"It's been so long i almost forgot how to contact you." "You never forget anything." "That's the source of your power." "It's not like you to expose yourself like this." "What's so important?" "The wheels are turning, adam, and wheels within wheels." "I don't want to see you crushed in them?" "So what's going on?" "Not like this." "You know where to meet me." "One hour." "What the hell are you doing?" "Sneaking off without telling anyone where you're going, i could ask you the same thing." "Well, i got some business." "It doesn't concern mutant x." "How many times have you told us we need to watch each other's backs." "All right." "My back doesn't need watching right now, so you gotta go." "What's going on, adam?" "I'm meeting an old friend who's got some information for me." "About what?" "He said i'm in some kind of danger." "Well, so you just decide to take off on your own?" "All right, look, this guy comes from a world that i only get glimpses of." "What is he?" "Some kind of covert op?" "No, it's more than that." "He's the kind of guy who sees the big picture, knows the names of the folks who actually run the show." "But as far as the rest of the world is concerned, they don't even know this guy exists, and his life depends on keeping it that way." "So, if he sees you here with me he's not going to make the meet look, adam, i..." " no, no, no, no." "So, you go." "I'm gonna be fine." "Thank you for coming." "I'm going to be fine." "Now, get out of here." "Go." "Go." "Adam!" "Adam!" "Guys, it's shalimar." "We got trouble." "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." "No luck." "I've searched the satellite images of all the roads leading from the harbour from when adam was taken." "They've been doctored." "Dammit." "Twenty more feet i would've had them." "This guy adam was meeting, did... did he give you a name?" "No." "Just that he had some kind of information on danger to adam." "It sounds like he was the danger." "Maybe he set adam up." "Well, not unless part of his scheme was to be shot by his friends." "One of the bullets grazed his arm." "Well, that's great." "Maybe we can get a blood sample and id him from his dna." "I'm ahead of you." "I just don't know how much luck we're going to have." "I mean, adam said this guy is as underground as it gets." "Well, it's worth a try." "What is it, shal?" "Just... adam said that the people he was dealing with were the power behind the power." "You know, the people that really run things." "Yeah, but we've dealt with covert agencies before." "Yeah, but even adam was scared." "I'm just afraid of what they're going to do to him." "Well, they had guns, and didn't shoot him." "They must not want him dead." "Not yet." "We have to find him." "Fast." "We're the tribunal, mr." "Kane." "You might say that we are the last outpost of justice." "We punish those criminals who believe themselves to be otherwise untouchable." "All right, i'm not a criminal, i'm a scientist." "That is what we intend to prove or disprove." "I have certain rights." "First, i demand a phone cali... this is not about defendant's rights." "This is not about due process." "This is about uncovering the truth and punishing the guilty." "You'll have plenty of time to present your defence." "Defence?" "I don't even know what i'm charged with." "Everything will be explained to you in due time." "Take these proceedings very seriously, mr." "Kane." "Your life will depend upon it." "Maybe these guys that are holding adam are looking for some kind of a ransom or trying to get some kind of low-down on his tech." "Until we get some facts, we're just guessing." "Yeah." "I'm just trying to make some kind of sense out this, you know?" "Someone gets grabbed on the streets, it's easy to figure out, you know?" "With adam, the game runs like... like ten levels deep." "These guys that grabbed him probably have no idea who they were grabbing him for, or why." "Which is why we need to nail down the truth." "And the first step is finding the man who brought adam to that meet." "Well, i couldn't trace adam's call." "It was on the secure server." "Encrypted all the freakin' way." "What about the blood sample?" "Well, i pulled his genetic fingerprint." "But figuring out whose it is, is going to be a whole other thing." "See, unfortunately - 'scuse me - the official bodies only started registering dna samples back in the late '80s." "If he's been underground later than that... we're toast." "Great." "Great, now we have nothing else to go on." "Starting to feel like a nightmare." "I'm afraid it's the real world." "One we know nothing about." "You think he's going to be okay?" "Yeah, he's adam." "No matter what's happening to him, he's still got his mind and his will." "And that means he has resources other people wouldn't even dream of." "Yeah." "I'll be fine." "Mr. Kane, my name is janet nicholls." "I've been assigned to represent you." "well, thank you miss nicholls, but i'd like to call my own lawyer." "I'm afraid that'll be impossible." "All right." "Then i'd like you to contact some friends of mine." "I've been kidnapped." "I've been taken god knows where, and my rights have been violated in more ways than i can count." "Well, i thought it had been explained to you." "This tribunal operates outside the purview of the traditional justice system." "Right." "And ever since i got here everybody uses double-speak." "Now, tell me something:" "What exactly am i being charged with?" "You're accused of manipulating the dna of over one thousand human beings; of attempting to create a master race of super-powered mutants with which you plan to shift the balance of world power for your own ends." "shiftthebalance?" "Huh - wait." "Are you serious?" "The prosecution plans to prove that you not only inflicted your victims with pain and suffering, but that the mutants you created have wreaked havoc on society." "It's absurd." "Who's bringing these charges?" "The government?" "Mr. Kane, this is an impartial body." "A case doesn't come this far unless it has been fully researched." "You mean unless it's been fully decided already that i'm guilty." "Huh, now, tell me something:" "Are you even going to pretend to mount a defence for me?" "That's the job i've been given." "The job you've been given?" "My life is in your hands." "I am aware of that." "All right, look, my entire scientific career has been dedicated to helping people." "And the people that i work with are not dangerous mutants;" "they're human beings." "They're heroes who risk their lives every day trying to help people." "That's good." "That passion, that forthright quality." "You're going to need all of that and more." "Because once you get into that room, you should be aware that there is likely not going to be one person rooting for you to be innocent." "All right." "Tell me something." "What about you?" "Get a good night's sleep, mr." "Kane." "You're going to need all of your energy for the trial." "Adam kane, you've heard the charges against you." "How do you plead?" "Well, first, i want to say that i don't recognize the validity of this court." "Be that as it may, our judgement is just as binding and our sentences just as final." "I ask again, how do you plead?" "Where are the charges against me coming from?" "You're out of order." "You're not doing yourself any good." "Your honour, my client pleads not guilty to all charges." "Mr. Warren, you have heard the defendant." "You may proceed directly to the presentation of evidence." "Take him to the chair." "What is this?" "They just want to get to the truth." "This is some sort of neuro-imager, isn't it?" "Where did you get this?" "I invented this technology." "I realize that your arrogance makes it difficult for you to believe that there's anyone else creating things in the world of science, but it is true." "Okay, wait." "So you're going to probe my mind." "You're going to pull memories out of me?" "No." "We're going to use your own mental reconstructions of the truth." "The machine's been programmed with the times and dates:" "You provide the pictures." "Turn him around." "All right." "Wait." "Fine, see, if you think that you're going to get evidence to support this trumped-up case against me, you're wrong." "My actions will prove my innocence." "Well, we'll see." "April 14 of last year." "One of your mutant creations, ashley elliott, used her powers in an attempt to sabotage the entire power grid of the eastern seaboard." "That's not the way it happened." "No." "That's not the way it was." "The resulting blackout caused the deaths of no less than thirty-seven people." "And the financial loss from fire and theft totalled tens of millions of dollars." "There are no secrets here, mr." "Kane." "Hey, jesse." "Turn up anything on that genetic fingerprint yet?" "Nothing." "And unless we just start stopping people in the streets for random blood tests... what about the genomex data?" "You think this guy might be a mutant?" "Yeah... i don't know, i'm just searching for any kind of connection." "Well, adam keeps all the hard-core genomex data pretty encrypted." "Think you can crack the security system?" "What we got so far, you better hope so." "Yeah... somewhere along the line, adam kane became a monster." "He is personally responsible for the creation of a seemingly endless stream of deadly monstrosities." "I fixed the genetic flaws that were killing those children." "You fixed them?" "You fixed them." "Who did you fix?" "Did you fix michael ward?" "Is he one of your crowning achievements?" "June 29 of this year; the location;" "a national park, upstate." "I had nothing to do with michael ward." "Your technology created him and when your mistake was about to become public, you and your mutant army destroyed him." "No." "Michael, stop." "Agghh!" "Agh." "Agh... agh!" "Tell me, how many other mistakes have you made?" "Why don't you show us how you fixed lorna templeton?" "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." "Oh... oh." "Huh." "That's impressive." "But his most terrible creation was the first, the one known as patient zero, gabriel ashlocke." "Enlighten us, adam." "Show us how your monster travelled back through time in order to brutally murder his own parents." "You see, ashlocke was a killer's killer." "He was more powerful than all the rest, and completely insane." "You just can't stay away, can you?" "The links are mine." "You think you can break us apart?" " And untold damage was caused by mutants who fell under ashlocke's mental domination." "Ashlocke's got him!" "Come on." "Come on, we gotta get out." "no,i can't." "We gotta go." "Come on." "You have a choice." "Everything's about to explode." "Even then, when you realized that he didn't fit in with your twisted plans, you had him destroyed." "Do it now." "Do it." "Ah, ugh... ugh." "Ah... ah...!" "All right." "Now, now, now, now." "We're not finished agh...!" "All of this in the name of science." "Or was it simply a string of terrible crimes that mankind need never have seen?" "A confession would make things easier." "Otherwise, as you know, we have lots more to see." "Your honour, i would like to request a recess so that my client may reconsider." "Granted." "Do something." "Help me." "This isn't gonna work." "Adam's encryption system's beyond military grade." "It's a holographic a. i." "System." "Which means...?" "Which means, basically you gotta be him to get in." "We gotta face it - we're screwed, brennan." "We gotta find a way, man." "What'd you do?" "Nothing." "You were looking for me." "You were the guy that adam was supposed to meet." "Stay out of this." "Sending my genetic code out on a search engine puts all of us in jeopardy." "Adam wouldn't even be missing if you didn't set up the meet." "You have to help us." "I don't have to do anything." "66 industry avenue." "One hour." "Okay, come on." " Yeah." "You know, as a defence attorney you leave something to be desired." "And what do you expect?" "I can't exactly argue with images from your own memory." "They've taken them out of context." "Who's ever trying to destroy me has... has orchestrated this." "They've taken specific dates and specific times, they've fed them to warren to make me look as bad as possible." "We witnessed the abominations." "Look, there are many people living productive lives out there who wouldn't be there if it wasn't for me." "Okay, and what about the crimes committed by your mutants?" "My mutants." "You make it sound like they're my science project." "They're human beings." "They have free will." "I am not responsible for their moral choices." "You have to believe me about this." "Well, see, it doesn't make any difference if you believe me or not because the whole trial is a setup, isn't it?" "All right." "But tell me something:" "Did you go to law school?" "Did you believe in justice?" "I mean, isn't that why you went to law school?" "How can you divorce what you're doing here from what you actually believe in?" "See, you're a good person." "I don't think you can." "When i was offered this position, it was to be a part of ridding the world of our worst nightmares." "Janet, our worst nightmares are running this trial." "And doesn't the possibility of that scare the hell out of you?" "Give me a chance to prove myself, please." "If you still believe in justice, just give me that shot." "Check out the government agency called genomex." "You'll find everything you want right there." "Please." "You know, why is it, that anonymous callers never want to meet in a nice warm starbuck's?" "Aw, i don't like it either." "If this is the guy that set adam up, we could be walking right into a trap." "Yeah, well, what's our option?" "You know, trap or not, it's our only hope." "Geez." "Okay, how about a little warning next time?" "Sorry." "Got here a few minutes ago." "Decided to check the place out." "Any sign of marsden?" "Well, there's definitely somebody inside, but i couldn't get an exact fix on it." "That's far enough." "Show yourself." "That's him." "Okay, tell us where adam is." "When you're in someone else's space it's wise not to make demands." "I've had enough of this." "There are tracking missiles at the other end of each of those lasers." "You don't think i've survived forty years to be threatened by a bunch of made-to-order super-kids?" "Even if you evade the missiles, there's still a score of other traps in this building." "Surprised you invited us." "They tracked my communication to adam." "That means it's getting too hot here anyway." "This will be my last visit." "So you intend to kill us before you go?" "I just want to keep you where i can see you." "What about adam?" "You're too late." "He's in front of the tribunal." "The people who really run this country don't work through the legal system, but they still recognize the need for rules, some structure as to how they exert their will on world events, thus the tribunal." "So why'd they set their sights on adam?" "He has an enemy." "Someone powerful enough to have a voice even at that level." "Who?" "Even i don't know that." "Where is he?" "There is a decommissioned missile silo 46 degrees, 36 minutes north latitude, 112 degrees," "2 minutes west longitude." "A cross band scanner will guide you in." "Okay, we're going in." "Move, move, move." "Move in." "Bring 'em down on the wire." "Jesse, take care of marsden." "We'll take care of the rest." "Hey, buddy, over here." "He got away." "He must have had over twenty ways out of here." "Let's go find adam." "Your honour, during the recess i had the opportunity to review new information regarding dr." "Kane and his genetic therapies." "And it is at this time that i would like to request that this information be submitted as evidence." "Ms. Nicholls, what is the source of your evidence?" "Through safe channels i was able to access files from the genomex corporation, the site where much of his genetic experimentation was conducted." "Your honour, these files are unreliable and prejudicial." "Genomex was a rogue corporation that made common practice of misrepresenting its activities." "A man's life is at stake." "All evidence should be scrutinized." "This is absurd, your honour." "Enough, mr." "Warren." "The bench will confer." "I hope you understand what you're doing." "Defence, your request is denied." "Mr. Warren, you may proceed." "Thank you, your honour." "Let's move on to the matter of mutant x." "Brennan mulwray, shalimar fox, jesse kilmartin and emma delauro... four of mr." "Kane's most powerful mutant creations assembled in one terrorist band, committing criminal acts across the country in support of his agenda." "Specifics, mr." "Warren." "October 15 last year." "Brennan mulwray and his associates, robbing a bank, using his powers to disable the alarm system, mulwray broke into the most secure vault in the state." "Mulwray's target was over $10 million in negotiable bonds." "Hah." "He was successful in the theft." "Just one episode in an extended life of crime." "The others?" "Mutant x broke into a top secret nuclear facility where jesse kilmartin used his mutant powers to steal deadly fissionable material." "In tandem with another terrorist group, mutant x murdered government agents guarding the installation." "We're under attack." "Call it in." "As you clearly see, dr." "Kane's memories show kilmartin stealing the deadly material..." " no." "...which was later sold to international terrorists." "Also that year, mr." "Kane's entire strike force was involved in an illegal operation in a foreign country." "Huh... what... what are you talking about?" "July 12, also of this year." "Mr. Kane's team entered kavakistan in order to steal a weapon of mass destruction in the middle of a war zone." "Get down." "Go, get... agh... come on." "Go." "Go." "Stop." "Stop." "Here, let me help." "No." "Go." "Got it?" "Where are we going?" "They're right on our heels." "We gotta go." "All right." "Here goes nothing." "Looks like government aircraft." "Two planes and they're headed this way." "They moved their hostile actions from ground to air, engaging two government jets." "Jets approaching." "They're on us." "Missiles, lookout." "They're coming back at us." "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." "Well, we don't have any other choice." "Just do it." "You can try." "Jesse, you have to." "We don't have a choice." "They're getting closer." "Agh!" "Agh!" "Agh!" "Oh, a direct hit." "Yes." "At the same time they destroyed several fighter jets of that country's legitimate government." "Further evidence of his warlike intent is hardly necessary." "Are you okay?" "Oh, god." "Please, please find out who's feeding him these dates." "These are things that no one could know about but my team and i." "Warren is not going to share that information." "Try." "It is at this time that i would like to expose dr." "Kane's most serious crimes, those that will certainly seal his fate." "The helix is powered up and ready." "Good." "Any information on the coordinates marsden gave us?" "Nothing on any commercial or military flight plans, but satellite images from midday yesterday showed some activity in the area." "Okay, i'm going to start an all-frequency scan." "I should be able to get a tighter lock to their communication channels by the time we close in on their location." "And finally, what might be the most damning evidence of all, proof of adam kane's plans to overthrow world governments." "Mutant x has never plotted to overthrow any government." "Only if you don't consider attacking sworn government agents engaged in their official duties as treason." " Come on." "These memories are from a september 17 break-in at the gsa." "Your team helped emma delauro evade law enforcement officials intent on bringing her to justice." "And then she becomes a key member of his criminal organization." "No need to run any more, emma." "You're among friends." "Now, your honour, there are any number of further examples of damning proof that adam kane could show here." "But i feel a representative picture has already been painted." "Now, i request that you forego mr." "Kane's right to speak in his own defence, and i ask you to find him guilty as charged." "You will have an opportunity to state your defence." "Be careful, mr." "Kane." "What you say next will determine your fate." "On course." "We've got a tailwind." "It should get us there a few minutes faster." "Good." "We're going to need as much time as we can get." "Mr. Kane." "You may proceed with your defence." "Well, your honours, what could i possibly tell you that would alter the outcome of this trial?" "Now, i could tell you that what you have seen today has not been the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." "It's been half-truths." "That images from my life have been deliberately taken out of context by the prosecution to portray me as some sort of a criminal." "As a terrorist and my teammates as some sort of genetic monsters." "I will tell you this:" "That the genetic therapies that i performed at genomex saved hundreds of lives." "And i will tell you that i made mistakes, and that some of my patients developed extraordinary abilities that i could never have foreseen and that these abilities have complicated their lives." "But i will also tell you that, if this were a real trial and i were allowed to really defend myself, that we would invite those patients here and you would hear the vast majority of them say "thank you" for what i have done," "which is to defend them against the forces that would exploit or eradicate them." "Objection." "Conjecture." "Mr. Kane, you will confine yourself to the facts." "The so-called government forces that the prosecution says that i tampered with, that i... that i battled with?" "That was the genetic security agency." "It's a rogue agency whose job it was to hunt down, to torture, and to murder these specially gifted human beings." "Objection." "Let the man speak." "All right, here's another fact." "The team of brave young people that i work with called mutant x have saved hundreds of their lives." "Yeah, but you were not allowed to see those images today because the prosecution chose not to show your honours those images." "And why is that?" "Well, because this trial's a joke." "Right?" "It's a sham." "And i still don't know why." "Is it really about some sort of an elaborate revenge that is orchestrated against me by enemies whose names i'm not allowed to know?" "But i will tell you this:" "That i'm extremely proud of what my teammates and i have accomplished, and that i face whatever verdict you send down with something that you justices may never again enjoy:" "A conscience, which is clear." "Mr. Kane, we shall confer and return with our verdict." "Stealth mode is activated." "We are now invisible to all scanning spectrums." "Target's dead ahead and we are locked on to the installation's heat signature." "Emma, when we get a visual, see if you can find an entrance." "Will do." "I'm bringing us in." "This panel has reached its decision." "Adam kane, you have been found guilty as charged." "Your execution is to be ordered without delay." "Mr. Kane, prepare yourself for execution." "Well, if you could contact my friends." "Let them know they were in my final thoughts." "Emma, don't!" "She's on our side." "Help me out." "Well, talk about waiting to the last minute." "We got here as quick as we could." "Thanks." "We should get the hell out of here." "No, no." "Wait!" "There's something i need to know." "Bring him here." "What the hell?" "You can't do this!" "You can't get away with this!" "Just consider this part of my defence." "I want to know who gave you your information about me." "No." "I can't." "You can't?" "No." "Believe me, you will." "Who set me up?" "It can't be." "He's back." "Who is it, adam?" "Mason eckhart." "All right." "Let's go." "I can't believe he's still out there." "Well, he's out there all right." "And he was able to tell warren everything we've done minute by minute since we last saw him." "You think his organization is still intact?" "Well, he didn't accomplish that alone." "So what are you going to do?" "Just wait for him to make another move?" "I say we hunt that psychopath down and put him away for good." "Yeah, he was in a pod." "I thought that was already done." "Well, should've known a pod wouldn't hold him." "Now we all have to face the grim fact our worst enemy is out there again." "He's not going to rest until we're all dead."