 Brian McNally is a one-time criminal with a major problem. The day after he is badly beaten by gangster Mike Georghiou, McNally finds Georghiou s strangled body at his business. He s convinced that Mike s brother Tony, also a gangster known for his violent streak, will come after him so he gets Sam Ryan to prove that he couldn t have been the killer. Sam does so but when McNally s body is found at the foot of a building, a supposed suicide, she feels she has somehow contributed to his death. What Sam doesn t realize is the is not only going up against organized crime but coppers who ve acted as judge, jury and executioner.