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.

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

Joe falls for the inventor of a highly efficient car battery, but painful memories of his murdered fiancee surface when her life is threatened. Meanwhile, the discovery of a long-lost concept car shocks everyone.

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

Astor agrees to have the brain implant removed; a distraught Westlake must focus on saving a kidnapping victim.

Astor falls in love with the wife of a Colombian drug lord while investigating the Blanca Noche cartel.

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

"The Face", a famous hit man, has just been released from prison. His plans to go straight are jeopardized when his former employer kidnaps his wife to force him to do one last hit! Through the Consortium, he asks Joe Astor for help.

After Frankie is injured in a suspicious car crash, the Viper team uncovers a plot to hijack a transport loaded with highly contagious diseases.

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

Joe Astor returns to drive the new Viper when Thomas Cole is reassigned after blowing up the old Viper.

The Viper team must crack a ring that abducts youths and molds them into specialized criminals. Meanwhile, Joe encounters a special someone from his past.

After Catlett reads his brother's latest novel, fact becomes stranger than fiction as the plot line becomes real.

Astor and Westlake try to stop a man who's plotting to kill his ex-wife for her jewel necklace.

Frankie befriends a self-proclaimed psychic who becomes involved in a plot to assassinate a senator.

A Japanese detective, in town to extradite an assassin, goes head-to-head with an international crime boss.

Joe teams with a police detective--a suspected vigilante--to find the culprit behind the murder of Outfit thugs.

Astor and Westlake must unravel a conspiracy after the secret formula is stolen from a soda company and its owner is murdered.

A former Israeli spy's new life is threatened when arms dealers kidnap his wife.

An electric shock causes Astor's brain implant to malfunction, turning him back into a criminal.

Nate Benedict, a Mob Boss who is about to be tried for various crimes, fakes his own death. He starts over in a small town to lay low and continue his criminal operations. The residents of Mesa Rose, the small town Benedict takes over, are powerless against Benedict's strong reach. The Viper turns out to be 'the great equalizer'.

While staking out robbery suspects, Westlake finds out Astor isn't the man she thought he was.

One of Westlake's old enemies resurfaces to exact revenge after escaping from prison.

Astor and Westlake must protect a spiritual ruler from a fated encounter with an assassin.

Astor and Westlake encounter a ruthless bounty hunter while trying to exonerate a man accused of murder.