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==Plot==
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===Season one===
In February 2009, a genetically enhanced nine-year-old female [[supersoldier]] designated as X5-452 (Geneva Locke) escapes along with eleven others from a secret U.S. government institution code-named Manticore, where they were born, raised, and trained to be soldiers and assassins. On June 1, 2009, months after the twelve X5s' escape, [[terrorist]]s detonate an [[Nuclear electromagnetic pulse|electromagnetic pulse]] weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into chaos.

Ten years later in 2019, the now 19-year-old X5-452 ([[Jessica Alba]]), who calls herself Max Guevara, struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In the recovering United States, which is now barely more than a developing country, she tries to live a relatively normal life and evade capture by Manticore, which wishes to recover its lost asset. [[List of Dark Angel characters|Logan Cale]] ([[Michael Weatherly]]), an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only, attempts to recruit her to help fight corruption in the post-Pulse world. She initially refuses but accepts after Cale is rendered a [[Paraplegia|paraplegic]] while attempting the assignment for which he was attempting to recruit her. A romantic interest buds between the two. While assisting Cale, Max also makes a living as a [[bicycle messenger]] at Jam Pony, a [[courier]] company, along with her friends Original Cindy ([[Valarie Rae Miller]]), Herbal Thought ([[Alimi Ballard]]), and Sketchy ([[Richard Gunn (actor)|Richard Gunn]]). Other X5s are periodically introduced, most significantly the unit leader Zack ([[William Gregory Lee]]). The Manticore hunt for the escaped X5s is led by Colonel Donald Lydecker ([[John Savage (actor)|John Savage]]). Near the end of the season, Lydecker is betrayed by his superior, the even more ruthless Elizabeth Renfro ([[Nana Visitor]]), and he defects from Manticore. He aids Max and Zack in an assault on Manticore headquarters. Max is badly wounded and captured. Zack, who has also been captured, commits suicide to provide Max with his heart, as she needs an X5 [[Heart transplantation|heart transplant]] to survive.

===Season two===
Cale exposes Manticore to the world. Renfro decides to burn the facility to cover up the evidence and is killed in the process. Aided by Joshua ([[Kevin Durand]]), a transgenic with conspicuous [[Canidae|canine]] DNA, Max escapes the facility and frees the other transgenics, including [[Alec McDowell|Alec]] ([[Jensen Ackles]]), a fellow X5 and clone of Max's brother Ben (also Jensen Ackles) whom she was forced to kill in the first season, who later joins Jam Pony. When Max is reunited with Cale he immediately becomes ill and almost dies. Max discovers that Manticore has infected her with a virus specifically designed to kill Cale, and the two must avoid all physical contact to keep him alive. Max learns that Joshua was the first transgenic created by Sandeman, Manticore's founder. Over the course of the season, it is revealed that a millennia-old breeding cult has bred their own advanced humans who rival the Manticore-produced transgenics in their abilities. Ames White ([[Martin Cummins]]), a government agent tasked with eliminating the freed transgenics, is revealed to be a member of the cult. When a strange message written in Max's genetic code makes an appearance on her skin it is revealed that Sandeman is a renegade from the breeding cult and Ames White is his son. White is still loyal to the cult and hates his father's transgenic creations with a passion. Believing that the special sequences Sandeman buried in Max's DNA are a threat to the breeding cult's plans for the extinction of normal humanity, they attempt to kill her, but she escapes to Terminal City, an abandoned part of Seattle where hundreds of outcast transgenics have been hiding. When the police begin to surround Terminal City Max convinces the other transgenics to stand their ground rather than run. The series ends with the military surrounding Terminal City as the residents raise their newly designed flag from one of the buildings, and wait for a possible invasion.