Attrition

An alien ship filled with refugees from a dying planet, lands in the Mojave Desert the same day that Elena is born. Twenty years later, the world has become sterile, and a lottery has been issued to select a hundred women of all different races and backgrounds to participate in an alien assisted treatment to reboot the human populace. Upon arriving at the previously abandoned military base, Elena meets Sgt. Nick Chandler, one of the many soldiers tasked to work with the human doctors and scientists in the treatment process with the civilian women and led by Gen. Baker. During blood draws, tests and injections, she and Chandler develop a budding relationship. Soon the next phase of the treatment starts. Split into two groups, Elena is loaded into a bus to be taken to another part of the base, the barracks. Each woman and soldier is given a number, a dorm room number. One woman protests when she’s realized they are there to be used as brood mares but another solider, Rogers, threatens her to comply. Witnessing this, Elena quietly waits for her assigned soldier to enter her room. Right after he arrives though, Chandler bursts in and switches numbers with the other soldier. Happy to be together, they make love. Chandler continues to get her room number for the next week until Phase 2 runs its course. As their relationship grows even more, Chandler sneaks into the women’s dorm to tell Elena that she’s pregnant and the only woman to become so through the whole process. He warns her to be careful because there could be some jealous and dangerous feelings among the other women, including her friend, Sheri. In fact, the general relocates her to an isolated home on the base to keep her safe. More tests are run by the lead doctor and an alien’s attention has been drawn towards Elena’s pregnancy raising alarm with the lab technician, Julie Hastings and Chandler. Rumors of intentions to run invasive tests on Elena and her baby, even the possibility of separating the baby from its mother made by the resident alien, Ruby, pushes Chandler to make the decision to get Elena out of there as soon as possible. Him, Hastings, another woman, Rachel, against the whole lottery from the start, evacuate Elena in the cover of the night but they don’t get far before the soldier are upon them. Quick thinking, the woman sacrifices herself as a decoy to help the other escape. They drive until they reach Charlie’s house, an old soldier buddy of Chandler’s, where they learn more about the alien’s possible involvement in the sterilization pandemic. He ends up coming along for the ride to a town that has lived apart from alien influence, a safer environment to have their baby. On the empty highway, the Baker swoops down in his helicopter to stop them. A standoff ensues and Levit and Espenoza, tasked with hunting Chandler and Elena down, shoot him after he reveals he and the government made a deal with the aliens to help them rebuild their own population by conforming ours to meet their genetic needs and it started with sterilizing humans. No longer being hunted, they continue to the neutral town. Upon arrival however, they have to prove they aren’t spies or under the alien influence. In a desperate attempt to prove they aren’t, Elena reveals she’s pregnant, gaining the guards trust and access inside. Once settled, the nurse runs her own tests and comes up empty handed for an explanation for why Elena was the only woman to become pregnant. That’s when her and Chandler reveal that they were having exclusive sex and were in love, creating a rise in oxytocin, a chemical that the aliens naturally have higher levels of, making Elena’s body more compatible with the treatment the government was giving them. Flash forward, years have passed and they’ve shared what the altered treatment, replicated by the nurse, and the town has repopulated with more human and alien hybrids, creating a new generation.