Plan B, Part 2: Collision Course

485: Plan B, Part 2: Collision Course

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February 2, 2002

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Album

37: Countermoves
Novacom Saga

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Theme

Trust
Dealing with things out of our control

Genre

Novacom Saga

Scripture

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Written By

Nathan Hoobler
Marshal Younger

Directed By

Marshal Younger

Produced By

Rob Jorgensen
Marshal Younger
Bob Hoose

Executive Producer

Paul McCusker

Post-Production

Rob Jorgensen

Engineer

Rob Jorgensen

Music By

John Campbell

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Plan B, Part 1: Missing in Action

Plan B, Part 2: Collision Course

Plan B, Part 3: Cross-fire

Summary

AREM arranges to meet with Whit at a motel while Arthur Dent delivers a package to Jack Allen that will reveal more details about the RWS research project.

Plot

Millie Shanks has decided it’s time to tell the truth and she begins by explaining to Jack and Joanne Allen that her husband was very secretive about his business. He was a board member for Andromeda and he provided a grant for Eugene’s position at the college. (This explains why the money mysteriously came through in “Malachi’s Message.”) Armitage never told Eugene about it, but Millie thinks the research is frightening. She says Andromeda will do anything in their power to get it back.

Meanwhile, Whit confronts the Dean and demands to know more. Under pressure, the Dean tells Whit that he got a grant from Andromeda for the Radio wave study. The study was to convert radio waves to brain waves; the research would have incredible benefits for the handicapped and society at large. Eugene had a major break-through just before he stole the research. While they’re talking, AREM pops up on the Dean’s computer. Whit talks to him and says he wants to meet. AREM reluctantly agrees and says for Whit to come to the Skyline Motel that night at 6:00.

At the same time in Chicago, Arthur Dent comes to Jack and Joanne’s hotel room and says he has information about Eugene and Katrina. He says he’ll show Jack some information if he’ll meet him at the Andromeda Building that night at 5:30. Jack halfheartedly agrees.

Back at Whit’s End, Connie tries to avoid Mitch by ducking into a broom closet, but Mitch follows her. They talk about their relationship and Connie says she can’t trust him. She asks about the picture of the woman in Mitch’s briefcase. Mitch dodges answering her, but asks her to meet someone on Whit’s computer that night at 5:45. He says that she has to do it if she wants to find out about Eugene. Connie is unsure, but Mitch says he’ll prove himself to her.

That evening in Chicago, Jack has a cab drop him off at his meeting place. He’s nervous and asks God for a little peace.

At the same time, Connie waits anxiously on the computer for her mysterious contact. Alex happens in the room and asks Connie what all the weirdness around Whit’s End is about. While they’re talking, AREM pops up on the computer. Connie begs Alex to stay and AREM tells her to intercept a file that will be coming from Campbell College to Andromeda. Alex tells her not to download it, but AREM is persistent. Connie, deciding to trust Mitch, decides to download the file.

Meanwhile, Mitch sits at his computer and breathes a sigh of relief as the download begins. Suddenly he hears crashing outside. A man breaks through the door and barks, “Freeze! Don’t move!”

Back at Whit’s End, Connie tries in vain to talk to AREM, but he doesn’t respond. She asks Alex if she can look at the download alone.

In Chicago, Jack decides that he’s waited long enough. Dent is nearly a half-hour late. He heads to the cab, but Dent rushes up just as he opens the door. He starts to explain to Jack what he needs, when a car screeches around the corner. Dent roughly thrusts a package into Jack’s hands and yells for him to “GO!” The cab drives off just as another car arrives. Mr. Charles, the mysterious man last seen in “Grand Opening,” pulls Dent into the car and tells the driver to follow Jack. Jack’s driver, however, puts the pedal to the metal and loses Charles’s car. Charles demands Dent tell him what the package was and where it was going. Dent isn’t talking so Charles tells the driver that it’s time for another experiment. He says, “You’re going to help us Mr. Dent, whether you want to or not.”

Just then back in Odyssey, Whit pulls up to the Skyline Motel. He sees police cars and officers all around. Uneasy, he walks up and eventually meets FBI agent Peter Bourland. Bourland tells him that he was investigating Robert Mitchell for serious computer hacker crimes. He tells Whit that Mitch went by the name of AREM, which stood for his initials (R. M.). He even used the name back in Boston. Then he tells Whit even worse news — Robert Mitchell is dead.

Discussion Questions

1. Who killed Robert Mitchell and why?

Cast

Characters	Actors
Alex Jefferson (b)	Travis Tedford
AREM	Bob Luttrell
Arthur Dent	Christopher Snell
Bennett Charles	Jess Harnell
Connie Kendall	Katie Leigh
Dean Douglas Rogers	Jesse Corti
Jack Allen	Alan Young
Joanne Woodston-Allen	Janet Waldo
John Whittaker	Paul Herlinger
Millie Shanks	Julia Kazarian
Peter Bourland	Keith Silverstein
Robert Mitchell	Steve Burns
Cab Driver	David Griffin

Notes

• David Griffin (voice of Jimmy Barclay) appears as an unnamed cab driver!
• This episode takes place away from Odyssey: Episodes That Take Place Away from Odyssey
• This episode finally revealed the full identity of a characters introduced much earlier in the story arc — Bennett Charles, (first heard of in Chains, Part 2.)
• This is Paul Herlinger's 100th episode acting.

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Quotes

Peter Bourland: Mr. Whittaker, Robert Mitchell...is dead.

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Connie Kendall: You've got all these secrets. I feel like I'm dating the Pentagon, and I don't even know how to ask you about any of it...I mean, my biggest secret is that I'm afraid of staplers.....
Robert Mitchell: Connie...
Connie Kendall: You're not gonna tell anybody are you?
Robert Mitchell: I promise, but if you'll...You're afraid of staplers?

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Alex Jefferson: He's probably laughing hysteically that we were dumb enough to accept his stupid virus.

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Jack Allen: So you have no idea what the research involves?
Millie Shanks: When I asked Armitage, all he would say was that it would change our society.
Joanne Allen: For better or for worse?
Millie Shanks: Time will tell, I suppose. But if Andromeda has anything to do with it, I would expect the worst.

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Alex Jefferson: Sure, but I have a few questions for you, it sounds like a lot of weird stuff is happening around here.
Connie Kendall: Weirder than ususal, you mean?
Alex Jefferson: My mom works at the college and I heard her telling dad about Eugene. Dean Rogers is her boss and he said Eugene took off with a bunch of research files.
Connie Kendall: What?
Alex Jefferson: But then I got here and Cal said he overheard David say that he found out that Nick said he heard from Whit that you got a mysterious e-mail from Eugene saying that he was safe.
Connie Kendall: W-what? Wait. Who said who was safe?
Alex Jefferson: And then I heard that Doctor Icobodia was holding Eugene captive in his lair until he gave up the secret location of Powerboy's stash of shining arrows!
Connie Kendall: Where did that come from?
Alex Jefferson: Wooton.

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Jack Allen: Oh no. They're following us.
Taxi Driver: They're following us? Awesome! Do you want me to loose em?
Jack Allen: Yes, yes. Uh put the pedal to the metal.
Taxi Driver: I've been waiting my entire life for someone to say that.

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