Assigned to a narcotics stake-out in their precinct, Detectives Briscoe and Curtis find themselves on the hot seat after the narcotics officer in charge, Lt.John Flynn, shoots the dealer they were to meet to buy drugs. Flynn says the dealer went for his gun but neither Briscoe nor Logan were in a position to see anything. Flynn makes it quite clear that he expects them to back him up but Curtis has no intention of lying to Internal Affairs. In fact, Curtis thinks the whole thing stinks to high heaven and is convinced the shooting was a set up. When Flynn is caught up in a major investigation into police corruption, he points the finger to Lennie as the man who stole drugs from a police evidence room many years before.
—garykmcd