Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.

It's Christmas Eve, twenty years to the day that Ethan Holt and Joyce Holt née Hollander met when they were stuck together in an elevator on the eighteenth floor for four hours in the office building where he worked and still works as a Project Manager for Bellingham Developments. While Ethan loves History teacher Joyce and their two mid-teen adopted children, biological siblings Colin and Trisha, he isn't fully invested in their lives in focusing on "his" problems, the pull within him more pronounced as Joyce, in Colin soon heading off to college, wants to go back to school herself in pursuing what was her original career goal to be a lawyer, something that Ethan dismisses. What Ethan laments is not having gotten ahead in the company in being "the good guy" as opposed to Vice-President Sean Doyle who, having started out at the same time in the company as Ethan, does a fraction of the work in cutting corners but has steadily moved up the ladder in his cutthroat attitude in focusing solely on the bottom line with no regard of the negative affects on the people with who he deals. As Ethan contemplates complying to a request by Sean to buy-out by whatever means the sole holdout stalling a development project, this request to get Sean out of a lie to President Rona Bellingham, success in this task which may secure his promotion to the executive ranks on a recommendation by Sean to Rona, Ethan pours his heart out to a train station Santa, wishing that on that day twenty years ago that he got on the elevator with Sean to make a meeting with Rona that led to Sean's promotion instead of getting on the elevator with Joyce. "Santa" grants Ethan his wish as he awakens on December 1st of this year to find himself now co-partner of the company with Sean in Rona having retired. While he has all the money and authority he has wanted, Ethan, in this alternate life, has done so Sean's way. He is also not only not married to Joyce, which means the two of them not having adopted Colin and Trisha, but that Joyce, now a crusading lawyer, is fighting him on one of the company's development projects. Ethan learns from Santa that he has until Christmas to figure out what he wants and how to achieve it, if this new life which would mean losing any memory of his past life forever.

On a snowy mid-December night in Covington, ME, a young woman not from town is brought into the hospital unconscious having been pulled from the icy river following an accident on the bridge. Physically all right with only a mild concussion and some minor scrapes and bruises, she nonetheless awakens with a case of retrograde amnesia, more problematic as no one in town knows who she is with all her possessions, including her identification, lost probably somewhere in the river. As Sheriff Crowley investigates, all that is known about her is that she ate at Masie's Diner that evening, Eleanor the waitress who pointed her in the direction of the hotel as a place to stay for the night as she was passing through town. Believing it important in case she came back for it, Eleanor also kept an advertisement the woman inadvertently left at the diner for a tree lighting ceremony on Christmas Eve in Charleston, SC, with the note "Please come -Mark" written on the back. After a week with no further idea who she is, "Jane", as she is now referred to, decides to check herself out of the hospital against the advice of Doctor Grant, her attending physician, and Sheriff Crowley, she believing the answers to her life waiting for her in the form of Mark at that tree lighting in Charleston on Christmas Eve. One of her attending nurses, Paul Bennett, offers to give her a ride in she having no other way to get there in having no ID, Charleston which would be en route to "home", his Christmas destination of Pickering, GA. As Jane and Paul try to make their way to Charleston for Christmas Eve, Jane seems to have a positive effect on everyone they meet, something that Paul can see as he starts to fall for her. What happens between them will be affected by their individual journeys. While Jane's path is more obvious in needing to regain her memory especially who Mark is in her life, Paul's is nonetheless as complicated as he is returning to a situation unlike he has faced thus far with his family, especially his brother and sister-in-law, Ben and Marissa Bennett, an issue with them the reason he didn't return home for Christmas last year.

Rendering of the two concerts that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett did at Radio City Music Hall in August, billed as Bennett's final public performances, the first night of which coincided with his 95th birthday.

Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the Flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else's present?