BARTERING & CAPITALISM IN POST-APOCALYPSE SEATTLE

Clip from Dark Angel S01E15 - In February 2009, a genetically enhanced nine-year-old female supersoldier designated as X5-452 (Geneva Locke) escapes along with eleven others from a secret U.S. government institution code-named Manticore, where they were born, raised, and trained to be soldiers and assassins. On June 1, 2009, months after X5-452's escape, terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into chaos. Ten years later in 2019, the now 19-year-old X5-452 (Jessica Alba), who calls herself Max Guevara, struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In the recovering United States, which is now barely more than a developing country, she tries to live a relatively normal life and evade capture by Manticore, which wishes to recover its lost asset.

- lt'll run out before they get to us.
- Will you stop?

- l really need new shoes, man.
- Sketchy, this line is for gas.

l know. Sky said, if l score him a few gallons
of premium, he'd give me bike tyres.

- Hey, no cutting!
- l thought you wanted shoes?

- Sky doesn't have shoes. Herbal has shoes.
- So you'll trade the tyres for the shoes?

Herbal doesn't need tyres. He needs a waffle
iron for his lady. Original Cindy needs tyres.

- And Original Cindy has a waffle iron.
- No, Normal has a waffle iron.

He's gonna swap
Original Cindy for some lingerie,
so she can give it to Herbal for the tyres Sky's
giving me for the gas, so l'll get my shoes.

Nice.

What does Normal want with lingerie?

l'm a businessman. l don't ask questions.