Brief sequence here. A man with strange eyes (The whites are black and the pupils are red.) is walking down the street, when he sees the empty clothes on the stairs. He leaps down - there's a lot of that going on lately - finds the empty vial, and looks up to what is probably Lucas's still-empty window/hole.
The scene shifts to a warehouse, which contains crates marked poison and machines with lots of paper, where the printer and the engraver are being pushed around by a Fixed Idea and told "You make money!" Gotta love the English here… The man with the black eyes is standing before a computer monitor, obviously giving a report. The other end is in a strange lab, filled with glass containers with the glowing green acid and strange creatures floating inside. The man says they have the printer and the engraver, and is told to get them to work right away. The man also says that he found a Fixed Idea - the first time the name is mentioned, I used it above because I was sick of writing "monster" - deactivated. The man on the other end, obviously the head honcho, says he will send José to take care of things. The flunky says he's watching someone, and signs off after being told to ship the cargo. The man, who we never see the face of, calls out for José, who calls him father, and steps out almost into the light. I love the way everyone except Lucas, Lori and Adrian are introduced first in shadow. It even makes José look terrifying! Of course, those huge shining glasses help…

Back at the café the next day, Lucas is trying to tell Adrian what had happened. Another fine example of Lucas's rationality: Tell a guy you've known for a day a story that either belongs in a comic book or a report from an insane asylum. See my profile on Adrian for a slightly confused explanation of what I think it means. (It will be redone in a more legible essay, promise.) Adrian says he finds the whole story hard to believe, and thinks Lucas dreamed it, to which he replies, "Haven't got the imagination!" When Adrian still insists it must have been a dream, Lucas shows him the vial. That gets Adrian's attention, and after nearly spilling on his coffee in surprise he insists Lucas put it away. Lucas wants to know why, but Adrian just gets up to leave, asking him to be careful. Lucas runs after him, after getting out money for the mostly uneaten dinner and grabbing his coat and one last piece of pizza. Check out the way the table is spread when Adrian gets up, by the way: A hamburger with fries, water, and coffee on Adrian's side; pizza, rolls, pasta, some sort of sandwich, soup, what look like waffles (?), water, and coffee on Lucas's, partially started. This is the foreshadowing of some food jokes in later episodes, most notably Brainwashed. Also note the books on Lucas's side: he forgets to pick them up when he leaves! Good thing he comes there regularly; the waitress will probably hold on to them for him.
This is still the same sequence, but a major scene change, panning up on an impressive-looking mansion. A shot of the head-honcho's portrait - I thought it was a woman at first, though! LOL - and the flunky (a Tecno, although it's not mentioned in the episode.) standing at attention, obviously waiting for the promised José, when the door opens and in comes the biggest Fixed Idea ever. And that's saying a lot! "José?" the Tecno asks hopefully…but then a soon to be characteristic, bouncy beat is heard in the background, a quick pan down to the monster's feet, and we see a pipsqueak that comes halfway to its knee with huge orange glasses march out Nazi-style from behind it, announcing "I'm José!" The poor Tecno, rightfully, protests that he's just a kid, but José insists he will be listened to, climbs up onto the desk - watch it carefully, José can't do anything without almost falling or something! LOL - and demands that others sit in his presence (So he will seem taller than them. ). José is shown against the portray of his "father," I assume so we can see the similarities, but their faces are totally opposite in shape, so it's not obvious.
Back to Lucas and Adrian. Lucas catches up to him at a set of stairs, and then starts walking beside him like nothing is wrong. Trying to save a little face, in my opinion. "Maybe you should give it to her," Adrian suggests (Meaning the vial.), but Lucas says no. Adrian looks at Lucas, and decides that he isn't going to change his mind. They walk down the stairs together, heads down, trench coats loose around them. This is the first time we've seen Adrian looking like someone else, or someone else trying to be like Adrian. It's a good sign and symbol for their future friendship.
Pan up to Lucas's boarded-up window, with the sounds of searching behind it. We see José, a couple of Fixed Ideas, and the Tecno going through Lucas's apartment with a fine-toothed comb. The Tecno finds the hole in the floor, which José tries to be impressed about but obviously fails to see the significance of. Rapid pan down to see Lucas and Adrian coming into the apartment building, and we hear Adrian's started another tactic, as he says, "You could get killed! She sounds dangerous…" Two things: I like how they brought us in the middle of their conversation, it's more natural but rarely done in a television series; and I like the irony of Adrian playing devil's advocate about the woman. Lucas stubbornly refuses to believe the worst about her, saying he thinks she's in trouble, where we loose the conversation again. We see José and his crew leave Lucas's apartment, José continuing to question the Tecno about him. They get into the elevator, and it closes just as Lucas and Adrian come up to the top of the stairs. Great timing on the part of the writers here. Lucas is still trying to convince Adrian t he isn't in danger, saying "She's never tried to hurt me," when he notices the door to his apartment is open. Warning Adrian to be quiet, he flattens against the wall, looks in, and stands stunned as he sees what a mess it is in. Of course, if anyone were still in the room, he'd be dead…*sigh* Men! While Lucas starts to get things in order and wonder who did it, Adrian looks around, lowers his head, and comes to a decision. He leaves, stopping in the door only long enough to the Lucas to give the woman the vial the next time she comes, then runs off.
We see Adrian's apartment, shrouded in a hazy light. Adrian comes in, saying, "It's my fault. If I hadn't come here…" Listeners with good ears should also notice Adrian's voice is higher and softer. Adrian stops in front of the window with his head in his hands - notice the shadow - and starts one of my favourite soliloquies of the series: "Five fingers, a heart, but…I'm not like them. I don't need a friend…do I? He's in danger. I have to help, as he helped me…" During this, a softer version of the main theme starts slowly, Adrian takes off her - yes, her - glasses (note the reflection on them, very nice extra touch), pulls out her hair, and pulls off her clothes to show a very feminine shadow that's a big contrast to the one before. She pulls on her suit, gloves, and plops the hat on her head, then steps outside to a circular pan that shows her complete transformation, her background music in full swell. Then she jumps out, cape flapping behind her, into the night.
Another shot of Lucas's semi-repaired window, which pans down to show it's being watched by José and three Fixed Ideas, and José explains for at least the second time what they're watching Lucas's apartment. When he starts we see a shadow on the building above, and just as he ends he gets a good view of the wood exploding inward as someone jumps in. Of course, we all know who. :) José screams at them to get her, and they run off to comply as the commercial break starts. Watch José's face when he almost falls off the Fixed Idea's shoulder! LOL
Lucas looks up in shock at the sound of breaking wood and glass as she comes in, ordering him to get out of his apartment immediately. When he protests, she asks him to trust her, and give her the vial as his apartment door is being rammed. Lucas, for once, listens and when José comes waltzing in, she distracts him by asking if she was who he wanted, showing the tattoo on her arm: Cyber 6. And we finally learn her name, CyberSix. Yes, I know it's a numeric on the tattoo, but everything else and everyone else spells it out. The single-word with two capitals is my version, though… The fact that she's a Cyber stuns José, which gives her time to push Lucas out of the way - he's still trying to be a hero, he just doesn't learn - throw a lamp at them, and come out swinging. She gets one, but another starts throwing punches at her, so Lucas tries to help, but a human fighting a Fixed Idea is like trying to throw water balloons at a brick wall: One thing is going to break, and it ain't going to be the brick wall. He succeeds in distracting the one, though, but when CyberSix tries to help the other two grab her, and while she makes short work of them, the other Fixed Idea makes shorter work of Lucas. Whistling to get their attention, she shows them the vial, saying that if "he" (Von Richter) wants it, the "little boy" (José, and yes he doesn't appreciate the name.) would have to catch her, and leaps out to the rooftops of the city, effectively making them forget all about Lucas. José yells at the Fixed Ideas outside to get her, calling them "worthless mutants," the best description of them in the entire series, and orders the Tecno to make sure they don't lose her while he goes back to the warehouse. Lucas overhears this and, after picking up a paper that's obviously Lori's homework - here Lori's used as a symbol for all the students, because she's the only one named - says "That's it for homework tonight, Lori," and processes to go find the mentioned warehouse (instead of a doctor to see if he's got a concussion yet. )
Outside, the Fixed Ideas are chasing CyberSix, and not doing a good job of it, particularly when they reach the sloped roof. Watch for the one that slips! LOL Obviously having fun, CyberSix kicks one off, taunts the rest to the edge of the roof, then jumps straight up. Confused, the Fixed Ideas try to stop, and only one succeeds, so CyberSix trips it with a graceful sweep of her foot, then looks down to see her handiwork: three human-shaped craters in the sidewalk, filled with dazed mutants. The poor Tecno is less amused, however, probably worried about what José is going to do with him.

At the warehouse, the counterfeiting business is in full swing, and José is getting the Fixed Idea to load all the fake money, "encouraging" those that fall behind in his own unique way. The engraver and printer, no longer needed, are being lead off by a Fixed Idea, when suddenly the glass in the windows and every light bulb in the place shatters. I really want to know how CyberSix pulled that one off; that would be so cool to do! VEG The Fixed Idea guarding the two kidnapped men is swiftly knocked out in the resulting darkness and confusion, and CyberSix points the men to the exit, who don't need to be told twice. José hears them run off, and starts to chase them, but CyberSix swings down, kicking a Fixed Idea, which knocks down José then falls on him. Oh, he deserved that! VEG More taunting, more of José falling as he tries to get out from underneath 300 pounds of muscle and a solid skull, and yet another order of "Get her!" All the Fixed Idea run to obey, but José trips the one that fell on him and yells at it to load the truck. The X eyes on the knocked out Fixed Idea contrast the rest of the realistic style of the series, but work so perfectly you can't imagine anything else. CyberSix tries to show the Fixed Ideas that skill, speed, and intelligence beat raw, bone-brained strength any day, which obviously won't work but is still fun to watch. And Lucas, in his cool red Bug, breaks at least three driving laws trying to get down to the warehouse district. One Fixed Idea finally burns enough brain cells to get the idea of firing a missile at CyberSix, but he only succeeds in igniting some of the barrels of ink and creating a handy explosion to show Lucas exactly where all the excitement is. José and the Fixed Idea finally load the truck despite the growing fire, however, and after José is lifted into the driver's seat, he discovers there's a good reason ten-year-old runts shouldn't drive: they can't reach the pedals. CyberSix leaps onto the truck to stop them, but discovers the number one reason against flowing capes as the big Fixed Idea grabs hers and tosses her into a wall. Cathy Weseluck did a very good job with the scream, by the way; you almost think someone really threw her across the room to get it. Knowing that this monster will need more than a quick kick to the back, CyberSix narrowly dodges his punch, which imbeds his arm up to his elbow into the way, and barely manages to start an avalanche of the heavy metal tubes used on the printer in time to crush him.
José manages to figure out how to drive the truck in time to get it out of the warehouse before the fire reaches the big stack of flammable drums and the warehouse explodes. He's so busy laughing, however, he doesn't see Lucas driving straight for him, and barely turns out of the way, and doesn't have the same luck when he reaches the edge of the pier. Lucas comes to a stop after narrowly missing a wall, and José and the Fixed Idea manage to swim to the surface of the bay as the truck, and their hard-faked money sink to the bottom. José, being José, promptly blames the closest thing: the Fixed Idea.
A shadow falls on Lucas's car, and the music builds up ominously, until we see a familiar gloved hand reach out to him to make sure he's all right and the music changes to the now-familiar tune: it's CyberSix, who's managed to escape the explosion. Lucas, dazed and confused, to ask who she is. See how his opinion has changed? Before she was a "what," now, she's a "who." Despite everything that's happened, or maybe because of it, he sees her as a person, not a monster. Now, if only she could notice that… CyberSix, being CyberSix, doesn't answer, and tries to leave. He grabs her hand, though, and asks if he'll ever see her again. Can you say caught, hook, line and sinker? *sigh* I'm a hopeless romantic, I know… But after a moment's hesitation, she pulls out of his hand, and leaps back out into the night without saying a word.

The final sequence. A pan of what looks like a castle a computer repairman went crazy with, sticking lines and tubes everywhere, with flashes at the electricity jumps over poor connections, sticking out of the jungle around it against a storm-clouded sky. The head-honcho (Von Richter, again they don't mention the name.) is receiving a report of the evening's events, and they aren't good: the money is gone, and the one to blame is a mysterious woman with the tattoo Cyber 6. Von Richter says José (Or so we assume, you never hear the other voice.) must be mistaken, but as soon as he signs off Von Richter begins to take the idea very seriously: "Alive? CyberSix, alive? My most profound failure, alive?!?" A lightning bolt reveals his narrow face.
And CyberSix, being highlighted with a similar bolt of lightning unknowingly replies: "You can come after me, but I won't run."

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!!! One of my favourite episodes, and a favourite of most other fans too. It introduces all but two of the main characters perfectly, and while it doesn't give some of the names, other than that it lacks nothing in detail. The suspense is perfectly executed, and every scene was important. And the matter of CyberSix is handled so expertly, that unless you knew beforehand or were particularly observant, the revelation that Adrian is really CyberSix is a perfect surprise. The characters are shown realistically except for the intentionally exaggerated José (if you take into account the circumstances.) and except for incidentals like the three gang members and the purposely one-dimensional Fixed Ideas they all are layered and complex. The action sequences are also wonderfully done, and take advantage of all of the participants abilities.