EPISODE

17. A Dish Best Served Cold

A Brazilian shaman sends former James Rance, a chrononaut presumed killed and missing in action years ago, on vision quest back from Amazonas to Arizona. He arrives at Dr. Isaac Mentnor's birthday party for his granddaughter Rebecca (9) and poisons her to blackmail him into sending them on a suicide mission through the sabotaged time-travel device.

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James Rance ( Jeff Kober ) was a Project Backstep chrononaut prior to Parker; his sphere was lost and he was presumed dead. Instead, he landed in the Amazon rainforest with amnesia and was adopted by a tribe there. After regaining his memories, Rance poisons Dr. Mentnor's granddaughter (Kelsey Mulrooney) to force the elderly scientist to destroy the sphere with the two men inside. Without a sphere, they cannot backstep to prevent the tragedy. It's Parker's idea to try to find Rance's original sphere and use it to backstep. Finding and restoring the sphere in the jungle, Parker successfully launches and arrives in the past to stop Rance.

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