Dark Angel

Original title : Pilot (1/2)
First Aired : 03.10.2000 (USA) 01.09.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : David Nutter
Writing credits : James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee
Cast : Tyler Labine (Messenger #2), Stanley Kamel (Edgar Sonrisa), Kristin Bauer (Lydia Meyerson), Paul Popowich (Darren McKennon), Kim Hawthorne (Jacinda), Douglas O'Keefe (Bruno Anselmo), Sarah-Jane Redmond (Lauren Braganza), Lauren Smith (Natalie), Stephen Lee (Dan Vogelsang), Geneva Locke (Young Max), Chris Lazar (Young Zack), Kyley Statham (Young Jondy), Kent O'Connnor (Struggling Child), Emy Aneke (Watch Captain), Bob Wilde (Silhoutted Figure), Rob Freeman (Lietuenant), Hiro Kanagawa (Theo), Marcus Moldowan (Omar), Brad Loree (Young Soldier), Alessandro Juliani (Druid), Storma T. McDonald (Ultra Cool Secretary), Dee Jay Jackson (Lamar the Bartender), Eileen Pedde (Hannah), Peter H. Kent (Security Guard Lt. Walter Peter), Taylor-Anne Reid (Sophy), Dylan Pearson (Blonde Boy), Ron Blecker (Drill Instructor), Garry Chalk (Eastep), Jim Dunn (Intruder), Jenna Marie Gooch (Young Eva), Catherine Lough Haggquist (News Anchor), Fulvio Cecere (Sandoval), Robert Lewis (Dochnovich), Ty Olsson (Driver), Alexander Pervakov (Steroid Case Guard), Kate Luyben (Blonde at Party), Lina Teal (Redhead at Party), Sylvesta Stuart (TAC Leader), Steve Makaj (Lead Thug), Scott Heindl (Thug #2), Suleka Mathew (News Reporter)

The Story : As a child, Max was part of a highly classified genetic enhancement project. She and several other children were trained in a deeply secluded compound to use their superhuman powers. At a young age, Max and several others escaped the compound and made their way in the world. Now a beautiful young bike messenger and thief, Max is trying to find her lost "siblings" from the project. At the same time, Max is trying to dodge capture from her former handlers led by Lydecker. Max is aided in her quest by Logan Cale, an idealistic cyber-journalist. Logan has his own crusade -- taking on the ruthless Power-Brokers of the new millennium. Intially Max is reluctant to help Logan, but ultimately brings her superhuman abilities Though initially resistant to Logan's attempts to enlist her in his crusade, Max ultimately brings her unique abilities to his cause.

Original title : Pilot (2/2)
First Aired : 03.10.2000 (USA) 01.09.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : David Nutter
Writing credits : James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee
Cast : Geneva Locke (Young Max)

The Story : As a child, Max was part of a highly classified genetic enhancement project. She and several other children were trained in a deeply secluded compound to use their superhuman powers. At a young age, Max and several others escaped the compound and made their way in the world. Now a beautiful young bike messenger and thief, Max is trying to find her lost "siblings" from the project. At the same time, Max is trying to dodge capture from her former handlers led by Lydecker. Max is aided in her quest by Logan Cale, an idealistic cyber-journalist. Logan has his own crusade -- taking on the ruthless Power-Brokers of the new millennium. Intially Max is reluctant to help Logan, but ultimately brings her superhuman abilities Though initially resistant to Logan's attempts to enlist her in his crusade, Max ultimately brings her unique abilities to his cause.

Original title : Heat
First Aired : 10.10.2000 (USA) 08.09.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Katleman
Writing credits : Patrick Harbinson
Cast : Stephen Lee (Dan Vogelsang), Geneva Locke (Young Max)

The Story : Max is lured further into Logan's realm when he promises her more information about her past. He tells her about the woman who picked her up roadside as a child - a woman named Hannah. Max heads out to find Hannah, and ultimately gets more clues about her biological mother. But Hannah is forced to reveal Max's whereabouts to Lydecker. Max manages yet another daring escape from Lydecker. Also, Max's feline DNA puts her in heat and she relentlessly pursues a man, Eric. They never really hook up, but Eric is left with a huge crush on Max and gets unsuspectingly sucked into her adventure. Elsewhere, the private eye, Vogelsang, double-crosses Max and sells information about her to Lydecker.

Original title : Flushed
First Aired : 17.10.2000 (USA) 15.09.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Terrence O’Hara
Writing credits : René Echevarria & Charles H. Eglee
Cast : Byron Mann (Matt Sung), Byron Mann (Matt Sung), Stephen Lee (Dan Vogelsang), Geneva Locke (Young Max)

The Story : Max's seizures increase. Low on her medication after her friends mistakenly flush it down the toilet, Max breaks into a drug clinic. She is caught and ends up in jail and more openly a target for Lydecker. When her friends find out, Cindy gets herself arrested in order to help Max break out. Meanwhile, Lydecker closes in on Max. With the help of a stranger Cindy and Max manage to breakout. Lydecker's efforts to trap Max are again thwarted by Logan's tactics.

Original title : C.R.E.A.M.
First Aired : 31.10.2000 (USA) 22.09.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Chris Long
Writing credits : David Zabel
Cast : Christine Chatelain (Max's Mother), Byron Mann (Matt Sung), Michael Sunczyk (Rafe), Geneva Locke (Young Max)

The Story : Logan is approached by a woman asking to find her missing father. The father happens to be Logan's mentor/hero of his youth. Logan thought the man was dead, but learns that he is alive and not at all the noble person Logan thought him to be. Logan discovers that the woman is not the daughter of his fallen hero, but a woman who wants to murder the man. Elsewhere, Max comes to the rescue of Sketchy who's job as a bag man for a group of mobsters turns life-threatening when he loses a delivery

Original title : 411 on the DL
First Aired : 14.11.2000 (USA) 06.10.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Joe Ann Fogle
Writing credits : Doris Egan
Cast : Brenda James (Valerie), Alex Green (Security Guard), Rodney Rowland (Husband), William Gregory Lee (Zack)

The Story : Max gets called to a secret meeting after seeing a personal ad containing her bar code tattoo number. She leans that Vogelsang claims to know about the remaining children from Manticore. He insists on a large sum of money for the information. Logan questions Vogelsang's motives and his relationship to Lydeker. Mysteriously, Logan's ex-wife reappears after many years of non-contact. Max is suspicious of the ex-wife's motives, but Logan feels drawn to his ex-wife. However, Max discovers the ex-wife has dark motives for returning. Elsewhere, Herbal is fired from the messenger service after using Rastafarian drugs. Cindy and Kendra head up a protest strike.

Original title : Prodigy
First Aired : 21.11.2000 (USA) 13.10.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : David Jackson
Writing credits : Patrick Harbinson From a Story by Charles H. Eglee & René Echevarria
Cast : Mike Weinberg (Jude), Byron Mann (Matt Sung), Geneva Locke (Young Max)

The Story : Max and Logan attend a conference about genetic engineering. She sees Lydecker at the conference, but he doesn't recognize her. Before she can slip away unseen, the conference attendees are taken hostage by a group of anti-genetic engineering terrorists. Max can't use her abilities to escape for fear of being noticed. Logan negotiates to free the women and children in exchange for himself. Max is able to intervene to save Logan from an almost certain death. She takes out Lydecker in the process and stops the terrorists. Meanwhile at Jam Pony, the gang are riveted by the television coverage of the hostage situation and unaware that Max is involved. Herbal insists the terrorist situation is all part of God's plan.

Original title : Cold Comfort
First Aired : 28.11.2000 (USA) 20.10.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Jefery Levy
Writing credits : Jose Molina
Cast : Nicole Bilderback (Brin), William Gregory Lee (Zack)

The Story : Zack reappears and tells Max Lydecker has captured Brin, one of their Manticore sisters, and plans to do her harm. Max decides they must kidnap Lydecker and force him to reveal Brin's whereabouts. When Max and Zack discover that Lydecker was not behind Brin's disappearance, they have no choice but to team up with Lydecker to find their lost sister...

Original title : Blah Blah Woof Woof
First Aired : 12.12.2000 (USA) 27.10.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Shapiro
Writing credits : Moira Kirland Dekker
Cast : William Gregory Lee (Zack), Byron Mann (Matt Sung)

The Story : Lydecker gets the local police to post "Wanted" posters of Max throughout the city, charging her with Vogelsang's murder. Zack returns to beg Max to leave town. Logan offers Max and Zack shelter in a countryside retreat. While saying good-bye, their attraction to each other comes to the surface and Logan and Max kiss. Zack tries again to convince Max to run away with him. Just as she's ready to do it, she learns Logan is near death. Max heads back to Seattle to give Logan a blood transfusion. Though she puts her own life at risk, she does save Logan's life. Lydecker and the police close in on finding Max; however, the real murder confesses. It's Zack who turns himself in to police in order to spare Max. The helicopter transporting Zack back to Manticore mysteriously explodes. No one knows if Zack was killed. Meanwhile, Logan discovers the feeling has partially returned to his paralyzed leg. And, Sketchy is put in charge at Jam Pony. He seizes the opportunity to make himself look like the hero and goes to the police with information about Max. But Logan finds out about it and gets a detective to discourage Normal and Sketchy.

Original title : Out
First Aired : 09.01.2001 (USA) 03.11.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Sarah Pia Anderson
Writing credits : David Zabel
Cast : Peter Bryant (Bling), James Kidnie (Gerhardt Bronck), Mack 10 (Tacoma Bleed), Byron Mann (Detective Matt Sung), Kaare Anderson (Cop 1 - Thug), Jose Vargas (Jorge), Jessica Crockett (Louise), Link Baker (Sven), Darcy Laurie (KK), Thomas Hunt (D'Nardis), Lance Gibson (Half Dead), Owen Rilan (Cop 2), Jim Shield (Bronck Goon), Bethoe Shirkoff (Mrs. Moreno)

The Story : Tired of Logan's "all business" approach to their relationship, Max refuses to help with his latest case involving a medical supply smuggler. But when Logan gets double-crossed by his target, Max goes undercover as "Eyes Only" to rescue him from a certain death. Meanwhile, Normal is smitten with a woman with a secret.

Original title : Red
First Aired : 16.01.2001 (USA) 10.11.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Katleman
Writing credits : Jose Molina & David Zabel
Cast : Peter Bryant (Bling), Mark Gibbon (Red Six), Patrick Kilpatrick (Red Five), Douglas O'Keeffe (Bruno Anselmo), Alex Zahara (Johanssen), Taras Kostyuk (Red Seven), Angela Moore (), Irene Chang ()

The Story : Max is sent by Logan to rescue a man in the witness protection program. Turns out the man is Bruno Anselmo, and she has just saved him from certain death. Max soon learns Bruno has not changed at all and is still a criminal. Max and Bruno are chased by a group of hit men and are forced to flee. The lose communication with Logan and must go on the run. Logan finds out the hit men are a generation of "transgenics," people with superpowers developed by the government but abandoned after their lifespan and reliability proved limited. The group of hit men are looking for the second generation of transgenics from Manticore. Logan comes to the conclusion that the hit men are really not after Bruno, but Max.

Original title : Art Attack
First Aired : 06.02.2001 (USA) 17.11.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : James Contner
Writing credits : Doris Egan
Cast : Susan Hogan (Aunt Margo), Michael Benyaer (Onion Runyon), Michasha Armstrong (Bodyguard #1), Samantha Smith (), Ryan Robbins (), Lawrence Pressman (), Master P (Jean Baptiste Duvalier)

The Story : Normal is kidnapped by a gang of art thieves and the Jam Pony folks realize they have been tricked into transporting stolen paintings. Meanwhile, Logan asks Max to be his date at a family wedding. She is snubbed at the only store that sells gowns. She decides to return to the dress store and steal the dress she has put on hold. When Logan is suspicious of how she got such a nice dress, Max confesses and says she plans on taking it back. Later, Max enlists Logan's help to rescue Normal from the art thieves.

Original title : Rising
First Aired : 13.02.2001 (USA) 24.11.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Duane Clark
Writing credits : Moira Kirkland Dekker, Doris Egan From a Story by Jose Molina & David Zabel
Cast : Alex Zahara (Johanssen), Peter New (Janitor (uncredited)), Mark Gibbon (Red Six), Taras Kostyuk (Red Seven), Shawn Reis (Red Eight), Patrick Kilpatrick (Red Five)

The Story : The "transgenic" Reds catch up with Max when her lost pager reveals her whereabouts to them. The Reds are former death row convicts seeking to combine their technology with Max's genetic material. Logan and Max, after a deadly fight with a Red, learn that the transgenics' power is controlled by a special implant placed in their bodies. Meanwhile, the Reds take Original Cindy hostage and used to lure Max into their trap. Max risks it all and inserts the Red's implant into her own neck in hopes of gaining extra power. The implant makes her hyper violent and she kills off the Reds in order to free Original Cindy. Max then has a seizure. Logan learns the only way to save Max's life is to get the chip out of her head, but first he has to electrocute the chip in her neck. He is able to save her. Max then has to reveal to Original Cindy her Manticore secret. Also, Logan begins to regain the use of his legs and stands up.

Original title : The Kidz Are Alright
First Aired : 20.02.2001 (USA) 01.12.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Jeff Woolnough
Writing credits : René Echevarria & Charles H. Eglee
Cast : Rob Labelle (Manticore Doctor), William Gregory Lee (Zack), Geneva Locke (Young Max), Lisa Ann Cabasa (Tinga)

The Story : Re-captured by Lydecker after his helicopter crash, Zack is tortured in an effort to get him to reveal the whereabouts of the other X5 escapees. After a failed escape attempt, Lydecker tortures Zack even more and Zack "dies." In a ingenious plan, Zack survives his burial and escapes from his coffin. He contacts Max. She meets him in a cave on the Manticore property. Unbeknownst to them, Max is wired and Lydecker and company hear all he is saying. He tells Max he's forgotten everything, but she coaches him to try and remember the whereabouts of the other X5 escapees. He does remember a few details which he tells Max. He reveals Tenga is working in a nearby bakery. This is enough information to get Lydecker on her tail. Max and Zack piece together that Lydecker knows the whereabouts of the X5 escapees. Logan sends a warning out to the X5ers through "Eyes Only." All are tipped off, but Tenga alerts Zack that she needs help escaping Lydecker. Zack and Max go to her and help her get away. Tenga and Zack head off to Canada, unable to convince Max to go with them. Meanwhile, Logan loses use of his legs again and hides it from Max.

Original title : Female Trouble
First Aired : 27.02.2001 (USA) 08.12.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : John Kretchmer
Writing credits : Patrick Harbinson
Cast : Peter Bryant (Bling), Geneva Locke (Young Max)

The Story : Max discovers Logan is dealing with a back-alley medical clinic doctor who has agreed to perform experimental therapies to keep him out of his wheelchair, who Max realizes is also a former Manticore scientist. Meanwhile,Original Cindy returns to Jam Pony and continues to learn more about Max and her relationship to Logan.

Original title : Haven
First Aired : 27.03.2001 (USA) 15.12.2001 (FRANCE)
Director : Michael Rhodes
Writing credits : Jose Molina
Cast : Mark Rolston (Herman Colberg), Ashley Crow (Trudy Sumner), Ian Tracey ()

The Story : Max accompanies Logan to a once-thriving community, now devastated after the pulse, to meet with the town's retired sheriff (his Eyes Only), contact. The locals are hostile toward Max and Logan, believing them to be hold-overs from the pre-pulse days. While Logan is meeting with his contact, Max starts to feel ill and having seizures. She befriends a local teen who Max comes to realize is alienated from the rest of the town. Max sees burn marks on the boy's hands. Then the boy is threatened with his life for talking to her. Max asks Logan to help her dig deeper to uncover what appears to be a conspiracy of silence. Max and Logan find out the boy is the only survivor of an affluent family attacked and killed by an angry mob of townspeople after the pulse. Max becomes debilitated by a seizure. Logan heroically overcomes his disability by using his wits to fend off a mob determined to keep the truth a secret. Logan succeeds in bringing the truth to light and helping the boy discover his past and his place in the world.

Original title : Shorties in Love
First Aired : 17.04.2001 (USA) 12.01.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Paul Shapiro
Writing credits : Adisa Iwa
Cast : Alex Carter (Synthedyne CEO), Kim Hawthorne (Jacinda), Tangelia Rouse (Diamond)

The Story : When Diamond, an old girlfriend of Original Cindy's mysteriously reappears to rekindle their relationship, Max finds her anonymity dangerously comprised by a stranger with a deadly secret. Max becomes suspicious of Diamond's presence when Max is attacked by strangers. Logan investigates the identity of the attackers. Meanwhile, Max carries out a heist at the request of Logan. Unbeknownst to her, Max is followed on the heist by Diamond. Diamond accidentally trips an alarm and Max is caught. Diamond got away with the goods from the heist and convinces Cindy to leave town with her to start a new life. While Max is in jail, Hazmat-suited soldiers drug her and take her to a laboratory. Max escapes after she learns her captors plan to kill her because she won't reveal the whereabouts of Diamond. With the help of Logan, Max discovers Diamond is wanted because she was injected with a deadly biological poison which was given to her by a genetics corporation. The corporation is trying to cover up the experiment. Diamond becomes sick and is taken to the laboratory. Cindy visits there and becomes trapped. Max springs her, but they leave Diamond behind. She is too far gone and very close to dying. However, before she dies, Max releases Diamond so she can infect her evil captor with her bio-poison by kissing him.

Original title : Pollo Loco
First Aired : 24.04.2001 (USA) 19.01.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Thomas J. Wright
Writing credits : Doris Egan
Cast : Robert Floyd (Father Destry), Nana Visitor (Madame X), Jensen Ackles (Ben), Colin Lawrence (TAC Officer #2 (uncredited)), Geneva Locke (Young Max), Rekha Sharma (Dr Beverly Shankar), Jenn Forgie (Clerk at Coroner's Office), Judith McDowell (Lady with Rosary)

The Story : Logan is tipped off by a friend at the morgue to a murder victim with a bar code tattoo on his neck. He tells Max who then investigates. Max reads the bar code to be that of fellow X5 escapee, Ben. However, the murder victim is not Ben. While she is viewing the body, Lydecker shows up to confiscate the body and close the investigation. Max hides. After another body with the same bar code shows up, Max investigates the crime scene. While at the scene, Max has several flashbacks that make it clear to her that the real Ben is re-enacting a traumatic Manticore training exercise where a prisoner was hunted down and savagely murdered. Max herself participated in the exercise. Max remembers Ben had an obsession with a religious icon after a Manticore janitor gave him a card with her image. It looks to be an image of the Virgin Mary, but the young Manticore soldiers call her the blue lady. Max goes to a local church and a priest befriends her. Later, the priest is abducted by Ben, who tattoos a bar code on the priests' neck. Ben plans to kill the priest in a ritualistic fashion, but Max catches him. Just as Lydecker and his dreaded helicopter are closing in, Ben convinces Max to kill him because he doesn't want to go back to Manticore where he'd now be a prisoner. Max breaks his second vertebrae with on squeeze, killing him. Elsewhere, Logan learns through an "eyes only" meeting with Lydecker, that Max is really just a killing machine. Logan also receives photos of Max as a young Manticore soldier with the blood of a recent kill on her face.

Original title : I And I Am A Camera
First Aired : 01.05.2001 (USA) 26.01.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Jeff Woolnough
Writing credits : David Simkins
Cast : Nana Visitor (Madam X), Kevin McNulty (Gilbert Neal), Victor Flavin (Pedro (uncredited))

The Story : Investigating a string of murders of recently paroled convicts, Max and Logan meet a "Fisher King"-like super hero who at first appears harmless and slightly crazy, but ultimately has a profound effect on both their personal lives. Discovering this post-pulse crusade as he follows her around Seattle, Max's original opinion of the "super hero" changes after she sees him actually perform super-human feats. Bringing Logan into the mix, they discover the "super hero" is a former NASA janitor who managed to abscond post-pulse with a highly advanced exoskeleton that attached to one's nervous system and provides super-human abilities. Though fascinated by the device, Logan's interest is piqued when the man's ramblings about conspiracy theories and "death from the sky" bear a striking resemblance to Logan's murder investigation. Digging further Logan discovers a secret police plot to equip special hover-drones with weapons that can track and kill any target, especially ex-cons.

Original title : Hit A Sista Back
First Aired : 08.05.2001 (USA) 02.02.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : James Whitmore, Jr.
Writing credits : Moira Kirland Dekker
Cast : Nana Visitor (Madam X), Nicole Bilderback (Brin), Sebastian Spence (Charlie Smith), Lorena Gale (Teacher), William Gregory Lee (Zack)

The Story : When fellow X5 escapee Tinga returns to town to save the family she left behind, Max, with the help of Zack, once again places herself in danger to battle Manticore, Lydecker, newly turned X5 Bryn, and an increasingly power-hungry Madame X. When Tinga gives up her freedom to ensure her child's safety, she is taken to a secret government lab. Amid the double crossing, we learn Lydecker is no longer in the loop with the real Manticore higher-ups. This means Max is in more danger that she could possible imagine.

Original title : Meow
First Aired : 15.05.2001 (USA) 09.02.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : D.J. Caruso
Writing credits : David Zabel
Cast : Nana Visitor (Madame X), Nicole Bilderback (Brin), William Gregory Lee (Zack)

The Story : Max starts to feel the stress of being controlled by her genetic urges when she goes into her bi-annual feline DNA sexual urges. She jumps one of the first available guys she sees. After a hot, random sexual encounter, she becomes more distraught over her situation. She finally realizes she's in love with Logan. She tells Logan and he surprises her by standing up. Logan has repaired the exo-skeleton and is able to "walk" for a limited time. But, as Logan and Max are finally sharing a deep kiss, Zack shows up with the news that he's found Tinga. Max heads off to find Tinga. But she is too late: Lydecker, who has outsmarted Madame X's assassination attempt -- finds out about Max's plan and moves on Tinga and Max himself. Max discovers Tinga who is floating "dead" in a preservation tank. Max frees her but it's too late. Zack watches in horror as Max is captured.

Original title : And Jesus Brought a Casserole
First Aired : 22.05.2001 (USA) 09.02.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Joe Ann Fogle
Writing credits : René Echevarria & Charles H. Eglee
Cast : Nicole Bilderback (Brin), Nana Visitor (Madame X), Lisa Ann Cabasa (Tinga), William Gregory Lee (Zack), Robert Gossett (McGinnis), Nicki Aycox (Syl), Josh Alba (Krit), Sean Campbell (Special Ops #1), Brian Drummond (Special Ops #2), Glenn Ennis (TAC Officer), Rob Freeman (TAC Op Kalins), Colin Lawrence (TAC Op O'Neill), John Callander (Motel Clerk), Martin Budny (Tracking Van Tech), Geneva Locke (Young Max), Chris Lazar (Young Zack), Greg Kean (Male Doctor), Veena Sood (Female Doctor)

The Story : Max escapes Manticore and Madame X's clutches with the help of Lydecker. Lydecker and two of his accomplices, knock Max out and chain her to a hotel bed. Lydecker gets drunk while Max sleeps. Max wakes up just as Lydecker is pointing a gun at her and Madam X's people are closing in on them. Lydecker tells her he'll shoot her and then himself and end it all. Max kicks the gun our off his hand, grabs him, and they escape in his Humvee. Meanwhile, the other X5s have gathered with Logan and are trying to come up with a plan to find Max. All are shocked when Max shows up with Lydecker and tells them all she wants them to help her take down Manticore. Though they all mistrust him, eventually, they include Lydecker on the plan -- seeing as he knows the ins and outs of Manticore. Lydecker proves useful when he gouges the eye out of a man who has access to the Manticore labs. Max and Zack use the eye to gain access to the lab. The X5s plant bombs throughout Manticore. Max and Zack plant bombs in a genetics lab where her and all her sibling's DNA is being stored. Madame X discovers Manticore's security has been breached. The X5s are chased out of the building, and several new Manticore children also get out of the building. The new children are clones of the X5s. They hunt down the X5s. Zack is shot in the shoulder. Max is shot in the heart by her own clone. Logan finds her, but Lydecker insists its too late to save her. He knocks Logan unconscious and drags him to safety. Max and Zack are taken by Madame X and her people to the Manticore hospital. They try to revive Max while Zack looks on. The doctors say it's too late for Max, unless she gets a heart transplant, Zack swings into action, grabs a gun from a guard and threatens to shoot Madame X so she'll be a heart donor. She says that won't work, Max needs an X5 heart. Zack shoots himself. His heart is transplanted into Max. Max awakens to find she is trapped in Manticore again. Madame X comes in to tell her she has a strong warrior heart beating in her chest, and turns up the volume on the heart monitor, driving Max nearly mad.