当加拿大亚伯达的牛神秘地死于炭疽病时,一位RCMP的官员试图让牧民们保持平静,不要责怪地方的农业研究,一名记者则鼓励牧民到研究中心的门口静坐。当一位老牧民死于炭疽,抗议者被隔离了。没人发现记者悄悄地消失了,随身还带着几瓶装着病菌的瓶子。于是RCMP的官员开始自己调查这件事,从美国政府那里收集资料,他必须抓紧时间以防病菌传播……When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the blame on a local agricultural research center. A reporter encourages the angry ranchers - led by the Mountie's mother-in-law - to stage a sit-in at the research center. When an eccentric old rancher dies after being exposed to a deadly strain of anthrax, the protesters are quarantined. No one notices that the reporter has disappeared - along with several vials of the deadly bacteria. The RCMP officer begins his own investigation, gleaning information from a U.S. government agent. He finds himself racing against time to recover the stolen anthrax.
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