Renee Palmer (Jayne Heitmeyer) interrupts an intruder who has broken into her apartment. After a brief tussle, the would-be thief flees, leaving Renee baffled as to how anyone could get past her sophisticated security system, which even includes a DNA scanner. She meets with Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) and determines the break-in is probably linked to a project she is working on with the White House -- Hubble Urick (Frank Moore) has asked her to lobby the Fortune Top Fifty to support ratification of the Atlantic National Alliance (ANA), a global realignment in which 24 Western leaders have agreed to take steps to regain control of Earth from the Taelons.

That evening, Renee attends a party at the Taelon Embassy, where Hubble asks her to try to gain support for the ANA from one of the honored guests, Nobel Laureate Dr. Raymond Stephen Fuchs (John Ralston), the head of DonorMed, a company specializing in genetic biomedicine. He tells her she can arrange a meeting with Fuchs through his chief financial officer, Claire Yates (Stacy Grant), who also happens to be Renee's former Harvard roommate. Still upset that Claire disappeared without a word years earlier, Renee is at first reluctant to approach her old friend, but makes up with Claire and arranges a visit to Fuchs' offices.

On the Taelon mothership, Sandoval (Von Flores) meets with Zo'or (Anita La Selva) and tells him the ANA is gaining ground, but he is watching the situation closely. Zo'or replies he knows Fuchs is being lobbied and suggests Sandoval may need to do something more than just watch. Meanwhile, at the Resistance lab, Liam finds Renee's security system had been fooled by a tear spray containing her DNA. Renee tells him she did have a biopsy performed at Johns Hopkins Medical Center a month before, which may explain how someone could get a sample of her DNA. Since there is a DonorMed Clinic at the facility, Liam immediately suspects Claire and Fuchs of wrongdoing.

Renee visits DonorMed to check out Liam's suspicions. Fuchs tells her that he will consider supporting the ANA and then departs for the Taelon mothership to meet with Zo'or about acquiring purified Taelon energy that is vital in creating a new lifeform from raw DNA. Instead, he is met by Sandoval, who tells him Zo'or wants to proceed with caution and will send word soon about the energy. Frustrated, Fuchs storms away.

Claire meets Zo'or on the mothership and provides data from Renee's home computer that she downloaded while visiting her old friend. In turn, Claire is taken to a cell where Stephen, her lover whom she abandoned Renee for years earlier, is being kept. She enters and he appears out of the shadows. He is an angelic, carbon-genetic copy of his creator, Fuchs! The cloned Stephen tells her that what the doctor is ultimately trying to create is morally and ethically wrong. Stephen plots his escape from the mothership so he can stop Fuchs.

Liam provides Renee with a copy of her medical file from Johns Hopkins. Through security records, he discovers that Claire was visiting the DonorMed Clinic down the hall while Renee was having her biopsy. She has also shown up with Fuchs on Zo'or's confidential visitors' log. It seems that Fuchs is doing business with the Taelons, maybe even getting help in his genetic work. Liam later learns that Claire had once been abducted by the Taelons. They conducted synthetic brain chemistry experiments and used a chemical neuro-bonding process on her and a subject named Stephen.

Renee and Liam confront Claire and accuse her of conspiring with the Taelons. Claire explains she had to cooperate with them for Stephen's sake and admits the Taelons have been behind all of DonorMed's work. The next day, the three of them go to DonorMed to apprehend Fuchs, but they are not alone. Stephen has managed to escape the Taelons, and Sandoval hides in the shadows of Fuchs' lab, rifle in hand. When Stephen begins to grapple with Fuchs, Sandoval fires. The bullet enters Fuchs' back, passing through him and into Stephen. Both the creator and his creation fall dead to the floor.

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