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Max is being played by Hollywood actress Jessica Alba , a recipient
of the 2001 TV Guide Awards' Breakout Star of the Year and 2001
Saturn Awards' Best Actress on Television. She plays the role of
a genetically enhanced human prototype with attitude to spare. She
is aided in her quest -- both to avoid capture and to reunite with
her surviving "siblings" -- by Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly), an
idealistic cyber-journalist, who battles corruption and the oppressive
establishment in this futuristic landscape.
Dark Angel also stars John Savage as Lydecker, the military
operative hunting Max and her "siblings" through this future world.
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The
series are set in the year 2019 and begins by showing how the US has
become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse - an electromagnetic
shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. The story revolves
around Max, a genetically engineered soldier who is on the run from
her creators and constantly in search of her past. A revved-up girl
trying to make a run-down world a better place, she eventually joins
forces with the idealistic cyber-journalist . 
