

Revok, intent on killing all Scanners unwilling to join his renegade faction, sends four assassins to dispatch Pierce. After discovering Pierce's address in a gallery exhibiting his morbid sculptures, Vale goes to visit him and finds him living in isolation. Revok uses a scanner who caused the Consec Scanner's head to explode into a cloud of blood. Silverman), an artist who tried to kill his family as a child. The only lead is Benjamin Pierce ( Robert A. Ruth tells Vale that scanners can suppress their telepathic powers by injecting themselves with the drug Ephemerol and sends him to find Revok. At the same time, a new head of security, Braedon Keller ( Lawrence Dane) joins ConSec. Paul Ruth ( Patrick McGoohan), the head of ConSec's Scanner Section, decides to infiltrate the Scanner Underworld by "converting" Vale and sending him to find Revok. Meanwhile ConSec's last Scanner was brutally murdered at a press conference by Scanner renegade Darryl Revok ( Michael Ironside). He supposedly possesses tremendous scanner power, which ConSec wants to exploit, but he has become a derelict, because he cannot cope with the overload of hearing others' thoughts. Without knowing he is responsible for this, Vale attracts the attention of two ConSec agents. Vale psychically overhears two women talking negatively about him, when suddenly one of them begins to convulse. Vale has been able to get by using his telepathy to make people eating near him allow him to partake of their meals. ConSec, a weaponry and security systems company, captures a homeless scanner named Cameron Vale ( Stephen Lack) at a shopping mall. The year is 1985, where Scanners are people with powerfully intense telepathic and telekinetic abilities.
