After being transported away from 13th century China in the previous episode, Project Tic-Toc personnel find Tony Newman and Doug Phillips frozen in time, yet it was not because of their doing. Being trapped in a dangerous state (the scientists will die if they are not brought out of the time freeze very quickly) does not last for long, as everyone in Project Tic-Toc suddenly becomes frozen too. A mysterious person in black then appears, floats down from a platform and walks around the floor, summoning Newman and Phillips to the facility with a few hand motions, hypnotizes them to do whatever he commands them to do, then sends them to another time period as he claims he is Merlin of the Round Table.