Michael Connelly is an early career detective and he desperately wants to free himself from his father’s past, who was also a detective, but he was drawn to the other side of the law, patting his reputation and throwing his son or the burden of his actions. When more than a million dollars disappear from police custody and the case detective loses his life, Michael asks his superior to allow him to take over the mission as a way of demonstrating that he is capable of solving important cases. When the investigation takes him to a network of organized crime, Michael has a very strong pressure from an assassin trying to hijack him.