老国王将女儿格温多琳公主（阿什莉·琼斯AshleyJones饰）嫁给了萨西尼安国王做他的王妃，以求得到强国的庇护。为了保证公主能够顺利抵达彼国，老国王派出了以雷诺兹（朗·普尔曼RonPerlman饰）为首的国王卫队，一路保护公主，就这样，雷诺兹带领着他的一帮弟兄，踏上了充满了危险的漫漫路途。半路上，雷诺兹一行人遭遇了穷凶极恶的劫匪，让雷诺兹没有想到的是，在其中，他竟然发现了曾经的国王卫士戴博特（埃里克·罗伯茨EricRoberts饰）。原来，戴博特一直深爱着格温多琳公主，老国王此次的决定激怒了他，企图掳走公主。巧合的是，在相处的过程中，格温多琳公主竟然爱上了忠厚的雷诺兹，如此一来，在雷诺兹和戴博特之间，一场恶战在所难免。

查尔斯德莱弗斯逃离了精神病院，并试图杀死首席检察官贾可克劳。他一开始就不成功，所以他采取了另一种策略，即建立世界末日机器，要求其他人杀死贾可克劳，不然德莱弗斯将使用这台机器来摧毁整个城市甚至整个国家。在全球各地的22名刺客的追踪下，克劳决定独自寻找德莱弗斯，并把他捉回精神病院。

A mathematician and author, Luke Williams, is travelling up to London on a train when he meets a old lady, Lavinia Fullerton, who is also going to London, to Scotland Yard. Lavinia tells Luke that in her small village several people have died. The local police are certain that it was all accidental and are taking no action but Lavinia isn't convinced. In London Luke watches, horrified, as Lavinia is run over in a hit and run and he becomes convinced that she was telling the truth. He travels down to the village and with the aid of a local girl, who is also convinced that the deaths were murder, sets out to solve the mystery.