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In the second season of the show, the tone changes as Max brings down Manticore and frees the soldiers. She is helped in her escape by Alec, in an attempt to facilitate the assassination and capture of Eyes Only, and Joshua, a transgenic with canine DNA. She later learns that Joshua was the first transgenic created by Manticore's founder Sandeman. Max also finds out that Manticore produced soldiers for speciality environments such as desert and arctic conditions and consequently look vastly different from normal humans. A major theme in the second season is the discovery of an even more deadly enemy in a millennia-old breeding cult similar in structure to the Illuminati. This has resulted in humans even more formidable than the Manticore-produced transgenics, and even some with strong telekinetic powers.

Season 2 (2001-2002)# # Title Directed by Original airdate
23 2x01 "Designate This" Jeff Woolnough September 28, 2001
Once again a prisoner of Manticore, Max plans an escape with the help of her "breeding partner", Alec (Ben's twin), and a human-canine experimental creature named Joshua.
24 2x02 "Bag 'Em" Vern Gillum October 5, 2001
Lydecker warns Logan to keep Max away from Manticore even as Max tracks down the young recruits who escaped the same night she caused Manticore's self-destruction.
25 2x03 "Proof of Purchase" Thomas J. Wright October 12, 2001
As Alec is recaptured by Manticore and Joshua begins hunting for his "father," Lydecker seemingly disappears after discovering a secret archaeological dig at an Indian burial site.
26 2x04 "Radar Love" Jeff Woolnough October 26, 2001
The episode starts off with Joshua finding his way to Max with his canine sense of smell. Asha Barlow says a couple of derogatory things about Max and the other transgenics. A mutant with a mutilated face and bleeding skin goes around in China Town, believed to be infecting people. He gets shot while saving a boy at a motel and, during an autopsy, is believed to be clean of any infecting agents. Asha gets caught while trying to illegally get through a sector checkpoint and is rescued by Max. Joshua stays at the Sandman's house to avoid getting seen in public. The infection is later determined to be an infection agent deployed through a hand-held fireworks launcher targeted at specific gene patterns. The plan to deploy an infection agent targeted at transgenics is foiled by Max and Logan.
27 2x05 "Boo" Les Landau November 2, 2001
A night of Halloween trick-or-treating is the perfect cover-up for Joshua, who is delighted at the opportunity to get out of the house without attracting attention. Rafer and Max grow closer while encountering transgenetic Manticore creations.
28 2x06 "Two" Allan Kroeker November 9, 2001
Max has her hands full when Alec gets a job at Jam Pony in order to case potential robbery targets and Joshua's "man-dog" brother begins attacking and killing cops.
29 2x07 "Some Assembly Required" Nick Marck November 16, 2001
Believing Zack killed himself when they were captured by Manticore, Max is shocked to see him on some security camera footage robbing a store with a group of Steelheads.
30 2x08 "Gill Girl" Bryan Spicer December 7, 2001
Max, Alec and Logan do battle against Manticore clean-up operation head Ames White after a mysterious girl with gills is pulled out of the sea by a group of fishermen.
31 2x09 "Medium is the Message" Jeff Woolnough December 14, 2001
Max and Logan discover that genetic breeding has gone on for generations after being contacted by a woman asking for help in finding her six-year-old son.
32 2x10 "Brainiac" Stephen Williams January 11, 2002
While investigating the arrest of an S1W cell with the help of a Manticore escapee able to predict the future, Max begins to suspect Logan has fallen in love with Asha.
33 2x11 "The Berrisford Agenda" Thomas J. Wright January 18, 2002
Alec goes with Max on a Jam Pony run and is stunned when they make a delivery to a mansion where he went undercover for Manticore- and ended up causing the death of a girl he loved.
34 2x12 "Borrowed Time" David Straiton February 1, 2002
While Max is busy stealing footage from a classic sci-fi movie to pay for a cure that will allow her and Logan to be together, Joshua encounters the deadly Manticore creation called Gossamer.
35 2x13 "Harbor Lights" Kenneth Biller February 8, 2002
Ames White closes in on Max after she stumbles into a police shoot-out and ends up in the hospital where the virus in her blood is detected.
36 2x14 "Love in Vein" David Grossman March 8, 2002
While Alec secretly has Joshua deliver his Jam Pony packages, Max encounters a group of "Bloods" who are under the spell of a transgenic who makes them drink his blood.
37 2x15 "Fuhgeddaboudit" Morgan James Beggs March 15, 2002
Max, Alec and Logan begin experiencing strange memory lapses (which are caused by a Manticore transgenic named Mia) while trying to get a mob accountant for a crime syndicate to rat on his boss.
38 2x16 "Exposure" Stephen Williams March 22, 2002
Max and Logan finally trace Ames White's son to Brookridge Academy only to find him involved in a mysterious cult ceremony taking place in a temple on school grounds. At the same time Sketchy gets a job for the mutants magazine and is on the look out for mutants from Manticore, and Max and Alec are getting worried.
39 2x17 "Hello, Goodbye" Jeff Woolnough April 5, 2002
While Joshua befriends a blind girl named Annie, Max struggles to deal with her overwhelming guilt when Logan nearly dies after unintentionally touching her. Meanwhile, Alec is arrested for a murder committed by his twin Ben.
40 2x18 "Dawg Day Afternoon" Kenneth Biller April 12, 2002
With the television full of news reports about dangerous transgenics, a lonely Joshua is quickly spotted when he leaves his house in search of his friend Annie.
41 2x19 "She Ain't Heavy" Allan Kroeker April 19, 2002
White uses Max's clone to track her down as increased tensions force Logan to flee from his apartment forever, Max to leave Seattle and Joshua to make his way to a place where transgenics don't have to hide - Terminal City.
42 2x20 "Love Among the Runes" James Whitmore, Jr. April 26, 2002
As Logan sets up a new Eyes Only location in Joshua's old house, ancient writings appear on Max's arm, then quickly spread to cover her whole body.
43 2x21 "Freak Nation" James Cameron May 3, 2002
The gang at Jam Pony find out Max and Alec are transgenics after a young X6 and a pregnant X5 take cover inside the building and an angry mob and police gather outside. The Conclave sends elite warriors the 'Phalanx' after Max This is the series finale, as the show was cancelled afterwards by FOX and not renewed for a third season.