"Pilot" Max is a beautiful, unique girl -- she should be, she was designed that way. Engineered in a secret government lab twenty years ago, Max and her genetically enhanced siblings were created to be the perfect soldiers... until they escaped. Now, ten years later, against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic Seattle, Max is on a quest to reclaim her past by finding her fellow escapees. But she's not the only one looking...   |
"Heat" Max locates a fellow fugitive from Manticore who has information about her past, but the reunion puts them on a collision course with Lydecker. |
"Flushed" When Kendra and Original Cindy mistake Max's dependence on Triptophane for a drug problem, their good intentions land Max in prison. |
"C.R.E.A.M." A woman enlists 'Eyes Only' to help locate her missing father; meanwhile, Max and Original Cindy come to the rescue when Sketchy finds himself on the wrong side of a mob boss. |
"411 on the DL" When Max's barcode number turns up in the newspaper, her investigation leads her to an unlikely font of Manticore information... but can she trust the source? Meanwhile, Logan reunites with an old flame. |
"Prodigy" Max gets closer to Lydecker than she ever wished when she attends a conference on genetic engineering. How close you ask? Well you just have to watch and find out! |
"Cold Comfort" Max learns the identity of one of her Manticore siblings, but there's just one problem: it appears her friend has just been re-captured. |
"Blah Blah, Woof Woof" Max goes to ground when Lydecker turns Seattle into a military state; meanwhile, Logan's accident presents new complications. |
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"Red" director Max, takes on an army of superhuman soldiers in an episode amped up on action sequences. The trouble starts when Logan recruits his favorite biker chick to protect a Federal witness with vital info on local corruption. But the operation hits a snag after Max realizes that the guy she's guarding is a face from the not-so-distant and very painful past, and that those who want him dead may have plans for her as well. |
"Art Attack" Director Max attends a Cale family wedding with Logan, but an angry art dealer on the receiving end of a Jam Pony slip-up drags Max away from the festivities. The Jam Pony messenger service is unknowingly used to transport famous stolen paintings. Max enlists Logan's help when Normal (J.C. Mackenzie) is kidnapped by the ring of art thieves looking for their priceless works. With Original Cindy's help, Max recovers the art to save their hapless boss. Meanwhile, Logan asks Max to accompany him to a family wedding, forcing Max to solve her own fashion emergency. Rapper Master P guest stars as Jean Baptiste Duvalier, an art thief. |
"Rising" Director Max becomes a hunted target fighting for her survival after a mistakenly lost pager leads the "transgenic" Reds (genetically enhanced soldiers looking to combine their own technology with Max's rare blend of DNA for criminal purposes) to her and Original Cindy. After she is used as a pawn by the Reds to get to-more-Max, Original Cindy learns the truth about Max's past. Also in the episode, Logan starts to regain feeling in his paralyzed legs -- the result of a previous blood transfusion he received from Max. |
"The Kidz Are Aiight" Original Airdate Feb. 20 Director Zack escapes from Lydecker's torture tactics, and he and Max race against time to protect their Manticore "siblings" from Lydecker. Also, after her place is destroyed bu the Reds, Originally Cindy moves in with Max. Also in this episode, Meanwhile, Max and Logan are forced to confront the change in their relationship now that he is no longer bound to a wheelchair. |
"Female Trouble" Original Airdate Mar. 13 Director Logan, against Max's wishes, seeks the aid of an ex-Manticore doctor to help his recovery. Also, Max and her "sister" Jace (Shireen Crutchfield) are lured into a trap by Lydecker. |
"Haven" Original Airdate Mar. 27 Director When Logan seeks out an Eyes Only informant in the remote town of Cape Haven, he and Max stumble onto a secret the town has been keeping since the Pulse. |
"Shorties In Love" Original Airdate April. 17 Director Original Cindy's old flame "Diamond" returns to town, who has been in jail, is dying and has broken out of prison. Sebastian is in this episode. Max's plan to steal a set of computer discs is derailed by Original Cindy's felonious ex-lover (Tangelia Rouse), who draws the unwanted attention of a shadowy pharmaceutical firm. But once they catch her, it may be too late for Max to save the comely con artist from triggering the end of the world without even knowing it. |
"Pollo Loco" Original Airdate April. 24 Director A serial killer with a familiar signature forces Max to face the ghosts she thought she'd left behind at Manticore. Star Trek: DS9 vet Nana Visitor pays Lydecker a visit in a key episode that exposes an awful truth about Max (Jessica Alba). Visitor plays 'deck's mysterious boss, Madame X, who's finally revealed after two corpses turn up bearing the bar code of an escaped X-5. Realizing the Manticore runaway is behind the deaths, she orders Lydecker to take action before she has to. Meanwhile, Max races to stop her fellow fugitive (Jensen Ackles) from taking another life, but their face-off could unleash Max's own killer instincts — instincts Logan uncovers after a rendezvous with Max's worst enemy. |
"I And I Am a Camera" Original Airdate May. 1 Director An apparent stalker turns into a seemingly superhuman ally when Max and Logan investigate a string of unexplained murders. |
"Hit A Sista Back" Original Airdate May. 8 Director When Max discovers that Tinga has a husband and son, she joins forces with her Manticore sister to rescue her family from Lydecker.It's a battle of the bio-synths as Max, Zack and Tinga's plan to stop Lydecker from snagging Tinga's son pits them against Madame X's newest weapon — a brainwashed Brin. But when a double-cross puts them all in danger, it becomes clear that someone at Manticore is keeping secrets about the future of the X-5 project. |
"MEOW" Original Airdate May. 15 Director Lydecker acquires technology that could lead him straight to Max, but his growing distrust of the Manticore chain of command keeps him looking over his shoulder. On the anniversary of their meeting, Max's cat DNA sends her into heat, forcing her to bail on a date with Logan. Meanwhile, Lydecker and X play a game of cat-and-mouse with Max that puts her in harm's way and Manticore's top agent on his own boss's hit list. |
"And Jesus Brought a Casserole(Season Finale)" Original Airdate May. 22 Director Zack gathers the X5s, hell-bent on taking the war to Manticore and ending their running once and for all. Max brushes up on the art of war in the first-season finale. After falling into the hands of her creepy creator, it fast becomes clear that Lydecker (needs her help more than she needs his. Betrayed by Madame X (Nana Visitor), "Deck" is now a wanted man willing to join Max's crusade against his murderous boss. So, keeping friends close and foes closer, Max and a fleet of her fellow fugitives make peace with their former tormentor and march into a battle that could lay waste to Lydecker's life's work — including one of his beloved "kids." |