When thirty people are killed on one night after being hit by lightening, Hood, Rachel and Felix travel to Massachusetts to investigate. Hood discovers that all the victims have a virus that causes a microwiring system to grow in their skin, depleting them of essential minerals and making them highly conductive -- they're human lightening rods and being out in a storm could kill them. Worse than that, people with this virus also attract power out out electrical appliances and can be electrocuted touching a toaster. Hood and Rachel must find the source of this virus, stops its transmission and find a cure for those already infected.