The Taelons had invited the press and public to the opening of a new portal station. Da’an (Leni Parker) and Zo’or (Anita La Selva) were both present and listening to a speech being given by Dr. Jeffrey Whitfield (Shaun Austin-Olsen), the human Director of Portal Research. Major Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) and Captain Lili Marquette (Lisa Howard) were also on hand for security. In the crowd, a nondescript man, Arnold Creighton (Ron Gabriel) moved toward the stage. Suddenly, a strange flash of energy radiated from Dr. Whitfield’s body and he collapsed in incredible pain. By the time Lili reached him he was already dead and Creighton had disappeared.

Liam met with Zo’or and Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) to discuss Whitfield’s death. Zo’or refused to shut down the portals, sparking Liam’s suspicions that the transportation devices were somehow connected to Whitfield’s mysterious death. But Dr. Hart, who performed Whitfield’s autopsy, told Liam and Sandoval that Whitfield died from a massive dose of cyanide, which somehow exploded from a capsule in the middle of his chest cavity. Without injection marks or the possibility that he swallowed the capsule himself, Dr. Hart was at a loss to explain Whitfield’s strange demise.

The Taelons called a press conference to reassure the public that the portal systems were safe. As Sa’al (Anna Adilman), the Taelon engineer in charge of the new portal, stepped up to the podium, he was confronted by Jonathan Doors (David Hemblen), who used the opportunity to further his anti-Taelon presidential platform. Doors and Sa’al exchanged heated words and the Taelon suddenly clutched his stomach as light radiated from a hole in his skin. Liam and Lili rushed to his aid, but Sa’al exploded in a blinding flash, his plasma essence vanishing into the air.

Confident that just one person was responsible for both attacks, Liam and Sandoval narrowed the field of suspects by viewing news footage and security scans of everyone present at both public events. They stopped at a picture of Arnold Creighton, a former MIT professor and outspoken critic of the Taelons. The group tracked Creighton to a radical, alternative university where he was now employed. Upon their arrival, Sandoval, Liam, Lili and their assault team were cornered by a group of hostile students and Sandoval shoved one protestor to the ground.

They proceeded to Creighton’s lab, where their arrival activated a video monitor. Creighton appeared on screen and declared war on the Taelons

As his transmission ended, an object suddenly dropped out of thin air and Liam screamed for everyone to head for cover as a high-tech bomb destroyed the lab.

Liam and Lili enlisted Augur (Richard Chevolleau) to dig into Creighton’s background. He discovered that Creighton was researching the quantum displacement of subatomic particles and may have created a miniature teleportation device, an invention beyond even Taelon knowledge. The device could instantaneously transport any object to any place, giving Creighton the power to kill someone from the inside out.

When Doors went public with the students’ secret footage of Sandoval assaulting them on university property, Zo’or suspended Sandoval from his duties, leaving him free to focus on the hunt for Creighton and his teleportation device. Meanwhile, Da’an called a meeting with human leaders to apologize for the university incident. Zo’or told Sandoval to leak information about the meeting, laying a trap for Creighton, in spite of the danger to Da’an. With Liam at his side, and unaware of the set up, Da’an entered sealed chambers to meet his human guests, with Augur monitoring them from his base as extra security.

But Creighton had discovered the site of the meeting and sent in a spy camera to locate Da’an. Lili joined Augur on counter-surveillance and they both helped Liam track the miniature video camera. When Creighton pinpointed the meeting room, he dropped an explosive device in its midst. Liam got Da’an out with only seconds to spare. But Sandoval had also been tracking Creighton from the Taelon mothership and found his transmission coordinates. He and Lili burst into Creighton’s basement command center. With teleporter in hand, Creighton pressed the activation key and vanished in front of them. Augur and Liam traced Creighton’s transmission signal to a warehouse and they entered the building to a gruesome sight. Creighton had teleported himself into a wire rack, and thin steel rods now pierced his body. In agony, Creighton told Liam and Augur he couldn’t let the Taelons have his invention. He programmed the teleporter to transport into itself, creating a huge anti-matter explosion. The scientist and his device disappeared without a trace, leaving the Taelons and the Resistance in a race to discover the technology for themselves.

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