FBI Agent Jake Malloy(Sylvester Stallone) lost co-workers to a serial cop killer when the killer murders his girlfriend. He loses himself as well. Knowing the killer murdered Mary to get to him, and tormented by his failure to save her, the once confident agent hits the bottle hard. Even the satisfaction of reaping revenge is denied Malloy as a face to face confrontation with is lover's killer is thwarted when the killer takes his own life.