Dead Bang

“For one cop this isn't just a case. It's a war.”

A police officer is shot dead on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, and nobody can say who did it or why. Homicide detective Jerry Beck (Don Johnson) follows the case into a world of hate literature and white supremacist groups, where it seems a larger attack is being planned. John Frankenheimer keeps Beck moving through it, a man who drinks too much and has to stay sober enough to see it through.