"Didn't my friends explain that we only want to talk to you?" "Guess i didn't wait around long enough to give them the chance." "Just want to find out a few things about you, that's all." "This is how i like things, a little more even." "Two against one with your back up against the wall?" "Bet you'd love to find out." "You stay away from me with that thing." "Look whose back's up against the wall now." "You're the most perfect creatures i've ever seen in my life." "If i can't have you... you do have me." "But more importantly, i have you." "What took you so long?" "I took a wrong turn and ended up on the other side of the building." "Come on i phase and mass, i don't have x-ray vision." "They went out this way." "No signs of trauma." "Or the new mutant." "Or life." "Never even found out her name." "Now she's just more grist for eckhart's genetic mill." "Wow." "If it wasn't for your decryption program, we wouldn't have even known the capture was going down." "Still, wish we'd gotten to her before they did." "Display." "This is the gsa communication for the past twelve hours." "Decrypt." "It doesn't look like any new mutant's been brought in." "What's anomite?" "What are you reading?" "Something about the gsa arranging to acquire stolen supply of annomite." "Uh oh." "That's your serious look." "Yeah." "Try very serious." "Imagine eckhart with the ability to render the most sophisticated cyber-security system completely ineffective." "Even ours?" "Yeah." "Well, anomite's a virus." "And it can be introduced into any connected computer." "If he gets his hands on it he'd have the ability to compromise any safeguard i could come up with." "We'd be out of business." "And anybody else who stands in his way." "Ooh." "Ah." "Uh huh." "Make you feel better." "Kicking your butt usually does." "Letting that new mutant get away, that kind of puts a damper on things." "You know what?" "This is how i figure." "As long as we rescue more than we lose... do you want to break?" "Do you want to lose?" "I don't think so." "Okay, would you stop." "You're distracting me." "Tough break." "Must have still been moving." "I don't think so." "No." "I didn't lay a finger on it." "C'mon." "You know what?" "Just take the first shot." "I'll be right back." "Brennan." "What's up, tony?" "Long time, man." "Last time i saw you, you we're turning me into proxy blue." "Yeah." "Look, i'm... i'm sorry about that, man." "If i'd known where to find you, i would have apologized months ago." "Is that so?" "Honestly." "I... i'm a changed man." "Oh, what?" "Religious conversion?" "Better." "I'm in love." "Well, that's funny." "For as long as i've known you, you couldn't even get a woman to look at you." "Now all of a sudden you're in love?" "Believe me, brennan, she's a total knockout, man." "Absolutely phenomenal." "I can't believe my ears." "Tony reese giving up the life for a woman." "Wait a second." "I... i never said i was giving up the life, man." "I'm working for her." "Ah." "Whatever floats tour boat, man." "Since we hooked, we been raking it in, man." "Check the fringes." "Wow." "Flashy." "In fact, she just brought in a guy who claims he can deliver a five million dollar payday." "If you want, i could talk to her about bringing you in for a deal or two?" "No." "Thanks for the offer, though." "I'm retired." "You don't know what you're missing." "Any word on our missing agent?" "The one gs agent who might have told us what happened to ames died during the mission." "Initial analysis indicates cardiac arrest." "Sounds like a review of agency fitness standards is in order, mr halloran." "I'll get that going, sir." "And the other four gs agents on the mission... what, they witnessed nothing?" "They were distracted." "By mutant x, sir." "Well, once we acquire the anomite, these mutant x distractions can finally be put to rest." "I've got good news on that front, mr eckhart." "Deal's set for this afternoon." "We've made contact with this disgruntled government scientist." "Dr. Tork is anxious to do business." "I'll just bet he is." "Oh my god." "Adam?" "What do you got?" "I just decrypted the final e- mail from the gsa to dr." "Tork." "They're meeting at the peterson building five minutes from now." "Shalimar?" "Brennan?" "Deal goes down in five minutes." "We'll be there." "Dr. Tork?" "Halloran?" "It's the anomite, i presume?" "The money?" "Let's see what we're dealing with." "Doesn't look like much." "Looks can be deceiving." "With the anomite in this case could easily infiltrate hundreds of computer systems." "I've given ten years of my life to this project." "Congratulations, it's about to pay off." "Now." "Mulwray?" "You know him?" "Oh yeah." "Go." "Shai... tony!" "Shalmar." "Oh..." "i gotta get that one." "No, i'll take care of them." "You're going back to sanctuary." "No." "We can't just let them get away with that." "Shh." "No." "Does he need an ambulance?" "Yeah." "Tell them not to run any red lights." "Ow, ow, ow." "Ah, i thought you said this wasn't going to hurt." "And you believed me?" "It's called bedside manner." "Now be a good girl and you'll get a lollipop when were done." "Ow." "You throw in a balloon and i'm all yours." "So when did eckhart's boys start playing shoot to kill?" "That's the weird thing." "I mean, yesterday i went chasing down this guy who's hunting a new mutant for the gsa." "And today he's ripping them off and taking shots at me." "Ow." "Oh, you're a beast." "You're a baby." "Ha." "It's just one of those situations, man." "You know... the minute we got into the peterson building... i just felt funny." "I was just totally thrown off my game, you know?" "I... shalimar, takes a bullet out of nowhere and then... and then tony shows up?" "So tony and this gs agent took off with the anomite, huh?" "It must have been the five million dollar payday that he was crowing about." "Brennan!" "Nice job getting shalimar back here for treatment." "That couldn't have been easy." "Could have been picking her arm up off the ground and she still would have been out there tracking him down." "What's the word on the late dr." "Tork?" "I thought dr." "Tork was director of the anomite project." "Apparently he wasn't getting the recognition he felt he deserved." "So he went and traded to the highest bidder." "Right." "What concerns me the most is that all his research is lost, now that he's dead." "So it can't be recreated?" "Not without the stolen prototype, which makes that priceless." "No." "No, no, it's definitely got a price." "It's a steep one." "Hey!" "Where are you going?" "I'm gonna go get some answers from tony, before anyone else gets hurt." "Not only was the transaction completely botched." "But the only person who can recreate the formula is lying on a slab in the morgue." "It was mutant x again, sir." "Mutant x don't carry guns." "Who killed dr." "Tork?" "Gs agent carl ames, sir." "Well, then, bring me ames and the anomite." "That's a tall order, sir." "And if you can't fill it, you'll find yourself on a slab next to dr." "Tork." "Do you remember that trick?" "You're not going to throw one of those at me, are you?" "Not unless you make me." "You know, i always knew there was something weird going on with you back then." "Well, since you know one of my little secrets, why don't you tell me one of yours?" "Look, man, i gotta go." "Who's the woman you're working for?" "I can't... that case that you jacked can put a lot of innocent lives in jeopardy." "I don't know anything about that." "Well, i'm telling you about that." "Somebody i care about's been shot over it already." "Look, brennan, we're just the middle men, all right?" "All i care about is the pay-off." "So what?" "To hell with anyone who gets hurt?" "Is that it?" "I can't think about that." "Yeah, well i'm telling you to think about it." "If that case falls into the wrong hands, i'm going to hold you and whoever you're working for personally responsible." "Yeah, run home to your little girlfriend there, tone." "God knows how she's getting along without you." "What are you doing here?" "You didn't think i'd give up that easy did you?" "I told you, i want the case." "Well, you're just too good to be true aren't you?" "And you, you didn't tell me we had company." "Lorna templeton." "Brennan mulwray." "That's never happened before." "He's bad news, lorna." "I want the case that your boys took." "Is that all you want?" "You've seen what he can do." "Not everything." "Just give me the case and i'll walk away." "No questions asked." "But then i might never see you again." "Where is it?" "In here." "You know, the first time i laid eyes on you i knew we had something extraordinary in common." "The case." "Of course." "Open it, please." "You know, you and i would make an incredible team." "I'm already on a team." "Guess what?" "You're about to be traded." "Good morning." "You're up early." "I couldn't sleep." "Yeah." "I didn't get much sleep either." "I figured." "I never claimed to be a one-man woman, did i?" "No." "But you've never invited me in there before." "Where'd you get that ring?" "I've never seen you wearing that." "Brennan gave it to me." "How could you do this?" "Brennan's more like me than you'll ever know." "That's it, lorna." "I didn't want it to come to this." "I'll be damned if i'll let anyone else have you." "Tony." "Stop." "Tony, you don't want to do this." "Come on." "Stop it." "Think about what it would be like to live in a world without me." "What happened to tony?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "He's fine." "He looks like he's... no." "He looks just fine." "Any luck?" "No." "His comlink's still de-activated." "Brennan took a gps transmitter with him." "He figured if tony wouldn't talk, he'd plant a bug and follow him." "Well, we can try to get a frequency lock off the gps satellite, huh?" "Call me when you got something." "Okay." "Still no word from brennan, huh?" "No." "Have you tried to connect telepathically?" "You think i should?" "That's just not like him to be out of touch like this." "What?" "Come on what is it?" "Look at you, you're blushing." "Well, i think there's a perfectly good reason why we haven't heard from him." "You are absolutely spoiling me." "And you're ruining me." "I can't imagine being with anyone else after you." "It's because i'll never let you." "That's fine with me." "I don't know, i gotta tell you though... i don't know, there's something inside of me that's screaming out how wrong this is on so many levels." "But i would slit my throat before i would ever leave you." "How sweet." "You know, all my life i always wondered what it would be like if there was someone else in the world like me." "Well, there's one lying right next to you." "I haven't ever know what that was like." "To not have to be alone." "Never again." "Five million in cash." "I don't know, ames." "Well, then forget it." "We'll take the anomite elsewhere." "No, no." "I think i can get approval from eckhart." "I'm sure you can." "And don't worry about mutant x." "Brennan mulwray has joined our crew." "Mulwray is with you?" "Lorna can be very persuasive." "Like she persuaded you to desert the gsa?" "Lorna or eckhart - which would you choose?" "I'll make the arrangements through the usual channels." "Five million dollars, mr halloran?" "With ames in on the deal, sir, it's... with that kind of ransom, you'd better deliver them both." "No more complications." "Adam, i tried the data from the gps transmitter to an apartment owned by a lorna templeton." "Now, we've got the one-night stand kind of guy, but i did a little digging, anyway... yeah, she's a new mutant." "We've got the file down here." "Before she was born, she underwent genetic splicing with arachnid dna, specifically from the species androctonus australis." "A scorpion." "It was an experimental procedure designed to boost her compromised immune system." "I'm sure they had no idea back then that she'd mutate into something so dangerous." "So, brennan's with her?" "Yeah, well according to the transmitter location and what emma picked up." "What did you pick up, emma?" "I didn't really get a clear hit from her so i couldn't make out that many features but he was definitely with a woman." "Brennan would not fall into bed with someone like that." "Well he may not have any choice." "Off." "She's exhibiting scorpion characteristics." "A female scorpion, when it attracts a mate, it emits a powerful chemical, right?" "A pheromone." "She might literally be the one woman on earth who no man can resist." "Yeah, well, from i was picking up he wasn't doing much resisting." "So what are we waiting for?" "Let's go get him." "No, no, no." "We can't just go get him." "I mean, if he's under her pheromonal control, he's going to fight us to the death to protect her." "Well, then maybe we should just wait 'til it wears off." "Well, there's a risk in that because once scorpions mate, if the male is around long enough, the female eventually kills him." "I just decrypted the last communique from the gsa." "They're going to make another attempt at acquiring the anomite." "You and emma go intercept." "Great." "Everything seems to be in order." "Yes." "Looks good to me." "Nothing like cold, hard cash." "Well, almost nothing." "One more thing - eckhart wants ames as part of the deal." "Forget it." "No ames, no deal." "That simple." "Listen, halloran." "You take your five million dollars back to eckhart and tell him where he can shove it." "You know something?" "I don't have a problem with that request." "You, brennan?" "Not at all." "Lorna?" "Sorry, carl." "I have all the man and money i need." "Brennan." "Guys, get the hell out of here." "This has nothing to do with you." "It has everything to do with us." "She's messing with you, man." "Can't you see she's using her new mutant powers to control you?" "Okay." "Let's go, baby." "Brennan!" "Lorna?" "Take care of him." "Emma?" "Emma, you okay?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Take it easy." "I can't believe he did that." "Yeah, well... the minute i'm sure he's okay, i'm going to kill him." "Get in line." "Looks like he was under a pheromone spell as well." "We better take him with us." "Yeah." "What was brennan trying to pull?" "It's bad enough that he's sleeping with the enemy, but... he actually tried to kill me." "Yeah, but, see, if brennan really wanted to kill you, i think you'd be dead." "See, this hold that lorna has on him is powerful, well, we're bringing the gsa agent that flipped over to her side." "He's cooperating?" "So far." "Alright, good." "He might be the key in getting brennan back." "I'm heading over to the safehouse." "How could this have happened?" "The money was practically in my hands." "Come on." "Don't worry about it." "I can arrange another deal with eckhart." "With you involved, he'll suspect another set-up." "No he won't." "Not if it's one on one on his own turf." "That's too dangerous." "There's no telling what he might do to you." "Come on, baby." "Think about it." "If eckhart doesn't have his hands on the anomite, then he's not going to lay a finger on me." "That's a good point." "And then we could run miles and miles away where no one could ever find us." "I think our little cupcake here is starting to wake up." "It looks like brennan really knocked you for a loop there." "Kill that son of a... where the hell am i?" "Well, seeing as how lorna threw you to the wolves, you can consider this someplace safe." "Lorna loves me and i love her." "It's just a misunderstanding, that's all." "I think the only one misunderstanding here is you." "Hopefully, this'll help bring you to your senses." "What is that?" "It's an antl-virus created from a contaminant i found in your blood." "This should counteract lorna's pheromonal control over you." "You're wasting your time." "Yeah?" "Well, then this lorna templeton." "Why don't you tell us how you feel about her?" "Lorna?" "She's the most incredible... oh my god, what was i thinking?" "Oh." "I can't believe i put my life on the line for that tramp." "And to what do i owe the honour?" "Well, if you call off your goons then we can talk." "Do not mistake my admiration for your fortitude as stupidity." "Call 'em off or you can kiss your precious anomite goodbye." "What?" "And you're not a goon?" "I'll be close." "Well then, mr mulwray, it seems you have my undivided attention." "Yeah." "Well, be both know that i got what you want." "So the only thing for us to discuss is the most painless way for us to complete this transaction." "I take it you're not looking for suggestions." "No." "I'm just looking for a way for both of us to walk away happy." "Emphasis on "walk away"." "How do i know this is not simply another mutant x ploy?" "Oh, mutant x is out of the picture." "It's just you and me." "And to what can i attribute this rather sudden change of heart?" "Revenge?" "Greed?" "Love." "Of course." "The most powerful motivator of all." "Anyway, we gonna do this deal, or what?" "Do i have a choice?" "Brennan." "Can i talk to you?" "Yeah." "Look." "I don't want to hear it, shal." "Okay?" "Just tell adam... would you just... stop it." "I know what you're going through." "I've been there myself." "Well, then, you know that it's not that i don't care about you guys, it's just... i know." "How's emma?" "Well, she's going to be all right." "It's a good thing you kept your voltage dial down, though." "Well, tell her i'm sorry." "Shal, i can't be a part of mutant x any more." "Well, i'm sure you'll understand if i don't jump up and down about that." "Yeah." "I'm going to miss you." "I'm going to miss you, too." "Good luck." "Good luck to you too." "What did eckhart say?" "He's willing to deal." "Oh-oh-oh!" "That is great." "So what do you think?" "Are we asking enough money for this thing?" "I don't know." "You know, eckhart's already sketchy enough about dealing with me." "The last thing i want to do is ask for more money." "Yes." "Yes." "Keep our options open." "Maybe we could sell this thing to the highest bidder." "You know, are you ever going to stop?" "How much money is enough?" "You're right." "I don't know what came over me." "I guess i'm just excited." "You know, i'm sorry." "I'm not..." "not in the mood." "We can fix that." "Kiss me, brennan." "I'm not in the mood." "As a matter of fact, i'm not comfortable with this whole operation, here." "What are you talking about?" "Do you have any idea the amount of destruction that eckhart would cause if he got his hands on that case?" "You know that's not our concern." "It's time somebody did the right thing." "Brennan, i'm sorry." "But i'm not walking away from this." "And neither are you." "Why did it have to come to this?" "We could have been so happy together." "You think you're just going to fly your little love nest?" "What did you do to him?" "I guess i was just too much woman for him." "This is going to be worth the pain." "All right." "His heart rate's dropping." "We gotta get him out of here." "Mulwray's an hour late." "We should have insisted you go along with him for insurance." "I took the initiative of having a gs agent tail him, sir." "We know exactly where he went." "Well, then it should be a simple matter for you to find him and to bring him here - with the anomite." "Keeping him alive are his new mutant antibodies." "He's burning up, adam." "Adam, he's at a hundred and seven." "I thought you gave him the antl-venom." "I did." "It hasn't kicked in, yet." "We gotta find a way to bring his body temperature down or he's going to suffer brain damage." "What if we covered his body in ice?" "Yeah." "Good idea." "Anything." "Well this will be quicker." "He's down two degrees." "Good, emma." "Keep it up." "He's at a hundred and two." "Emma, great." "He's out of the woods." "Good thing we got to him when we did." "We did a thorough search of your apartment." "There was no sign of the anomite." "Sorry you wasted your time." "Where is it?" "I wish i knew." "If you're lying to me, i swear i'll get it out of you." "Soon as i make sure you're safe for questioning." "You know, you and i would make an incredible team." "That may have worked with ames... but not with you?" "I ask for mulwray, ames and the anomite and get this woman as a consolation prize." "Is she safe?" "Perfectly." "Well then, miss templeton." "Eckhart, we're getting out of here." "I assume you're not talking about you and me." "Have a seat." "You know something, darling?" "I would hate to leave here empty-handed." "Right." "The money." "Mr halloran." "I know exactly where it's stored." "You both are making the biggest mistake of your lives." "Ta ta." "Ohh." "What are you guys doing?" "How long have i been out?" "Oh, just about fourteen hours." "Hmm." "Oh, man, it feels like fourteen days." "Do you remember anything that happened?" "Yeah, unfortunately i remember everything that happened." "That was a pretty low blow there, brennan." "Yeah." "I'm sorry." "You okay?" "I'm fine." "Besides, it was my feeling that were hurt more than anything." "You're just lucky she was still around to save your butt." "We're just glad to have you back." "Yeah, it's good to be back." "Hey, lover boy." "How you feeling?" "Ah..." "like an ass." "Oh, good." "That's how you acted." "Whatever happened with the anomite?" "It's locked away where nobody can get their hands on it." "Well, i vote using it against eckhart, find out all his dirty, little secrets." "Oh, no." "No way." "It would be like opening pandora's box." "Sooner or later the wrong person would get their hands on it." "I need to get out of here, man." "I'm dying of thirst." "No, i'll get it." "Stay there." "That's a good idea." "Let's all have something to drink." "Would you let me and emma pick out your girlfriends from now on?" "Yeah, just tell us your type and we will keep an eye out." "Oh, let's see." "Five-five to six foot, blond hair/brunette, blue eyes/green eyes... you know what?" "You could be a little bit more specific." "No stingers." "Come on." "Ah, slow down, slow down." "Come on."