Today's afternoon couch-potato session mostly involved FX, since Sunday is usually Non-Sucky Movie Day for them. That is, after I woke up. We got back, Dad cut the race on (looked like Sears Point), and he, Mom and I all passed out in the living room. Caught the tail end of Terminator 3 when we flipped over there, and stuck around afterwards because FX was showing some movie called Doomsday that I hadn't heard of before.
Oh, man. XP
In 2007, a viral epidemic sweeps Glasgow. Its victims are stricken with external disfigurement and internal hemorrhaging, and all those infected die after hours spent in agony. There is no vaccine, and there is no cure.
In order to contain the outbreak, Britain constructs a 30-foot high, 6-foot thick containment wall across the entire British/Scottish border. An evacuation effort is maintained, until the termination of an infected person that catches civilians in the crossfire sparks a riot, and the gates in the wall are closed and welded shut, sealing all of Scotland inside. The waters around the nation are mined and patrolled, and Scottish airspace is declared a No-Fly Zone.
Eden Sinclair is one of the outbreak evacuees. She and her mother had been close to the gate when the riot broke out—a stray bullet taking her left eye—and she escaped the quarantine on a military helicopter, her mother sacrificing herself so the six-year old Eden could live. Three decades later, Sinclair is a cold, high-ranking and top-performing officer in Britain's state military-police branch, using her cybernetic right eye to aid her on her missions, the only memory of her mother a faded, dog-eared paper with her old street address preserved in a ziploc bag.
The government, meanwhile, has maintained satellite surveillance over Glasgow, and has received recent images of living people where there should be no living people. At the same time, the Reaper Virus pokes up its head in the middle of London, and Sinclair is selected to head a team charged with finding the cure for the virus. But the operation is clandestine, so once the team is inside they are to be abandoned to whatever is left inside . . . if there is anything left.
