Volunteer Investigations detective Charles Green (Patrick Galligan) asks for Renee Palmer’s (Jayne Heitmeyer) help in solving a series of murders. The one common denominator between the six killings is that all of the victims had participated in the now-defunct Blood Ties project, a Taelon/Doors co-venture that utilized Taelon core energy to cure human illnesses.

Later, Renee meets Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) at Augur’s lair and asks him to question his old friend, Alistair (Roger Dunn), the head researcher of Blood Ties. He had turned down a Nobel Prize for his work because of his lost faith in the Taelons. Liam travels to Edinburgh to meet with Alistair. He tells Liam that he suspects the murders to be the work of the Taelons trying to regain core energy, which is now in short supply. Liam advises Alistair that since he had self-tested the transfer of core energy during the Blood Ties project, he is in as much danger of being killed as any of the former patients.

The next day, Liam contacts Alistair to tell him that he and Renee will provide shelter for him at the lair. Alistair reveals that he has figured out how Taelon core energy can be drained from humans. In fact, the energy that was within him has already been drained and crystallized. Their conversation is cut short when Serina Charmeaux (Guylaine St. Onge), an assassin hired by Ronald Sandoval (Von Flores), enters Alistair’s lab. Donning a special energy-draining suit, Serina begins the deadly process of draining any remaining energy from Alastair. Liam, Renee and Green rush to the lab and find Alistair near death. Searching the lab, Liam finds the crystal containing Alistair’s drained energy.

Sandoval’s right-hand man, Frank Tate (Richard Zeppieri), visits Serina at her apartment and proposes a scheme in which they could “skim” some of the energy she is draining and use it for their own gain rather than turning it over to Sandoval and the Taelons. When he leaves, Sandoval emerges from the shadows and tells Serina to add Tate to her hit list.

Using forensics technology to examine skin found under a victim’s fingernails, Liam and Renee find a parasite common to inmates who had experienced the sensatory deprivation tanks of Sen-Dep Prison. They meet with Martin Worshky (James Downing), the former warden of Sen-Dep, and coerce him into confessing that he helped a killer, Serina, escape the prison. Meanwhile, Tate visits Serina again but is attacked. When Liam and Renee rush into the apartment, Serina flees through a portal, leaving Tate semi-conscious. Liam visits the Taelon Mothership and asks Da’an (Leni Parker) to alert the Synod that Zo’or (Anita La Selva) has been killing humans to get Taelon energy. Da’an says he must have proof of such a crime first. Liam goes to the hospital to see Tate and Alistair, both of whom are now near death. He takes the crystal of energy he found at Alistair’s lab with him, but it is sufficient to cure only one of the men. Knowing Tate could help them link Serina to Zo’or, he makes the painful decision to use the crystal on Tate.

At Da’an’s request, the Synod conducts an energy audit of Zo’or to determine if he has consumed energy that is not rightfully his. When Zo’or passes the test, he then demands that Da’an also be tested. The audit reveals that Da’an possesses an abundance of foreign energy. He quickly informs the Synod that he didn’t steal the energy, but acquired it during an attempted “joining” with a Jaridian. Tate agrees to help capture Serina using Renee as bait, since she had once been given Taelon energy by a deranged companion protector. As Liam and Renee expect, Tate double-crosses them. That night, Serina attempts to attack Renee in the parking lot outside Doors International. To her surprise, she discovers that Renee is a hologram!

The real Renee, Liam and Green appear out of the dark with guns drawn. As Renee approaches, Serina’s suit begins to glow. She has been rigged with a covert portal, which suddenly transports Renee out of sight. As Renee disappears, Serina bursts into a fireball and is reduced to a pile of embers. Renee finds herself in restraints at Alistair’s lab, hooked up to an energy-draining machine by Tate. As she writhes in pain, Liam and Green burst into the room. Liam fires an energy blast that disables the machine, but Tate is able to escape through a portal.

The next day, Da’an meets Renee and Liam at the hospital and gives them enough energy crystals to revive all of those who had fallen victim to Serina.

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