Looking a bit shaggy with his wire-rimmed specs and long hair, former CIA agent Creasy ([Scott Glenn]) doesn't seem much like a tough guy. He's sullen and taciturn. Creasy has reluctantly taken a job as bodyguard for a rich Italian family's pre-teen daughter - a return-to-civilian-life task that's supposed to be therapeutic for the burned-out man, who is tormented by having once witnessed a terrorism attack.