Dr. Jacob Hood, Special Science Advisor to the FBI, is called upon to investigate when multiple cases of food-related paralysis are reported in North California.
Dr. Jacob Hood must figure out why severely autistic teenagers are disappearing across the country, only to reappear a month later exhibiting symptoms of savant syndrome.
When a woman's body is discovered on the beach on the hottest day of the year, frozen solid with no signs of thawing despite the blistering heat, Dr. Jacob Hood is called in to investigate.
As Dr. Hood investigate, he comes across a medical cover-up where students are dying due to the bends, but there is no deep water in Oklahoma for this to occur.
An epidemic of sudden, violent outbursts by law-abiding citizens draws Dr. Jacob Hood to a quiet Texas community to investigate - but he soon succumbs to the same erratic behavior.
After seeing a national news report that a boy's kidney tumor miraculously disappeared after the child drank from a natural spring in Montana, Dr. Jacob Hood rushes to the scene to debunk what he believes to be a fraudulent miracle cure.
Hood investigates after a healthy helicopter pilot who flies for a local TV station goes blind during a live traffic report, which results in a deadly crash.