Bob Moore gets a call from Sheriff Ted Thornton advising him to take his family and get out of their home immediately. Unknown to Bob, armed men dressed in black were looking for him--but for what reason, Sheriff Thornton doesn't know. Tony Harris gets a call from the Illinois National Guard. In response to the terror events taking place all across the country, his unit, the 369th MPs, has been called up effective immediately. In St. Louis, FBI agent Joe Unes is pulled away from the fiery remains of the bombed grocery store by the four friends. Now Unes wants to know why Jared Gruner, Terry Norlock, Scott Stauffer, and Vijay Sampurnananda were really there.