Jamie investigates his retired favorite Academy instructor and mentor whom a man alleges threatened him over gambling funds owed to a dodgy bookie, unwilling to give him slack as Gormley wants An illegal drug shipment arriving in New York forces Danny to partner up with his Texas Rangers associate, Major Waylon Gates, who bribes a petty informer, to find the narcotics before they flood the streets, and probably dominate the US market from New York. Things escalate when cartel enforcers murder several members of their NYC distributors, the Ace Double Treys gang, and Gates acts on a personal grudge. Frank quarrels with the mayor after two cops brawl over defunding the department, ironically punishing the one who violently defended the NYPD, while public opinion made Chase turn tail towards crime fighting.
—KGF Vissers