Episode
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal: Absolution
Overview
Case File #569-977 The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research case manager Matt Praeger is institutionalized after a case goes tragically wrong. Working undercover as an arms dealer in order to gain access to a teenager with ESP Praeger gets caught in the middle of a double cross and apparently fires the bullet that kills the youth.
Details
- Series
- Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1998-10-25
Episode context
Absolution is Episode 5 in Season 3 of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal. It aired on 1998-10-25.
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The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research is called into action when the mutilated corpse of a police detective who gunned down an escaped convict is found in a dumpster.
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