But an unspoken line was drawn between the right side and the wrong side of the law, and the line was never crossed by the neighborhood guys who had been friends since kindergarten. That's lovely when it comes to being decoys to bust punks, but quite another thing when a nun is brutalized inside her church. Our bad boys solve the crime all by themselves, and then have to face up to the police commission that steals the credit, and the mobster who coincidentally wants his money. The FBI, represented by a scarily hard-assed Amy Irving , is leaning on Bo to turn on his friend. She's got incriminating photos all, of course, viewed out of context.
Old truces break right and left, good comes up against evil.
Relationships will be ruined. Friends will die. Same old same old. Had this story been set later than the 1980s, it could have been a tale of cops blowing busts for neglecting to obtain search warrants or seeing cases tossed for roughing up a witness. Actually, based on the e-mail flames I get from teen boys, One Tough Cop is perfect for 'em.