The Civil Servant

College student, Kim Raleigh, working part-time in her university library, is given the task of barcoding a recent donation by the United States government of formerly classified files. Her close friend Erik, needing to complete an assignment before a planned road trip with Kim, “borrows” a file that hasn’t been barcoded, then seemingly vanishes. Federal agents soon show up at school, confiscating the files and playing down the true reason they desperately want to retrieve one stolen file in particular. Trying to track down Erik, Kim goes to his dorm room and discovers he’s left his cell phone on the charger. Checking his voice mails, she discovers Erik has called his own phone from another state and left cryptic messages to Kim about the incriminating file that reveals the location of Hazelwood, a small town V.A hospital that hides a former CIA operative, Patricia Carver, who once was part of “Centerlane” a still-active covert government program that for over two decades competed with the Soviets to find “gifted” people to use in psychic espionage. Refusing to cooperate any further, Patricia’s death is faked, and her body is used to breed children, later adopted out to unsuspecting families who are monitored by the Department of Defense for any signs of telepathic abilities. Kim, eager to learn about Erik’s death and unaware of the true nature of the contents of the file, sets out and meets one of the now-grown children to unravel the truth about the program, which the government will do anything to suppress.