A
woman who is on the run from an attacker accidentally drops
her baby from her buildings fire escape...luckily Huntress
(Ashlea
Scott) is on hand to catch the child and beat the crap
out of the assailants. Moments later However, when she tries
to return the infant to his mother, she finds her dead. She
failed to protect her.
Back
at the Clock Tower, Helena tells Barbara (Dina
Meyer) and Dinah (Rachel
Skarsten) what happened. Dinah immediately takes a shine
to the baby and names him Guy...but he takes a shine to Helena.
Barbara decides that they should take care of Guy until they
can find out what the attackers were after and who Guy's father
is.
Elsewhere
in New Gotham, Doctor Quinzel (Mia
Sara) threatens one of her associates (Kevin
Rankin) - the child she paid to be genetically engineered
is missing and is now in "third party" hands. Doctor
Melfin tries to explain that his assistant broke into the lab
last night and tried to free the baby but security were able
to track her down and eliminate her. Angry that his security
team failed to retrieve the child, Harley Quinn then calls
in a group of professionals to finish the job.
Meanwhile,
in the morgue, Helena sends back scans of the deceased mother.
After running her X-rays, dental work and fingerprints through
her computer system, Barbara finds nothing to help identify
the woman. However, Helena does find a small microchip embedded
in her arm. As she pulls out the small piece of technology,
Detective Reese (Shemar
Moore) sneaks up behind her, and the two chat about the
case. Reese jokes that he's not surprised to find her standing
over a dead body, and then asks why she has a bag full of baby
nappies. Before she can explain anything, Huntress is called
back to the Clock Tower by Oracle. When she arrives, she finds
Dinah and Barbara struggling to cope with Guy.
Alfred
(Ian
Abercrombie) offers some advice, after all he helped raise
Bruce Wayne, but doesn't want to get involved - he's a butler,
not a nanny. Barbara gives Guy to Helena and he instantly stops
crying. As she sings him a lullaby Oracle continues her cyber
search to find something out useful from the chip Helena found
at the morgue. The chip is actually an employee chip from a
special bio-lab down town meaning Guy's mother must have been
an employee there. Helena prepares to pay them a visit, but
when she checks in on Guy she discovers he has miraculously
grown to the age of a four year old.
After
doing some investigating, Barbara discovers Guy is a meta-human.
But the most shocking discovery is that if he keeps aging at
the same rate, he will die of old age in a matter of days.
Her investigation also uncovers something more sinister - Guy
has some kind of neural mesh integrated into his brain. The
purpose of the mesh seems to give him various skills and abilities
but what he does with the mesh is entirely up to him. Guy also
has the same chip that his mother did, leading the Birds of
Prey to believe that it was the bio-lab who installed the mesh
in the first place.
That
night, Harley Quinn carries out an interview for a retrieval
team. After a small demonstration of their abilities, she hires
the team and sets them loose on the city to find her baby boy.
In
the Clock Tower, Dinah reads to Guy who asks why he never had
a birthday and if he is different from other kids. Dinah decides
to tell him the truth - she tells him that he is actually different
from everyone else, but so is she. Meanwhile, Barbara calls
the bio-lab and speaks to the project manager - the same scientist
Harley Quinn threatened the day before - who tells her that
Guy has a rare aging disease that they were trying to cure
before he was abducted from the lab as an act of industrial
espionage. Melfin tells them that the woman who was killed
when Helena saved Guy was his assistant, and she was trying
to save Guy from the thugs who kidnapped him. Barbara agrees
to return Guy to the lab, but after hanging up tries to convince
Helena that they need to come up with a strategy...after all,
they know next to nothing about the lab or the people running
it. Helena however would rather take the chance that they could
cure Guy before he grows too old to be saved. Every hour is
precious. Barbara doesn't want to go in blind...so they take
Dinah with them.
Arriving
at the lab in Barbara's car, Helena is about to head into the
building when Dinah notices something odd about Guy...within
a matter of seconds, he transforms into an eleven year old.
It is then that they realise that both growth spurts have occurred
when Guy was sleeping. Barbara takes Dinah into the lab leaving
Helena to try and keep Guy awake. Once they meet with Doctor
Melfin however, Dinah has a vision. But before she can warn
Barbara, Melfin springs the trap and they are surrounded by
the labs security force. Melfin brings out a gun and demands
to see Guy.
Barbara
covertly signals Huntress who charges to the rescue, disabling
the swat team. As Melfin turns his gun on Huntress, Guy smashes
through the window and attacks him. Knocking him back into
a Simcron labs signs. Melfin is electrocuted, leaving them
without any answers.
Later,
Harley Quinn arrives at the lab with her special ops team.
She explains to the team that the boy was designed to go through
an entire life cycle in three days, and is the prototype for
her own team of assassins. Unfortunately, Melfin was unable
to bioengineer free will from the child. She finds the doctors
body and removes a remote from his pocket...its a trigger that
forces Guy to destroy everything in sight.
At
a swing park, Helena talks with Guy about what he was able
to do at the lab. Guy says that he "just knew" how
to fight when he needed to. She tells him that even if he has
to, he can't kill anyone...even bad people. Guy agrees not
to hurt anyone, and then asks if he'll ever have a birthday.
Helena promises that she'll make sure he has one with a cake
and candles.
That
night, as Guy sleeps, Alfred provides Helena with fresh clothes
for Guy when he awakes. He compares Guy to Helena, saying she
turned out rather well given the circumstances of her life.
The problem is, she had time to make mistakes and to correct
them.
Out
on the ledge of the Clock Tower, Barbara talks to Helena about
the mesh in Guy's head - apparently, Simcron programmed it
with two modes. The first allows Guy to learn as he grows.
However the second is set to turn him into a warrior. Moments
later, Guy comes out onto the ledge as a sixteen year old,
demanding to know what's going to happen to him. Helena tries
to reassure him, but Guy says he's just a freak and Helena
should never have tried to save him if there was nothing she
could do. He storms off, and Helena has to go looking for him.
Dinah
uses her meta-human powers to find him in a club. She tries
to connect with him, sharing some of her life with him. Some
guys try coming onto Dinah, but when she shrugs them off they
become aggressive, forcing Guy to get violent. Elsewhere in
New Gotham, Helena seeks Reese's help. As they talk about Helena's "nephew",
a call comes over the police scanner about a teenage boy terrorising
a teen dance club. Huntress immediately takes off to try and
find him. At the scene, she finds a rather dazed Dinah who
says she couldn't stop him from leaving after the fight. Luckily,
Helena had a hunch where he would go.
Unbeknownst
to them both, Harley Quinn and her team was also at the scene
of destruction after they picked up the same call Reese got.
Harley Quinn was ecstatic with the level of destruction that
one of her super soldiers caused, giving orders to her team
to "follow the mayhem".
In
the park, Helena finds Guy laying unconscious, older than he
was before. Helena's meta-human danger sense flares, and she
warns Guy that something dangerous is near by. To which he
replies "me", and he takes on Huntress. Guy is then
overcome with the need to fight, and explains to Huntress that
he has a gift no one else in the world has - he knows why he
was created and what his purpose in life. Helena however tries
to get through to him, urging him to face his demons just like
she faces hers. After blocking a few punches, she is eventually
able to calm him down and the two hug. Moments later, Harley's
SWAT team arrives and the meta-human duo take on the entire
team.
Back
in the Clock Tower, Helena, Barbara and Dinah watch as the
aging process in Guy speeds up and he gets older and older.
The process continues until he is an old man, and the heroes
realise there is nothing they can do. Before he goes however,
Helena presents Guy with a birthday cake with a candle, urging
him to make a birthday wish. Guy wishes for Helena to be happy...because
that’s exactly what he gave to her. Moments later, he
dies in front of them.
In
the office of Doctor Harleen Quinzel, the leader of the SWAT
team feels the wrath of the villainess because of his failure.
She finds it ridiculous that one unidentified woman was able
to override millions of dollars of technology and research
by being friends with the child. With no sign of her genetically
produced soldier, or the identity of the woman that foiled
her plans, Harley snaps his neck and then gazes out of her
window into the New Gotham night with the knowledge that there
is at least one hero who can stand against her and she needs
to find her.
Mourning
for Guy at the swing park, Helena sits on the swings as Reese
arrives to ask if she found her nephew. Huntress replies that
he is "gone", but obviously the Detective doesn't
understand. Before leaving however, he apologises for everything
that has happened between them. Meanwhile on the Clock Tower,
Barbara and Dinah discuss the woman that Helena saw directing
the carnage at the club. Thanks to Guy, they now know there
is someone out there with plans to put the organised back into
New Gotham's crime.
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