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ニューヨークで深夜、トンネルの工事現場で明らかに他殺とみられる遺体が発見され、辣腕の科学捜査官リンカーン・ライムが派遣された。リンカーンは重要な証拠を採取する前に現場を荒らされたくないがために自分以外の捜査官を全て遺体発見現場から遠ざけ、一人狭いトンネルの奥に潜り込んで行った。瓦礫の下敷きになっていた遺体の顔を見ると、リンカーンは驚愕した。そこに横たわっていたのは自分の遺体で、驚愕のあまり硬直している間にトンネルの上から重い金属製のパイプが降ってきた。

Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have crashed because a defective part, a C-ring, has been made of a weaker, less expensive alloy. Before Rob can go public with this, Rob is killed on the orders of corrupt General Howard, who did not want Rob to go public with the defective part. Howard believes that Barbara, who is also a marine, now has the part, so Howard and his henchmen set out to kill Barbara and Johnny and get the part, but Howard is underestimating what Barbara is willing to do to protect Johnny.

Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...