Dark Skies - Episode Guide

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1st Season

The Awakening - 09/21/96
Moving Targets - 09/28/96
Mercury Rising - 10/19/96
Dark Day's Night - 10/26/96
Dreamland - 11/02/96
Inhuman Nature - 11/09/96
Ancient Future - 11/16/96
Hostile Convergence - 12/07/96
We Shall Overcome - 12/14/96
The Enemy Within - 01/04/97

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1. THE AWAKENING

First-time aired (US) : September 21st, 1996

Summary : John Loengard, an idealistic congressional aide, arrives
in Washington with his girlfriend, Kimberly Sayers. During a
routine budgetary fact-finding trip, Loengard stumbles across UFO
information considered off-limits by the top-secret Majestic-12, a
black-operations group headed by Col. Frank Bach. A determined
Loengard eventually discovers enough to be recruited by Bach as a
team member, and he joins Bach in rooting out humans whose brains
serve as hosts for early-stage alien life-forms.

2. MOVING TARGETS

First-time aired (US) : September 28th, 1996

Summary : Following the Kennedy assassination, Loengard and
Kimberly learn about the first alien encounter years earlier at
Roswell, N.M., from an eyewitness - but when the couple return to
Washington for JFK's funeral, they discover a more sinister alien
plan to destroy world government.

3. MERCURY RISING

First-time aired (US) : October 19th, 1996

Summary : Sayers' nightmares lead to Cape Kennedy where they
discover a "black-ops" version of the space program that nobody's
ever heard about.

4. DARK DAY'S NIGHT

First-time aired (US) : October 26th, 1996

Summary : Loengard and Sayers track down a lead that brings them
to New York City during the height of Beatlemania. They go to
visit an old college friend, Chris Weatherly, but are told that he
has recently committed suicide. John and Kimberly, trying to make
sense of Chris' death, track down his last whereabouts to a
research lab that is filling innocent people with subliminal
messages via television commercials.

5. DREAMLAND

First-time aired (US) : November 2nd, 1996

Summary : "Dreamland," set in Las Vegas, "is really about the
birth of Area 51, and how it came to be, and how important Las
Vegas is in the plans of the Hive." - Bryce Zabel.

6. INHUMAN NATURE

First-time aired (US) : November 9th, 1996

Summary : According to co-creator Brent Friedman, "it explores and
explodes the cattle mutilation mythos. This is OUT THERE! Some
people will be revolted, others will be fascinated -- I think our
take is certainly original. On the major plus side, we bring back
RFK for a brief scene, and get a glimpse of Bach's home life ..."

7. ANCIENT FUTURE

First-time aired (US) : November 16th, 1996

Summary : In this episode, John Loengard get to see the inside of
an alien spacecraft that crashed on Earth two thousand years ago.
Loengard has a vision of the future.

8. HOSTILE CONVERGENCE

First-time aired (US) : December 7th, 1996

Summary : John and Kim head to Socorro, New Mexico when a police
officer reports seeing a flying saucer. While there, they meet up
with Jesse Marcel who is in town by request of his old friend and
colleague, Clark Balfour, who was with him at Roswell and has
since been working at the government site, Area 51. Clark is dying
but says that he has plans of the "flying saucer" that they have
come to investigate. John and Jesse are determined to get to the
bottom of what is happening, but Kim is longing to go home to
Denver to attend the wedding of her sister. While John is off with
Jesse, Kim takes a bus to Colorado. Her sister is marrying Rob
Winter, a lawyer from Washington DC that she has known only a
couple of weeks. Kim is suspicious, as well she should be, and her
suspicions are confirmed when Steele shows up at the Sayers' front
door.

9. WE SHALL OVERCOME

First-time aired (US) : December 14th, 1996

Summary : A carload of civil rights activists come across a
church, where they hope to find a phone, but find more than they
bargained for when one of them is chased from the church by a
strange moving liquid. Meanwhile John calls his parents who relay
a cryptic message from Mark Simonson, a former employee in
Congressman Pratt's office, from Mississippi that he now believes
John's claims of UFOs.  John and Kim head to Mississippi to look
up Mark and investigate the disappearance of three civil rights
activists. What they learn when they get there is that Mark
Simonson was with the three civil rights workers and that the
church they encountered is harboring a Hive headquarters in its
basement.

10. THE ENEMY WITHIN

First-time aired (US) : January 04th, 1997

Summary : "It's got Loengard strapped for cash and not knowing
what's going on, going back to his home - his family - in Fresno
and trying to get some money from them... only to find out that
you can't go home again, that's a very dangerous place to be.
We've got a lot of twists and surprises in that one, but I'd hate
to spoil it beyond that." - Bryce Zabel.




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