 Los Angeles vice detectives Bill Holt ( Chris Penn (I)  (qv)) and Nin ( Jeffrey Wright (I)  (qv)) have entered the gangster and drug scenes and have allied with drug kingpin Truman Rickhardt ( Henry Czerny  (qv)). As he tries to stop Holt, Nin narrates the events that led Holt to torture Truman s brother Sean ( Anthony DeSando  (qv)) by chaining him inside an iron box that s slowly filling with cement. Cops on the take, missing money, Holt s tempting wife Lyndel ( Sherilyn Fenn  (qv)) and dead police officers are implicated in the events.