Tom Beckett (Tom Berenger) returns, this time as the National Security Agency's secret weapon. When NSA agents William Avery (Dennis Arndt) and Richard Addis (William Duffy) hire Beckett to terminate a suspected terrorist, he takes on the mission without a qualm, but when he discovers that his target is an old friend of his, he begins to suspect that his employers' motives are not what they claimed. Beckett undertakes a mission of his own to get to the bottom of the mystery.