With the ARC team held captive Stephen reluctantly helps Lester capture a Silurian Scorpion let loose on a popular beach. The conspiracy unravels and people working closely on the project die -- or do they?
As her plot to control the anomalies and the future of the human race begins to fall apart Helen continues to play Steven and Nick against each other. Nick and Leek have a confrontation surrounded by Leek's future creature horde (his "Praetorian Guard") and most of the rest of the team manages to escape the compound which is overrun with creatures from the zoo that have been unleashed by a computer crash.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>