2x03 Sense and Antisense
Millennium (1996)
2x03 Sense and Antisense, written by Chip Johannessen and Michael R. Perry, directed by Thomas J. Wright.
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Control of third world populations designated secret national policy.
-- National Security memo 200 (1971)
U.S. Military released from liability for experiments on unwilling and unknowing human subjects.
-- U.S. vs. Stanley, Supreme Court (1985) [actually 1987]
Frank is called in for a case of a raving man bleeding with something that looks like Ebola. He discovers it is not an infectious disease but rather the result of genetic experiments. Many similar "John Doe" corpses are showing up at the morgue and sinister "men in trenchcoats" appear to be cleaning up the trail.
They might be using the Department of Energy and Human Genome Project as covers, but Frank finds both agencies to be suspicious.
Peter is angry that Frank took a job without telling the Group. Frank has another stalker, an anonymous caller who does not speak.
This is more of an X-Files plot but plagues (or genetic tampering) have apocalyptic implications in keeping with Millennium. The suspicion is that the experiments are for control of populations, and that the Rwanda massacres were a result.
People caught up in this tend to paranoid raving but sometimes shout the truth.
We have more season 2 quips between the characters. Frank and hacker Roedecker (Allan Zinyk) are practically a comedy team.
Patient Zero is played by Clarence Williams III, 110 acting credits in the IMDB, including 123 episodes of The Mod Squad which count as one.
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Human Genome Project accelerated for completion by the turn of the millennium.
-- U.S. Department of Energy (1990)
It completed in 2003.
