 Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman s hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman s past. Macy s primary path to understanding the victim is through one of her roommates, Nikki. Through Nikki and others, Macy learns of the victim s shady contacts at City Hall, the involvement of a gang of Asian drug runners, and the sordid affairs of one of the city s bigwigs. As Macy begins to understand how all these crimes fit together, he learns that his new friend Nikki is not an innocent bystander.