A Spider in the Web

From The Great Machine

Episode Title: A Spider in the Web
Episode Number: S2E06
Original Air Date: December 7, 1994
DVD Release Date: April 29, 2003
Writer: Lawrence G. Ditillio
Director: Kevin G. Cremin
Guest Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Michael Beck, Jessica Walter, James Sigita

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2 Synopsis
- 2.1 Main Plot
3 See Also
4 Characters
- 4.1 Season 2 Cast

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A friend of Talia's is killed by a man calling out "Free Mars!"

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Spoiler warning: Plot, character development, or ending details follow.

An old friend of Talia's, business executive Taro Isogi, arrives to open negotiations with Amanda Carter of the Mars provisional government, who herself is a former member of the radical Free Mars movement.

After a successful meeting, which seems to point to Isogi's corporation (Future Corp) helping to stabilize the uncertain future of the Mars Colony, Taro and Talia are en route to dinner when a man stops them, electrocutes Taro by hand, says "Free Mars" and flees the scene, leaving Talia alive.

Talia briefly senses an image in the murderer's mind, a first-person memory of being in a spacecraft destroyed by an Earth Alliance heavy cruiser.

After an attempt to locate and kill Talia, the killer himself seems to suffer some kind of attack and seeks out Carter's help.

Garibaldi identifies him as Abel Horn - a former Mars rebel who is officially listed as dead.

Conspiracy buff Sheridan is the first to realize that Horn is the victim/subject of cybernetic experimentation carried out by a mysterious secret agency on Earth known as Bureau 13. (Attrib: B5 LogBook [1])

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Negotiations over the future of Mars are disrupted by the murder of Taro Isogi, a long-time acquaintance of Talia Winters.
The crew is led to a cyberzombie named Abel Horn and his disturbing past.