The addictive nature of a new videogame, known as "Pathways" to its underground community of devotees, has more than the usual sinister implications. Jake Cummings (Jensen Ackles) and his friends are becoming increasingly caught up in the game, which somehow seems to know their thoughts, and which calls them on the phone to administer bizarre tasks that must be accomplished in order to "win." But "pathways" is also the word used to describe the connection between the devil and his human victims, and as the game spins ever more out of control, the world seems threatened by an outbreak of evil the likes of which it has never seen before.