"Good night." "See you later." "no!" "Please... we'll go up to your place and see what we can find." "Maybe have a party, huh?" "Please!" "No!" "Look you can make it easy or you can make it hard." "You stole my line." "Ugh...!" "Still want to get lucky?" "Hey, hey." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Well, what did you expect?" "A thank you?" "What are you doing?" "I was saving someone." "I thought that's what we were about." "You know exactly what i mean." "You're running around alone, showing off your powers." "I feel different now." "Okay?" "There's stuff i need to do." "I need to be out in the night." "I need to hunt." "Alone." "Where's this going, shal?" "I don't know, brennan." "All i know is that whatever's happening to me isn't something that i can just turn off or ignore." "There he is." "Let's get him." "Come on." "No... no!" "Please... please!" "Just take it easy." "You'll be okay." "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 super-human 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." "His name is dominic rydell." "He's a physicist working at the extreme cutting edge of research into quantum power." "Now, the rumour is that he was on the verge of splitting the light particle, to give us unlimited free energy." "Well, that's not possible." "You can't get any smaller than a quantum." "Well, he proved that you can." "And the value of his process - whew - limitless." "Well, a guy with that much cooking in his head, maybe he just snapped." "You think someone was trying to steal his process?" "Well, i don't know." "But i do know that i want to spend some time with him, trying to find out." "And i want you to come with me, see if there's something that you can pick up." "Jesse, i want you to stay here." "Try to recreate the last hours before his disappearance." "See if there's a clue in there that'll tell us what happened." "I'm on it." "You know, i still can't believe we got access to rydell this easily." "Well, i'd like to think it was their knowledge of my specialty in dealing with exotic medical problems." "But i think it has more to do with the fact that i funded the hospital's new mri machine last month." "Nice." "And here i was worried to ask for a raise." "Mr. Kane." "Polly mcwilliams." "How do you do?" "This emma delauro." "I don't usually like admitting failure, but, well this one's got me stumped." "The subject has no history of mental illness." "Within a few hours, he's in a fully dissociative state." "Like schizophrenia?" "More intense than i've seen." "May we?" "Whatever hallucinations he's dealing with are all-encompassing." "He's not dealing with reality at any level." "It's like he's trapped in another world." "Exactly." "How is he physically?" "Well, actually, that's my primary concern right now." "Whatever's going on in this world he's seeing is having a direct effect on his real-world physiology." "His blood pressure and heart rate are going through the roof." "Have you tried medication?" "We've sedated him to the maximum safe levels." "But, whatever has a hold of him just blasts right through it." "I don't think he'll last more than twenty-four hours." "All right." "I might be able to help." "But i'll need him transferred to my own facility, and i'll need you to arrange that." "I'll arrange the transfer right away." "Thank you." "So, no trace of psychoactive drugs." "And they think that the damage done to his psyche was way too fast for hypnosis or classical brainwashing techniques." "So maybe what we're dealing with is some sort of psychic mind attack." "Do you think you'll be able to calm him telempathically?" "No!" "Please... please... please..." "let me go?" "Dominic, my name is adam kane." "Can you hear me?" "Leave me alone... dominic." "I'm real." "I'm here to help you." "Liar!" "No." "No more." "You just let me go." "Are you all right?" "What is it?" "Whatever's got ahold of him is strong." "And that scares the hell out of me." "It turns out our man, rydell, had just finished giving a lecture to a scientific conference at bower university three hours before he disappeared." "You're telling us he was abducted by scientists?" "Well, unfortunately, scientists weren't the only ones there." "I managed to id almost everybody in the audience from the university database and the scientific journals" " everybody except for this guy." "Now, when i put his photo through our database it id'd him as jerzy novotny." "Now, jerzy is currently working as the trade commissioner at the balkistan mission." "His last gig was as a top level kgb agent before the fall of the soviet union." "Yeah, but it still doesn't explain what he was doing at the conference." "Well that's what you and shalimar are going to find out." "What's the setup?" "There's a party tonight at the balkistan embassy." "Trade commissioner novotny has invited certain members of the bower university conference, and you and shalimar are going to be guests." "Nice." "Always wanted to go to a party at the embassy." "Well, let's hope they remember to count the silverware afterwards." "Easy." "Well, let's go." "We got a lot of work to do to get ready." "Let me out." "Let me out." "It's okay." "You're not inside anything." "Look around you." "I've got eyes, dammit." "Why are you doing this to me?" "Huh?" "Leave me alone." "Just leave me alone!" "Are you trying to connect with him...?" "No." "Look, i can't stand to see him in this kind of pain, adam." "I'm afraid that if... if i open myself up i won't be able to protect myself from whatever's attacking his mind." "But we both know that your powers have grown stronger over the last couple of weeks." "Yeah but we don't know what's going on inside there." "If i... if i connect with him it might even accelerate whatever's killing him." "What happens if we don't try to connect with him?" "Huh?" "I mean, his vital signs keep spinning out of control 'til he has a heart attack or a stroke?" "Emma." "I know you're afraid." "But you might be surprised at what you can do." "Look at me." "Think about it." "All right, keep your eye out for the trade commissioner." "According to adam, he's got a serious eye for the ladies." "Well, i assumed that's why i was the one wearing this dress." "Trust me, you in that dress is always a good idea." "Hey, bren." "Novotny." "Two o'clock." "Ready for action?" "Just remember, if you do get him alone, don't get too far out of my sight." "You had to say that, didn't you?" "And we were doing so well here." "What's that supposed to mean?" "I could take out the security of this entire embassy." "I don't need you to play daddy." "shalimar, this is not a one-woman show." "There's a reason we make plans." "Just relax." "I'm going to get him to tell me everything he knows." "So why don't you just do your part?" "Enjoy yourself." "I'll be back with the goodies." "Jesse, you copy that?" "Loud and clear." "I thought you would've learned by now not to try to win arguments with women, especially not shalimar." "This isn't about an argument." "This is about shalimar playing as part of the team." "Really?" "Some conversation i've been missing here?" "Just monitor her channel, okay?" "I'm carrying on with the plan." "Let me if anything goes sideways." "Aye aye." "ooh... oh, i'm sorry." "Oh, no." "I'll be back." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to interrupt anything." "I've been trying to get out of that conversation for ten minutes." "I wish i had thought of spilling a drink." "So you're with the balkistan mission?" "Jerzy novotny." "Trade commissioner." "And you are...?" "Sharon carver." "I'm here with my husband." "Oh." "Well, your husband's a fool... to let a woman as beautiful as you are alone." "Why?" "Is it dangerous in here?" "It could be as dangerous as you want it to be." "Why don't you, uh, show me around?" "I feel safe with someone like you here to protect me." "This is quite a building." "Yeah." "A holdover from the days when my government actually had a budget for things like embassies." "Well, you don't look like a man who works well on a budget." "Oh, i see what i need... and i take it." "And what do you have your sights set on now?" "Something well within my grasp." "Is... is there maybe someplace a little more private?" "What's down that way?" "That's where we keep the secrets." "Can you keep a secret?" "Not really." "get her to the car, quickly." "Brennan?" "What do you think you're doing?" "Hey." "I didn't think you'd ever wake up." "Oh." "What's going on?" "Where is this place?" "What are we doing in bed?" "It's not that odd for a husband and wife to be sharing a bed together." "What are you talking about?" "We're coming up on our second anniversary." "It's too late to back out now." "I don't like this joke, brennan." "Oooh, somebody's telling a joke, i wish they'd share it with me, because i could use a good laugh right now." "What happened at the embassy?" "There was a guy there." "He shot me." "Don't you remember?" "We had dinner here." "At home tonight." "And then we went outside, sat down and looked up at the stars." "Don't you remember?" "Why are you doing this?" "Okay, where the hell are we?" "What's going on?" "And... ahem." "While we're at it, would you mind putting some pants on, please?" "Huh..." "if you think there's something wrong with the way things are, then why don't you tell me the way things are supposed to be?" "What?" "Well, you said we were at an embassy?" "Well, what were we doing there?" "You know." "Trying to find the people that took our scientist - rydell." "God, brennan, this just happened yesterday." "who do you think we are?" "And why would be interested in a scientist?" "Why are you asking me these questions?" "Because i'm trying to help you figure out what's going on." "Who do you think we are?" "Who do we work for?" "Because there's something wrong with you." "And unless you sort it out, you could go crazy." "Shal, where're you going?" "To get out of this nightmare." "What?" "No... no." "Not there, no... what are you doing here?" "I came to help you." "You can't help me." "Nobody can." "I know what's going on." "No you don't." "This isn't real." "Are you tell me that this is not real?" "Somebody did something to your mind." "I think they wanted information about your work." "I told him everything he wanted to know." "But he kept asking me more questions." "Kept making me run the maze." "You're safe." "There's nothing here that can hurt you." "You don't understand." "I know this maze." "I don't know how he knew about it." "It was my first year in college." "A biology project one of the professors showed me." "He built a maze... this maze... he ran the mice through it." "At the end he... he'd cut their brains open to see what chemicals were released." "I was horrified." "It's what made me go into physics in the first place." "Somehow... whoever's doing this knew about that experiment." "They built this so they can torture me." "I get to the end of this maze... and i'm a dead man." "You have to listen to me carefully." "This isn't real." "It's all an illusion." "I assume that includes you." "Just tell me who's doing this to you." "Who's asking you the questions?" "Him." "Oh..." "hey, jesse, i'm getting worried." "Anything from shalimar?" "No, nothing." "But her comlink is still active." "I'm still receiving her locator signal." "Where is she?" "Let me run a search." "She'd be down the hall to your right." "Get ready to take off in case we have to make a fast exit." "Okay." "Jess, they got shal." "Tell adam." "How did i get here?" "Are you sure you don't need some help?" "I'm going to find out what they did to me at the embassy." "It's not safe for you to leave in this confused state, shalimar." "I'm not confused, okay?" "I know what's what." "Come on, shalimar." "Tell me." "Talk to us." "Talk to all of us." "Sounds like you don't even know who we are." "Yeah, well, i knew who you were yesterday." "You were my partners in mutant x." "Mutant x." "Oooh, what a prize." "You're going to deliver me adam kane." "What are you doing?" "I went into rydell's mind." "And?" "I saw the guy that's doing this to him." "There." "That's him." "Levak ivanov." "All right." "Now this is starting to make some sense." "Ivanov's a product of the tretiakova institute." "Which is?" "Which is the soviet version of genomex during the cold war." "Except the russians got smart about genetic research around the same time i did." "They clamped down on controls." "So, what are you saying?" "That he's a mutant?" "Well, might be." "Yes, look." "His kgb profile says he's a master of interrogation." "Something unnatural was done to rydell's mind to make him break that quickly." "And these are the guys that have shalimar." "Whatever they did with her they got a twenty-minute head start." "They could be anywhere by now." "Thanks for the comforting thought." "Listen, scan the satellite cache records anyway." "You might get lucky, huh?" "Ready?" " Uh huh." "Think, shalimar." "Everything you ever thought was real is a lie." "Where is adam kane, shalimar?" "No..." "tell me." "Or i'll take everything away from you." "Just tell us where you think you are." "Where do you think adam is?" "This is a trick." "You don't know." "This is some kind of illusion." "Now, see that's where you're wrong." "Because for you this is going to be reality from now on." "Unless you tell us." "C'mon, shalimar." "Where is he?" "Tell us, shalimar." "Shalimar, where is he?" "C'mon, shalimar." "Shalimar, tell us." "Shalimar." "adam." "Adam!" "Thank god!" "Something's wrong." "They did something to my mind." "Not at all, shalimar." "Everything's exactly as it should be." "Shalimar, follow me." "Quickly." "Shalimar, i know none of this makes sense to you, but you have to believe me - i'm trying to help you." "You don't want to help us." "You've been trying to capture us" " all mutants and put us into pods." "That's what adam had you think." "But all this time it was me trying to help you." "He's the one who's been manipulating you all from the start." "No." "You're lying." "All this time he's been using you all to service his own selfish needs, to create the perfect mutant." "Why do you think all of your powers are continuing to mutate?" "Each day, bringing you closer and closer to your own demise?" "No." "He's coming up with a cure for that." "Adam's the one causing it." "No." "That can't be." "Shalimar." "You know it's true." "Why do you think they've all turned against you?" "It's why i'm trying to protect you." "But you have to help me." "We can't let adam win." "Not now." "Not ever." "Tell me where we are shalimar." "I'll have our real friends at the gsa swoop in and rescue us." "I can't." "You can, shalimar." "If you don't tell me, we'll both die." "Is that what you want?" "Any change?" "He's been out of it for the past hour." " he's slipping away, isn't he?" "Right now, he's the only lead we have to ivanov." "I can bring him back." "Oh, emma." "Look, i know i asked you to go in there in the first place, but you almost didn't make it out." "I cannot ask you to do that again." "Adam, shalimar's life may depend on it." "And if we can break him free, he may be able to tell us where they had him." " i'm not going to sit here and watch him die." "Emma." "Emma, by entering his mind you put yourself at risk." "Emma!" "We have to get you out of here now." "No, no." "We gotta get out of here." "That's the end of the experiment." "Please, you have to trust me." "We're gonna die." "Dominic, wait!" "Dominic, i'm trying to help you but you have to listen to me." "This isn't reality." "Think." "Remember what your life is really like." "You're a scientist." "Ivanov did something to your mind to get information about your work." "He tried to hurt you." "Now i'm trying to help you." "But i need you to take my hand." "I can bring you back." "You have to." "Because i'm not leaving without you." "We have to go, now." " emma." "You all right?" "What happened in there?" "What happened?" "We were right." "It wasn't real." "Where am i?" "Shalimar." "Shalimar." "They're coming for us." "Shalimar, you have to try to think." "Hold on to reality." "Tell me what you believe to be true and together we can work out what's really going on." "Think of specifics." "Do you remember how we got to sanctuary?" "Do you remember the codes to get in?" "No." "I don't remember much." "Do you remember where you were when you woke up?" "Dominic, we think that the guy who twisted your mind is doing the same thing to our friend." "Look, is there anything at all that sticks out in your mind about where they held you?" "Like a... a smell, or a sound?" "I was running, and sometimes i was seeing flashes of things that weren't the maze, but i didn't know what was real or what wasn't by then." "When i got away, i remember looking up at the building and seeing something." "Well, what?" "What... what did you see?" "Well, this is going to sound strange, but i saw a lightning bolt." "A lightning bolt." "All right." "So you ask jesse to check the area around where he was picked up, all right?" "Because with a detail that specific i think that we can retrace your footsteps." "Thank you." "Shalimar, calm down." "Tell me what's wrong, shalimar." "I don't need electricity." "I'll just kill you with my bare hands." "Take your best shot." "You know, you can be a real pain in the neck." "No." "Shalimar!" "It's not real." "None of this is real." "Who are you going to pretend to be next?" "My mother?" "My first grade teacher?" "I hated that bitch." "Aggh!" "The building we're looking for must be within this four-block radius." "Oh, check it out." "Unless lightning strikes twice, this could be our place, adam." "Getting any reading from inside?" "Yes." "I'm getting reading on at least five people in there." "Well, whatever else is going on, this place is definitely not abandoned." "Well, whaddya say we go down there to take a look what they've done with the place." "Let's go." "ugh... are you picking up anything?" "She's close." "But she's scared." "Well, let's split up, see if we can find her." "Yeah, let's hope we're not too late." "That's weird." "Go down that corridor." "I'll check down here." "All right." "shalimar, it's me." "What are you doing?" "How many times do i have to kill you for you to stay dead?" "What are you doing?" "Shalimar, it's us." "You're not real!" "You're not real!" "Ever since we got here, i've been getting these strong feelings of confusion and... and anger." "Yeah, shalimar's strong, even with ivanov's mind control i don't think he'd be able to break her completely." "Then you underestimate my powers, mr." "Kane." "She's gone." "But it's a shame, really, all this time i was trying to get her to lead me to you, when it seems i had it the other way around." "A mind is a terrible thing to waste, don't you think?" "You're sick." "Oh, to crawl inside your head." "Your secrets will bring in a hefty price, dr." "Kane." "You first." "Emma, no!" "Who's there?" "You're not real." "No?" "I'm as real as anything else in your mind." "And i'm much more dangerous." "You were stupid to pit your mind against mine." "Are you sure you don't have that the other way around?" "You know, you should really learn to stay out of other people's minds." "Nice trick." "I'll pry it out of you with the rest of your secrets." "There are things i can do that i haven't even shown by partners." "And it really doesn't matter that you're going to see, because you're never going to be able to tell anybody." "Ugh!" "Agh!" "All right." "Let's find the others." "Did you see her?" "Yeah, she was right in front of us." "She must be down here." "She's close." "Ugh!" "You should've minded your own business." "Agh!" "Shalimar... shalimar... it's okay." "It's okay." "It's over." "He can't hurt you." "It's really you?" "Yeah." "Well, thanks to you, it looks like the nightmare's finally over." "Rydell's going to be fine." "Ivanov's been locked up in a state mental facility." "I don't think he'll be getting into anybody else's head very soon." "Yeah, well, with the blast i sent him he'll be lucky if he can ever remember his own name." "You don't have to enjoy it so much." "Look, he was the predator and then he was the prey." "He doesn't deserve any sympathy." "If that makes me cruel, then so be it." "So how's shalimar holding up?" "Well, physically, she's normal." "But, psychologically, you know shalimar." "She says she's fine." "Well, she's never been one to let her guard down, i'm sure now more than ever." "Yeah, well, it's going to take some time for these scars to heal." "No, they're not going to heal." "She's just going to learn to deal with it." "Off on another solo rendezvous into the night?" "Something like that." "Well, i don't have to be a telempath to get inside your head." "Really?" "Tell me." "Well, we all know you got a wild side, right?" "I mean, that's what we love about you." "It just seems like lately it's gotten a whole lot wilder." "I guess." "Can you deal with that?" "Well, like you said, i don't have much of a choice, do i?" "Don't forget where home is." "I won't forget."