ULTRASEVEN X EP 8 PT 4

One of the men pulls his gun and demands to know who she is. She grins manically. The other gang member panics and says its the killer. The one with his gun out starts to shoot at Asami, but she displays superhuman agility, dodging the shots and leaping between the support columns like Spider-Man. She then leaps onto the one shooting at her, roaring. She knocks him down as she lands on him.

Jin gets his gun out. He then looks shocked. We cut back to the gang members and Asami. A huge razor clawed hand rips out the throat of the man Asami attacked. We now see that Asami has changed into a creature with a bony ridged, lizardish head with four small, beady eyes. The mouth is a vertical slit that opens to reveal daggerlike teeth. The creature is wearing the tatters of Asami's clothes, though the coat is intact. It also has the same long black hair. It looks at the second man and roars. Suddenly with superspeed Jin rushes in, and throws the creature away before it can react. He starts shooting his laser pistol at it, but it dodges the blasts and runs. Jin chases it, but it eludes him.

The second gang member is sitting near the one Asami killed, panicking. Jin runs back to him and demands to know why that creature is hunting them. The man is too panicked to answer..

About an hour later. Asami is sitting at the dinner table again, excitedly eating another meal, covered in blood. Her husband, clearly terrified, is cautiously telling her that she needs to take a shower. She glares at him. He drops the subject.

Jin and K are driving back to the safehouse. K says that S is staying for a while at the police station to try to get something out of the surviving dealer. Jin is pondering the photo again and says that he thinks it has a different meaning from just being an alien. He tells K that the creature appeared female before it shapeshifted to its real form. K is surprised. Jin's armband rings, and he answers the call. It is DEUS. The commander tells them the creature Jin described to them earlier has been identified as a species called the Hapnuth.

A picture appears on the armband's miniscreen. Jin says that is what he saw. The commander says that over forty of these aliens are known to be living on Earth. They are shapeshifters from Zeta Reticuli who had planned to set up terroristic sleeper cells on Earth and other planets to soften up the populations for a planned invasion. But an environmental disaster killed off the life on their homeworld, and due to the nature of the brainwashing the sleeper cells" memories are wiped until they are activated.

Since their masters are dead these Hapnuth have no clue of their true nature. However, it was discovered that under extreme stress their conditioning can kick in, returning them to their true selves and making them extremely violent in some cases. K asks if there is any way to identify who may be Hapnuth. The commander says only after the change. He then says that there is a person of interest. S reported not long before that police had identified the same human hair at all the crime scenes.

A picture appears of Asami's husband. He says that his name is Kayasuke Futata. He is a low level salaryman. Jin says that the creature appeared female. The commander says that a month ago he and his wife were attacked and his wife alledgedly killed by Sameo's gang, though her body disappeared from the local morgue. Jin says that Kayasuke's wife is the killer. K asks for the address.

Kayasuke is drying off Asami's hair. She is sitting in a chair in the living room. She simply looks ahead with an angry look. Kayasuke asks why she is mad at him. She glances up at him but won't answer. He tells her that she must stop the killing. He still loves her, despite her not being human. She slaps his hand away when he tries to touch her face.

Not long after K's car pulls up to Kayasuke's house. He and Jin get out. K says its the right place as he confers with a map on his armband. They hear Kayasuke shouting at Asami to not go out and kill again. They can see someone in shadow in one of the windows putting on a coat. Jin says its her. He contacts S and tells her that they found the killer. It is Kayasuke's wife Asami. She must have been shot and transformed instead of dying.

S is sitting at a computer terminal at the police station. She replies the only problem with that theory is that she is watching a security video from just after the incident. It shows the creature breaking into the Morgue at the local hospital and stealing a body.

Back at the house, K and Jin look at each other in disbelief. Suddenly the front door flies open as Asami, wearing her red coat, strides out and walks down the street. She seems to be heading towards the abandoned factory. Jin and K give chase.