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Before The Burning Zone was so tragically maimed then canceled, Coleman Luck and his son Colelll were working on ideas for future BZ episodes. Here are some of the great stories that sadly will now never be.
DAYS OF WRATH - The entire population of a government nuclear facility is struck down by a plague. The facility is a secret, underground missile silo complex containing fully armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Burning Zone team is sent in to find the cause of the plague. Hidden in the depths of the complex they find a bacterium that has been mutated by radiation. Not only has it killed the human population but it has also eaten into the nuclear machinery leaving the team trapped in one big bomb.
RED TIDE - When a team of Navy SEALs is doing a practice operation off the coast of San Diego they swim through a "red tide" of algae. The algae are carrying a rare virus that penetrates into the blood of the men. The SEALs have already been injected with experimental drugs designed to improve performance. When the virus interacts with the drugs in their system it boosts their physical abilities to peak levels but also drives them into extreme paranoia unleashing a team of highly-trained killers on to the population of San Diego.
THE RETIREMENT PLAN - The National Security Agency has come up with a plan that allows it's top level agents and executives to retire from the job without risking compromise of the incredible secrets that they hold. They check into THE RETIREMENT PLAN which allows them, via computer-generated reality plugged right into their brains, to live out forty to fifty more years of life in the fantasy setting of their choice. The only drawback is that they die in a week. When a friend of Cassian's disappears because he is forced into "retirement", Cassian calls on the team to examine the recent deaths of so many "retirees."
ANGEL OF DEATH - The shadow organization known as "The Dawn" has unleashed its newest weapon. The Angel of Death. He's a genetically altered man who carries the most virulent strains of the most deadly diseases in his body. He is unaffected by them, but when he is "inserted" in a population mass die-offs occur. It's up to the team to find the Angel and stop him from continuing his mission.
SILVER CORD - When Edward Marcase awakens from a dream to find that he's not in his body, but floating over the city of Washington D.C. he begins one of his strangest adventures. He's drawn into a house where he watches a woman sleeping. As she sleeps her spirit floats above her physical body. They are connected with a silver cord. Into the room comes another spirit!person. He pulls out a strange knife and cuts the woman's Silver Cord. The assassin then draws the woman's spirit with him. But not before he sees Edward. Edward awakens and in the morning he goes to the woman's house. An ambulance is outside. She's died of "natural causes." As he investigates he finds himself drawn in a battle against the bizarre world of the occult and pure spiritual evil. And they know who he is and where he sleeps.
STRANGE ATTRACTOR - A theoretical physicist has been working for years to find the underlying force that binds together a universe made of atoms and their subparticles, quarks and leptons. And she thinks she has found it. The Kundalini. When she tries to unlock its power she achieves transcendence and with it pays a terrible price. Lying in a coma state in her home her body exudes a golden light. Others are drawn to her and when they come in to her presence they are struck down into that trClnscendent state as well. When Cassian has his team investigate the mysterious forces at work Shiroma is struck down in the coma state. She enters a frightening world where the symbols of Eastern religion are alive and try to draw her into Nirvana, which is not paradise but annihilation.
Fan Fiction Challenge. Calling all BZ fan fiction writers. Help us turn the great story ideas above into a Burning Zone episode. Pick a topic, write a story and send it to us. We'll publish the results in our next issue.
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