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Taken Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Beyond the Sky

First aired: Dec/02/2002
Guest star: Chad Faust (Top Gunner)

A World War Two veteran finds himself haunted by memories of alien abduction during the conflict, an ambitious Air Force captain is transformed into a corrupt government official by the Roswell incident and a woman is impregnated by an extraterrestrial.



2 :01x02 - Jacob and Jesse

First aired: Dec/03/2002
Guest star: Kevin Durand (Homeless Bloke)

In 1958, frequent abductee Russell Keys tries to keep his 13-year-old son Jesse from suffering the same fate. In Roswell, Owen Crawford believes young Jacob Clarke - who seems to possess otherworldly powers - may be the key to the mystery surrounding the alien spacecraft he found 10 years previously.



3 :01x03 - High Hopes

First aired: Dec/04/2002
Guest star: Andrew Jackson (Buddy Parker), Enid-Raye Adams (Susan Parker)

Colonel Owen Crawford fights to save his top-secret UFO project from being cancelled by the President and realises his only hope is to find Jacob Clarke, who has already exhibited unusual powers. His luck changes when he encounters Russell and Jesse Keys, who offer themselves up for examination in an attempt to stop the alien abductions.



4 :01x04 - Acid Tests

First aired: Dec/05/2002
Guest star: Brent Stait (Sheriff Kerby), Sarah Jane Redmond (Louise), Matt Hill (Willie), Jim Byrnes (Busker)

Owen Crawford's career is destroyed when the crop circles and landing strip he maintained were irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial invasion turn out to be a prank. His sons rally around him, but both have hidden agendas - especially journalist Sam, who heads for Alaska to find out more about the aliens. Jesse Keys returns from Vietnam as a broken man hooked on heroin and haunted by the past .



5 :01x05 - Maintenance

First aired: Dec/06/2002
Director: Felix Enriquez Alcala
Guest star: Jeffrey Ballard (Halloween Fancy Dress Boy), Alessandro Juliani (Bobby)

Eric Crawford wrests control of his father's old project and teams with an amoral scientist to hunt down Jesse and Jacob, who visits his dying mother and shares his secret with cynical Tom.



6 :01x06 - Charlie and Lisa

First aired: Dec/09/2002
Guest star: Emily Bergl (Lisa Clarke), Andy Powers (Eric Crawford)

The authorities pull the plug on Eric Crawford's investigation, leaving him trying to trace Jacob Clarke's daughter Lisa and Jesse Keys' son Charlie. However, the pair are already targeted for abduction, and meet aboard an alien craft. Six years later, Lisa gives birth to a child who exhibits the same mysterious powers as her half-alien grandfather - which are of great interest to the government.



7 :01x07 - God's Equation

First aired: Dec/10/2002
Guest star: Matt Frewer (Dr Chet Wakeman), Dakota Fanning (Allie Keys), Adam Kaufman (Charlie Keys), Emily Bergl (Lisa Clarke), Heather Donahue (Mary Crawford)

Charlie and Lisa finally learn the extent of their daughter Allie's powers while held at gunpoint by a deranged member of a support group, but the revelation is overshadowed when Mary Crawford tries to snatch the child. In league with Dr Chet Wakeman, she plans to whisk her off to a secret government installation and continue the investigation begun by her grandfather.



8 :01x08 - Dropping the Dishes

First aired: Dec/11/2002
Guest star: Roger R. Cross (Captain Walker)

Lisa and Charlie awake to discover their daughter Allie has been kidnapped by Mary and Wakeman, who are shielding her brain with a special device to stop her being traced by the aliens. Dr Penzler is killed as Lisa undergoes hypnosis in a bid to track her down.



9 :01x09 - John

First aired: Dec/12/2002

Charlie and Lisa conspire to save Allie from the Army, who plan to use her as a lure for alien craft. However, only when an extraterrestrial ship does arrive, and is subsequently shot down, does everyone realise just how much power Charlie and Lisa's hybrid daughter really possesses.



10 :01x10 - Taken

First aired: Dec/13/2002

Charlie (Adam Kaufman) compels John (Eric Close) to reveal the aliens' plans for Allie (Dakota Fanning), while Mary's pursuit of the child turns murderous.