Rebellious Rockwater High School student Jeremiah O'Bryan (Shawn Roberts) and his girlfriend, Christine Bickwell (Rachel McAdams), join a group of friends at their warehouse hideout one evening to check out Renee Palmer's (Jayne Heitmeyer) "Atavus Watch" web site. Rather than heed Renee's warnings about the existence and imminent danger of the Atavus, Jeremiah becomes infatuated with the alien vampires and decides to set up an Atavus Fan Club site. The teens are interrupted by Eric Delmonico (Daniel Petronijevic), a Rockwater jock and an enemy of Jeremiah. When a janitor (Len Doncheff) appears, threatening to charge them all with trespassing, they flee. Eric grabs Jeremiah's laptop computer and runs for the exit. Juda (Guylaine St. Onge) suddenly appears from the shadows and knocks Eric to the floor, but the teenager scrambles to his feet and runs.

Meanwhile, Renee visits J. Street (Melinda Deines) at her trailer, and learns Jeremiah has pilfered her web site, stealing over 20 video files for his own site. Street is able to trace Jeremiah, and Renee sets off to visit him at his school. Upon her arrival, she finds him being pulverized by Eric during a wrestling match, while Coach Bickwell (Andrew Airlie), Christine's father, looks on. After insisting the coach stop the bout, Renee appeals to Jeremiah to abandon his fan site, desperately trying to convey the deadly threat of the Atavus. Despite Renee's warnings that his site has probably put him on the Atavus' hit list, Jeremiah refuses to cooperate.

Onboard the Taelon Mothership, Ronald Sandoval (Von Flores) and Howlyn (Alan Van Sprang) meet to discuss how the Atavus' newfound popularity among the world's youth can be parlayed into an expanding army of hybrids. They determine that Jeremiah would be the perfect person to help recruit other teens, but first he must be "joined" with the Atavus and turned into a hybrid.

Juda finds Jeremiah at the warehouse with Christine. Renee arrives just in time to watch Jeremiah and Juda disappear through a nearby portal. She tells the horrified Christine that Jeremiah is doomed, and that if he returns at all, it will be as a murderous hybrid. Like the Atavus themselves, he would need to feed on the lifeforce of others to survive.

Jeremiah shows up at school the next day and challenges Coach Bickwell to a wrestling match. With his new hybrid abilities, he pummels the coach into submission, breaking his arm and several ribs in the process. Witnessing Jeremiah's power, several of his classmates ask how they can achieve the same thing. Jeremiah instructs them to meet him at the gym the following night to find out.

Back at the warehouse, the janitor stumbles across the portal. Before he can notify anyone, he is attacked and killed by Jeremiah. Christine visits the warehouse and is alarmed by Jeremiah's new power, however she can't fight her love for him and seeks comfort in his arms. The next morning at the warehouse, Renee is searching for Jeremiah when she runs into Coach Bickwell, who is looking for his daughter. Finding the janitor's body, Renee tells the coach that Jeremiah is now a deadly half-alien. He hurries off, seeking to kill the teen before any harm comes to Christine.

Renee finds Jeremiah first, and using a dry-ice weapon to subdue him, she takes him to a hotel room, where he is chained to a bed. She then sets up video equipment to record the youth as his Atavus impulses get the most of him and he begins to thrash about wildly. With Christine describing what has become of her boyfriend, Renee begins to shoot the video, which will be distributed to the world's teens via the Internet, alerting them to the murderous ways of the Atavus. Jeremiah breaks free, and after knocking Renee unconscious, convinces Christine he'd never harm her. To make his point, he gives her a laser knife for protection. The two hurry to the school gym, where a dozen students are waiting to be portalled to the Mothership for "joining."

Eric again confronts Jeremiah, this time with a baseball bat in hand. A fight ensues between the two, and Jeremiah uses his Atavus cleave to kill Eric. Renee and Coach Bickwell arrive just as Jeremiah is dragging Christine to the portal. Renee opens fire and destroys the device. Enraged, Jeremiah leaps at her, knocks her to the floor and begins to choke her. Christine leaps to the rescue, stabbing Jeremiah with the laser knife. He dies in her arms.

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