Dark Angel

"Dark Angel" was a futuristic show about a young girl, Max (Jessica Alba), who had been genetically engineered and had escaped, along with others like her, from their military handlers. From the shows opening credits :
"They designed her to be the perfect soldier...
a human weapon...then she escaped.
In a future not far from now...in a broken world...
she is haunted by her past.
She cannot run, she must fight...to discover her destiny. "

Max was aided by Logan (Michael Weatherly), a young man in a wheelchair who ran a Website called "Eyes Only." There he seeked to expose the corruptedness of their government and various mysteries.

Over the course of its two season run, many mysteries were exposed on Dark Angel. During the second season, Max brings down Manticore, but finds that she has an even more deadly enemy in a millennia-old breeding cult structured similar to the Illuminati. This has resulted in humans even more formidable than the Manticore-produced transgenics, and now this cult is trying to hunt them all down. It turns out that a renegade from the cult, Sandeman, was largely responsible for Manticore's genesis. The villain Ames White is Sandeman's son, which essentially makes him Max's brother. The series was cancelled before the producers could really play with this dynamic, however (source: Wikipedia). So what were the marks? What was the plan for Max? According to the commentary on the Season 2 DVDs, the marks on her body were a code put there by Sandeman. Apparently White's cult was planning to poison the air to kill all of the transgenic mutants, and the runes contained the cure. Books are also available that tell about the events after the finale's stand-off.

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