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* FantasticAesop: This episode deals with the problems {{genetic engineering|IsTheNewNuke}} could cause a society, as [[DesignerBabies "fitter" babies]] grew into supermen and outpaced "normal" people. However, while this made for great drama in ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' it was not nearly [[ScienceIsBad bad and horrifying enough]] for the show. So to spice things up, around 5% of all genetically modified children turn into the crazed descendants of [[TheIgor Igor]], and are [[KillItWithFire killed when found.]]
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* FantasticAesop: This episode deals with the problems {{genetic engineering|IsTheNewNuke}} could cause a society, as [[DesignerBabies "fitter" babies]] grew into supermen and outpaced "normal" people. However, while this made for great drama in ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' it was not nearly [[ScienceIsBad bad and horrifying enough]] for the show. So to spice things up, around 5% of all genetically modified children turn into the crazed descendants of [[TheIgor Igor]], and are [[KillItWithFire killed when found.]] found]].
* MadwomanInTheAttic: A couple considering genetic enhancement for their unborn child learn that their neighbors' supposedly dead son is actually an AxCrazy basement-dwelling monster as a result of genetic engineering GoneHorriblyWrong.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: A couple considering genetic enhancement for their unborn child learn that their neighbors' supposedly dead son is actually an AxCrazy basement-dwelling monster as a result of genetic engineering GoneHorriblyWrong.
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* NothingIsScarier: Joanne's doctor gives her an informational pamphlet in an attempt to dissuade her from going through with the genetic treatments. It apparently contains horrible photos of what GRS does to a child. We viewers never see them, only Joanne's disgusted reaction to them.
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* NothingIsScarier: Joanne's doctor gives her an informational pamphlet in an attempt to dissuade her from going through with the genetic treatments. It apparently contains horrible photos of what GRS does to a child. We viewers never see them, only Joanne's disgusted reaction to them.them.
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* DownerEnding: Timmy kills Arkelian before he can undo the treatment, meaning the Sharps' modified baby is brought to term. The last shot of the episode is the two of them regarding their physically perfect son, and being unable to take joy in him because the don't know if he's going to turn into a monster.
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* MonsterMunch: A Genetic Rejection Syndrome sufferer butchered a cat, traumatizing the little girl who owned it in the process.
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* MonsterMunch: A Genetic Rejection Syndrome sufferer butchered a cat, traumatizing the little girl who owned it in the process.process.
* NothingIsScarier: Joanne's doctor gives her an informational pamphlet in an attempt to dissuade her from going through with the genetic treatments. It apparently contains horrible photos of what GRS does to a child. We viewers never see them, only Joanne's disgusted reaction to them.
* NothingIsScarier: Joanne's doctor gives her an informational pamphlet in an attempt to dissuade her from going through with the genetic treatments. It apparently contains horrible photos of what GRS does to a child. We viewers never see them, only Joanne's disgusted reaction to them.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' What will become of us when we take a hand in our own creation? In trying to create the new man, will we condemn the old?
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' What are children but an extension of our own selves... a reflection of who we are and what we want to become?
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A couple decides to genetically enhance their unborn child, at the risk of turning that child into a monster.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: Arkelian administers black market genetic engineering treatments to Joanne Sharp's unborn child in an abandoned church.
* DomesticAbuse: Howard and Joanne Sharp believe that their close friend and neighbor Tony Blake is abusing his wife Fran due to the frequent sounds of objects being broken coming from their house and the presence of a bruise on her face on one occasion. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it turns out that both were caused by the Blakes' son Timmy, whom they are hiding because he is suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome.
* FakingTheDead: Tony and Fran Blake faked the death of their son Timmy, to the point of bribing a undertaker to hold a fake funeral, after it became clear that he was suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome. They proceeded to hide him in their house as it is government policy that all GRS sufferers are to be destroyed due to the threat that they pose to the general public.
* FantasticAesop: This episode deals with the problems {{genetic engineering|IsTheNewNuke}} could cause a society, as [[DesignerBabies "fitter" babies]] grew into supermen and outpaced "normal" people. However, while this made for great drama in ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' it was not nearly [[ScienceIsBad bad and horrifying enough]] for the show. So to spice things up, around 5% of all genetically modified children turn into the crazed descendants of [[TheIgor Igor]], and are [[KillItWithFire killed when found.]]
* MonsterMunch: A Genetic Rejection Syndrome sufferer butchered a cat, traumatizing the little girl who owned it in the process.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: Arkelian administers black market genetic engineering treatments to Joanne Sharp's unborn child in an abandoned church.
* DomesticAbuse: Howard and Joanne Sharp believe that their close friend and neighbor Tony Blake is abusing his wife Fran due to the frequent sounds of objects being broken coming from their house and the presence of a bruise on her face on one occasion. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it turns out that both were caused by the Blakes' son Timmy, whom they are hiding because he is suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome.
* FakingTheDead: Tony and Fran Blake faked the death of their son Timmy, to the point of bribing a undertaker to hold a fake funeral, after it became clear that he was suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome. They proceeded to hide him in their house as it is government policy that all GRS sufferers are to be destroyed due to the threat that they pose to the general public.
* FantasticAesop: This episode deals with the problems {{genetic engineering|IsTheNewNuke}} could cause a society, as [[DesignerBabies "fitter" babies]] grew into supermen and outpaced "normal" people. However, while this made for great drama in ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' it was not nearly [[ScienceIsBad bad and horrifying enough]] for the show. So to spice things up, around 5% of all genetically modified children turn into the crazed descendants of [[TheIgor Igor]], and are [[KillItWithFire killed when found.]]
* MonsterMunch: A Genetic Rejection Syndrome sufferer butchered a cat, traumatizing the little girl who owned it in the process.
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