Mike Brennan, a NYCPD detective, has a hidden dark side as well as a partnership with certain figures of organized crime. Brennan shoots and kills a small-time Puerto Rican criminal and then threatens witnesses to testify that he acted in self-defense.

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• Sidney Lumet
• Nick Nolte
• Timothy Hutton
• Armand Assante
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