“Dancing on the Razor” is episode twenty-one of season one of Mutant X.
Brennan and Jesse are in an empty warehouse, where they are supposed to be meeting a New Mutant who contacted them through a website Adam had set up. The New Mutant is 15 minutes late and Brennan is going to leave, when some GS agents show up. The agents, as per usual, get taken down pretty easily. What isn’t usual is that someone is filming this through multiple cameras. After the fight is over, the watcher hides the equipment behind a panel.
Back at Sanctuary, Jesse says the New Mutant who sent the email suddenly doesn’t exist any longer. Adam agrees it was a setup, and Eckhart was duped as well. Proxy Blue is reporting the fight, and Eckhart is watching the report as well. According to Proxy Blue, the fight was recorded and an informant promises to deliver the DVD shortly. Mutant X need to stop Proxy Blue from exposing them and Adam says they have something in common with Genomex; they are both fighting the same enemy.
Eckhart is speaking to this week’s minion, the rather unemotional Harvey Lanchester. Eckhart is not happy. Lanchester found six cameras hidden in the warehouse. He suggests an internal leak as a possibility. Eckhart states that isn’t possible. Lanchester is going to track the serial numbers on the cameras and Eckhart doesn’t want the disc to get out. It would cause a panic and New Mutants themselves, including Lanchester, would become pariahs. Lanchester says Genomex would be shut down as well and Eckhart labelled a traitor. He wants latitude to take extreme measures. Eckhart agrees, but anything shy of complete success will be just as deadly.
Adam is watching Proxy Blue when Emma and Shalimar tell him that the only unusual contact Proxy Blue had was with Macklin Exporters, an international shipping facility.
Macklin, which is scattered with bodies, is being ripped apart by GS agents. Lanchester wants to know who ordered the surveillance equipment from the survivor. The latter tries running and Lanchester kills him. Another person arrives and tries to leave but is caught. He says he’s Jay Minhouse and works there. He claims he doesn’t know anything about the warehouse. Lanchester looks like he’s going to kill him too when Brennan and Shalimar arrive. During the fight, as the GS agents make their standard poor showing, Lanchester is about to use his powers on Shalimar when Brennan zaps him. They take Jay with them and Lanchester torches the building.
Jay is taken to a safehouse and wants to know what’s going on and who, what, they are. Brennan explains about the footage. Jay still says he knows nothing and the only reason he’s alive is because he was late for work.
Eckhart is watching Proxy Blue again, who is talking about the explosion at Macklin Exporters. He’s not happy with Lanchester. Lanchester states it was the only prudent move. Proxy Blue has decided that there isn’t a connection with the warehouse fight, but it’s a strange coincidence.
Jesse and Emma re reading up on Lanchester, who has the psionic ability to generate combustion. He’s a cold-blooded killing machine according to Adam. Emma thinks Proxy Blue is almost taunting her informant to come forward.
Shalimar is questioning Jay, with no luck, when Adam contacts Brennan. Brennan has a go as well, but doesn’t get much further. Although Jay gives him his ID and keys; there’s a list of his co-workers on the fridge. So, Brennan head out.
Lanchester is speaking to Eckhart; they have Jay’s address book and are going to look for next of kin. Brennan arrives as Lanchester and the other agents leave Jay’s apartment. Shalimar is making food for Jay and he asks about the disc. She tells him it would make their lives miserable if people knew the truth about them. Jay’s behaviour suggests he’s attracted to Shalimar and hers suggests the same.
Brennan runs into Lanchester again and they might have thrown down in public if there weren’t witnesses. There’s been too much public exposure already.
There’s a definite connection between Macklin and the recording, but it doesn’t appear to be anything official. Jay is the only survivor, and he’s been incommunicado. Proxy Blue hasn’t received the recording yet either, which seems a coincidence. There will be more to Jay than meets the eye.