Code 8-1 🎥 2019 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In the early 20th century, the public becomes aware of people with superhuman abilities, known as Powers, resulting in the government passing a law requiring all Powers to register their abilities. Powers become key to the workforce, specifically noted as having helped build Lincoln City as “the city of tomorrow”, creating an economic boom. However, as the Third Industrial Revolution begins, Powers are marginalized in the face of increased automation and mechanization. By the 1990s, a crime syndicate known as the Trust has flooded the streets with an addictive drug called Psyke, made from the spinal fluid of trafficked Powers.

Police departments begin using drone-deployed robots, called Guardians, and facial recognition software to combat Power-related crime while a citywide Powers ban is debated. Connor Reed, a 26-year-old Electric looks after his mother, Mary, a Cryo, whose ailment impedes her from controlling her powers. Due to their status as Powers, finding decent work is difficult, leaving them unable to afford treatment for Mary’s condition. Connor makes ends meet by working as an unregistered day laborer alongside other Powers. Elsewhere in the city, a drug raid is conducted by detectives Alex Park and Davis on an apartment complex owned by crime lord Marcus Sutcliffe, the local agent of the Trust and a Reade.

Marcus is confronted by his superior Westley Cumbo and told to pay his cut to the Trust soon or face consequences. Connor is approached by Garrett — Marcus’ underling and a TK — and his crew for a job, which turns out to be a robbery of a chemical plant. Connor shorts out an electrical fence in an impressive display of power, piquing Garrett’s interest. He is introduced to Marcus and meets Nia, Marcus’s apparent girlfriend. Park and Davis arrive at the robbery scene the next day and determine that the stolen chemicals are being used to cut Psyke.

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