Lifelong friends Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey are Miami police detectives investigating $100 million of seized Mafia heroin,
which was stolen from a secure police vault. Internal Affairs suspects that it was an
inside job and threatens to shut down the entire department unless they recover the drugs within five days.
Mike asks one of his informants and ex-girlfriend Maxine “Max” Logan to look for people who are newly rich
and therefore suspects. She gets herself and her best friend Julie Mott hired as escorts by Eddie Dominguez,
a former crooked cop. The party is soon interrupted by Dominguez’s French drug kingpin boss Fouchet and his henchmen Casper,
Ferguson and Noah. Dominguez and Max are killed, while Julie manages to escape. The madam who hired
Julie and Max is disposed of by Noah, who then knocks out Mike as he investigates Max’s death.
