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SYNOPSIS:
Corbin
Valentine (Rod Wilson), an astronaut famous for saving
his crew when their shuttle crashed, and his wife
Lisa (Deborah O'Dell) are suddenly awakened from a
peaceful night's sleep, only to find that their son,
Josh (Marc Donato), has been kidnapped. Knowing that
Lisa and Josh are both new mutants, Adam (John
Shea) decides that Mutant X needs to do a little
investigating.
Adam
and Emma (Lauren
Lee Smith) disguise themselves as insurance investigators
and go to the Valentine residence where they meet
Special Agent in Charge Wendy Stone (Jennifer Dale),
who informs them that the perpetrator was a professional.
At the same time, Shalimar (Victoria
Pratt) sneaks around the grounds of the Valentine's
mansion looking for clues, and spots a rope dangling
from Josh's bedroom window.
Meanwhile,
Josh's kidnapper, Burke (Paulino Nunes), holds Josh
hostage on an abandoned tugboat and tends to the burn
on his own hand which he got from Josh's under-developed
thermal transfer powers during the kidnapping. Back
at the Valentine home, Emma discovers that Lisa is
also a telempath when she intercepts the psychic link
between Lisa and Josh after showing Lisa a picture
of her missing son.
At
Genomex, Wendy, who is actually in cahoots with the
GSA, is scolded by Eckhart (Tom
McCamus) for failing to bring him the boy. An
annoyed Eckhart warns Wendy that Josh is a priceless
commodity, and she better deliver him soon.
Back
at the Valentine mansion, Shalimar finds a tree that
smells like sulfur. Just as she cuts off a piece of
bark to bring back to the lab for analysis, Wendy
appears, takes her sample and tells Shalimar to leave.
Inside the mansion, Emma uses her telempathic abilities
to pinpoint the exact location of Josh and his kidnapper.
Brennan (Victor
Webster) and Jesse (Forbes
March) immediately set out for the tugboat and
take Burke completely by surprise. He tries to fight
Jesse and Victor, but realizing he's no match for
their powers, jumps overboard. Jesse and Victor rescue
the terrified Josh, just as Wendy and a bunch of fake
FBI agents pull up, grab Burke and force him into
their car. |
After
reuniting Josh with Lisa, Jesse gives Adam a large
sum of money and a disk he took from the tugboat.
Back at Sanctuary, Adam becomes suspicious when he
hears a news report that Wendy declined to speak to
the press, and has Jesse hack into the FBI database
where he finds no record of her. Adam quickly searches
Mutant X's files and finds that she has been working
undercover for Eckhart. Suddenly, Emma has a telempathic
vision of Corbin carrying Josh out of their home past
an unconscious Lisa, and realizes that Lisa must have
had Josh kidnapped to protect him from his father.
Back
at Genomex, Wendy and Eckhart interrogate Burke, who
confesses that he was hired by Lisa to kidnap Josh.
Eckhart, confused about why Lisa wanted to have her
own son kidnapped, orders Wendy to kill Burke on the
spot.
Meanwhile,
Adam and Emma rush to the Valentine home to question
Lisa, but when they arrive, they find that Corbin
gave Lisa sleeping pills and took Josh without her
knowing. When Lisa awakens, she admits that Corbin
was only trying to protect Josh by taking him to a
secret genetic bioengineering facility that could
make him normal. Adam and Emma are convinced that
the two must be at Genomex.
Meanwhile,
Corbin and Josh enter Genomex and are confronted by
Wendy, who injects Josh with a subdermal governor.
As Wendy takes them to a clinic to be held, Corbin
realizes that Wendy and Eckhart are not looking to
help him, and he has made a drastic mistake. At the
same time, Adam takes off in the VTOL aircraft to
track down Wendy, Corbin and Josh, and alerts Brennan
and Jesse of their location. Brennan uses his powers
to release Josh from the holding room, while Jesse
fights off an oncoming agent. After deactivating Josh's
subdermal governor, Brennan and Jesse rescue Corbin
from Wendy's clutches and the four take off for Sanctuary
where the Valentine family is happily reunited. |
