In April 1992 Los Angeles, Sergeant Eldon Perry is pacing in a motel room with a shotgun and pistol. Five days earlier, two men; Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell, rob a convenience store for the safe in the room above the store. Four people are killed as a result with one severely wounded. Detective Bobby Keough is in a Gun Board hearing in relation to use of deadly force when his partner Perry, defends him and the two leave.