Alphanim: Episodes

Episode 01 - PART 1 - Brodie announces to Claire, Luna, Martin and Philip that John Weller, the famous Sci-Fi writer suddenly ran amok and was transported to a psychiatric clinic. Thanks to their skills, Claire and Philip discover he was last seen at a signing in a bookstore where a mysterious Karla entered in contact with him. What if she is a Rifter?

Episode 02 - PART 2 - While chasing Karla, Claire jeopardises the cohesion of the group, which causes an argument. But our heroes are now convinced they will find answers to their amnesia in the Delta Phase even though it is extremely dangerous. They have to act in the Delta Phase to eradicate the Rifter who controls Karla without endangering her as a human. Luna thinks the Rifter has taken control of Weller’s book-universe. Supported by Philip who fancies her, they‘re entering this parallel universe. In the absence of Brodie, Martin suggests they go there alone...

Episode 03 - CASE STUDY - Our four heroes are tracking down a Rifter who is operating on the university campus and who already has several victims to his name. All the clues seem to point towards the mysterious professor Dang (a psychoanalyst). But it soon becomes clear that the professor is another victim of a terrifying group of Rifters and that an unusual number of them has been registered at the university this year... What is more, Sven and Maria, two super Rifters coming to face Brodie, have just arrived in town.

Episode 04 - THE READING - Claire calls Chantal, a TV fortune-teller who tells her that her boyfriend has unresolved feelings for another woman… Claire is jealous because of the complicity between Luna and Martin. Meanwhile, Sven and Maria, the two Rifters, are lying in wait for Brodie from the top of a building. Maria can feel that he doesn’t operate on his own. They find out that Philip is meeting Chantal and is begging her for answers on his past. They break into Chantal’s flat and kill her. Philip wants a revenge and the group goes Delta to learn more about those super rifters Brodie had never mentioned before…

Episode 05 - FUSION - A new nuclear plant is inaugurated. Ludwig Von Hayek, the director, used to be in a wheelchair but suddenly loses his handicap thanks to some technological manipulations that give him super powers. This looks like a typical rifter takeover. Brodie explains to our heroes that if Rifters are heading towards the nuclear site, it is probably to reload themselves and increase their lifespan with high doses of electric power. Our heroes are going to have to prevent that from happening…

Episode 06 - THE GIRLFRIEND - Philip has a date with a girl, Louisa, whose father, a finance tycoon, mysteriously disappeared. While Philip, who is convinced Louisa’s father is a Rifter, meets up with Brodie to tell him his story, they are victim of an attack set up by Maria, who fails to eliminate them. While Martin wonders what bond ties Brodie to Sven and Maria, Philip is getting more and more worried as now Louisa doesn’t answer his calls back…

Episode 07 - VOTE RIFTER - Martin and Claire walk by a political meeting held by candidate Aldous Brant. Thanks to his skills, Martin reads the mind of a psychotic killer about to shoot Brant. Too late. Brant is hit and taken in an ambulance. Brodie thinks a rifter might have taken advantage of the assassination attempt to acquire Brant. One has to stop him from being elected at one of the highest ranks of the government. Brodie wants our heroes to go into the Delta Phase and look for Brant. Claire and Martin go to the hospital and discover that Brant was to die of a mortal disease in the months to come. Why would a rifter acquire a condemned body? They meet up with Brant’s campaign manager to learn more…

Episode 08 - CABIN FEVER - Tension in the HQ: Martin cannot stand the others’ mess anymore, Philip confesses his feelings for Luna and tension is growing between the girls. No silver lining: it has been raining non-stop for 26 days! Brodie wants our heroes to investigate on the activities of a research lab built by the Soviets in Kazakhstan. Satellite photographs reveal a suspect activity and Brodie fears the massive presence of Rifters there. Claire “enters” the photographs and confirms the scientists are Rifters who are causing permanent storms to tear the curtain between the Delta Phase and the Earth. Meanwhile, Martin finds a photograph of Brodie and one of the scientists taken more than 50 years ago – though Brodie doesn’t seem older now than he was on the picture…

Episode 09 - MIND OVER MATTER - Philip has found a job as dispatch rider, a good remedy to forget his disappointments with Luna. On his first day, a flash tells him why his predecessor left the job without notice. The guy is found at his place, in a coma. Everything indicates that he was playing at a video game, the Mind Game. Philip suspects the game generates a pseudo Delta Phase allowing Rifters to take control of the players. Our heroes have to hit the Mind Game company at its core. Meanwhile, Martin finds out that Brodie’s ancestor on the photograph might have been a soldier who fought during World War II.

Episode 10 - BLAST FROM THE PAST - Claire discovers Martin’s file on Brodie. She goes into the World War II photograph and sees the name of Brodie’s companion, Larch, whose family they are going to question. It seems not only that Brodie disappeared mysteriously: he would have raised from his deathbed and left. When Brodie comes to see our heroes, Claire and Martin notice that he bears the same birthmark as the Brodie on the photograph...

Episode 11- CURSE OF THE UNDEAD - During a game of chess Martin meets an extraordinary player who turns out to be Petroff Euler, former Nobel Prize, now a homeless, whose past seems oddly linked to Brodie’s. Meanwhile Philip goes to the bank where he is told that his money problems are due to the fact that the banking system does not have any trace of his existence! And Claire finds David, an acquaintance from her past, for whom she starts having feelings. After an argument with Brodie, who will not unveil a single bit of truth, the will to understand their past, to understand themselves pushes our heroes into the Delta Phase, in search of answers… They will return from there with even more queries…

Episode 12 - AWAKENING - Nicole, Martin’s ex-colleague at the record shop, pays him a visit and shares her concerns about Ben, her four year old son, who suffers from autism. One evening, Martin proposes to take care of Ben and brings him back to the HQ after a stroll in the park. The following day, a mysterious Dr Tallis rings Martin to tell him that Ben not only can speak, but that his speeches demonstrate a rare intelligence! However, Ben’s hard glance tells Martin what truly occurred: back in the park, Ben was taken over by a Rifter. Will our heroic gang manage to save Ben? How will the little boy recover from the incident?

Episode 13 - CLAIRE’S CRACK UP - Our heroes’ love stories are becoming complicated. Claire is taking some distance from Martin and tries to convince Luna that she is seeing David again. The latter will not believe her. On one of his deliveries, Philip meets Sophia, a psychoanalyst, who seems very interested in Philip’s tumultuous life. Martin discovers that Claire is having hallucinations and wants to share his concerns with Brodie. But the latter seems to be weakening day after day. Our four heroes undertake a trip into the Delta Phase to try and put a stop to Brodie’s premature ageing. They are not aware that Brodie’s apparent decline is only another machiavellian trap set up by Sven…

Episode 14 - ROAD NOT TAKEN - It is quite difficult to build stable relationships when one has lost one’s memory and has to save the world! That is the state of mind Luna finds herself in when she suddenly has a flash in which she sees herself kissing a man in a high tech laboratory of Lublin, Poland. Our heroes decide to go into the Delta Phase to see what happened or will happen in this Lublin laboratory… Martin gets trapped in the experimentation lab and discovers he used to be with Luna. How is Claire going to react, especially now that Luna is getting closer to Martin?

Episode 15 - COUCH TIME - Martin tells the story of his past relationship with Luna and evokes the possibility of getting back with her. Claire guesses that is probably for the best. She starts being obsessed with David and even goes alone into Delta Phase to find him… She is welcome there by Maria and Sven. Philip has got a date with Sophia whom he suspects to be Maria. She talks him into paying great attention to collective hallucinations, psychosomatic diseases or other paranoiac deliria… Back to the HQ, Philip expresses his doubts about the existence of the Delta Phase and of Rifters. Claire, Martin and Luna are beginning to worry. If this psychoanalyst is a Rifter, Philip is in great danger.

Episode 16 - LABYRINTH - Pierce Trueblood, a famous magician, is in town to prepare a TV show: "In the brain of Pierce Trueblood". Our heroes realise Sven and Maria want to capture Pierce in order to take control while the show is on air. After a big fight in the Delta Phase, Philip finds himself on the edge of an immaculate lake… with Maria. They are both transported by their happiness. He tells her he had sworn to kill her. But how can he resist her now? Will our heroes manage to stop the TV show before the public gets hypnotized by the Rifters? The only way seems to be a tricky labyrinth into the Delta Phase…

Episode 17 - MIX UP OF GENRES - Claire and Martin are breaking up for good and Martin has to sleep on the couch. But in the morning Philip finds Claire pasted in her bed; it seems she can’t wake up anymore. She’s been going to the Delta Phase alone again. Martin is worried something might have turned wrong. They all go Delta. They’re just about to find her trace there, but they have been too long and have to return to reality and rest in the HQ a little while. When they try to go back, they discover they can’t travel to the Delta Phase anymore… They’re stuck in reality while Claire is held hostage by Sven in the Delta Phase! Brodie is the only key to entangle the situation…

Episode 18 - TRAINING DAY - The electromagnetic field around the HQ, which prevented the place from being located by Sven and Maria, is no longer sufficient after what happened to Claire. Our heroes must reinforce the training and learn how to fully analyse what they see in their flashes or in the Delta Phase and get rid of erratic thoughts. Brodie takes our heroes to a special training in the Delta Phase: since it is the collective unconscious of mankind, the four young people have an advantage on the Rifters. But they have to control their subconscious, their thoughts and spiritual energy. The problem is Philip cannot stop thinking about a chocolate milk-shake and Martin is dreaming of a real bed! These trips to the Delta Phase are exhausting; even Brodie seems increasingly weak. They have already been fighting against the Rifters for months – would this training mean that even harder times are to come soon ?

Episode 19 - SWEET DREAMS - After wandering in the street in search for David, Claire dives into the river where she think she saw him. The other three worry at the HQ. They finally learn that Claire is at the mission hospital; she’s been found unconscious near the river and now she’s in a coma. Martin discovers that her state enables her to regain pieces of her past life. How should they proceed in order to save her without harming the memory recovering process?

Episode 20 - BRAIN SCAN - Dan is a hacker. He loves breaking into computer security systems just for fun. But one day, he gets caught by Doctor Mitchell, neurosurgeon from the BioChronic institute. His intrusion unwillingly helped completing the complex code for a chip that can cure Parkinson’s disease. Dan is hired by Biochronic for his computer skills and Doc Mitchell can now start testing the chip on volunteers. However, a few days later some patients suddenly die. Martin wonders if rifters aren’t at work at the institute. Will Dan learn the truth about his friend’s real activity ? Will they save him from rifter possession ?

Episode 21 - FALSE IDENTITIES - Martin and Philip have been beeping Brodie for a while but their calls remain unreturned. Martin suggests to go to the hospital where they last saw him. The beeper was left there. Philip manages to steal it. Shortly after leaving the hospital, the beeper starts to ring! Martin calls up the number. Suddenly, a black van turns up. The boys are captured and taken to a military building. They manage to escape from their cell. On their way out, they pass by a room where they see Brodie lying in agony! Sven is behind this. For him, Brodie’s true nature must be unveiled, and his co-conspirators wiped out… It comes out that Brodie always had a second identity : he is also known as Carswell and works for the government to take advantage of the rifter phenomena in military application. This explains why Brodie came across the four teenagers some while ago in Lublin… Meanwhile, Claire is contacted by Thomas who reminds her their alleged past: David died in a scuba diving accident in spite of Thomas’ efforts to rescue him…

Episode 22 - THE ORB - Brodie is hiding at the Barton Finkish, an isolated motel. His health is getting worse. He asks our heroes to take him to a certain place of the Delta Phase. When they leave the hotel, they come across Sven and Maria! While in the Delta Phase, hiding from Sven, Maria warns Philip. Sven will kill Brodie and the four heroes. Martin enjoins Philip not to be blinded by love: Maria is a rifter. Mood goes up. Brodie collapses. They must let Brodie rest. He tells them that they will learn the truth rather early. At the library Philip comes across a woman who confides him the so-called truth about his mother (the fact that she abandoned him without any regret). This again is a trap from Sven! Maria interposes herself to protect Philip and gets hurt…

Episode 23 - RESTRAINING ORDER - Brodie is a Rifter. He unveiled his true nature when refilling Maria with his own energy in order to save her. Claire thinks it is high time he told them the bottom of the story. In the HQ, they catch a man looking through Martin’s belongings. The intruder has come to tell Martin he inherited from his grandfather. At the notary’s, Martin is given a gift on behalf of his grandfather, a baseball ball, as well as a notebook filled with newspaper cuttings and photographs of Martin younger. Martin learns that he used to be a promising baseball player in spite of his father strong opposition. Sven takes advantages of this information to eliminate Martin’s father, thus annihilating Martin’s chance to reconcile with him.

Episode 24 - DEJA VU - Luna watches a robbery on TV. This triggers such a strong memory in her mind that she instantaneously goes Delta. She arrives in the most surreal Mexican festival in which she is about to discover the truth about her past. She apparently saved her young sister from death in a similar robbery some years ago. But the little group has to take her out of the Phase for she risks to become a permanent resident. Brodie could tell them how to liberate her but our heroes do not completely trust him anymore. He’s a rifter after all. Luna will not return to reality. Philip is trying to convince her that she’s in a loop. On his side Brodie reveals the finality of their training : their mission is to defeat him, to prevent him from blowing up and contaminating every human mind at once, by depriving them from any defence against a global rifter invasion. He is the ultimate rifter weapon, he fought against himself so long that he can’t resist to the pressure anymore. The four teenagers need to absorb the energy when he’ll blow.

Episode 25 - FULL CIRCLE - Martin feels betrayed by everyone: his friends and Brodie. But he accompanies them to Lublin, to enter the Delta Phase at the Nevrax point, a secret place where Brodie first took control of a human body during WWII. But once there, Brodie attempts to take over Martin’s body who is saved only thanks to the intervention of the three others. Meanwhile in the lab Sven kills Maria for her betrayal. Now the unconscious bodies of Brodie and the kids are lying defenceless in the lab: Sven is about to launch the rifter apocalypse…

Episode 26 - THE FINAL BATTLE - Are heroes are trapped into the Delta Phase without the necessary energy to switch back to reality. Sven is probably looking for them and Brodie’s evil side can reappear at any moment. It seems they missed a step since they don’t feel strong enough to absorb Brodie’s lethal energy when he blows up. Martin decides to travel into Brodie’s mind which may help them complete the puzzle of their past. Philip discovers his mother never abandoned him : on the contrary she tried to shield him from the sect’s nefarious influence. Claire discovers David was killed by Thomas in order not to share the treasure he had found underwater with him. Luna now knows that her sister died when the robbery took place back in Mexico. And Martin has to admit that his father was against his baseball career and injured his own son to prevent him from pursuing it. In spite of the sadness that overwhelms them, our heroes can feel their powers are increasing and seem ready to both resist Brodie and defeat Sven in the lab… After that, will they finally live an ordinary life?