A private detective (Michael Shannon) is caught in a quandary after learning that the man (Frank Wood) he was hired to bring back to New York was presumed dead after the 9/11 terror attacks.
A journalist's (Jesse Metcalfe) plan to expose a corrupt district attorney (Michael Douglas) backfires when the journalist's quarry gets wind of the set-up.
The only U.S. Marshal (Kate Beckinsale) assigned to Antarctica has just three days to solve the continent's first murder before six months of darkness strand her with the killer.