Army interligence officer, John Murphy (Mark Dacascos) leads a squad of heavily armed soldiers on a mission to retrieve Santos, a powerful drug lord, being held in a Mexican Jail, and deliver him to the American authorities. The mission turns terrbly fatal as Murphy is ambushed and his men are slaughtered. Murphy miraculously escapes, but not before he witnesses Rosato, Santos' right hand man, treacherously execute santos in cold blood.