A chief security director of a Las Vegas casino is inadvertently drawn into helping with a hostage situation, when a man known only as The Duke, takes his former Mentor's son captive.

Jake Harvard, 13 is not happy when he learns he has to spend the summer with his uncle Benny, a middle aged detective in suburban Washington DC. Jake meets a young girl named Kat Adams who has a passion for American history. After uncle Benny turns away a client named Lola Meanors who is looking for her missing husband, Jake and Kate start their own secret investigation.

Gramps was feeling forgotten, so he pretended to get lost to get some attention from his family - it backfired, big time. His family decided to have him declared incompetent, but the kids from the skate park came to his rescue.