Matrix is told by a ""taxman"" that he has protect a man who was convicted for a murder that he committed. And not only that the daughter of the man who was killed, is a cop and feels that he has not really paid for his crime. In the end Matrix has to tell her that he was the one who killed her father just as she was about to kill him.
Matrix must help the detective investigating the death of his girlfriend's father. Complicating matters, it was Matrix that accidentally killed the father.
Matrix has to guard a peace advocate when his campaign against the arms dealers make him a target not only of the gunrunners, but of an enterprising reporter as well.
When a little girl witnesses a hired killing, the men who did the killing need to find her to get back a valuable disk she took with her. The blind man takes Matrix back into the past, where Tony Goff is abused by his father, in an attempt to convince Matrix to 'think like a child', and also to give him the tools he needs to save the little girl.
Steven Matrix, a legendary hitman, sees a woman in a bar...who shoots and kills him. He wakes up on the shores of a flaming ocean where a man singles him out and sends him back. The man visits him later in the hospital and tells Matrix he must prove himself worthy of life. Matrix decides to retire and expand his silent partnership in a gym with Liz Teel and during a date walks through a door...and finds himself in the City In-Between where a roller-skating teenage girl acts as his first guide for his current assignment to keep people from ending up where he is. Matrix has to help mobster Chris Lucano's son Tony, who wants to become a hitman. He gets his former helper and family man Billy Hicks to help him. To perform his assignment, Matrix takes on a job for a mobster named Mazetti who wants Chris Lucano and his family dead. He offers the father deal to let him live if he helps him in his assignment. Matrix takes on Tony as an apprentice and forces him to plan a hit on his high school