Hollywood, California: Cybernetic mind-control devices are being implanted into the bodies of the members of S.Q.U.A.D.: an elite anti-crime and terror team of this city's police force. These officers have been programmed to annihilate terrorists, muggers, pimps, thugs, and street scum in general, then secretly self-destruct. Patrol-man Arliss Ryder is about to reveal this horrific plan when he makes a chilling discovery: He's been assigned to S.Q.U.A.D.!