Introduction:

The film opens with Detectives Thomas “Turk” Cowan and David “Rooster” Fisk (De Niro and Pacino respectively) shooting targets with pistols and machine guns while cracking jokes to one another. De Niro’s character is a hothead nicknamed “Turk” while Pacino is his cooler partner “Rooster.” De Niro is shown getting into an argument with an umpire during a children’s baseball game and threatening suspects. At the same time, Pacino is seen defeating multiple opponents in chess.

The movie cuts to Turk staring into the camera confessing to the murders of 14 people. Turk’s “confessions” narrate the story.

Turk and Rooster are working on taking down a drug-dealing club owner called Spider (50 Cent). They plant a wire on a female lawyer caught using drugs, purchased from Spider; wanting to catch him in the act. Spider becomes suspicious and finds the wire. Turk and Rooster rush into Spider’s office and get her out, but not before Spider’s bodyguard aims a gun at them and a shootout begins. Spider’s man is killed and the lawyer gets shot as well. Turk handcuffs Spider and beats him until being pulled away by Rooster.