Over a three-day period, a masked gunman kidnaps nine strangers in nine separate attacks. The city-wide mystery unravels when the LAPD receive a call from a local news station telling them about a website showing the nine kidnapped victims handcuffed to poles in an undisclosed location. The web feed shows the kidnapper threatening the nine victims: "I have brought the nine of you here for a reason. Your survival depends on you discovering what the reason is. I will leave you alone for your discussion, but I will return every 10 minutes and kill one of you until you figure it out or you will all die. You have ten minutes." With that, the hunt for the truth is set in motion as the LAPD to struggles to find the secret location and stop the cold-blooded killer hell bent on revenge. All while the whole country tunes in on-line.