

Stone and Leavitt are inspecting the scoop for contamination. Hall is trying to figure out why the old man and the baby survived. It’s highly virulent and kills almost instantly.

They examine Scoop with powerful cameras and discover a microscopic greenish alien organism responsible for the deaths. Hall has the only key that can deactivate the device.

If the organism escapes, the facility has an automatic nuclear self-destruct mechanism to incinerate all infectious agents. They descend through four disinfection levels to a fifth level, where laboratories are located. They request that a bomb be dropped on Piedmont.Īt the Wildfire facility, the team goes through decontamination procedures. They need to destroy the town before whatever killed everyone escapes. They take the baby, the old man, and the satellite to a secret facility. Then an old man comes stumbling toward them. They find the satellite in the doctor’s office. A few lived long enough to commit suicide. Two members of the team are dressed in hazmat suits and dropped into Piedmont. They suspect that an organism was brought back from space with the satellite. The pilot sees dead people everywhere.Ī top level team is assembled. The base sends a jet over the town to take pictures and scan the area. The team is in constant contact with Scoop Mission Control, until communication stops mid-sentence. The team finds dead bodies scattered throughout the town. A retrieval team is sent in from Vandenberg Air Force Base to pick up a satellite that landed inside the town limits. “It’s the damnedest thing, there’s no sign of life.”įebruPiedmont, New Mexico population 68.
