Nora Pearce's husband Ray has died - she tells his friend Curtis Delario that she thinks that exposure to chemical agents in the Gulf War was to blame. As Curtis drives home that night, he hits a man in the road - who totals his car, and then attacks him. It's Ray.

Doggett refuses to believe that a human being could have walked away from such a crash, causing so much damage to a car. Then Curtis Delario's body is found in a trashcan with five finger-shaped wounds punched through his skull, and Ray's fingerprints are found on the crashed car.

Meanwhile, Ray is in a halfway house removing metal fragments from his face. A woman called Larina Buttons tries to befriend him, but he is not interested.

Doggett interviews Ray's wife Nora and Harry Odell, the owner of the scrap yard where Ray and Curtis worked. There's no record of Ray's cremation, which is yet more evidence that Ray is alive - but Nora watched him die. The interview must have frightened Harry, as he immediately goes to the scrap yard. He shreds invoices from a company called Chambers Technologies.

When Harry is disturbed by Ray, he fires at him with a shotgun. Ray's arm is ripped off, but re-grows itself with a weird metallic skin. Despite the injury, Ray then kills Harry by driving his fingers through his skull.

Doggett visits Chambers Technologies to interview Dr. Puvogel. Puvogel tells him about research into smart metals - alloys that can rebuild themselves if damaged. Doggett asks about an employee who was implicated by the invoices - Dr. David Clifton. Puvogel tells him that Clifton left the company.

Back at the halfway house, Larina approaches Ray again - some of the residents have seen him covered in blood. Angrily, Ray tells her to leave him alone. She later finds a newspaper obituary for Ray, and contacts his widow Nora.

At the Chambers Labs, Ray is stalking Dr. Puvogel. He is trapped in a test chamber by Scully and Doggett, but tears his way out with his inhuman strength, escaping from the Agents. Doggett picks up the trail at the scrap yard, where he finds the body of man made of metal in a barrel. Puvogel admits the body is Dr. Clifton, who became ill whilst researching 'polymorphic regeneration'. He's puzzled as to why the barrel is there - it should have been disposed of at a secure facility - and it looks like Ray was contaminated by the poisonous metal.

Nora catches up with Ray at the halfway house. He explains that he's making the people that poisoned him pay. Nora then visits Chambers Labs, where Doggett catches her looking at files. He finds out about the halfway house. But as police storm it, Ray strangles Larina and breaks through a wall to escape. Dogget realises that Nora was looking for the name of the man responsible for Ray's condition.

Ray confronts Nora at their home - she's angry that he killed Larina in cold blood. Ray turns on his wife, but is interrupted by the police - again, he escapes. Nora gives them the name of the next victim - Owen Harris, an accountant at the scrap yard, who was storing the toxic barrels to save money.

Ray attacks Harris, determined to get revenge, but during the fight Ray realises that Harris has a wife and a young son. Some last vestige of his humanity makes Ray spare his life. Instead, Ray climbs into a car at the scrap yard, and waits for it to be put into the crusher.

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