Karl Selig and Steve Cooper, two graduate students conducting research near Antarctica, discover an old Nazi submarine embedded in an iceberg. Upon closer inspection, they notice another unknown object also embedded in the ice just below the sub.

Back on the boat, the third member of the team, Naomi, makes a call on the boat’s satellite phone, reporting “something interesting.” The man on the other end of the call tracks the boat’s location. After pinpointing the exact coordinates and discerning a clear satellite image of the scene, he runs into his director’s office, exclaiming “We’ve found it” (5).

Kate Warner is a doctor conducting autism research in Indonesia. One day, two armed and masked intruders sneak into the lab. Warner’s lab assistant, Ben Adelson, suddenly notices a flashing alarm light, but he and Warner ignore it as a false alarm. Warner becomes lost in memories of her youth. These include the death of her mother during childbirth; her sporadically present biological father; and her adoptive father, Martin Grey, taking her to the United States followed by a rotating cycle of new cities and boarding schools. Coming out of her reverie, she realizes Adelson has not returned. As she searches for him, she hears running footsteps in the corridors.