- After a boy kills a priest in school, the team investigate what led up to the attack, and why some of them appear to be infected without having been bitten. The investigation leads them into the world of pedophiles. Meanwhile, Kirsty continues trying to find Colefield.—kamas716
- Jacob Keanault has learned that Mike has not only moved but he's covered up his every track, like he's been put in the witness protection program. He suggests that Kirsty get in touch with Mike's friends, particularly old girlfriends, so Kirsty goes out for a drink with Frances. Frances admits that she knows where Mike has moved as well as what happened to Jack, but she's not talking. She even refuses to give Mike a message from Kirsty. All Frances will say to Kirsty is 'Leave him alone.' Kirsty is so confused by all the lying and the covering up that she storms off angrily.
Father Harman also hasn't been feeling well lately. He is experiencing night sweats, loss of appetite, and weight loss. Angela has done a workup on him, and today she got back the lab results. 'Lymph node biopsy results: Both tissue samples show appearances consistent with a non-Hodgkins lymphoma,' a type of cancer with a 50/50 cure rate.
Fr Harman is too busy at the moment to be bothered about himself. Fr Downey has just been murdered, stabbed eight times in the chest and abdomen with a matte knife wielded by a 12-year old boy with no history of violence. Fr Harman has become interested because of the rapidity with which the boy turned killer. Six weeks ago, Gary was interested only in becoming a priest, not killing one. Although there is no evidence, Fr Harman suspects that a Code 5 might be involved.
Gary [Robert Stuart] has disappeared, so Mike and Rice go to the school to talk with the boys. While Mike explains the importance of finding Gary, Rice opens the blinds and notices some of the boys wincing as the sunlight touches them. Angela puts the boys through physical examinations, noting that the photophobia is only to sunlight, not to other bright lights. When asked to open a Bible, those same boys start to shake in terror. Suspecting that they have been infected, Angela orders that all the children be taken to her lab so that she can test them under the ultraviolet light. The results are negative. There are no bite marks, but Angela still believes that they've been infected. But how? And why?
Mike thinks that Angela is looking in the wrong place. He suspects that Fr Downey might have had an abusive or pedophilic relationship with Gary or that Gary might have been using drugs. He talks with the soccer coach but learns nothing. He searches Fr Downey's house but finds only some soccer videos and photos of the team. While searching through the liquor cabinet, however, he finds a disk with photos of young boys getting undressed, but the bedroom in the photos is not Fr Downey's and a search of Fr Downey's computer provides no evidence to show that the photos were downloaded on it. Fr Harman cautions that the disk could have been planted.
Meanwhile, Gary has turned up in the hospital. He was found crying in the men's room in the soccer park and was taken home by this nice man named Colin [Rupert Proctor]. What Gary didn't know was that this nice man is a pedophile. Fortunately for Gary, Colin's dog attacked him, biting Gary's leg so severely that Colin was forced to drop Gary off at the hospital for treatment. Colin left the hospital immediately, saying only that the dog had all his shots, and went home to burn his videos.
When Angela finally gets a chance to talk with Gary, she asks him why he attacked Fr Downey. 'He makes me sick,' is the reply. Why? Just then Fr Harman enters the room. Gary gets upset and pleads with Angela to make him go away. They now have an answer to that question. But they still have no answers as to how Code 5s might be infecting the boys without biting them. Or why. Fr Harman postulates that they might be researching methods of mass infection. He figures that there is no way they can take control by the traditional method (biting) unless the majority of the human population is subjugated. Perhaps this is simply the Code 5s' form of biological warfare?
Still thinking a pedophile might be involved, Mike checks the files of known pedophiles with dogs and comes up with a list. He and Rice begin checking them out. When they come to Colin, Colin is not forthcoming with answers until Rice roughs him up a bit and Mike informs him that his dog will have to be destroyed. Colin then admits that Gary was at his house but says that he had never met him until that day. He doesn't recognize the bedroom in the photos, he never gave any soccer videos to Fr Downey, and his dog never reacted like that to anyone else, other than one other person. Colin gives them a name (Oliver) and address. Colin didn't know Oliver very well, he says, because Oliver had some sort of skin allergy and couldn't go out in daylight.
Meanwhile, Jacob has been doing research in the records room. He runs across an old newspaper article about the accident that killed Angela's husband Robert and one of their twin daughters, Alicia. Jacob looks up to see someone standing in the shadows, watching him. Later, as he is walking home, Jacob realizes he's being followed and turns to face his tail. The next time Jacob has dinner with Kirsty, he winds up in the bathroom, vomiting in the toilet.
Mike and Rice sneak into Oliver's house. No one is home, so they snoop around. What they find is pretty incriminating. It is the bedroom depicted in the photos. There is a videocam hidden in a speaker and a shelf full of videotapes. As Rice scans one of the videos and Mike checks out the other rooms, Oliver [Jeremy Gilley] comes home. He is accompanied by a young boy. They go to the bedroom, and Oliver tells the boy to sit next to him on the bed. Mike suddenly appears in the bedroom door and neutralizes Oliver...only Oliver doesn't neutralize. Mike is horrified to find that he's just shot a human, who is now bleeding profusely from his abdomen. Rice runs into the room just as the boy dips his fingers in Oliver's blood and licks them. 'Shoot it!' Rice yells at Mike, but Mike is too stunned to react, and the Code 5 gets away.
As Mike wallows in guilt for shooting a man, even though he was following the edict of 'shoot Code 5s on sight', Oliver is rushed to the hospital. As Oliver lies unconscious, Mike notices a discolored patch of skin on his forehead. Angela explains that it is a skin graft. Oliver has xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease which prevents the body from repairing DNA damaged from UV light. Even the most minimal exposure to daylight can cause skin cancers, she says. 'Sounds like our version of what the Code 5s have,' Rice comments.
Angela has requested that the hospital do a spinal tap on Gary to check for the possibility of meningitis, since meningitis can cause symptoms similar those those being experienced by Gary and the other infected boys, although meningitis usually progresses over days, not weeks. When the results come back, Angela finds that it IS meningitis. However, further research of her own reveals that the meningiococcal bacteria have been altered to carry the Code 5 infection. Plus, while normal meningitis is transmitted by blood or saliva, this new strain transmits simply on close contact. Angela says that she can probably make an antiserum from Gary's blood and that Gary and the other boys should recover. She suspects that Oliver was the first one infected. But why?
'They gave you a boy,' surmises Fr Harman. A boy who would never grow up, would never tell his parents, and with no soul or sense of humanity. But Oliver couldn't do it with the boy, because the 'boy' was probably older than him, plus Oliver couldn't relive the experience on video, so he continued to prey on boys like Gary, even though he knew he was contagious. 'They'll find what you want,' Oliver tells Fr Harman, 'and then they'll force you to do what they want you to do.' [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl].
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