Airdate: Wednesday.11.May.2005
In Dreams

Sloane's impostor (Sloane 2) arrives at an Italian monastery to discuss with
Father Kampinski his experiments on breeding the aggression out of bees. As
Kampinski shows him a supposedly extinct orchid mentioned in Rambaldi's
Vespertine papers, Sloane 2 offers 50 million dollars in exchange for a
cutting and the text. Denied, Sloane 2 has an accomplice trigger Rambaldi's
Mueller Device, which causes the bees to attack and sting the monks to death.

Sloane informs the team of the orchid theft and orders them to recover the
orchid and find the impostor. Marshall says that this orchid has properties
that heighten receptivity. Privately, Jack confronts Sloane, blaming him
for this predicament.

The team sets a trap for Sloane 2, bringing him out by pretending to put the
Vespertine text up for auction in Paris. Via surveillance, Dixon and Vaughn
chase a man attempting to steal the papers. They stop a delivery truck. In
the back, they find Sloane 2.

During questioning, Sloane 2 invites Syd to work with him. He proposes
eliminating the world's bad guys and fostering harmonic coexistence by
administering the orchid extract to the general population via drinking water.

Marshall points out that Sloane 2's brain patterns are identical to Sloane.
He also recalls working on an SD-6 program for brain imprinting that Jack
says was run by Calvin McCullough, a senior partner in SD-6. Project
Brainstorm's purpose was to explore experimental technologies for
interrogation, brainwashing and transferring memories. They conclude that
finding McCullough will lead them to the orchid.

Vaughn and Dixon approach McCullough in Buenos Aires. He admits that he made
Sloane 2 believe that he is Arvin Sloane, but that Sloane 2 double-crossed
him and kept the orchid for himself. As he calmly adds a packet of cyanide
to his coffee, he declares that his employer wouldn't let him be
interrogated. He drinks up and dies.

Sloane confesses that through Omnifam he contaminated the drinking water of
400 million people worldwide as the first phase of creating a more peaceful
species of human. The second phase, based on Rambaldi's teachings, was to
introduce the orchid's nectar into the water supply. But without the
orchid, Sloane's attempts at duplicating the formula failed. Now that
Sloane 2 has the orchid, however, he has only to drop the nectar into the
water supply to bring the affected people under his control.

Marshall tells the team that Sloane 2 was created from Sloane's own brain
scans. He postulates that the Sloane clone won't reveal the orchid's
location unless he stops believing that he's Arvin Sloane. The only way to
do this, he says, is to shock Sloane's personality out of him using a
traumatic memory. In order to present the most vivid memory, Sloane must
relive the past.

Jack hypnotizes Sloane and guides him through his memory. Sloane's sees his
pregnant wife Emily and they decide that their daughter will be named
Jacquelyn. They are devastated when Jacquelyn dies shortly after birth.

They upload this painful memory to Sloane 2, who suddenly reveals that he's
a prisoner of war named Ned Bolger. He says that the orchid is located in
Switzerland. Shortly thereafter, he switches back to the Sloane 2
personality and breaks down.

Sloane refuses to wake up, preferring to alter his memory and live on
happily with Emily and a healthy Jacquelyn. Forcing him awake, Marshall
says, may kill him. Nadia nonetheless wants to get him back. She gently
tells Sloane that he can't stay in his dream because his must undo what
he's set in motion. When Sloane admits that he's ashamed of his past, Nadia
says she believes that he can redeem himself.

Sloane awakens and Nadia embraces him. Alone with Jack, Sloane reveals that
Rambaldi meant nothing to him until after Jacquelyn died, when he used the
writings to fill the hole in his heart. Seeing Ned showed him how much of
himself he had lost. He promises to rectify his misdeeds, though every day
is a struggle.