The TV series "The Stand" is a thriller based on the horror novel by Stephen King. The story takes place at a secret military scientific base. Scientists accidentally release a deadly virus. All the laboratory staff die instantly. The only ones miraculously saved are the facility's security guard and his family. They escape the deadly walls, but it turns out that the father is still infected. Before dying, he tells his wife and daughter something strange about a "dark man from whom there will be no salvation."