Man of War (Psi Factor)

Man of War is the ninth episode of the second season of "Psi Factor" and the 31st overall. 
==Synopsis==
A soldier vanishes in the woods after discovering a mysterious light in the sky. The team's job is made difficult by a military exercise in the area. Elsinger's psychic assistant Kate joins the case despite Matt's protests.Man of War - IMDB - Retrieved 23 September 2021
==Plot==
===Cold Open===
===Epilogue===
As Praeger walks Azzopardi to her car, she explains to him that a man of war is not one animal, but a colony of animals working together. She realises that he still doesn't believe in her abilities. Praeger points out that the tapes meant to be recording her visuals were blank, and speculated that the other evidence was the result of Captain Hastings' activities. Azzopardi told him to send her an email some time, and drove away.
Elsinger's car pulled up next, and stopped when Praeger waved them down. Elsinger stated that he and the military had agreed on the cover story of a meteor shower having impacted the conservation area, causing a fire that brought about some loss of life. Praeger was upset at the thought that all they had done over the past few days had been for nothing, and noted that with the EM fields active earlier, Elsinger couldn't have made the phone call to his military contacts and thus already knew about Red Tide. Elsinger replied that he would never have kept any such knowledge to himself, as it could be dangerous. He drove away, leaving Praeger to take one last mournful look at the surroundings before entering the mobile lab.
==Cast==
===Guest===
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*Terri Hawkes as Kate Azzopardi
*Richard Fitzpatrick as Colonel Andrew MacLeod
*Matthew Bennett as Captain Hastings
*Jenny Levine as Private Kristin Smythe
*Patrick Mavric as Private Del Castro
*Nigel Bennett as Frank Elsinger
==Notes==
===Continuity===
* At the time of the episode, Praeger was 38 years old, and was previously a mechanical engineer. He'd worked with Interpol on anti-terrorist efforts.
* Captain Hastings states that out of the seven people in the OSIR team on site, three are "foreign nationals". Peter Axon had been established to have been born in Bell Island, and Anton Hendricks would later be established to have been living in Nova Scotia at the time of his wife and daughter's disappearances.
* Praeger recalls his time at the plane crash in South Africa; He states that while there were bone fragments none of the bodies had completely disintegrated.
* The death of Captain Hastings would later be revisited during the trial of Praeger, Axon, Donner, and Hendricks.
* Praeger elaborates on the story of the USS Eldridge and the alleged Philadelphia Experiment. Host Dan Aykroyd stated in the intro to "Palimpsest" that the OSIR did not yet exist at the time of the experiment.
*Elsinger was earlier outed as being involved involved in black ops activities in "The Fire Within / Fate".
===References===
*Praeger paraphrases a quote from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - IMDB - Retrieved 23 September 2021 While the stated line was "And when the myth becomes fact, print the myth," in the episode, the actual line was "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
*Praeger learned that Colonel MacLeod had served in both Somalia and Bosnia by watching CNN.
==Links==
*Man of War on IMDB
==References==
Category:Fiction
Category:Psi Factor Episodes
Category:Psi Factor Season 2