Richard, religious fanatic, takes over a federal building and threatens to kill his captives. In San Francisco, a local messiah leads a troupe of his gun-toting parishioners to take over a federal office. While they hold the office staff hostage, this religious loony, after a moment of prayer, demands that four convicts in San Quentin be turned over to him for execution. His particular brand of worship demands an eye for an eye, and these four thugs had desecrated his church and murdered his family. The law had sentenced them to prison, but he wants them executed and planned to do it personally.

A paramilitary faction of the KKK terrorizes the black leaders of a Southern town. Leon is a man being hairassed and beaten by the radical racist group, but because of his fear for the safety of his family, he is reluctant to identify the culprits to the FBI agents investigating the group