****SPOILERS**** NYPD Det. Alan Keller, Michael Tolan. screwed up big time when he froze and allowed his partner veteran NYPD Detective Ben Rogan get blown away during a stakeout at a West Greenwich Village loft loaded with expensive furs slated to go on sale for the Christmas holidays. Trying to shift the blame of Det. Rogan's death on Rogan himself in order to save his own neck, in a police departmental trial, has his fellow policemen feel that not only did Det. Keller have something to do by chickening out under fire with Det. Rogan being iced but now, in him besmirching his long carer in the NYPD, having him look like a coward as well.
Knowing that he's full of it in his explanation in Det. Rogan's death Det. Keller's boss Let. Dan Muldoon, John McIntire, puts his life on the line by organizing another police stakeout at the very same loft where Det. Rogan was gunned down with Det. Keller being assigned to it.Not only that It's Let. Muldoon who's to be there , as bait, with Det. Keller when the place gets hit! Sticking his neck out to give Det. Keller a chance to redeem himself and get his guts back has Let. Muldoon take a big chance with his own life. But as Let. Muldoon figures it's the only way to get him to make up for past mistakes, the death of his partner Det. Ben Rogan, and he's willing to even put his life on it.
***SPOILERS*** The stakeout drew the same persons who were involved in Det. Rogan's murder and as before Det. Keller freaked out when his partner Let. Muldoon was targeted by them. Det. Keller was too frozen in his tracks to draw his revolver to prevent Let. Muldoon from getting shot but he did open his mouth and scream to alert Lt. Muldoon of the impending danger that he was facing which was just as good. That action on Det. Keller's part did save Let. Muldoon's life by him gunning down the thugs who were about to blast him but after that Det. Keller realized he wasn't cut out to be a policeman and decided to call it, his career as a member of the NYPD, quits.