SOCKET
(synopsis) Bill Matthews (Derek Long) is a surgeon who is incapacitated after being struck by lightning on the beach. As he recuperates in the same hospital where he works, he meets Craig Murphy (Matthew Montgomery), a mysterious, handsome young intern who recognizes a kindred spirit in the surgeon - he, too, has been struck by lightning. After relating his own tale to Bill, including the strange cravings he developed after the accident, Murphy invites him to a meeting of "people just like us," promising that Bill will find what he craves with the others.
After much resistance, Bill finds himself drawn to the group meeting. Barely able to drag himself to the address, Bill finds a group of people, all lightning strike survivors, all with an insatiable appetite for electric current as a drug. With Murphy as a guide, Bill immerses himself in the group, and in a relationship with the seductive intern. As Bill's recovery from the lightning strike gains momentum, so does his body's increased capacity for electric shocks. Bill, Murphy, and the group "juice up" with more frequency and more voltage as the weeks go by.
Finally, driven by his new addiction, Bill discovers a way to insert "sockets" (the wall type) and "prongs" (extension cord type) into the wrists of the group members. Now they can mainline electric current, or jack into each other to form circuits.
A random encounter with a mugger results in the accidental death of the attacker courtesy of the "prongs" in Bill's wrist being jammed into the base of the man's skull. The electrical impulses that control the human body download into the surgeon, and now Bill has found a new level to his addiction....
