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| "The Symbiote Syndrome" | |
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| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 7 |
| Episode in Total | 7 |
| Air Date | November 22, 1997 |
| Production Code | 07 |
| Directed By | Nathan Chew |
| Written By | Alexx Van Dyne |
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"The Symbiote Syndrome" is the seventh episode of Season One. It originally aired on November 22, 1997.
It was written by Alexx Van Dyne and directed by Nathan Chew.
Synopsis[]
When Kay is infected with Millicrons, Jay takes his place on an assignment to transport a teenaged symbiote named Troy to New York City. He has to do it within twenty hours, or be permanently absorbed by Troy. But Buzzard returns and is looking to capture the symbiote for his mysterious boss.
Plot:[]
At the episode’s start, K and J pose as pest control exterminators to rid a house of any bugs. J mistakes the couple living there as Edgar-like aliens, but the real aliens are small yellow creatures with long snouts disguised as cockroaches hiding behind the couch. As the aliens leave, J neuralyzes the couple, wiping out the memory of the agents’ arrival and the bug-disguised aliens.
Back at headquarters, Zed grows concerned about something going on. That something going on is the twins alerting him about an airborne virus looming in the ventilation system. In the MIB gym, K and J square off against each other with K becoming powerful with each move he throws at J. The former teaches the latter a special pinky exercise, but as J tries it out for himself, the virus goes into K’s nostril, rendering him sick. He is brought to the hospital and is informed by L and Zed about millicrons that have infected K. The cure for the infection is a peaceful evacuation of these germs, which there are millions of them inside K’s body. As a result of the infection, J is reminded of a “symbiote mission” that K was originally going to partake in. J volunteers to take K’s place in the solo mission, and despite K’s comments about J potentially slacking off, Zed allows the slick to perform the mission.
The two arrive at the train station underneath the headquarters and Zed sends J off on his quest with a twenty-hour deadline before J is absorbed by the symbiote. He arrives at a stop and is encouraged by another agent to meld with the symbiote, whom he calls himself Troy. With Troy now glued to J’s neck for the remainder of the mission, the two head off on the train again to their next stop. During the ride, Troy shares his story about his dreams of going to Hollywood, where he describes some of the things tourists there can do. J notices a familiar foe atop the train, Buzzard, who plants an explosive device on the car, derailing it in the process. With the train now broken, J and Troy are able to climb out and run from Buzzard who goes after them. With a forcefield in the way, J makes it through via Troy’s transformation powers by engulfing him in a ball through the barrier and out human again in one piece. Troy uses another power to attack Buzzard, enlarging J’s hand to land a powerful punch on the alien bounty hunter. As a means of escape, they climb up an air duct with a moving fan, which could get J and Troy harmed. Fortunately, Troy turns J’s hand into a suction cup and the latter uses his Noisy Cricket to shoot the fan free and send Buzzard falling.
J and Troy arrive at the desert, but as J tries to signal someone back at headquarters, service is down so he cannot call anyone for updates on K. L begins the evacuation process for K’s millicron sickness, and while that’s happening, K volunteers to go after J and find him and the symbiote, with L to accompany him and monitor his health condition. Back on the train tracks, a laser from his hovering sphere-shaped craft henchman pries Buzzard free from his enclosure and continues to go after the symbiote. With three hours left, J proposes the idea of him and Troy splitting up, but the latter does not want to die before the deadline ends. With L and K also at the desert to find the conjoined duo, Troy finds a convenience store in hopes of pecan rolls, but J’s intention was to use a pay phone for his update on the mission. The clerk of the store tries to help J’s predicament, but on his end, the signal is jammed too. They walk out, and notice the LTD passing by, but Troy sabotages J’s attempt to get K’s attention, thus letting the car drive away.
Upset at Troy, J thinks that the symbiote has ran away from his mother and accuses him of the loss of service from the MIB’s devices. Under threat of being shot by the Noisy Cricket, Troy leaves J’s neck leaving him as a green worm-like creature when separated, but gives the symbiote another chance right as Buzzard arrives. At the convenience store, K and L approach the store clerk, who’s actually in alien in disguise, and ask about J’s whereabouts. With J, Troy, and Buzzard on the chase, Troy tries to flee from the hunter faster by giving J wings. Buzzard freezes the two, but the symbiote’s fire powers thaw them out. J’s hand turns into a hammer and knocks Buzzard’s spacecraft henchman out, leaving the man himself to be dealt with. During their quarrel, the spacecraft’s laser shoots J and Troy, and Buzzard separates the two again, leaving them temporarily defeated. The spacecraft’s alien comes out of the cockpit and melds with Troy, making him more powerful.
K arrives at the scene, but his condition briefly knocks him out. But fortunately, the millicrons leave him, curing him of his illness. He knocks out Buzzard and separates the alien and Troy. To restore the slick, K melds Troy with J again to heal him, and informs him of the twenty-hour deadline expiring, leaving the slick “attached to his head.” With K now in good health again, he melds with Troy, who has twenty more hours to make the most of it, and the two depart to the place where Troy wants to pursue his dream: Hollywood.
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