Jack Shaw (DONALD SUTHERLAND) has experienced the terror firsthand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos"The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty decades and scarcely survived Carlos' catastrophic bombing of a Parisian cafe. He finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead-ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez (AIDAN QUINN).