“The Hand of God” is episode seven of season three of Mutant X.
The Double Helix is looking for something but not finding it. Fuel cells are down to 30% and Jesse says they need to head back soon. Lexa says they can’t; her contacts told her the target was vital. Brennan wants to know who these contacts are. Lexa doesn’t want to answer, but Brennan isn’t taking no for an answer. She explains that for the fast few hundred years they’ve been working behind the scenes policing the abuses of science. They call themselves the Dominion. Not a remotely worrying name. They don’t hate science, just its misuse, and Adam and Genomex were only one of their interests. Like the guy they’re after. A super-mutant with his own cult. He’s dangerous and must be stopped. The Double Helix at that point gets hit by a microwave weapon. It starts heading in and the main hatch opens and Shalimar falls out. On the ground, a man and a woman watch by the weapon as the Double Helix crash lands over a hill.
Shalimar has landed in a tree and Jesse searches for her comlink and finds it. Lexa says they need to leave before whoever shot them comes to finish them off. Brennan says they aren’t going without Shalimar and, according to Jesse, they aren’t going anywhere at all for some time.
The man by the weapon says that no-one could have survived the blast, but the woman says she could. They have to be after the same target as them. She wants the man to head to the crash site and finish off any survivors whilst she goes after the target alone.
Though Lexa thinks no-one could have survived falling from a plane, Shalimar has, but barely. She’s badly hurt, though. Brennan and Lexa head out, but someone else has already found Shalimar. Jesse is working on the Double Helix when he says Shalimar’s location changing and tells the other two.
Shalimar’s rescuer takes her to a building to another man. A third tells the second, Kristoff, that Shalimar is too far gone; it’s dangerous. Kristoff sees Shalimar is a mutant and goes ahead anyway. He removes a branch from Shalimar’s chest and heals her, by taking on her own injuries it seems.
Brennan nearly falls off a cliff and drops the GPS. He tells Lexa they need to go another way. She asks where the GPS is. Gone. How gone? Very gone.
Shalimar wakes up and uses her comlink to contact the others, saying that she was healed and it must have been by the mutant they’re looking for. Lexa warns Shalimar, but Shalimar tells her that Kristoff’s people aren’t violent. She’s not kidnapping Kristoff. Lexa points out that someone else is after Kristoff, which is accurate. Shalimar will talk to him, to see if he will come back to Sanctuary.
The man who found Shalimar enters. On Shalimar’s questioning him on her healing, he says that it was a miracle. That’s all she needs to know. They’ve all experienced it; they owe their lives to Kristoff. Who is he? That, she doesn’t need to know. Shalimar says it felt as if Kristoff took her pain into himself. He did. Kristoff can heal himself, unless the injury is too serious.
Jesse has got the thermal scanner up and running and warns Brennan and Lexa that there’s someone on the path ahead of them. And he’ll have visitors himself in about an hour. Jesse can guide Brennan and Lexa to the target. Lexa tells Brennan that they will have to make a choice when they find Shalimar; she’s not focused on the mission. Brennan is sure Shalimar will do the right thing.
The man with the weapon calls the woman, Terra, and says he can’t find the crash. Terra tells him to find it. It also seems Terra has a contact in Kristoff’s camp. Carl, who warned Kristoff about healing Shalimar. The man who found Shalimar, Burke, catches Carl on the phone with Terra. There are enemies closing in on both locations, so time is limited.