Max must break her vow to avoid Logan after Joshua becomes a target of a transgenic manhunt in the sewers; White leaks news of the human-looking X-5s to the media, leading to a wide-scale attack against the so-called "monsters" running amok.

A bogus transgen lures Max into White's trap, where she learns the truth about the mystery marks appearing on her skin; the Terminal City dwellers mount a campaign to battle the humans hunting them down; Alec learns why Logan has been keeping his distance from his former friends.