Axon

When concerns over the ethical framework cause the funding for his bio-ergonomics research to be withdrawn, Dr Alexander Axon disappears, taking all of his robotic creations with him. For two years there is no clue to his whereabouts until a cry for help is received from a remote island off the Cornish coast. Now a covert task force of elite ex-soldiers has been mobilised to the island to extract Axon and destroy all evidence of his research. Led by Shaw, the soldiers have thirty-six hours to complete their task before a group of five university students arrive on the island to participate in medical trials. Unknown to both groups, Alpha, the doctor’s prime robot, has taken over the research unit, certain in the knowledge that the use of a perfect human skeleton, combined with Axon’s advanced gel printing technique, is the elusive key to the creation of the ultimate being, a hybrid robot. Forewarned of the attack, Alpha and the other robots prepare an ambush that leaves Shaw the only soldier left alive and in hiding. The students arrive as scheduled but the following day Michael does not attend the first set of trials, raising the suspicions of the other students, who go in search of him. After finding traces of blood, they realise that they are being followed by one of the robots and only the appearance of Shaw offers a way to escape. In their attempt to evade the robot, one of the students, Si, is captured. The other students are taken into hiding by Shaw where the discovery of Alpha’s plan to select the perfect specimen and manufacture the ultimate robot ready for mass cloning convinces them they must help Shaw destroy the contents of Axon’s laboratory before they escape. Alpha discovers that Si’s skeleton had once suffered a broken bone, rendering it useless for cloning. Si is executed for his imperfection and even though Shaw succeeds in destroying one of the remaining robots, he cannot prevent Annie being captured by Alpha.