The film begins in New Jersey; with two friends on a roadtrip, trying to find their way by using
the road map.
Sometime later, they are forced to stop in the middle of the woods because of a burst tire.
One of them goes to fix it, while the other relaxes inside the vehicle.
But then, a mysterious figure lurks in the background, and suddenly pulls her deep into
the woods.
Unaware of what happened to her friend, the other girl tries to call her friend, until
she notices someone approaching the van.
She immediately screams as she realizes how zombie-like the person looks.
Luckily, someone quickly jumps in and decapitates the zombie-man, before opening the back door
of the van to save the girl.
But he suddenly gets pulled away, meanwhile more zombie-like figures begin to swarm the
car, killing the girl inside.
The next scene takes us to the past, to a high schooler named Sarah, who is attending
group therapy after losing her mother.
Meanwhile, her dad, John, the man we saw in the previous scene, is waiting for her outside.
John is a pastor with two daughters; Sarah, and Rebecca.
The small family is really tight-knit, though John is a tad bit overprotective.
When they go shopping for a Christmas tree later that day, Sarah complains about John
being so strict that she never attends any party, but John brushes her off and resume shopping.
However, when they’re about to pay at the register, a random guy steps in and claims
their tree as his.
When the random guy gets hostile, John decides to be a pacifist and steps back.
When they get home, Sarah teases his father about letting someone else take their tree.
Later, John walks up to Sarah and allows her to attend a party tonight, and Sarah expresses
her joy by embracing her father.
The small family then goes to the church, where John preaches at the service, and he
mentions what happened that day.
He tells the people there about not choosing violence.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the story, a drug dealer named Arlo, meets with a gangster
named Kady for a drug deal.
But when Arlo reaches inside Kady’s trunk to collect the payment, Kady smashes the trunk
door against his back, causing him to fall to the floor.
Up next, he breaks Arlo’s already broken leg, and rams his mouth into the car exhaust,
forcing the drug dealer to inhale exhaust fumes.
Back to the service, Sarah says her goodbyes to her father, before going to the party.
Sarah then stops at a gas station to refuel her father’s car, and we can see that Kady
is also there filling up his car's tank.
In the process, Sarah hears a guy screaming from the inside none other than Kady’s trunk.
Afraid Sarah is going to report this to the police, Kady tries to capture her, prompting
Sarah to retreat inside her car and drives away, but Kady tails after her.
In her panic, Sarah decides to call her dad to tell him what’s going on and where she is.
Unfortunately, Kady manages to overtake her which causes her to crash by the side of the road.
Wasting no time, Kady climbs out of the car, and zip ties Sarah’s hands to the steering
wheel, before pushing the car into the nearby lake.
Afterwards, John rushes to the scene, but when he arrives, it’s too late; Sarah is gone.
Sarah’s death devastates the pastor and sends him on a spiral.
After the funeral, a detective named Jed pays a visit to John and his family.
Jed tells John that this wasn't a case of road rage, because Sarah was found with her
hands zip-tied to the steering wheel, and he promises the grieving John that he’d
find whoever did this.
While this goes on, Kady calls his brother, Vic, to inform him about all the money and
drugs he’s got with him right now.
Excited, the brothers agreed to meet on the next day.
Detective Jed is on a mission; he goes to the gas station Sarah went to last night,
and asks to see the security footage.
There, he sits down for hours and goes through the footage, and discovers Kady’s license plate.
Later on, Kady is seen being pulled over by a police officer for a traffic run.
The officer steps out of the vehicle, but before Kady could say anything, the unknown
officer injects Kady with anesthesia.
That evening, Kady’s brother, Vic, is waiting for Kady to show up but he never does.
This of course confuses Vic, and so he reports it to his boss, Otto.
After hearing that Kady is missing, Otto is furious, because the drugs and money Kady
has is worth a lot.
The leader informs Vic that the drug dealer always puts a tracker in their product, therefore,
he sends his goons on a manhunt for Kady.
Meanwhile, it turns out that Kady is being held hostage in an underground lair deep in
the woods, and is being taught a very good lesson.
He is being electrocuted repeatedly and being told that from now on, his name is Number 21.
At the same time, the drug goons begin their search for Kady inside a drug den, and start
beating up everyone associated with Kady.
Here is where they find a guy who keeps Kady’s tracker, and discover his location on the map.
The next morning, John walks up to his youngest daughter, Rebecca, and hands her a bracelet
as a gift to console her, but the little girl won’t take it, so John puts the bracelet
in his pocket.
John then goes to meet Jed the detective at the bar, where the detective begins telling
John that he is ready to give John the same opportunity that he was presented with many
years ago.
He then tells John a story from 10 years ago about Quinn Brady, an infamous rapist who
would assign a number to his victims and torture them, before terminating them afterward.
As a young detective, Jed led the investigation and caught the rapist, but one day, he was
granted early released.
Jed feels disappointed by the decision but knows he can't do anything about it.
To make matters worse, the first thing Quinn Brady did after his release was to seek revenge,
by brutally murdering Jed’s pregnant wife when Jed was at work.
The reason why he’s telling this story is to let John know that he knows exactly how
painful it is to lose a loved one in the hands of someone else, and he knows what to do to
rid of the pain.
Jed also tells John that Quinn was eventually apprehended but not by the law.
Up next, Jed suddenly asks if John would like to spend 1 minute alone with a guy, to take
vengeance for his daughter’s death, revealing that Jed was the one who kidnapped Kady.
John agrees, and they drive up to the detective’s place in the woods, to a secluded cabin built
by Jed.
They descend to the secret underground lair, where Kady is tied up on the wall.
Jed assures the pastor that this guy is guilty by laying out all the evidence he’s found,
and tells John to start attacking the man to cope with his grief.
According to Jed, he did the same thing to Quinn Brady to heal from the pain of losing
his wife, and it worked, so John should do the same.
He then tells John to pick a weapon; John takes an ice pick, and goes up to the man.
He begins pressing it into his ear, but stops before long, because he doesn’t have the
heart to kill a man.
To calm John down, Jed assures him that he doesn’t even need to kill the man, just
torture him, but John doesn’t want any of that and wants to leave.
Unfortunately, this disappoints Jed; he says he built the room because of people like him,
so he electrocutes John until he passes out.
Later, John wakes up strapped to a wheelchair in a different room, where Jed proudly shows
him another hostage he’s keeping inside a coffin for a week; it is a man who apparently
raped an 83 year old.
As it turns out, Jed keeps a lot more hostages; over the years, he’s been capturing pedophiles,
rapists, and murderers.
He would rename them with numbers, and invites aggrieved loved ones to torture these people
until they descend into madness.
He also calls these hostages subhumans, because Jed has put them through so much pain that
they have become cannibalistic and behave like animals.
Quinn Brady is one of the prisoners, and Jed now calls him number one.
Up next, he forces Kady into the subhumans cage.
Meanwhile up on the surface, the drug goons arrive at the secluded cabin, looking for Kady.
At Jed’s orders, the subhumans begin to attack Kady, while John is forced to watch.
Jon takes advantage of the commotion to break free and hide, right before Jed notices Jon's
disappearance and believes that he has escaped.
He starts running to the entrance, but soon comes across Vic and his boys.
Meanwhile, John hands the subhumans the keys to unlock the cage and free themselves.
Just in time, the drug goons venture down the basement to look for Kady, and start shooting
at the subhumans out of fear, while the subhumans fight back and start mauling them.
Jed is trapped in the middle of this too, and gets mangled by his own pets.
While they’re all distracted, John runs upstairs and begins to look for car keys to
escape.
But soon enough, some of the subhumans start heading upstairs too, and begin attacking John.
They pin him down to the ground, and among them is Quinn Brady, Jed’s wife killer.
A beaten and bruised Jed staggers his way upstairs with a shotgun, and with nothing
to lose anymore, he shoots Quinn Brady dead, before shooting the rest of the subhumans
in the room.
Bleeding out from being mangled to bits, Jed collapses, and John checks on his wounds.
However, there’s nothing he could do to save him, so John stays with him as he takes
his final breath.
Meanwhile, the rest of the subhumans have made it to the surface as well, and start
trying to find a way to get inside the house.
It is at this moment that John remembers about his youngest daughter, and realizes that he
needs to get home to her no matter what.
Here John decides to pick up a machete and any other weapons he finds inside the house.
He takes Jed’s bike, and rides the motorcycle out of the property, but crashes to the prisoner
when he takes a sharp turn.
The subhuman with the rope tied around his neck runs up to him, and starts attacking
him, and John manages to kill it by decapitating it with the bike wheel.
But it’s not over; another one makes a jump on him right after, and he’s forced to slash
him in the throat.
The next one he faces off against carries a shovel, and tries beating John with it,
so he swings the machete to cut off his legs and stabs him in the chest.
But all of the sudden,
This is when he hears the sound of a van honk, and we get taken to the opening scene.
In attempt to save the girl in the van, John comes to her rescue by decapitating another subhuman.
But just before he could save her, he gets dragged under the van and taken away, while
the rest of the subhumans attack the girl inside the van.
John kills the subhuman who dragged him, and faces off against two more, which ends up
in a bloody brawl down a river, which he walks out of victoriously.
Afterwards, he makes a run through the woods, until he comes across a farmhouse where an
old couple leaves.
The husband, Ed, goes to the barn to shred the Christmas tree, while his wife stays inside
sipping coffee.
Their dog suddenly starts barking, so the wife goes to check it out, and finds someone
tampering with their truck.
Upon approaching the person, we learn that it is Kady, looking to steal their truck.
When the woman runs away in fear, Kady strangles her, and drags her out in the yard.
Her husband tries to help her but he is outmatched.
Just in time, John arrives.
Kady throws him through the window, and the two men get into a deadly brawl inside the
house.
Overpowered, John runs to the barn and attempts to climb up, but Kady hauls him down.
The bad guy then tries to break his skull with a metal press, all the while taunting
him by telling him Sarah’s last words, which was “where is my daddy?”
While in pain, John starts kicking aimlessly, accidentally turning on the shredder.
At the same time, he reaches into his pocket, which contains a bracelet that he wanted to
give Rebecca.
He uses the bracelet to stab Kady in the eye, and frees himself from the metal press.
While Kady struggles to take the bracelet out of his eye, John sends him stumbling into
the shredder.
The man then slowly gets sucked in and shredded to death.
John then picks up the bracelet from the ground,
and the next scene features John attending
a grief counseling his daughter used to.
He shares his feelings with the group and they comfort him with their kind words.
Some time has passed, and he seems to being a lot better.
During the service, he reads a bible verse about how God is an armor who can help you
defend yourself.
After the service, he takes his daughter Rebecca for softball practice, when a grown man barges
in and kicks her out of the arena because he wants to use it.
When John sees this, he confronts the guy and asks him to reason, but the guy only starts
to insult him.
Unlike in the beginning of the movie, John now stands up for himself and his family.