Lot Six is a chemical drug. It alters the chromosomes of those injected with it, giving them psychokinetic powers.
The Shop experimented with the drug in May 1969 at the Harrison State College in Harrison, Ohio. During the test, 12 students were injected with the drug, although Dr. Wanless, the overseer of the program, claimed that the experiments would be split into test groups, whereas six of the injections would be water distilled with Lot Six and six of the injections would be pure water.
Dr. Wanless was also working on future chemical compounds to be designated Lot Seven and Lot Eight. Due to the unpredictable nature of the Lot Six experiment, these plans were terminated.
Firestarter (novel)[]
Lot Six is a chemical compound which it exact nature was classified. Dr. Wanless claimed that it was essentially an hypnotic and hallucinogenic compound, despite the fact that he could have deceived the the twelve subjects. After Wanless explained the situation and asked for questions, the subjects wanted to know the exact composition of Lot Six. Wanless slipped those questions.
Firestarter (film)[]
Firestarter: Rekindled[]
Unlike the book and film, the Lot Six experiment in the miniseries takes place at Millington College in Millington, Colorado in 1979. 12 students were administered the experiment, including Andy McGee, Vicky Tomlinson, James Richardson, Mary Conant, Ralph Smithers, Larry Pierce, Harold Goldman, John Johnson, and Eve Waterson. The experiment consisted of a series drugs, one of which was identified as a psychotropic drug called di-lysergic triune acid. One of the students committed suicide during procedure by clawing his eyes out, and six test subjects developed severe mental illness, three of which committed suicide between 1979 and 1981.
After the McGees' deaths, the remaining Lot Six test subjects were tracked down by Systems Operations Corporation, under the guise that they won a class action lawsuit. In reality, Systems Operations was acting on the orders of John Rainbird, and murdering the test subjects to erase any past wrongdoings. Larry Smithers was murdered in Los Angeles under the guise of a suicide by drug overdose, Larry Pierce was murdered under the guise of a car crash, Harold Goldman was murdered in Washington State under the guise of heart failure, John Johnson was murdered in Orlando under the guise of a suicide by gunshot, and Mary Conant was allegedly murdered by Systems Operations Corporation operative Gill James under the guise of suicide by strangulation. Conant actually involuntarily placed herself into suspended animation.
In the current events of the miniseries, continued research in Lot Six has progressed to the creation of Lot 22, which turned several children into psychokinetic monsters, including a young boy named Cody, who became an energy sink, able to absorb any type of energy into himself.
Test subjects[]
- 1 - died during the experiment from cardiac arrest.
- 2 - died shortly after the experiment.
- 3 - became insane and blind and is kept at the Maui base.
- 4 - became insane and paralyzed and is kept at the Maui base.
- 5 - died in a car crash, possibly suicide.
- 6 - committed suicide in Cleveland in 1973.
- 7 - committed suicide sometime between 1974 and 1977.
- 8 - committed suicide sometime between 1974 and 1977.
- 9 - committed suicide sometime between 1974 and 1977.
- 10 - James Richardson, living in Los Angeles and it's unknown if he still has any psychokinetic powers.
- 11 - Vicky Tomlinson, killed by The Shop.
- 12 - Andy McGee, killed by John Rainbird.