Jill's new treatment for juvenile diabetes is halted when she discovers than the stem cells hold a retrovirus that might endanger the patients. The research on what plagues the girl found in the subway tunnel continues.

Carlos and David helped by a Cuban scientist called Eva Ramone look into a claim than an exiled Cuban is a victim of bio-terrorism. Bob being persuaded that Caroline's nephew, Glenn, is improving calls Simon Jessup to help him out.

As the investigation continues on the suicides in Arkansas, the team believes it is a chemical release by worms that is the cause. Owen is charged with criminal negligence for the death by overdose of a school girl.

Despite David's public statement that GMO fish has no bearing on some illnesses, the dad of a young boy is convinced that his son is ill due to eating a the mutant fish. When an entire squadron of national guard falls ill, bio-terrorism is suspected, the team must work on the case.

It seems that the retrovirus that Jill discovered in the Korean stem cells is responsible for the illness affecting the national guards, thus showing the retrovirus was reactivated. Meanwhile, kids are all coming down with a mysterious and deadly disease that Norbac has to stop.

The antidote created to cure the national guards isn't doing its job properly as the guards fall even more ill with another disease. Caroline, still investigating what Weston did, finds that the White House is mixed into it.

What happened to Bob, Mayko, David, Jill and Caroline? 6 months after the explosion, NorBac is still rebuilding itself. The team has to deal with the deaths of several of their friends and colleagues and the arrivals of new people for the team.

NorBac must find a cure to a bacterium that will surely kill David and Bob if they do not succeed. They also need to engineer the cure so that it eradicates the bacterium that was probably transported by the wind after the explosion of the lab in Utah.