Street-wise undercover Federal agent Vinnie Terranova is released from prison after serving a false rap to establish his cover, and infiltrates the organized-crime Syndicate in Atlantic City-- where, with one slip of his cover, he could end up a dead man.
A psychopathic murderer posing as Sonny's nephew double-crosses Sonny and holds Vinnie's girlfriend Gina hostage.
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.
When Vinnie's young cousin, a boxer, is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Vinnie jeopardizes his cover by going to "legals"-- the coroner, the homicide cops-- to get them moving on what he knows was a murder.
After his mother is mugged in Brooklyn, an enraged Vinnie sets out to find the punk who did it, but when he visits his mother in the hospital, it breaks his heart that she still won't forgive him for his life of "crime".
