Résumé: Research scientist Michael Collins discovers that the project in advanced cybernetics which he heads for the mammoth Roxxon Corporation is in actuality an attempt to create the ultimate death-machine for hire an unliving, programmable cyborg of immense power. Collins seeks to bring the nightmarish project to a halt, but is rewarded for his high moral stance by being murdered and then brought back, locked inside the death-machine, becoming the very thing he loathes and fears most Deathlok!