Genre
Science Fiction
Producer by
Jed Mercurio / Alison Barnett / Andrea Calderwood / Chrissy Skinns
Directed by
Patrick Lau / Richard Laxton
Writer by
Jed Mercurio
Cast
Vincent Regan / Fred Ward / Eric Jorrin / Maggie O'Neill / Vivienne Soan / Paul J. Medford / Anton Lesser / Laura Harling / Nicola Buckingham / Phyllis Logan / Nicola Grier / Sheila Grier / John Shrapnel / Zoe Telford / Sara Kestelman / Jonathan Dow / Christopher Fairbank / Chris Matthews / Brian Pettifer / Simon Slater / Larissa Webb / Gerard Rooney / Diana Payan / Bob Barrett / David Albion / Ian Aspinall / Graham Bryan / Jonathan Coy / Sean Fall / Kieron Forsyth / Tom Freeman / Luke Garrett / Valerie Gogan / Selina Griffiths / Terence Harvey / Barbara Horne / William Hoyland / Miriam Leake / Anna Maclay / Stuart McQuarrie / Jim Pyke / Hugh Ross / James Vaughan / Michael Vaughan / Mark Webb
Production company
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Sci-Fi Channel, The
Original channel
BBC
Original language
English
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Broadcast dates
8 December 1998 (USA)
Original runing time
8 December 1998 (USA)
Episode duration
c. 50 min. per episode
Picture format
480i (SDTV)
Guest stars
John Shrapnel / Zoe Telford / Sara Kestelman / Jonathan Dow / Christopher Fairbank / Chris Matthews / Brian Pettifer / Simon Slater / Larissa Webb / Gerard Rooney / Diana Payan / Bob Barrett / David Albion / Ian Aspinall / Graham Bryan / Jonathan Coy / Sean Fall / Kieron Forsyth / Tom Freeman / Luke Garrett / Valerie Gogan / Selina Griffiths / Terence Harvey / Barbara Horne / William Hoyland / Miriam Leake / Anna Maclay / Stuart McQuarrie / Jim Pyke / Hugh Ross / James Vaughan / Michael Vaughan / Mark Webb
episode summary
Drake and Amanda, having come to the conclusion that their enemy is now extraterrestrial in origin, and that the kidnapping aliens are part of a third force unrelated to Tyrell's faction, investigate further, finally getting Tyrell to tell his story. He recounts that the alien survivor from 1944 was part of a peaceful race dubbed the "Echos", who have studied other planets. After being shot down during one of their surveys, the survivor is imprisoned in a lunatic asylumreserved for the handicapped offspring of the British elite. Tended to and studied by Tyrell, the high command is adamant that the traveler is the test-pilot of a V-2 rocket, chosen from the Nazi concentration camps due to his physicaldeformities. Tyrell is ordered to leave and the Echo eventually dies from ill-treatment, but not before giving Tyrell a key to alert other Echoes to his presence.
Tyrell, having lived with the Echoes for more than 50 years, explains that the Echoes are locked in a life-or-death struggle with an alien species (which the NATO team dub "nDs"), a race of inter-dimensional beings who harvest organic matter in order to absorb it into their machines. The nDs exist in multiple dimensions, using portals to manipulate and interact with our own reality, although they cannot survive long in normal Earth space.
Tyrell helps the RAF activate his craft and send a distress signal to the Echos. In response, a lone Echo lands in Scotland, bringing a message that its entire species has committed self-genocide rather than allow the nDs to harvest their race for their malignant ends. As a coup de grâce, Tyrell kills the last surviving Echo and explains that Dr Tucker was taken for a reason: she has been genetically changed in order to become half-human, half-nD, an overseer for the nDs latest crop – humanity.
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