Desperate to locate his kidnapped son Simon, Alex goes off the rails and spends the night trying to beat information out of every criminal he knows. Simon is put into the custody of two drug addicts.
When a dirty cop decides to go straight, he must first get dirtier than ever as the gangsters he used to work for go after his family, while his new partner, is out to get him.
Alex hopes to buy his way out of his criminal life by returning all the money that BG has ever paid him. BG has one condition: there's an informant in his gang and he wants Alex to find out who it is.
BG sends Alex a gruesome and potent reminder of the task he's been set. Realising she needs to help Alex, Frida persuades her estranged father, an infamous cop of the old school, to set up a wire tap.