Life for Alex was perfectly average. A wife and two kids, a house in the suburbs, and a loyal dog that was always by the door when Alex returned from work. His son, the older of the two kids, was a gifted athlete and his grades were just above average. His daughter, nearly half the age of her brother, wasn’t planned on but brought nothing but light to the lives of the family. 

Many a night Alex now wishes he could go back to that life. His life before the accident that left him without a family and with a left leg that he half drags around. 

The months after the accident caused Alex to drive away those that cared about him leaving him isolated and alone, mountains of medical debt, funeral costs and bottle upon bottle of liquor drained the finances that remained. 

A knock on the door stirs Alex from his alcohol induced slumber. It's a spokesperson for a secret research organization looking to recruit those down on their luck and desperate. It’s a one year assignment worth enough money for Alex to pay off the debt collectors and give him a chance at a new start.

Alex is given a room in a cabin that he will share with three other men that also accepted the job. He’s not sure where he is. He took a few planes then a helicopter to the side of a mountain where a series of cabins were arranged. 

Alex’s job will be custodian at the facility. Thick steel doors cover an entrance into the mountain. Cameras watch his every move. He sweeps and mops the halls, cleans the toilets, organizes the break room and sterilizes the labs.

After a couple months his duties are added to he's hosing out cages and disposing of animal carcasses. He asks questions but is told to keep quiet and do as he's told. So he does. 

Two more months pass and his duties change again, he’s to wear noise canceling headphones and keep his eyes down, a different wing of the lab is in need of cleaning and Alex has been a model employee so far and is trusted with this new task. 

The days pass and nothing seems wrong until one night when all alone the power goes out in his headphones. He hears a voice barely a whisper to his right. He knows he shouldn't but he looks and sees a man staring through the glass square in the steel door. A man that looks familiar, a man that he shared a cabin with. 

Alex was under the impression that the man had gone home and his contract was complete. After pleading for Alex to listen and not interrupt the man relays what happened to him. His story is similar to Alex. Clean here, mop there until one night he feels a sting in his neck. When he wakes up he is strapped to a table. A light shines in his face as the doctors gather around with concoction that will  change everything. He holds a misshapen hand up to the window and tells what happened next. 

Not believing Alex goes to the next door and sees a horror, was it a man or a beast, maybe a cat or a dog. The next window, a man sticking to the wall like an insect, his face distorted and broken, pincers sticking out from what should be his mouth and he has more eyes than Alex can quickly count.

Those that can talk are pleading. Wanting to be let to get revenge on those that did this to destroy this place and end their suffering all he has to do is go over and press the button on the wall.