Mid-life insurance salesman, Jack Horton, and mobster Phil Cassavetti meet by chance at a casino. They begin a twisted relationship involving arson, insurance fraud, attempted murder, and kidnapping in the pursuit of money and power. Meanwhile, Special Agent Elliott Murphy wakes up in a hospital after being mugged, stabbed, and beaten after a drunk escapade. He course-corrects his life just in time to return to a dynamite case: Horton and Cassavetti's.