In the year 2088, the doomsday clock inches towards midnight. The Command, synonymously the World Destroyer, is on the loose. Not even Lamont Cranston, the Shadow's alter ego, knows who he is, but the clock is ticking as people around the world drop dead by the day, with the attack at the World's Fair the most sinister yet. It's up The Shadow and his band of allies to stop the end of the world.

Rhona Mitra, is the Snake Plissken-esque loner, sent by police to infiltrate Scotland, which has descended into anarchy following a viral outbreak. The disease has surfaced in London (now a walled city), and Mitra is dispatched to find a scientist who may possess a cure.

Working in secret for years to solve the puzzle in the writings of the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, Ivan Volkov, after the loss of his son and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA, risking his life to help stop the Doomsday clock.

Present day Portland, Oregon. Supernatural occurrences put the people on edge. Doomsday fanatics are on every street corner prophesying the end of the world. Then a freak electrical storm called a Carrington hits the city, temporarily knocking out the electrical supply and communications. The city begins to panic at reports of even more bizarre events. Meet four people all suffering in their own way. All wanting revenge. As they rise, so do the dead....