Fever - Charles Martel discovers that his daughter is a victim of leukemia. The same disease that made him a widower. He works as a cancer researcher at a pharmaceutical company. The casue is a chemical plant company's rubber and plastic recycling plant that dumps toxic waste consisting of benzene into the river which incidentally flows by the Martel household. Brain - Dr.Martin Phillips who is a 41 year old neuro radiologist working with his fiance Dr. Denise Sanger at the NYC medical center. Dr. Mannerheim a neurosurgeon and a colleague of Dr. Martin. He wants to operate on a seizure patient by removing the damaged brain cells which the doctors say are causing the seizures. The same signs were evident in another patient Katherine Collins. Ever since Katherine Collins started visiting a Gyn clinic in Manhattan she started having seizures which left her unconscious. On her way back after her last visit she collapses. The doctors go on to uncover a scandal where live patients are used as test subjects and continue investigating even as their very lives are on the line.
