It began with the Agency's experiments. When their covert operations that went beyond what the government would accept, that should have been the end of it. But the Agency had taken on a life of its own, and had found an extremely wealthy new master. And so the experiments continued. Some people had been a willing part of the studies, some unsuspecting victims. None knew what the ultimate goal was, nor did anyone guess what had happened to the failures. Inevitably there were subjects who escaped from -- or were released from -- the Agency's control. And there were their children...