Following a inspection by the UN Special Security Council, the Angels are attacked by Vampires whilst they are escorting the inspector home. The three rogue Vampires are destroyed, but Destiny is badly injured during the attack.

Oh, so THAT'S the Matrix Another member of the UN, Miguel Fernandez receives an email. Upon opening it, he immediately leaves his beach-side home and walks out into the sea. On Skybase, White reveals that Fernandez was a member of the Special Security Council, and he is not the first member to apparently commit suicide - Joshua Kimote apparently threw himself from a twenty-fifth floor window a week previously. White decides to send Scarlet and Blue to investigate.

At Señor Fernandez's house, Blue finds the same email that Fernandez received before he committed suicide. Blue is captivated by the program, but doesn't seem to realise when Scarlet asks him if he's found anything. At Scarlet's suggestion, Blue uploads the entire hard drive of the computer to Skybase for Lieutenant Green to check over.

Blue gets fed up of Scarlet's back-seat driving They leave the house, but Scarlet is still uneasy, and comments that the Fernandez appeared to be sleep-walking when he left the property. Blue doesn't respond and his erratic driving soon alerts Scarlet to the fact that his friend has also been affected. He is unable to prevent blue from driving them off a cliff, but he is able to trigger the emergency escape systems before they crash into a cliff.

 Destiny escapes from Sickbay and goes to see Rhapsody in the hangar. Whilst they are talking, Green enters and heads straight for the airlock. Destiny manages to catch her before she is swept away, and she and Rhapsody drag Green back inside.

Blue's manic depression rubs off on Green Following the suicidal actions of their colleagues, Scarlet and White surmise that they, along with Fernandez and Kimote were acting under hypnosis. Scarlet realises that it is all from the computer, just as Dr. Gold tries to inject himself with a lethal dose of anaesthetic. Destiny points out that Gold hasn't seen the data from Fernandez's computer and Scarlet comes to the conclusion that it is a virus, and has infected the Skybase computer system. White points out that everyone uses the Skybase computer, so they are all susceptible to the virus' suggestion. Scarlet points out that he hasn't used the computer since he returned to Skybase, and neither has Destiny - they alone are safe from the virus's influence. White decides that the only safe course of action is to gas everyone, rendering them unconscious and therefore unable to harm themselves whilst Scarlet and Destiny try to purge the virus from the computer system.

Scarlet takes on the virus, and with Destiny's help he manages to hold on for long enough to isolate the virus and purge it from the system, but he too is affected by its influence. Destiny follows him down to Engineering, where he intends to throw himself into the nuclear reactor. Destiny tries to incapacitate him, but the stun setting of her pistol has little effect on him and she is forced to shoot to kill. Fortunately, Scarlet isn't permanently affected by the blast and soon recovers in Sickbay.





Did you spot...?
When Green throws herself from the airlock, Destiny is holding her tunic zip (which is unzipping) in the the close up shots, but the collar in the long shots.
This totally stunning image of Scarlet, whilst he is fighting the virus.



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