Dark Angel

Dark Angel (2000–2002) is a cyberpunk science fiction television series, created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show starred Jessica Alba as Max, a genetically-enhanced supersoldier spliced with feline DNA who searches for others of her kind, while trying to lead some semblance of a normal life.

The series was set in Seattle, Washington (but was actually filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at Lions Gate Studios).

In the year 2009, a genetically enhanced female child (whom creator James Cameron refers to as "transgenic") super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara (also known as X5-452), escapes along with 11 others like her, from a secret government institution. At the institution, codenamed Manticore (which lies near Gillette, Wyoming, according to captioning in the pilot and opening credits of the earlier episodes, although the semi-mountainous terrain and dense pine trees shown in the series suggest that it may have been located up to 30 miles from that western plains city), they were created and subsequently raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins. Months after Max's escape, terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into utter chaos.

The first season begins ten years later in 2019. It follows the life of the now 19-year-old Max as she struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In a United States which is now barely more than a Third World nation (a concept largely dropped from the show after 9/11), she tries to live her life, to evade capture, and to learn to trust and love. She is aided by Logan Cale, an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only, and her friends Original Cindy and Sketchy at Jam Pony, a courier company where she works as a bicycle messenger. Other X-5s are periodically introduced as well.

In the second season of the show, the tone changes as Max brings down Manticore, and frees the soldiers. She is helped in her escape by Joshua, a transgenic with canine DNA, and later learns that he was the first of them made by Manticore's founder Sandeman. Max also finds out that Manitcore produced soldiers for speciality environments such as desert and arctic conditions and consequently look vastly different from normal humans. A major theme in the second season is the discovery of an even more deadly enemy in a millennias-old breeding cult with similar structure to the Illuminati. This has resulted in humans even more formidable than the Manticore-produced transgenics, and even some with strong telekinetic powers. Ames White, a Government Agent met early in the second season trying to eliminate the loose transgenics, is found to be a member of the cult. When a strange message written in Max's genetic code make an appearance on her skin, it is found that Sandeman was a renegade from the breeding cult. Ames White is Sandeman's son, which essentially makes him Max's brother. The series was cancelled before the producers could really play with this dynamic, however.

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Dark Angel Episodes

Dark Angel Pilot 2000

1. 0- 1 1ADE79 3 Oct 00 Dark Angel (2 hrs)

Dark Angel 1st Season 2000

2. 1- 1 1ADE01 10 Oct 00 Heat
3. 1- 2 1ADE03 17 Oct 00 Flushed
4. 1- 3 1ADE02 31 Oct 00 C.R.E.A.M.
5. 1- 4 1ADE04 14 Nov 00 411 on the DL
6. 1- 5 1ADE05 21 Nov 00 Prodigy
7. 1- 6 1ADE06 28 Nov 00 Cold Comfort
8. 1- 7 1ADE07 12 Dec 00 Blah Blah Woof Woof
9. 1- 8 1ADE08 9 Jan 01 Out
10. 1- 9 1ADE09 16 Jan 01 Red
11. 1-10 1ADE10 6 Feb 01 Art Attack
12. 1-11 1ADE11 13 Feb 01 Rising
13. 1-12 1ADE12 20 Feb 01 The Kidz Are Aiight
14. 1-13 1ADE13 13 Mar 01 Female Trouble
15. 1-14 1ADE14 27 Mar 01 Haven
16. 1-15 1ADE15 17 Apr 01 Shorties In Love
17. 1-16 1ADE16 24 Apr 01 Pollo Loco
18. 1-17 1ADE17 1 May 01 I and I Am a Camera
19. 1-18 1ADE18 8 May 01 Hit A Sista Back
20. 1-19 1ADE19 15 May 01 MEOW (1)
21. 1-20 1ADE20 22 May 01 ...And Jesus Brought a Casserole (2)

Dark Angel 2nd Season 2001

22. 2- 1 2ADE01 28 Sep 01 Designate This
23. 2- 2 2ADE02 5 Oct 01 Bag 'Em
24. 2- 3 2ADE03 12 Oct 01 Proof of Purchase
25. 2- 4 2ADE04 26 Oct 01 Radar Love
26. 2- 5 2ADE05 2 Nov 01 Boo
27. 2- 6 2ADE06 9 Nov 01 Two
28. 2- 7 2ADE07 16 Nov 01 Some Assembly Required
29. 2- 8 2ADE08 7 Dec 01 Gill Girl
30. 2- 9 2ADE09 14 Dec 01 Medium is the Message
31. 2-10 2ADE10 11 Jan 02 Brainiac
32. 2-11 2ADE11 18 Jan 02 The Berrisford Agenda
33. 2-12 2ADE12 1 Feb 02 Borrowed Time
34. 2-13 2ADE13 8 Feb 02 Harbor Lights
35. 2-14 2ADE14 8 Mar 02 Love In Vein
36. 2-15 2ADE15 15 Mar 02 Fuhgeddaboudit
37. 2-16 2ADE16 22 Mar 02 Exposure
38. 2-17 2ADE17 5 Apr 02 Hello, Goodbye
39. 2-18 2ADE18 12 Apr 02 Dawg Day Afternoon
40. 2-19 2ADE19 19 Apr 02 She Ain't Heavy
41. 2-20 2ADE20 26 Apr 02 Love Among the Runes
42. 2-21 2ADE21 3 May 02 Freak Nation (90 min)

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