"Adam kane to see the general." "Excuse me, the general can't see you without an appointment." "All he has to do is look up and i'll be there." "Excuse me." "I'm afraid that that just won't work." "You just don't know how to take no for an answer, do you?" "It's okay, jen, go back to your desk." "When i created the phased vibrational generator, the company's mandate was clear it was not to be sold for military application." "How did you find out?" "Buying the device through a dummy mining corporation fooled the people at the company - it didn't fool me." "My intelligence network is better than yours." "You cannot test this kind of thing on innocent people." "The kovakhstani rebels are hardly innocent." "They've killed... you have no right to slaughter these people using my device." "The office of defense testing decided that this was a... you're the office of defense testing." "This is your decision." "Anything that happens in that country, it's on your head." "All right." "I'm sure you'd have found this out anyway." "I just received this message a few minutes ago." "It's a recording from the pilot who was transporting the device to our allies in kovakhstan." "Lock it in for final approach." "Roger that." "You're cleared for landing." "Base, i have hostile fire at eight o'clock." "Looked like stingers." "You got another one on your tail." "Take evasive action." "Well, i don't know how much longer i'm going to be... i'm losing power." "Going down!" "Going down!" "Okay, so that's just great." "You have managed to deliver one of the most powerful weapons on earth right into the middle of the bloodiest war on the planet." "This is not our fault." "No?" "But i know who has to clean it up." "I am adam kane." "I was a pioneer of genetic research, manipulating dna to save human lives." "But in many, their genes unexpectedly mutated." "They developed superhuman abilities." "Together with four of the most powerful, i fight to protect a world that doesn't even know we exist." "We are mutant x." "My name is captain daniel morrison." "I'm in the custody of the liberation army of kovakhstan." "The only condition for my safe return is complete and immediate end to all outside intervention in their country." "I request no attempts be made to rescue me, as it will only result in my immediate execution." "It was a covert operation." "He was delivering a piece of technology the government fraudulently obtained from one of the companies that i'm connected with." "Like any great invention, our friends in the military are trying to figure out how to use it to kill people more efficiently." "So, we're supposed to waltz into kovakhstan to help this government... dictatorship." "They haven't had an election in fifteen years." "Help this dictatorship to get it back." "Well, nobody's getting it back." "It's too dangerous for either side to have." "Excuse me, okay?" "Has anybody thought about the pilot's being held hostage?" "They're pursuing a diplomatic course of action to try to effect his release." "For what?" "A mission they can't even admit they were on in the first place?" "They're going to let him rot, adam." "He's going to be another pilot that never came back." "Nobody's forgetting about the pilot, brennan." "But if either side in this war gets their hands on this weapon, tens of thousands of people are going to die." "Okay, so when do we leave?" "Well, we have an eta of one hour and counting." "Oh... brennan, back at sanctuary, when you were talking about the pilot... i'm not reading you, not any more than a friend would." "What was that all about?" "Nothing." "I was making sure all the bases were covered." "Friends know when you're lying, too." "You ever hear me talk about my father?" "Just your step-father." "He didn't exactly sound like a picnic." "I never met my real dad." "He was a navy pilot." "Shot down in the vietnam war." "So what happened to him?" "He went down behind enemy lines." "Eventually caught and killed." "The official line was that it wasn't even worth the risk to try and rescue him." "It would've been worth it to me." "Commander." "Did you recover the weapon?" "They located the plane, but the weapon was nowhere to be found." "My troops found your plane." "A 9-ton jet sitting in the middle of a field." "That's not hard." "But no sign of the pvg weapon." "What's that?" "We don't have time to play games, captain." "If the government troops get to it before we do, you'll have outlived your usefulness." "Look, lady... idon'tknow what you're talking about." "okay, we're on morrison's approach path." "I can't see a thing." "I'm bringing her down." "Hey, adam, you reading us?" "Loud and clear." "Adam, we're about ten clicks from morrison's last position." "Now, hold it." "I've got your altitude at a thousand feet." "Yeah, and dropping." "Low ceiling, adam, you can't see a thing." "Gotta bring her down." "It's our only chance to find the plane." "You're in hostile airspace." "At that altitude you're too vulnerable." "No, we're in stealth mode." "You're invisible, but not armoured in the middle of a war zone." "Look, adam, if you want us to find this thing, we're going to have to take that chance." "There's the plane." "All right." "Guys, i'm not getting the signal beacon." "Device must've been separated from the plane." "Well, let's circle around and land." "All right." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Dammit!" "We've been hit!" "Computer systems are failing!" "Okay, hold on, guys." "Brennan?" "Emma?" "!" "Anybody, do you read me?" "adam?" "!" "Adam, can you hear us?" "It's out." "So is the computer system." "Comlinks'll work short range, but... we're out of range for sanctuary." "Can you get it working?" "I don't know." "I'll try." "Come on." "Should be government troops all over the forest looking for the plane." "So you guys fix the helix." "We're going to go find the pvg." "Hey." "Did you get anything?" "No." "Beacon must be out of range." "So if morris's plane is back that way and the beacon's not on the plane, then he may have jettisoned it somewhere close by." "Yeah." "Unless someone else has it already." "Yeah." "Don't go there." "Look, why don't we split up again?" "We'll cover more ground." "Kovakhstan." "What are you doing?" "Watching your back." "I don't usually allow myself to open up fully." "But if i do i'll be able to sense anyone coming within half a mile." "Nice." "Psychic burglar alarm, huh?" "Just do me a favour?" "When i open up like this, i'm open to everything." "Yeah, what you getting at?" "Just try and think nice thoughts is all." "Yeah." "Wait." "I'm getting a signal from the beacon." "It's weak, but it's there." "I'm sending you the coordinates now." "Got it." "I'm on my way." "Agh... ugh... uh!" "it'snotnice to think those kinds of thoughts about your partner." "No." "I was just..." "umm... i... i thought that i wasn't thinking... come on." "It's just that you were looking so... it's okay." "I could spend my whole life fielding those kinds of emotions from men." "With my normal defences up i can usually filter them out." "It's got to be tough." "Having to live with your defenses up all the time." "Before i met adam, i didn't know how to control my power." "And i felt everything that anybody else felt, as strongly as they felt it." "You want to talk about a short-cut to a breakdown, huh." "Let's just say defences are better." "So you wouldn't mind if, uh... i mean, if i had those kind of thoughts again, you'd understand?" "I can guarantee you'll never have one of those thoughts again - about anybody, ever." "You know, i got to, uh... i gotta get back to work." "Okay, here's the spot." "Now where's the box?" "Whoo." "Come to poppa." "Hey, shal, i found it." "Great." "Get it back to the double helix." "I'll meet you there." "I can't do that." "What?" "I gotta get that pilot out before we go." "Brennan, that's not the mission." "It's my mission." "We gotta get out of here." "Okay." "I disabled the homing beacons so the government guys won't find it." "Brennan, don't do this." "I'm going to hide the pvg before i go in." "Brennan." "I'll call you when i'm bringing him out." "Brennan." "Jess, did you hear that?" "Yeah, i heard everything." "Never figured brennan for a death wish, huh?" "I'm going after him." "No!" "No, no, no." "Look, there's no sense in both of you getting killed." "Get back here." "I've almost got this computer back online." "Once i do, we can get a location off his comlink and we'll all go get him together." "I'm on my way back." "Good." "Bring him to the camp." "How much longer?" "Look, your bugging me every five seconds is not going to make this happen any sooner, okay?" " all right." "Communications are up." "See, bugging you did work." "Hey, adam." "Adam, can you hear me?" "Shalimar?" "I didn't know if you were dead or alive." "How are the others?" "Well, one of us isn't doing so hot." "Got a few problems here." "What are they?" "Look, adam, the computer system is down." "I've managed to bring up the communications, but we can't run the helix yet." "The programming's all blown out." "All right, jesse, if you can patch me in, maybe i can upload it from here." "I'll try." "Hey, adam, i think we've got a bigger problem here." "It's brennan." "What about him?" "Well, he took off on his own to find the pilot." "dammit." "All right." "Shalimar, retrace his route." "Jesse'll feed you his comlink coordinates as soon as i can get the computer back online." "Okay." "All right, jesse, patch me in." "Yeah." "Look, i should have said something earlier." "But i... i think i found out why brennan got so worked up about the pilot." "His father was a pilot in vietnam." "He was shot down and the government left him behind." "You know, i think he figures that he couldn't help his dad, but maybe he can help this guy." "Yeah, or maybe he'll just get himself killed." "Call you when i find him." "Hey." " What's going on?" "You're a prisoner of the liberation army of kovakhstan." "Oh, lucky me." "What are you doing here?" "I heard the girls here were knockouts." "Guess i should've asked what they meant by that." "Under the articles of war, you're not in uniform, therefore you're a spy." "You know what the rules for spies are." "I didn't think people in this war subscribed to any rules." "We don't." "Makes things neater." "You're here to recover the pvg device, admit it." "I don't know anything about any device." "I came here to rescue a pilot." "We know about the device and we're already tracking the homing beacon." "He's of no use." "Kill him." "Hey, no." "Wait." "Wait!" "Wait." "This beacon that you're talking about, sounds like the one in my pocket." "Want to check?" "Now if you want to see that device, killing me may not be such a good idea." "Put him in a cell." "You don't believe him." "If he wants to see the american pilot, he'll get his wish." "Uh." "Ow." "Huh... captain morrison, you okay?" "You're american." "What the hell are you doing here?" "Came here to get you out." "Get me out?" "Who are you?" "Brennan mulwray." "Are they treating you okay?" "Well, it's not exactly a day at the spa, but i'm alive." "You're not military." "No." "They sent me in to get the pvg, but i'm not just going to leave you stuck in here." "Unless you got a company of marines out in the woods, i don't think there's much chance of either of us getting out of this one." "I came with friends." "They're not marines, but they definitely have their own way of getting things done." "Plus, i told that dragon lady i know where the pvg is." "So, unless i missed my guess, it's going to buy us some time." "You know where it is?" "Yeah." "So with any luck, we can get that device and you out of here in one piece." "You and you, take a walk." "You guys go with him." "All right, yes sir." "I need two men over here." "Okay." "So you got any family?" "Two kids." "Boy and a girl, four and two." "Started fresh when i was just out of the academy." "Worry more about what's going to happen to them than what's going to happen to me." "You know, growing up without a dad?" "Yeah, i know what you're talking about." "It happened to me, vietnam, '71." "I'm sorry to hear that." "I'm not going to let that happen to your kids." "You really are crazy, aren't you?" "But you want to know something?" "Your father would be pretty damn proud of you." "Morrison, out." "Where are you taking him?" "Don't worry." "We're just going to play a bit." "Agh... huh." "Aggh... aggh." "Where are you taking him?" "!" "Jesse." " Yeah, here." "Any thoughts we had about being in ahead of the government boys were a dream." "Moving in." "Okay, adam, i think we got it." "Good." "All right." "I'm powering up... now." "Yeah!" "Oh... ah... damn!" "Aw." "Adam, we lost." "It's back to the drawing board." "All right, jesse, just get back into it." "We don't have any options." "We don't have a lot of time." "Yeah." " Jesse" "there's people coming from three points, all moving in this direction." "I could get the helix into stealth mode until i get the computers online." "We're going to have to take them out." "I'll do it." "It's what i'm going to broadcast, they're going to be more scared than they've ever been before." "What?" "This is going broadband." "You might want to hold on to something." "I'll be okay." "They're gone." "Oh... it's okay." "They're gone now, but they're going to be back soon." "We have to get brennan and shalimar back." "Oh my god, emma." "I had no idea you could do something like that." "Jesse?" " What?" "You still don't know." "Oh... i don't know what?" "Nothing." "Come on." "Let's get back to work." "What'd they do to you?" "Said she's tired of waiting." "She wants to know where the box is." "You don't even know where the box is." "She doesn't believe that." "But they're going to be coming back soon." "But you can't give in no matter what happens to me." "What are you talking about?" "If she doesn't get that device in an hour, i'm a dead man." "Jesse." " Yeah, we're here." "What's going on, shal?" "I found base camp." " Excellent." "Look, i think i've almost got the computers online here." "Get back, we'll go on with the helix." "No." "It's going to take too long." "I think i can get him out." "I just need to time it right." "No." "You can't risk this alone." "We don't even know if he's still... alive?" "Kind of been wondering that." "Look, if there's any change at all i have to do it now." "All right, shal, good luck." "I'll call you when we get online." "I went over this thing ten ways from sunday." "They knew exactly what they were doing." "Uh... uh." "Gotta be a way out of here." "Well, even if we break out of these ropes, we still have to take out half the rebel army just to get out of here." "Well, we're not finished yet." "You really believe that, don't you?" "Uh." "Ugh!" "Tell you what, if i wasn't in this water, it'd be a whole other story." "Agh... ugh." "Okay, adam, we're online." "Good." "I've got electrical systems, cabin pressure, sensors... damn." "No, the flight systems are still down." "So are the stealth systems." "well,i don't think we missed anything." "Let's just go over it again." "All right... wait, jesse." "I'm uploading another fix on the stealth system." "I need you to implement it fast." "Why?" "What's going on?" "My satellite imaging shows a convoy of what appears to be government troops heading your way." "Jesse, he's right." "They're going to be on us in a few minutes." "All right." "I'm working as fast as i can." "Never figured you for a stick in the mud." "Now that's funny." "I was worried about you." "You were worried about me?" " Yeah." "Has jesse got the helix up and running?" "Not yet." "He's working on it." "Yeah, well it works better when he doesn't know who his backup's going to be." "Agh!" "Who the hell are you people?" "Get us out of these things, huh?" "Go." "Great." "Shal, you go to the helix." "I'll get the pvg." "No, i didn't like what happened last time you went off on your own." "We're going together." "Shal, no." "We're going together." "Ugh... ugh...!" "Aaagh!" "It's good to be grounded." "Okay, stealth systems are checking out." "Try them now." "It's not working." "Adam, what's going on?" "Why aren't they working?" "Well, got some sort of a power drain." "Why don't you run a system scan, see if you can locate it." "I don't have time for a system scan." "It takes time." "I got about two minutes then i'm target practice for the whole kovakhstan army." "Then don't waste time talking about it, just do it." "All right." "Yes, it's a power drain, but i don't have time to fix it." "allright, then shut it down." "Kill all systems, put power into stealth." "We're on it." "Okay." "Come on, come on, come on." "okay." "You're clear." "All right." "Fine." "Good going." "Now let's see if we can get this big bad bird back in the air." "Thank you." "We knew you'd lead us to the device, one way or another." "Yeah?" "We're not going to just let you have it." "Of course not." "Get down!" "Come on!" "Go, go, go!" "Emma." "Jesse." "Oh, brennan, thank god." "We're not out of the woods yet." "The rebels are right behind us." "How's the helix?" "Well, we're on partial power, but we're bringing all the systems online now." "We're heading back now." "Good." "We got a guest." "Be ready for take-off as soon as we get there." "C'mon, stop!" "Hey, let me help." "Go!" "Go!" "Guys!" "Where are we going?" "!" "They're right on our heels!" "We gotta go!" "All right." "Here goes nothing." "What are you doing?" "Come on." "What?" "I'm picking up some activity about two miles from here." "Come on!" "Looks like government aircraft." "Two planes and they're headed this way." "Okay, we got partial power, but we do not have enough juice to stay in stealth mode and get up a full head of steam." "Well, then kick us out of stealth." "All right." "We are not going to win any race against a fighter jet." "Well, we don't have a choice." "So we got to take our chances." "All right." "Everybody ready?" "Yeah." "Go!" "Jets approaching." "They're on us." "Missiles." "Look out!" "That was too close." "Nice job." "They're moving back into position, brennan." "Okay, look, i'm going to try something." "Hold onto your seats, guys." "This is going to be close." "Get ready to dive." "Go!" "They're coming back at us." "But they have missile lock." "I'm not going to be able to do that again." "Jesse, you have to phase the helix." "I can't do that." "But we don't have any other choice!" "Just do it!" "You can try!" "Jesse, you have to." "You don't have a choice." "They're getting closer." "Come on, jesse, please." "Jess, come on!" "Come on, jess!" "Jesse." "Do it!" "C'mon man." "Come on." "Come on!" "Oh, come on, jesse... aggghhh...!" "Aggghhh...!" "Yeah!" "What the hell was that?" "!" "Is that what it feels like when you phase?" "I don't think i could do that again." "Yeah?" "Well, we may not have to." "Whew... oh!" "Direct hit." "Yes." "His buddy's bugging out." "Nice job, you guys." "You got any more surprises up your sleeves?" "Permission to take you home, captain." "Permission granted, brennan." "Let's go home." "This is unacceptable." "You interfered with an official operation." "You stole government property and i do not care how much hush-hush political juice you've got." "This time you're going to answer for it." "Uh, well, general, let's get a couple of things straight." "First of all, i think you'd have a hell of a time proving i did anything." "Secondly, this so-called stolen government property?" "It was obtained fraudulently." "And i don't think that's something that you want made public." "Or, how you were planning to test it." "You always get your own way, don't you, kane?" "Well, no, actually, i don't." "notoftenenough." "But i'll tell you something, times like this, they kind of make up for that." "So how did he react to that?" "Well, he didn't blow any blood vessels, but he's working on it." "What about morrison?" "He's back with his family... thanks to you." "You did a good thing going in to save him, brennan." "Well, i figured it was the thing to do." "Your father would've been proud." "You knew?" "And just for the record, we're all proud."