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A dying race of aliens has come to Earth to stop its own extinction... by reanimating human corpses. The N'Tal do not have bodies of their own, instead they require hosts to live — but they have the technology to reanimate, cure and occupy the bodies of the recently dead.

When an alien race makes first contact with the Earth, they request only one thing: Earth's dead. It seems the alien beings exist in a gaseous state that will come to an end if they are not given host bodies to occupy. The bodies of the dead will serve that function. One year later, Dr. Michael Alders is in charge of the program to provide the aliens with bodies. He considers them them to be parasites but carries on as best he can. When his best friends, Karen and James Heatherton die and are included in the program, his discomfort grows. When he learns however that the aliens have transported potentially toxic gases to Earth, he assumes the worse.

First contact! Aliens have approached Earth as refugees fleeing the catastrophic destruction of their own world. The aliens need only one thing: human dead. Bodiless, the aliens cannot exist without hosts. Suitable hosts are rare and the aliens cannot live indefinitely without a host. When they begin moving strange gasses and electronic gear to Earth a scientist wonders what they plan...

Cast

D.W. Moffett ... James Heatherton Rae Dawn Chong ... Karen Heatherton Richard Grove ... Kadimas Mykelti Williamson ... Dr. Michael Alders Garry Davey ... Randall Kelly Kent Gallie ... Jeffrey Littman Madison Graie ... Nancy Julian Christopher ... David Aftergood Debbie Podowski ... Tali MacGregor Fulvio Cecere ... Det. Richard Jacobs Barry W. Levy ... Vila (as Barry Levy) Yvonne Campeau ... Jaru Alex Diakun ... Minister Victoria Maxwell ... First Protester (as Victoria S. Maxwell) Dax Belanger ... Second Protester (as Michael-Dax Belanger)