He is to accompany a scientist, Dr. Lyla Healy, to a former Soviet lab now occupied by a militia and recover the remaining assets.

Powell reforms his team, including soldiers Steinmann, Mason, and Corry, and engineers Harris and Williams.

When Williams' Russian accent does not seem to be convincing the camp's guards, Harris improvises a drunken, anti-Russian rant in Georgian.

Williams and Harris take control of the base's security system and remotely guide the rest of the team to the underground bunker.

Though ordered not to ask any questions, Powell becomes frustrated with the lack of information provided to him and demands Irvine explain the situation.

Steinmann, who left the others to tell the male hybrid, Goethe, that his sister has died, realizes too late that he is intelligent and has hidden a weapon.

Powell and Mason reconcile now that they have no further conflict over whether to kill Irvine, and they leave the lab to stop Goethe, who has fled.

Mason and Powell exit the tunnels and reunite with Williams; the group find the militia camp in disarray, fighting a losing battle against Goethe.

Healy, revealed to have survived, shoots Powell, wounding him; Williams kills her with a shotgun shot in response.

[6] Andrew Marshall of Starburst rated it 5/10 stars and wrote, "Scintilla is a mix of parts that don't slot together well enough to form a coherent whole.