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Pacific Northwest, 1398: A native American sees lights descending from the sky. 2002: Sydney is lecturing about said natives who faced a mysterious cataclysm 600 years earlier. A native brings him a relic from that era. What is its secret?
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Major Hillhurst is seen having several agents under his command: male and female, black, white and Asian, but only two are listed in the end credits: Anthony Grieco as Agent #1 ("It's just a bunch of Indians.") and Karl Campbell as Agent #2 (the African-American in the cave telling that back-up is on the way). Other agents have no lines. Ironically, the last agent seen, the one driving the car whose barely glimpsed passenger agent makes the comment about Indians, is none other than Matt Bomer, later to become best known as Bryce Larkin in "Chuck" and Neal Caffrey in "White Collar".
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The coordinates Nigel gave, 48d44m38s N 122d28m00s W, are not in some remote mountain region, but in the middle of Interstate 5 in Bellingham, Washington.
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Deep Impact (1998)
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The best episode of the show I've seen yet. Whether one believes in UFO's and little green men or not is irrelevant. The Indians are well and believably depicted without either stereotypes or political correctness. The "men in black" (NIA) are creepy and frightening as they ought to be. No token villains who were easily disposed of. In fact they won out in the end as would be inevitable for such an organization dealing with a mere Professor and a businessman. It certainly makes one think and is more than a little reminiscent of the classic TV of the golden age (80's and earlier) with its distrust of authority and belief in ideals (both Sidney and the Indian businessman are idealists, each in their own way).