Season 1, Episode 16 - Pollo Loco

Logan alerts Max to news of a body with a barcode found outside the city with its neck snapped. It could be an X5 killed on a mission, but when Logan pulls the picture of the barcode, Max recognizes the number. It's Ben, one of the 12 who escaped with Max and the others.

While Max waits in the coroner's office, childhood memories of Ben come flooding back. Ben held a firm belief that soldiers who fail are sent to the "bad place" where monsters known as "Nomlies" drank their blood.

In the meeting with DR. SHANKAR, Max learns that the body was found displayed on a rock outcropping with his teeth surgically removed. When Dr. Shankar opens the drawer, Max looks down at a young Asian man - not Ben. Heavy boots heard in the hallway put Max on guard. Seconds later, Lydecker and his men burst in and take possession of the body. Dr. Shankar looks around for Max, but she's gone.

Max heads back to the crime scene where she finds a medallion of the Virgin Mary… Max knows Ben is somehow responsible for this killing… but why?

At an abandoned factory, Ben gives a medallion of the Madonna to another victim. He then releases this man and tracks him down in what turns into a bloody pursuit.

Logan calls Max with news of this latest killing, and others like it around the country. Each time Lydecker swooped in and shut down the investigation. Max reveals that Ben is responsible for the killings, insisting that she'll handle it her way.

Max holds a vigil at the Lady of Sacred Heart Church where she finds an offering of human teeth on the altar. Her thoughts again FLASH BACK to Ben and his belief that the offering of teeth to the Virgin Mother made her heart stronger so she could fight off the Nomlies. Ben shows up and a chase between these two ensues. Max loses him.

Ben later returns to the church and abducts a young priest, FATHER DESTRY.

Instinctively, Max tracks Ben down to the Space Needle where she threatens to turn him over to Lydecker if the killing doesn't stop… He reminds her of the time when they were kids and they killed the prisoner who had a heart-shaped tattoo with a knife thrust through it. Max accuses him of using his own barcode on his victims because he's symbolically killing himself. Ben finally breaks down.

Lydecker takes a meeting with Eyes Only who urges him to bring the police in on the case. Lydecker, knowing Logan would never do anything to put Max at risk, calls his bluff. He warns Logan that Max isn't the girl next door. She's a genetically engineered killer and always will be.

Ben leads Max back to the abandoned factory and opens the door where he's holding Father Destry. Catching Max off guard, he kicks her into the room and yanks Destry out. It's time for another deadly game of cat and mouse. Max escapes, and heads into the woods, praying she's not too late. She finds Ben standing over his prey. She kicks him off Father Destry. As the priest flees, brother and sister circle each other, preparing to do battle.

Dr. Shankar calls Logan -- fingernail scrapings from the first body connect the murders to an abandoned factory outside of town. Lydecker and his men are on their way. Logan follows suit.

Max overpowers Ben by breaking his leg. She holds him as Lydecker's men close in. Ben begs Max to kill him to keep him from going back to Manticore and being given to the Nomlies. Through tears, Max snaps her brother's neck - finally the killing will stop. Lydecker's men find Ben - but Max is nowhere to be found.

Later, Lydecker sends Logan a picture of the bloody aftermath of the kids killing the prisoner back at Manticore. Logan studies the picture, chilled by the grisly photo of the children killing this man. When Max arrives, he tosses it way… but his cool tone lets us know that Lydecker's bloody picture produced its desired effect.

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