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Officer training manual section three,

subheading "Genetic rejection syndrome, or GRS":

A recent phenomenon linked to the black market

in genetic engineering of the DNA of human fetuses

resulting in tragic irreversible mutations.

Another GRS attack for you, Ray.

What do we got?

Night watchman went to make his rounds,

never came back.

Supervisor showed up, found the body...

It was too late.

Let's have a look.

Evening, Carolyn.

Detective Venable.

How long's he been dead?

Judging from temp and lividity, half hour, 45 minutes.

Cause?

Cervical trauma.

Someone with a lot of strength snapped his neck.

Bite and claw marks are postmortem.

Tissue and serology?

Already on rush to the lab.

You're the best.

You say that to all the girls.

Yeah, Renfro here.

Okay, hold your 20.

We'll be right there. They got him spotted.

[door closes] Cover the exits.

[birds chirping]

[wings flapping]

-[door creaking] -[man] There!

[grunting and panting]

[grunting]

Ray, be careful.

You see anything?

[breathing heavily]

[fluttering]

[grunts]

Ray!

What are you, nuts? Let it go!

Ray!

Hang on, man!

Hang on, Ray!

Hang on, Ray.

Hang on.

Lay off of him!

Got him.

[grunting]

[whimpering]

[breathing heavily]

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You are about to experience the awe and mystery

which reaches from the deepest inner mind

to the outer limits.

With every scientific advance

we grow closer to unlocking

the mysteries of life and creation.

But what have we gained if in the process

we lose our humanity?

This suspect, he's definitely

one of these genetic rejection cases?

Yes, she's GRS

But based on the lab work

and the size and shape of the teeth and claw marks,

she could not have been the killer.

Lieutenant O'Neill,

if she didn't kill this man, who did?

We're working on that.

How?

With your fancy GRS response unit

that's cost the taxpayers half a million dollars,

and is so far completely ineffective?

We took another one off the streets last night.

But not the one responsible for this atrocity.

He's still out there, free to kill again.

The switchboard at city hall

is flooded with calls from scared citizens.

Radio's running wild with GRS stories.

I want to know

what exactly is being done to address this situation.

Detective Venable is our expert on the subject.

Detective, please bring

the chief and councilman up to speed.

I'm no expert, but I do know we're not up against

the same problem we were

when this started showing up about 10 years ago.

Underground labs turned out gene-altering drugs,

and most of the time it worked.

Perfect kids who grew up to be perfect adults.

But sometimes,

it resulted in GRS Kids.

They looked scary, they had bad tempers

and they attacked people sometimes.

A lot of them got caught and people got bored with the story.

But the ones that survived went underground

and they grew up.

Their hormones kicked in, and whatever you thought about

the threat back then, you can multiply it by a hundred now.

We've got GRS adults running around,

and they are stronger and faster and smarter than ever

and they're getting bold.

You really put their minds at ease.

O'Neill can get somebody else to tell him fairy tales.

Besides, if I really wanted to shake him up,

I'd have shown him this.

Like an enhancement serum.

Did you bust a lab?

No, took it off the GRS Girl last night.

Why do you think she'd have it?

When everybody started cracking down

on gen-engineering, labs needed a new marketplace.

Somebody hid them, making this stuff

custom engineered for adults--

You know, catch up with the ones

who had a head start in the womb.

So, what would someone who's already GRS want with it?

In theory, it works like a booster for them.

Their systems are already altered.

The serum just heightens the effects.

The stuff we've tested can be counteracted up to 72 hours

as long as the total amount ingested is minimal.

It bonds with the mitochondrial chain.

And makes them permanently more mutated?

Maybe they like being what they are.

Be all that you can be.

Yeah, right. You wanna talk about civil rights?

Take it up with the Supreme Court.

Do you believe this?

Some lawyer wants to talk

to that GRS Girl before we do.

Well, maybe he knows what happens to them after we interrogate.

No, he knows he can get publicity

for trying to defend a freak.

Whatever,

I just came here to tell you that you've got visitors.

Hey, Dad.

[Ray] Hey, pal!

This is a surprise.

[Marie] Uh, it shouldn't be.

You're supposed to take Jesse to his baseball practice

while I go visit my mother.

Oh, I'm sorry, honey. I completely forgot.

Again?

Hey, Jess, uh, why don't you go down

to the squad room fridge, get yourself a soda, okay?

Okay.

And one for your old man too.

-All right. -Diet.

Look, look.

I know this is my fault,

but this is a really bad time.

We're getting a lot of heat from downtown on this case. And I got to...

It's okay... It's all right,

I'll just get to my mom's a bit late.

Jesse was really counting on you.

I know, I know. I'll make it up to him.

[man] Ray, they're ready for you.

And you too.

Sure.

Leave her hands free.

I'll take responsibility.

That was brave.

Not really.

We both know those leg restraints are hot wired.

You try anything, I just hit that button.

110 volts? I'd barely feel it.

Then I'm more stupid than brave.

What's your name?

You must think I'm stupid, detective.

You don't care what my name is.

You're right. I'm more interested in your age, where you live--

Melanie.

I was named for my grandmother, but she was short.

My parents wanted me to be tall.

Here I am, five-foot-seven.

Their pride and joy.

You live with your parents, Melanie?

You just want to hear me talk,

watch me move,

get inside my head...

You're not testing me.

You're testing yourself.

Insight...

That's not listed in GRS studies.

Don't flatter me.

You think we're the sick ones?

But in nature stronger and faster

equals superiority.

Anything else you'd like to ask before they exterminate me?

That doesn't have to happen.

You want to know the real difference between us, detective?

You live with fear.

I won't give them the satisfaction.

Those GRS Freaks are nuts, you know that.

Probably her way of checking out on her own terms.

She knew what they were going to do to her.

No, she was toying with me.

It was her way of telling me that we can never stop them,

Can never anticipate their moves.

My old man was on the force 33 years.

Sure ain't the same world anymore.

All he had to deal with

was gangs, crack, cocaine and affirmative action.

Now we got bright boys like O'Neill over there

making lieutenant at 23.

Tell me he's not one of those bio-brats.

On the other hand we got the GRS Freaks

trying to make chumps out of us.

I don't know, maybe it's worth the risk

to have a kid that's better than the rest.

There sure ain't much place

for us plain-old homegrown humans anymore.

Maybe we ought to try some of the juice

that Ray got off that freak.

We'll all make gold shield.

Nah.

Here's to old, dumb and slow.

Salud.

No.

[tires screeching]

[man speaking indistinctly]

Sorry, man.

[radio chatter]

[grunting]

[breathing heavily]

Sorry about your friend.

I made sure she died quickly.

You bastard!

[choking]

No.

I'm proud to say I'm a Venable through and through.

Dylan?

[grunts and chokes]

You're gonna have to do better

if you want to catch me...

Dad.

[grunting]

-[knocking at door] -[Marie] Ray?

Are you coming to bed?

It's almost 03:00.

Yeah, I'm just, uh, just finishing up the case work.

I'll be right there.

His name is Dylan.

He was brought to you ten years ago... July?

I remember him.

Maybe you remember what you promised.

That he'd be safe, that you'd care for him,

keep him out of trouble?

And you promised never to be in contact with me

or this organization again.

So, why are you here?

Look, Mr. Acosta, I'll level with you.

I think Dylan is in serious trouble.

And I want to know where he's been,

who he's coming to contact with. What he's been doing.

For the last ten years?

You must have some records.

You don't keep the kids here, you must take 'em someplace.

Now, look...

You came here a long time ago,

you paid 40,000 cash, no questions asked.

I'm asking them now.

Well, it's a little late for that.

We took a problem off your hands

and you went back to your life.

Maybe you and your wife had some nice fantasy

about doing what's best for your son.

Maybe it helped you sleep at night,

but do you really think for that kind of money

we'd take a life-long interest?

The truth is, we send them to labor camps

out of the country.

What happens after that I have no clue.

This isn't daycare.

You got a complaint about the service,

call the cops.

[woman] Come on, kids.

See you guys.

[boy] Bye, Jess.

See ya.

Hi.

I was watching you play.

You hold the bat too low.

My father taught me.

You didn't think someone like me had a father.

I bet your dad takes you places,

throws a ball around with you.

Doesn't he?

Where does he take you?

Where?

Grandma's... the beach.

Where else?

Pizza.

Pizza.

Pretty nice life you've got.

[Marie] Jesse, sweetie.

Mama's here.

[whispers] Everything's going to be okay now.

Nobody can hurt you here.

All right, honey?

Shh, it's okay.

So he just walked in the front door?

Yeah.

About five minutes after I got off the phone with you.

And what did he say?

That a GRS person took him.

Then he just threw his arms around me and cried.

-Well, is he all right? -[Marie scoffs]

All right?

No, of course he's not all right.

Didn't you see him in there?

He's scared to death, he's traumatized!

-All right, just calm down. -No, don't you tell me to calm down!

Something's going on here,

something you're not telling me about. What is it, Ray?

Why would one of those people pick out our son?

It's one of your cases, isn't it?

Sit down.

It's Dylan.

Dylan?

He jumped me at the place

where Carolyn Fleury was murdered.

He killed her,

and he waited for me to show up.

And I think he did it just to get at me,

and now... [sighs in exasperation]

...Jesse.

I was late picking him up because you were too busy

and you didn't even tell me it was about Dylan?

How could you keep something like that from me?

Tell you--

He could have killed our son!

Dylan is our son too.

Well, what are we going to do?

-I'll deal with it. -How?

-I don't know yet. -Well, what if he comes after Jesse?

Ray, we have to tell someone--

No!

[door opening]

Hey, Jess.

He told me to tell you something.

"Home is where the heart is."

[lock beeps]

[Dylan] You're going to have to do better...

[GRS Girl] You live with fear.

...If you want to catch me, Dad.

[GRS Girl] Stronger and faster.

[Dylan] Daddy...

[GRS Girl] Stronger and faster equals superiority.

live with fear...

Live with fear... [echoing]

-[phone ringing] -[officer] I gotta be in...

[phone ringing]

-[doors closing] -[phone ringing]

[background sounds amplified]

-[inaudible voices] -[phone ringing]

Honey, if you can't get a sitter,

your mom and I will watch the baby.

Have a good time.

[chalk squeaking]

What are you doing, Ray, checking up on the janitor?

[sighs]

I dropped my pen.

Did you get the results back,

DNA swabs from the parking garage?

See if they mention the Cornell case?

No, they're still working on them.

I just got off the phone with the lab.

[inaudible voices]

Yo!

Earth to Ray.

-You okay? -Yeah, yeah.

I just... Is the lighting in here different today?

Looks like the same old funeral parlor

atmosphere to me.

What?

I've been thinking about why we can't seem to pin this guy.

I remembered what Carolyn said about GRS,

about enhanced capabilities.

What if they can see things that we can't?

-Like what? -I don't know, like trails.

Ray, we're not in the wilderness, this is a city here.

The only trails are in the park.

Those kinds of trails I mean something that shows where a person's been.

-Wait a minute, footprints? -No.

No, more like, like heat or energy.

Something that they give off, that's different than an ordinary person...

But it takes another one like them to see and follow it.

So it would take GRS To find the GRS

Exactly.

No, that seems pretty weird to me.

There's a scientific basis!

-You know how sharks hunt? -No.

They can detect an electromagnetic field

that comes off another animal.

So, it gives off a fear vibe

and they lock right into it.

Or bloodhounds, they say

the pheromones of whoever they're after show up like maps.

Pheromones... what are you turning into Mr. Wizard?

I did some reading. I think I'm onto something here.

Even if you're right, what the hell's it got to do with us?

We're looking for a freak, not a shark.

And according to your brilliant theory,

wouldn't it take one of them

to find one of them,

that just to be able to see this trail thing?

Last I looked, there was no freaks on the force,

although Sullivan does have a lot of hair on his back.

Nice going, slick.

Can't take you anywhere.

[man] Bullshit!

[people screaming]

[panting]

Ray!

Dylan! Stop, stop.

[panting]

Dylan?

Hi, Daddy.

Where are you?

-Come and get me! -Dylan!

Dylan, stop!

Dylan!

[grunts]

Yeah!

[grunts]

[grunts]

[screaming]

Ha, ha! You're getting close!

Oh, but not close enough.

You want to have it out with me, fine.

But not here.

Not in this house.

Ray.

Before you say anything,

I can explain.

Your face...

Your hands. What in God's name have you done?

I took some genetic enhancement.

What kind of genetic enhancement?

Something to help me do what I have to do.

You took the same poison they put in me when I was pregnant?

No, it's different now, they make something that works in an adult.

You can't be serious.

Look what it did to Dylan.

It's the only way to stop him!

He's out there to hurt us, can't you see that?

I want you to take Jesse to your mother's house

and let me handle this.

Listen to me. Listen to me.

I'm in control and the process is reversible.

All I have to do is, alter myself enough to catch him and make him stop

and then I promise I will go to a clinic

and get treated and everything will be back

to the way it was, to the way it should be.

Things have never been the way they should be.

Not since we made that horrible mistake.

Yeah, you're right, we made a mistake.

But how long do we have to pay for that our whole lives?

We wanted what was best.

No, it was fear that he wouldn't be perfect.

He turned out perfect, didn't he?

Perfect nightmare.

Can't go back in time and undo it,

so now I have to try to fix it.

How? By doing this to yourself?

Just trust me!

No, I trusted you the first time.

You said we were just helping nature along.

I never wanted to do it.

It scared me, I...

But you told me it would be all right.

I believed you.

Damn it, I believed you.

-Marie, please. -Stay away from me!

I followed him in.

He must have jumped 30 feet. I don't even know how he made it?

Is he on something?

I don't know. It doesn't sound like him.

Look, he's a good cop.

I just think he's obsessed with this case.

I don't want to see him get hurt.

All right, I'll have IAD bring him in.

Sir, with all due respect,

I think it'd be better if I did it.

No, no. You know, that's not procedure.

But you see, if the suits won't let him in

like some freakin' lowlife,

I think it'll tear him apart.

Look, he's the best GRS guy you got. You know that.

And I've already got a guy

from the unit watching him.

Now, please, just let me do it, okay?

All right.

Thanks.

Acosta.

Acosta, are you here?

Dylan?

You got to stop, Dylan.

Why?

We're finally spending some quality time together.

DALE: Ray.

Dale, just get out of here. I got this handled.

No can do, buddy.

What the hell are you doing?

I got to take you in.

I got orders from Lieutenant O'Neill.

Didn't you see him? He's right up there!

Come on, Ray, look who you're talking to here.

You're gonna have to come up with

something better than that, man.

Don't, Ray.

Give me the gun.

Come on.

Come on with me.

You're gonna tell me about everything.

I'm sure we can get everything straightened out at the station. Come on.

We can talk about it.

Maybe next time.

That's okay, hey.

So you took the serum

hoping it would turn you into superman

even though you've seen What it's done to people.

Why risk it? Just tell me that.

I can't.

You mean you won't.

You wouldn't understand.

Why don't you try me, damn it?

I'm your partner.

No.

Well, then just tell me what's going on, okay, so I can help you.

I don't need help, I had the killer,

I was about to take him when you and the boys showed up.

You're so on top of it with the serum,

just tell me who he is, tell me where he is.

So we can find him and bring him in. Okay?

-That's what you want, is it not? -It has to be me.

Why?

You're not a one-man department.

As a matter of fact, at this moment, you're not even a member of this department.

And I'll tell you something else.

If that guy kills again

with you sitting on information,

you're an accessory to murder.

While we're on that subject, O'Neill thinks that you killed

the stiff in the warehouse.

You have his blood on your hand

and the DNA from his body

is a very good match for yours, even with the way

you've mixed it up with this Dr. Jekyll act of yours.

What do you think?

[sighs] I think you're out of your freakin' mind, Ray.

That's what I think seriously.

The only good news is that the doctor says

your levels are low

so we have time to get

that cancel-out stuff into your system

and bring you back to normal, all right?

Stronger and faster equals superiority.

What are you talking about?

This killer isn't going to stop,

and I'm the one he wants me to come after him.

Without the serum I've got no chance

and while we are in here debating, he's out there

lining up his next target.

I can't let you go. You know that.

Then you have to do one thing for me.

Go to Marie's mother's house

And make sure my family is all right.

[radio chatter]

Aw, damn it.

Mother-in-law.

Any sign of Marie or Jesse?

No, just some of their stuff.

No other blood.

Looks like he took them alive at least.

Yeah, for now.

It's okay.

You have to let me go. He could kill them.

That's right, man.

We got a code blue working, we're going to find him.

All right, I'm almost ready to inject the reagent.

It's okay, Ray.

You're lucky, detective.

If another dose or two of that stuff you'd took

and there wouldn't be any way to counteract it.

-[Ray grunting] -Come on, Ray.

No!

It's all right, man. It's only going to take a minute.

It's going to be over in a minute. Ray?

What the hell's happening here? Doctor!

Looks like he's having a seizure.

-Now, come on, do something! -Hold his head, hold his head.

Gotta get his mouth open.

He could swallow his tongue.

Put in there.

Come on!

Look, look!

Hurry up!

[growling]

It's okay, Ray. Hold on, baby!

Come on, do something!

The stress is activating the serum in his blood.

[screaming loudly]

[screaming]

[man] Stop him!

[gun cocking]

I have to do this.

It's the only way to save my family.

[tires screeching]

Hey, Dad.

Welcome home.

I guess you figured out my message.

The old house.

Where the heart is.

My heart, anyway.

What can I say? I'm sentimental.

Where are they?

Surprise.

Everyone's here.

Let them go, Dylan.

They should love it here, don't you think?

I always did.

Such a great place to grow up.

That is, until you decided to get rid of me

and move away from here so I could never find you.

What do you want?

I want this.

A family.

All together, like they're supposed to be.

Do you know how many times I ran away

and came back here looking for you?

Whether you believe it or not,

we did what we did for you too.

Living like that was destroying all of us.

So I got put out like the trash at the curb?

And you washed your hands and started all over again.

I made the decision, so take it out on me.

Let them go.

Come and get them.

Put the needle down and I will.

If you drop the gun.

[both whimpering]

I've got another surprise for you.

I took the serum.

I can do whatever I have to now.

Nothing you do surprises me.

It couldn't... We're too much alike!

I got it from you, you know.

You got it from a test tube before you were born.

Not GRS!

The anger, the rage.

One place they took me when I ran away,

Well, they studied me, and guess what?

The gene that makes me violent wasn't altered.

It came straight from you, Dad!

I'm a chip off the old block.

I know you better than you know yourself.

I know you were ashamed when I started to change

and I know you didn't take the serum

just to protect society from me.

You were covering your tracks,

making sure that no one found out

about your dirty little secret.

Oh, but now everyone's going to know!

[both grunting]

[screaming and grunting]

[both grunting]

[screaming in pain]

[groaning]

[Ray grunting]

The real surprise, is I did all this

just so you'd have to take the serum and change yourself.

[groaning and choking]

Now you're just like me, and you can never go back!

[grunting]

[screaming and growling]

[Jesse whimpering]

-[Jesse panting] -Here, Jesse!

[Marie whimpering]

[gasps]

Marie, talk to him, bring him back.

He's more afraid of you than he was of Dylan.

And so am I.

[crying]

[Control Voice] The most powerful thing

we pass along to our children may not reside in the genes,

but in the soul.