“The Prophecy” is episode twenty of season three of Mutant X.
A man is running at night; it looks like he can phase. He finds a phone booth and calls Sanctuary; Brennan picks up. The man asks if that’s Brennan, and says he’s Nathan Reynolds. He’s not on drugs or anything, but the prophecy has come true and Nathan and Brennan are part of it. Brennan initiates a trace as Nathan says it’s too late for him; he’s come.
Brennan and Shalimar head to the site of the trace; Brennan thinks they need an answering service. Something is watching them with odd eyes as they find the phonebooth, which is trashed and dripping with liquid. Shalimar hears something and pushes Brennan out of the way of a jet of liquid the watcher sprays at him. Then a woman drives off the watcher with her mind. She tells them to get out of there. Brennan isn’t leaving until he finds who called for help. Shalimar looks up; Nathan is stuck to the wall, dead.
Shalimar jumps up to take a look at Brennan stops the woman as she’s leaving. She tells him the guy that attacked is called the Guardian and she’s a bounty hunter, Riley Morgan, who’s been on his trail. The Guardian can lead her to a package she’s after. Riley wants to know what Brennan’s involvement is, and she’s a telepath, so don’t lie. Brennan tells her and says he’ll accompany her. Riley doesn’t want company. Shalimar says they can look themselves, but they might find the Guardian first. Brennan can come, but not Shalimar.
Jesse and Lexa are playing chess; Jesse starts using games as a metaphor. Lexa may have her own interpretation. Shalimar returns with a sample of the goo she scraped off Nathan for Jesse to analyse and explains what happened. Jesse thinks the goo is cool. Lexa thinks he’s weird sometimes.
Lexa heads to speak to Shalimar, who is beating up a punch bag, to talk about her Brennan issues, every time Brennan gets near another girl. Shalimar says they’re just friends. Lexa suggests she ben honest with herself, and Brennan. Brennan and Riley are currently looking for the drug dealer, Dooley, of the woman she’s looking for, Kara Whitely.
Lexa has found nothing on Riley. Jesse has analysed the recovered substance. It’s mucous and comes from something called the Guardian. A feral, but not crossed with an animal, like Shalimar, but with, Jessed thinks, a hobo spider and a whip scorpion. Very not good. It won’t think or feel like them.
Riley wants Brennan to stay in the car as she goes after Dooley. This calls for finesse and style. Dooley takes off. Riley finds him with protection.
Lexa has been checking on the Guardian; he used to be one of Gabriel Ashlocke’s Links. Jesse knows about them; not fond memories. After Ashlocke, the hardcore part of the Links splintered odd. John Bishop was their most powerful precog. He’s currently in an asylum.
Riley has dealt with Dooley’s protection and she asks about Kara. Dooley tells her Kara is spooked and is living out of her van.
Shalimar and Jesse phase into Bishop’s room. He’s muttering and Jesse says Bishop is so tranked out he won’t know his own name. Bishop staps babbling and calls Shalimar by name. He says he told her she would come back. They’ve never met. Bishop realises that they are still at the beginning, and starts muttering again. Shalimar contacts Lexa and asks her to record the mutterings. She and Jesse return and listen to the playback; Shalimar suggests that perhaps Bishop is unstuck in time, and to play them backwards. Bishop says that the heart of Ashlocke will live again. That’s not good. Shalimar heads back to the asylum. It turns out that Riley was part of Ashlocke’s cult as well.
Relationships between the four of them feature heavily. Lexa definitely thinks Shalimar is into Brennan and Jesse starts talking, hypothetically, about relationships with people you live and work with. Lexa, hypothetically, says someone has to make the first move.
According to Bishop, Ashlocke died before he could fulfil his promise, and a child will reshape the world. There are also hints of things coming to a climax.