The two New York cops Turk and Rooster look back on a long and successful career. When a serial killer roams the city, the two investigators have a certain sympathy for the perpetrator, as the victims are all unpunished criminals. In the course of the investigation, Turk and Rooster find more and more clues that confirm the suspicion that the murderer must have come from their own ranks. The more the traces thicken, the smaller the circle of suspects around them becomes ...