In New York City a killer known as The Eighth leaves a trail of decapitated corpses
- keeping the severed heads to use for unknown purposes NYPD Detective Adam Kamen leads the investigation until a seemingly unrelated freak incident leaves him with a brain injury in the section known as Area 10 When he recovers Adam perceptions of time are altered He becomes slowly convinced that his bizarre condition could be tied directly to the " Henry" case
- & that the key may lie in the ancient mystical practice of trepanation