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Have we gone too far?

Regenesis Aired From October 24, 2004 – May 25, 2008.

About The Show:
The future is here. Bioterrorism. Designer babies. Frankenfoods. Suddenly Humanity possesses the ability to play god. But is it progressor madness? Will cutting-edge science be our salvation? Or our demise?

The Pandora's box of biotech is wide open. It's a modern gold rush, where billions will be made and geo-power will be staked. And everyone's involved: governments, multinational drug companies, rogue states, and terrorist.

ReGenesis revolves around the scientists of NorBAC ("North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission"), a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto. The organization investigates problems of a scientific nature, such as bio-terrorism, mysterious diseases or radical changes in environment throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico. NorBAC is headed by David Sandström, the chief scientist and molecular biologist. Through this character the show often addresses topical social, political and ethical issues related to the science at hand.

CAST:

Actor’s name	Character’s Name
Peter Outerbridge	David Sandstrom
Mayko Nguyen	Mayko Tran
Sarah Strange	Jill Langston
Dmitry Chepovetsky	Bob Melnikov
Wendy Crewson	Rachel Woods

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1. Baby Bomb
It's a race against time to identify the cause of a deadly virus, spreading rapidly and headed straight for the city. As if the virus wasn't enough, NorBAC's Chief Scientist, David Sandstrom must deal with the unexpected arrival of his belligerent teenage daughter, Lilith, and arguments with NorBAC's Executive Director Caroline Morrison over the security clearance of one member of his team he'll need the most, his top virologist.

2. Spare Parts  
Lilith befriends Mick, who is dying and desperate for David to help him discover if he really is a clone and possibly save his life. Meanwhile, NorBAC has managed to locate patient zero and must proceed with the interrogations at "Hazmat City". Was this an act of Bioterrorism? Caroline is determined to find out who's responsible as more people die and David, in a suprising turn of events finds himself exposed and must now face his fate.

3. The Face of God
Mick turns to Lilith, who helps him steal evidence from the scientist who apparently cloned him, his own father. Meanwhile, Caroline suggests that Hira has possible terrorist links and shuts her out of NorBAC. David decides to bring Hira back. But when he arrives at NorBAC, he's confronted with a rally lead by a fanatical Reverend who claims that Christ can be genetically resurrected from a Crucifixion nail. The Reverand wants David to prove it, but David's not into playing God. In the frenzy, shots are fired and someone gets hit.

4. Prions
NorBAC investigates an outbreak of brain wasting prion disease (mad cow) in humans. The victims are spread out across North America. The most surprising is a 5-year-old girl, since the disease normally takes 7 years to show. How are the cases connected? In the aftermath of Hira's death, David holds the Reverend responsible and is determined to expose him. David suspects his old friend, Denny Dexter, a minor league hockey player, has actually undergone a process to have himself genetically modified.

5. The Oldest Virus
As the search continues for the source of the deadly prions, NorBAC zeros in on a large agribusiness they suspect of selling infected chickens. David tries to convince Danny to stop gene-therapy.Caroline insists that David interview Jill Langston for a position as a virologist at NorBAC. His reluctance turns to lust when he meets her.

6. The Trials
NorBAC reviews an experimental treatment being used on children with Leukemian. Just as they are about to declare the cancer therapy safe, another child dies.David disregards the proper channels and goes to Nunavut to get a sample of what he believes is the Spanish Flu virus from a frozen corpse.Mick and Lilith decide to go whale watching in Quebec, and Lilith begins to realize just how sick he is.

7. Faint Hope
Carlos Serrano, a Senior Researcher at NorBAC wants to use cutting edge research on a friend dying of AIDS. He supplies a Houston lab with contraband stem cells in order for his friend to be part of the human trials. In the experimental Leukemia treatments, another child dies, and David is determined to find out why the cancer treatment isn't working.

8. Blackout
A major power blackout on the Eastern Seaboard leads to fears that this might be a terrorist act. NorBAC determines that a plastic eating bacterium caused the blackout and they must stop it before more blackouts occur.David and his ex help Lilith deal with Mick's death.Caroline is worried about the possibility of having breast cancer.Bob, NorBAC's Biochemist, tells David he has been approached with another job offer.

9. The Secret War
Mayko Tran, NorBAC's bioinformatics specialist, is working on a case of civilians who have returned from working in Iraq for the military, exhibiting a wide range of mysterious illnesses.Carlos and David investigate multiple cases of hemophilia in a small community in Mexico. It is tied to a large multi-national laboratory who is working on GMOs. Jill must defend her reputation as a top virologist when a research paper she published is refuted.

10. The Source
In the continued investigation of the "Iraq War Syndrome", David checks out a theory that a cutting edge water purification system may be the culprit.In Mexico, David and Carlos explore the possibility that mosquitoes bred to eliminate malaria might be responsible for the hemophilia epidemic. Bob is lured away from NorBAC to join a lab that allows him to pursue his love of perfume creation. Caroline receives the diagnosis she's been waiting for.

11. The Promise
NorBAC has been taken over by a joint command to deal with a catastrophic smallpox scenario. Bob is determined to create a therapy for his dog that is suffering from histiocytosis. Jill comes clean with David about taking medication for her panic attacks. David discovers that the "Miranda Virus" outbreak may have been linked to the U.S. government's secret biochemical lab and that whoever manufactured Miranda may possess another, even more lethal, biological weapon.

12. Resurrection
David and Jill make a trip to Colorado where a rampant SARS-like outbreak is occurring. David is in shock when he discovers that the outbreak is Spanish Flu, a virus not seen since 1918, except when David dug it up in Nunavut. Racked with guilt, he inadvertently walks into the path of a car and is sent to the hospital in a coma. Mayko heads to Colorado to try to find Patient Zero in the Denver outbreak.

13. The Longest Night
David recovers consciousness, and leaves the hospital determined to admit his guilt and find a vaccine before the outbreak becomes a pandemic. Jill can't forgive David for lying to her. David is finally able to determine that the flu outbreak started with a migrating hawk which fed upon the remains of the corpse in Nunavut. But how did this happen? An unexpected link take the team back to the Miranda virus and the man who's behind the atrocity.

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1. China
After a self-imposed exile to China, David Sandström is kidnapped by the People’s Liberation Army and ordered to secretly investigate a deadly outbreak that has killed 19 people in a small village. With the help of three Chinese scientists, David discovers the outbreak has been caused by an ancient bacterium that has seeped into the village’s water system. David is horrified when he learns that one of the scientists has decided to test the antidote on her self in order to expedite a cure. While David makes his way back to Canada, Caroline and Carlos are witness to a horrific attack at the site of the International AIDS Conference.

2. Escape Mutant
David Sandstrom searches for a drug cocktail to save Audrey Graves, a pregnant woman who has been infected with a new strain of HIV from Africa. In an effort to save her baby, Audrey is induced at just 26 weeks; but it is too late, she has progressed to full blown AIDS and her baby has been exposed to the virus. Carlos attempts to trace the new strain of HIV back to Patient Zero and he encounters many painful memories of his own time in Africa. Meanwhile, Mayko recruits Simon Jessup, a British neuroscientist, to help her investigate a possible link between IQ spikes and Mad Cow disease. Mayko and Simon begin to develop a personal relationship.

3. The Cocktail
David has less than two days to discover a drug cocktail that will prevent a premature baby from becoming HIV positive. After he discovers a mixture that will save the baby, he encounters a number of bureaucratic roadblocks because the drug has not been approved. Carlos continues to research the new super strain of HIV with former colleagues in Africa, and realizes that his place is at NorBAC. Mayko and Simon’s investigation of dramatic IQ spikes in children who have been exposed to prion-laced chicken takes them to the United States. They make a brilliant finding but the results are devastating. Meanwhile, Mayko is troubled by some news she discovers about Simon.

4. Dim & Dimmer
While attending a conference in New York, David chases Owen a petty thief into the city’s abandoned subway tunnels where he finds an underground community of homeless people. David discovers that some of the inhabitants share symptoms of a mysterious illness and he begins to investigate. Back at NorBAC, Jill believes that she has discovered a cure for juvenile diabetes from an unsanctioned line of stem cells. Caroline’s nephew Glenn who has been lying in a coma is beginning to show some signs of response.

5. Massive Change
Jill’s potential cure for juvenile diabetes is compromised, causing protestors to demonstrate outside NorBAC. To further complicate matters, Jill discovers that the stem cells she used may be infected with a retrovirus; the implications of which would be felt the world over. Carlos and Mayko continue to test two critically-ill, homeless people David found living in New York’s subway tunnels. Their symptoms can’t be linked to any known disorder; however, they may be connected to an underground marijuana grow-op. Meanwhile, NorBAC is briefed on a strike by the U.S. Government on Cuban labs that may be responsible for the devastation of 1500 acres of orange groves in Florida.David gets devastating news from his father in Vancouver.

6. Our Man in Havana
While dealing with his mother’s recent death in British Columbia, David is asked to travel to Florida and Cuba with Carlos. NorBAC has been asked to investigate the claim of exiled Cuban millionaire Salvador Charringa, that his Florida orange groves have been destroyed by a biologically engineered bacterium known as x fastidiosa. When it starts to look like every major institute in Cuba is clean, David speculates that Charringa and the White House are trying to start a conspiracy to justify the invasion of Cuba. Just as tensions between the U.S. and Cuba are about to come to a head, David and Carlos, with the help of Cuban scientist Eva Ramone, discover exactly what the White House and Charringa have been looking for. Believing that Glenn is beginning to emerge from his coma, Bob enlists the help of neuroscientist Simon Jessup to determine a prognosis.

7. Talk To Him
While in Cuba investigating the cause of decimated orange groves in Florida, David and Carlos uncover information that points to a possible bio-terrorist plot on the part of the Cubans. The American President jumps the gun and immediately blames Cuba for the damaged crops. In her search for a cure for Juvenile Diabetes, Jill confirms that the Korean stem cell line is contaminated with a virus. Before her ground-breaking results can move forward, she must prove that the virus is harmless. Caroline’s nephew Glenn fails to respond to his surgery, but does manage one last devastating message.

8. Haze
Bob's attention turns to the escalating danger in the skies over Mexico city, where a massive brown cloud has begun to combine with the toxic emissions from a nearby volcano. The new mixture could rain sulfuric acid down on the city and Bob must try to convince the Mexican officials of the gravity of the situation before all of Mexico City is destroyed.Homeland Security is monitoring two scientists in Chicago who they believe are a threat to the US President. After taking samples from their lab, David feels the investigation is unwarranted and the two are set free.Owen shows up at David's office looking for a place to stay.

9. Gene in a Bottle
NorBAC’s investigation into a cluster of suicides occurring in the southern United States uncovers an unnatural enzyme in the brains of the victims. They are receiving something from their environment, and it’s causing sudden and severe depression, but where is the enzyme coming from? Meanwhile, the wife of a longtime scientist-friend of David who was killed in a car accident asks David to decipher the secret project her husband had been working on. With the help of Bob and Carlos, David discovers that his friend was genetically engineering mice. They soon deduce that he had discovered the gene that causes homosexuality and had initiated a patent for a drug that would suppress the gene! Bob scrambles to neutralize the Asian Brown Cloud before it dumps a deadly shower of sulfuric acid on Mexico City.Owen shows up at David’s apartment after Jill encounters him stoned on crystal meth but David decides to give him one more chance to clean up his act.

10. The Wild and the Innocent
NorBAC’s investigation into a cluster of suicides occurring in the southern United States uncovers an unnatural enzyme in the brains of the victims. They are receiving something from their environment, and it’s causing sudden and severe depression, but where is the enzyme coming from? Meanwhile, the wife of a longtime scientist-friend of David who was killed in a car accident asks David to decipher the secret project her husband had been working on. With the help of Bob and Carlos, David discovers that his friend was genetically engineering mice. They soon deduce that he had discovered the gene that causes homosexuality and had initiated a patent for a drug that would suppress the gene! Bob scrambles to neutralize the Asian Brown Cloud before it dumps a deadly shower of sulfuric acid on Mexico City.

11. Fishy
NorBAC must unravel a genetic mystery when fish bred in an East Coast fish farm start exhibiting unexpected and dangerous mutations. Furthermore, a number of kids in an East Coast village are becoming ill; could deadly radiation be leaking into the Ocean? The team continues to work on a promising anti-parasitic drug after a spike in Arkansas’ suicide rates is traced to worms brought into the state on the winds of hurricane Katrina. Caroline is in Washington being briefed about a new looming crisis – an entire National Guard unit has fallen unconscious and can’t be woken up. The illness resembles encephalitis lethargica, but the patients aren’t responding to usual treatments. The U.S. military suspects the illness is the work of a radical Muslim group.

12. Lethargica
NorBAC’s investigation into a cluster of suicides occurring in the southern United States uncovers an unnatural enzyme in the brains of the victims. They are receiving something from their environment, and it’s causing sudden and severe depression, but where is the enzyme coming from? Meanwhile, the wife of a longtime scientist-friend of David who was killed in a car accident asks David to decipher the secret project her husband had been working on. With the help of Bob and Carlos, David discovers that his friend was genetically engineering mice.

13. The End
Jill and the U.S. National Guardsmen begin to recover after receiving the lethargica antidote; but shortly thereafter, the Guardsmen begin to fall ill again with a secondary more deadly infection. Some Guardsmen begin to die and everyone fears for Jill’s life. Caroline believes that her superiors aren’t telling her everything about the lethargica outbreak and suspects that Wes, her executive assistant might also be in on it. Out of nowhere, the Manford brothers show up at David’s apartment and shed some light onto the recent epidemic. As Caroline continues to dig, she gets dangerously close to unearthing a conspiracy that could go deep into the White House.

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1. A Spontaneous Moment
6 months after the explosion, NorBac is still rebuilding itself. The team has to deal with the deaths of several of their friends and colleagues and the arrival of new people for the team.

2. Dust in the Wind
NorBac must find a cure to a bacterium that will surely kill David and Bob if they do not succeed. They also need to engineer the cure so that it eradicates the bacterium that was probably transported by the wind after the explosion of the lab in Utah.

3. Strangers in the Night
The US government wants to cut over $3 billion out of the science budget, and NORBAC has to prove they deserve to stay in operation. Meanwhile, a West Nile like virus is breaking out in San Francisco, but it's showing some abnormal traits. A scientist at the University of Toronto claims to be able to help Owen with his addiction.

4. I Dream of Genomes
Mayko finds the missing link to the Sinatra syndrome; Owen tries to commit suicide.

5. The God of Commerce
The team traces the Sinatra virus to an organ donor in the Philippines; David blames himself for allowing Owen to try experimental gene therapy to cure his drug addiction.

6. Phantoms
Mayko tries to get rid of the pain she's feeling in her phantom limb; the team investigates the high level of mercury contamination found in Lake McGraw.

7. One Hand Washes the Other
NorBac searches for the source of a resistant strain of c. difficile; despite his limited vision, Bob proves to be an asset to the team.

8. Sleepers
Several fires in British Columbia start. One of the action organizers calls NorBAC in as several firefighters present strange symptoms.
Craig, Rachel's son, comes to visit his mother at NorBAC. Both Mayko and Carlos are attracted to him.

9. Let it Burn
A weaponized biological agent was released during fires on the west coast, NorBac must find the creator of the agent. However, Rachel is more worried about her son who was attacked by a bear.

10. Unbearable
David discovers that NorBac has been tapped by Riddlemeyer. The team must find what caused the bear to attack Craig with no reason as a human being is presenting the same symptom. To save Bob's eyesight, David decide on a peculiar procedure.

11. Adrift
Bob undergoes his eye surgery in the hope he won't go totally blind in the process. Carlos and David are called in in a port in Nova Scotia where a ship's crew is missing except the captain who doesn't remember the past two weeks.

12. Jacobson's Organ
Fears arise that Carlos may have been infected with Crimean Congo Hemorrahagic fever; after experimental surgery that improves his vision,

13. Back to the Future
NORBAC discovers a link between the tantalum contamination and the recent smallpox scam; a viral activation of dormany genes evolves Bob into a higher consciousness.

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1. TB or Not TB
Bob is back. His brain surgery caused an infection which leaves him in a bad shape when found. He is put into a medically-induced coma. The team travels to Mexico where an antibiotic-resistant strain of TB is killing the Zapatista Revolutionaries.

2. La Consecuencia
Carlos has disappeared for two days and David goes back to Mexico first to find Carlos and second help the Mexicans to fight the drug resistant TB that is killing tens of Mexicans in the region. Mayko and Rachel work non stop to find a cure to the TB and to find what is causing the inhabitants of Hudson Point, Illinois to be insensitive to pain.

3. Hep Burn and Melinkov
As if being HIV positive wasn't enough, Wes is infected accidentally with a needle full of Hepatitis C.

4. The Kiss
Bob continues to be haunted by memories of his time at Roth's secret lab; Wes insists that Rachel inject him with highly experimental mutant red blood cells to fight the virulent Hep C; a mysterious disease that's causing brain inflammation in a small town appears to be contagious.

5. Suspicious Minds
After an experimental treatment for Hep C nearly kills him, Wes quits NorBAC to enroll in a cutting edge HCV program in Stockholm; a racist city councillor claims his daughter was poisoned by Muslim extremists; the FDA is willing to fast-track some drugs in order to save an immune-deficient woman who was infected with smallpox.

6. Race Fever
NorBAC investigates a mysterious outbreak that is hospitalizing cyclists on the course of the Tour Cyclo Quebec. Meanwhile, Bob embarks on a controversial hyperbaric chamber treatment to deal with his brain infection and memory loss.

7. Hearts and Minds
A pharmaceutical company comes under fire when its newly-marketed immune suppressing drug triggers a high incidence of congestive heart failure; David attempts to find a replacement for Wes; Bob suffers a seizure that triggers romantic memories of a girl named Nina.

8. Brood 14
Bob finally tracks down Nina, but on a visit back to Roth's lab he makes a gruesome discovery that suggests the experiment on Nina is about to go terribly wrong; the team investigates unusual crow attacks that appear to be targeting military airports.

9. Unbottled
A terrorist cell infiltrates the NorBAC lab and forces the scientists to produce a deadly measles mutation to be used as chemical warfare.

10. What It Feels Like
David ignores protocol and hires his new lover, Enuka; Mayko is contacted by the parents of a sick child who believe she's the only one that can help; as Nina becomes increasingly violent, the scientists try to find a way to deactivate her Jacobson's Organ.

11. Bloodless
When a young boy is murdered, forensic evidence leads the NorBAC team to investigate the unlikely existence of a prehistoric cat that disappeared from North America 10,000 years ago; a dramatic development complicates NorBAC's plans to deactivate Nina's Jacobson's organ.

12. The Sounds of Science
David Realizes that Roth went ahead with his plan to give the stem cell treatment to powerful people. HE knows those people will turn violent very soon. As for Carlos, he uncovers an atrocity while investigating a problem in Moldova.

13. The Truth
David has a sort of vision about the future. He is, then, even more convinced to stop the development of human cloning.

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