Moses Al Shabaz leads the Star of Six, a sect he founded to help African-American communities resist their white counterparts. With the group's belief system referencing revolutionary Toussaint Louverture alongside Black Santa, the FBI office across town, aiming to stop terrorists before they strike, starts to tag them as a potential threat. With supervisor Andy Mudd leading the way, they begin to create scenarios by which they can tempt Moses into making a wrong move.