The Delta State - Episode Summaries

Season 1
1. First Contact (1)

The team has 48 hours to close the acquisition of author John Weller, acquired by the
Rifter Hunter Carla. We enter the team's apartment and meet the group, gaining insight
into their interpersonal relationships. We see the conflicts that exist among them and within
their own minds.


2. First Contact (2)

In this episode we get the first look at the opening title sequence narrated by Professor
Brodie. Opens in Delta State, and recaps Luna's cliffhanger from episode one. We learn
more about the strange effects of being in too long, and Martin's immunity to same. The
hunt for Weller's "akasha" continues, while Carla "Hunter Rifter", Sven and the other
(female)prepare for the arrival of a powerful Rifter Lord. Phillip emerges as this series'
main character.


3. Case Study

Luna witnesses the acquisition of a student during class, and the group move to determine
the cause. Martin pursues his love of music, but his duties to the team suffer as a result.
Investigating the mystery surrounding Professors (Dang and Stork) puts Claire in terrible danger.

4. The Reading

In this episode, Philip, Martin and Luna are watching TV, and poking fun at a TV psychic.
Philip investigates her, and is confused on her psychic powers. Brodie explains that she can
pick up "brain signals" and read them. Also, she would be able to defeat the rifters. Brodie
also explained that it is dangerous to see the psychic, or Brodie becasue they would be
putting themselves in danger. Despite Brodie's warning, Philip meets her again to learn more
about himself, but is knowing his past worth it?


5. Fusion

Phillip has a new job in the mailroom of a power corporation. When his trainer dissapears,
Phillip stumbles upon an experimental process whereby they are using employees to tap energy
for rifter immortality. Phillip's life is endangered and the roommates must go Delta to find the
answers to the mysterious experiments at the corporation. A romance between Phillip and Luna
seems to be in the making...


6. The Girlfriend

Philip has a girlfriend, and he thinks that her father is a rifter. Are Philip's feelings clouding his
judgment, or is there something deeper?


7. Vote Rifter

After an attempted shooting on a candidate, the candidate goes into a coma. Is the candidate
being aquired by the rifters, and can Philip, Martin, Claire and Luna save him?


8. Cabin Fever

Claire, Luna, Martin, and Philip are at their wits end, and growing tired of each other's company
as relentless rainstorms and other unusual weather patterns force them to remain indoors.
But when it's discovered that the Rifters are behind the global chaos, they must put aside their
difference and stop them before the ecological balance of the world is jeopardized.


9. Mind Over Matter

Claire becomes obsessed with an internet video game. But when reports of deaths associated
with people who have played this game begin flooding the papers, the others question just how
"fun" this game really is.


10. Blast From The Past

Martin discovers a photo of a soldier from World War 2 that looks exactly like Brodie. Is it a
coincidence, a relative or has Brodie not aged in sixty years? As they dig deeper into the questions
about Brodie it raises some clues about their own past. The trips to the Delta State take their toll
as reality and Delta start to merge.


11. Curse Of The Undead

Claire reunites with David, her boyfriend from the past. It causes a rift between her and Martin and
raises suspicions among the roomates. Due to some computer error Phillip is told there is no record
of his existence. He is technically dead and must cope with re-establishing his place in the world.
Meanwhile a mad noble scientist is at risk of a rifter takeover.


12. Awakening

Martin befriends an autistic little boy. When he suddenly becomes an extroveted genius, the foursome
suspect that it is not a miracle, but rather a rifter influence. The answers to this change can only be
found in the Delta State.


13. Claire's Crack Up

Phillip's job as a delivery boy leads him to a romantic involvement with a psychiatrist who seems to have
an uncanny understanding about him and his roomates. Claire meets up with her ex-boyfriend David.
He provides information about her past. But no one else can see him. Is he real or a figment of Claire's imagination?


14. Road Not Taken

Luna's personality takes a drastic change. Is this the real Luna from the past, or the personality she
would like to become? The split personalities continue in both reality and delta. The roomates must
rescue her from the Delta State where the new personality becomes a threat to Luna and to the others.
The four heroes trace their past to an experimental lab in Poland.


15. Couch Time

Phillip's romance with Sophia the psyciatirst continues. He is blinded by passion and runs into conflict
with the others.as they become increasingly suspicious that she is not the woman she appears to be.
Sophia's link to Sven is revealed.and a trip to the Delta State confirms that she is a rifter. But who else is she?


17. Labyrinth

Pierce Trueblood, a popular magician, captures the intrest of Claire. His illusionary skills seem to be
under an otherworldly influence and the roommates must travel to the Delta State to ensure he doesn't
come under the influence of the rifters.


18. Mix Up Of Genres

Claire is captured and held hostage by Sven. Brodie becomes more elusive and there is a hint that there
is a connection.between Sven and Brodie linking their pasts. Reality and Delta State start to meld in a
way they never have before.


19. Training Day

Brodie begins to train the four heroes to heighten their senses and increase their powers. They must
learn to control the Delta State rather than letting it control them. Brodie becomes more mysterious and
seems to have an agenda that he will not clarify. Who is Brodie and how much does he know?


20. Sweet Dreams

Claire has an accident and is left in a coma. When she comes to, she has returned to her home and
her previous life with.the perfect family. But is this really her past or just a past she would like to
have? Yet another Brodie alias is revealed to the group.


21. Brain Scan

Martin finds out that Sven's using a bio-engineering company in an attempt to gain more rifters.


22. False Identities

Claire meets an old friend of David's who is able to explain what happened in the past. Claire
learns about her past but Martin and the others are suspicious about the friend and do not believe
he can be trusted. There is more to her past than he revealed. Brodie's alias as Carswell is unveiled
and it is revealed that he is a double agent working for the government to tackle the rifter threat.
Brodie's health is failing and his time is limited.


23. The Orb

Philllip uses the Orb of truth provided by Maria to unravel the facts about his mother and his past.
The group discovers.that Brodie is a rifter. He is failing and gone into hiding in the Delta State.


24. Restraining Order

After the group discovers that Brodie is a rifter they live in denial. A private investigator hunts
down Martin and informs him of a large inheritance and the missing links to his past.


25. Deja Vu

Luna is determined to also find out about her past now that the others have pieced theirs together.
A trip to Delta State allows her to revisit the family she has left behind - but she is reluctant to
leave and the group must rescue her from a life.in the Delta State with a past that no longer exists.


26. Full Circle

Brodie takes the foursome back to the lab in Poland where he discovered them. He engages their
help to put an end to his life so that he cannot pose a threat to the world. Their powers are getting
stronger as each day passes. When in the Delta State they enter into Brodie's memory and trace
back his beginning in World War 2. They each receive more information about their pasts.


27. The Final Battle

The foursome decide they have to return not only to the location of the lab but the actual time frame
in which they were there. They enter Brodie's mind to travel back to the actual time when they met
in the lab in Poland. They must combine their powers to get the full answer to their pasts. Only then
can they destroy Brodie's rifter energy. They diffuse Brodie's rifter energy and all is well...until Luna
has a vision of the future. She won't reveal what she sees - only that it is not what they expect!



Season 2




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