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Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer; for lucrative sums of money, he analyzes his client's competitor's products and designs new versions that excel above and beyond the original's features. However, when he finishes his job, he undergoes a memory wipe with help from his friend Shorty as to protect his client's intellectual property. He is offered a job from James Rethrick, an old college roommate and CEO of Allcom, which may take up to three years but will be rewarded handsomely with company stock. Jennings agrees, and takes up residence in the highly secure Allcom facility, falling in love with biologist Dr. Rachel Porter during his tenure. Jennings is injected with a special radioactive memory marker that will be used to track down how far his memories have to be erased. Jennings, finding himself three years later and congratulated by Rethrick for a successful job, attempts to cash on his reward to find that he signed away his shares of Allcom. All that Jennings has to show for his time is an envelope claiming to be his personal possessions that he entered Allcom with three years ago, but instead contain a seemingly random assortment of items. As Jennings tries to figure out what happened, he is captured by the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are concerned over his involvement with Allcom and the connected disappearance and death of physicist William Dekker. Jennings manages to escape their captivity, quickly realizing that each item in the envelope can be used at the right time to keep himself out of the FBI's hands.