1964 continues to roll on, and John Loengard (Eric Close) and Kim Sayers (Megan Ward) continue their hunt for answers and truth as Bobby Kennedy (James F. Kelly) reveals his longterm plans and what that means for their continued scramble across the country to fight The Hive.

This time around, the series explores the cattle mutilation phenomena and ties it into what the Hive is doing. They are using cattle to breed new numbers and hosts.

Written by Melissa Rosenberg, this episode was first broadcast on 9 November, 1996.

A small town in Wisconsin is the center point for what is going on in this episode when Castor Boehm (John Dennis Johnston), a rural farmer, comes across strange beings on his land doing something to a cow.

Bach (J.T. Walsh) has Majestic deployed and they seem to be one step ahead of Kim and John as they try to figure out what is going on.

With the help of a vet Mark (Maury Sterling) who was intimidated by Majestic, Loengard, Kim and Boehm runs a full check on one of his cattle and discovers that there is something else inside the cow besides internal organs. Something that could be hope, or something terrifying…

We also get a brief look at Bach’s home life, revealing his motivations for his actions to protect his family and his country. We’re also provided with a look at the ongoing relationship between Kim and John, their hopes for a future together, a home, and a family something Bach has, something Kennedy has while they remain out there on their own.

It’s an intriguing look at a real documented phenomenon that isn’t understood or has been completely explored yet, and it offers up scary possibilities.

Ancient Future debuted on 16 November, 1996, and was written by Gay Walch from a story she developed with series creators Bryce Zabel and Brent V. Friedman.

John and Kim head to Alaska in March of 1964, following up leads and rumours about srange lights in the sky. What they find is a lot of trouble, and a possible glimpse at the future. It seems in 100 B.C.E. something came down in Alaska, and has laid there waiting until now.

Springing up in the story is not only the idea of ancient astronauts, but also the idea of how such things could have influenced religions, faith and culture.

As the pair dig into the story, conferring with a local priest, Gary Barrow (Eric Steinberg) and the indigenous population, they discover that there is a buried Hive ship, deep in the Earth.

Back and Majestic race to the site, hoping to recover it, even as John has a vision influenced by contact with the saucer, a vision that shows that humanity lost to the Hive.

But what if they can stop that future from happening, or at least delay it? All John has to do is find way to make sure the saucer stays buried, or at least out of Majestic’s hands. Back attempts to activate it to get it out of the ground, but it all goes wrong, and the ship blows, triggering a massive earthquake on 27 March, 1964.

I like the ideas that are being explored in this one, and I quite like Close and Ward, they are a great leading couple. The more I watch of this show it just makes me upset that it didn’t get to tell its whole story.

Could you imagine a series like this today? Oh man!

The conspiracies and the battles continue next week.