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Even, Charlie.

Detective Venable.

How long has he been dead?

Judging from temp and lividity, half hour, 45 minutes.

Cause? Cervical trauma.

Someone with a lot of strength snapped his neck.

Bite and claw marks are post -mortem.

Tissue and seriology? It's already on rush to the lab.

Well, you're the best.

Say that to all the girls.

Yeah, Renfro here.

Okay, hold your 20. Be right there. They got him spotted.

7 -8.

Red, be careful.

See anything?

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are

about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest inner

mind to the outer limits.

With every scientific advance, we grow closer to unlocking the mysteries of

and creation.

But what have we gained if, in the process, we lose our humanity?

The suspect, she's definitely one of these genetic rejection cases.

Yes, she's GRS.

But based on the lab work and the size and shape of the teeth and claw marks,

she could not have been the killer.

Lieutenant O 'Neill, if she didn't kill this man, who did?

We're working on that. How?

with your fancy GRS response unit. It's cost the taxpayers half a million

dollars, and it's so far completely ineffective.

We took another one off the streets last night. But not the one responsible for

this atrocity.

He's still out there, free to kill again. The switchboard at City Hall is

flooded with calls from scared citizens.

Really, it's running wild with these GRS stories. Now, I want to know, what

exactly is being done to address this situation?

Detective Venable is our expert on the subject, Detective.

Please bring the chief and councilman up to speed.

I'm no expert, but I do know we're not up against the same problem we were when

this started showing up about ten years ago.

Underground labs turned out gene -altering drugs, and most of the time it

worked. Perfect kids grew up to be perfect adults.

But sometimes it resulted in GRS kids.

They looked scary, they had bad tempers, and they attacked people sometimes.

A lot of them got caught, and people got bored with the story.

But the ones that survived went underground.

And they grew up.

Their hormones kicked in, and whatever you thought about the threat back then,

you can multiply it by a hundred now. We got GRS adults running around. And they

are stronger and faster and smarter than ever. And they're getting bold.

You really put their minds at ease.

Neil can get somebody else to tell him fairy tales.

Besides, if I really wanted to shake him up.

I'd have shown them this.

Like an enhancement theorem.

Did you bust a lab? No, took it off the GRS girl last night.

Why do you think she'd have it?

Well, when everybody started cracking down on gen engineering, labs needed a

marketplace.

Somebody hit them, making this stuff custom engineered for adults.

You know, catch up with the ones who had a head start in the womb.

So what would someone who's already GRS want with it?

Well, in theory, it works like a booster for them. Their systems are already

altered. The serum just heightens the effects.

The stuff we've tested can be counteracted up to 72 hours, as long as

amount ingested is minimal.

Beyond that, it bonds with the mitochondrial chain.

And makes them permanently more mutated?

Well, maybe they like being what they are.

Be all that you can be.

Yeah, right. You want to talk about civil rights, pick it up at the Supreme

Court.

Do you believe this?

Some lawyer wants to talk to that GRS girl before we do.

Well, maybe he knows what happens to them after we interrogate. No, what he

knows is he can get publicity for trying to defend a freak.

Whatever. I just came here to tell you that you got visitors.

Hey, Dad.

Hey, pal.

This is a surprise.

It shouldn't be.

You're supposed to take Jesse to his baseball practice while I go visit my

mother.

I'm sorry. I completely forgot. Again?

Hey, Jess, why don't you go down to the squad in the fridge and get yourself a

soda, okay? Okay.

And one for your old man, too.

Diet.

Look, I know this is my fault, but this is a really bad time now. We're getting

a lot of heat from downtown on this cave, and I gotta... It's okay.

It's all right. I'll just get to my mom's a bit late.

Jesse was really counting on you. I know. I know. I'll make it up to him.

I'm ready to ring for you.

And you too.

Sure.

Leave your hands free. I'll take responsibility.

We both know those leg restraints are hot -wired. You tried anything, I just

that button.

110 volts.

I barely feel it.

Well, then I'm more stupid than brave.

What's your name?

You must think I'm stupid, Detective.

You don't care what my name is.

You're right, I'm more interested in your age.

Melanie.

I was named for my grandmother.

But she was short.

My parents wanted me to be tall.

Here I am, five foot seven.

Their pride and joy.

You live with your parents, Millie.

You just want to hear me talk.

Watch me move.

Get inside my head.

You're not testing me. You're testing yourself.

Inside.

That's not listed in GRS studies. Don't flatter me.

You think we're the sick ones?

But in nature, stronger and faster equals superiority.

Anything else you'd like to ask before they exterminate me?

That doesn't have to happen.

You want to know the real difference between us, detective?

You live with fear.

I won't give them the satisfaction.

This GRS freaks are nuts, you know that.

Probably her way of checking out on her own terms.

She knew what they were going to do to her. No, she was toying with me.

It was her way of telling me that we can never stop them. We can never

anticipate their moves.

My old man was on the force 33 years.

Sure ain't the same world anymore.

All he had to deal with was gangs, crack cocaine, and affirmative action.

Now we got bright boys like O 'Neal over there, making lieutenant at 23.

Tell me he's not one of those bio -brats.

On the other hand, we got the GRS freak trying to make chumps out of us.

I don't know, maybe it's worth the risk to have a kid that's better than the

rest, huh?

There sure ain't much place for us plain old homegrown humans anymore.

Maybe we ought to try some of the juice that Ray got off that freak, huh?

Little gene cocktail in the morning coffee. We all make gold shield.

Nah, here's to old and dumb and slow.

Salud.

Sorry about your friend.

I made sure she died quickly.

Bastard.

No.

I'm proud to say I'm a Venable through and through.

Dylan.

You're going to have to do better if you want to catch me.

Are you coming to bed?

It's almost three.

Yeah, I'm just finishing up some casework. I'll be right there.

Name is Dylan.

He was brought to you ten years ago.

July.

I remember him.

Maybe you remember what you promised.

That he'd be safe.

That you'd care for him, keep him out of trouble.

I mean, you promised never to be in contact with me or this organization

So, why are you here? Look, Mr. Acosta, I'll level with you.

I think Dylan is in serious trouble.

And I want to know where he's been, who he's come into contact with, what he's

been doing.

For the last ten years. You must have some records.

You don't keep the kids here. You must take them someplace.

Now, look.

You came here a long time ago. You paid $40 ,000 cash, no questions asked. Well,

I'm asking him now.

It's a little late for that.

We took a problem off your hands and you went back to your life.

Maybe you and your wife had some nice fantasy about doing what's best for your

son. Maybe it helped you sleep at night. But do you really think for that kind

of money we'd take a lifelong interest?

The truth is, we send them to labor camps, out of the country.

What happens after that, I have no clue.

This isn't daycare.

You gotta complain about the service.

Call the cops.

Come on, kids.

in your play.

You hold the bat too low.

My father taught me.

He didn't think someone like me had a father.

I bet your dad takes you places.

Throws the ball around with you.

Doesn't he?

he take you?

Where?

Grandma's beach.

Where else?

Pizza.

Pizza.

Pretty nice life you've got.

Mama's here.

Everything's going to be okay now.

Nobody can hurt you here.

All right, honey?

It's okay.

Sorry. So we just walked in the front door?

Yeah.

About five minutes after I got off the phone with you. And what'd he say?

That a GRF fucking took him.

Then he just threw his arms around me and cried.

Well, is he all right?

Oh, all right.

No, of course he's not all right.

Didn't you see him in there?

He's scared to death. He's traumatized. Calm down. No, you don't. You tell me to

calm down.

Something's going on here.

Something you're not telling me about. What is it, Ray?

Why would one of those people pick out our son?

It's one of your cases, isn't it?

It's Dylan.

Dylan?

He jumped me at the place where Carolyn Fleury was murdered.

He killed her, and he waited for me to show up.

And I think he did it just to get at me.

And now... Jesse.

I was late picking him up because you were too busy, and you didn't even tell

it was about Dylan?

How could you keep something like that from me? How could I tell you? He could

have killed our son.

Dylan is our son, too.

Well, what are we going to do?

I'll deal with it. How?

I don't know yet. Well, what if he comes after Jesse?

Ray, we have to tell someone. No!

Hey, Jess.

You told me to tell you something.

A home is where the heart is.

to have to do better you live with fear if you want to catch me dad stronger and

faster daddy

Honey,

if you can't get us to sit there, your mom and I will want to sit there.

Have a good time.

What are you doing, Ray? Checking up on the janitors?

I dropped my pen.

You get the results back?

DNA swabs in the parking garage?

See if they match the Cornell case?

No. They're still working on it.

I just got over the phone with the lab.

Yo.

Earth to Ray.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Is the lighting in here different today?

Looks like the same old funeral parlor atmosphere to me.

why you can't seem to pin this guy.

I remembered what Carolyn said about GRF, about enhanced capabilities. What

they can see things that we can't?

Like what?

I don't know, like trails.

Ray, we're not in the wilderness.

There's a city here. The only trails are on the park. Not those kinds of trails.

I mean something that shows where a person's been. Wait a minute,

No, no, more like heat or energy, something that they give off that's

than an ordinary person's, but it takes another one like them to see it and

follow it.

So we take GRF to find a GRF. Exactly.

This seems pretty weird to me. It's a scientific basis.

You know how sharks hunt? No.

They can detect an electromagnetic field that comes off of another animal. So it

gives off a fear vibe, and they lock right into it.

Or bloodhounds. They say the pheromones of whoever they're after show up like

maps.

Pheromones? What, are you turning into Mr. Wizard? I did some reading. I think

I'm on to something here.

Even if you're right, what the hell's it got to do with us?

We're looking for a freak, not a shark.

And according to your brilliant theory, wouldn't it take one of them to find one

of them that's just to be able to feed this trail thing?

Last I looked, there was no freaks in the forest. Although Sullivan does have

lot of hair on his back.

Nice going, Slick.

Can't take you anywhere.

Oh!

What the hell was that?

We're not close enough.

You want to have it out with me? Fine.

But not here.

Not in this house.

Hey.

Before you say anything, I can explain.

Your face.

Your hands weren't God's name, have you done it? I took some genetic

enhancement. What kind of genetic enhancement?

Just something to help me do what I have to do.

He took the same poison they put in me when I was pregnant. No, no, it's

different now. They make something that works in an adult. You can't be serious.

Look what it did to Dylan. It's the only way to stop him.

He's out to hurt us. Can't you see that?

I want you to take Jesse to your mother's house and let me handle this.

Listen to me.

Listen to me.

I'm in control and the process is reversible.

All I have to do is alter myself enough to catch him and make him stop, and then

I promise I will go to a clinic and get treated, and everything will be back to

the way it was, the way it should be.

Things have never been the way they should be.

Not since we made that horrible mistake.

Yeah, you're right. We made a mistake. But how long do we have to pay for that?

Our whole lives?

We wanted what was best. No.

It was fear that he wouldn't be perfect.

Well, he turned out perfect, didn't he?

Perfect nightmare.

I can't go back in time and undo it, so now I have to try to fix it. How? By

doing this to yourself?

Just trust me!

No, I trusted you the first time.

You said we were just helping nature along.

I never wanted to do it.

It scared me. But you told me it would be all right.

I believed you.

Damn it, I believed you!

Marie, please.

Stay away from me!

I followed him in. He must have jumped 30 feet. I don't even know how he made

it. Is he on something?

I don't know.

It doesn't sound like him.

Look, he's a good cop. I just think he's obsessed with this case.

I don't want to see him get hurt.

All right. I'll have I .A .D. bring him in.

Sir, with all due respect...

I think it'd be better if I did. No, no, you know that's not procedure.

But you see, if the suits hold him in like some freaking lowlife, I think

tear him apart.

Look, he's the best TRS guy you got. You know that.

And I've already got a guy from the unit watching him.

Please, just let me do it, okay?

Kost, are you here?

Dylan?

You've got to stop, Dylan.

Why?

We're finally spending some quality time together.

Ray.

Dale, just get out of here. I've got this handled.

No can do, buddy.

What the hell are you doing?

I've got to take you in.

I got orders from Lieutenant O 'Neal. Didn't you see him? He's right up there.

Come on, Ray. Hey, look who you're talking to in here.

You're going to have to come up with something better than that, man.

Don't, Ray!

Give me the gun.

Come on.

Come on, Will.

You're going to tell me about everything, okay? I'm sure we can get

straightened out at the station. Come on, we'll talk about it.

It's okay. Hey.

So you took the feeling, hoping it would turn you into Superman, even though

you've seen what it's done to people.

Why risk it? Just tell me that. I can't.

You mean you won't?

You wouldn't understand.

Why don't you try me, damn it?

I'm your partner.

No.

Then just tell me what's going on. Okay, so I can help you. I don't need any

help. I had the killer. I was about to take him when you and the boy showed up.

So on top of it with this theorem, just tell me who he is. Tell me where he is

so we can find him and bring him in, okay?

That's what you want, is it not? It has to be me.

Why?

You're not a one -man department.

As a matter of fact, at this moment, you're not even a member of this

department. And I'll tell you something else.

If that guy kills again, with you sitting on information, you're an

murder.

And while we're on that subject... O 'Neal thinks that you killed a thief in

warehouse. You have his blood on your hand, and the DNA from his body is a

good match for yours, even with the way you've mixed it up with this Dr. Jekyll

act of yours.

What do you think?

I think you're out of your freaking mind, Ray. That's what I think,

The only good news is that the doctor says that your levels are low.

So we have got time to get that cancel -out stuff into your system and bring

back to normal, all right?

Stronger and faster equals superiority.

What are you talking about? This killer isn't going to stop, and I'm the one he

wants to come after him. Without the serum, I've got no chance. And while we

in here debating, he's out there lining up his next target.

I can't let you go, you know that.

then you have to do one thing for me.

Go to Marie's mother's house and make sure my family is all right.

Mother -in -law.

Any sign of Marie or Jesse?

No, just some of their stuff.

No other blood.

Looks like he took them alive at least.

Yeah, for now.

It's okay.

You have to let me go. He could kill him.

That's all right, man. We've got a code blue working. We're going to find him.

All right.

I'm almost ready to inject the reagent.

It's okay, Ray.

You're lucky, Detective. Another dose or two of that stuff you took and there

wouldn't be any way to counteract it.

Come on, Randy. No!

It's all right, man. It's only going to take a minute.

This case is going to be over in a minute.

What the hell happened to your doctor? Looks like he's having a seizure.

Come on, do something. Hold his head. Hold his head.

You've got to get his mouth open. He can swallow his time. All right, put it in

there.

Hey, Dad.

Welcome home. Get you figured out my message.

The old house.

Where the heart is.

My heart, anyway.

What can I say? I'm sentimental.

Where are they?

Surprise.

Everyone's here.

Let him go, Jell -O.

You should love it here, don't you think?

I always did.

It was such a great place to grow up.

Well, that is, until you decided to get rid of me and move away from here so I

could never find you. What do you want?

I want this.

A family.

All together, like they're supposed to be.

Do you know how many times I ran away and came back here looking for you?

Whether you believe it or not, we did what we did for you, too.

Living like that was destroying all of us. So I got put out like the trash at

the curb?

And you washed your hands and started all over again. I made the decision, so

take it out on me. Let them go.

Come and get them.

Put the needle down and I will.

If you drop the gun.

I've got another surprise for you.

I took the serum.

I can do whatever I have to now.

Nothing you do surprises me.

It couldn't work too much alike.

I got it from you, you know.

You got it from a test tube before you were born? No, GRS!

The anger.

The rage.

One place they took me.

When I ran away, they stuck in me. And guess what?

The gene that makes me violent wasn't altered. It came straight from you, Dad.

I'm just a chip off your walk.

I know you better than you know yourself.

I know you were ashamed when I started to change.

And I know you didn't take the serum just to protect society from me.

You were coloring your tracks, making sure no one found out about your dirty

little secret.

Oh, but now everyone's going to know.

I did all this just so you'd have to take the serum and change yourself.

Now you're just like me.

And you can never go back.

The most powerful thing we pass along to our children may not reside in the

genes, but in the soul.