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Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) is a college history professor at the George 華盛頓 University who has been raising his nine-year-old son, Grant (Spencer Treat Clark), since the death of his FBI agent wife, who was killed in the line of duty in a scene loosely based on the real-life Ruby Ridge incident. Somewhat of a specialist regarding American terrorism due to teaching a class on terrorism at the university, Michael starts to become suspicious of his new suburban neighbors, 奧利佛 (Tim Robbins) and Cheryl Lang (Joan Cusack), whom he's just met after taking their son, Brady (Mason Gamble), to the emergency room following a reported fireworks accident.
At first his suspicions are based on little things such as 奧利佛's architectural blueprints that seem to be for something other than the shopping mall he claims he's building, as well as pieces of mail that contradict where 奧利佛 said he attended college. Neither his girlfriend and former student, Brooke Wolfe (Hope Davis), nor his wife's former FBI partner, Whit Carver, believe any of his wild theories. After doing some digging, Michael discovered that 奧利佛's real name is 威廉 Fenimore and that he built a pipe bomb when he was 16. 威廉, one day, confronts Michael over his looking into 威廉's past. He reveals that 奧利佛 Lang is the name of his friend, who died in a hunting accident. 威廉's family had owned a farm but it went broke because the government 'appropriated' the river that ran through it 'for other uses'. As a result the crops died and they could not raise any animals. 威廉's dad then killed himself and made it look like a tractor accident so the family could claim the life insurance. He left a note for 威廉 explaining everything. He built the pipe bomb to get back at the government. When 威廉's friend 奧利佛 died he took his name the next day to hide his past. This makes Michael think twice about what he had found out.
Michael continues to uncover what could be possible evidence and becomes even more wary of 奧利佛 and Cheryl. Michael's girlfriend, Brooke, casually spots 奧利佛 and follows his car after witnessing a suspicious package delivery in a garage. Her trail ends up in the headquarters of a mail delivery company from where she decides to call Michael and leave a message, finally accepting his fears as founded; unfortunately, after hanging up, she turns around and stumbles on Cheryl who had obviously heard the whole message. Brooke's murder, which happens off-screen, is covered up by making it look like Brooke died in a car crash. Michael realizes this after finding out, a few days later, that at least two voice messages were left in his answering machine and then erased by someone else. He tells Carver that Lang may have been involved in her death, and is going to get proof by traveling to St. Louis to talk to a terrorist's father, Arthur Scobee. Scobee's son blew up an IRS building 5 years ago, killing himself and 8 children in the process. Another clue will lead Faraday to suspect that his son may be in danger. Eventually the conspirators use a field trip with a Scouts-style organization to keep Faraday's son Grant as an unknowing hostage. Faraday rents a car the next day and follows the van his son is in, which eventually leads him to the FBI headquarters. After getting into a fight with 奧利佛 in an old building, he tries to help him understand that killing hundreds of people won't make a difference. When 奧利佛 refuses to call off the bomb, Faraday has to stop it before it's too late.
Faraday forces his car into a secure parking garage of a federal building, only to discover that he has followed the wrong van into the parking garage. Attempting to calm Faraday, Whit informs him that he is the only person not cleared to be in the garage. Realizing his mistake too late, Faraday rushes to the trunk of his rental car, opening it to reveal a hidden bomb just seconds before it explodes, killing Faraday, Whit, and 182 others. Posthumously, he is vilified as a terrorist seeking revenge for his wife's death. The Langs get away, and Grant, now orphaned, ends up living with relatives, not knowing of his father's innocence. After the Langs decide to move out of the neighborhood, Cheryl suggests that they should go 'someplace nice, someplace safe' meaning that they might strike again. It becomes obvious that Scobee, another man who was accused of blowing up an IRS building in St. Louis (a thinly veiled version of the 奧克拉荷馬 City bombing[1][2]), was set up similarly to Michael.