"Everything went fine, adam." "There was no gsa interference and no problems at the safehouse." "Yeah, unless you count this girl trying to convince jesse to come with her into the underground as a problem." "I see." "I was only flirting." "I have no time for romance." "Far too busy making the world a safer place to live." "Oh, please." "Besides..." "she wasn't my type." "Freaks of the world, my name is kilohertz and i'm here to speak to you, for you and about you." "I've had it up to here with the way we're treated." "So consider this fair warning, we have the power and we're not going to take it anymore." "Adam, whatever that was, we just lost power." "And the computers are down." "Yeah, i'm offline here, too." "Hold on." "I'll try to reboot." "It's going to take me a few minutes to link back up." "Yeah, well, in a few minutes, we're going to be a smear on the landscape." "We were pulling into the garage when that power surge hit." "What's going on, adam?" "Jesse and shalimar are up in the double helix." "They've lost power and i can't reboot them from here." "It won't reboot." "Don't have enough juice." "Damn." "Okay, stand back." "Stand back." "Okay, try it now." "Shalimar, jesse, you there?" "Just got the manual override unlocked." "We're still diving." "Okay, i got it, got it." "We're leveling off." "Maybe we won't cut it so close next time, huh?" "Too much of an adrenaline rush, even for me." "Yeah, roger that." "Well, you just saved their lives." "What was that all about?" "That was about a new mutant that we've got to find before the gsa does, for his sake and ours." "Is it just me or is this kilohertz guy too much or what?" "A dozen counts of electronic vandalism in a week and counting, a million e-mails rerouted to never be seen again... the guy's a riot." "I know we believe everything we're told... mute." "You seen the message ports?" "Looks like everybody in the world's bending over backwards trying to figure out how he does it." "Yeah, well, every new mutant knows the truth." "It's a threat to everything we're doing." "Well, you don't have to convince me." "He almost got me and jesse killed." "And he's causing trouble for people who have nothing to do with new mutants too." "A high school freshman was beaten into a coma by three students who decided he was a freak." "Hospitals have lost power during his last rampage." "Yeah, well, lucky the emergency generators kicked in." "You know, and the traffic accidents he's caused by eating the power grid, that's not won him many friends." "Part of me thinks that his rants are a cry for help." "That's not helping the people that he's hurt." "Yeah, and sooner or later, people are going to realize what he really means by "freak"." "It's new mutants who'll take the heat for that." "I assume you've heard about this kilohertz, mr." "Renfield, and his invasion of this facility?" "It's all anyone at the academy's talking about, mr." "Eckhart." "Allowing him to continue to operate could be a disaster for the gsa." "The minute the general public gets an idea of these anomalies out there, our work gets harder - and uglier." "I mean, the last thing we want is public knowledge of these monstrosities." "It's bad enough these super-powered freaks are out there just waiting to ambush the status quo, but to have this anarchist electronically invade this facility and wreak electronic havoc at will... well we have to stop him." "I understand completely, sir." "I see you're in your final semester." "I seem to recall that your indoctrination had its problematic sides." "Got off to a rough start, sir, but once i realized everything the genetic security agency has to offer... and everything you and your powers have to offer the gsa." "It's rare that so raw a recruit is pressed into early service." "Early service?" "You mean a field assignment, sir?" "Yes, i've come to believe that a man of your peculiar talents could be a boon to us on this manhunt." "I'm honoured, sir." "We've tracked the signal to several possible sources around the country and we've deployed agent teams to investigate." "These are your fcc credentials." "See what you can uncover at wxtv." "Thank you, sir." "I won't let you down." "Pretty scary-looking, if you ask me." "Ah, he's just a new mutant trying to get a handle on his new abilities." "He's scared." "You can be that sympathetic even after he almost killed you and shalimar?" "It was an accident." "Yeah, well that doesn't mean you wouldn't kick the crap out of him if given half the chance." "Yeah." "Sympathy's one thing but this guy's definitely asking for serious whoop-ass." "Oh, hey, tough guy." "Are you ready?" "Yeah, whenever you are." "Well, we've got about a half dozen different frames to work with, right?" "So we're going to take those images and try to work backwards to see what he really looks like." "It's kind of like educated guesswork." "You know, in a weird sort of way, what you're doing with the computer is like what i do with my telepathy." "Well, you've got a bunch of images and you've got to figure out how they fit together and what they mean." "You want to take a whack at it?" "I've never got a handle on all that cyber stuff." "Computers kind of give me the creeps." "Come on, i can't believe you never did any playing around not everybody was born with a silver spoon in their mouth, jess." "No, it's not that." "My parents were real organic types - macrobiotic food, solar power, the whole deal." "I grew up kind of uncomfortable around anything mechanical." "Well, you seem to do all right in the lab with adam." "Well, that's different." "You know, i guess it's got to do with the whole organic thing, dealing with the human condition." "How are we doing up there?" "Good." "We uploaded all the images we could from kilohertz's tv appearances, we put them through the digital processor, broke them down, put them together, and we'll see what we can get." "Good." "What's that?" "Well, it's just an idea at this point, but i'm hoping it'll be a device that we can use as a weapon against him." "So light a fire under it." "No telling when this guy might plan to strike again." "Right." "I can assure you, mr." "Renfield, we had absolutely nothing to do with any of the signal interruptions." "I'll still need full access to station records." "We know for a fact that this kilohertz used a local station to hack into the network grid." "You'll have to file a written request, just like it says in the handbook." "We've got an emergency situation here, harv'." "This kilohertz character could hold the country hostage." "Fine." "You want to investigate us?" "Do it by the book." "Now, i hoped we could avoid initiate a license revocation." "You're putting us out of business?" "Well, if that's what it takes." "I want your superior's name and number now." "Sorry." "I got it." "Mr. Goffman?" "Are you in there?" "Mr. Goffman?" ""Excuse me" mean anything to you?" "This doesn't have the number on it." "Mr. Goffman, i got the tapes you asked for." "What happened to that fcc guy?" "Fcc?" "The jerk tried to strong-arm me." "Thought we had something to do with this kilohertz thing." "Fcc." "That is so cool." "Well, then we cross-reference these potentials with adam's database." "So we'll know which new mutant we're dealing with." "A- ha." "Sure you don't want to give it a shot?" "I guarantee once you get the hang of it, you'll be hooked." "Okay." "Ha ha." "Okay." "Put your hands on gently." "Yeah, one hand there." "Wait, it's going too fast." "Not for the computer." "Hey, that first one's kind of cute." "Ah, well, the cute one it is." "Hey." "Barry sterling." "Works at channel thirteen." "Production assistant." "What better place for a video vandal to develop his resentments?" "And act on them too." "All right." "Brennan, i want you and emma to invite mr." "Sterling over here to be our guest." "You got it." "Now, let's not get too cocky." "He may be the most powerful new mutant we've ever come across." "Definitely the most volatile." "Here we go." "You barry sterling?" "I've got nothing to say to the fcc." "Fcc?" "Well, something tells me we found our boy." "Now we've just got to find him again." "Figure out a way to keep him." "He gave us the slip, adam." "The weird thing was he thought we were fcc." "Yeah, but before we got to talk to him, he took off." "All that was left of him was a glow on the satellite dish." "Well, now we know how he gets around." "It was actually pretty incredible." "Yeah, but it was sloppy." "You know, he left a lot of residual energy just buzzing on the dish." "Seems like he doesn't have a lot of control over his abilities." "Well, that would account for all the collateral damage that his vandalism's causing, you know, how he invades a network grid and accidentally takes out a hospital's power." "But his thinking that you're both members of the fcc, i think he's run into somebody from the gsa operating under false credentials." "So eckhart's after him too." "Yeah, and he got there first." "Yeah." "I can't tell you how grateful i am for this opportunity, sir." "Don't come any closer." "Keep your distance until i am sealed." "If all you've got to share with me is gratitude, mr." "Renfield, i'm busy." "No, sir." "I just wanted to report my data retrieval at wxtv." "Well, go ahead." "I'm not sure i understand, sir." "Report." "I did, sir." "That was it." "Mr. Renfield, i understand they teach a very specific keep-your-superiors- in-the-loop kind of procedure at the academy." "In the real world, i don't want to hear about anything until the job has been done, regardless of your pathetic people-pleasing." "Sorry, sir." "I don't want apologies, mr." "Renfield." "I want results." "Every day this anomaly is at large endangers our mission." "It's time you justified my faith in you and put an end to his reign of terror." "Freaks of the world, you can call me kilohertz." "And it's time to step up to the plate and answer the big question:" "When are we going to start breaking the law of averages and start taking what is rightfully ours?" "It's all those pitifully average ones keeping us in our place while we keep hiding in plain sight, waiting for someone to notice us." "Well, i'm here to give notice and we're not hiding anymore." "I'm calling out to all of you" " the odd, the weird, the misplaced, the displaced." "Our time is now." "We freaks, we can do anything, ut it's the normal ones who control this world." "But we have the power to take over, so when the hell are we going to shove them aside and take what's rightfully ours?" "Because we're not going away." "Barry sterling." "I tried to invite kilohertz on the show but he said the circus was coming to wall street and he was off to ride the bear." "He's going to hit the stock market." "This guy could start another depression single-handed." "We've got to start thinking of kilohertz as a virus." "Jesse, you and i are going to build a firewall maze around the financial databases, try to hold him back." "Do you want us to go to barry's?" "Afraid the tele-empathic approach will only get us so far." "Time to get physical?" "Yeah." "I want you and brennan to get over there." "You're up this time." "Let's go." "Come with me." "I can't imagine a better way to get your feet wet." "Financial markets are already reacting to kilohertz's threat." "Everything looks okay." "Yeah, well, just give it a minute." "There, you see the market is ninety percent perception." "Looking solvent is almost as important as being solvent." "Well, can't we do anything?" "Done the best i can." "The firewall won't stop him." "It'll only keep things from falling completely apart." "Any doubt in your mind maybe he's not kilohertz?" "Well, if that's the case, we're not the only ones who got it wrong." "Come on." "Let's try to show a little restraint." "We can do this without hurting him." "There he is." "Yeah, yeah, i know exactly how you feel." "I've been through this already." "Come on." "Our first guest has his own take on the wild ride the market's taking today, the result of rumours of a threatened electronic invasion by the terrorist who calls himself kilohertz." "Please welcome one of sheldrake and martin's most respected financial analysts... me, and the rumours are all true." "I'm warning every freak out there to pull out their cash." "But until they do, i'm going to move a little money around myself and kick some wall street ass." "Mr. Renfield, are you watching this?" "Watching it now, sir." "So forget about your life savings and forget about the meek inheriting the earth." "There's nothing meek about me or any other freaks out there who're going to follow my lead, because it's the freaks who are going to own this planet because we're not going away." "Did you see that, mr." "Renfield?" "Yes, sir." "I want this maniac in custody or your career is over before it's begun." "Jesse, i can't find him on the grid." "I need you to give me a complete damage report immediately." "Well, as far as i can tell, he's out of the system, but he's left a lot of damage behind." "The nasdaq and the dow jones are plummeting." "Well if he's gone, why is everything still going crazy?" "Well, because like i said, the market is ninety percent perception." "And right now, the perception is the bottom's fallen out and there's nobody there to stop the plunge." "And in this case, unfortunately, they're right." "When he tore through the market databases, he trashed all of the stopgaps." "But i thought you guys built a... we did, but i underestimated his power and he breached the firewall." "So jesse, it's up to us now to initiate some damage control." "I need you to use the sanctuary system to try to stabilize the markets." "Try to rebuild the stopgap from inside." "I just hope he doesn't decide to make a return visit while i'm doing the repairs." "Barry." "Kilohertz." "Who the hell are you?" "Hey, wait a minute." "You're that fcc guy." "Nick renfield, genetic security agency." "I was undercover as an fcc rep." "I want to tell you, i really love where you're coming from." "All of us freaks, we have to stick together." "Thanks, man." "Are you really a freak, or is that just a figure of speech?" "All right, when do i get to look at the place?" "Jeez, settle down, settle down." "Hold still." "Man, this is off the meter." "Jeez, if you're so jazzed to be here, why didn't you just come with us in the first place?" "Well, you never told me you were with mutant x." "And besides, i wanted to see how i screwed up the economy." "Well, sorry about that but adam increased the market stopgap measures to prevent the dow from falling any more than two thousand points." "Well, you can't blame me for trying." "Who's adam?" "That would be me." "You caused a lot of trouble for a lot of people out there, barry." "Besides your vandalism of the stock market, i've just been reading reports on the havoc that you caused at the airports." "Things happen." "Hey." "Hey." "Somebody's got to tell the truth." "I mean, that's why you brought me here, right?" "Mutant x, kilohertz." "Ever since i heard about you guys, i knew sooner or later you'd hook up with me." "That was pretty cool." "When you threw those lightning bolts at those guys in my place." "Well, you know what?" "What?" "You throw energy." "I am energy." "Wow." "Your parents must be really proud of you." "Yeah." "I gather your hesitation allowed kilohertz to elude our grasp?" "That is a complete misread of the situation, mr." "Eckhart." "Frankly, i'm concerned about the empathy you seem to have developed for this renegade." "I believe he is a dangerous anomaly that should be neutralized." "Nice recitation of the manual, mr." "Renfield, but hardly convincing." "I'm afraid i might have been a bit premature in rushing you into the field." "I think perhaps you might need just a little more training before you go back on assignment." "Freaks of the world, my name is kilohertz and i'm here to speak to you, for you and about you." "I have had it up to here with the way we are treated." "So consider this fair warning, we have the power." "Ah, barry... barry, when you transform into radio waves, what's your range?" "Without a transmitting device?" "Nowhere." "No, but with a transmitting device?" "I surf the wavelength up to a satellite, then bam, i'm in a million homes across the country, paving the way for the new mutants out there to come out of their shells and take what's rightfully theirs." "Now, where do i sign on for mutant x's minister of propaganda?" "What?" "I don't mean to get all pushy, but you need someone like me to shake things up a little." "Barry, do you have any idea how many people have suffered because of you?" "I'm just doing what you're doing." "Oh, yeah?" "How is that?" "Keeping the faith." "Reminding the freaks out there that they've got the power if they're willing to... to step up to the plate and use it." "All right, fine." "You want to make the world better for new mutants, then you just stop what you're doing because every act of vandalism, it just causes more prejudice against new mutants, prejudice against anybody who's different." "Is this some kind of joke?" "No, no, no." "I'm deadly serious." "I want you to stop." "Either you're jealous or you're a sell-out like the rest of them." "Listen, you little... no!" "Nobody shuts me up." "You don't want me on your side?" "Fine." "But you do not want me as an enemy either." "I'm out of here." "Hey, barry, we let you out of here, the gsa's going to hunt you down." "Yeah?" "I talked to one of those guys." "They appreciate what i can do." "Get the hell out of my way." "I wanted to do that for a long time." "I know exactly how you feel." "This'll knock him out for about twelve hours so we can figure out what to do with him." "Why don't you take him back into the lab and keep him quarantine, huh?" "Thank you." "Well, his dna's cellular structure's completely unstable." "It's caught in a flux between matter and energy." "Talk about unstable in flux, you ought to see him through my eyes." "This guy is an emotional time bomb with no self-control whatsoever." "What are we going to do with him?" "I have no idea." "What scares me is when he realizes the full extent of his powers, then decides to wield those powers with lethal intent." "We can't keep him sedated forever, adam." "Shalimar's right." "Yeah, well, like you always say, we're not cops." "Thank god for that." "I'd be in serious trouble." "I wish i had an answer." "What about a subdermal governor?" "What?" "You want to play eckhart's game?" "Come on, jesse, you've had one." "Do you really want to put anyone else through that?" "We all know it's a problem, but like adam said, what happens when barry decides to get really nasty?" "Yeah, where did this gsa-is-a-okay business come from, anyway?" "Personally, i can't see barry and eckhart hitting it off." "But stranger things have happened." "Well, that's one strange thing i don't want to be around for." "All right, look, i know how we all feel about subdermal governors, but under the circumstances, i think we're justified in using one" " as a temporary solution." "How'd he get out?" "His altered state must have undercut the sedative's effectiveness." "Barry, you've got to listen." "Leaving here would be a huge mistake." "Thinking you were the good guys was my big mistake." "And since you don't give a damn about my future - or yours - i think it's time we part company and i step up to the big leagues, baby." "Neat trick." "All right, brennan, jesse, come with me." "Mr. Goffman?" "Where the hell have you been?" "Where haven't i been, harv'?" "Do you play the market?" "Yeah." "Then i guarantee that i cost you a bundle yesterday." "It's you." "You're kilohertz." "Yeah." "That fcc guy was right." "Yeah, but he wasn't fcc." "And you know what?" "I'm through being your lackey." "The only reason i'm here is to use your satellite dish because tonight, i'm going international." "I'm calling the authorities." "Woo-woo-woo." "Take your best shot." "They haven't caught me yet." "By the time they get here, i will be long gone." "No, you won't." "Well, if it isn't everyone's favourite sell-out." "I want you to come back to the sanctuary with me, barry." "Why?" "So you can lock me up again?" "No, just want to talk, try to work things out." "The hell with that." "I'm going to go check out the power grid." "Brennan, here he comes." "Jesse." "Got him, brennan." "Do you really think you can hold me?" "Shalimar?" "Whenever you're ready." "Transmitting now." "I got him." "Don't you know who i think i am?" "Oh, shut up." "It worked, adam." "He's frozen on the screen." "Yeah, catching lightning in a bottle." "Yeah." "Now, let's keep him there." "Everything secure?" "Yeah." "Lock-down still in effect." "Good." "But you don't know who or what you're dealing with or else you wouldn't have bothered with all the extra junk." "Now, don't you wish we'd all gotten along?" "Maybe then you wouldn't be looking at your worst virus nightmare come to life." "You're wasting your time." "He accessed the password files when he was in the system." "You got that right and i'm here to stay." "And forget about countermanding the security code because i've locked access, so it's just us for as long as i like." "All right, forget about that." "Let's find a way to bypass his control of the system." "Right." "Hey, you know what your problem is, pal?" "You've got way too much spare time on your hands." "The only problem i've got is the mistake i made about you, thinking you were heroes as opposed to a bunch of posers and losers." "I loved this place from the minute i saw it." "So i figured it'd be fun to take it apart and put it back together - virtually speaking, that is." "But i'm not the one who's going to run out of oxygen now that i cut off the air intake system, now am i?" "Ooh, no one to hit, huh, honey?" "No one to zap, huh, pal?" "No one to push around." "And you, you can ghost or granite, don't mean a thing to me." "Now, the gsa, the minute i show up, they'll treat me like a conquering hero." "You really think they'll let you continue this rampage?" "Well, i'd sooner go where my talents are appreciated." "No, no, no, they're going to turn you into a weapon." "They'll crush you like a bug." "The guy i talked to said they'd love to have me on their team" " especially after i've taken you down." "But you know what?" "You might have a point." "So instead of joining gsa, i'll just take them over." "Nothing like starting from the top, huh?" "Haven't you heard "resistance is futile"?" "I know what you're doing." "It's a waste of time." "Overloading the mainframe to get past my firewall?" "That's absolutely right." "But it's going to trap you in here permanently." "You're bluffing." "Try me." "Brennan, hit the mainframe with everything you've got." "Got to go, but i'll be back with my new gsa best friends." "Brennan, hit the comlink system now." "Good work, brennan." "I've reconfigured the comlink system so he'll never find his way back in again." "Can i assume your experience in retraining has had no detrimental effects on you, mr." "Renfield?" "Not at all, sir." "I can't imagine what got into me, mr." "Eckhart." "The answer to that is found in your genetic misfortune." "The very gift that makes you so special leaves you vulnerable to huxters and charlatans who want nothing more than your utter corruption." "I understand, sir, and i've renewed my vows of commitment to constant vigilance." "Does that mean i can assume you're ready to go back to work?" "Absolutely." "I'm ready to take on whatever you have to offer, sir." "Security." "Now this is what i'm talking about." "I'll handle this." "Hey, it's good to see you." "I thought you guys would be glad to see me." "Glad to see you, barry?" "We're thrilled." "Nicely done, mr." "Renfield." "So kilohertz turns out to be a computer geek loser who ate a bullet when the cops... mute." "You got to give eckhart credit." "Yeah, really." "When he lies to the press, he doesn't screw around." "Well, we lost one today, ladies and gentlemen." "I'm not so certain." "I mean, you kicked his butt, albeit in the nick of time." "You saved the day, adam." "No, i was thinking about barry." "He had some good ideas." "We lost somebody who could've been an important ally, except he got carried away by his own sense of power." "Let's just hope his loss doesn't come back to haunt us."