Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger is an ex-Special Ops soldier who is trying to live a peaceful life as a landowner in the Midwest. But his past catches up to him and he forms an alliance with a CIA agent (James Caviezel) to battle a corrupt colonel (Richard Tyson) who is using a deadly chemical to genocidal effect in a Latin American country but things turn personal when his daughter (Claire Forlani) is among the refugees seeking shelter at his farm.