After two naked students, apparently making love at the time, fall to their deaths from a roof, Jonathan is driven to begin what he calls an "investigation" into who the students were and what led them to the rooftop.
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.