1995. The disappearance of two girls without a trace shocks the population. While the local media multiply versions of what happened, young detective Paul Chartier joins a secret investigation codenamed “Maldoror.” However, Paul finds standard police methods outdated and ineffective. Contrary to his superiors' orders, he decides to take matters into his own hands and begins hunting the maniac alone.
A small private airplane, suddenly losing control, crashes at full throttle into a Columbia Airlines Boeing flying flight #409 from Washington, DC to Los Angeles. The co-pilot and flight engineer of the airliner are killed, and the captain of the ship loses his eyesight. Radio contact with the ground is lost. Stewardess Nancy Pryor, trying to calm the passengers, realizes that only a happy accident can save the plane rushing over the abyss...
It looks like Lincoln International Airport manager Mel Bakersfeld and his team are having a tough day - they need to keep the airport running at all costs in the relentless snow. But how can they do that when a broken airplane has blocked one of the runways and one of the passengers is hiding a bomb in his suitcase?
Morgan Sullivan, tired of his boring life and unloved wife, agrees to engage in industrial espionage for the powerful Digicorp corporation. He gets a new name and a simple assignment - using a secret device to transmit competitors' speeches at conventions. Despite the onset of migraines and a strange pain in the back of his head, Morgan enjoys his new secret life, but a chance meeting with the mysterious Rita instills fear and suspicion in him. According to Rita, the boring meetings are just a screen for the sinister operations of Digicorp, which turns its "spies" into obedient puppets. She gives him a shot and asks him at the next convention not to react in any way to what he sees there.
The catastrophe that took place in the capital of Ukraine has left Jay, a former soldier in the British Army, with severe scars on his body and soul. Cruelty and ruthlessness are new, unexpected for all those who knew Jay before, qualities of his personality. An exemplary family man and loving father becomes an assassin and together with his new partner Gall goes on his first assignment. Gradually, the fear and paranoia that has enveloped his mind plunges him into the depths of darkness.
Two girls are found in an abandoned cabin in the thick of the forest. Mysteriously, they have lived in the empty house for five years. The orphans are taken in by their only relatives, a young married couple. But the girls are not alone, they have a mother, and she comes from the darkness....
An urban madman kidnaps a child and demands a million dollar ransom from the parents. He lives in the slums of the Bronx, hates blacks, Latinos and especially the rich and successful, considering them the cause of his poverty. But he has no idea that there was a mistake and kidnapped the daughter of not a millionaire, and just a retired police officer. And now the former cop goes on the warpath and will stop at nothing to save his child and take revenge on the kidnapper.
