Professional escape artist Jonathan Goodwin tests the limits of his own skills and endurance as he fights his way out of a set of increasingly complex, ridiculous and dangerous traps. Mechanical engineer Terry Stroud constructs the many traps from an array of ordinary objects that leave Jonathan bound with duct tape, locked in a filing cabinet, roped to a motorboat, stapled to a door, driven off the end of a dock, encased in concrete and even buried alive. Jonathan's only objective is to find a way out using important scientific principals.