Former acting FBI director and Atavas hybrid Ryan Patricio (Noam Jenkins), an inmate at Fallbrook Penitentiary, is abducted by a group of vigilantes and taken to a mock courtroom. A tribunal of judges, the identities of whom are hidden by a frosted glass screen, finds him guilty of crimes against humanity, and he is sentenced to death.

Renee Palmer (Jayne Heitmeyer) meets her new boyfriend, Captain Brenton Michaels (Dean McDermott), for a drink at a nightclub. The TV set at the bar is tuned to the news, which shows the kangaroo court and Patricio's execution. Horrified, Renee and Michaels immediately visit FBI Director Hubble Urick (Frank Moore). He tells them the bureau has been searching unsuccessfully for a vigilante group called "The Preservationists," dedicated to the eradication of hybrids and anyone else they deem to have betrayed humanity. Furthermore, he informs them that intelligence indicates that the group's next target will be Renee!

Renee and Michaels are leaving the FBI offices when they are suddenly ambushed. Michaels is knocked unconscious while Renee is whisked off to the courtroom to face trial. Upon regaining consciousness, Michaels makes his way to Augur's lair, where he and J. Street (Melinda Deines) monitor the television news for another courtroom broadcast. A reporter interviews Supreme Court nominee Jackson Claridge (Robin Gammel) about his support of the vigilantes' cause, when another live feed from the kangaroo court interrupts the program. Michaels and Street watch helplessly as Renee confronts her accusers. She demands that Michaels represent her as her attorney.

Street implants nanobot-tracking devices into the arm of Michaels, who is then intercepted by vigilante troops and taken to the secret court location. The trial officially begins as Renee is accused of crimes against humanity for opening up the initial Atavus chamber, thus releasing the alien threat against humans. The prosecutor (Dorian Harewood) calls Urick as his first witness. Urick arrives by portal. Despite his protests, he is forced into the witness box.

Urick condemns the court, calling it a sham, and he is ejected and portaled away. The next witness is Street, who was abducted while trying to track the nanobots. They had been found by the vigilante troops and used as bait to catch her. When Street's support of Renee begins to incriminate her as well, Renee leaps to her friend's defense, successfully exonerating Street, who is set free.

Urick returns to FBI headquarters. Concluding the trial is being held at a lighthouse, he orders his agents to find one that is large enough to house the goings-on. He is contacted by Street, who tells him that she is uploading a virus to the satellite that carries the courtroom signal, in hopes of infiltrating the vigilante's server. An aide interrupts their conversation to tell Urick they have found the lighthouse. It is at Cape Henry, a place inaccessible by a secure portal, which means Street will have to use her viral sabotage to buy them time to get to the location.

The plan works. Street's hi-tech treachery creates havoc in the courtroom, during which Michaels throws a chair through the glass screen, revealing the identities of the judges. The head judge is none other than Claridge, who orders the immediate execution of Renee and Michaels. Before the sentence is carried out, however, Urick and a team of armed agents storm into the court, arresting Claridge and the other vigilantes. Renee and Michaels are saved.

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