While she was relaxing at the Flat Planet Cafe, Captain Lili Marquette (Lisa Howard) was approached by a man named Rick (Vincent Corazza), who slipped an alien-looking orb into her hand. Lili was immediately overtaken by a powerful drug rush, which left her weakened and hallucinating. Augur (Richard Chevolleau) rushed Lili to the hospital, where she was diagnosed as another victim of "bliss," a highly addictive and destructive street drug of unknown origin. Major Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) arrived and discussed Lili’s condition with the doctor, but unknown to the doctor, Lili had left the hospital for Augur's.

When Liam and Agent Ron Sandoval (Von Flores) spoke to Zo’or (Anita La Selva) and Da’an (Leni Parker) about the bliss epidemic, they denied any knowledge of the drug, even though the bliss orbs were Taelon in design. Liam and Lili confronted Rick at an old warehouse, where they forced the dealer to reveal his drug connections. Rick revealed the bliss was coming through the Taelon portal system from a main supply in Dublin, Ireland. Liam and Lili turned the dealer over to the cops, then proceeded to Augur’s with Rick’s case of bliss orbs. As Augur studied the orbs, it becomes obvious that Lili was in acute withdrawal and could't be near the drug. Augur took Lili back to the hospital where they were shocked to see the emergency ward was overflowing with bliss addicts in terrible shape. Despite the doctor's warning that she may die without medical supervision, Lili begged Augur to take her back to his place to help her come down off the drug on her own.

Liam and Sandoval headed to Ireland to investigate whether the drug's point of origin had anything to do with Ma'el's tomb, which contained many ancient Taelon artifacts. They were met by Dr. Catherine Cox (Deborah O’Dell), the chief archeologist. Dr. Cox told the agents there had been an increase in the local population of "Taelonists," purist followers of the Taelons and their alien technology and culture. She took them to the Taelonists' primitive encampment, where they met Remi (Don Carrier), the unofficial leader of the group. Liam and Sandoval learned that the Taelonists possessed two tablets inscribed with Ma'el's writings, but the group denied any knowledge of bliss or its origins. Because he could read the tablets, Liam realized they were a new archeological find, which had been kept secret from the public.

He enlisted Dr. Cox to take them on a tour of the tomb's perimeter, where they found a cave marked with Taelon script. The cave was set up like a Taelon laboratory, complete with data terminals. Suddenly a holographic image of Ma'el (Leni Parker) appeared, and informed them that 2,000 years ago the human population became addicted to a rare plant. Ma'el developed a counter-active agent and saved humanity, destroying all but a single sample of the plant.

Liam and Sandoval returned to the mothership to tell Zo'or and Da'an they suspected the Taelonists had found Ma’el's lab and were engineering the bliss epidemic. The Taelon leaders urged them to find the bliss antidote as soon as possible, as the fate of humanity hung in the balance. Liam and Sandoval returned to Ireland to discover the Taelonists had found a cache of orbs. While en route to the site with Dr. Cox, they were ambushed by gunfire. After they killed one of the snipers, they realized he was not one of the Taelonists. When Liam confronted Remi, he declared his group was innocent of any violence and they had never held any weapons.

Meanwhile, Augur nursed a delirious Lili through her bliss withdrawal, worried as she slid in and out of consciousness. In her lucid moments they relived their friendship, and Lili remembered other events of her life. As Lili's life hung by a thread, Liam and Sandoval confronted Dr. Cox, who they realized could be the only person capable of exploiting Ma'el's tomb for her own gain. Found out, she trapped Liam and Sandoval in a Taelon prison made of shimmering energy walls. She admitted she started the bliss epidemic by giving the drug away free, part of her plan to find fame and fortune as the inventor of the antidote. As she escaped with the serum, she blasted the cave entrance to seal Liam and Sandoval inside, their oxygen quickly running out.

Suddenly, Remi appeared in the lab through a secret wall panel and deactivated the energy prison. Liam and Sandoval raced after Catherine Cox, driving her jeep off the road and grabbing the antidote. Liam flew his shuttle directly back to Augur's, where Lili lay apparently lifeless. He injected the antidote and Lili responded, her recovery the first in the end of the bliss epidemic.

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