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Lisa is called by a man who claims that Michael was alive after he was struck by the train. But she thinks that he died instantly. So things--that Michael is alive. begin to unravel. And the Eggman, who wants to get back at Michael, is planning his escape.

Hours before a General Irving is scheduled to arrive to check up on the project for a funding review, the 'New & Improved' version of Michael Wiseman inexplicably goes into a catatonic state. Dr. Morris tries in vain to diagnose and revive him, but nothing in Micheal's original medical records provides any clue. The General is impatient and considering pulling the plug on the program unless Dr. Morris will agree to put a new brain in his body. Flashbacks to Micheal's old life, where he experiences the same kind of temporary unconsciousness. To avoid worrying Lisa, he hadn't gone to his usual doctor and kept the events secret.

Michael Wiseman, a middle-aged insurance seller with a family, dies in a subway accident. But in a twist of fate, a secret branch of the U.S. government rescues his brain and offers him a new life, in a new body. Michael wakes up and finds himself in a trim and new genetically engineered and enhanced body. But the only condition is that he can never have any contact with his family and friends from his previous life.

After escaping from his bodyguards/captors, Michael heads to his old office to see his co-worker, Roger Bender, to try to explain what has happened and convince him that he is physically a new person. Michael wants to see his wife and teenage daughter again, so he forces Roger to drive him to his house where he watches Lisa and Heather, and sees his wife leave on a date. Meanwhile, Dr. Morris is angry about his creation escaping and has all his hit men to set out to look for Michael to bring him back, or eliminate him. Elsewhere, the Eggman arrives in New York and begins planning to blackmail the city for a large ransom by threatening to release his nerve gas.

Michael is allowed 15 minutes in the free world, by himself, under strict instructions to not draw attention to himself. Unfortunately, he becomes involved in a robbery in a bank and must use his superhuman strength to save one of the hostages.

Morris reveals to Michael that there was another man like him who was the early version of the technology used on him. The man would escape and disappear. Morris suspects that an undefeated boxer could be him. So he sends Michael to go undercover as a sparring partner to find out.

A mentally impaired young man, named Jimmy, accidentally stumbles upon a terrorist cell's weapons cache in an abandoned building while he is playing superhero. In the process, he witnesses Michael capturing some terrorists by pulling down part of a building and flipping over their car by hand. As Michael is leaving the scene, Jimmy overhears where Michael lives. Being convinced that he has seen a real-life superhero in action, he tracks Michael down. When he tells Dr. Morris and Michael about seeing a crate of missiles, they think it is just another example of his comic-book delusions. However they discover that the terrorist cell is still active. Roger dabbles in online stock trading, and accidentally clicks on the wrong thing, inadvertently getting lucky and making a fortune. Rather than admitting that it was a fluke, Roger hints to his co-workers that he has a foolproof statistical model for playing the stock market. Craig Spence hears the rumors and insists that Roger let him in on the action with some stock tips.

Michael sneaks a newspaper out of the janitor's cleaning basket, and finds out that Lisa has put his house up for sale. He breaks out again to confront Roger and find out why his million dollar life insurance policy hadn't been paid. Turns out that Grand Empire Insurance Company (and especially Craig Spence) holds a grudge against the Wiseman family because Michael's integrity had cost the company $400 million in an earlier case. Because of this grudge, they're calling his death a suicide and refusing to pay. Michael makes arrangements to deal with Spence his own way.

It's Thanksgiving, and while Lisa and Heather are having their first holiday without Michael, Michael is "invited" by Dr. Morris to his sister's house for dinner. Roger inadvertently brings uninvited guests to Lisa's house.