Covert One: The Hades Factor
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Written byRobert Ludlum
Gayle Lynds
(novel)
Elwood Reid
Directed byMick Jackson
StarringStephen Dorff
Mira Sorvino
Blair Underwood
Sophia Myles
Jeffrey DeMunn
Danny Huston
Anjelica Huston
Theme music composerJ. Peter Robinson
Country of originUnited States
Original languagesEnglish
French
German
Production
ProducerSherri Saito
CinematographyIvan Strasburg
EditorLori Jane Coleman
Running time158 minutes
Production companySony Pictures Television
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseApril 9, 2006 (2006-04-09)

Covert One: The Hades Factor (a.k.a. Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor, The Hades Factor) is a made-for-TV thriller filmed in Toronto that first aired in 2006. Directed by Mick Jackson, the miniseries is loosely based on The Hades Factor, a 2000 novel written by Gayle Lynds as part of the Covert-One series created by Robert Ludlum.

The film depicts an Ebola outbreak in Berlin, which is connected to a bio-terrorism conspiracy.

Plot

While in a retrieve operation of a virus in Berlin, the Covert One agent Rachel Russell is double-crossed by two dirty agents; she kills them and escapes, trying to find a hiding place and someone to trust to protect the vials.

Meanwhile, the former Covert One agent Dr. Jon Smith is also in Berlin with his beloved fiancée Sophie Amsden. They are participating in a congress. When three persons die with bleeding, the doctors disclose a Hades virus outbreak, an extreme rare Ebola variant. Jon and Sophie return to the US to research a cure, and Jon discovers a huge combination of bio-terrorism and conspiracy.

Synopsis

The Hades Factor concerns an outbreak of a doomsday virus in the United States. Stephen Dorff stars as Lt.Colonel. Jonathan Smith, an expert in biochemistry who races around the globe trying to identify the source of the outbreak.

Distribution

First broadcast as a two-part CBS miniseries in April 2006, Covert One: The Hades Factor has since aired as a film on Sky One. It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures.

Cast

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