Meanwhile, Max carries out a heist at the request of Logan. Logan investigates the identity of the attackers. Max becomes suspicious of Diamond's presence when Max is attacked by strangers. When Diamond, an old girlfriend of Original Cindy's mysteriously reappears to rekindle their relationship, Max finds her anonymity dangerously comprised by a stranger with a deadly secret. Logan succeeds in bringing the truth to light and helping the boy discover Logan heroically overcomes his disability by using his wits to fend off a mob determined to keep the truth a secret. Max and Logan find out the boy is the only survivor of an affluent family attacked and killed by an angry mob of townspeople after the pulse. Max asks Logan to help her dig deeper to uncover what appears to be a conspiracy of silence. Then the boy is threatened with his life for talking to her. She befriends a local teen who Max comes to realize is alienated from the rest of the town. While Logan is meeting with his contact, Max starts to feel ill and having seizures. The locals are hostile toward Max and Logan, believing them to be hold-overs from the pre-pulse days. Max accompanies Logan to a once-thriving community, now devastated after the pulse, to meet with the town's retired sheriff (his Eyes Only) contact.
![dark angel s01 e05 dark angel s01 e05](https://static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/large_landscape/306/767264.jpg)
Zack and Max go to her and help her get awa Logan sends a warning out to the X5ers through ""Eyes Only."" All are tipped off, but Tenga alerts Zack that she needs help escaping Lydecker. Max and Zack piece together that Lydecker knows the whereabouts of the X5 escapees. This is enough information to get Lydecker on her tail. He reveals Tenga is working in a nearby bakery. He does remember a few details which he tells Max. He tells Max he's forgotten everything, but she coaches him to try and remember the whereabouts of the other X5 escapees. Unbeknownst to them, Max is wired and Lydecker and company hear all he is saying. She meets him in a cave on the Manticore property. After a failed escape attempt, Lydecker tortures Zack even more and Zack ""dies."" In a ingenious plan, Zack survives his burial and escapes from his coffin.
![dark angel s01 e05 dark angel s01 e05](https://i1.wp.com/charliesangels76-81.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Target-Angels-11-1.jpg)
Re-captured by Lydecker after his helicopter crash, Zack is tortured in an effort to get him to reveal the whereabouts of the other X5 escapees. He seizes the opportunity to make himself look li And, Sketchy is put in charge at Jam Pony. Meanwhile, Logan discovers the feeling has partially returned to his paralyzed leg.
![dark angel s01 e05 dark angel s01 e05](https://kcet.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a1e9742/2147483647/strip/false/crop/680x170+0+0/resize/680x170!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.pbs.org%2Fcontentchannels%2FnpYDXVa-white-logo-41-jnUwETW.png)
The helicopter transporting Zack back to Manticore mysteriously explodes. It's Zack who turns himself in to police in order to spare Max. Lydecker and the police close in on finding Max however, the real murder confesses. Though she puts her own life at risk, she does save Logan's life. Max heads back to Seattle to give Logan a blood transfusion. Just as she's ready to do it, she learns Logan is near death. Zack tries again to convince Max to run away with him. While saying good-bye, their attraction to each other comes to the surface and Logan and Max kiss. Logan offers Max and Zack shelter in a countryside retreat. Sketchy stacks it and loses the valuable package.Lydecker gets the local police to post ""Wanted"" posters of Max throughout the city, charging her with Vogelsang's murder. Original Cindy and Sketchy vie for the attention of lickety-chick.
![dark angel s01 e05 dark angel s01 e05](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IweK4gAIl-E/hqdefault.jpg)
Logan suggests Max should pick a birthday, 'cos everyone needs a reason to celebrate". In a flashback Max remembers Zack retreiving a red birthday balloon while on training ops at Manticore, Wyoming. Lydecker observes her with the "contraband" and she forced to release it. Meanwhile, Logan Cale runs smack into his past while helping a client Alina, investigate her whistleblower father's mysterious death. Max helps Sketchy one-up a two-faced casino owner who bilked him for a bundle of cash.