The second season of this show begins six weeks after the first season finale, with Dr. David Sandstrom MIA. He's in China, feeling guilty from the events he believes he was responsible for. However, the Chinese government kidnaps him and puts him with other scientists, to find out what's killing their soldiers. He manages to communicate with his agency in Toronto, NORBAC. He figures out that what's killing them is an ancient form of bacteria. Afterwards, when the Chinese let him go, he returns back to work.
Other episodes involve a new strain of HIV and prion infections that seem to make children more intelligent before it kills them. On a trip to New York City where he's attending a conference, David befriends a sixteen-year old homeless kid who eventually turns up at his doorstep in Toronto. He tries to help him but the kid is a compulsive liar, thief and drug addict, which actually has to do with his genetics. When him and a girl do some drugs she overdoses and he dumps her body at the hospital. Later he's caught and held responsible for her death. He doesn't want to be how he is so he volunteers for a new experiment that will correct some of that genetic behavior--only it ends up turning him into a near-vegetable much to Sandstrom's dismay, since he didn't want the kid to become a guinea pig.
In another story, a man is convinced his son is becoming sick from a mutant fish they ate, but it turns out to be that everyone in that small town is genetically related to each other. One of the more interesting stories, GENE IN A BOTTLE, is about an increase in suicides in Arkansas, which has everyone puzzled. It has to do with a strange worm parasite the people contracted and is like an episode of X-FILES. Sandstrom's mother also dies and he goes back to visit his father, who has Alzheimer's and can't care for himself.
In the last episode of the season someone sets a bomb off in the middle of the facility and we're left hanging as to which characters live or die.
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