Soon after Caracara begins, there is a knock at the Manhattan apartment of Rachel Sutherland (played by Natasha Henstridge), an employee at the American Museum of Natural History who keeps a pet caracara. (The bird in the film, however, is a hawk, not a caracara.) The two men flash FBI badges and offer her $100 per day to engage in surveillance on a suspected criminal for a week or so. After initial hesitation, she naively agrees. Within a couple of days, a third man appears–David J. McMillan (played by Jonathan Schaech). One evening, the first two tie up and gag Rachel and then change the surveillance telescope into a sniper rifle; when McMillan arrives, he kills the other two men, and Rachel struggles to get free. While McMillan is just outside on the balcony ledge, to get a better view of a particular apartment across the way, she forces the cage against the balcony door. McMillan is then unable to return to her apartment in order to fire the rifle, which is aimed at a party held in honor of Nelson Mandella, so he climbs to another ledge to escape. During the rest of the film, McMillan hunts down anyone who knows what he looks like, including Rachel, her best friend, her mother, and those who hired him, while presumably continuing to track Mandella. The trail of those who hired McMillan turns out to be a pyramid, presumably headed by Edmund Mkambati (played by Roy Lewis), a South African dissident who is a friend but rival of Mandella. While there are twists and turns in identifying who hires McMillan, NYPD’s Jack Pelligrino (played by Michael Filipowich), aided by Rachel, simultaneously tries to track down McMillan. Directed by Graeme Clifford, the film is in sharp contrast with the “lone gunman” theory of conspiracy that revolves around American victims of assassination. MH