The Lot 6 experiments have continued with batch 23 eventually spawning a gaggle of young boys with terrifying powers of their own. But he’s also been busy creating a new generation of firestarters. Rainbird has spent the last decade nursing his wounds and obsessing over the girl he views as a daughter. A character in King’s novel, he betrayed Charlie’s trust when she was a child and suffered devastating burns as a result. Under the guise of a class action lawsuit, a young office drone named Vincent ( Danny Nucci) is sent to track her down and inadvertently turns her into malevolent agent John Rainbird ( Malcolm McDowell). But the shady agency, now known as Systems Operations, is still hunting her. Her nights are spent in fiery nightmares reliving her escape from the Shop and the deaths of her parents. Now a young adult, she lives a solitary life under an assumed name and spends her days researching Dr. Directed by Robert Iscove, this two-part miniseries features an adult Charlie ( Marguerite Moreau), hunted by the Shop and still searching for a normal life while struggling to manage her impressive powers.Īiring on back-to-back nights in March of 2002, Firestarter 2 catches up with Charlie roughly ten years after she burned down The Shop. Wanless’s theories explored in the sci-fi series Firestarter 2: Rekindled. It’s an exciting prospect and though King has returned to the stories of a few of his child characters, most notably Danny Torrance ( The Shining) and Jack Sawyer ( The Talisman), he has never written about Charlie as an adult. Wanless, creator of Lot 6, theorizes that at some point in her life, Charlie may amass the power to cause a nuclear explosion with the sheer force of her will. King’s novel is set solely in her childhood years, but one character speculates on how her powers will increase as she ages. Their daughter inherited their genetic modifications leading to her amazing power, an ability The Shop would do anything to get their hands on. Hoping to earn some quick cash, her parents volunteered for injections of a serum called Lot 6 designed to increase or even create psy powers in human subjects. The child of participants in a college experiment run by a government agency known as The Shop, Charlie was born with the unique ability to light fires with her mind.

She is the main character in his 1980 novel Firestarter and arguably his most powerful protagonist. Of all of Stephen King’s literary children, none burns as brightly as Charlie McGee.

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