Renee (Jayne Heitmeyer) drives to a secluded cabin in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains where she enjoys a romantic evening with her boyfriend, Jeff Marlowe (Cameron Daddo), a double agent for the Atlantic National Alliance (ANA). Jeff works in deep cover as a Volunteer onboard the Taelon Mothership. Meanwhile, Da’an (Leni Parker) shows Zo’or (Anita La Selva) the Mothership’s recently upgraded weaponry, which has been improved with pirated Jaridian energy-particle technology. The Taelons will now be able to meet any Jaridian attack with equal force, or obliterate an entire planet in the blink of an eye.

At the White House, Hubble Urick (Frank Moore) informs the ANA leadership about the Taelons’ upgraded weaponry. Jeff and Liam Kincaid (Robert Leeshock) appear before the group to explain how they hope to overcome the most recent threat to Earth. They outline their plan to install an interface to lock out the Mothership’s weapons array. The lock would make it impossible for Zo’or to use the new weapons without keying in a code that only the ANA will have. In order to execute their plan, Jeff will utilize Taelon “nanomitters” that have been implanted in him allowing him to access the weapons pod, an area forbidden to humans. Jeff will also undergo a temporary memory-blocking procedure to erase any information about the ANA, in case he is captured and interrogated by the Taelons.

Once onboard the Mothership, Liam sabotages the ship’s environmental system, forcing Zo’or to order that power be diverted from other systems, including the weapons pod. Meanwhile, Jeff infiltrates the pod and installs the interface, but things go awry when Da’an performs a diagnostic on the ship’s systems and becomes suspicious. Zo’or, Da’an and a security team rush to the pod and capture Jeff. Zo’or then electrocutes him with a blast of Taelon energy.

Near death, Jeff is placed in a stasis tank until he recovers enough to undergo a mind probe that will reveal the necessary failsafe code to activate the weaponry. That evening, Renee again meets Jeff at the cabin. The following day, Liam informs her about Jeff’s predicament and its implications. Apparently, Jeff had been in two places at one time; in the cabin with her, as well as in stasis onboard the Mothership. Liam suggests that perhaps Jeff’s “nanomitters” have enabled him to establish a Taelon-like mind link with Renee that is so strong, he appears to be physically present.

Liam and Renee meet with Hubble, who agrees to let them attempt to rescue Jeff from the Mothership on the condition that if they fail, they are to terminate him in order to protect the ANA. Liam and Renee gain access to the ship and make their way to the stasis tank. As they examine the tank’s power source to see if it can be mobilized for transport, the mind-linked Jeff appears outside the tank. He begs Renee to kill him, telling her that in human terms, he is already dead, only being kept alive by agonizingly painful Taelon technology. Seeing her lover in such distress, Renee makes the only decision possible.

While she and Liam try to figure out how to deactivate the tank and mercifully end Jeff’s life, a security Volunteer rushes into the chamber and opens fire with his skrill. Liam returns fire but not before a skrill blast shatters the tank causing Liam and Renee to scramble to a portal and escape, leaving Jeff finally at peace.

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