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| - The story focuses on two NYPD detectives and their investigation of serial-killer Alex Mercer, and the background of Peter Randall. In 1969, 1st Lieutenant Peter Randall is serving in the Vietnam War. It is during this conflict that Randall shows a strong commitment to his duty and insurance in containing the "communist plague". While leading a squad in infiltrating a North Vietnamese military outpost, Randall is unexpectedly met by General Stillwell who informs him that he is being reassigned. When a hesitant Randall asks what he should do with his men, Stillwell kills them and states to him that it was an order. Subsequently, Randall participated in leading a Blackwatch unit in infiltrating Hope, Idaho and securing the "package" (the Redlight virus) before the town was obliterated. Upon arriving into a seemingly deserted Hope, Randall and his team met with resistance and nearly being overwhelmed by the Infected. Randall and his remaining team managed to locate the package in a bunker underneath the town. In 2008, Detectives McKlusky and Ella Garcia are summoned to the scene of multiple homicides on Manhattan's West Side. They arrive at a homeless commune in an abandoned subway where they are told to don hazard suits, and discover that the entire commune were savagely slaughtered. They learned from a forensic scientist that the victims were killed by some kind of unrecognizable animal/creature, given the study of the severe wounds and a bloody footprint trail that is found on the wall.
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