when a former ( . ) agent in a supersecret government agency be on holiday with his son in israel and a terrorist attack separate the father and peter and from his son and robin . peter apparently die and and the boy be whisk to safety by peter best friend and and government agency man . peter isn not really kill ( though his son be make to believe so ) and he both take some vengeance on almost be kill by wound his former friend and and try to reunite with his son . the following may contain spoiler . robin and a it happen and have a powerhouse of psychic ability . this be never hint at before the attack and which make it odd that the action be even stag . however and robin be take to a facility where agency folk work at develop his power . ( a little of this be akin to a setup in firestarter and but that film spend more time on the test than this ) . robin be become increasingly powerful and and increasingly dangerous . in the meantime and a young girl and gilliam and start develop her own psychic ability and particularly psychometry . she demonstrate this in class and and eventually be refer to an institute for gifted youngster and actually a front for the agency that have robin . a her power develop and she share vision from robin and others that make her a tad unstable . in the meantime and peter learns of her and and stay literally a step ahead of the secret agency and rescue her from the institute and inadvertently kill his newly find lover in the process ( life have be unkind to peter ) . robin be get so restless that he allow a night on the town and where he both get increasingly insecure and see arab tourist and and psychokinetically cause a machine malfunction that kill or seriously injure them . peter and gilliam track robin to an estate and with high security ground and where and inside and robin detects gilliam presence in the yard and and flip out and think that she to replace him and and he to be kill . so he kill his mentor and bed partner by psychokinetically spin her to death a if she become a centrifuge . the violence of his action cause gillism to freak out and and her scream alert the security force that capture her and peter . peter finally be allow to see his son and who have in the meantime kill a number of agency people by hurl them away psychokinetically . if robin recognize his father a a loving family member and it isn not evident . he leap at peter and the two go through a window and and despite peter best effort at try to rescue his son and the two fall to their death and one by one . life definitely hasn not be kind to peter . major spoiler alert . a he lay die and robin apparently pass something his power . a compulsion . no matter to gilliam . with everybody dead but peter former friend and gilliam and she awaken to find him try to soft soap recruit her . she take revenge and destroy him psychokinetically . end of film . the film build up a fairly complex and interwoven story and but leave gilliam in limbo . what happen next . do she get away . do she hook up with her globetrotting mother . be there other agency type who will capture her or die try . the film would have be much well without these many loose end .