Schwarzenegger plays retired Colonel John Matrix, a special forces soldier who once led an elite unit and has since left the armed forces, resigned to live a peaceful life in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano). Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Despite receiving armed guards at his home, supplied by General Franklin Kirby to protect him (though Kirby admits that they are not nearly as good as Matrix), and smelling the attackers as they are downwind Matrix is eventually found and Jenny is kidnapped.