A scientist (Bryant Haliday) working on a matter transmitter discovers that his corrupt head of staff is colluding with a government minister to use his invention for their own ends. When a demonstration of his equipment is sabotaged, he orders his assistant to project him into the minister's home as proof that his discovery really works. However, the experiment goes wrong & the scientists emerges in a back alley, hideously disfigured & with the ability to kill by electrification.