<P> In 1983, Mason Storm, a Los Angeles police detective, investigates a mob meeting that takes place by a pier . He records a shadowy figure who assures the mob they can rely on his political support . Storm is spotted, but escapes . Unaware that he is monitored by corrupt cops, Mason informs his partner and then his friend Lt. O'Malley that he has evidence of corruption . While he goes shopping, a store is robbed, and one of the robbers shoots the clerk . Mason stops them and goes home, intent on celebrating with his wife, Felicia . </P> <P> Mason hides the videotape in his house . When he goes upstairs, a hit squad composed of corrupt policemen, including Jack Axel and Max Quentero, break in and proceed to murder Mason's wife and shoot him . Mason's young son, Sonny, hides until the danger passes . The corrupt policemen frame Mason, making it look like a murder - suicide . At the same time, assassins kill Storm's partner . At the hospital, Mason is first pronounced dead, but is then discovered to be alive, although unconscious . To prevent the assassins from finishing the job, Lieutenant O'Malley tells the medics to keep Mason's status a secret . </P> <P> Seven years later, Mason wakes from his coma . Andy, one of his nurses, makes a phone call, which is intercepted by corrupt police officers . They send Axel to finish the job and kill the nurses to whom Mason might have talked . Mason realizes that he is still in danger, but his muscles have atrophied to where he can barely use his arms . He staggers to an elevator, and when Andy sees her colleagues killed, she helps Mason escape . </P> <P> Needing time to recuperate, Andy brings Mason to a friend's house, where Mason uses his knowledge of acupuncture, moxibustion and other meditation techniques to recover his strength . While training, Mason hears a commercial for Senator Vernon Trent and recognizes the voice from the pier . Mason contacts O'Malley, who supplies him with weapons and tells him that his son is still alive--O'Malley adopted Mason's son and sent him to a private school so that he would be out of danger . After O'Malley leaves, Senator Trent's men find the house and attempt to kill Andy and Mason, but Mason gets them both out . </P>

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