She and Eph have been attempting an office romance with mixed success, complicated by their high-stress medical careers and Goodweather's lingering melancholy over his looming divorce. In the television series, he is played by Corey Stoll.Ī skilled epidemiologist, Nora is second-in-command of the Canary Project. The need to protect his son drives Eph's every action.

Discredited at the CDC by the vampires' human conspirators, Eph finds himself a fugitive from both the human authorities and the undead.

Unable to reconcile the symptoms of the newly-infected airline passengers with standard disease pathology, Eph is convinced of the reality of vampires by Abraham Setrakian. He and his Canary team are the first response team to the Boeing 777 disaster, and are tasked with solving the mystery of the mass casualties. Head of the CDC's rapid-response team, the Canary Project, Eph is a newly-divorced father attempting to balance the custody battle over his son Zack with his duties as an epidemiologist. Goodweather, who is joined by Setrakian and a small band of fighters, desperately tries to stop the contagion to save the city, and also his wife and son.Ĭharacters Dr. So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected the passengers begins spilling out onto New York City's streets. In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, former history professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian knows something terrible has happened and that an unnatural war is brewing. Nora Martinez board the plane, finding everyone except four people dead.

Ephraim 'Eph' Goodweather, head of the CDC's Canary Project, a rapid-response team that handles biological threats, is sent to investigate. An alert is sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All window shades are closed except one, the lights are out, and communication channels have gone silent. Kennedy International Airport and is taxiing its way across the tarmac when it suddenly stops. It is the first installment in The Strain Trilogy, and was followed by The Fall (2010) and The Night Eternal (2011).Ī Boeing 777 arrives at John F. The Strain is a 2009 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

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