Cast: Christopher Gorham, Marina Black, Judith Scott, Keegan Connor Tracy, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez, Miranda Frigon, Mark Sheppard, Steven Williams, Lochlyn Munro, Lance Gibson, Alonso Oyarzun, Sylvester Stuart, David Richmond-Peck
Repeats Air: UPN
Air Dates: September 2003 - December 2003
Premise: It's every red-blooded American male's
dream to be either a secret agent or a superhero. In UPN's new
action-adventure drama, JAKE 2.0, Jake Foley gets his shot to
be both when he is infected by nanites--based on nanotechnology,
the real life break-through technology in development that reduces
the size of computers to the molecular level. Jake's day job
is providing tech support at the super-secret National Security
Agency (NSA), but his dream is to become an NSA secret agent
- a dream that surprisingly and disturbingly comes true after
a freak accident at the Agency.
When inexplicable things start to happen to Jake, he learns
that he was exposed to a liquid containing the top-secret nanites,
which are now giving him mind-boggling powers--superhuman strength,
lightning-fast speed, heightened hearing, razor sharp vision
and telepathic abilities to communicate with computers. This
development sends shockwaves through several major players at
the NSA: Kyle Duarte, an intense and talented former field agent
now working behind a desk; Louise Beckett, a powerful senior
agent, and Diane Hughes, a research doctor desperate to understand
Jake's unlimited powers.
Presented with the superhuman Jake, a remarkable but untested
new asset, the NSA authorizes the creation of a new Special
Ops division with him at its core. Jake realizes his dream has
finally come true, but at a price--now he has to straddle two
different worlds: the treacherous life of being the world's
mightiest secret agent while keeping his new powers hidden from
the outside world, including friends, family and the beautiful
congressional staffer, Sarah Heywood, for whom he secretly pines.