City Commissioner Strand is desperate to get the Viper on the road. He plans on using the Viper's crime-fighting abilities to bolster support for his campaign to become mayor.

After stealing a satellite, Michael Payton flips his black Dodge Stealth in a spectacular crash. Strand hears about the accident and has Payton pronounced dead at the scene. Payton is the best getaway driver the Outfit had.

Commissoner Strand orders that Payton's memory be erased and his appearance altered. When Payton awakes, he is told that he is a police officer named Joesph Payne Astor.

Joe faces a terrifying choice when the doctor who performed memory-altering surgery on him offers to restore his criminal identity.

Joe's former partner in crime (Jason Carter) is sprung from prison by the Outfit in order to locate the Viper.

As part of a plan to destroy the Viper, the Outfit kidnaps Julian and forces him to upgrade its own urban assault vehicle.

An artificial heart that will save the life of a young girl is stolen.

A foreign dignitary visiting the U.S. becomes the new target of the assassin who previously killed her father.