Walkabout (Millennium)

Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, finds himself suffering from amnesia after taking part in a nightmarish drug trial.

The episode, which opens with a quotation from Cicero, was viewed by approximately 6.1 million households in its initial broadcast, and earned mixed to positive reviews from critics.

The occupants are screaming, panicking and self-mutilating; one man—Frank Black (Lance Henriksen)—begins pounding on a pane of reinforced glass until his fists bleed.

Watts combs Black's computer history, finding emails back and forth between Black—using the pseudonym "David Marx"—and a doctor named Daniel Miller.

After Black leaves, Hans Ingram (Gregory Itzin), the doctor responsible for the trial, breaks into Miller's hotel room.

Watts and the police investigate Ingram's home, finding the eyeless body of the dead trial participant and sachets of something called "Smooth Time", which they ascertain to be the hallucinogenic enantiomer of Proloft.

Black realizes that Ingram had been distributing "Smooth Time" under the guise of a sweetener in order to drug a large number of people.

At home with his family, Black's motives for visiting the drug trials return to him—he is concerned about his young daughter Jordan, believing that she has inherited his abilities.

[10] There have been a great many shows and books and movies about the so-called horrors of psych meds, and it's the sort of easy to agree with concept that gets overplayed without much in the way of nuance.

Gibron felt that the episode "forces us to confront uneasy questions", likening the narrative to "a giant puzzle with the pieces tossed at us from all angles".

Handlen noted that he was pleasantly surprised that the episode did not play on clichéd amnesia tropes as he had expected, and felt that involving Black so heavily in the cold open was a good method of changing the series' usual formula.