Dr Darrel Lindenmeyer is a programmer for the Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Center (LETAC) and the designer of SID 6:7, a sadistic, intelligent and dangerous virtual reality program that is an amalgamation of 200 notorious criminal personalities of the worst kind. It is designed to assist police officers in the tracking of prisoners.
But SID 6:7 has a mind of it's own and manages to enter into an android and then embarks on a killing spree. The most vicious criminal in history is now on the loose.
It is now the job of Lt. Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington), a disgraced but reinstated police officer to track down and stop it before it is too late.