No sooner do Frank and Joe Hardy, America's favorite teen detectives, rescue a family from a flash flood, than they're off on a new top-secret ATAC (American Teens Against Crime) mission. Frank and Joe must go undercover on a new reality TV show called 'Madhouse,' to discover how far the producers are willing to go risking the contestants' lives for the sake of huge ratings. The plot thickens when the producer of Madhouse turns up murdered!