Season 2, Episode 20 - Love Among The Runes

In an asylum, the breeding cult are performing a strange ritual as one of the inmates, C.J., makes his escape.

At Dix's base in Terminal City, Max gives Joshua his medallion that was found before Logan's apartment was trashed. The Caduceus on it is the same symbol used by the breeding cult. The crew locates a fellow transgenic fleeing the police. Max warns Alec, and he brings Biggs, another X5 working at Jam Pony. The three enter the sector posing as messengers and save the albino X5 from the cops. The albino is human-looking and bred to fight in an Arctic environment. They bring him into their hideout in Terminal City. Logan sets up camp in Joshua's house, corresponding with Dix's base via computer cameras. Max says hello, but Logan clams up when he sees that Alec is there too.

Normal joins a citizens' Transgenic Defense League, posting fliers around town. Alec, meanwhile, brings in other X5s in as messengers. They all have motorcycles and can make quick deliveries. Alec makes sure they all get sector passes.

Alec and Max look for computer equipment for Logan in an abandoned lab. They find a snake inside a cabinet. It reminds Max of Ames and his breeding buddies. When they leave, C.J. claims the snake. He was hiding there. He wonders how Max and Alec know about what was going on at the asylum. Alec offers to bring the found hardware to Logan, but Max doesn't want him to go. She fesses up that she told Logan that they were together. Alec is upset, not wanting to take the blame for breaking them apart. At Joshua's, Alec tries to explain to Logan that he and Max are not a couple. Logan doesn't let him get a word in about the subject, and he still doesn't know the truth.

White's henchman Otto figures out that infrared cameras can pick up X-series because their basal body temperature is higher than humans'. White is alarmed when he learns that someone at the asylum escaped.

Alec goes to Crash and admits to Max that he didn't say anything to Logan. Max realizes that rune-like symbols have appeared on her arm. She shows the symbols to Logan over the computer camera. He believes they might be a genetically encoded message. Meanwhile, Biggs is spotted by the infrared cameras, but he manages to outrun the police.

Luke brings C.J. to Dix's base as a fellow transgenic. C.J. has painted a barcode on his neck. C.J. tells them that he is an X5, but Max doesn't believe him. C.J. spots Joshua's medallion, but covers up any recognition of the symbol. A newscast reports Biggs' being wanted as a transgenic. When Biggs calls, Alec warns him to get back to Terminal City. But as Biggs is talking on his cell phone, a passerby who also saw the newscast clocks him. Alec hears this commotion and goes out to find Biggs with Max. When they get there, Biggs is already dead.

Senator McKinley makes a public statement about the lynching of the transgenic. After the press conference, he chides White for letting someone escape during the Katara ceremony. Max, meanwhile, plans with Alec to hit White's hideout and release all the transgenics. Max asks where C.J. went because she is suspicious that he might be connected to White's cult. All he left behind was a paper bag with a snake inside.

Otto shows up at Jam Pony to question Normal about an ID found on Biggs. Cindy hears this and sneaks into Normal's office to swipe Max, Alec and the other transgenics' files. Sketchy confronts O.C. about what she was doing and he sees the names on the folders. Cindy doesn't say anything.

Max finds C.J. and he tells her that he is in hiding from the Familiars. He explains that his father was a doctor who learned that C.J. would not survive the "initiation" test. The Familiars locked him up, but he doesn't know what the initiation is really for. Max asks him if he can read the markings on her arm. He says that his parents can read Minoan, and she convinces him to take her to them. As they wait by the waterfront for his parents, White shows up. C.J. greets White with the breeding salutation and calls him "brotha." He only betrayed Max because White promised that he would be saved. White strings up Max and rips open her shirt. The rune tattoos are all over her chest. White explains that Sandeman was a non-believer who wanted to destroy the Familiars' planning. He created Max to mess with their destiny. White tasers Max and asks about his son. C.J., who was watching all along, takes the taser and strikes White. He frees Max with the belief that she is the only one who can help him. Max finds the transgenic prisoners and attacks White's men. As Max gets into the truck, C.J. is shot by White. Max escapes with the transgenics.

Alec and Joshua find the guys who killed Briggs and beat them up. Alec warns them that he will kill them if he sees them around again. At Crash, Cindy admits to Sketchy that Max is indeed a transgenic. Regardless, she knows Max is a good person. Sketchy accepts this, and wonders if he can convince Max to do an exclusive interview with him for the tabloid.

Later, over the computer camera, Max explains to Logan that Sandeman is White's father. C.J. is White's brother too. White's interpretation of her tattoos say that she is the second coming sent to foil his plans. Yet Max doesn't even know what that means.

In the asylum, White reprimands C.J. He says that C.J. had a chance to redeem himself for their family. White vows to find Max.

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