About Deep Exposure:
JACK O’BRIEN, a burned-out journalist, is working for a B-level publication. He receives a tip from an anonymous source. It dares him to investigate a long-lost patent, challenging him to be that tenacious bulldog investigator he once was. After getting over his indignation, he takes up the challenge.
Chasing a dangerous lead across the Mexican border lands him in the Sonoran Desert, where he clashes with a hired assassin sent to kill the man Jack is following. There is a desperate struggle, leaving two men dead. The police accuse the reporter of murder. An acquittal at trial gives him a second chance.
With the help of the anonymous informant (PHILLIP BRANSON), O’Brien learns who was behind what happened. It’s GERALD PASTERNING, an evil power broker who runs a shadowy organization buying patents and selling them to powerful monopolies that pay dearly to make sure they become lost forever. What he is actually doing is giving them worthless dross disguised as valuable potential technologies. But he keeps to himself any real scientific breakthroughs that he can develop.
Concurrently, a large eastern European Oil and Gas consortium (CITRUK) has been making transactions with Pasterning to protect their empire. But they’ve become disillusioned with the arrangement and wish to terminate the relationship. NICOLAS KYZEMSKI, the group’s representative, is taken to a mountain base. Here he is given an incredible demonstration of an advanced solar technology. It will replace the fossil fuel industry. Pasterning threatens to end their dynasty unless they keep doing business with him, now at double the price.
Meanwhile, Jack travels to the Rocky Mountains. Chasing another lead, he teams up with a local named MOUSE as his guide. In searching Fisher Canyon, they’re hunted by a team of soldiers. They capture Mouse, but Jack escapes. He manages to take a soldier by the name of JOHN HENDERSON as hostage.
By chance, O’Brien meets up with Kyzemski as he flees the mountains. It is then the reporter learns Pasterning has created a secret compound that includes a pseudo government para-military base to protect the scientific breakthroughs he uses to extort others.
Phillip Branson contacts the journalist to tell his latest discovery before being captured. That they’ve cloned an army of bio-engineered soldiers.
Jack decides on a bold plan to free his comrades and enters the compound to compel Pasterning to release his friends. O’Brien confronts him and threatens full exposure to the world unless he releases his companions. At the height of the standoff, CITRUK hires a mercenary fighting force and attacks the base. Henderson unexpectedly shows up to now help Jack, and they take over the control tower and broadcast the truth to the troops—you’ve been duped and are not an actual US government army installation.
Pasterning, escaping in a helicopter, calls the reporter and tells him he will destroy the entire compound in a violent blast. But disaster is averted when Private Henderson shoots down Pasterning’s chopper, seconds before he detonates the explosion.
In the aftermath, they exonerate the soldiers as good men who were unwittingly tricked. Their secret of being genetically cloned (which they themselves don’t know) is safeguarded to avoid stigmatizing them. But a horrible truth emerges. Some of them who were considered substandard in the past were euthanized.
Phillip Branson recovers after almost dying. The government takes control of the advanced solar energy technology for safekeeping. And Jack writes his exposé that garners national attention.