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9 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Fri, Oct 8, 199960 mins
Lt. Hobbes, a young idealistic Marine who's about to get married, is sent on a top secret mission to "Harsh Realm", a virtual reality world identical to his own created by the military to run war game scenarios, to assassinate the renegade soldier Omar Santiago, who has taken control over the game from within and created his own military dictatorship there. In the game, Hobbes meets people like Mike Pinocchio, a cynical, hardboiled, rogue soldier, and his mute female comrade as well as the virtual simulation of his own real life fiancee, and quickly learns that almost everything the military had told him was a lie. Meanwhile, Hobbes real life fiancee investigates his disappearance.
Episode 2
Bounty hunters capture Hobbes and Pinocchio. Sophie searches for the truth after being told Hobbes is dead.
Episode 3
Hobbes and Pinocchio seek out an ID chip forger in hopes of accessing a portal used to bridge both worlds.

Episode 4
Hobbes and Pinocchio find themselves trapped in a looping World War II battle simulation, where the German and the US units are forever fighting over a small bridge in the Ardennes. They soon meet another real player stuck there.

Episode 5
As his real mother dies of cancer, Hobbes meets and nurses her dying counterpart in one of Santiago's forced labor camps in Harsh Realm. Pinocchio tries to come up with an escape plan.

Episode 6
Pursued by Santiago's Republican Guard, Hobbes and his friends encounter a strange pacifist group of deserters from Santiago's army whose compound is located near a beautiful lake that harbors a horrifying secret.

Episode 7
Hobbes finds himself trapped in a minefield with one of Santiago's soldiers. A holy order of female healers cares for Pinocchio after he loses his leg and becomes suicidal. Florence is captured by a bounty hunter who's after the healers.

Episode 8
Hobbes and Pinocchio attempt to stop Santiago as he attempts to kill the leader of the Native American uprising.

Episode 9
Hobbes and Pinocchio get involved with a priest and two families feuding over a treasure of buried gold.
