A group of scientists investigates a deadly new alien virus before it can spread.
       When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. Many year prior to this incident, a group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone advocated for the contruction of a secure laboratory facility that would serve as a base in the event an alien biological life form was returned to Earth from a space mission. Stone and his team - Dr. Dutton, Leavitt and Hall - go to the facility, known as Wildfire, and try to firt isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont (an old wino and a six-month-old baby) survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device should it manage to escape.

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