Jason Patric stars as Nick Tellis, a suspended narcotics officer recruited to investigate the murder of Michael Calvess, a rookie cop killed m under mysterious circumstances. Tellis is teamed with Calvess's partner, Henry Oak (Ray Liotta), a hot-tempered renegade who'll stop at nothing to avenge his friends death. As Tellis and Oak follow a shadowy trail through the seamy drug underworld, the lines start to blur - between right and wrong, good and evil, and justice and revenge.