[Mild spoilers ahead] There's the drama of the initial accident, then the recovery. Stealing the vials. Pursuit by the government agency. Locating the opponent,

[Mild spoilers ahead] There's the drama of the initial accident, then the recovery. Stealing the vials. Pursuit by the government agency. Locating the opponent, and the final conflict between them. Plenty to work with there, I think. The challenge, as you say, would be to do justice to the story and not turn it into some kind of car-chase/superhero mess.