This episode starts on a dark and stormy night with Logan and friends riding through the ruins of a city. Rem comments on the poisoned air which killed most of the people. Logan comments that the buildings lasted but the people died. This is why Rem has a hard time understanding human motivations.
As they pass by a building a red light starts flashing. It seems to have been triggered by the presence of their vehicle. Rem urges caution when exploring. They enter the building and as they explore Logan finds a electric eye bean by a door. he carefully triggers it and a video screen on the far wall comes to life. On the screen we see a female scientist who immediately starts talking to whoever might be listening.
She assumes that the air has cleared. She recorded the massage in March of 2120, and that below this building there is a complex of scientists. But the plague came. There was radiation above. Infection below. But not all of them died. Six were chosen though they were victims of the plague. They had been frozen , but by the time they found a cure the power had gone out on the elevator and they could not reach them. She placed the serum under the screen and begs that the serum be taken to those six people below as they may be mankind's salvation. The tape cuts off.
Rem and Logan talk about the serum and being frozen. Logan provides Rem with some more light, by blasting a filing cabinet, while Rem works on fixing the elevator. Rem has it working again very quickly.
The elevator stops and they enter a long hallway lined with some nifty vacuformed panels. Logan notices that the air down below feels fresh enough. Rem notes that he was not worried about it because he does not breathe.
As they walks there is an earthquake. Logan drops the serum box and it is crushed by a pillar. Rem and Jessica are huddles against one wall. Jessica's knee hurts. They panic while looking for Logan. Logan starts looking for the case. Rem finds the case only to discover one of the two vials is broken. There will be only enough serum for three of the the frozen scientists. While the trio contemplates this another aftershock happens. Rem quickly closes the case that covers it with himself to protect the remaining doses of the serum. Logan tries to protect Jessica. Rem is pelted by some bits of Styrofoam.
In the cryo chamber a piece of ceiling falls onto a console causing a counter to start counting up. It stops when it reads 713.
back in the hallway Rem speculates that the plague may have been eliminated by the freezing process. Logan wonders what they will do if it has not. Jessica is still having a hard time walking so Rem carries her. Logan goes off exploring the corridors. Jessica asks Rem if he is heavy. Rem makes a comment about her being heavy, the realizes it may have not have been the right thing to say so he quickly adds on that she is pleasantly heavy. As they come around a corner a large red screen is flashing "More to come..." on it. Rem and Jessica stop to look at it. Logan walks down another corridor and a heavy metal door opens to reveal the six frozen bodies. Rem abandons the machine and carries Jessica to where Logan is watching the people wake up. At the same time all of the doors open.
When we next see the people they are thawing out around the room. They are full of questions but Logan does not have good news to deliver. Victoria Mackey ( a robotics expert) notices that Rem is a machine and is amazed. Dr. Greenhill, the medical member of the group, looks at Jessica's knee. Logan tells them of the complication. Mr. Kim is psychic, he realizes how the flask was destroyed. They impart the information that they are all past the contagious stage. They think about diluting the injections but discard that idea. The Kim ( a telekinetic psychic) asks Dr. Greenhill how much time they have left as the freezing process just arrested the disease. She tells them that they have two days maximum. Dr. Greenhill decides that the trio should make the decision as to who lives and who dies. The administrator, Mr. Liman, offers to hang onto the serum. David ( a city designer) does not like the idea of a bureaucrat holing onto the serum. This idea is not popular with the others. They finally agree to have Logan and Rem hide the flask.. ( a stupid idea with a psychic around) The group splits up to do various things from changing clothes to checking the generators. Logan and rem hover around Jessica for a moment with a look of concern.
Logan and Rem are looking for a place to hide the flask. As Logan approaches a wall a door opens up. Logan walks in. Rem turns back and walks towards the room. Logan walks on. Rem opens another automatic door. Logan finally finds his way to a long crematorium. Rem explains what they did with their dead. They agree that they would not be likely to search that room. the find and empty urn and stick the vial in. As they leave they have another aftershock.
In a comfortable living area Jessica asks Dr. Greenham about being frozen but she does not remember. Dr. Greenham asks Jessica about why she left the City of Domes. Jessica tells about sanctuary. In the background are 4 other survivors talking about something. As he tries to walk, Logan and Rem come in the room. The other Move to join Logan and Rem. Mrs Mackey talks for the group. They do not want Rem involved in the final decision. Logan is upset. the psychic decides that they need Mr. Liama for a vote. Rem goes to fetch him. He is upset too, but not willing to admit it. Rem finds Mr. Liman dead. Apparently crushed by a heavy piece of machinery. However the cobwebs on the equipment have not been disturbed.
In the crematorium the Mr. Kim is reading a eulogy over Mr. Loman's body. Two of the three women seem upset. They bow their heads and then cremate the body.
Back in the communal room Logan has reached the conclusion that he should not make the decision of who lives or dies. They go over their options. Logan suggests that they draw straws, or interview them to find out who should live.
back in the entry book with the red screen Rem sits down and fiddles for a while. His twiddling brings up a vote of another man waiting to die. He has noticed something in their records which is disturbing him. he is reexamining the files looking for what is bothering him. Rem fiddles some more and the man reappears. Something is terribly wrong. One of the six is an impostor!
Logan is back at the cryo room where for some reason there is a photo enlarger on a stand. Sylvia Reyna enters and talks to Logan. She wonders if it still rains outside. She tells a bit of her life story. She laments the death of her lover who died at a missile launching base. He makes some romantic advances towards Logan. She would give anything for a chance at life again. Logan abruptly leaves.
Jessica comes to talk to Dr. Rachel Greenhill. The doctor tells her about the hardships of making life and death decision. In the background lurks David who comes in and tells how indispensable the doctor is. He tries to convince Jessica how important he is. He make a disparaging remark about how Sylvia will survive and how Logan will see to that. He then leaves. Jessica notes that David is very cynical.
Victoria Mackie comes in to the room where Mr. Liman was found. She asks him if he can lie. He tells her that it is against his programing. They have a little session about where the vial might be hidden. David finds Sylvia and Logan in the hall. Sylvia leaves after David makes a discouraging remark. David plays with Logan's gun.
Back in the communal room they are all debating how their skills are the most important for this new civilization. Rem walks back in on the ego discussion. Rem come in and announces more information about Mr. Liman's death. Sometimes it is not convenient to tell the truth. Mr. Liman was already dead when he was placed under the machine. Rem plays Sherlock homes for a while. David reminds Rem that it would not be possible for any of the six to commit the murder. Sylvia watches quietly. David suggests that they get the injections now. Logan decides to wait a day longer. just then the lights go out. Mrs. Mackey goes to turn on an auxiliary generator. When the lights come back on she is found dead with a strange gun lying beside her.
Now there are only four. The doctor covers the body in the hallway. Logan is staring at David. Jessica is ticked off and wants to give them the serum. Logan goes to get the serum before the killer strikes again.
Rem brings up more evidence, that one of them is an impostor. Logan returns with the serum. he leaves it on a table as he enters. Rem explains how the impossible was accomplished. How an impostor got in. According to the computer records they have never met before entering the chamber. Computers made the decision as to who was to be frozen. People were dying all the time. So someone switched places by altering simple facts. Dr, Greenham is eliminated by Jessica because she fixed Jessica's Leg. Mr. Kim is eliminated by Logan for his bit of psychic levitation just after being unfrozen. Rem suggests that it could be Mr. Perrim ??? because he was strong enough to have committed the first murder, but he claims to have designed the complex and knows where every nut bolt and wire is located. This leaves only Miss Raina. She looks around like a trapped deer.
She announces that she was only a computer technician. He sees the serum and runs over the grab it. Sylvia runs off with it. Logan pursues her. She is cornered in the cryo chamber. Logan tries to reason with her. But she is rotten to the core. They struggle and Logan gets the serum away form her. Logan tells her why he left the city of domes in one of his most dramatic moments of the entire series. "i left the city of domes to find a place where murder wasn't an official ceremony, where the right to live and the right to die didn't belong to the state. But to each one of us. I left it to find sanctuary, where those rights exist!" She asks for a few drops so she could go with him.
He gives the serum to Mr. Kim. Logan tells the survivors to judge her. As Logan leaves David tells him that they will name a city after him. He tells rem that they might names one after him too. Remsville? Rem Corners? Remsylvania? David smiles as they leave down the hallway. On the entry way screen can still be seen flashing "More to come..."
They turn back to Sylvia, now in the corner staring to cry. very frightened.
In the next scene the doctor is setting the controls in the freezing machine again. The camera pans over to where Sylvia Reyna has been out back into a cryo-chamber.
the final shot shows our trio driving away on the solarcraft. It is still night. Thus ends one of Heather's best performances on the series. The scene where she is utterly disgusted by the behaviours of these popel from the past is especialy great. Rem also had some fantastic scenes in this episode.
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