The IMF agents have only 36 hours to trick a cunning mass murderer/foreign agent (Imre Rogosh) into telling them how he intends to kill thousands of people in the Los Angeles area. In a "Rip Van Winkle" type caper The IMF team tricks Rogosh into thinking that it is three years in the future, that he is in his own country, and that he is to be tried and shot for being an American Spy!