Scientific research can be a killer… Bioremediation is the use of living organisms, such as plants or bacteria, to neutralize or eliminate contaminants in polluted soil or water. When two young microbiologists team up to create a bacteria strain to re-mediate oil spills, they create a microbe that is a little too powerful, and attract the attention of a middle east oil cartel who will stop at nothing to destroy them, and the bug that threatens to put them all out of business.