As Joe gets Nash's 'Cuda detailed secretly, as a Christmas present, it is stolen, much to his despair. Meanwhile, the rest of the SIU team are stuck at the precinct on Christmas eve until they wrap up a murder investigation.
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.