We are now on day five of the week of the Twisted Metal contest. Two days had passed from the second qualifying round and we are now in New York. Here we have Captain Jamie Roberts of the New York Police Department. Agent Stone is here to give an update on her brother Carl. We also see the police officer R.C, the one who arrested Needles Kane.
Jamie is grieving over her brother being injured back home and wished that she never left. R.C and Stone try their best to comfort and have her mind put at ease. They don't know if it can be safe for anyone to go to California except emergency personnel.
Apocalypse 9 arrive at Metro Square with the contestants once again being dropped off already in their vehicles. Mr Slam vs Hammerhead vs Warthog vs Mr Grimm is about to happen! Mr Grimm knows that he can't mess up again. He's doing this for his brother who is dying. Apocalypse 9 fire at the Statue of Liberty and the round begins!
Jamie hears on her radio of the Statue of Liberty being destroyed. Stone is reminded of what happened at Sunsprings and he hears that the suspects are men driving ATVs near Metro Sqaure. Stone realizes that it's Apocalypse 9. Stone then asks for the Jamie's help as he does not have his SWAT team with him at all this time. Jamie, Stone and R.C jump into action.
Grimm goes to find his competitors and realizes himself of the advantage against him this time because of the size of the competitors vehicles being a monster truck, a front loader and a makeshift tank. But he is not going to quit. Mike & Stu wake up from being drugged thinking that they had the weirdest dream that they stole a truck from a hunter, got shot at, got arrested and was bailed out by a dude they never met. Next, they see Cage who is driving Warthog in front of them. They question if that is the guy who freed them. But they freak out once Cage shoots at them and both go into hysterics about WTF is going on right now.
Simon Whittlebone then finds Hammerhead and Warthog who chased after Hammerhead. Simon manages to capture Cage in his front loader, rams it to the inside of a museum and slams Warthog through the ground where a subway system is underneath the building. Mr Grimm is being chased by the police since he gets recognized as being the individual driving his motorcycle in Midtown on the first day of the contest.
Police focus on Grimm and Whittlebone after crashing through the museum which takes away Simon's opportunity to finsh off Cage. Grimm escapes by going to a downstairs entrance to the subway system to make sure he isn't followed for some time. He will pop in and out of the entrances to the outside to take shots at his competitors and go back underground to get the best moment to take out one of the competitors.
Cage fires back at the police after he gets out of the subway system he was thrown into earlier. Mike & Stu still don't know what the hell to do even with the weapons at their disposal and they get distracted seeing all the different types of stores like the toy stores and restaurants. And both men now just realize they are in New York once they see the Statue of Liberty. They are mainly here in this series to be comic relief.
Stone focues on Cage. Jamie focuses on Whittlebone. And R.C handles getting people to safety. The rest of the police force focus on the members of Apocalypse 9. At one point R.C spots a suspicious armored truck at an ice rink. R.C leaves his vehicle to investigate. Nearby the damaged museum are Cage, Stone and Mike & Stu. Cage wins his gun battle incapacitating Stone. Hammerhead accidentally push a button that fires a missile at Warthog and flips his vehicle over. They think are they heroes for helping the police. This hesitation causes Whittlebone to catch Hammerhead in its lifter and it gets slammed repeatedly to the ground.
Mike & Stu bail out of the truck screaming for their lives since they don't want to die. They wave down a cop car and it's Jamie. She arrests both of them while Mike & Stu claim that they helped her. Whittlebone is still dealing with the truck in his lifter and inside the museum he is near the entrance by the opening to the subway system that was made earlier. Grimm drives up the makeshift ramp and it launches him high up into the air and while airborne Grimm throws all of his grenades at Whittlebone causing a huge explosion killing Simon. Grimm has now qualified and he races to his rendezvous point.
Cage manages to escape his vehicle and runs off to safety and away from the scene. He survives the contest. Mike & Stu are being taken to jail. R.C then sneaks into the other rendezvous vehicle that Grimm did not go to and is also being transported to the final battlefield unknown to Jamie. The finalists are Needles Kane, Angela Fortin and Mr Grimm. They will finally meet their final competitor Minion and the man behind Twisted Metal, Calypso.