The Atlantis Gene

Inside a Jakarta police station, Kate Warner undergoes interrogation. The authorities accuse her of “buying babies” to use for research. The accusations imply a colonial motivation—exploitation of a third world country—which Indonesians are highly sensitive to.

Jin, a “resident” of the Immari research facility, is summoned from his small cell for testing. His family in desperate financial straits, Jin has few options but to serve as a guinea pig, so he willingly submits to the tests. While conditions border on totalitarian, they are better than those Jin’s brother works in, assembling electronics. Jin enters a room, takes a seat, and is hooked up to an IV. He suddenly feels sleepy.

Later, when he wakes, Jin experiences flu-like symptoms and is grouped with other similarly affected test subjects. They are ushered into a large, vault-like room where two young boys enter and mingle with the group. A large mechanism is lowered from the ceiling. It begins to pulse with light and sound, and one by one, the test subjects collapse, blood pouring from their noses. Just as Jin collapses, the machine stops.

Inside the control room, Dr. Shen Chang reports the results of the test to his superiors and orders the bodies cleaned up (no autopsies necessary).