Joel Bennett

1997 yılında suçun artması sonucu duvarlar ve dikenli tellerle çevrilen New York, ABD'nin geri kalanından yalıtılarak adeta dev bir açık hava cezaevine dönüştürülmüştür. En iflah olmaz suçlular oraya atılıp anarşik ve vahşi bir yaşama mahkum edilirken kaçmaya çalışanlar vurulmaktadır. Manhattan'ı anakaraya bağlayan köprüler havaya uçurulmuş ve mayınlanmıştır. ABD başkanının uçağı teröristlerce kaçırılır ve başkan kaçış kapsülüyle New York'a düşer. Onu kurtarmak için eski asker ve şimdinin dik başlı mahkumu katil Snake Pliskin bir anlaşmaya zorlanır. Snake'in koluna 24 saat içerisinde infilak edecek bir patlayıcı yerleştirilip New York'a gönderilecek ve başkanı bulup getirecektir. Zamanında ve bu imkansız görevi tamamlamış olarak dönerse Snake'in hayatı da kurtulacaktır.

Leo Kohlmeyer is a talking cat who inherits $5 million from his late owner and is looked after by the owner's in-laws whose two children, Bart and Veronica, learn Leo's secret that he can talk, while a bumbling, but devious, couple called the Rigsbys plot to kidnap Leo in order for them to gain the inheritance money for themselves.

The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.

Hamilton Hill meets Estelle Redding in an umbrella repair shop and rescues her from two thugs soon afterwards. Estelle has hidden in the handle of her grey parasol the formula for "Coalex," an inexpensive substitute for coal which the coal trust is trying to prevent from reaching the market. Edward Burnham, one of the thugs, tells Hamilton that Estelle is a German agent, but the infatuated young bachelor fails to believe the story.

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.

The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco earthquake to become a shipping magnate, rise to the top of Nob Hill's society through a loveless marriage to the daughter of the city's wealthiest family, and find happiness with an Asian mistress despite the collapse of his fortune during the Wall Street crash.