Starring James Spader, Janine Eser and John Lynch Directed by Ron Krauss Berkley professor Dr. Julian Rome (Spader) is a former code-reader for a secret government project known as Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. He is called to Antarctica to aid a group of geneticists whose top-secret base of operations has been compromised by the discovery of an enormous extraterrestrial object embedded in ice, which gives off a powerful and mysterious code he may be able to decipher. But what he ends up face to face with is more sinister than anyone could imagine.