Post date: Feb 28, 2012 1:33:28 PM
In case you missed last Sunday's episode of Across the Barrier, as always, an encore will be presented at 8 PM EST this coming Sunday, March 4. The second part of a two-part story with a bit of an environmental message to viewers, "It's a Jungle Out There" became the third-most-viewed episode of the series so far ("Geists on a Plane" leads, with "Lost Souls" in close second) when it debuted on Sunday. America has been transformed into a dense jungle, with only the Colony free of thick vegetation. Alison has confessed to the murders of Andrew Salaris and Warren Pang. She tells her fellow Colonists that she wanted to teach Humans a lesson; Humans are destroying nature and replacing it with machines and factories and other destructive things. According to her, Salaris and Pang were especially cruel to the environment. Unfortunately, she says, her plan went out of hand when she apparently put too much Magic into the earth. Now, with the help of Professor Ubera, the Hybrids will need to figure out a way to get rid of the massive jungle without using any more Magic or doing anything else which could cause it to release hazardously toxic spores into the air.
Then, at 9 PM EST this Sunday, the mid-season finale will premiere, after which no new episodes of Across the Barrier will air until this June. In "Mark of Phophoscus, Part I," Dustin Uralier returns to the main cast as Peter Brannigan as viewers finally discover what happened to Peter after last season's shocking (literally!) finale. The Hybrids receive a cryptic message in the form of an Ancient Spirit symbol burned into the grass of the Colony's central square. Alex realizes that, after having spent a few hours learning the Ancient Spirit language from his great-grandson, Danicio, in the Spirit World, the symbol is, in fact, Phophoscus's name. Not long after this realization comes to light, the Hybrids receive a chilling telepathic message from a mysterious figure calling himself the Marauder: he has both Peter and Phophoscus in his captivity--having had kidnapped Phophoscus from the Spirit World and snatched Peter from the electric explosion by teleporting in and out of the explosion while shielding himself and Peter--and demands that they perform Unions on half of their Colony's population, which would entail the removal of their souls (and thus, their deaths) so that their souls can reunite with their Spirit souls. The Marauder says that if they do not comply with his demand, he will kill both Peter and Phophoscus, and since they are one and the same, the Great Spirit of Fire would be lost forever.
An all-new episode of the TV Channel Original Emmy Award-Winning Series Across the Barrier premieres Sunday night at 9/8c, only on The TV Channel.