一个被称为“火把”（尚格·云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）的变态杀手的出现让西雅图市市民陷入了恐慌之中，作为负责此案的警官，杰克（迈克尔·鲁克 Michael Rooker 饰）和其搭档安吉（凯瑟琳·丹特 Catherine Dent 饰）对杀手进行了长时间的追击，几经交手后，虽然“火把”负伤，但还是逃之夭夭。
杰克的退休日眼看就要来临，虽然案件没有水落石出，但他还是决定放下手中的一切，安享闲散生活，而就在这个节骨眼上，杰克得知了“火把”的下一个目标竟然就是自己的母亲的惊人消息。利用“火把”的DNA，政府将“火把”克隆了出来，根据克隆人的思维模式来推测真正的“火把”的行动规律。虽然克隆“火把”并不邪恶，但深藏在他基因中的犯罪基因却像一个定时炸弹般随时都要爆发。在双重威胁中，杰克能够获得最终的胜利吗？

New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.

When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.