal who escaped from him in the future after
stealing his weapon.  Selma comments that he has spent the most time
tracking this one fugitive.  He frames Darien for the robberies he is 
committing, but Darien is released quickly after another robbery is 
committed.  After a final bank robbery committed with a helicopter
(during which they take the shotgun of the sheriff helping Darien) 
the criminal and his accomplice plan to go to the Bahamas and forget
about Darien, but run out of fuel very quickly.  Darien and the sheriff
track the pair down and capture them, recovering both weapons.  Darien
leaves the criminal in this time.

The Dream Team (5/02/94)

Darien comes to the aid of Trey Hawkins, a former NBA star who has
become a priest.  A hitman, who confessed to Hawkins when he was on 
death row, is released from prison pending a new trial.  He plans to 
kill Hawkins to eliminate the only person who can put him in jail.
Darien guards Hawkins after an attempt is made on his life (after
a basketball game with Darien).  They believe it is to do with Hawkins's
work in stopping gang violence.  After another attempt is made with a 
futurisic weapon, Darien wonders how it came to be in their possession
(ignoring Selma's request to review a file that would have told him how).
Hawkins is contacted by the hitman who wants him to hear his confession.
Hawkins agrees to meet him at the Sports Arena alone.  Darien finds out
that the hitman is from the future, and races to the Arena.  He prevents
the hitman from killing Hawkins, and sends him back.  Later, he participates
in a charity basketball tournament with Hawkins.  {Julius Erving guest stars}

Almost Human (5/09/94)

Sahmbi creates an android that looks exactly like Darien programmed to kill 
Darien and take his place (so no one else will come after him).  Sahmbi
tricks a fugitive Darien has been tracking to come out into the open as
bait for Darien.  After Darien returns the fugitive, he is attacked by the
android, who later follows Darien back to his hotel.  After considering
several possibilities, Darien decides that his attacker must be an 
android.  Later that night, Darien is again attacked by the android.  A 
shot with a pellet momentarily stops the android, but not for long (it
does knock out the video link to Sahmbi).  The android knocks Darien out.  
Darien awakes to find the android standing over him.  It wishes to study
him before fulfilling its mission.  Darien has Selma appear (she receives
several pellets from the android!) and tell the android about Sahmbi 
(clips are from the pilot episode).  Sahmbi tracks the pair down and orders
the android to kill Darien.  They fight and android falls over a cliff.  
Sahmbi tells Darien (who he thinks is the android) to dispose of the
body and return later.  After Sahmbi leaves, Darien brings the android back
to his room.  With Selma's help, he fixes the android and asks it for
Sahmbi's location.  Sahmbi is watching through the video link and tells
the android to give Darien the location.  Darien arrives at Sahmbi's lab
and makes his way into Sahmbi easily.  Before he can send Sahmbi back, 
Sahmbi's guard captures him.  The android appears and stops the guard, but
is killed.  Sahmbi escapes again.  The android tells Darien it had been an
honor to have been somewhat like him.  Later, Darien tells Selma of a wish 
he had made for a brother, which came true for a short time (Selma asks
if he would settle for a sister!).

Mother (5/16/94)

A fugitive asks his ex-wife to help him escape from Darien to make up
for helping her escape from the future.  When Darien arrives at Albert 
Logan's apartment, he is interrupted by three men who chase him.  Darien 
tracks the fugitive to the orphanage where he grew up.  He finds Kathryn 
Logan (who resembles Selma greatly), who denies having seen Albert lately.  
After Darien leaves, she watches a recording of Darien growing up.  Darien 
follows her to her ex-husband.  He shoots Darien but Kathryn hits his hand 
and the bullet only grazes Darien's forehead.  He sends Logan back and passes
out.  Kathryn takes him back to her house, and tries to save his life.  
When Kathryn prays for her son's life, Selma reveals her presence and 
tells her about Darien.  Kathryn tells her that she left Darien because 
she could not give Darien a good life.  Kathryn tells Selma not to reveal 
who she is to Darien.  When Darien wakes up, Selma is evasive about who 
Kathryn is (Darien realizes he had a transfusion which must come from 
someone else from the future).  From this and several other clues, Darien 
realizes that Kathryn is his mother.  He becomes angry when he confronts 
her and she denies that she is his mother.  He storms out of the house, 
saying he hates her.  The three men from Logan's apartment arrive to search 
for a disk Logan stole from them.  They find the disk just as Darien comes 
to retrieve Selma.  With Selma's help, they stop two of the men but the other
flees outside.  Darien pursues but comes under fire from the driver of the 
car they came in.  Kathryn appears and shoots the driver, but is also hit.  
Darien stops the other man and finds Kathryn dying of the gunshot.  She 
reveals who she is and that Darien's father was also a cop.  She asks Selma 
to protect Darien, then dies after Darien tells her he forgives her.  Darien 
later visits her grave.  Her tombstone reads 
              "Kathryn Lambert 2141-1994 Beloved Mother"

The Last MIA (5/23/94)

While tracking a fugitive, Darien is shot in the shoulder and falls off a
catwalk (the fugitive is sent back).  A guard who was watching Darien 
takes him home and removes the bullet.  He asks Darien to help him find
his son, a POW in Cambodia (he noted Darien's physical ability).  Darien
initially refuses, but after Selma tells him the prisoner will be executed
in a few days after a ransom demand is paid, he agrees to help (with the
stipulation that no questions are asked about him).  In Thailand,
they meet with the owner of a bar who knows where the son is being held.
Before they can get the information, the man is killed on orders from the
leader of the camp holding the son.  Darien meets with the former head
of the NVA army in that area.  The man is dying and Selma tells Darien
that in a few months, he will reveal all the information he knows about
MIA's.  Darien convinces him to give them the location of the camp.  They
take a boat upriver to the camp, but the boat is blown up by a patrol 
boat.  They swim ashore and make their way to the camp with very little
time remaining before the ransom will be paid.  Darien has Selma make
a diversion (sounds of a firefight) at one end of the camp, while he sneaks
in and rescues the son.  They retreat to the dock, where the father is
shot by the head of the camp.  The son shoots him with the gun from the
patrol boat, which they leave on.  After they cross the border, Darien
leaves them after telling thanking them for showing him what it means
to be a father and to have a son.

Split Image (10/10/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

The episode opens with a female robbing a museum; she shoots the security 
guard with a device known as an SFD (spontaneous freezing device).
The story gets into a supermarket tabloid which Selma notices and points out 
to Darien, so he goes to talk to the guard who identifies the woman as Marie 
Fontaine, a local socialite (he recognises her picture in the newspaper).  
The problem is, Marie was at some society gathering that night so she has an 
alibi for the time of the robbery.  Selma tells us that Marie is from the 
future and she was a suspect in a series of burglaries but she always had an 
alibi so she was never convicted.  Darien decides to cozy up to her to find 
out what's going on, so he goes to one of these black tie fundraisers
and runs into her.  He gets himself invited over to her place for a party
where we learn that Marie has an evil twin named Melissa who is joined to her
psycho-physically, i.e. if Marie cuts herself, Melissa bleeds and they share 
other feelings as well. While Marie and Darien get chummy, we learn that 
Melissa is the criminal. Marie and Melissa were siamese twins who were 
separated by Sahmbi and he'd been squeezing them ever since, so they had 
been pulling these jobs to pay him off.  Meanwhile, Darien is falling in love
with Marie and can't believe she's a criminal.  He breaks into her house
and finds the statue that was stolen at the beginning of the episode but 
Marie catches him and shoots him with the freezing device.  When he wakes up 
he tells her that he too is a fugitive and was trying to steal the statue so 
that he could use it to get Sahmbi off his back.  He convinces her that they 
should team up to defeat Sahmbi - she agrees.  They go to dinner while 
Melissa pulls another robbery. Marie feels that this is taking place and 
suddenly leaves dinner to try to stop Melissa because Marie didn't want her 
to pull any more jobs.  She catches up with Melissa, who informs Marie of 
Darien's real identity (Melissa spoke to Sahmbi). Marie says she doesn't 
care.  Darien shows up and the chase begins...he accidentally tackles Marie, 
who tells him that she knows who he is and it doesn't matter, so then he 
goes after Melissa.  He shoots her with TXP, which unfortunately also
knocks out Marie. Selma informs him that they both must be temported or else
they will die, so he does it and places an ad to Marie saying he's sorry he 
didn't get a chance to say goodbye - he wanted to keep her around!

Cool Hand Darien (10/17/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

It opens at a prison farm in Louisiana...an escapee is caught and killed.
One of the guards protests and the warden tells another guard to
"take care" of him.  Next we see Darien at home...he gets a phone call
from a woman who says her husband, Luther Bell, told her to call Darien
if anything ever happened to him.  Selma informs Darien that Bell
escaped from a prison transport in the 22nd century.  Bell's wife tells
Darien that he is a prison guard and he was killed and she asks for
Darien's help to find out what really happened.  Darien goes to
Louisiana and meets her.  She doesn't know Bell is from the future
and the circumstances of his death were being witheld from her (and there was no body).  Darien goes to the farm to check it out - he identifies himself
as Don Logan of the state bureau of prisons.  He inquires about the
missing guard and was told he died trying to catch an escapee.  Darien wants
to question the guards and is told he has to come back tomorrow.
The warden, Xavier Draks and his assistant, Morgan, are both fugitives and
they have some local officials in their pocket. They call and find out
that "Don Logan" is a fake and go after Darien that night.  They capture
him and implant a disc in his chest that allows them to inflict great
pain with a device called a scorcher (Draks used it in the future to
turn convicts into slave laborers and was doing the same thing here...
Morgan was a prisoner on the same transport that Bell was on and Bell was
partnered with them until the incident with the escapee).  Darien gets
tortured with the device and tells them that he is a private investigator
hired by Mrs. Bell - he doesn't tell them his real name.  He is put
in lock-up with the other prisoners where he meets Bell.  He tells Bell
who he is and then they get called to work.  They get sent to a mine where
they dig platinum.  Darien tries to talk to Bell and the guard comes over
and scorches Bell for talking...Darien stands up to the guard and gets
scorched himself but still beats the hell out of the guy...this earns
him the respect of the other prisoners as well as Bell because he stood
up for him.  Darien makes a phone call to Selma, who is in the property
room, and tells her to create a diversion.  She sets the property
room on fire and the prisoners are called to put out the fire.  Darien
runs in to get Selma but gets pinned by a falling beam...Bell runs in
and saves Darien.  The two talk and Bell tells Darien that he will never
go back - Darien says he has to send him back, but first they have to
get out of that prison.  They go to the infirmary so Selma can examine
one of the pain discs so she can figure out how to neutralize it.  She
figures it out and Darien has her neutralize Bell's disc first but
before he can help himself they get caught and scorched again.
Darien drops Selma and Bell picks her up.  They send Darien back to the mine
and take Bell out to kill him.  He breaks free and sneaks back into
the mine to meet Darien.  Darien takes Selma and neutralizes his disc
and they then learn that the bad guys are about to blow up the mine with all
of the prisoners in it (the state was getting suspicious).  Bell starts
a riot and Darien pursues Draks...he beats him up and tells him who
he really is.  Bell gets all the prisoners out of the mine, which then
blows up, killing both Draks and Morgan.  Darien is blown clear (and
his stunt double got badly burned doing that).  Darien then goes to
Bell's house where the wife tells him Bell isn't there.  Selma scans the
house and Darien calls Bell out.  Bell says "I told you I'm not going back."
Darien says "No, I guess you're not...I can't send back the man who saved
my life."  He then gives the couple some platinum he took from the
mine because they had financial difficulties.

The Lottery (10/24/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

Darien is preparing for a ski vacation when Selma turns
his attention to a news broadcast.  Joey Miller, Darien's
favorite comic from the future, has just won the Florida 
state lottery.  Darien realizes that Joey brought the winning
numbers from the future and cancels his vacation to go to
Miami.  Joey wasn't a criminal in the future but he was running from
a huge gambling debt.  Meanwhile, Joey is busy spending his money when
a local mob boss calls him in to pay up his gambling debt in this century.
Joey explains that he doesn't have the money and is given 24
hours to get it.  Darien shows up and also gives Joey 24 hours to
return the money to the lottery commision because he
essentially stole it by using his knowledge from the future (he
has a memory archive called "IRV" that gives him the numbers).
Joey tells Darien he can get the money if he goes to see someone,
so Darien drives him there and waits in the car.  Joey goes
to the mob boss and tells him he can give him the winning numbers
to the California lottery $16 million drawing if the boss
will clear his debt and give him $500,000.  The boss agrees but
tells Joey to hang around the casino while they wait for the drawing.
Joey is doing well at the craps table when
Darien goes in to get him out and gets approached by the thugs...
they trash the place as Darien beats the heck out of all the 
bad guys.  Joey grabs his winning chips before they leave.  Darien
then has Selma erase IRV's memory and Joey says he'll pay back
the Florida lottery if he can go back to the casino to cash in
his chips.  They go back and Joey gets grabbed and brought to the
boss...he did win the $16 million but now he wants the numbers to
another drawing worth over $100 million.  Joey says that only Darien
can get him the numbers...they chase down Darien and bring him in
where he learns that Joey gave away the California lottery numbers.
He is forced to use Selma to get the winning numbers to the next drawing.
Selma gets angry with him for this.  After the drawing, in which
the mob boss of course is a winner, he tells his thugs to go kill
Darien.  Darien escapes and gets to the boss just before he is to kill
Joey.  The boss knows Darien is a cop, but Darien says he'll let him go
and keep the new lottery winnings if Joey can keep his casino winnings.
The boss agrees, then finds out that there were 1 million winners
so his ticket is only worth $67 (Selma made a call to the lottery commission
to arrange that).  Darien tells Joey that Selma will also screw up the
California computer so that the boss doesn't get any of the $16 million 
either. Joey returns the Florida lottery money and gets to keep some of the
casino winnings to take back to 2194 to pay off his creditors there.
Darien sends him home.

Out For Blood (10/31/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

The show opens with a murder committed by a man with a
futuristic weapon.  Darien investigates since it is the 
second such murder which has come to his attention.  Using a
police computer he learns that there have actually been 8 
murders all fitting the same description.  Selma determines
that all 8 victims, with names like Sandoff, Sandler, and
Saunders, have a common ancestor, Pavel Sandowski.  She also
determines that there is only one remaining ancestor, Lauren
Sanders.  The killer tries to get to her but his attempt is 
interupted.  Darien goes to see Lauren (posing as an FBI agent) 
to warn her of the danger; her husband is a cop and he tells
Darien that he will protect her.  Darien follows her to work and 
stops the killer from getting to Lauren; he chases the guy but
loses him.  Selma gets a good photo of the guy and Darien recognises
him as Jackson Parker, a cop from back home.  Darien goes to
Lauren's house and tells her to go hide someplace safe away from
town - while he is there Parker attacks the house.  Lauren's
husband takes her to his dad's cabin up in the mountains while
Darien locates Parker's motel via the chemical company which supplies
him with the special chemical needed by the weapon he is using.  In
the motel room Darien finds the Sandowski family tree, indicating
that Parker is indeed trying to wipe out the family.  He makes the
connection that Parker killed his former partner, Peter Sands, back
home and now he's trying to wipe out all of Sands' ancestors.  Darien
finds a holographic recording of Parker's girlfriend that explains
why this is happening; the girlfriend (Ricki Baines) was accidentally
killed by Sands back home.  Parker thinks that if he wipes out Sands'
ancestors then Sands will never be born and his girlfriend will be
alive when he goes back home.  He doesn't know that he is in a parallel
universe and that nothing he does in this world can change what happened
back home.  Meanwhile, Parker attacks Lauren's husband and drugs him
to find out where Lauren is hiding.  Darien comes over and snaps him
out of it and the two head for the mountains.  They get there just as
Parker is about to kill Lauren.  Darien explains that it won't change
anything but Parker doesn't believe him.  Darien has Selma pretend
she's Ricki and tells Parker to let Lauren go.  He does, a shooting match
ensues, and Parker runs outside where Lauren's husband kills him.  Lauren
tells Darien that she is going to have a baby and Darien says "What a
bright future he has."

The Scarlet Koala (11/07/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

The episode opens with poachers chasing a koala in New Guinea;
they kill a native but fail to get the bear.  Meanwhile, back
in Washington, Darien is returning from a mission when Selma receives
an emergency transmission from the 22nd century (they somehow
sent a signal on the transmission tone and it was extremely draining
to Selma)...there is a worldwide epidemic of a specific strain
of malaria for which there is no cure; one million people have
already died and five million are infected.  Darien is instructed
to contact a Dr. Katherine Kincaid.  He goes to see her and learns
that her father developed a serum to combat this disease while
he was stationed in New Guinea with the armed forces.  He cured
many people but the scientific community scoffed at him and his
work was dismissed as a fluke.  His daughter followed in his footsteps
for a while but gave up because of the resistance she kept encountering.
The serum is derived from the blood antibodies from a Scarlet Koala,
a very rare species.  Darien asks her to go to New Guinea with him
to get a koala; he tells her he's with the Centers for Disease Control
and that an epidemic is starting.  They go, but the pilot who drops them
off alerts the poachers that someone is about to capture a Scarlet
Koala.  Darien and Kate track down the bear with Selma's help; Darien
is about to tranquilize it but Kate bumps into him and so his
shot misses and the bear runs away.  They pursue it but run into a
pack of natives who consider the bear sacred.  Darien and Kate are brought 
back to camp where they learn that there is a sick boy (infected with the 
malaria) but the medicine chief was killed by the poachers. Darien tells 
them that they can cure the boy if they can have the koala. Kate makes the 
serum for the boy and Darien and Kate are told that if the boy dies, so will 
they.  The boy recovers and Darien and Kate are freed to leave 
with the bear.  Darien and Kate had been growing close all throughout this
ordeal and now he decides to tell Kate the whole story.  He tells her
that he is a time traveler and that the epidemic he spoke of is in the
22nd century.  She believes him because of the amazing gadgets he had
been using all along (he disguised Selma as a cellphone and also used her
as a medical scanner on the sick boy so Kate knew there was something
weird about Darien).  Just as Darien is about to temport the koala the
poachers catch up to them and steal the bear at gunpoint.  They try to fly
away but Darien gets into the plane, jumps out with the bear, and the
plane crashes and burns.  Kate then tells him that she has to go back with
the bear because no one in the future knows how to make the serum. Darien is
reluctant at first but then agrees; he sends her and says he'll see her
someday.

Optic Nerve (11/14/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

Darien tracks Charles Mood, a fugitive he knew back home, to
a cemetery in Upstate New York.  Unbeknownst to Darien,
Mood has lured him to this place.  Darien confronts Mood
and is about to shoot him with TXP when Mood says "Don't
you want to see my masterpiece?" Mood points to an open grave
with a headstone that says "Darien Lambert 2157-1994" and then
he blinds Darien with some futuristic weapon and pushes him into the grave.
He tells Darien that this is revenge because Darien blinded Mood 
and ruined his career (he was an artist).  Darien remarks that Mood
is not totally blind (he can see shapes and rough images) and that it was an 
act of self-defense.  Mood says that the injury was worse than death for him 
and now he wants Darien to suffer in the same way. Mood walks away and leaves
Darien in the hole.  Darien climbs out and gets into his car to pursue
Mood.  He is totally blind but forces Selma to help him drive the car.
He almost hits a woman head-on and runs off the road and crashes. The woman
comes to his aid, thinking that Darien lost his vision in the accident.
She takes him to a hospital where Darien is told that his retinas are
badly burned and that he will most likely not recover.  Selma points out that
back home there is a surgical procedure that could correct his vision
but Darien refuses to consider it.  The woman (Kay Archer) takes Darien home 
and lets him stay in a cabin on her property.  Darien struggles with his 
blindness and is finally convinced by Selma that if he doesn't capture Mood 
or get his sight back within one month then he will send himself home.
Darien befriends Kay; we learn that she was a concert pianist until a bad cut
severed the nerves in her hand.  She is out in this remote house in the woods
playing the piano and trying to get her hand strength back. She seems 
doubtful that she can ever get her career back but Darien encourages her.  
Kay invites him to dinner so he goes to town to get some wine (he has been 
practicing walking to town and back).  A bully hassles Darien but Darien 
manages to deck the guy in spite of his blindness.  Upon returning to the 
cabin Darien finds that Mood has been there.  Meanwhile, while Kay is out 
getting groceries, we see Mood run into her on the street.  Darien tells Kay 
that the two of them have to get out of there, but before they can Mood 
calls and tells Darien that he put a bomb in Kay's car (because Darien was 
doing a little too well for himself in spite of his condition).  Darien 
disposes of the vehicle before it blows up, but meanwhile Mood breaks into 
Kay's house and harasses her.  Darien returns and knocks Kay out with his 
PPT.  Darien and Mood fight; Darien has Selma blind Mood so that he too is 
totally blind.  After a struggle, Darien shoots Mood with TXP.  When he doe
s so, he sees the red flash, and then when Selma sends the trasmission tone 
and Mood disappears Darien sees that flash too - his eyes are recovering.  
Kay wakes up and the two get ready to leave; Darien talked Kay into 
auditioning in New York for her return to the concert world. He promises 
to be there on opening night. Finally, he asks if he can take a picture of
Kay and he traces her face with his fingers and tells her that all he has to 
do to see her is close his eyes.

The Crash (11/21/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

Darien goes to Honolulu and confronts fugitive Michael O'Leary
as he is boarding a private plane.  O'Leary runs but Darien
tackles him and is about to send him back when O'Leary offers to make
a deal.  Darien offers O'Leary his freedom if he will lead Darien
to Bergdorf, O'Leary's boss in organized crime.  The two board the plane
which is en route to Bergdorf's private resort island, but they are seen 
together by one of Bergdorf's men who tips him off.  Bergdorf orders the
plane sabotaged.  While in mid-flight the plane loses pressure and
the passengers and crew suffer from oxygen deprivation (Darien and O'Leary
are unaffected because of their advanced physiology).  The passengers include
a genius inventor who Darien knows will be famous, a woman who dropped
out of nursing school, and older guy who was a fireman, and a whiny
businesswoman.   The pilot and co-pilot get injured so Darien and O'Leary fly
the plane together.  They crash land on deserted Howland Island.  Darien
discovers the sabotage and accuses O'Leary of tipping off Bergdorf, which
O'Leary denies (and he didn't do it).  Selma makes contact with a rescue
helicopter and is informed that it will take a day and a half for them to
reach the island.  Bergdorf hears the transmission and takes his own 
helicopter with a gunman to kill all of the crash survivors.  He radios 
Darien and pretends to be a rescue person but the co-pilot recognizes his 
voice.  Darien tells everyone they must hide because Bergdorf will kill them 
all but the co-pilot doesn't believe him - he runs out and waves at the 
helicopter and is killed.  The genius inventor says he can improvise a weapon
from some equipment he has with him, which he successfully does.  Darien 
uses the weapon to shoot the copter out of the sky and then goes to see if 
anyone survived the crash.  Bergdorf is about to shoot Darien when O'Leary 
distracts him; Darien shoots Bergdorf with TXP just as Bergdorf shoots 
O'Leary in the shoulder.  Bergdorf gets sent back while his two assistants 
get killed.  They all get rescued and Darien lets O'Leary go.  The genius 
inventor then discovers that he had gotten onto the wrong plane.

Forgotten Tomorrows (11/28/94) [written by Amy Bieber]  

A woman about to testify against her husband suddenly develops amnesia
after a man shoots her with a futuristic weapon.  Darien sees
the news footage and suspects that it is the result of DXT, an experimental
drug from the future that was stolen after experiments with it
were terminated.  Darien goes to see the victim to confirm his theory
and hooks up with the victim's psychiatrist, Dr. Ellen Mallory, who is
also supposed to testify against the same man.  While in Mallory's office,
a DXT grenade is thrown through the window.  Darien covers it to protect
Mallory, but in the process his memory is erased.  Selma calls on the
phone and tells Mallory to take Darien to his apartment.  She does so, and
Darien recognizes a picture of his office building from the future but is 
very confused about its meaning.  Selma tells them to go to the Smithsonian 
(Darien doesn't recognize her voice but feels like he trusts her), where 
Darien remembers that he is a fugitive retrieval officer.  He nails a pair of
purse snatchers on the Mall and gets his face (and Mallory's) on the news.  
The fugitive behind all the amnesia, Albert Gordon, recognizes Lambert and 
sends his goon after him.  Darien and Ellen go back to his apartment where 
Darien tries to find his computer.  He has memories from the future which
are confusing him and Ellen is telling him that what he is saying makes no 
sense.  Selma identifies herself and asks Ellen to leave her alone with 
Darien; Ellen goes outside.  Darien doesn't remember Selma but she restores
his memory.  Just as Darien goes outside to find Ellen, she is kidnapped by 
Gordon and his goon. Darien pursues them and finds them with Selma's help.  
After the chase, the goon gets shot with DXT by Gordon and Darien sends 
Gordon back (in full view of Ellen). Darien tells Ellen who he really is 
and when she refuses to "forget everything he just told her," he has Selma 
erase her memory of him.

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US Airdates 

A Stranger In Time         1/20/93  6/21,28/93                 
To Kill A Billionaire      2/01/93  5/31/93  9/20/93           
Fire And Ice               2/08/93  4/19/93  9/06/93           
Showdown                   2/15/93  4/26/93  9/13/93  1/17/94 
The Prodigy                2/22/93  6/14/93  9/27/93                    
Death Takes A Holiday      3/01/93 10/04/93 10/04/93        
The Contender              3/08/93  7/05/93 10/11/93        
Night Of The Savage        3/15/93  7/12/93 10/18/93      
Treasure Of The Ages       3/29/93  8/02/93 12/20/93      
The Price Of Honor         4/05/93  8/09/93  1/03/94        
Face Of Death              4/12/93  7/19/93 12/06/93     
Revenge                    5/03/93  7/26/93 12/13/93        
Darien Comes Home          5/10/93  8/16/93 12/27/93         
Two Beans In A Wheel       5/17/93  8/23/93                  
Little Boy Lost            5/24/93  8/30/93  1/10/93        
Mysterious Man            10/25/93  3/21/94  8/08/94             
Framed                    11/01/93  3/28/94  8/15/94             
Beautiful Songbird        11/08/93  4/04/94  8/22/94             
Photo Finish              11/15/93  4/11/94  8/29/94              
Darrow For The Defence    11/22/93  5/30/94                  
One On One                11/29/93  6/06/94                   
Return Of The Yazuka       1/24/94  6/13/94                      
Missing                    1/31/94  6/20/94 10/03/94
To Live & Die In 
        Docker Flats       2/07/94  6/27/94 12/05/94                 
A Close Encounter          2/14/94  7/04/94 12/12/94                       
The Gravity Of It All      2/21/94  7/11/94 12/19/94                 
Happy Valley               2/28/94  7/18/94                       
Lethal Weapons             3/07/94  7/25/94                      
The Cure                   3/14/94  8/01/94                         
Perfect Pair               4/18/94  9/05/94                        
Catch Me If You Can        4/25/94  9/12/94                      
The Dream Team             5/02/94  9/19/94                    
Almost Human               5/09/94  9/26/94                     
Mother                     5/16/94                    
The Last M.I.A.            5/23/94                      
Split Image               10/10/94
Cool Hand Darien          10/17/94
The Lottery               10/24/94
Out For Blood             10/31/94
The Scarlet Koala         11/07/94
Optic Nerve               11/14/94
The Crash                 11/21/94
Forgotten Tomorrows       11/28/94

UK Airdates (Central TV at 5:15 on Saturdays)
[provided by Duncan Ferguson]

A Stranger In Time         7/16/94
Fire And Ice               7/23/94
Photo Finish               7/30/94
To Kill A Billionare       8/06/94
Darien Comes Home          8/13/94
Framed                     8/20/94
Little Boy Lost            8/27/94

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Trax Tally (complied by Scott Stewart [scotts@ide.com] )             

KEY
  D - Died in 20th Century
  R - Returned to 22nd Century
  E - Escaped from Darien
  F - Fugitive Freed to live in 20th Century
  P - Allowed to stay in 20th Century to serve prison term
  S - Non-Fugitive allowed to stay in 20th Century
  N - Non-Fugitive sent to 22nd Century



Episode                   D  R  E  F  P  S  N   Notes  
=======================   =  =  =  =  =  =  =   =====================
A Stranger In Time        1  1  1               2 Hour Premiere
To Kill A Billionaire           *  1            Sahmbi, Nuclear Waste
Fire And Ice                 2                  Jewel Thieves
Showdown                  1                     US Marshall
The Prodigy               1                 1   Track star
Death Takes A Holiday     1                 1   New Orleans
The Contender                               2   Boxer
Night Of The Savage       2                     London serial killer 
Treasure Of The Ages         1                  Hurricane
The Price Of Honor        1  1                  Future President
Face Of Death                1                  Trip to S America
Revenge                     -1  1               Return of Sep Dietrich
Darien Comes Home         1  1                  Hacker Brothers
Two Beans in a Wheel            *  1        1   Sahmbi, Holy Grail
Little Boy Lost                    1            deaf boy lost in mountains
Mysterious Man               1           1      Actor from future
Framed                       1        1  #      Intelligence Agency
Beautiful Songbird           1                  country singer
Photo Finish              1  1                  horse racing
Darrow For The Defense    1  1  *           1   Sahmbi, Darrow from future
One On One                      *               Sahmbi controls Darien's mind
Return Of The Yakuza         1                  Darien goes to Japan
Missing                                         Darien robbed
To Live & Die In Docker   1           1         Darien vs. Texas town 
  Flats
A Close Encounter                           2   Aliens
The Gravity Of It All                    1      Anti-gravity belt
Happy Valley                 1                  Real Estate Development
Lethal Weapons            1  1                  Arms Dealer
The Cure                  1     *               Sahmbi's clinic in Australia
Perfect Pair              1  1           1      Old Partner 
Catch Me If You Can                   1         Old Nemesis with Darien's Gun
Dream Team                   1                  Hall-of-Fame Priest 
Almost Human                 1  *        #      Android Darien
Mother                    1  1                  Darian Finds his mother
The Last MIA                 1                  Darian rescues an MIA
Split Image                  1              1   Siamese Twins
Cool Hand Darien          2        1            Prison Farm
The Lottery                                 1   The comedian
Out For Blood             1                     Cop killer 
The Scarlet Koala                           1   Darian hunts for koala bears
Optic Nerve                  1                  Blind criminal
The Crash                    1     1            Darian crashes in the pacific
Forgotten Tomorrows          1                  Darian loses memory
                         == == == == == == == 
                         18 23  2  5  3  3 11

* Sahmbi escapes again
& Assumes that the guy was killed by the Mob.
# Fugitive(s) shown, Darien does not see them.

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Writers / Directors (complied by Amy Bieber [bieber@optics.rochester.edu] )  

Episode                         Writer                  Director
A Stranger in Time              Harve Bennett           Lewis Teague
To Kill A Billionaire           Harold Gast             Colin Budds
Fire And Ice                    Garner Simmons          Brian Trenchard-Smith
Showdown                        David Loughery          Colin Budds
The Prodigy                     Tracy Friedman          Donald Crombie
Death Takes A Holiday           Ronald Cohen            Rob Stewart
The Contender                   Grant Rosenberg         Rob Stewart
Night Of The Savage             Mark Rodgers            Colin Budds
Treasure of the Ages            Jeffrey Hayes           Donald Crombie
The Price of Honor              Maryanne Kesica &       Colin Budds
                                   Michael Sheff
Face Of Death                   Garner Simmons          Rob Stewart
Revenge                         Ruel Fischmann          Rob Stewart
Darien Comes Home               Grant Rosenberg         Brian Trenchard-Smith
Two Beans In A Wheel            George Yanok            Donald Crombie  
Little Boy Lost                 Harve Bennett           Donald Crombie
Mysterious Stranger             Harve Bennett &         Colin Budds
                                   George Yanok
Framed                          Bill Froehlich          Chris Thomson
Beautiful Songbird              Tracy Friedman          Colin Budds
Photo Finish                    Garner Simmons          Chris Thomson
Darrow For The Defence          Ruel Fischmann          Colin Budds
One On One                      Harold Gast             Colin Budds    
Return of the Yakuza            Ruel Fischmann          Rob Stewart
Missing                         Garner Simmons          Rob Stewart
To Live & Die in Docker Flats   Michael Ahnemann        Chris Thomson
A Close Encounter               Jonathan Glassner       Colin Budds
The Gravity of it All           Bill Dial               Colin Budds  
Happy Valley                    Tracy Friedman          Chris Thomson
Lethal Weapons                  Grant Rosenberg         Chris Thomson
The Cure                        Harold Gast             Ian Barry
Perfect Pair                    Robert McCullogh        Rob Stewart
Catch Me If You Can             Babs Greyhosky          Rob Stewart
The Dream Team                  Harve Bennett           Harve Bennett
Almost Human                    David Loughery &        Colin Budds
                                   Laurie Stevens 
Mother                          Ruel Fischmann &        Colin Budds
                                   Joann Fluke 
The Last MIA                    Michael Ahnemann        Ian Barry
Split Image                     Grant Rosenberg         Colin Budds
Cool Hand Darien                Jeffrey Hayes           Jeffrey Hayes
The Lottery                     Garner Simmons          Mark Defriest   
Out For Blood                   David H. Balkan         Colin Budds    
The Scarlet Koala               Tracy Friedman          Rob Stewart
Optic Nerve                     David Loughery &        Donald Crombie
                                Laurie Stevens
The Crash                       Ruel Fischmann          Donald Crombie  
Forgotten Tomorrows             James L. Novack         Rob Stewart  

Writer                          Episode
Michael Ahnemann                The Last MIA
Michael Ahnemann                To Live & Die in Docker Flats
David H. Balkan                 Out For Blood
Harve Bennett                   The Dream Team
Harve Bennett                   Little Boy Lost
Harve Bennett                   A Stranger In Time
Harve Bennett & George Yanok    Mysterious Stranger
Ronald Cohen                    Death Takes A Holiday
Bill Dial                       The Gravity Of It All
Ruel Fischmann                  The Crash
Ruel Fischmann                  Darrow For The Defenc
Ruel Fischmann                  Return of the Yakuza
Ruel Fischmann                  Revenge
Ruel Fischmann & Joann Fluke    Mother
Tracy Friedman                  Beautiful Songbird
Tracy Friedman                  Happy Valley
Tracy Friedman                  The Prodigy
Tracy Friedman                  The Scarlet Koala
Froehlich, Bill                 Framed
Gast, Harold                    The Cure
Gast, Harold                    One On One
Gast, Harold                    To Kill A Billionaire
Jonathan Glassner               A Close Encounter
Babs Greyhosky                  Catch Me If You Can
Jeffrey Hayes                   Cool Hand Darien
Jeffrey Hayes                   Treasure of the Ages
Maryanne Kesica & Michael Sheff The Price Of Honor
David Loughery                  Showdown
David Loughery & Laurie Stevens Almost Human
David Loughery & Laurie Stevens Optic Nerve
Robert McCullogh                Perfect Pair
James L. Novack                 Forgotten Tomorrows
Mark Rodgers                    Night Of The Savage
Grant Rosenberg                 The Contender
Grant Rosenberg                 Darien Comes Home
Grant Rosenberg                 Lethal Weapons
Grant Rosenberg                 Split Image
Garner Simmons                  Face Of Death
Garner Simmons                  Fire And Ice
Garner Simmons                  The Lottery
Garner Simmons                  Missing
Garner Simmons                  Photo Finish
George Yanok                    Two Beans In A Wheel
                              
Director                        Episode
Ian Barry                       The Cure
Ian Barry                       The Last MIA
Harve Bennett                   The Dream Team
Colin Budds                     Almost Human
Colin Budds                     Beautiful Songbird
Colin Budds                     A Close Encounter
Colin Budds                     Darrow For The Defenc
Colin Budds                     Mother
Colin Budds                     Mysterious Stranger
Colin Budds                     Night Of The Savage
Colin Budds                     One On One
Colin Budds                     Out For Blood
Colin Budds                     The Price Of Honor
Colin Budds                     Showdown
Colin Budds                     Split Image
Colin Budds                     To Kill A Billionaire
Donald Crombie                  The Crash
Donald Crombie                  Little Boy Lost
Donald Crombie                  Optic Nerve
Donald Crombie                  The Prodigy
Donald Crombie                  Treasure of the Ages
Donald Crombie                  Two Beans In A Wheel
Mark Defriest                   The Lottery
Jeffrey Hayes                   Cool Hand Darien
Rob Stewart                     Catch Me If You Can
Rob Stewart                     The Contender
Rob Stewart                     Death Takes A Holiday
Rob Stewart                     Face Of Death
Rob Stewart                     Forgotten Tomorrows
Rob Stewart                     Missing
Rob Stewart                     Perfect Pair
Rob Stewart                     Return of the Yakuza
Rob Stewart                     Revenge
Rob Stewart                     The Scarlet Koala
Lewis Teague                    A Stranger In Time
Chris Thomson                   Framed
Chris Thomson                   Happy Valley
Chris Thomson                   Lethal Weapons
Chris Thomson                   Photo Finish
Chris Thomson                   To Live & Die in Docker Flats
Brian Trenchard-Smith           Darien Comes Home
Brian Trenchard-Smith           Fire And Ice

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Poll 

Worst Trax Episodes                                                

5) The Prodigy (7 pts)
4) Missing (8 pts)
3) The Contender (12 pts)
2) To Live And Die In Docker Flats (17 pts)
1) A Close Encounter (18 pts) 

Best Trax Episodes

10) The Price Of Honor (15 pts)
9) Happy Valley (17 pts)
8) The Dream Team (19 pts)
7) Framed (19.5 pts)
6) Missing (20 pts)
5) One On One (20.5 pts)
4) Beautiful Songbird (23.5 pts)
3) Mother (25 pts)
2) Almost Human (37 pts)
1) A Stranger In Time (51 pts)      

- Votes came from readers of alt.tv.time-traxx
  
- The poll was conducted before the final eight episodes were aired

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Notes

Thanks to the following people who sent suggestions, additions to the guide.
Amy Bieber, Duncan Ferguson, Lisa Steele, Scott Stewart, Lee Whiteside

Version History

2.0  (01/01/95) - Final version (??).  Final eight episodes added
                  (synopses courtesy of Amy Bieber)
1.22 (09/04/94) - Added UK airdates
1.21 (08/03/94) - Revised more entries
1.20 (07/04/94) - Revised several entries, added airdates section, trax info
1.13 (06/01/94) - "Last MIA" added, Poll results
1.12 (05/23/94) - "Mother" added
1.11 (05/16/94) - More writer / directors , "Almost Human" added
1.1  (05/12/94) - Fixed several errors in episode descriptions, added  
                  writer / director section
1.0  (05/01/94) - Original version
