It is the future. A sinister plot is turning helpful robots into assassins and a cop is caught in a deadly showdown with the madman controlling the killer machines. They were crafted for the purpose of serving man. But now guided by an evil force they re committing murder in this fast-paced futuristic action-adventure. Tom Selleck stars as Jack Ramsay a sergeant in the Runaway Squad - a security force dedicated to the termination of defective or runaway robots. Ramsay and his assistant Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes) are called in when two electronic engineers meet violent deaths. They discovera link between the murders and the development of a terrifying new weapon by an evil mastermind.