Undermind

Undermind opens as a couple of low-rent crooks, Ian Waye (Erik Jensen) and an unsuspecting drug addict in heat, set up and rob an unsuspecting middle-aged guy coming out of a bar. When the guy turns out to be an off-duty cop one of the crooks shoots and gets shot in the process. When blue-blood trust fund yuppie attorney Derrick Hall (Sam Trammell) starts his day he is being driven to work by his doting mother, Lillian Hall (Celia Weston) a woman who is also attempting to maneuver Derek into marriage with Olivia (Susan May Pratt) a young woman who seems willing to go along for the ride until Derek shows spirit. Derek spends a goodly amount of time drinking away his lack of spine and when the scene shifts to another reality the actor playing Derek is now changed. As Zane (again Sam Trammel) awakens he is being seduced by Mary (Aliya Campbell), but Zane doesnt recognize her because his core being has shifted from his other body into this one in this world. This world Zane inhabits is one in which he is a drug dealer and con man, coincidentally the son of a policeman, a subtle but integral piece to this puzzling narrative. This alternate world is backwards, as all the street signs, and letters and presumably clocks are backwards but there is just so much we learn about the seeming un-reality of it before we shift to another morning scene with Derek awakening in the arms of Lucy (again Susan May Pratt) and calling him a different name from his own. The mother figure in this reality, Mrs. Winter (again Celia Weston) functions as one of antagonists to the Derek/ Zane alternate persona. As we slide between these alternate universes we see Derek attempt to relocate the woman he remembers as his mother form his other reality, and we also see Zane pulled deeper into crimes that he neither condones nor completely understands as he has no previous memory of the world he has been thrust into.