Mutant X

Original title : The Shock of the New (1/2)
First Aired : 06.10.2001 (USA) 03.12.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : T.J. Scott
Writing credits : Howard Chaykin
Cast : Forbes March (Jesse Kilmartin), Lauren Lee Smith (Emma de Lauro), Tom McCamus (Mason Grey Eckhart), Victoria Pratt (Shalimar Fox), John Shea (Adam Kane), Victor Webster (Brennan Mulwray), Douglas O'Keeffe (Frank Thorne), Cedric Smith (Paul Breedlove)

The Story : Emma is on the run from mysterious government agents when she is rescued by a woman who can leap great distances and a man who can control his own density. They are with Mutant X, and are there to help her. Meanwhile, Brennan is a mutant who can generate electricity, and uses it to commit criminal acts. Emma is reluctant to join Mutant X, so they set her up with papers so she can go underground. Meanwhile, the head of the government project that created the mutants is killed by his partner, Mason Eckhart, and his mutant henchman Frank Thorne. Eckhart vows to recover the project's missing mutants, and Brennan is his first target. Emma and Brennan team up, and are chased by Thorne. The rest of Mutant X comes to their rescue, but Brennan is captured. (To be continued...)

Original title : I Scream the Body Electric (2/2)
First Aired : 13.10.2001 (USA) 03.12.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Jon Cassar
Writing credits : Howard Chaykin
Cast : Forbes March (Jesse Kilmartin), Lauren Lee Smith (Emma de Lauro), Tom McCamus (Mason Grey Eckhart), Victoria Pratt (Shalimar Fox), John Shea (Adam Kane), Victor Webster (Brennan Mulwray), Douglas O'Keeffe (Frank Thorne), Cedric Smith (Paul Breedlove)

The Story : Brennan tries to escape from captivity, but is recaptured and Eckhart injects him with a governor that limits his use of his powers and inflicts pain on him. Brennan is partnered with Thorne, and captures Ruby, a member of the Underground. Ruby gets a governor and is "convinced" to reveal the new safehouse for New Mutants. The agency captures most of the mutants there, but Jesse escapes thanks to an "accidental" diviersion by Brennan. Resolving to free the New Mutants, Mutant X swings into action. Emma resolves to use her powers and manages to track Brennan. She lets herself be captured, while Adam, Shalimar and Jesse break in. Jesse frees the prisoner and Shalimar covers Adam as he wipes the core memory and the governors' programming. The new mutants escape, and Brennan and Emma both join up with Mutant X permanently.

Original title : Russian Roulette
First Aired : 20.10.2001 (USA) 11.12.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : T.J. Scott
Writing credits : Elizabeth Keyishian
Cast : Alexander Pervakov (Yuri), Dylan Bierk (Sonya), Ross Hull (Daniel), Alison MacLeod (Caroline), Peter Van Wart (Steven), Laura Vandervoort (Tina)

The Story : Brennan and Jesse come to the aid of Tina, a teenage New Mutant pursued by two Russians. Jesse rescues the girl but the two Russians shoot Brennan with a strange gun that leaves him incapacitated. Jesse manages to rescue his friend and escape. It turns out the gun can detect and neutralize mutants, and the neutralization will eventually kill them. Meanwhile, Tina's adopted family are also New Mutants except for her brother, Daniel, who is disgusted by the idea. He tries to turn his family over to Eckhart by contacting the Russians. Mutant X overhears his phone conversation and put him through a holographic simulation with "Eckhart" while Jesse takes his place. They figure out Jesse is a mutant and inject a governor, then have him lead him to his "parent's" house. Mutant X has taken their place and drive them off while getting hold of the gun, which they need along with the info Jesse has obtained to cure Brennan. They reverse the process on Brennan, and go to confront the Russians. Daniel repents and drives them off with his own telekinetic power, while a newly-restored Brennan fries the only computer with information on the gun.

Original title : Fool for Love
First Aired : 27.10.2001 (USA) 11.12.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : T.J. Scott
Writing credits : David L. Newman
Cast : Yannick Bisson (Richard Saunders), Claudia Besso (Karen Bell)

The Story : Shalimar is sent to bring in another feral mutant, Donna, who declines to join Mutant X. Donna then goes berserk, attacking a pick-up artist and then disappears. Salimar, sent to investigate Donna's apartment, meets Richard Saunders, another "feral" mutant and a researcher at Genomax. It's lust at first sight. Meanwhile, Saunders' employers, led by Karen Bell, find out he's using Genomax facilities to come up with a "cure" for the mutant gene-procedure. Donna was one test subject, and was killed by the faulty serum. Saunders decides to "cure" himself of his mutation, and starts dying. Bell tries to capture Saunders, but Mutant X defeats her and Eckhart punishes her for her failure by making her another test subject. Saunders dies, leaving a remorseful Shalimar. In the sub-plot, Emma sets out to prove her worthiness to the team by using her powers to one-up Jesse and Brennan.

Original title : Kilohertz
First Aired : 03.11.2001 (USA) 18.12.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Andrew Potter
Writing credits : David L. Newman
Cast : Jim Thorburn (Barry Stirling/Kilohertz), Adam MacDonald (Renfield)

The Story : A mysterious terrorist calling himself Kilohertz has the ability to intercept nationwide TV broadcasts. Both the GSA and Mutant X believe he is a New Mutant. The GSA sends out fresh young mutant-agent Renfield, while Mutant X try to Kilohertz him down before the GSA can. Both of them track the transmission to a TV station, and figure out Kilohertz is a young staffer, Barry Stirling. Mutant X gets to him first, getting him away from Renfield, who is forced to undergo torturous "retraining" at the hands of Eckhart because of his failure. Meanwhile, Kilohertz/Sterling comes to believe that Mutant X are a danger, since they try to sedate and capture him when he starts raving about throwing the world into chaos. He manages to escape, and they recapture him, but he takes over the Sanctuary systems. Adam manages to expel him from the system, and Brennan scrambles the comm units so Kilohertz can't get back in. Barry flees to the GSA, but is captured by Renfield (who has the ability to "freeze" people), and put into the tanks for further experimentation.

Original title : The Meaning of Death
First Aired : 10.11.2001 (USA) 30.12.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Graeme Campbell
Writing credits : Brad Falchuk
Cast : Anthony Lemke (Charles Marlowe)

The Story : When Brennan is dealing with the Underground, one of its sub-leaders, Rick, comes down with a disease that causes his powers to flare out of control. While Brennan is confined with the remaining underground members, Adam and the others take Rick into isolation and try to find a cure. Word comes in of other mutants suffering from the plague, and while trying to help one of them, Adam and Shalimar meet Charles Marlowe, a mutant with the power of invulnerability. They and Eckhart make a deal to work together to cure the plague, which Marlowe isn't too happy with. Obsessed with death, Marlowe hangs around the dying mutants trying to see what they see at the moment of death. Jesse and Emma are accidentally infected by the dying Rick and go into comas as well. Adam figures out that Marlowe's invulnerability is supra-rapid cell regeneration, and extract his unique DNA to implement a cure. This makes Marlowe "vulnerable" again. They need Eckhart's computer system which only a grateful Marlowe can gain them access to. Marlowe tries to hold off Eckhart by bluffing, but Mason sees through it and Marlowe is killed. The remaining mutants are cured.

Original title : Lit Fuse
First Aired : 17.11.2001 (USA) 01.01.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : John Bell
Writing credits : Elizabeth Keyishian & David L. Newman From a Story by Tom Fudge
Cast : Mark Lutz (Eric Tanner), Moya O'Connell (Ashley Elliott), Gordon Currie (Neil Cross)

The Story : Ashley and her boyfriend Eric are on the runner from a bounty hunter, Cross. Ashley is an "elemental" who absorbs energy: in this case, electrical. She escapes although Eric is captured. Mutant X detects the power outage and goes after her. She goes to recover Eric from Cross, who has made a deal with Eckhart to capture her. Eckhart tries to double-cross Cross, and Mutant X grab Ashley, although Eric remains a prisoner of Cross. Back at Sanctuary, Ashley and Brennan are electromagnetically "attracted" to each other, and the group figures out that Eric is in cahoots with Cross to get hold of Ashley. Ashley literally absorbs Brennan, making herself potentially very dangerous and liable to explode the next time she draws energy. Cross shoots Eric once he has succeeded in luring Ashley back in, cuts a new deal with Eckhart, then goes to charge up Ashley at a power plant. The team manages to interfere, restoring Brennan to physical corporeality, and they get away with Ashley, who goes into the Mutant Underground.

Original title : In the Presence of Mine Enemies
First Aired : 24.11.2001 (USA) 03.01.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : John Bell
Writing credits : Howard Chaykin
Cast : Reagan Pasternak (Toni Quintana), Joy Tanner (Kendra Makovoy)

The Story : Jesse is in love with Toni, a computer hacker and new mutant. Eckhart, concerned about the fact that Proxy Blue knows about him, wants the virtual newscaster silenced. He employs Kendra, who gets close to Toni and then kidnaps her and puts her to work for Genomex duplicating Proxy Blue with Eckhart's message. Toni slipped a virus into Sanctuary's computers, mostly out of curiosity and the challenge. However, Genomex may be able to trace Sanctuary through her equipment: the computers may or may not have been fried by a stray blast from Brennan. Mutant X has never been able to penetrate Genomex in simulations. Toni manages to slip out the weakness in Genomex's defenses via one of her fake Proxy transmissions, and the team manages to rescue her and leave Eckhart's computers crippled. Toni joins the underground as a wandering troubleshooter, although she and Jesse still plan to get together.

Original title : Crime of the New Century
First Aired : 01.12.2001 (USA) 18.12.2002 (FRANCE)
Director : Graeme Campbell
Writing credits : Joe Johnson
Cast : Marc Donato (Joshua Valentine), Jennifer Dale (Wendy Stone)

The Story : Joshua, a young New Mutant with uncontrolled pyrokinetic abilities, is kidnapped out of his home. Adam knows that his mother is a New Mutant as well, a telepath, and he and Emma go undercover as agents to investigate the kidnapping. Shalimar investigates the crime scene and finds evidence that lets Brennan and Jesse find the boy and rescue him. Unknown to them, the head of the FBI team, Wendy Stone, is a GSA plant who reports to Eckhart. As they investigate further, they find out that Joshua's mother had him kidnapped, to keep her husband from turning their son over to Eckhart. Fortunately, Eckhart ships Joshua off to another GSA base for research into his powers, and Brennan and Jesse rescue the kid again with a little help from Joshua as he begins to master his powers. At the end the family are reconciled and Eckhart is denied control of another New Mutant.

Original title : Dark Star Rising
First Aired : 19.12.2001 (UK) 19.01.2002 (USA) 02.01.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Jon Cassar
Writing credits : Philip Lazebnik
Cast : Andrew Gillies (Dr. Harrison), Anne Openshaw (Angel Dorn), Ralf Moeller (Lt. Beau Longstreet)

The Story : Shalimar intercepts three ferals trying to blow up Biocorp. She stops their mission but they escape, one of them seemingly ill. Mutant X identifies them through a tattoo: they are members of Dark Star, an internatinal anti-terrorist unit. The gang tracks them down - the ill man is now dead, and the other two have no idea what a "new mutant" is. They were sent to Bogata on a mission for Biocorp, which turned out to be an experiment by Eckhart involving a rare plant that causes people to become new mutations. The two soldiers, Beau and Angel, are the last mutated survivors: the rest died, and even Angel is slowly dying as well. Eckhart needs a living subject to complete the experiment. While Adam races to save Angel, Beau and Shalimar break into Biocorp to capture a plant sample. Jesse escapes with it, but the other two are captured and taken to Genomex. Shalimar breaks free and helps Beau to escape, Adam manages to come up with a cure, and Brennan destroys the remaining plant samples at Biocorp.

Original title : Whiter Shade of Pale
First Aired : 26.01.2002 (USA) 29.01.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Terry Ingram
Writing credits : Tony Di Franco
Cast : Sarah Gadon (Catherine Hartman), Guylaine St-Onge (Danielle Hartman), Christopher Bolton (Aldus Berkley)

The Story : A new mutant capable of going without sleep is preparing to deliver a gene resequencer (built by Adam), that Jesse and Brennan deliver to him, when it is stolen by an invisible thief. Adam tracks the gene sequencer to an old girlfriend and new mutant, Danielle. She only stole the resequencer to attract his attention, and leaves until they can rendezvous later. Then a new mutant/feral working for Eckart, Aldus, shows up, beats the snot out of Adam, and take the sequencer. Meanwhile, Emma and Shalimar have tracked Danielle to her home and found she has a daughter with the same invisiblity powers. Danielle's powers are out of control, and Adam needs the gene reseqencer to cure her. Adam temporarily stabilizes Danielle, who goes to visit Eckhart, whom she has a history with. Meanwhile, Emma uses her powers to get the resequencer from Aldus. Eckhart tries to take Danielle prisoner, but Adam, Brennan and Jesse defeat his men and Aldus. Using her daughter's gene sequence, Adam manages to stabilize Danielle. Mother and daughter leave, but not before Danielle tells Adams that her daughter is not Adam's (and hints she may be Eckhart's). Meanwhile, Eckhart poisons Aldus for failing him.

Original title : Double Vision
First Aired : 02.02.2002 (USA) 22.01.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Jon Cassar
Writing credits : Darrell Fetty
Cast : Joanne Vannicola (Maddie Conlan), Andrew Gillies (Dr. Kenneth Harrison)

The Story : Maddie Conlen, an old New Mutant friend of Brennan's with minimal power, lures him and a tagalong Emma into a trap set by GSA agents. Maddie displays a vast increase in power, and her new "pulse" interacts with Brennan's lightning blast, somehow splitting Emma into two separate entities. Unaware of the split, Brennan escapes with one of the Emma's, who soon proves to be somewhat of a worrywart, acting hesitant and unsure. Meanwhile, the other Emma is taken in by the GSA agents, and she quickly negotiates a deal with Eckhart to betray Mutant X and bring him Conlen, whom Genomex had genetically augmented as part of an experiment. She does so, but then reveals it's all of a ruse: she plans on bringing down Eckhart from the inside. Adam concludes that if the two Emmas are not reunited, they'll both die, but the ruthless Emma doesn't care. She frees Maddie and two try to put Genomex into a stasis field (which would kill the currently imprisoned New Mutants). The rest of Mutant X manages to thwart her and take her into captivity, where they reunite the two Emmas when Maddie and Brennan recreate the power pulse that split her. Maddie, who was forced to trap Brennan because her mutancy required surgery so she could stay alive, goes into the underground.

Original title : Blood Ties
First Aired : 09.02.2002 (USA) 29.01.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : John Fawcett
Writing credits : Percy Dance
Cast : Art Hindle (Noah Kilmartin), Chick Reid (Nicole Carter)

The Story : Jesse runs across his father Noah, who is on the run from a security contingent from Nexogen. Noah has evidence of the cover-up in an "accident" involving New Mutants at Nexxogen, which is a subsidiary of Genomex. The head of Nexxogen, Nicole Carter, asks Eckhart for help and he puts his newest wanna-be, a New Mutant named Porter with super-hearing abilities, on the case. Noah has slipped Jesse a disk with the important information, but as we find out, Noah plans on blackmailing Carter with the info. The rest of Mutant X figures this out when Emma and Shalomar sneak into Nexxogen and download vital information. Jesse doesn't want to believe them, but eventually figures it out for himself. In the ensuing battle, Porter's sound baffles are removed and he is deafened by full-intensity gunfire at close range while the rest of his security team is defeated. Jesse turns his back on his father, while Eckhart fires Carter, takes over Nexxogen for himself, and puts Porter into his experimental program.

Original title : Altered Ego
First Aired : 16.02.2002 (USA) 22.01.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Andrew Potter
Writing credits : Elizabeth Keyishian
Cast : Emily Hampshire (Charlotte Cooke), Joseph Scoren (Lynch), Rob Stefaniuk (Skeet Vossberg)

The Story : Charlotte Cooke is a New Mutant with the ability to infect people by touch with a toxin that reverses their "moral compass". The effect only lasts on New Mutants for about a minute, but on normals the affect seems to be permanent. She is also the daughter of an old friend of Adam's who sold secrets, and Adam was forced to expose to the authorities. Charlotte and her friend Steve are on the run when the GSA tries to capture them. Steve (a minor league new mutant), is captured but Mutant X rescues Charlotte. She wants to join up, but when they turn her down she "infects" Shalimar and Jesse and uses the distraction to escape. With Steve's help, Eckhart's enforcer Lynch captures her and they convince her to help them against her father's betrayer. She agrees and infects Adam, turning him evil. He knocks out Emma and imprisons the others in a force field impervious to their powers, then knocks out Eckhart and frees Charlotte for his own nefarious purposes. The team manages to escape and confront him. He knows all of their weaknesses, taking down Brennan with a water hose and Jesse when he has to breathe and turn off his density powers. Adam is ready to kill Shalimar when Emma talks him out of it long enough for a repentant Charlotte (whom Eckhart has told he was responsible for her father's betrayal), to give him a new dose of her toxin and reverse the effects of the original dose.

Original title : Lazarus Syndrome
First Aired : 23.02.2002 (USA) 04.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : John Bell
Writing credits : Mark Amato
Cast : Andrew Gillies (Dr. Kenneth Harrison), Larissa Laskin (Pamela Fries), Andrew Martin (Caleb Mathias)

The Story : Emma and Brennan are bar-hopping when Emma meets up with an attractive man, Caleb Mathias. He takes her out back and proceeds to suck the life-energy out of her, a process that Brennan interrupts. Caleb flees. Eckhart assigns his newest New Mutant agent, Pamela Fries (an Elemental who can alter her body temperature and the surroundings), to go after Caleb, who they've determined is connected to the serial killings of several other young, female New Mutants. Mutant X goes back to the bar and confront Caleb, who is hit by a GSA car driven by Pamela. She is apparently in cahoots with Caleb and rescues him from the morgue, where he walks out under his own power. It turns out Caleb is a "vampire", and can resurrect himself from the energies he takes from young female New Mutants. Apparently psychically bonded to him, Emma returns to the bar yet again, and is captured along with Pamela. Pamela is able to escape her chains with an empathic boost from Emma, but is energy-drained and killed by Caleb. Caleb then drain-kills Emma as well! Adam figures out that Caleb may be permanently killed if he is killed a second time after his resurrection, before he has a chance to feed. Shalimar goes to the club and "kills" Caleb, who gets up only to be electrocuted and permanently killed by Brennan. With Caleb's death, the life force of his last two victims is restored and Emma and Pamela wake up.

Original title : Interface
First Aired : 02.03.2002 (USA) 05.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Ken Girotti
Writing credits : Mark Lisson
Cast : Danielle Hampton (Michelle Bigelow), Chris Owens (Delay)

The Story : The GSA is hitting New Mutant safehouses in record numbers, and a surveillance camera captures GSA agent Michelle Bigelow on tape. Emma recognizes her - the two were close friends in high school, and both were New Mutants. Michelle is a tele-cyber, with the ability to control computers with her mind. Emma sets up a rendezvous and the two rehash old times and their current positions on either side of the fence. Michelle is bucking for a promotion with Eckhart, and has Emma captured. Emma convinces her to look at the GSA files and see how Eckhart doesn't have the New Mutants' best interest at heart, and Michelle helps her to escape to Sanctuary. Then Michelle reveals that due to genetic tampering by Eckhart, she is now an emotionless computer-creature. She and Eckhart faked the escape so she could infiltrate Sanctuary. Emma uses her empathic abilities to reach the "real" Michelle and revert her to human, and Eckhart's plan falls apart.

Original title : Presumed Guilty
First Aired : 04.04.2002 (UK), 20.04.2002 (USA) 12.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Ken Girotti
Writing credits : Darrell Fetty
Cast : Paul Popowich (Marc Griffin), Tiara Sorensen (Lena Isley)

The Story : Adam is called in by Megan, the daughter of an old friend, to help a new mutant named Mark Griffin. Mark accidentally kills Megan during a fight and Adam walks in. Mark, who can steal memories, uses his power on Adam, then frames him for the murder. Mutant X is unable to contact Adam, who is reluctant to believe Mark. Adam turns himself in and Eckhart tries to convince him he's with Genomex. Jesse and Brennan convince Adam after some initial resistance. Mark, who was captured by snake-feral Genomex agent Lena, leads Eckhart to Sanctuary. Jesse and Brennan are captured, while Shalomar spars with Lena and Emma convinces Mark that he is betraying Megan's memory. Mark returns Adam's memories and they defeat the invading Genomex forces. Mark uses his powers to make them all forget Sanctuary's location.

Original title : Ex Marks the Spot
First Aired : 11.04.2002 (UK) 27.04.2002 (USA) 19.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Jorge Montesi
Writing credits : Howard Chaykin, David L. Newman & Mark Amato
Cast : Callum Keith Rennie (Zack Lockhart), Michael Anthony Rawlins (Artie Hill)

The Story : Jesse and Brennan rescue Zack Lockhart, a thief and New Mutant, when things go bad when he meets with Artie Hall, a Genomex agent who wants to employ him to steal a Fabrege Egg. Zack is connected with Shalomar's past: the two had a rocky relationship that she holds against him. The Fabrege Egg holds a microchip with the "genetic code to manipulating free will", and Eckhart will purchase it at auction unless the team can steal the Egg first. Brennan and Emma thwart Artie Hall's attempt to steal the egg for Genomex. Then, with Zack's aid they break into the vault and steal the chip. Zack takes a stab at stealing the chip for himself, but Shalomar spots him and takes the chip, declaring herself rid of him for good.

Original title : Nothing to Fear
First Aired : 18.04.2002 (UK) 04.05.2002 (USA) 12.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : T.J. Scott
Writing credits : Elizabeth Keyishian
Cast : Justin Louis (Henry Voight)

The Story : Shalimar and Brennan come to the rescue of a runaway New Mutant being hunted by the GSA. The agents back away and the mutant somehow infects Shalimar. She lapses into a coma and is trapped in a dreamscape of her greatest fears: betraying Sanctuary to Eckhart and a Feral's terror of fire. Eckart is employing the mutant, Henry Voight, in an attempt to determine the secret location of the Mutant X sanctuary. Henry has a grudge against Mutant X, believing that they were responsible for the death of his wife - thanks to information given to him by Eckhart. Jesse and Brennan track him down but are infected and trapped in their own fears (imprisonment and fear of his electrical powers, respectively), and manage to suck Emma in as well. Worse, Henry holds Eckhart responsible and traps him in a dream rat-cage. Adam finally deduces that Henry's wife is stil alive, enters the dreamscape, and convinces Henry of the truth. Eckhart orders the release of Henry's wife, and the two disappear.

Original title : Deadly Desire
First Aired : 24.04.2002 (UK) 11.05.2002 (USA) 19.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Brad Turner
Writing credits : David L. Newman
Cast : Krista Allen (Lorna Templeton), Matthew MacFadzean (Tony Reese), Ted Whittall (Carl Ames), Jim Codrington (Hallard)

The Story : The GSA are on the trail of a Feral-scorpion New Mutant who kills one of their number and infects another, Ames, with pheromones swaying him under her sexual control. Brennan's former partner Reese is with the woman, Lorna, as well. Both her and Mutant X are trying to get "anomite", a computer virus, from a Dr. Tork. Tork is killed and Shalomar wounded in a shootout, and Lorna sinks her pheromones into Brennan. He turns against Mutant X and after he and Lorna get the anomite (after Lorna kills a jealous Tony), try to cut a deal with Eckhart. Using Ames as a guinea pig, Adam creates an anti-virus substance against the pheromones and Shalomar slips it to Brennan with a friendly kiss. Lorna kills Brennan when he gets out from under he control but Mutant X gets to him in time to administer an antidote. Lorna uses her abilities to get another GSA agent to let her go, escaping with the anomite payoff, but Mutant X gets the animite itself.

Original title : A Breed Apart
First Aired : 08.05.2002 (UK) 18.05.2002 (USA) 26.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Brad Turner
Writing credits : Howard Chaykin
Cast : Andrew Gillies (Dr. Kenneth Harrison), Kim Schraner (Kelly Rice), Michael Easton (Gabriel Ashlocke), Karen LeBlanc (Morgan Fortier)

The Story : Brennan and Shalimar interfere with a GSA squad of New Mutants trying to grab a woman, but when Brennan's powers go out of control they have to retreat. The squad are secret members of the Strand, a group of New Mutants who plan to go public and establish a power base. Meanwhile, the other Mutant X members' powers also begin to boost uncontrollably (see Analysis). The Strand rescues Gabriel Ashlocke, "Patient Zero", the first New Mutant created who possesses powers of all four categories. Gabriel, a psychopath, takes the New Mutant database and captures Shalimar, then with the aid of Dr. Harrison stages a coup at Genomex and put Eckhart in a pod. Mutant X breaks in, frees a mind-controlled Shalimar, temporarily defeat Gabriel, and recover the database before it can be decrypted.

Original title : Dancing on the Razor
First Aired : 25.05.2002 (CAN) 06.07.2002 (USA) 26.02.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Jorge Montesi
Writing credits : Mark Amato
Cast : James Gallanders (Jason "Jay" Minhouse), Roman Podhora (Harvey Lanchester)

The Story : Brennan and Jesse get an anonymous tip to meet a mutant at a warehouse but are caught in a Genomex trap. They escape but soon Proxy Blue is claiming she has the fight, and evidence of Genomex and New Mutants on tape and is prepared to broadcast the recording. Eckhart doesn't want Genomex exposed and appoints Mr. Lancester, a psionic who can project heat, to find the person responsible. Mutant X also gets involved and finds an export business and rescue its only surviving employee, Minhouse, from Lancester. Minhouse doesn't seem to know anything but investigation shows he's not what he seems. He manages to convince Shalimar to let him go rescue a fictional assistant and evades her. Everyone tracks down Minhouse from his cell phone call. Lancester kills Minhouse and then Emma boomerangs another blast back on the psionic, killing him. Eckhart backs down rather than insist on getting the disk, which Mutant X destroys.