SkyFire

After a secret Navy weather experiment, Project Windowpane, at a South Sea island burns a hole in the ozone layer, a monster thunderstorm erupts out of clear skies as if the earth is using its natural defenses as antibodies to heal the wound. Ex-Air Force pilot and meteorologist JEFF HOLDEN is trapped in a bunker with four scientists. They are pummeled by lightning that seems to target them with vengeance. The supercharged electrical atmosphere reaches into each one of their brain's electrical circuits and imprints them, giving each one a unique electrical address in the earth's electrical grid. This electrical stimulation causes nightmare hallucinations, and in Holden's case leads to flashbacks that reveal his backstory -- How he recently resigned from a successful career as an Air Force pilot due to disillusionment with the mission of the military. How Gina, his first love who he lost ten years ago, re-entered his life with her three year-old son. How he began to fall in love with her again. Escape seems impossible after one of his co-workers is struck by lightning when he goes outside. Holden desperately radios the captain of the Navy destroyer Adair to fire the Windowpane weapon again in hopes of attracting the storm away from them. His plan is met with open hostility by some of the others, as well as the captain. The first test firing is what created the life threatening situation they are now in. When the desperation to escape reaches a climax, CROFT, the biologist, confronts Holden with a gun to force him, as the only pilot in the group, to fly them to safety. The most frightened of them all, JEAN TREGASKIS comes to Holden's aid by knocking out Croft with a fire extinguisher. Holden is then able to convince them all, along with the captain, that their only resort is to fire the Windowpane laser in a different direction to draw the electrical imbalance away from them. The laser is fired. The storm shifts out to sea away from the island. They rush to the chopper to escape the island and head for the destroyer. As Holden starts the engine the garbled radio call comes from the destroyer. "Don't come to the Adair. The storm...found us."