John Loengard (Eric Close) is approached by the Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy (James F. Kelly) to tell his story to the Warren Commission, which is about to rule that Oswald acted alone in order to keep the Hive and Majestic secret.

The Commission is led by Earl Warren (Gary Lockwood!) and the episode introduces another Star Trek alumni, though she wasn’t when the series was released. Jeri Ryan plays Julliet Stewart, who breaks into John and Kim (Megan Ward) safe house. She delivers a message not to testify.

Written by series creators and showrunners, Bryce Zabel and Brent V. Friedman, this episode debuted on 18 January, 1997.

So there’s some good and bad things going on here, seeing as Loengard is going to be testifying, you know what that means for a television episode… clip show. Sigh.

But they actually lay out a large portion of the mythology in one narrative, putting it all out there, on the record, and it’s done really well. There’s also a lot of fun to be had when Bach (J.T. Walsh) testifies before the commission and we see a completely different take on things.

As Warren tries to deal with all of the things being presented to him, he demands Kennedy deliver some form of evidence or he will charge Loengard with perjury. Kim has an idea on how to resolve things, but until then, John and Back are both being held in custody.

While Kennedy leads a group to Majestic’s headquarters, Juliet and Albano (Conor O’Farrell) work to destroy as many classified files as they can to keep them out of the Attorney General’s hands. But Bach has a plan of his own.

John is able to avoid prison, Bach is able to keep Majestic a secret, and the Warren Commission delivers the verdict that Oswald acted alone. The secrets remained hidden.

This ended up being a great episode, and also didn’t overshare on the clips front. Everything served the story, and now, Majestic has a new enforcer with Juliet! Will Jeri Ryan be back?

White Rabbit was also written by Friedman and Zabel. It debuted on 1 February, 1997 and tells a different version of how America became involved in Vietnam, as it seems everything may have been triggered by Bach’s pursuit of an alien craft that was shot at in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Kim and John are trying to recover after their encounter with the Warren Commission and slip away to enjoy some time alone and celebrate Kim’s birthday. But things go badly when Albano grabs John and hauls him into Majestic, where Juliet is detailing an underwater alien base in the Gulf, and its subsequent destruction by American artillery, as well as wreckage that the American forces want to reclaim, in Vietnam.

Bach had John abducted so that he could lead the team into Vietnam because he’s expendable. With Bach running the operation from the ground, John is sent out with a guide to find the wreckage before the Russians and Vietnamese can claim it. John finds evidence that there are survivors out there, Bach and John are intent on hunting them down, and Bach wants them burned, destroying all the evidence.

Determined to get answers and John, Kim kidnaps Bach’s wife, and once again runs afoul of Juliet, who may have a connection to a POW in-country.

It puts John and Bach in the middle of the Vietnam experience, and we see it from a whole different angle as the pair investigate tunnels, are captured by the VC. Loengard is able to escape, and thanks to a napalm attack and a chopper ride, is able to get Bach out as well.

It gives us a bit of a big action set piece for the series, but also seems a little out of place with everything else we see in the series. But I get why the episode had to explore the Vietnam angle, being such an important event in the times.

We’re racing towards the conclusion of the series, six episodes to go. How will it all play out? Will there be a bit of a wrap up, or will there be all manner of dangling threads?