Rollie gets lured in by an old acquaintance to be an assistant director on a low-budget film that has more going on behind the scenes than Rollie and Angie know. Francis deals with being suspended from the force and Leo considers a new employment avenue.

Leo McCarthy's death in a massive explosion is just the beginning of Rollie's nightmare. An internal investigation into police corruption points the finger at Leo and Francis Gatti. When Rollie is implicated in a scheme to resell weapons impounded by the police, he hits the street—on the run from the NYPD.

A mob accountant on the run pulls Rollie back into the unfinished investigation of Leo's murder. The accountant will finger his boss, Vincent Capricio, for Leo's death if Rollie helps him disappear.