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==Synopsis==
[[Max Guevara]] was bio-engineered in a government lab, at a facility called [[Manticore]], sometime around the turn of the 21st century located in Gillette, Wyoming. As with all of their creations (exception of [[Joshua]]), Max has a barcode on the back of her neck, with her identifying number sequence (332960013452). This number is as stated on the official website, but is stated in the show as (332960073452). The latter is accurate. She is an X-5 model and is thus referred to as X5-452. Max and her unit, her "brothers and sisters," named themselves back at Manticore, and sometime after she escapes, she assumes the surname Guevara.
Max and her unit were trained to be soldiers using harsh and brutal techniques, supervised by Colonel [[Lydecker]] ([[John Savage]]) designed for their special abilities. The genetically engineered supersoldiers had a design flaw though. They were missing the essential tryptophan aminoacid in the brain resulting in seizures. This led to the removal and death of some of their unit. When they learned this, and Max began to get the shakes, their protective unit leader, [[Zack]] (X5-599) ([[William Gregory Lee]]) decided they should escape, and led them through a snow-filled forest as they were being chased by Lydecker's men. Max got separated from her unit when she fell into a frozen pond (having been trained to hold her breath underwater for long periods of time) allowing her to avoid the search party.
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Several months after her escape, terrorists detonated an electromagnetic pulse in the atmosphere over the U.S., on June 1, 2009. This destroyed the vast majority of electrical systems, throwing the United States into chaos, and making it a third world country over night, which let corruption and crime flourish and eventually leading to a stricter martial control of the population.
By the year 2019, Max is living in Seattle, Washington, illegally squatting in an abandoned building, first with [[Kendra]] ([[Jennifer Blanc]]) and later with [[Original Cindy]] ([[Valarie Rae Miller]]) her best friend that she works with at [[Jam Pony]] (a bicycle messenger service). Other friends from there include [[Herbal Thought]] ([[Alimi
It is during one of these burglaries that she meets [[Logan Cale]] ([[Michael Weatherly]]), and realizes that he's the cyber-journalist "Eyes Only." Interested in finding more about his highly skilled mystery visitor, he discovers who she is using security footage, and invites Max back to his apartment. Once there, and being well versed on his government conspiracies, he confirms his suspicions (sees her barcode) that she is one of the escaped X-5s from Manticore. Max and Logan make a pact: he will help her find her missing siblings, if she will help him take down bad guys. Logan also helps to protect Max from Lydecker, who's been looking for the escapees since their breakout.
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Soon into the series (10 years after the escape), Max meets up with Zack. More siblings are found, and often with tragic consequences. By the end of the first season, a plan is developed to take down Manticore, one with Lydecker who defects from Manticore after an attempt to assassinate him, and the death of [[Tinga]], one of "his kids." The plan is to destroy the genetics lab, crippling Manticore's ability to produce more soldiers. During their raid, Max gets critically injured, and is assumed dead, but she is actually recaptured.
The plan while successfully executed, fails to destroy Manticore. Instead, a new, larger Manticore facility gets set up an hour outside of Seattle, Washington. While with Manticore again, she meets [[Alec McDowell]] ([[Jensen Ackles]]), a self-centred transgenic, who is supposed to be her breeding partner, and is also a clone of her friend [[Ben]] whom she had to kill. Max befriends one of the new escapees, the first Manticore creation, [[Joshua]]
Eventually, Max escapes and reunites with Logan, only to discover that she's become a carrier to a deadly virus which was genetically targeted for Eyes Only. Max helps Logan expose Manticore. Director [[Elizabeth Renfro]] carries out the threat she made to Max, to destroy the facility and all the people within, but Max, with Joshua's help, sets most of them free. The numerous transgenics who escape create the eventual public knowledge of their existence. Transgenic [[Alec McDowell]] saw how Manticore tried to destroy all his colleagues, so becomes disillusioned with them and becomes an ally of Max.
Max's problems are further compounded when the government starts hunting down and destroying the escaped Manticore soldiers, led by [[Ames White]]. White is both a government agent, and a member of a secret ancient [[Breeding Cult]], similar in structure to the Illuminati, which spans millennia. He's particularly focused on Max, who is revealed to have been created without junk DNA and for a special purpose. He turns out to be Sandeman's son, and Sandeman turns out to be a renegade from the breeding cult, rejecting it because his other son [[C.J.]] wouldn't have survived their initiation rite, which involves infecting initiates with a virus carried in snake blood to see if they can survive.
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