The main plot of the movie involves some generic "evildoing" organization that wants the codes to a military remote control system. The person who has the codes just happens to be Charles Graiman (Bruce Davison), who invented the Knight Industries Two Thousand 25 years ago, and has created a sequel, the Knight Industries Three Thousand (because "two thousand" no longer sounds futuristic). When the generic evildoers threaten Graiman, KITT is dispatched to fetch his daughter Sarah (Deanna Russo), a Stanford professor and PhD candidate, and down-and-out race driver Mike Traceur (Justin Bruening), who's has more than a passing relation to the previous KITT's driver, Michael Knight.