Dead at 21 Season 1

Season 1

Air date: 1994-06-15

Episodes: 13

Episodes

E1: Dead at 21

The victim of a government experiment to create superintelligent humans learns the cause of the strange dreams he has been havingâ€”and that he will self-destruct by his 21st birthday unless he finds the scientist who ""created"" him by implanting a chip in his brain. He becomes a fugitive when he and Maria, a girl who crashed his 20th birthday party, are accused of killing another ""cyb"" actually shot by a government agent named Winston, bent on tracking down all the cybs and killing them. Ed's only hope for survival is a doctor who worked on the project, Victor Heisenberg.

Air date: 1994-06-15

E2: Brain Salad

Ed checks into a hospital for brain surgery, and learns disheartening news about Victor Heisenberg.

Air date: 1994-06-22

E3: Love Minus Zero

Ed and Maria meet a cyb who wants to run away with them, but is ignorant of her condition.

Air date: 1994-06-29

E4: Shock the Monkey

Ed and Maria search for Victor Heisenberg's grave and become involved with animal-rights activists.

Air date: 1994-07-06

E5: Gone Daddy Gone

Maria's con-artist father tracks her down.

Air date: 1994-07-13

E6: Use Your Illusion

Ed and Maria find their exploits chronicled in a comic book created by a cyb who's plotting to kill the senator in charge of the neurocybernetics project.

Air date: 1994-07-20

E7: Live for Today

Ed and Maria's feelings for each other are tested after partying with a surfer and his friends.

Air date: 1994-07-27

E8: Tie Your Mother Down

Ed prepares to give himself up when Winston kidnaps his mother, but Maria suspects a trap.

Air date: 1994-08-03

E9: Cry Baby Cry

Winston trails Ed and Maria as they search for an abandoned baby's mother.

Air date: 1994-08-10

E10: Life During Wartime

The host of a pirate TV show offers to help Ed and Maria expose the project.

Air date: 1994-08-17

E11: Hotel California

Ed and Maria visit Cali, a 35 year-old cyb, to discover the secret of his longevity.

Air date: 1994-08-24

E12: In Through the Out Door (1)

Winston finally catches up with Ed and Maria, who are hiding out in Los Angeles. Once captured, Ed is taken to a facility where he meets with others like him and is told that there may be a way to counteract the rapidly deteriorating chip in his head.

Air date: 1994-08-31

E13: In Through the Out Door (2)

Maria discovers that everything isn't as it seems at the retreat where Ed hooks up with others like him. As things spiral out of control, Winston may be their only hope for escape but Maria is shocked when it appears that all of the subjects, including Ed, have terminated.

Air date: 1994-09-07