ReGenesis

Geneticist David Sandstrom is the chief scientist at the prestigious virology/micro-biology NORBAC laboratory, a joint enterprise between the USA, Canada and Mexico for countering bio-terrorism.

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Cast:Peter Outerbridge , Conrad Pla , Dmitry Chepovetsky , Mayko Nguyen , Greg Bryk , Maxim Roy , Wendy Crewson , Sarah Strange , Geraint Wyn Davies , Michael Seater , Garen Boyajian , Rosa Laborde , Elliot Page , Marc Strange , Maurice Dean Wint , Mark Rendall , Mishu Vellani , Rosemary Dunsmore

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Baby Bomb

Sun, Oct 24, 2004

Genetisist David Sandstrom is the chief scientist at the prestigious virology/micro-biology NORBAC laboratory which is a joint enterprise between the USA, Canada and Mexico and is responsible for countering bio-terrorism. David's nightmare day begins when his daughter arrives unexpectedly and catches him having sex with Twyla. Whilst trying to reconcile her, he receives a call from NORBAC about an Ebola outbreak that seems to be heading south along highway 17 on its way to Toronto killing everyone in its path! If this wasn't enough, on his was to NORBAC he is intercepted by a teenager who claims to be the son of an internationally renowned geneticist and a clone. The day goes from bad to worse as the death toll continues to rise, his daughter refuses to go home and the teenager turns into a stalker! David and his team struggle to determine how cow-pox can suddenly become as virulent as Ebola but not contain any of the Ebola DNA. Eventually, David has a brilliant idea and uses the analogy of "Grate Aural Sects" and "Great Oral Sex" to explain the new hybrid disease and the race is on to prove it!

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Spare Parts

Sun, Oct 24, 2004

As the laboratory works flat out to map the new Ebola DNA the search continues for patient zero! A bus pulls into a rest stop in the outskirts of Toronto and a passenger has early symptoms of the outbreak. The bus and passengers are immediately quarantined and NORBAC notified. Is this the break they need? David and his team take samples and detailed medical histories of the passengers to try to identify patient zero. The tests lead the team to Daisy and her baby Miranda as possible carriers of this lethal new virus as both appear to be immune to it! Detailed background checks and microscopic examination of her DNA reveal that the baby Miranda is patient zero. Meanwhile, the teenage stalker and David's daughter Lilith hook up and he provides tissue samples for David to examine to determine if he is a clone. When the enormity of the betrayal is explained to Daisy, she loses it and kills baby Miranda. David tries to stop her and in the process is exposed to the Ebola virus hybrid. Bob's initial tests on the DNA samples leave him puzzled.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Face of God

Sun, Oct 31, 2004

After an anxious wait, David discovers he hasn't contracted the Ebola virus. Back at the lab Caroline interrogates Hira on her involvement with her brother, the member of a terrorist cell in Pakistan. Bob runs the DNA tests on Mick and his brother and there's growing hype around Reverend Walsh, who claims he can clone Christ from a blood smear found on a nail at the site of the Crucifixion

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Prions

Sun, Nov 7, 2004

Mayko has a difficult time dealing with Hira's death after her funeral. Her grief begins to affect her work, especially when NORBAC begins investigating what appears to be a new fast acting strain of Mad Cow Disease. Meanwhile, Wes and Caroline are already looking at candidates for the now vacant Head Virologist position.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Oldest Virus

Sun, Nov 14, 2004

David travels to Chicago to attend the International Spanish Flu conference at which time he interviews Gill for the vacant position of head virologist at NORBAC. After spending the night with David, Gill decides not to accept the job at NORBAC. On his return to NORBAC, David and Caroline interview Harvey Thomas, a bankrupt researcher into prion type diseases like "Mad Cow". Meanwhile the team at NORBAC investigate the background of all the "Mad Cow" victims for any commonality. David and Caroline discover that the researcher went bankrupt because he had no patients on which to test his vaccine. After exhaustive checks it is discovered that all the victims ate either chicken or eggs from a particular distributor. Tests on the chicken samples show that they are all infected with "Mad Cow" prions. Tens of millions of chickens will need to be culled, however the human cost will not be known for decades. Harvey Thomas is eventually recaptured and explains why he did it and believes the government will allow him to complete his research, in fact he will be prosecuted as a bio-terrorist.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Trials

Sun, Nov 21, 2004

NorBAC tests a new treatment for child leukemia. Before it's declared a success a child dies. Sandstrom ignores standard protocols and asks Nunavut for permission to collect a sample of possible Spanish Flu virus from a frozen corpse.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Faint Hope

Sun, Nov 28, 2004

Carlos is in a desperate race to find stem cells for a controversial treatment for a former lover of his who is HIV-positive . Lilith goes with Mick on a Whale Watching excursion ,but something tragic happens when they get there.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Blackout

Sun, Dec 12, 2004

David is under pressure to figure out what has caused the blackouts that have plagued the whole of North America for the past 3 days. As the press jumps to the conclusion that it is an act of terrorism, David is certain that a mysterious plastic eating bacteria is the culprit. Meanwhile, Lilith struggles with her grief over the death of Mick.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Secret War

Sun, Dec 19, 2004

Mayko gets David and Caroline to investigate a suspicious Water-filtering System by the military. Carlos looks into a deadly Mexican virus. Bob decides to quit and leave. Jill is obsessed with proving her critics wrong on her discovery.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Source

Sun, Jan 2, 2005

Carlos and Jill head to Mexico to seek the "source" of the virus. David and Mayko try to convince Bob to come back. Bob's theory solves the Filter problem. David heads to Mexico and solves the problem, caused by a "Mexican-Jumping Gene".

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Promise

Sun, Jan 9, 2005

NorBAC has been taken over by a joint command to deal with a catastrophic smallpox scenario. Bob tries to find a cure for his dog that is suffering from histiocytosis. Jill comes clean with David about taking medication for her panic attacks. David discovers that the earlier "Miranda Virus" outbreak might be linked to the U.S. government's secret bio-chemical lab.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Resurrection

Sun, Jan 16, 2005

David and Jill make a trip to Colorado where a SARS outbreak is occurring. David is in shock when he discovers that it is Spanish flu from Nunavut.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Longest Night

Sat, Jan 22, 2005

Jill goes to Canada to see if the Spanish flu body is still in the ground. David recovers from his coma and limps back to the office.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ China

Sun, Mar 19, 2006

Attempting to flee his guilt David escapes to China and bums around trying to forget. After six weeks Homeland Security interrogates the team at NORBAC wanting to know why David is in China. David is arrested by the Red Army and taken to a remote location where they want him to investigate a mysterious, virulent pandemic that is killing 2 out of 3 people. David eventually agrees but is appalled by the antiquity of the equipment and the secrecy he must work under. He gets a partial message to NORBAC and after some analysis they reply that the mystery bacteria is an unknown hybrid of two bacteria, one of which causes food poisoning and is not usually fatal! One useful fact provided by NORBAC is that the hybrid contains over 100 copies of the same gene for some unknown reason. David is baffled by the hybrid and doesn't understand the 2-in-3 death rate. The team in NORBAC are frustrated by the lack of communication with David and eventually come to the conclusion that the mysterious bacteria is not a hybrid but the granddaddy of the two individual modern bacteria. While watching an old man draw water with an old-fashioned lift pump, David has a flash of inspiration realizing that the repeated gene is for a pump and that the bacteria must be very old and live in very hostile conditions. With this information the team conclude that survivors are those that have had food poisoning previously. Back at NORBAC, Caroline entertains a new investor. She and Carlos are to attend the Toronto AIDS conference. At the conference she is attacked by a protester and infected with a previously unknown strain of HIV.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Escape Mutant

Sun, Mar 26, 2006

David returns to Toronto and visits Caroline and Audrey Graves in hospital and explains to her how NORBAC can help her to fight the HIV injected into her. David returns to NORBAC and he team gets to work sequencing the new strain of HIV. They discover it really is a new strain and that none of the standard anti-retro viral drugs will be completely ineffective against it. Mayko Tran has been following the effects of the mass prion infection to see if anything positive has arisen and apparently IQ spikes have been noted in some of the affected children. David returns to Audrey and explains their findings and ask her to use her influence to get samples of all the cutting-edge HIV anti-viral drugs for NORBAC to test. The team try all the combinations to no avail, worse they discover that this strain is very virulent and Audrey becomes HIV+ within days. Also she must have an emergency Cesarean section to save her baby! Mayko contacts Prof. Simon Jessop, a British neuro-scientist, and invites him to NORBAC to study the IQ spikes. In sheer desperation, to help Audrey, David suggests making drug cocktails from the HIV anti-viral's and more common drugs such as Asprin.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Cocktail

Sun, Apr 2, 2006

David has less than two days to discover a drug cocktail that will prevent a premature baby from becoming HIV positive.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Dim & Dimmer

Sun, Apr 9, 2006

While attending a conference in New York, David chases a petty thief named Owen (Michael Seater) into the city's abandoned subway tunnels where he finds an underground community of homeless people.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Massive Change

Sun, Apr 16, 2006

The news of Gill's discovery leaks out and NORBAC becomes the focus of stem cell protesters. The team at NORBAC can't find anything unusual in the samples from New York, so start to do more exotic tests on the samples. Gill, a U.S. citizen, comes under pressure from the U.S. government for using an unauthorized stem cell line in her research. While trying to get her research ready for publication, Gill discovers that the unauthorized stem cell line contains an active retro-virus which is very serious but very strange as this line is used in laboratories all over the world and a problem hasn't been reported. David's mother dies and he goes to Vancover to attend her funeral. The politics surrounding the stem cell line become increasingly complicated but Caroline decides to go on the offensive and report the problem to the scientific community. After the funeral David's problems with his father re-emerge and he delays his return to NORBAC. Bob thinks that Glenn will awake from his coma which gives Caroline hope for the future.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Our Men in Havana

Sun, Apr 23, 2006

Carlos and David and a Cuban scientist look into a claim that an exiled Cuban, now a rich Florida Orange grower, is a victim of bio-terrorism. Bob and Simon Jessup try to help Caroline's Nephew, Glenn.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Listen to Him

2006

While in Cuba investigating the cause of decimated orange groves in Florida, David and Carlos uncover information that points to a possible bio-terrorist plot on the part of the Cubans. The American President jumps the gun and immediately blames Cuba for the damaged crops.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Haze

Sun, May 7, 2006

Bob's attention turns to the escalating danger in the skies over Mexico City where a massive brown cloud has begun to combine with toxic emissions from a nearby volcano. The new mixture could rain sulfuric acid down on the city and Bob must try to convince the Mexican officials of the gravity of the situation before all of Mexico City is destroyed.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Gene in a Bottle

Sun, May 14, 2006

NorBAC's investigation into a cluster of suicides occurring in the southern United States uncovers an unnatural enzyme in the brains of the victims.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Wild and the Innocent

Sun, May 21, 2006

Autopsies on a dead deer lead NorBAC to suspect that worms from parasitic eggs are responsible for a recent spike in depression-related suicides in the Southern U.S.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Fishy

Sun, May 28, 2006

NorBAC must unravel a genetic mystery when fish bred in an East Coast fish farm start exhibiting unexpected and dangerous mutations. Furthermore, a number of kids in an East Coast village are becoming ill; could deadly radiation be leaking into the Ocean?

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Lethargica

Sun, Jun 4, 2006

NorBAC uses innovative scientific methods to track the source of mutating radiation that is affecting fish on the East Coast of Canada to radioactive fuel rods that were dumped into the Ocean in the 1950s.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The End

Sun, Jun 11, 2006

Jill and the U.S. National Guardsmen begin to recover after receiving the lethargica antidote; but shortly thereafter, the Guardsmen begin to fall ill again with a secondary more deadly infection.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ A Spontaneous Moment

Sun, Apr 1, 2007

David and Bob investigate simultaneous explosions that incinerated a high tech lab and several of its employees; new virologist Rachel Woods studies the DNA of a gay-basher suspected of killing a fellow student.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Dust in the Wind

Sun, Apr 1, 2007

David and Bob become ticking time bombs after ingesting the same deadly bacteria combination that incinerated the Greenway scientists; an anomaly in the genetic makeup of gay-basher Julie Henshaw temporarily puts Rachel off track.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Strangers in the Night

Sun, Apr 8, 2007

A West Nile-like virus is breaking out in San Francisco, but it's showing some abnormal traits. NorBAC faces budget cuts on the U.S. side; a scientist at the University of Toronto claims to be able to help Owen with his addiction.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ I Dream of Genomes

Sun, Apr 15, 2007

Outbreaks of a deadly virus in San Francisco and Boston have NorBAC scrambling to find a Patient Zero; Owen wastes away in a jail as David and Angelica argue over his treatment options.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The God of Commerce

Sun, Apr 22, 2007

NorBAC traces the Sinatra virus to an organ donor in the Philippines; massive mercury contamination in Washington State's pristine wilderness leads the team to suspect an underlying cover-up in the government.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Phantoms

Sun, Apr 29, 2007

NorBAC continues to investigate outbursts in San Fransisco, Boston and Tampa, but stumbles upon a possible mercury poisoning in Washington state.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ One Hand Washes the Other

Sun, May 6, 2007

The team tracks a deadly strain of C.difficile.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Sleepers

Sun, May 13, 2007

Bio terrorism is suspected as forest fires fuel the spread of deadly toxins.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Let It Burn

Sun, May 20, 2007

A weaponized biological agent was released during fires on the west coast, NORBAC must find the creator of the agent. However, Rachel is more worried about her son who was attacked by a bear.

10Season 3