Aidan 5 (2009) s01e07 Episode Script
The Life Of Riley
Her name was Morgan Riley.
She was born on May 12th, 2036.
She was murdered last week, at the age of 28.
Morgan Riley was also, for all intents and purposes my mother.
My name is also Morgan Riley.
I should have died 3 weeks ago in a train accident but the medics saved my life.
They cleaned up scars and bruises Well the ones on the outside at least.
I'm also a clone.
That means that I'm virtually identical to my human mother.
I think, breathe feel just like a human.
Except I'm different.
Legal clones are born in a pristine, antiseptic lab at Infinity Corporation.
In the illegal world we're born in a sewer.
I was born on March 28 2061, in a homemade lab deep in the underworld.
My four sisters were born at exactly the same time as me.
The boot-up serum is called Incept 2.
0.
Infinity owns the only patent, but anything is for sale on the black market.
Language, human protocol and functionality were stamped into the wet clay that was my brain.
And just like that I was.
I'm sure they wanted to make more of us, but the laws of nature bound us to a five-clone rule.
That doesn't mean they don't try.
Clones are created for a variety of different reasons: unskilled worker soldier, manual labor accountants There are all kinds of needs.
Joey ran the brothel.
You didn't mess with a guy like Joey.
He was the Big Bad Wolf, When Joey says to do something you do it.
I lived like this for a year.
It was what I was created to do.
I thought this was just the way people were.
Then one day everything changed.
Get the hell inside! You didn't want to get on Joey's bad side.
Because once he started hitting you and smelled blood, it was hard for him to stop.
I said inside! That's when he spoke.
He told Joey to let me go.
I swear, it was like the voice of God.
For the next five minutes I watched someone take down the Big Bad Wolf.
It wasn't pretty.
But it was wonderful.
Things were different after that night.
Fate stepped in when a detective asked me to go undercover and help take down Joey's boss.
I said yes immediately.
It was like someone opened up the door to my cage.
We were all given a second chance.
And I wasn't about to let it slip away.
For my cooperation I was given an opportunity to serve in a unique role to the Special Victim's Unit.
It was there that they said I showed a particular aptitude for detailed observation and orientation.
Although I had to work twice as hard, I forced them to pay attention to me.
But to many people, I was still just a clone.
Even worse, I was a clone that had crossed an unspoken boundary.
I was a pariah.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I'm detective James Aidan.
Morgan.
Morgan Riley.
So I'm sitting on a stack of cases and I heard you're a great profiler.
You interested? Yeah.
Great.
I'm sorry, have we met before? You look familiar.
No.
I believe that life is a series of chapters Surely goodness and love some are short some are long some are exciting, and others just chug along.
Sometimes it's okay to go back and reread what's happened in the past.
Then other times you can't wait to turn the page to find out what happens next.
She was born on May 12th, 2036.
She was murdered last week, at the age of 28.
Morgan Riley was also, for all intents and purposes my mother.
My name is also Morgan Riley.
I should have died 3 weeks ago in a train accident but the medics saved my life.
They cleaned up scars and bruises Well the ones on the outside at least.
I'm also a clone.
That means that I'm virtually identical to my human mother.
I think, breathe feel just like a human.
Except I'm different.
Legal clones are born in a pristine, antiseptic lab at Infinity Corporation.
In the illegal world we're born in a sewer.
I was born on March 28 2061, in a homemade lab deep in the underworld.
My four sisters were born at exactly the same time as me.
The boot-up serum is called Incept 2.
0.
Infinity owns the only patent, but anything is for sale on the black market.
Language, human protocol and functionality were stamped into the wet clay that was my brain.
And just like that I was.
I'm sure they wanted to make more of us, but the laws of nature bound us to a five-clone rule.
That doesn't mean they don't try.
Clones are created for a variety of different reasons: unskilled worker soldier, manual labor accountants There are all kinds of needs.
Joey ran the brothel.
You didn't mess with a guy like Joey.
He was the Big Bad Wolf, When Joey says to do something you do it.
I lived like this for a year.
It was what I was created to do.
I thought this was just the way people were.
Then one day everything changed.
Get the hell inside! You didn't want to get on Joey's bad side.
Because once he started hitting you and smelled blood, it was hard for him to stop.
I said inside! That's when he spoke.
He told Joey to let me go.
I swear, it was like the voice of God.
For the next five minutes I watched someone take down the Big Bad Wolf.
It wasn't pretty.
But it was wonderful.
Things were different after that night.
Fate stepped in when a detective asked me to go undercover and help take down Joey's boss.
I said yes immediately.
It was like someone opened up the door to my cage.
We were all given a second chance.
And I wasn't about to let it slip away.
For my cooperation I was given an opportunity to serve in a unique role to the Special Victim's Unit.
It was there that they said I showed a particular aptitude for detailed observation and orientation.
Although I had to work twice as hard, I forced them to pay attention to me.
But to many people, I was still just a clone.
Even worse, I was a clone that had crossed an unspoken boundary.
I was a pariah.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I'm detective James Aidan.
Morgan.
Morgan Riley.
So I'm sitting on a stack of cases and I heard you're a great profiler.
You interested? Yeah.
Great.
I'm sorry, have we met before? You look familiar.
No.
I believe that life is a series of chapters Surely goodness and love some are short some are long some are exciting, and others just chug along.
Sometimes it's okay to go back and reread what's happened in the past.
Then other times you can't wait to turn the page to find out what happens next.