All Rights Reserved. A Czech and a Russian come to New York.
Burns takes notice.
De Niro doesn't, as he's carrying a ring in his pocket and working on the proper words to propose to his television news reporter girlfriend. One investigation leads to another murder and the pair work together and separetely to bring the murdering immigrants down. How that becomes two movies is just one of the plot twists in a film which savagely takes apart the media-zation of all aspects of what passes for our civilization. Movie number one features homocide detective DeNiro, darling of the newspapers and tabloid television news shows crossing the well defined borders between the New York City police and fire departments, to have a look see at a fire scene in which two people died. The media, howling jackals that we all are, are waiting for the gory details on the street.