Neil Clausner is fatally shot during a space suit test in a quarry. As Neil hoped to switch to a Paris space institute, director and investor Greg Ohmüller, who hoped to lead a Utah project, is suspect as Neil would snatch up the job. Neil's wife Lea refused to move with him to Paris. Wheelchair-stuck technician Phil Bergner constructs an exo-skeleton, which might allow paralyzed people like him to walk again, but Neil didn't support the project and his gun is missing. Neil discovered that his secret lover, biologist Christine Reinhardt, had no degree.
—KGF Vissers