Phoenix Rising:
Written by: Jaime Paglia
Directed by: Michael Rohl
Original airdate: July 10, 2007
Synopsis:
Jack and Henry talk about the pain of living with memories that happened only for them, with Jack saying they should try and help each other get through it. Soon, a resident of the town and Kevin’s therapist, Wayne Kwan, spontaneously combusts and catches on fire, dying. An investigation is conducted while Jack repeatedly makes conversations awkward, referencing things that have no meaning to anyone except him and Henry.
Jack, Henry and Allison discover a link between Wayne and a researcher at GD, Rob Matthew, noting the two had many phone calls to each other. They try to find Rob Matthew but he too has combusted and died.
Beverly tries to help Kevin to deal with the death of his therapist, but little progress is made, aside from Kevin asking if he will still be able to see the man downstairs.
Allison is told that Stark is being removed from his position as head of GD, with her hired on as the new replacement, something that Stark does not take well. Allison finds a connection with another researcher, Brock, and the two go to find him with Jack remembering where Brock was in the other timeline. Unfortunately, the timeline continues to diverge from what Jack remembers as Henry said it would, and Brock is found a bit farther away from where Jack expected him to be. They try to save him to no avail.
Jack asks Henry to replay a hologram Henry has of the experiment that killed Kim, accusing Henry of being responsible for the deaths of the men who combusted, both men arguing with each other. However, Jack uses his detective skills to discover that when the experiment exploded, the artefact could have sent stray radiation out to other parts of GD, affecting people not in the room when it happened.
Meanwhile, Stark, with no hope left, decides to try and enter the cell containing the artifact, but collapses after opening the door upon a huge tendril-like object. Henry, having discovered earlier that the people combusting were triggered by something in their brains, uses electroshock therapy to disrupt the signal, and saves Stark.
Afterwards, Alison shows her support for Stark, holding his hand while Jack looks on, upset that things have changed from how he remembered them. He goes to Henry to express his sorrow, saying that the more he tries to make things like they were originally, the more things change. Henry says he redesigned the memory eraser to target specific long term memories, saying they need to use it on each other so they can stop feeling the pain of the lives they lost when they time traveled. Henry then uses it on Jack to take his memories of his time with Alison but keeps his own memories, soon going to Allison and telling her he’s applying for a job at GD.
Beverly meets with Congressman Faraday again, and tells him that Stark believes that the artifact is now dead, its energy gone. Both Beverly and Faraday agree that energy like that doesn’t just disappear, that it has to go somewhere. Elsewhere in town, Alison’s son Kevin is playing with clay, when he suddenly recreates a perfect copy of the tendrilled artifact.
Advanced Research:
Raugi Yu was Wayne Kwan. He appeared in a few made for tv movies, and small guest appearances here and there, as in Marmaduke, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Police Academy: The Series but he did have a reoccurring role in a show called Mr. Young in which he played Dang, the janitor and was in half of the 80 episodes. (A 14-year-old kid named Adam Young went to college when he was nine and got a job at Finnegan High School as the science teacher. His best friend Derby and older sister Ivy go to the same school. He develops a crush on Echo Zizzleswift, one of his own students.)
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