***SPOILERS*** It's when Mr. Pierson, Keith Richards, who was brutally murdered outside a local bar that Mike Kovac, Charles Bronson, was called in by police Internal Affairs Investigator Inspt. Randolph, Calyle Mitchell, to do a job for him. As it turned out Pierson was secretly working for Inspt. Randolph in rooting out police corruption in the 84th precinct. It was when Pierson got all the evidence from his informant Manny, David Fresco, that he was attacked and murdered with the explosive evidence on police corruption taken from him!
Given the job by Inspt.Randolph to take pictures of police on the take Kovac uses a infra red camera for night shooting without a flash so he won't be noticed taking photos of the corrupt cops! It's on the very first night on his assignment that Kovac shoots a number of photographs, one in total darkness, that shows a cop being attacked and stabbed in an alley. As Kovac took the photo he was almost up ended by a young woman running from the crime scene! As it soon turned out the woman Bunny Hansen, Ann Baker, was involved in the cop stabbing in that her partner in crime her father blackmailer Jerry Hansen, William Tannen, was the person who stabbed the cop.
***SPOILERS*** It's the next day when Kovac and the police can't find any evidence of the stabbing or the cop who was stabbed that he soon realizes that there's been a major cover-up of the crime. Not by the police themselves but the cop who turned out to be Officer Blair, John Pickard. As Kovac tracked down the woman, Miss.Hansen, that he ran into in the dark alley he found out that she and her pop Jerry were running a blackmail scam that Officer Blair was a part of!
As it turned out Blair wanted more of the take, blackmail money, which lead to an augment where Jerry Hansen ended up stabbing him! And it's when Kovac tracked down the both father and daughter blackmailers Officer Blair, bleeding from his stab wound, was waiting outside the Hansen apartment to gun down the two so they won't be alive to implicate him in their crimes!
Given the job by Inspt.Randolph to take pictures of police on the take Kovac uses a infra red camera for night shooting without a flash so he won't be noticed taking photos of the corrupt cops! It's on the very first night on his assignment that Kovac shoots a number of photographs, one in total darkness, that shows a cop being attacked and stabbed in an alley. As Kovac took the photo he was almost up ended by a young woman running from the crime scene! As it soon turned out the woman Bunny Hansen, Ann Baker, was involved in the cop stabbing in that her partner in crime her father blackmailer Jerry Hansen, William Tannen, was the person who stabbed the cop.
***SPOILERS*** It's the next day when Kovac and the police can't find any evidence of the stabbing or the cop who was stabbed that he soon realizes that there's been a major cover-up of the crime. Not by the police themselves but the cop who turned out to be Officer Blair, John Pickard. As Kovac tracked down the woman, Miss.Hansen, that he ran into in the dark alley he found out that she and her pop Jerry were running a blackmail scam that Officer Blair was a part of!
As it turned out Blair wanted more of the take, blackmail money, which lead to an augment where Jerry Hansen ended up stabbing him! And it's when Kovac tracked down the both father and daughter blackmailers Officer Blair, bleeding from his stab wound, was waiting outside the Hansen apartment to gun down the two so they won't be alive to implicate him in their crimes!
