The life of Steven Matrix is changed forever one evening in an exclusive fine dining restaurant when he invites a beautiful female patron to join him for a drink. Within seconds of seating herself at his table, she pulls out a handgun and shoots him point blank in the head, leaving him to bleed and die. She flees the establishment while shocked diners hover over Matrix's partially conscious body, awaiting the arrival of the paramedics who shortly deliver the death verdict as his pulse weakens to a murmur. Suddenly the soul of Steven Matrix steps out of his wounded body and with gun in one hand, he glances over at the exit of the restaurant, but the assassin is long gone. Steven Matrix almost saw death.

At the hospital, Steven awakens during the wee hours of the morning to find an elderly male stranger standing by his bedside. Steven sees himself in another world, an alternate dimension where he is surrounded by a sea of fire, and a group of walking zombies, each with a bullet wound in the head. Matrix is horrified as he recognizes each face as a victim of his assigned hits. The mysterious man now speaks. He offers Matrix a second chance at life, but he will have to change his ways. From now on, he will become a force for life rather than one for death. His mission on earth will be to serve troubled souls rather than eliminate them. And in each assignment, he will be visited by a messenger or guide from the City In-Between, an area which merges heaven and hell, and who will fill him in on the details on society's helpless beings.

After leaving the hospital and visiting his the health club, Matrix is pulled into another dimension en route to the men's room at a restaurnt where he was dining with his business partner and friend, Liz Teel. On the other side, he is greeted by a friendly teeny bopper messenger who informs him that his first assignment is to prevent a 15 year old male student named Tony Lusano from fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional hitman. Baffled by what he's expected accomplish for the City In-Between, Matrix is also visited by a former mob boss, Eddie Mazzetti, who awards him with a contract on a couple - Frank & Leiney Lusano - members of the family who Mazzetti feels, are traitors. Coincidentally, the Lusanos are Tony's parents.

While Matrix teaches his new protege the tricks of the trade, he also scares the little twirp into killing his #1 enemy of choice: his school principal, Mr. Preston. The novice hitter backs out with fear and Matrix angrily fires a round of machine gun bullets into the backs of Mr. Preston & his wife. Matrix removes the disguises of the bodies which reveals their true identities: Frank and Leiney Lusano. The execution, which was staged and filmed to satisfy Mazzetti, was enough to scare straight the wanna be pro hitter Frank. The Lusanos escape in Billy's van and are driven to the airport to "disappear" forever from the mob. Assignment complete.

In the epilogue, Billy shakes his head in disbelief when Matrix tells him that he's leaving the mob and their future assignments will be different. But the two pros are friends and will work something out together.

Guest Stars:
Christian Campbell - Tony Lusano
Tony DeSantis - Frank Lusano
Toni Ellwand - Leiney Lusano
Colin Fox - Man from The City In-Between
Victor Young - Eddie Mazetti
Guylaine St-Onge - Beautiful Woman - The Assassin
Christine Elise - Teen messenger from City In-Between

Episode #1.13
Original Air Date: 22 July 1993