Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat.

When a resentful brother organizes a prank kidnapping, he unwittingly hires career criminals who have plans of their own.

A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.