Plot
- USAMRIID was created in 1970 to counter the threat of chemical and biological weapons.
- Section 44 of the charter permits it to investigate criminal abuses of science.
—Text at the beginning of the pilot episode.
Captain Paul Turner (Tim Guinee) is a doctor for USAMRIID suffering from a rare form of aplastic anemia as a result of exposure to chemical weapon during the Persian Gulf War. USAMRIID, The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, lures him out of his sickbed with the opportunity to bring justice to others suffering from unethical uses of scientific discoveries and resulting technologies. Unknown to his superiors, he is given a temporary cure for the symptoms of his disease by a mysterious woman who is an agent of a shadowy organization that may be trying to thwart the goals of USAMRIID. He requires periodic doses of the cure to remain functional, a weakness that the shadowy organization occasionally uses to control him. Both the machinations of the "shadowy organization" and Turner's dependency on the "cure" are ultimately resolved in the final episode of the series.
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