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Would everything end where it begins? That's what I was wondering in the final hours. Stuck in a psychiatric ward, integrated by doctors who believed I was crazy. I believed they were human, if they weren't I would have been dead. Not that it mattered, the invasion was upon us and humanity didn't want to know a thing about it. One thing was for sure; they'd know when the war was upon us. Kept telling the Shrinks that 19 million people would die on the first day and that we were all screwed. Told a new Doc about the alien anti-Christ named Mabus. She wanted to know how I'd survived my fights with the demon if he was really so all-powerful? I didn't have an answer - they had me talking in circles. Were doing the same thing to Jordan, trying to convince her the Raven Nation didn't exist. Telling her she'd been manipulated by me, pulled into some grand lie. They told Joshua he wasn't an alien at all. Said he was a staff sergeant for the U.S. Marines, told him he had kids. Eddie was just plain crazy, they didn't have to tell him otherwise. They kept us from each other but I could hear Eddie in his cell. Said he'd found a fifth Omega Quatrain coded in the algorithm of the other quatrains: "As the Second Wave is nigh, four must be chained strong as one, hammer can smite victory if honor is granted to Xevallah." But we still needed to find the hammer! And we were locked away with a bunch of non-believers! Felt like I was going crazy myself. Probably sound like it here. Until I heard the crap they were selling Jordan, then I got mad. They taunted her about our relationship. Told her my journals talked about what happened between us, meaning Mabus and I, when I was his prisoner. Jordan told them they had no idea what she'd been through - she was right, none of us did. Then they told her she was some kind of victim who'd fallen in love with a wife murderer who'd used her. She was just like any other abused women, maybe she was worse? Told me I'd gone on a countrywide killing spree, murdering innocent people under the guise of a quest to stop an alien invasion. It wasn't true. It wasn't! Could it be? Jordan even asked me if someone who was insane could tell they were insane? And then I woke up from the nightmare. It was all a Gua security measure - they'd bombarded us with a mind-altering device. We were together - Jordan, Eddie, even Joshua. And we were at ground zero. A gua bunker holding the army of the Second Wave - football fields of husks. The invasion wasn't on its way, it was already here! An invasion from above without an aerial attack. It must've taken years to grow the husks. Joshua didn't think it was possible to download that many consciousnesses at once. He'd need an unbelievable power source - we were missing something. If Mabus had his army ready, what was he waiting for? Decided to start searching for the download mainframe. Joshua and Jordan were at odds, neither trusting the other. Good thing I trusted them both. Eddie figured Mabus was using the hammer as a power source; it was the only thing that made sense. That's when we all got caught. And sent back to the delusion. Back to the mental hospital. That's where Jordan remembered the husk they'd built for Mabus, growing in an incubation chamber. Believed it was our baby - Mabus had used our bodies to make the perfect husk for his consciousness. It was one of the reasons the Gua had kept me alive. And the others were all losing out to the delusion. They didn't want to believe. They'd lobotomized Eddie, convinced Joshua he was human and Jordan had committed suicide. She left a note that read: "believe." Now it was just between Mabus and I. He offered me a bargain: continue trying to return to the bunker or live inside the delusion where at least I could stay alive. Told him to go to hell. Then he offered me the chance to save my wife, Hannah, I could go back and undo the past. The hammer would give me the power. But it was something I'd never do. The past got us here and leaving it alone was the only way I could be sure we'd never have to live through this nightmare again. Broke out of the delusion and we all figured it out. Mabus needed me to power the download - it required both of us. Jordan and the crew thought I needed to get the hell out of the bunker. Knew that wasn't the right move. Had to ask them one thing, same thing I'm asking you all. Believe in me. This is our final battle.
Aired: Wednesday February 7, 2001

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