the focus of this series was on department h's consistently hidden agenda and alpha flight's reluctance to comply thereto. the conspiracy plotline saw weapon x allowing an incarnation of the zodiac cartel to kidnap madison jeffries, who was subsequently brainwashed into becoming the group's "gemini". to keep the group from interfering with their "deal", department h brainwashed the team into forgetting jeffries' kidnapping. also, department h employed an actual sasquatch as the new team's version of sasquatch, without telling the team that it was not walter langkowski. department h also arranged the kidnapping of diamond lil, another former alpha flight member and madison jeffries' wife, when she began to enquire about the location of her husband, with the intent of using her as a test subject for illegal medical experiments.