Back from a tour of duty in the Middle East, Army Captain Jake Gabriel (Michael Worth) wants to disappear into a small town just north of San Francisco where he can forget his troops' last skirmish in which he and four others, three women—Erika Moore/Lano (Natasha Alam), Justine (Kristi Clainos), and Casey (Siri Baruc)—and one man, Clay (Dan Southworth), were ambushed by werewolves. Unfortunately, his four compatriots are hot on his tail, believing him to be the power that will unite their "pack". Also on his tail is General Tony Ford (John Saxon) and Sergeant Frank Bergman (Tim Thomerson), part of a special forces unit planning to execute the pack for the threat they pose to the American population.
War Wolves is based on a screenplay written by the film's director Michael Worth, who also plays a starring role.
With Justine, Casey, and Clay dead, Jake and Erika meet in the forest and go off to find a place where they can live without fear of being hunted for what they are. Back in the church, Frank sits on the floor, his back against a pew, having been shot by Clay. He suggests to Tony that they should let the hunting business up to someone younger and dumber and that Tony should go home to his family. Tony agrees. Always the humorous one, Frank asks Tony who are his five top bands of the 1970s, and Tony starts naming them: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey, AC/DC, Foreigner, and Earth Wind & Fire. By the time he gets to Earth, Wind, & Fire, Frank has expired. The final scene takes place at a gas station somewhere in southern California. Tony stops for gas, and a man playing a guitar asks where he's headed. Tony tells him that he's on his way to Tennessee to visit a granddaughter. "Mighty fine place...been there myself," says the guitarist. Tony looks up in the distance and sees two wolves standing on a ridge, looking down at him. In a voiceover, Tony says: The true war begins and ends within. The real wins and loses come not from what we can see but from what we can become as a result. And because of that, there will always be a war that we must all be soldiers in. The wolves trot off as Tony heads back to his car, wishing the guitarist a nice day. "Thank you," he replies in an unmistakable Memphis accent, "Thank you very much."
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