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Scanners II: The New Order is the 1991 sequel to the 1981 feature film Scanners, written by David Cronenberg. The sequel was written by B.J. Nelson and directed by Christian Duguay.

A young veterinarian intern named David Kellum discovers that he has mental abilities that allow him to read and control the minds of others. When he moves from his home in the country to a large city to continue his studies he discovers that he has a hard time controlling this ability due to the congestion of so many mind thought patterns.

He eventually stumbles upon a violent store robbery and mentally kills the gunman. Police Commander John Forrester finds the store's security tape and plans to secretly enlist David as an employee. He tells David that he knows what he is, a Scanner, and that there are others like him around the world. He asks David to help him track down criminals who have been able to evade arrest, to which David agrees.

After a successful capture of a man who put strychnine in various milk containers across the city, Forrester introduces David to another less in control Scanner named Peter Drak, who also works for him. Drak proves to be more aggressive and sinister in the use of his powers. Forrester teaches David a few mental techniques using Drak as a test subject. This causes Drak to consider Kellum an enemy but is injected with a drug call Eph2, a variant of the drug Ephemerol, which calms him before he could mentally harm David...