A disgraced detective walks into a warehouse and finds the actual reason he got fired waiting for him: a crew of misfits whose job is catching aliens before anyone notices they exist. The premise is lean and the budget is thin, but the show treats a Saturday morning cartoon premise with the energy of a 70s action flick that refuses to apologize. You're not here for perfect animation or cinematography; you're here to watch five people and a squirrel decide that alien containment is worth more than job security, and the show knows exactly what you came for.
Brian's career as a detective hits rock bottom the moment he gets fired. Unemployed and directionless, he receives a strange letter, and following the address on it brings him to the Marginal Service, a secret underground branch of the United Nations. Its oddball crew of fearless men, one woman and a squirrel is assigned to hunt aliens, and Brian is now their newest recruit. These aliens, called Borderlanders, look exactly like humans and mostly live peacefully in society, but a Borderlander terrorist group has begun producing and spreading a powerful drug called Confu. Because Borderlanders can regenerate and pass as ordinary people, tracking down the trafficking network is a tough job, and the team's investigation turns up some surprising faces among the aliens. Expect sci-fi action with a mismatched squad at its center.
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