Strange World
"The X-Files" writer/executive producer Howard Gordon presents an exploration of a nefarious world where "big business" funds "big science," and the answers Paul Turner finds lead to more questions than have ever been imagined. After exposure to chemical weapons during the Gulf War, ex-Government scientist Turner spent six isolated years fighting for his life until an enigmatic Asian woman saved him with a miraculous cure...that lasted only temporarily. Ever since, the illness has regularly returned to ravage Turner's body until the woman mysteriously reappears to provide another dose. After a six year absence, Turner returns to the Army as a Special Investigator in charge of tracking down the Frankensteins of the world. Turner's belief that the government is too slow and inefficient to protect us from the unchecked advances of science proves to be all too true in this show that features such ripped- from-the-headlines fare as cloning and genetic engineering. His only allies are his caring and supportive girlfriend Dr. Sidney MacMillan, who stood by him during his years of recovery and is still trying to find a permanent cure for his illness, and his old friend Major Lynne Reese, whom he met during the war and who feels somewhat guilty over his condition, since she failed to make an important choice when the accident happened that maybe could have saved him. During his investigations, Turner realizes that a secret organization is behind several covered up incidents which involved genetic engineering and that his mysterious Asian friend is trying to expose them. The cards eventually turn against Paul. Meanwhile, Sidney is approached by a friendly mysterious man, who claims he can help her boyfriend get better and expose the organization. But can she trust him?
- 1999-2002
- 1 season
- The Sci-Fi Channel
- Suspense, Drama, Science Fiction
- TV-14
"The X-Files" writer/executive producer Howard Gordon presents an exploration of a nefarious world where "big business" funds "big science," and the answers Paul Turner finds lead to more questions than have ever been imagined. After exposure to chemical weapons during the Gulf War, ex-Government scientist Turner spent six isolated years fighting for his life until an enigmatic Asian woman saved him with a miraculous cure...that lasted only temporarily. Ever since, the illness has regularly returned to ravage Turner's body until the woman mysteriously reappears to provide another dose. After a six year absence, Turner returns to the Army as a Special Investigator in charge of tracking down the Frankensteins of the world. Turner's belief that the government is too slow and inefficient to protect us from the unchecked advances of science proves to be all too true in this show that features such ripped- from-the-headlines fare as cloning and genetic engineering. His only allies are his caring and supportive girlfriend Dr. Sidney MacMillan, who stood by him during his years of recovery and is still trying to find a permanent cure for his illness, and his old friend Major Lynne Reese, whom he met during the war and who feels somewhat guilty over his condition, since she failed to make an important choice when the accident happened that maybe could have saved him. During his investigations, Turner realizes that a secret organization is behind several covered up incidents which involved genetic engineering and that his mysterious Asian friend is trying to expose them. The cards eventually turn against Paul. Meanwhile, Sidney is approached by a friendly mysterious man, who claims he can help her boyfriend get better and expose the organization. But can she trust him?
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1999 - 2002
Episode 1
Pilot
Mon, Mar 8, 1999 60 mins
During the first Gulf War Paul Turner is part of a team of soldiers that investigates a destroyed bunker in which a biological agent was dispersed. He and his team are exposed, but 5 years later Paul is still alive, even thought the agent is fatal. Kept alive by receiving an injection just in time, Paul gets involved in a case of a missing boy because his best friend on the Iraqi mission is the chief suspect. Paul begins to suspect that the kidnapped boy isn't really the missing son after all, and his friend isn't what he seems to be, either.
Episode 2
Lullaby
Tue, Mar 9, 1999
Cassandra Tyson is a naive pregnant woman, who believes that someone is trying to kill her baby. Turner discovers that there is no baby and that she's unknowingly a part of a lucrative revolutionary cloning experiment.
Episode 3
Azrael's Breed
Tue, Mar 16, 1999
A terminally ill doctor addicted to death is killing people and using his new revolutionary technique to extract their memory and inject it into himself to relive their moment of death.
Episode 4
Spirit Falls
Fri, Mar 1, 2002
Turner investigates a mass suicide in a closed religious community of Spirit Falls. He suspects that the locals may have had the Methuselah gene that slows down the aging process and someone badly wanted their genome sequence.
Episode 5
Skin
Fri, Mar 15, 2002
Sidney investigates a strange skin disease that her homeless patient has. Turner discovers that it's got something to do with an experimental skin grafting technique. Someone tries to kill Sydney over this. A mysterious ally helps her.
Episode 6
The Devil Still Holds My Hand
Fri, Mar 8, 2002
Turner investigates a strange virus that killed several people. He asks his mentor for help. It turns out that the virus is a biological weapon created to target specific people, who all worked on a top secret government project in 1969.
Episode 7
Man Plus
When a brilliant pianist suffers a seizure during concert and dies, an implant that serves as a form of a steroid is found in his brain. Several other corpses with implants show up. Turner investigates who's killing these people and why.
Episode 8
Rage
A series of deadly road rage incidents makes Turner suspect that some kind of toxin is causing these fits of murderous rage. A Chinese immigrant who works at the gas station that everyone frequented may have something to do with it.
Episode 9
Aerobe
Turner and Major Reese, who feels guilty over Turner's condition, only have a few hours to stop a microbe that's eating through canisters of radioactive waste in a shady nuclear waste repository before the waste leaks and kills them.
Episode 10
Eliza
Thu, Aug 26, 1999
Turner must stop the artificial intelligence that's unintentionally sabotaging important automated systems in the city. Only a jaded old programmer turned hacker and an autistic boy can help him.
Episode 11
Down Came the Rain
Turner is investigating the strange deaths of several construction workers. He discovers that a new deadly species of spider is to blame but opposes the idea of eradicating their colony, and so does a desperate mother.
Episode 12
Food
Turner is sent to a small town in Iowa to handle some paperwork involving a man killed by a gas leak. He finds signs of a more serious contamination there that may be tied to a GMO strain of potato. The man's son blames the town's elders.
Episode 13
Age of Reason
Turner investigates the sudden appearance of a boy genius kidnapped six years ago, whose DNA is somehow more evolved than human DNA. Turner's illness returns and his time is up. Sidney gets betrayed by her informer.