Ace bodyguard John Ridley and his team are protecting Presidential candidate Governor Lonsdale at a rally in California when a sniper open fires. Ridley takes out the sniper but when hereaches his downed man, he turns to see an assasin pointing a gun at Lonsdale's head. The assasin taunts Ridley and shoots him. With Ridley dowwn the assasin turns and kills Lonsdale with one shot. The assasin lets Ridley live.
Four years later, Ridley is a shell of his former self and has given up being a bodyguard. Mark Grave, Ridley's old boss pays him a visit at the community centre where Ridley now works.