After dropping off his two young sons at Catholic school, an unnamed NYPD police lieutenant (Harvey Keitel) uses cocaine and drives to the scene of a double homicide in Union Square. The Lieutenant finds a drug dealer and gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene, smoking crack during the exchange; the dealer promises to give him the money he makes from selling the drugs in a few days. At an apartment, the Lieutenant gets drunk and engages in a threesome with two women.