Leslie Bohem’s UFO epic continued with its sixth episode on 9 December, 2002.

It opens with the aliens arriving in a ship to reclaim the crashed vehicle from the Roswell crash over a bridge with both the Crawfords and the Clarkes as witnesses, amongst others, military and civilian. The climax of the last episode.

Eric Crawford (Andy Powers) holds them all for 72 hours to make sure everything remains quiet. But with no material on hand (except for the piece that has been held by his family since the crash), he’s ousted from the project, leaving Wakeman (Matt Frewer) in charge.

We move through the 80s fairly quickly, brushing up against Reagan’s 1987 speech to the UN.

Jacob Clarke (Chad Donella) ends up dying young, but his wife Julie (Emily Holmes) remarries but their daughter, Lisa (Taylor Reid/Alexandra Purvis/Emily Bergl), continues the bloodline. And she ends up being abducted.

Young Charlie Keys (Devin Douglas Derwitz/Adam Kaufman) is still being abducted.

And oh boy, the disturbing appearance of Bob Wilde’s Carny sets everything off.

The story moves into the 90s, and things begin to escalate once again. Crawford is drawn back to the project because of an incident with the space shuttle, and he invites his grown daughter, Mary (Heather Donahue) to join him in his work. She has an agenda and plan of her own.

Wakeman hasn’t been resting on his laurels, he’s made it possible to track all of the implants on the planet.

He also continues to circle around the Crawford family, trying to trace Jacob’s life… and what will that mean when he learns about Lisa? But her uncle, Tom (Ryan Hurst) works to keep her secret and safe.

During one of Lisa’s abductions she encounters Charlie, and she is returned, pregnant. She eventually gives birth to Allie (Elle Fanning/Dakota Fanning) in a hospital, while under the protection of the aliens and the largest UFO sighting in the American northwest.

After the fairly restful Maintenance episode things seem to be escalating again, and there’s lots going on. As mentioned, some of the effects aren’t so great, but some of them, are completely unnerving. Bob Wilde is a completely unnerving special effect in his own right. But the stuff with the dolphins, and the aliens don’t look so great. The UFOs look pretty cool though.

I like that some of Tom Clarke’s books seem familiar. One of the covers is reminiscent of Whitley Strieber’s Communion, and another looks like an homage to producer Steven Spielberg’s iconic Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

There are schemes and plans at work. The government project is trying to maintain some sort of control over things, but the alien agenda is very much doing its own thing.

I still love how the show wraps itself in documented events, and Bohem’s scripts work at trying to figure out what may actually be happening. Let’s see what happens next time in God’s Equation.