On what should have been a routine supply run, Philip and Joy Strunk deliver a shipment of synthetic photo receptors to Dr. Caspar Nordling, biotechnologist for Grant-Corp, and discover that the scientist is conducting sadistic experiments on an Alien chestburster. With the threat of being brought up on charges, it seems Dr. Nordling's perfect world might collapse, but the Strunks soon find there's more to Nordling's research that meets the eye.