When an elite Navy SEAL team is sent to the Arabian Desert in Kuwait on a secret mission, they quickly discover its purpose—to create man-eating land sharks can then swim under the sand! An obsessed scientist continuing the work of her late husband ignores the threat to her own people in her quest to turn the Middle East into a feeding ground for her genetic horrors....

TONE:
SF/Horror/Military Action
THE DEEP BLUE SEA meets ALIENS

SYNOPSIS:

A Terrorist sneaking around an Army motor pool at night, planting bombs under cars, is suddenly attacked my something under the sand—which quickly becomes stained red with blood right before erupting in a visceral explosion of sand and guts. A short time later U.S. Navy Commander Robert “Rockhead” Leslie looks at the scattered grue and growls, “Get me Seal Team 32!”

SEAL Team 32, Troop One is sent to Dick Cheney Special Operations Base in the Arabian Desert, Kuwait with orders to offer "protection and aid" to a top-secret project the Department of Defense started to develop during the first Persian Gulf War. Once there, they are placed under the command of Cmdr. Leslie, a no-nonsense military type who explains their main job is to protect Dr. Ellen Griswold and her team at all costs and aid her in completing her objective. They meet Griswold, an attractive older woman who explain she’s merely completing the work started by her late husband, but that when it succeeds it will “shift the conflict in the Middle East on its axis!” Troop CO Major Butch Mizoguchi is skeptical, especially when his Top Sargent Fred “Gunny” Medina mentions most of their work seems to be in amphibian genetics, but with Medina sets up rotating guard duty around the perimeter.

That night, something right under the sand slides through the barbed-wire fence at Cheney Base and heads out into the desert. Meanwhile, Dr. Griswold is lying in bed having pillow talk with Cmdr. Leslie—she asks why he called out the Navy SEALS when her “babies” have proven how capable they are, and Rockhead points out that while they’re fierce, they’re not yet able to distinguish between friendlies and enemies. Back in the desert the thing under the sand approaches a teenaged couple whispering to each other on either side of a wall—suddenly, he vanishes under the sand and a second later, so does she!

The next day, sees a track in the sand that appears to have gone through the fence and partway into the Base before vanishing. Gunny Medina takes three SEALs to check on it with Butch Mizoguchi's permission. Back inside the lab Dr. Griswold is lowering a goat onto the top of the sand aquarium, and watches, very pleased, as tracks appear right beneath the sand near the goat, and it disappears under the sand which is quickly stained red with blood.

Medina and his SEALs are driving a jeep following the track when they see two older Arabic gentlemen yelling at each other, as a Kuwaiti policeman tries to keep them apart. Pulling up, one of the SEALs asks, in Fluent Arabic, what is the matter. The two older men point fingers at each other and the policeman explains, in equally fluent English, that their teenaged children have disappeared and pointing to the large stain of dried blood on the sand, that they’re accusing each other of killing their child.

Back at Cheney Base, Mizoguchi and Medina walk in Griswold’s lab and asks if they might borrow some of her lab gear to test what they think to be bloodstained sand. When Ellen tells them she’s busy right now, Butch says that before Gunny became a SEAL he was a Medical Technician, and can run the analysis himself. Griswold indifferently agrees and goes off. A little bit later Medina looks at the tests he’s run and tells his Major that the blood is human, of two different blood types—and that one is male and the other female. Butch says it’s likely that it’s the two teenage lovers, and Fred points out that with both losing enough blood to cause the large stain he and SEALs saw, it’s likely they’re dead—but then where are the bodies...?