Mutant X

Original title : Past as Prologue
First Aired : 05.10.2002 (USA) 03.06.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : T.J. Scott
Writing credits : Howard Chaykin
Cast : Michael Easton (Gabriel Ashlocke), Soo Garay (Dr. Aziza Deparis)

The Story : Shalimar goes off on her own to take down Gabriel Ashlocke, with Brennan providing backup. They find out that Ashlocke has stolen an urn containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian goddess/priestess whom he hopes to revive to provide a cure to the fatal destabilization of his body by his mutant genes. Ashlocke reconstitutes the body and gets one of two crystals he needs, but Mutant X gets the other one hidden at a pyramid in Egypt. Realizing that a dying Ashlocke with nothing to lose would be totally ruthless, Adam resolves to cure him and the team break into his sanctuary. Gabriel is understandably skeptical and has managed to revive the priestess, Avaris, by sacrificing one of his mutant female groupies. An early form of mutant, her vast powers make her unstoppable but Adam deciphers the crystals and uses them to reverse her power and destroy her. The team escapes, not sure if Gabriel is dead or not.

Original title : Power Play
First Aired : 12.10.2002 (USA) 03.06.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Milan Cheylov
Writing credits : Turi Meyer & Al Septien
Cast : Stephen McHattie (Aaron Gaumont), Karen Holness (Sophia Taylor)

The Story : A mysterious contact of Adam's has him send Brennan and Jesse in to intercept a military officer named Gaumont from stealing a laser defense system. They fail, and Jesse gets a whiff of gas that destablizes his molecular structure when he phases. Gaumont takes a nuclear power plant hostage and threatens to blow it up if the U.S. government doesn't offer recompense for his dead soldiers. Mutant X has to go in without Jesse, who tries to help them disarm the bomb from a distance. It's all a set-up by Gaumont, who needs Jesse to phase into the core and pull out a vital element that he plans to sell. Jesse eventually shows up and with the help of a technician gets into the core. The technician is working for Gaumont. They leave with the critical element but Jesse pulls himself together, uses an EMP pulse to shut down the defense control system, and he confronts Gaumont and the woman who get fried by the rogue laser drones.

Original title : Time Squared
First Aired : 19.10.2002 (USA) 03.06.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : John Bell
Writing credits : Elizabeth Keyishian
Cast : Lindy Booth (Diana Moller), Michael Easton (Gabriel Ashlocke), Christopher Jacot (Young Adam Kane)

The Story : The team pursues Gabriel Ashlocke to a mental hospital but not before he coerces a young woman, Diana Moller, into...opening a time portal back to October 13, 1978. Gabriel has a cure for his current killing illness but it must be injected back into his younger self. Shalimar and Brennan go through the portal as well and try to catch up old-Gabriel as he kills his parents for his young-self and then takes the boy to Genomex where a young Adam is preparing to work on him. Meanwhile Jessie gets Diana back to Sanctuary and convinces her to send Adam (and an impetuous Emma), back as well. old-Gabriel apparently succeeds, injecting the serum into young-Gabriel and killing old-Adam. Jessie has Diana send him back five minutes so he can stop Gabriel and they all return to the present with history unchanged.

Original title : Whose Woods These Are
First Aired : 26.10.2002 (USA) 03.06.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Jorge Montesi
Writing credits : Darell Fetty
Cast : Scott Hylands (Clay Preston), Jeff Wincott (Grady Colt)

The Story : Brennan and Shalimar in the woods investigating a series of deaths that a feral mutant is apparently responsible for. Ducking a cryptozoologist named Grady and hunters, they have an initial confrontation and Shalimar is wounded. Jesse and Emma find one of the other victims mutating into a similar creature. Grady is actually an undercover government agent. While rescuing the previous victim they find out that the original, Michael Ward, was a test subject from Genomex being used in a space program, with a virus that affects mutants. Shalimar starts getting more bestial as the others try to get to her with the cure. Shalimar is forced to kill Ward, who thanks her, before collapsing. Adam comes up with a cure for her new mutation...this time.

Original title : The Future Revealed
First Aired : 02.11.2002 (USA) 29.07.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : John Bell
Writing credits : Mark Amato From a Story by Peter Mohan
Cast : Michael Easton (Gabriel Ashlocke), Sandrine Holt (Patricia), Joanne Kelly (Kim)

The Story : Shalimar and Brennan are lured in by Ashlocke to contact one of his "links" whom he then controls to attack them. Mutant X stages an attack on his base but its a ruse - Gabriel has accessed Sanctuary's security systems through his link with Shalimar and sneaks in with his aide, Kim. One of his links, Patricia, helps Mutant X to escape with her power to slow down atoms. Gabriel forces Adam to try and cure his condition. While Brennan and Jesse try to get into Sanctuary, Emma and Shalimar go with Patricia who is still working with Gabriel: she'll use her power to tap into the power grid and blow up the city. Adam gives Gabriel the cure while Shalimar manages to persuade Patricia not to give in to Gabriel's influence. Kim escapes as Gabriel gets the cure and Jesse and Brennan get in...but it's a ruse on Adam's part and Gabriel's condition blows him up. Shalimar is clear of his influence, but at the end we see that Kim is pregnant with Ashlocke's child...

Original title : No Man Left Behind
First Aired : 09.11.2002 (USA) 29.07.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Jorge Montesi
Writing credits : David L. Newman
Cast : Philip Akin (General Sperling), Vincent Walsh (Morrison), Lina Felice (Irina)

The Story : A U.S. military plane carrying a phase variance generator (PVG), designed by Adam is shot down in Kovakshan, and Mutant X goes in to get it and prevent both sides from getting their hands on it. Brennan empathizes with the American pilot, since his birth father was a Vietnam pilot shot down and captured. The Double-Helix crashes and while Jesse and an ominously powerful Emma begin repairs, Shalimar and Brennan look for the pilot. Brennan recovers the PVG and is then captured by local rebels and tossed in with the prisoner. Shalimar helps them both to escape and they flee in the repaired ship. Confronted by enemy fighters, they manage to get out of the country when Jesse phases the entire ship and the missiles pass harmlessly through.

Original title : Crossroads Of The Soul
First Aired : 16.11.2002 (USA) 12.08.2003 (FRANCE)
Director : Stacey Stewart Curtis
Writing credits : Elizabeth Keyishian & Mark Amato
Cast : Bree Williamson (Miranda Davis), Gabriel Hogan (Josh Marcus)

The Story : While driving back to Sanctuary, Brennan ends up in a strange early 20th century town of New Hope without his powers, surrounded by an impenetrable energy dome. He is taken in by a woman, Miranda, who tries to conceal his identity from the other townfolk, telling him their town is the entire world. While the others search for him, Brennan runs afoul of Josh Marcus, whose grandfather formed the town, and meets the sheriff Zander, who knows about the outside world and warns of "The Council" run by Marcus. Marcus kills Zander and frames Brennan. Apparently an elder Marcus set up a forcefield to seal off the town. The Council votes to execute Brennan but Miranda and a witness forced to testify against Brennan admit the truth. The others force their way through the field and rescue Brennan in the nick of time, exposing the town to the modern world.

Original title : Sign From Above
First Aired : 23.11.2002 (USA)
Director : John Bell
Writing credits : Tony Blake & Paul Johnson
Cast : Andrew Tarbet (Kyle Strong), Chris Britton (J.K. Bergman)

The Story : A feral girlfriend of Jesse's is attacked by super-powered marauders and captured. She turns up dead and a government agent notifies Adam she's not the first. Shalimar is captured by the same goons when the team investigates and they follow up by tracking them and rescuing another feral, Kyle, from them. Analyzing some samples, Adam determines they are aliens who are using a mutated strand to give themselves enhanced powers. Kyle starts to bond with Kyle only to discover he's an alien as well trying to get to Sanctuary's database so they can harvest more New Mutants. Jesse and Brennan get captured as well but Adam figures out a way to nullify the power-serum. Everyone gets rescued and the aliens are driven off...for now.

Original title : Body and Soul
First Aired : 30.11.2002 (USA)
Director : Brenton Spicer
Writing credits : David Newman
Cast : David Sutcliffe (Mark Kearney), Melinda Deines (Carla Reed), David Lipper (Vic Morelli)

The Story : Adam is a witness as a former Genomex researcher is mysteriously killed. The killer comes after Mark Kearney, another researcher and Mutant X stops him...only to discover that the actual killer is a body-jumping mutant. The mutant, a teenager named Cyrus Payton, was part of a secret Genomex project and is now kiling the three scientists responsible. Working through a reporter, Cyrus finds McAlister, the third scientist, and kills him. The team catches up to Cyrus and are forced to destroy him when he refuses to give up his revenge...

Original title : Understudy
First Aired : 13.01.2003 (USA)
Director : John Bell
Writing credits : Darrell Fetty
Cast : Jeyna Lano (Nikki Rodgers), Michael Copeman (Holcomb)

The Story : Shalimar and Brennan are on the trial of a biker gang that has stolen a "particle decelerator" when Shalimar is accidentally shot when another Feral, Nikki, intervenes. Nikki was Adam's second choice for a feral on the team but he chose Shalimar instead. With Shalimar sidelined due to her injury Adam asks Nikki to sign on and she eventually wins everyone over - even a somewhat distrustful Brennan. However, Shalimar soon grows hostile and suspicious toward Nikki and with good reason - it turns out that Nikki set it up for Shalimar to be shot, and is now hunting down the bikers to win a place with Mutant X permanently. When she realizes the team will never let her become a permanent replacement, she kills the head of the bikers, steals the particle decelerator, and goes after Shalimar. Shalimar manages to outsmart her younger, equally strong opponent despite her injury and win the day...

Original title : The Grift
First Aired : 20.01.2003 (USA)
Director : Oley Sassone
Writing credits : Elizabeth Keyishian
Cast : Patrick Salvagna (Connor Dolan), Christina Cox (Becky Dolan)

The Story : Brennan's ex-girlfriend Becky enlists his help when one of her grifter schemes against a senator turns deadly ? she gets hold of a diskette with info he doesn't want to see go public. She manages to convince Brennan to help her by showing him his previously unknown son Connor. Foster the senator has access to electronically resurrected Black Ops soldiers through his backer Bailey which he turns loose on Becky. The rest of Mutant X get involved as the soldiers find Becky, she escapes, and they grab Connor. But it's another scam by Becky to get some money because Brennan plans on turning the disk over to Adam. Bailey kills Foster when he tries to back out, while Becky admits Brennan isn't the boy's father. Adam tracks Bailey and jams his control of the zombie-soldiers just in time, and sets the other zombie-soldiers on Bailey. Brennan and Becky more or less resolve things and Brennan assures Connor he'll keep an eye on him.

Original title : At Destiny's End
First Aired : 27.01.2003 (USA)
Director : Oley Sassone
Writing credits : Jeff F. King
Cast : Ryan Scott Greene (Tyler Ryan)

The Story : Mutant X is on the trail of eco-terrorists and extreme-sports types lead by a precognitive New Mutant, Tyler, that Emma bonds with. She tracks him down and manages to get in with the group despite Tyler having visions of her death and Mutant X trying to investigate at the same time. When Tyler tries to back out his associates force him to go along with their plan to release a virulent oil-eating bacteria/gas. To avoid a future where Emma and thousands more die, Tyler traps himself and the leader, Deacon, in with the gas as it is released...

Original title : Within These Walls
First Aired : 03.02.2003 (USA)
Director : Manfred Guthe
Writing credits : Peter Mohan
Cast : Steve Bacic (Nick Maddox), Rachel Hayward (Christina)

The Story : The team fails to stop the escape of a New Mutant prisoner, a solar-powered heat-projector and psycho named Maddox, and are not happy that Adam isn't more forthcoming about why he sent them on the mission. Adam is working with Christina, a former Genomex employee and lover who worked with Adam to get him loose from that organization, but also created a secret division of trained killers like Maddox. Adam and Christina are trapped in a vault without the team's knowledge when Maddox and his group show up to kill her. The team tracks down Adam as Maddox opens the vault door and unleashes Adam's water trap - Brennan electrocutes Maddox and Adam's relationship with Christina remains...open-ended...

Original title : Hard Time
First Aired : 10.02.2003 (USA)
Director : Oley Sassone
Writing credits : Al Septien & Turi Meyer
Cast : Gary Hudson (Warden Wallington), Allan Royal (Dr. Nigel Rigas)

The Story : When an old criminal friend of Brennan's breaks out of Hillview Prison and goes berserk, getting himself killed, Brennan vows to investigate. Adam gets Brennan and Jesse in as armed robbers and they soon discover a plan by the warden to use a Dr. Rigas' research to enhance the aggressive tendencies of criminals and use them in gladiatorial games for money. While Emma infiltrates as a intern for Rigas, Brennan gets injected with the agressor drug - Jesse replaces his next sparring partner while Shalimar and Adam get in as spectators to slip the cure to Jesse. Jesse manages to inject Brennan with the cure and the group breaks up the warden's scheme...

Original title : Under the Cloak of War
First Aired : 17.02.2003 (USA)
Director : Andrew Potter
Writing credits : Nelu Ghiran
Cast : Sebastian Spence (Noel)

The Story : An assassination league, Blue Bolt, comes after Adam ? after he defeats their first assassin he sends Shalimar to infiltrate the group. She gets in and the group, led by Noel, plans to use her against Adam ? they're being hired by the son of an old friend of Adam's, McTeague, who was involved with the man's wife and the kid wants revenge on Adam. They set up Jesse as a "victim" for Shalimar to prove herself so she gets in ? when she does so she and Noel start to get close. Shalimar is assigned to go after Adam armed with a gun that fires missiles designed to home in on Adam's DNA and will blow itself up if Shalimar tries to remove it before Adam dies. With some help from Jesse, Adam manages to escape the missile and Shalimar knocks out Noel ? Adam chooses not to pursue the matter against McTeague...

Original title : Once Around
First Aired : 24.02.2003 (USA)
Director : Bruce Pittman
Writing credits : Mark Amato
Cast : Robert Smith (Vic Collaruso)

The Story : Mutant X must protect a defense witness, Vic, against Sam Raymond, a New Mutant who can project his senses through anyone he touches. Vic escapes an ambush that Raymond sets up with his powers and goes on the run. Mutant X tracks him down but Raymond is keeping tabs on them and his men damage the Double Helix, delaying their escape and forcing them to put down. Meanwhile Adam and Emma meet with Raymond who tries to make contact and figure out what Raymond can do. Vic persuades them to let him visit his girlfriend Claudia, unaware that Raymond has located her and uses her to force Vic to come in. Adam rigs up a Vic disguise for Jesse to get the girlfriend free while Vic testifies and then goes into Witness Protection with Claudia...

Original title : Final Judgment
First Aired : 17.04.2003 (USA)
Director : Bill Corcoran
Writing credits : David L. Newman
Cast : Nick Mancuso (Judge #1), Nigel Bennett (John Warren), Amy Price Francis (Janet Nicholls)

The Story : Adam meets with a highly placed source and is kidnapped as Shalimar looks on. A mysterious Tribunal puts Adam on trial - they accuse him of creating a race of super-mutants to take over the world. Using a neuro imager, the prosecutor John Warren pulls images from Adam's mind to show the worst New Mutant villains. Meanwhile the team manages to contact Adam's contact, Marsden, and he gives them directions to the trial site. Meanwhile Adam is found guilty by the Tribunal and his execution ordered. But the team arrives just in time and they capture Warren and use the neuro-imager to determine he's getting his information from . . . Mason Eckhart.

Original title : Inferno
First Aired : 14.04.2003 (USA)
Director : Andrew Potter
Writing credits : Charles Heit
Cast : James Downing (Frank "Speedy" Sanders), Alan Van Sprang (Ray Larkin), Jonathan Watton (Billy Larkin)

The Story : The team is tracking a pyromaniac mutant who can project fire and find an obsessed fire inspector as his next victim ? Emma links minds with him as he dies and he leaves a part of him in her ? she begins acting like the inspector, Ray Larkin. At Emma's insistence they meet with Larkin's wife, brother Billy, and best friend and fellow inspector Frank Sanders. Shalimar spots Sanders pocket a watch but it turns out it belonged to Larkin . . . who gave it to his brother Billy. Emma figures it out and, possessed by Larkin's spirit, goes to confront Billy ? the mutant sets the bar on fire trapping them both - Shalimar deals with her fear of fire and rescues her while Billy is killed in the blaze. Larkin moves on, his mission completed...

Original title : One Step Closer
First Aired : 21.04.2003 (USA)
Director : Bill Corcoran
Writing credits : Freddie Prinze Jr.
Cast : Karl Pruner (Simon Fletcher), Janet-Laine Green (Senator Morrison)

The Story : Shalimar and Brennan are guarding a senator's daughter when kidnappers close in and Brennan's power runs out of control. Adam determines that Brennan's powers are uncontrollably mutating and are tied to his emotions. The rest of the team work to rescue the daughter and figure out the senator's head of security Fletcher is involved and set him up to make the drop to his partner Christian by bluffing him with a fake monitoring/electrocution device. Meanwhile Emma lends her empathy to Brennan to get his powers under control and the entire team goes to the drop site but Christian has put an explosive collar on the girl to hedge his bets and Brennan lightning bolts the guy and uses his powers to let Jesse phase the collar off...

Original title : Reality Check
First Aired : 28.04.2003 (USA)
Director : Jorge Montesi
Writing credits : Peter Mohan & Mark Amato From a Story by David Young
Cast : Romano Orzari (Domenic Rydell), Ron Kennell (Levak Ivanov), John Robinson (Urski Novotny), Tom McCamus (Mason Eckhart Hallucination)

The Story : Domenic Rydell is a physicist who disappears and then shows up in a disassociative state - Emma links up with him and discovers he's in an altered reality state brought on by a Russian psion and interrogator, Ivanov, and manages to get him out of the mental maze Ivanov left him in . Meanwhile Shalimar gets knocked out when she goes off to investigate a lead, Novotny, without backup due to her powers influencing her judgement and and wakes up in bed with Brennan and finds out they're husband and wife for two years. Ivanov is using the visions to interrogate Shalimar through "Brennan" and her teammates, and then throws Eckhart at her. Shalimar lashes out at Ivanov and then escapes, but when the team comes to her rescue she doesn't know that they're real. Emma ends up going head-to-head (so to speak) with Ivanov and wins with some of her "my teammates don't know about them" special mental powers. The team catches up to Shalimar and manages to snap her out of it...

Original title : Reawakening
First Aired : 05.05.2003 (USA)
Director : T. W. Peacocke
Writing credits : Mark Amato & Elizabeth Keyishian
Cast : Michelle Duquet (Dr. Louise Koby), Martin Roach (Owen Taylor), Hardee T. Lineham (Captain Freeman)

The Story : A archaeological team finds a humanoid "protocanth" and the team leader, Dr. Koby, is connected with Adam ? the mere sight of it causes Emma to faint. Adam and the team take off to Koby's ship to help ? the creature comes to life and kills the captain, freeze drying him internally. Then it turns up the ship's heat and Emma figures it hunts by sensing fear. They use liquid nitrogen against the protocanth and need to send a phasing Jesse to go get more while they try to tune out their fear to blind the creature. Emma draws the creature off long enough for the others to get the nitrogen and freeze the protocanth and Dr. Koby buries it away again...

Original title : Lest He Become
First Aired : 12.05.2003 (USA)
Director : Jonathan Hackett
Writing credits : Peter Mohan
Cast : Eugene Robert Glazer (Nicholas Fox), Richard Stroh (Silva), Rob Archer (Rucker), James McGowan (Richard Haines), Katie Bergin (Elizabeth Burton), Tom McCamus (Mason Eckhart), Alexandra Schofield (Young Shalimar), Tanya Low (Receptionist), Edward Michael McGee (Mal)

The Story : During an information buy for a Dr. Haines connected to Adam, the team is hit on by New Mutants with new and unseen powers, leading them to suspect someone else is doing genetic research. Haines is killed and the trail leads to Naxcon, a company owned by Shalimar's estranged father (who had her locked up when she first manifested her powers). Shalimar goes in to Naxcon and meets with her dad, Nicholas, who holds a grudge against Adam and is working with Eckhart. Jesse and Shal go back in with ID badges from the hidden camera while Emma and Brennan try to stop others with the proper genetic knowledge from being killed. They fail while Jesse and Shal find a secret lab and find out Eckhart is behind things and is creating tailor-made New Mutants with a deteriorating physiology.

When Adam appears to know too much, Emma gives him no choice but to explain ? Adam experimented with similar work using his own DNA when he was at Genomex and Eckhart got hold of his work before he encrypted it. The team leaves Adam to get Nicholas out ? he cut a deal with Eckhart in return for a cure for Shalimar and captures her and Brennan so Eckhart can force Adam to come after them. Jesse and Emma reconcile with Adam and they go in. Realizing Eckhart is betraying him, Nicholas destroys the facility and as the team tries to escape the company the building starts to collapse . . . (to be continued)