TEKWAR EPISODE SUMMARIES

SELLOUT

(Episode 1): When a television mogul enlists Beth Kittridge to head a research project aimed at eliminating Tek, Beth finds that she has been conned into a scheme to addict millions of unwitting viewers to a new form of Tek. Marty Dollar is a television mogul who owns an interactive cable-shopping network that rakes in millions. Claiming that he's also a humanitarian who wants to stamp out Tek use, he hires scientist Beth Kittridge to come up with a way of making Tek non-addictive. However, Dollar is merely using her for his own devious plans. She'll have to synthesize diphenarine, the addictive substance in Tek, in order to experiment. Dollar plans to put the diphenarine into the music players he sells over the air, turning millions into addicts and creating a world of demand for a product only he can sell. Story by Morgan Gendel, Westbrook Claridge, Clifton Campell. Teleplay by Richard Manning, Hans Beiller, Directed by William Shatner

GUEST STARS:
WILLIAM SHATNER (Walter H. Bascom)
TORRI HIGGINSON (Beth Kittridge)
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
BARRY FLATMAN (Marty Dollar)
CYNTHIA BELLIVEAU (Trudy)
BELINDA METZ (Hooker)
MICHAEL CARUANA (Lyle Krebs)

UNKNOWN SOLDIER

(Episode 2): Jake befriends a beautiful young woman who turns out to be an enhanced "killing machine" - a military veteran with a resolute determination to kill Jake's boss, Walter Bascom. Electra is an attractive young woman - and a military veteran who was turned into an "X-Class Soldier." X-Class Soldiers are biologically enhanced "killing machines" with subcutaneous armor implants and cybernetically-augmented strength. After Electra assists Jake in a fight, he helps her get a job at Cosmos. Jake does not suspect that, by night, Electra is using her skills to assassinate those she believes are responsible for the atrocities of the war and the massacre of her fellow soldiers. Writer Robin Jill Bernheim, Director Allan Kroeker.

GUEST STARS:
WILLIAM SHATNER (Walter H. Bascom)
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
JENNIFER GRIFFIN (Electra)
BRETT HALSEY (Frederick Braymar)
DANA BROOKS (Government Agent Shelley Grout)

TEK POSSE

(Episode 3): Jake is enlisted by the Tek Posse, a government-sanctioned military SWAT team chartered to hunt down Teklords. However, Jake becomes troubled when he witnesses how the Posse achieves its extraordinary success. Clean-cut, charismatic ex-attorney general John Grant creates a military SWAT team to hunt down Teklords. Informally dubbed the Tek Posse, it has a powerful new tool - a prototype mind prober that can act as a super lie-detector and confession-inducer. Grant recruits Jake away from Cosmos to join the elite Tek Posse. However, after an innocent civilian is accidentally killed during a raid, Jake begins to suspect that Grant's "door-kicking, no-warrant-needed, brute force" means aren't justified by the ends. Writers Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Directed by George Bloomfield.

GUEST STARS:
WILLIAM SHATNER (Walter H. Bascom)
TORRI HIGGINSON (Beth Kittridge)
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
RON LEA (John Grant) CHRISTOPHER BRITTON (Janus)
PATRICK McKENNA (Falcon)

PROMISES TO KEEP

(Episode 4): Jake is forced to choose between losing Beth to her college sweetheart or risking her death at the hands of the Teklords. Beth Kittridge gets a call for help from Tom Weston - the lost love of her life, who has been presumed dead for five years. Tom has stayed in hiding because his research has led him close to a means of eliminating Tek and, for this reason, the Teklords want him dead. Jake has to come to terms with his feelings for Beth and ultimately let her go where both her heart and sense of duty lead her. Writer James Kahn, Director Allan Kroeker.

GUEST STARS:
TORRI HIGGINSON (Beth Kittridge)
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
DAVID CUBITT (Tom Weston)
PATRICIA GAGE (Eleanor LaFerre)
RICHARD SALI (Deekum)
BILLY NEWTON-DAVIS (Haskell)
TEX KONIG (Sagar)

ALTER EGO

(Episode 5): When a ruthless Teklord is imprisoned, Jake and Sid discover that they must outwit an even deadlier foe - a computer program that has taken over the likeness, personality and ambition of the jailed felon. Miles Connor, a powerful Teklord busted by Jake and Sid , has been sent into cryogenic incarceration for his crimes. However, Connor soon reappears in person and begins killing those responsible for putting him away. When Jake and Sid check the freezer to see if Connor has escaped, they find that he is indeed still in prison. They discover that the new Connor is a computer program - an artificial intelligence personality simulation that the "real" Connor developed in order to maintain his empire. The program, having inherited Connor's ambition, ruthlessness and desire for revenge, proves to be far deadlier than any human opponent. Writers David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll, Director Ken Girotti

GUEST STARS:
MARIA DEL MAR (Lt. Sam Houston)
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
TOM McCAMUS (Warden)
FRANK CRUDELE (Dallas Del Marco)

STAY OF EXECUTION

(Episode 6): When terrorist Alec Seeger takes over the global weather control system, Jake heads the manhunt for Alec, teamed up with a former terrorist who may very well be working against Jake. Terrorist Alec Seeger (BILL MACDONALD) has managed to take control of Weathercon, the global weather control system, and is threatening to unleash deadly storms unless his demands are met. Jake (GREG EVIGAN) is drafted to help in the manhunt for Alec, and is paired with Lianna Cruz (JENNIFER DALE), a former terrorist comrade of Alec's who has been serving out a prison sentence in the "freezer." If Lianna cooperates, the government will reduce her sentence. Their mission is to follow a lead to Yeltsingrad (one of Alec's old haunts), and use Lianna's knowledge of the city and Alec's other ex-comrades to find him. As they race against the clock, Jake has to find out whether Lianna is on his side - or simply setting him up for a fall. Writer Marc Scott Zicree, Director Allan Kroeker.

GUEST STARS:
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
JENNIFER DALE (Lianna Cruz) DANA BROOKS (Shelley Grout)
BILL MACDONALD (Alec Seeger)

KILLER INSTINCT

(Epidoe 7): Jake tracks down a deadly virus that incites people to commit random acts of violence. A street cop is gunned down in cold blood - by a clean-cut teenage boy. His father blames a controversial and ultra-violent interactive virtual-reality game in which cops and Teklords battle for supremacy. The game's manufacturer (JAMES MILLINGTON) denies responsibility for the killings. He claims that it is merely a game, and he can't help it if a few lunatics are going off the deep end. Jake (GREG EVIGAN) and Sid (EUGENE CLARK) soon discover that an unknown hacker has introduced a virus into the game to incite violent acts. Worse still, the game is only the beginning. The virus also shows up on the Adway and even on the police network, pushing normal people to commit enraged, destructive acts. Jake must find the hacker - before his own exposure to the virus pushes him over the edge. Writer Barry M. Schkolnick, Director Stefan Scaini.

GUEST STARS:
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
MARIA DEL MAR (Sam Houston)
JAMES MILLINGTON (Harris Booth)
ANITA La SELVA (Tanya)

CHILL FACTOR

(Episode 8): Jake and his fellow hostages must risk death by entering a deep level of cryofreeze and facing terrifying communal nightmares that can kill. Lowell (LAWRENCE BAYNE), a convicted felon who is about to be "frozen," injects himself with an inactive, non-virulent form of a deadly virus. The freezer's computer, believing a real infection is underway, automatically aborts Lowell's incarceration and "unfreezes" several other convicts to whom the virus has spread via the cry-support systems. Lowell, mobilizing these other convicts, takes the warden (JULIE KHANER) and several observers hostage. Unknown to Lowell, the freezer's computer has recently been upgraded to assume complete control of security - and is attempting to neutralize the virus by sterilizing the facility and killing everyone inside. Jake (GREG EVIGAN), who is one of the hostages, must convince the others that their only hope for survival is to fake death - by entering cryogenic freeze at a level deep enough to fool the computer into thinking they have died. However, at such a deep level of cryofreeze, the trerrifying communal freezer nightmares will also be intensified - and Jake and the others will have to endure hellish hallucinations that can literally kill them with their own fear. Writer Robin Jill Bernheim, Director Bruce Pittman.

GUEST STARS:
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
LAWRENCE BAYNE (Lowell)
JULIE KHANER (Warden Caruso)
NICOLE DE BOER (Tara)

DEADLINE

(Episode 9): Jake is hired by his arch-nemesis on the police force -- the android Winger -- in order to save Winger's life. Police android Winger (MAURICE DEAN WINT) is attacked by an assailant who steals his Cortical Relay Unit (CRU), a critical biochip, from his brain. Without the CRU, Winger's brain will deteriorate and he'll die within 18 hours. Winger cannot replace the biochip since a new law, "The Thornton Act," has outlawed the production of new androis and their replacement parts. Since the police force's policy is to phase out androids, he can't reveal the truth to them. Instead, he hires adversary Jake Cardigan (GREG EVIGAN) to find his assailant and recover his CRU. In his search for Winger's assailant, Jake is continously hampered by news commentator and media demagogue Gerald Rhodes (CARL MAROTTE), who is an avid anti-android activist and follower of the late Senator John Thornton. Rhodes is on a crusade, convinced that Thornton was killed by an android in revenge for his anti-android legislation. As he races against time to save Winger's life, Jake discovers that the most likely suspects are innocent while the most unlikely are guilty -- and, Rhodes campaign is different than it appears to be. Writers J. Larry Carroll, David Bennett Carren, Director Allan Kroeker.

GUEST STARS:
MARIA DEL MAR (Sam Houston)
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
MAURICE DEAN WINT (Winger)
BROOKE JOHNSON (Lucinda)
CARL MAROTTE (Gerald Rhodes)
DONALD BURDA (Norris)

CARLOTTA'S ROOM

(Episode 10): Jake is determined to learn the truth about a prostitute who appears too real to be the interactive computer-generated image her promoters claim her to be. Jake (GREG EVIGAN) is approached by his politician friend David Lane (GARY KRAWFORD), who has been frequenting a brothel and has fallen in love with Carlotta (CALI TIMMINS), one of the prostitutes. Carlotta is supposedly a virtual reality prostitute -- an interactive computer- enerated program of a woman. However, David is convinced that Carlotta is not a creation of virtual reality technology...she is just too realistic. He believes that Carlotta is a real woman who is somehow being held prisoner and forced into virtual reality sex, transmitted by remote. When David approaches the brothel's madam (CHERYL MACINNES) to buy the "Carlotta" program, the madam refuses and instead attempts to blackmail David to vote affirmative on an upcoming cyber-property bill. A desperate David has turned to Jake as a last resort. Then, when David is murdered, Jake takes on the strange case in earnest and uncovers the sad story of Carlotta who, although not exactly a computer image, is not exactly the imprisoned woman David had in mind. Writer James Kahn, Director Bruce Pittman.

GUEST STARS:
MARIA DEL MAR (Sam Houston)
NATALIE RADFORD (Nika)
MAURICE DEAN WINT (Winger)
CALI TIMMINS (Carlotta)
DAVID CALDERISI (Rossi)
GARY KRAWFORD (David Lane)
CHERYL MACINNES (Honey Duran)

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