The city's new Mayor, the former Deputy-Mayor, Harold Abbey, demands the gunman be found, but his fellow councilmen reprimand him for his choice to disarm the police and setting up the meaningless cryo-prison where the inmates just 'sleep away' their sentences and emerge the same person as they entered. She hides the gun not knowing what to do.
McCormick finds the handgun used in the murder dropped in a bush. She shoot Watts, who is able to flee, the Deputy-Mayor being unharmed. Police officer Shawn McCormick confronts the masked Watts holding the Deputy-Mayor hostage at gunpoint. Watts, a former cop turned psychotic killer, has just been released from Quantum State Prison and assassinates the current mayor, Frank Cottam. Criminals are sentenced to a high-tech cryonic suspension prison instead of conventional jail cells.
(However, the city is never mentioned by name, though much of the movie was filmed there.) Handguns have been banned and law enforcement carry non-lethal ultra sound pistols, microwave 'stun' guns. The story takes place in the year 2000 and set in San Antonio, Texas.
