In the second season of the show, the tone changes as Max brings down Manticore and frees the soldiers.

One or two times a year, Max comes into 'heat' and experiences wild sexual urges as a result of her feline DNA. Other X-5s are periodically introduced as well. She is aided by Logan Cale, an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only Zack, a fellow X-5 and her friends Original Cindy and Sketchy at Jam Pony, a courier company where she works as a bicycle messenger. In a United States which is now barely more than a Third World nation, she tries to live her life, evade capture, and learn to trust and love. The first season begins ten years later in 2019, as it follows the life of the now 19-year-old Max as she struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. On June 1, 2009, 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. At the institution, codenamed Manticore, they were created and subsequently raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins. In the year 2009, a genetically enhanced, 9-year-old female (to whom creator James Cameron refers as ' transgenic') super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara, (also known as X5-452, a truncation of her barcode tattoo on the back of her neck 332960073452), escapes along with eleven others like her from a secret government institution.

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