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Jessica Alba in Sin City
Jessica Alba in Sin City
Sin City is a 2005 neo-noir anthology film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is based on Miller's graphic novel series of the same name.
The film is primarily based on three of Miller's works; "The Hard Goodbye" focuses on a hulking man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time lover's killer; "The Big Fat Kill" focuses on a street war held between a group of prostitutes and a series of mercenaries; and "That Yellow Bastard" focuses on an aging police officer who protects a young woman from the hands of a psychotic child molester. The movie stars Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Benicio del Toro, Josh Hartnett, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood and Rutger Hauer, among others.
Sin City opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique colouring process, which rendered most of the film in black and white but retained colouring for select objects. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in-competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping."
Plot
The Customer is Always Right
The film begins in a penthouse on the roof of a skyscraper overlooking Basin City. A fancy party is in progress. The Customer (Shelton) dressed in an evening gown is alone on the balcony. The Salesman (Hartnett), who is narrating, comes up behind her and offers her a cigarette. They exchange a little small talk, and she says that she is frightened and is tired of running. He tells her that he will save her, and take her far away. They kiss before he kills her. She dies in his arms. He says that he does not know who she was running from, but will cash her check in the morning. The story ends and is followed by the Sin City logo.
On the back of the DVD Frank Miller tells us that the victim in this story is actually commiting suicide. Customer had gotten herself into a bad situation. She dated a man who was in the Mafia, and when she found out and tried to break it off, he told her that he would kill her in the most terrible way possible. The Customer had used her connections to hire the Salesman to kill her.
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That Yellow Bastard (part 2)
The story then returns to Hartigan, who is recovering in a hospital (this takes place many years before the past two stories). Senator Roark, Junior's father, arrives and informs him that Junior is in a coma and that all plans for the Roark legacy are now in serious jeopardy. Senator Roark reveals that Hartigan will survive, however, and will be framed for Junior's crimes and serve the resultant jail term. Additionally, if Hartigan tells anyone the truth, the informed person will be killed. A grateful Nancy visits and thanks him. She promises to write letters to Hartigan every week while he is in prison and departs.
Hartigan doesn't protest and goes to jail, where he receives the weekly letter from Nancy as promised. After eight years, however, the letters stop arriving, and then Hartigan receives a severed finger instead. Realising she could be kidnapped by the Roarks, Hartigan confesses to molesting the child and is freed from jail. He reunites with his old partner, Bob, who has changed and regretted what he had done to him. Bob finally leaves Hartigan in Nancy's apartment after telling him that Hartigan's wife has left him. As a deformed, yellow-skinned man stalks him, Hartigan searches for Nancy, eventually finding her at Kadie's Bar, where she has blossomed into a beautiful nineteen year-old stripper (Alba).
Realising that the severed finger was a fake, Hartigan is greeted by Nancy, who is overwhelmed and then plans to run away with him. Along the way, they are attacked by the yellow-skinned man but Hartigan successfully fights back. Upon arriving at a hotel, Nancy reveals that she is in love with Hartigan, much to his discomfort. The deformed man returns and attacks them, revealing that he is Junior and has now become the Yellow Bastard.
The Yellow Bastard, having been disfigured by the years of surgery necessary to regenerate his missing pieces, leaves Hartigan for dead and takes Nancy to the farm to finally rape and kill her. Hartigan escapes, however, and tracks the Yellow Bastard to the farm, where he is whipping and torturing Nancy. Hartigan kills the guards and then corners the Yellow Bastard and fakes a heart attack to fool him into letting go of Nancy, giving Hartigan the chance to stab him before castrating and killing him.
Hartigan tells Nancy his plans to reveal Senator Roark's corruption to the police and finally bring down the corruption in Sin City. After Nancy departs, Hartigan reveals that this would be impossible, and he then commits suicide in order to ensure Nancy's safety.
In the epilogue, an injured Becky is seen departing from a hospital. While riding in the elevator, she is met by the Salesman, who offers her a cigarette.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Sin City - 2005
Honey - 2003
Honey movie poster
Jessica Alba in Honey
Jessica Alba in Honey
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Honey is a 2003 motion picture released by Universal Pictures. Featuring music produced by Rodney Jerkins, the film stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo, Joy Bryant, Missy Elliott and David Moscow. A number of popular hip hop and R&B musicians make cameos in the film, including Jerkins, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch of The Lox, Tweet, and Ginuwine. Canadian R&B artist Shawn Desman was also featured. R&B and pop singer Aaliyah, a close friend of Missy Elliott, was originally cast as the star of the film before her passing.
The film grossed $27 million at the US box office, and was released on DVD and VHS on March 23, 2004.
Plot summary
Honey wants to be a big time dancer, but she's having trouble making it to the top. But finally she's spotted by big-time producer Michael Ellis, who offers her a job. Honey willingly accepts, and gets started straight away. She's a big hit and even gets a promotion, but soon her boss tries to take advantage of her, which Honey declines and loses her job. Meanwhile the community center, where Honey works voluntarily as a hip-hop dance teacher, is falling apart. Soon Honey is forced to find a new dance studio and finds herself in a financial snag because of her previous job loss. She decides to put on a big dance performance to raise money for a studio. It's a hit and Honey opens up her own studio.
Critical response
Honey was released to mixed reviews. On Yahoo! Movies Critical Response, the average professional critical rating was a C.
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The Sleeping Dictionary - 2003
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Jessica Alba in The Sleeping Dictionary
Synopsis
A young and naive Englishman, John Truscott (Hugh Dancy), goes to the British colony of Sarawak, Malaysia to try and apply his father's work to the Iban society. He tries to civilize them, building schools and providing education for the Iban people. He is met with unfamiliar local customs. Selima (Jessica Alba) becomes his "sleeping dictionary," who sleeps with him and teaches him the language and the habits of the locals. Despite their intents, the two find themselves falling into a forbidden love.
Historical Inaccuracies
This movie contains some historical inaccuracies and doesn't show the Iban in the true light, although admittedly some historical "factions" (half-fact/half-fiction) did exist. It is a well known fact that the Ibans did actually practice the art of "ngayap" which meant male youths were encouraged to court Iban maidens openly and with the permission of the elders in the longhouse.
It was also true that Iban maidens as "sleeping dictionaries" did exist, and to this day, there are in fact many prominent Eurasians in local Malaysian society who are living proof of that practice.
Also, this film was set when the third British White Rajah, Charles Vyner Brooke, was on the throne in Sarawak. Sarawak was not actually a British colony at this time, and did not become one until after the Second World War when the Third Rajah abdicated.
reference : en.wikipedia.org
Paranoid - 2000
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Plot
Set in London, top model Chloe Keane (Alba) is asked to a dinner party in a house outside London with rock star Stan (Glen), she goes with her boyfriend. When they reach there, Chloe decides to spend the night but during the night her boyfriend leaves her and she is drugged and handcuffed to a bed. Stan's family reveal they will not let her leave until she agrees to be in a sexual orgy with them. She is drugged and Stan takes her shoes off, partly to get aroused and partly to help her.
Chloe wakes up to find her shoes are missing. The telephone then rings and Chloe uses her feet to pull it over and answer it but no one is on the end of the line. During her sleep the family feel Chloe's legs and prepare themselves for the orgy. Chloe wakes up to find the bed has been moved, she uses her leg to open the nearby window which is never locked again.
Chloe is tortured by the family telling her to let them tape an orgy with her but she refuses. The family make her feel uncomfortable by removing her underwear and feeling her vagina, Chloe has visions of the family raping her. After they leave, Chloe notices a misplaced hairpin on the bed which she uses to try and pick the handcuffs.
The family find out that Stan removed Chloe's shoes to help her and they make Chloe wear a pair of stilettos for two reasons; so they can hear her if she walks and so it would be harder to move things around. Stan later helps Chloe escape and apologises. The final shot of the film is of Chloe looking at her feet and becoming somewhat aroused.
Cast
- Jessica Alba - Chloe Keane
- Iain Glen - Stan
- Jeanne Tripplehorn - Rachel
- Ewen Bremner - Gordon
- Mischa Barton - Theresa
- Kevin Whatley - Clive
- Oliver Milburn - Toby
- Gary Love - Ned
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Never Been Kissed 1999
Never Been Kissed
Jessica Alba in Never Been Kissed
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cast: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon
Rating: PG13 (Adult Language/Sexual Situations)
Title: Never Been Kissed
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Status: Released
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy
Review Summary
Many people wish they could go back to high school, knowing what they know as an adult; Josie Geller gets the chance to do just that in the comedy Never Been Kissed. Josie (played by Drew Barrymore) is a 25-year-old copy editor at a newspaper in Chicago. But it's her youthful looks as much as her journalistic skills that finally win her a writing assignment: she's ordered to enroll in high school posing as a teenager for a story on the state of America's youth. Trouble is, Josie was a hopeless nerd in high school (called "Josie Grossie" by her classmates); she had no idea of how to fit in with the cool kids, and she's hardly gotten any better at it in the seven years since graduation. While Josie makes fast friends with a bookish girl named Aldys (Leelee Sobieski), and also takes notice of her good-looking English teacher Mr. Coulson (Michael Vartan), she realizes for the sake of her story she has to infiltrate the cool girls' clique, which will be impossible without someone to give her a crash course in hipness. Josie's brother Rob (David Arquette), obviously the more style-conscious sibling, offers to sign up for the same school to act as the cool-guy friend she'll need to fit in, but just when Josie starts making headway (and starts enjoying high school for a change), her editor changes the focus of the story -- he now wants a feature on improper relations between teachers and students, which will not be good for her deepening friendship with Mr. Coulson. Never Been Kissed also features supporting performances from John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon and Jordan Ladd (the latter in a much more wholesome vehicle than her last cinematic visit to cinematic teen-town, Gregg Araki's Nowhere)
P.U.N.K.S. - 1999
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P.U.N.K.S. is a Disney Channel Original Movie about a group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
Synopsis
Drew Utley is tired of being pushed around at school, and his dad is tired of being pushed around at work. But when Drew understands that his father is being used as a puppet for an evil organization trying to make a supernatural suit, he and his friends have to stop the corporation and save his father!
Cast
- Jessica Alba - Samantha Swoboda
- Tim Redwine - Drew Utley
- Randy Quaid - Pat Utley
- Cathy Moriarty -Mrs. Utley
- Brandon Baker - Jonny Pasiotopolis
- Kenneth Brown - Miles Kitchen
- Patrick Renna - Lanny Nygren
- Henry Winkler - Edward Crow
- Carolina Abarca-Melanie Teng
- Alexa Nikolas-Jenna bgayly
- Josefina Briseno-Cally Parker
Venus Rising 1996
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Director: Leora Barish
Cast: Billy Wirth, Audie England, Joel Grey, Costas Mandylor
Rating: R (Adult Situations/Questionable for Children)
Review Summary
Set in a future in which society is controlled by an omnipotent corporation, this sci-fi thriller centers on a pair of fugitives from prison who attempt to survive in society addicted to virtual reality. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
The Secret World of Alex Mack 1994 - 1998
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Airs Next: Nickelodeon at Saturday 12:00 AM (30 min.)
Status: Ended Premiered: October 8, 1994 Last Aired: January 15, 1998
Show Categories: Children, Action/Adventure
On her first day of junior high, Alexandra Mack was accidentally doused with a mysterious chemical called GC-161 and it changed her life forever. Now Alex is the only high schooler she knows who can zap electricity from her fingertips, morph into an oozing blob of goo and even make other people morph just by touching them, but having superpowers isn't all just fun and games; the company bigwigs that made GC-161 know that some kid was sprayed with the chemical and they'll stop at nothing to find out who it is. So Alex has to keep the powers secret and her powers aren't easy to hide, especially when they make her glow when she is nervous or gets a wave of electricity through her. With the help of her best friend, Ray and her genius sister, Annie, Alex manages to avoid being discovered and keep away from that truck that keeps following her around.
Camp Nowhere 1994
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Directed By: Jonathan Prince
Country: U.S.A.
Summary:
Summer's approaching, and Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to Chip-a-wa Computer Camp, also known as eight weeks of nerd hell. He hates the idea, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same unwelcome vacation: a boring summer camp. It's off to a paramilitary camp for Zack (Andrew Keegan), a fat farm for Gaby (Melody Kay) and drama camp for Trish (Marne Paterson).
With his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of his own design. No rules, no stupid activities, no dumb counselors--just eight weeks of unsupervised bliss. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker, best known for his notorious musical version of "The Silence of the Lambs" into helping, they convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren't allowed to visit... Everything seems to work perfectly, except that word gets out around school and before Mud can do anything, half his classmates get in on the scam.
The camp itself was once a hippie commune, but quickly--and with the help of their parents' money--the kids transform it into a kid's paradise, complete with water cannons, computer games and a wide-screen TV. Along the way, the children have fun (most of it fairly harmless), overcome hardships and petty squabbles, and find themselves. Even Dennis, who has run away from most of the tough decisions in his life, learns to stand up and take responsibility like a real grown-up. In the end, the kids get busted, and after the parents freak out, things return to normal, or do they...
Reviews:
The history of the teen summer camp movie is far from exalted, and the opening moments of "Camp Nowhere" may make you fear that it's another "Meatballs." Oddly enough, though, it turns out to be nothing of the sort. Instead of the usual coming-of-age coarseness, this celebration of kid power is a rather tame affair. It's sweet, likable and even vaguely hip. It's a relief to see a children's film that portrays kids as resourceful and self-reliant.
Directed by Jonathan Prince, "Camp Nowhere" is old-fashioned and borderline corny, but here and there the comedy turns delightfully weird. For example, Parents' Day includes a hilarious kids' production of a scene from "A Streetcar Named Desire" as part of what the campers call "Tennessee for Tots."
Maybe "Camp Nowhere" is more easily praised for what it isn't than for what it is. Still, it's not half bad.
Starring:
Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, Andrew Keegan, Marne Patterson, Melody Kay, Raymond Baker, And More...
Screenwriters: Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald
Studio: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Pictures
Production Company: Lucky Mud Productions, Hollywood Pictures
Genre: Comedy / Family / Adventure / Camp
Running Time: 96 minutes
Language: English
links: campnowhere.com
Dark Angel TV series 2000-2002
Overview
In the year 2009, a genetically enhanced, 9-year old female (whom creator James Cameron refers to as "transgenic") super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara, (also known as X5-452, a truncation of her barcode tattoo on the back of her neck 332960013452), escapes along with eleven others like her from a secret government institution. At the institution, codenamed Manticore, they were created and subsequently raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins. On June 1, 2009, months after Max's escape, terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into utter chaos.
The first season begins ten years later in 2019 as it follows the life of the now 19-year-old Max as she struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In a United States which is now barely more than a Third World nation (a concept largely dropped from the show after 9/11), she tries to live her life, to evade capture, and to learn to trust and love. She is aided by Logan Cale, an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only; Zach, a fellow X-5; and her friends Original Cindy and Sketchy at Jam Pony, a courier company where she works as a bicycle messenger. Other X-5s are periodically introduced as well.
In the second season of the show, the tone changes as Max brings down Manticore and frees the soldiers. She is helped in her escape by Alec, in an attempt to facilitate the assassination and capture of Eyes Only, and Joshua, a transgenic with canine DNA. She later learns that Joshua was the first transgenic created by Manticore's founder Sandeman. Max also finds out that Manticore produced soldiers for speciality environments such as desert and Arctic conditions and consequently look vastly different from normal humans. A major theme in the second season is the discovery of an even more deadly enemy in a millennia-old breeding cult similar in structure to the Illuminati. This has resulted in humans even more formidable than the Manticore-produced transgenics, and even some with strong telekinetic powers. Ames White, a government agent introduced early in the second season trying to eliminate the loose transgenics, is revealed to be a member of the cult. When a strange message written in Max's genetic code makes an appearance on her skin, it is revealed that Sandeman was a renegade from the breeding cult. Ames White is Sandeman's son, which essentially makes him "related" to Max and her transgenic brethren. However, the series was cancelled before the producers could play with this dynamic.
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 0: Pilot
Original Air Date: 3 October 2000
12 genetically enhanced childern escape from a military base that created them. 10 years later, after The Pulse, a magnetic bomb that destroyed every computer in USA, has struck, Max Guevara, one of the 12 escapees, is a bike messenger in (what's left of) Seattle and with cyberjournalist, Logan Cale, she tries to rid the world of crime and corruption, avoid her creators and uncover her past.
Season 1, Episode 1: Heat
Original Air Date: 10 October 2000
Season 1, Episode 2: Flushed
Original Air Date: 17 October 2000
Season 1, Episode 3: C.R.E.A.M.
Original Air Date: 31 October 2000
Alina Herrero contacts Eyes Only and asks him to help her find out the truth about her father's disappearance years ago. Max breaks in to the police department to steal information about her father, who also happens to be Logan's mentor. At the same time, Sketchy loses the mob's money and has to return the full amount in 36 hours. Max uses her super skills to win the money through poker.
Season 1, Episode 4: 411 on the DL
Original Air Date: 14 November 2000
Max hires a private detective to help her track down a fellow X-5 called Zack. She is about to receive vital information when the detective is found dead. Back at Logan's place, his ex-wife Valerie shows up unexpectedly with an obvious hidden agenda. Max decides to find out the truth about her.
Season 1, Episode 5: Prodigy
Original Air Date: 21 November 2000
Max and Donald Lydecker are taken hostages at a convention. Logan decides to trade himself as a hostage for all the women. Max decides to stay and ends up helping Logan when the terrorists push him off the roof of the building. She also does the unexpected when she saves Lydecker from being shot in the head.
Season 1, Episode 6: Cold Comfort
Original Air Date: 28 November 2000
Brin contacts Zack before she is captured. Max and Zach has no choice but to force Lydecker to tell her whereabouts. They teamed up and follow Brin to a military facility where Brin is to be sold to the highest bidder. Once there, Lydecker double crosses the two X-5s and decides to be in on the sale. Max and Zack manage to escape from captivity with Brin who is suffering from a condition that speeds up aging. She has no choice but to receive help from Lydecker. Max and Zack accept Brin's decision and leave her to be picked up by the man who made them.
Season 1, Episode 7: Blah Blah Woof Woof
Original Air Date: 12 December 2000
Now that Lydecker has seen her face, Max is on a Wanted poster all over town for a murder she didn't commit. The temptation of the big reward leads even her own boss, Normal, to give her up to the police. Zack and Logan help her escape to Logan's cabin located outside of Seattle. However, when Max learns that Logan's condition has worsened and that he's undergoing a very dangerous surgery, she risks her life to come to the hospital. Logan has lost a lot of blood and the blood bank runs out of AB negative blood. Max gives Logan a transfusion as she is a universal donor, something Manticore had given her and the rest of her brothers and sisters. The transfusion works but she is soon captured by authority. Just as all hope seems lost, Zack shows up and takes responsibility for the murder. She is freed but he is taken back to Manticore.
Season 1, Episode 8: Out
Original Air Date: 9 January 2001
Max invites Logan to a dinner at her place but instead of having a good time together, Logan is set on investigating a suspicious transportation of what he thinks is medical supply. Max begrudging agrees to help him survey the scene. Later, Logan is captured by the very person he is pursuing and kidnapped. He is demanded to give up the identity of Eyes-Only just as Max impersonates him on TV, saving him in the process. Back at Jam Pony, Normal has a date with a woman who is actually a transsexual man. After he finds out, he decides that he doesn't care about her past, only to discover that Louise is a lesbian.
Season 1, Episode 9: Red
Original Air Date: 16 January 2001
Logan asks Max to keep a vital witness to a case for 24 hours, which turns out to be a very long 24 hours for Max. What they did not know is that this witness is the person Logan is in his wheelchair. Killers are sent in to kill the witness and Max is able to overcome them. However, a second set of killers show up. They are unusually strong and their target is Max.
Season 1, Episode 10: Art Attack
Original Air Date: 6 February 2001
Logan asks Max to be his date for a cousin's wedding where she meets his snobbish uncle and aunt. She also gets to meet Logan's ex-fiancée. Back at Jam Pony, Normal is taken by the mob when there is a delivery mix-up. Original Cindy and Max decide to help him retrieve the right painting to save their boss' life.
Season 1, Episode 11: Rising
Original Air Date: 13 February 2001
A group of South African known as the Red Series is after Max's DNA in an attempt to improve their enhanced soldier. They take Original Cindy hostage to lure Max out. The rescue reveals Max's true identity to her best friend.
Season 1, Episode 12: The Kidz Are Aiight
Original Air Date: 20 February 2001
Zack manages to escape from Manticore and calls Max comes to his rescue. What they do not know is that this is planned by Lydecker in an attempt to find the escaped X5's. Once Max and Zack find this out, they have to find a way to warn their siblings without exposing them.
Season 1, Episode 13: Female Trouble
Original Air Date: 13 March 2001
Logan Cale's legs are failing him and he secretly contacts an ex-Manticore scientist in an attempt to get back on his feet. He tries to avoid the suspicious Max from knowing. Max's curiosity leads her to follow Logan on one of his trips when she is attacked by Jace, one of her X5's siblings who refused to escape.
Season 1, Episode 14: Haven
Original Air Date: 27 March 2001
Max and Logan are out for a holiday. Unbeknownst to Max, Logan is also planning to investigate an old crime. Once there, Max befriends a small boy with a secret. Stirring his past brings troubles from the town's gangster to Logan and Max. Meanwhile, a powerful seizure takes over Max.
Season 1, Episode 15: Shorties in Love
Original Air Date: 17 April 2001
Original Cindy reunites with her ex-lover, Diamond, who is recently out of prison. Max is suspicious of Diamond which causes her to have a fight with her best friend.
Season 1, Episode 16: Pollo Loco
Original Air Date: 24 April 2001
A body with a barcode tattooed at the neck is sent to the morgue. Logan pulls some strings and Max gets to examine the body. Although the barcode matches that of Ben, one of the 12 escapees, the man is not an X5. More bodies with the same tattoo surface and Max is determine to find Ben to find out the truth.
Season 1, Episode 17: I and I Am a Camera
Original Air Date: 1 May 2001
A suspicious-looking man takes pictures of Max. She follows him and is surprised that he seems to possess super-natural strength. Finding out that he is actually a good guy, the two team up with Logan and investigate the deaths of recently released prisoners. This leads to shocking discoveries about Logan's family business. Logan is left with a dilemma. If Eyes Only goes public about this finding, he would lose his source of income.
Season 1, Episode 18: Hit a Sista Back
Original Air Date: 8 May 2001
Tinga, who escaped to Canada in #1.14 with other X5's, comes back in town to save her husband and son. With Max and Zack's help, the family is reunited, but not before the son is given a deadly pathogen. Lydecker agrees to cure the boy in exchange for Tinga. Unbeknownst to him, Madame X has already arranged for Brin to double cross Lydecker. She captures Tinga, who is able to pass her special traits to her children, to study her.
Season 1, Episode 19: Meow
Original Air Date: 15 May 2001
Max is in heat again, ready to jump at any men, even Normal! She hates her condition and is ashamed of it. Meanwhile, she is avoiding Logan at all cost and decides to cancel their anniversary dinner. After the day is over, she confronts the still-confused Logan about her condition and the two finally admit their feelings towards each other. Just as they are kissing, Zack interrupts with bad news about Tinga. They must go rescue her from a secret government facility.
Season 1, Episode 20: ...and Jesus Brought a Casserole
Original Air Date: 22 May 2001
Lydecker realizes that he has lost control over Manticore, as Madame X is now clearly running the show. He would rather see the project destroyed than see it abused by others. He asks Max for help in bringing Manticore down. Together with Zack and other X5's, they storm the facility and destroy the DNA lab.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Designate This
Original Air Date: 28 September 2001
Max regains her consciousness after her heart transplant, only to realize that she is back at Manticore and that Zack's heart is beating inside her. Madame X or Dr. Renfroe brings her to what is remain of Zack, his various organs taken to save other X5s. Now that the DNA lab has been torched, Manticore has decided to designate a 'breeding partner' to every X5's. Max's turns out to be Alec, a clone of Ben, who has no problem with her refusal to 'mate' with him. With the help of Joshua, a half dog- half man experiment, she escapes from Manticore for the second time. Outside in Seattle, Logan, after 3 months, still believes that Max is alive. He decides to reveal the existence of Manticore through Eyes Only. Dr. Renfroe must destroy all evidence of the facility and burns the place, with people still trapped inside. Max cannot bear to see them die and releases everyone. Logan is reunited with her, only to find out that she is deadly to him if they touch because Manticore has given her a special virus targeted at him. Luckily, Max is able to retrieve the anti-body from Dr. Renfroe, who ends up taking a bullet for Max because, in her words, Max is special. Dying, she tells Max to find Sandeman.
Season 2, Episode 2: Bag 'Em
Original Air Date: 5 October 2001
The government sends Ames White to clean up the mess that was Manticore. His mission is to eliminate all evidence of the program's existence. Max feels guilty about this, as she was the one that let the X-series out, and goes back near the facility to help a group of escapees evade death. Lydecker contacts Logan to warn Max to stay away from Manticore when he gets her full DNA analysis.
Season 2, Episode 3: Proof of Purchase
Original Air Date: 12 October 2001
Alec agrees to kill three Manticore escapees when White plants a small bomb at the back of his head. He must bring their barcode back as proof. When time begins to run out, he contemplates attacking Joshua and Max to save his life. Logan agrees to pay a huge sum to the man who engineered the virus designed to kill him to find an antibody for Max.
Season 2, Episode 4: Radar Love
Original Air Date: 26 October 2001
Max and Logan are separated by the virus. Their loneliness compels them to date other people. Meanwhile, a virus is on the rampage in Chinatown. Because there is a rumored transgenic in the area, the public starts to believe that this monster is the source of the illness. In reality, White has asked a scientist to engineer a virus targeted specifically at Manticore's escapees. The death in Chinatown was just a demonstration for White.
Season 2, Episode 5: Boo
Original Air Date: 2 November 2001
It's Halloween. Joshua, seeing people dressed up as monsters, believes it the perfect night for him to experience the outside world. He asks Max but she decides against it, insisting that people will be scared of him. Joshua reluctantly agrees to stay inside while Max prepares to go to a party.
Season 2, Episode 6: Two
Original Air Date: 9 November 2001
A canine-like creature has been attacking and killing police. All evidence points to Joshua. Max refuses to believe that someone as gentle as her friend can kill. It turns out that Joshua has a younger brother called Isaac. The police tracks Joshua down and arrests him. Max breaks her friend out of jail. To protect Max, Joshua kills his brother. Meanwhile Alec is selling drugs, using his position as a Jam Pony messenger as cover. The local gang comes to threaten Alec into stopping to sell drugs in their territory.
Season 2, Episode 7: Some Assembly Required
Original Air Date: 16 November 2001
Max is surprised to find that Zack is still alive, working for a gang. He has no recollection of his past life. Once he starts regaining his memories, he only remembers that Logan stole Max from him and that Logan is the reason Max was captured by Manticore. He is out to get revenge on Logan. Max has to choose risking Logan's life or losing her brother to another memory loss.
Season 2, Episode 8: Gill Girl
Original Air Date: 7 December 2001
A mermaid is caught by fishermen and is immediately sold to a night club in Seattle. Max and Alec are intent on returning her to the sea before White and his crew get their hands on her.
Season 2, Episode 9: Medium Is the Message
Original Air Date: 14 December 2001
Logan and Max become involve in a kidnapping of a young boy when his distressed mother came asking for help. During their investigation, they learn that the boy is the son of Max's nemesis, Ames White. He is part of a breeding cult and has placed his only son in a special school without his wife's knowledge or consent. The boy's life is in danger as he must pass series of deadly tests to prove his worthiness to the occult group.
Season 2, Episode 10: Brainiac
Original Air Date: 11 January 2002
Season 2, Episode 11: The Berrisford Agenda
Original Air Date: 18 January 2002
Season 2, Episode 12: Borrowed Time
Original Air Date: 1 February 2002
Season 2, Episode 13: Harbor Lights
Original Air Date: 8 February 2002
Season 2, Episode 14: Love in Vein
Original Air Date: 8 March 2002
Season 2, Episode 15: Fuhgeddaboudit
Original Air Date: 15 March 2002
A telekinetic transgenic messes with Max's mind to keep her from coercing a meek mob bookie into selling out his boss to Eyes Only. But once the mutant sets her sights on Alec, the stakes are raised, leading him back into the boxing ring to make some money for some not-so-good fellas.
Season 2, Episode 16: Exposure
Original Air Date: 22 March 2002
Logan and Max track Aimes' kidnapped son to a small town where the breeding cult is readying Manticore's youngest creations for a mysterious ceremony.
Season 2, Episode 17: Hello, Goodbye
Original Air Date: 5 April 2002
After nearly infecting Logan, Max decides to end their affair for good; Alec's haunted by the sins of his Manticore twin; also Aimes White triggers a witch hunt by leaking information about the Manticore transgenics.
Season 2, Episode 18: Dawg Day Afternoon
Original Air Date: 12 April 2002
Max must break her vow to avoid Logan after Joshua becomes a target of transgenic manhunt in the sewers. Ames White leaks news of the human-looking X-5's to the media.
Season 2, Episode 19: She Ain't Heavy
Original Air Date: 19 April 2002
Max's escape from Seattle is derailed after White sends in her clone to capture the elusive X5-452. Logan's Eyes Only compound is attacked.
Season 2, Episode 20: Love Among the Runes
Original Air Date: 26 April 2002
Season 2, Episode 21: Freak Nation
Original Air Date: 3 May 2002
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