Dan Davis is a world champion sprinter who recently was accused of blood doping, and subsequently had his 100M World Record time wiped from the record books. His motivation for his current race is simple: prove to everyone how wrong they were by besting the record again.

Dan's coach is advising against participating in the race after Dan won the qualifying heat, and almost permanently injured himself doing so. Of course, Dan will run, and unbeknownst to him, Agents are monitoring Dan from the beginning of his comeback race.

The race begins and we're treated to a look inside the pain, exertion, and force of will necessary to push one's body further, faster than the competition past, even, the breaking point of flesh. While leading, Dan's quad ruptures, and he goes down briefly. Reaching deep within, Dan picks himself back up in his attempt to complete the race. The Agents realize his body's signal is becoming erratic. Cut to his cell in the machine's powerplant: Dan wakes himself up!

Thrashing and flailing, his freedom is short-lived - the machines immediately swoop in, pass currents of electricity through him, and render his mind useless. His body slumps in the cell as we cut back to the race. Tumbling to the ground, Dan finishes first and shatters the record, but the machines have won this day.

His mind nearly empty, Dan lives out his life confined to a wheelchair in a long-term care facility, a prisoner who briefly tasted freedom, and paid dearly for it.

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