Master of ninjutsu Cho, nicknamed the Black Ninja, moves to the United States with his son and starts a new life after a group of ninjas kills almost all of his family members in Japan. Cho opens a toy store, unaware that his dishonest partner is smuggling heroin by stuffing it into dolls. The realization that his partner and friend has betrayed him is the last straw for the Black Ninja.
For $10,000, they break arms; for $20,000, they break legs. With a salary of $1,500, Axel Fried, a college literature professor, is $44,000 in debt.
Unable to find a normal job and provide for his family, former soldier Jeffrey Manchester finds an illegal use for his skills and begins robbing McDonald's restaurants, which he enters via the roof. The man is caught and sent to prison for 45 years. Jeffrey misses his children terribly and soon escapes, deciding to wait out the manhunt in a toy store.
It all begins on Long Island, where homes are filled with expensive Mediterranean furniture, people wear expensive pinstriped suits, and women spend almost all their time at the hairdresser's. Angela DeMarco, wife of aspiring gangster Frank "The Cucumber" DeMarco, is tired of the criminal mentality of those around her and wants a change of scenery. After Cucumber is caught with his mistress and killed by mafia boss Don Tony "Tiger" Russo, two FBI agents decide that Angela and Tony are having an affair. Angela moves with her son to a small apartment in Manhattan, but the agents continue to follow her, linking her activities to the dirty dealings of the mafia. Of course, at the right moment, passion flares up between Angela and agent Mike Downey.
Two police officers, Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, serve in the Los Angeles Police Department and patrol dangerous areas of the city where gangs operate. Their dangerous work doesn't stop Brian and Mike from starting families, but one day their lives and the well-being of their loved ones are threatened when the cops mess up the plans of a powerful crime group.
Rumors spread throughout France that Chief Inspector Clouseau has died. The whole country mourns, except for Inspector Dreyfus... Finally, he is rid of his hated colleague! However, his joy is short-lived. It turns out that Clouseau's death is just a hoax, devised by Clouseau himself in order to catch a dangerous criminal.
In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth who arrives in London on holiday, but is soon called in to solve the case of a suicide which the father of the deceased woman thinks was murder.
In the 2000s, Pat Calhoun and his girlfriend were members of a radical left-wing extremist group, and when a murder occurred during one of their raids, his comrades were forced to flee separately. Sixteen years later, the man lives in Southern California under the name Bob Ferguson and is raising his teenage daughter, whom he forbids from even having a cell phone due to his constant paranoia. Bob's fears prove to be well-founded when his old enemy, Colonel Lockjo, begins hunting him and his daughter.
