Y2K (Psi Factor)

Y2K is the eighteenth episode of the third season of "Psi Factor" and the 62nd overall.
==Synopsis==
The team investigates the gruesome death of two programmers, who were working on a Y2K bug patch for a big security firm. Their brains were somehow destroyed by a strange computer virus. Also, Matt's relationship with Claire falls apart.Y2K - IMDB - Retrieved 10 July 2022
==Plot==
=== Cold Open ===
Veritec Industries Security guard Jerry MacRae is reading a newspaper when he's startled by a knock on the door. After seeing it's the two specialists hired by the company to upgrade their software, Gerald Duvaney and Harvey Bishop, he lets them in and they engage in banter. The two computer experts go upstairs and after fifteen minutes manage to implement their Y2K bug fix. However, something is wrong. They both begin to bleed profusely from their eyes and ears. A horrified MacRae watches this on a security camera and phones for help while the pair die.
==Cast==
===Guest===
* Stephen Russell as Sergei Kolek
* Anthony Lemke as Marc Hagan
* Janet Kidder as Kristine Ambrose
* Patrick Galligan as Bob Yardley
* Soo Garay as Dr. Claire Davison
* Dan Petronijevic as Gerald Duvaney
* George Chiang as Harvey Bishop
* Hadley Sandiford as Jerry MacRae
==Notes==
===Continuity===
* Hendricks states while examining Duvaney's body that he'd never seen anything like their cause of death before.
* Kristine Ambrose states that she had called Elsinger to promise full cooperation; belying their connections.
* Hendricks states that he and Davison will perform the autopsies in the White Room, which first appeared in "Return" and had last appeared in "Old Wounds".
*Donner's relationship with Hagan is ongoing.
*Praeger and Davison's relationship is still on the rocks following "School of Thought". This leads her to flirt with Axon, provoking Praeger's ire with Axon in similar fashion to what occurred during "Little People".
*Elsinger attempted to hire Kolek personally at some point in 1997.
*Praeger learned how to play Go while travelling in Asia. After beating Kolek later in the episode, Kolek compares Praeger to a 9th dan.
*The Chairman calls Ambrose in her office while Elsinger listens; He's seeking out Kolek's mind transference technology. The Chairman storyline ultimately concludes in "Forever and a Day".
*Axon rides a motorcycle. (TV: Little People)
*Elsinger questions whether or not the Chairman knows that he and Ambrose are connected; a point that would become moot by "Forever and a Day".
=== References & Connections ===
* In "Doctor Who", the Twelfth Doctor would encounter a creature that actually collapsed people's brains.
*Praeger compares Kolek's lifestyle change as "From Bill Gates to Grizzly Adams".
*After listening to Donner reading from his manifesto, Praeger compares Kolek to the Unabomber.
*Ambrose possesses a Gautama Buddha statue.
* Kolek's mind is successfully copied onto a floppy disk; the same storage device was once used to save Optimus Prime's mind.
=== Music ===
* "Waiting For Something To Happen/Reprise" by The Gandharvas
* "Omicron Ceti II" by Microbunny
* "Ignorance is Bliss" by Plasticpalacepeople
* "I Could Record You (Super 8 Mix)" by Plasticpalacepeople
==Links==
*Y2K on IMDB
==References==
Category:Fiction
Category:Psi Factor Episodes
Category:Psi Factor Season 3