Frostbite

"Frostbite"
Season 1, Episode 6
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Air date	May 28, 2010
Written by	Marty Isenberg
Directed by	Chris Graham
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"Frostbite" is the sixth episode of season one of Generator Rex, and the sixth of the overall series. It debuted on May 28, 2010.

Synopsis

Absorbing the nanites from cured E.V.O.s takes its toll on Rex, and he is taken to a remote Providence base in the Arctic codenamed "Paradise" to have the excess nanites extracted and stored. The base personnel are upset about the unscheduled visit, and Dr. Holiday has to threaten them to get Rex's treatment.

While asleep during the procedure, Rex experiences a cryptic dream in which scientists are watching Rex play with an electronic puzzle and they suddenly turn into eerily familiar E.V.O.s. When he wakes up after the procedure, Rex finds the base personnel unconscious (possibly dead), with Agent Six, Dr. Holiday, and Bobo missing, and the Pack (Biowulf and Skalamander) outside.

After burying the Pack in an avalanche, Rex goes back inside to find that Weaver, the chief technician, has been reactivating and selling Rex's extracted nanites to Van Kleiss. When Rex shows up unexpectedly, Weaver panics. Rex finds Six, Holiday, and Bobo locked up in a storeroom, and then Rex throws Weaver across the room. Weaver then threatens to open the tank containing the extracted nanites. He triggers the release accidentally while trying to make it look realistic, and mutates into a giant 50 foot high tentacled E.V.O. with regenerative powers. Rex and Six fight Weaver while Holiday and Bobo try to get their transport moving before it falls into an opening trench in the ice.

When Rex tries to cure Weaver, he taps into nanite communications frequencies and passes out from absorbing too many nanites. He later wakes up in "Purgatory", a Providence base in a desert, a backup for the Arctic base, with no memory of hearing the nanites. As Bobo and Rex wander out onto the sand, Dr. Holiday tells Six about an odd nanite code (it appears as a binary code on the computer screen) that had appeared after she extracted Rex's nanites.

Trivia

• This is the second episode where we learn something about Rex's past. The first being in "The Day That Everything Changed," where Van Kleiss tells Rex that he and Rex were at Abysus during the Nanite Event.
• In Rex's dream, we see fire for a moment and an active nanite; this is probably the explosion from the Nanite Event.
• This is the first time we see the nanites control Rex; they were talking through Rex. The second time being when One possessed him to tell Six how proud he was of him.
• The E.V.O.s Rex saw the scientists turn into bear a resemblance to the E.V.O.s seen in Van Kleiss's garden during "The Day that Everything Changed" this lends credidence to Van Kleiss's claim that Rex use to live in Abysus.
• Also one of the transformed scientists in Rex's dream bears a resemblance to Cesar Salazar.
• 2nd time Noah didn't appear.