Four strangers from around the world are compelled to seek answers about a coming darkness.
A young programmer uncovers evidence of corporate malfeasance.
In the desert along the Iraqi border, a former soldier fights for his sanity.
Kamimura explores the memories of an old foe for the cause of his temple's destruction.
A tribal chief holds a mournful vigil at his adopted daughter's bedside.
Oran walks delirious through the desert. Raimi recovers from his seizure. Kamimura awakens to find himself in the back of a strange man's truck. Shandala awaits the arrival of a mysterious man from the West.
Shaken by his haunting encounter with the vagrant, Raimi hopes for the memory to wash away with sleep.
A man from the West seeks to return Shandala to her true family.
Kamimura travels by plane from Tokyo to Coast City. Oran has been detained by NATO forces. Raimi meets with Biocom CEO Benjamin Palmer.
Kamimura arrives in the United States. Raimi does some digging into Biocom.
Sailing westward on Gabriel's yacht, Shandala considers the possibilities of meeting her real family.
Gabriel confronts Shandala after hearing his men scream in terror and flee from her. Two racist lieutenants abuse Oran. Kamimura travels to Coast City. Raimi prepares for a project.
Raimi is confronted by the truth that his paranoid delusions are real, and that he's part of a plot to outfit a covert military branch with a dark device.
Kamimura ponders his past as a young priest leading the order of a Buddhist monastery. In the present, he finds himself roaming the lonely crime-ridden streets of Coast City. Meanwhile, Raimi seeks answers from Oran.
Shandala mourns for the loss of her adopted brother. Oran finds himself alive and in strange new territory. Raimi walks him through what has happened to him thus far, and how it all ties into Biocom.
Shandala relives a memory from her childhood.
Oran and Raimi hide from the military in Sandra's apartment.
Oran and Raimi take shelter in a downtown mystic shop to plan their next move, but the mysterious owner may hold the key to their futures.
Raimi leads Oran and Kamimura on a mission to spy on Biocom CEO Benjamin Palmer.
Raimi, Oran and Kamimura hide Shandala in a motel room, where they try to make sense of all that has happened to them.
Raimi, Oran and Kamimura plan their next move with city curfews and the military standing in their way.
Shandala, Raimi, Oran and Kamimura get the answers they are looking for aboard Gabriel's ship.
Raimi, Kamimura and Oran hide in an alley mere blocks away from the Biocom building, trying to plan some way to get inside and expose the truth.
Raimi, Oran and Kamimura learn the truth. Shandala understands her purpose.