In the year 2019 the U.S. has become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse - an electromagnetic shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. This is Max's world, an unforgiving place even for a genetically engineered soldier like her. On the run from her creators and constantly in search of her past, Max joins forces with the idealistic cyberjournalist "Eyes Only." She's a revved-up girl trying to make a run-down world a better place.

Catch Max, Friday nights (8pm/7pm Central), on your local FOX station.

Background

For his much-anticipated television debut, Academy Award-winner James Cameron ("Titanic", "T2") teamed with Emmy Award-winner Charles H. Eglee ("Murder One") to create DARK ANGEL, a sci-fi adventure series set in the near future after an electromagnetic pulse detonated by terrorists has crippled the US economy. As a measure of the show's immediate popularity, DARK ANGEL received the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Television Dramatic Series in its first season.

DARK ANGEL stars Jessica Alba ("Never Been Kissed") as MAX, a genetically-enhanced human prototype with attitude to spare. As a child, Max escaped from her military creators and made a life for herself on the edgy streets of 21st-century Seattle. She became a reluctant hero when she teamed up with idealistic, underground cyber-journalist LOGAN CALE (Michael Weatherly), lending her unique abilities to his crusade against corruption and an oppressive establishment. In exchange, Logan offered his help in locating her "siblings," who escaped with Max but have scattered in the aftermath. Max's desperate search to find the others like her would ultimately lead her to return to Manticore, the nefarious government laboratory that spawned her.

Scared and alone, Max is now once again a prisoner in the facility she fled a decade before. Her friends believe she is dead and Manticore is using any means necessary to re-indoctrinate her. It seems like there is no way out this time. But Max has a plan… and it's going to blow Manticore wide open.

DARK ANGEL is produced by Cameron/Eglee Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Cameron, Eglee are Rene Echevarria executive producers; Rae Sanchini, Marjorie David and Ken Biller are co-executive producers; Stephen Sassen, Janace Tashjian and Michael Angeli are producers; Chip Johannessen is consulting producer.