With no memory of his previous life, Alex decides to find and consume those related to the conspiracy in order to uncover the truth. He soon discovers he now possesses powerful shapeshifting abilities, superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability, senses, endurance, weaponry and the ability to “consume” people to gain their memories, skills and appearance. He survives bullets being fired into his chest, and leaps over a wall to safety.

Alex escapes, and witnesses the scientists being gunned down by military operatives. “Alex” Mercer (voiced by Barry Pepper) who wakes up in a morgue in the basement of Gentek, a genetic engineering company based in Manhattan, sending a pair of scientists that were just about to perform an autopsy running.