Anne DeWitt is the former head of Camp East, a secret training facility in the Allegheny Mountains specializing in survival under harsh conditions and harsh interrogation. After a senator's daughter dies at the camp, Anne is unfairly blamed by her second-in-command, Cassie. As a result, the camp's governing body, Oversight, fires her. She cosmetically changes her appearance and secretly starts a new life as a high school principal in North Carolina. Several years later, Anne receives a visit from David Angola, the head of Camp West, the California counterpart to Camp East. He tells her that Oversight found half a million dollars missing from the books, and they suspect him of embezzlement. While they investigate, David wants to visit Anne, as well as his former second-in-command, Holt, who is also in disguise in North Carolina. Anne and Holt have become close, although Anne doesn't know why Holt left Camp West in the first place. When Anne returns home, she is surprised to find Cassie waiting for her. Anne's location is supposed to be confidential, but it's clear that Cassie found her by seducing a man in tech support named Gary Pomeroy, one of few people with access to Anne's records. Knowing that Anne still has a grudge against her, Cassie holds Anne at gunpoint while they talk. Cassie reveals that Oversight suspects her of stealing the money, and both she and David are on probation as a result. Cassie suspects that David was the thief, and she believes that Holt may know his whereabouts, so she makes Anne invite him over to her house. When Holt arrives, David sneaks into the house and disarms Cassie. Both David and Cassie swear that they never stole the money. Cassie continues fighting back until Anne knocks her unconscious. As the other three try to figure out what to do with Cassie, Anne learns that Holt left Camp West when he became a suspect in the murder of a Michigan doctor. In order to avoid drawing police attention to the camp, Oversight voted to hide him. David was the one who arranged new identities for both Holt and Anne, and Gary Pomeroy was the only other person with access to that information. Anne, David, and Holt all remain unsure of who stole the money. The group decides to drug Cassie so that David can drive her back to Camp East. After he leaves, Anne confronts Holt about his life before North Carolina. She learns that Holt's father had stomach cancer, and he died after a doctor gave him the wrong drug. Holt killed the doctor three weeks later. Anne realizes that Holt was the one who stole the money in order to pay for his father's cancer treatment. After making sure that Holt covered his tracks, Anne and Holt decide to frame Cassie. They plan on planting evidence in her house, as well as finding Gary Pomeroy.