Two cops are forced to work together to solve a chain of mysterious killings by a killer nicknamed "The Family Man".
Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When the killer, known as the "Family Man", kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack's ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen's husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal - especially when Jack's prints are found on Ellen's body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell.—Todd Baldridge <[email protected]>
Jack Cole is a cop from the East Coast with vague history who transferred to L.A. He works with a detective Campbell who is pursuing a serial killer. Campbell learns Cole is not a man to be messed with. One of the victims of the serial killer turns out to be Cole's ex-wife. Later the killer is caught but they learn he wasn't the one who killed Cole's ex-wife. And evidence turns up that implicates Cole. Cole claims he didn't do it. He suspects that he's being framed that's when he calls someone who is a spook and the man doesn't give him a straight answer. Later someone tries to kill Cole and Campbell. They suspect it might have something to do with some dead Russians they found who died of radiation poisoning.—[email protected]
Steven Seagal plays a cop with a mysterious past. He and his partner, Keenen Wayans, are Los Angeles policemen who must race against the clock to catch a serial killer and his copycat.—Greg Mintz <[email protected]>
Jack Cole (Steven Seagal) was once a CIA operative known as "The Glimmer Man," because he could move so quickly and quietly through the jungle that his victims would only see a glimmer before they died. Having retired from Central Intelligence, Cole-versed in Buddhism and unaccustomed to working with others-has become a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.Cole is partnered with tough, no-nonsense detective Jim Campbell (Keenen Ivory Wayans)...who has little patience for Cole's New Age philosophies and "outsider" attitude. Cole and Campbell must set aside their differences when they're assigned to track down a serial killer known as "The Family Man," named for his habit of killing entire households.
The Family Man's latest victims turn out to be Cole's former wife Ellen and her current husband Andrew Dunleavy. When Cole's fingerprints are found on Ellen's body, he and Campbell suspect that Smith (Brian Cox) - Jack's former superior in the CIA - may be connected with the killings. Cole contacts Smith, who (unbeknownst to him and Campbell) has been working with local crime boss Frank Deverell (Bob Gunton).Cole and Campbell receive a tip which leads them to Christopher Maynard (Stephen Tobolowsky). Maynard insists that the Family Man murders were actually committed by more than one killer. Only the slayings that occurred prior to Jack's arrival in Los Angeles were Maynard's work; more recently, a second party has been massacring households and blaming it on Maynard...whom Cole is forced to shoot in self defense.
Seeking a lead on the "other" Family Man, Cole goes to the home of Celia Rostov: Deverell's Russian translator and a recent victim of the serial killer. Jack finds out that the Rostovs had tickets to Russia, paid for by Deverell's company. The Family Man makes an unsuccessful attempt on the lives of both Cole and Campbell, blowing up the latter's apartment. It is revealed that the Family Man works for both Deverell and Smith, who have murder contracts out on both of the detectives...and also on Johnny (Johnny Strong), Deverell's own stepson.
Cole and Campbell chat with Johnny's girlfriend Millie (Nikki Cox), who tells them where to find Johnny. The detectives trick and kill a hit-man sent by Johnny's stepfather. Johnny informs Campbell and Cole that Donald Cunningham (John M. Jackson), Deverell's private security chief, is the other Family Man...whose killings were confused with Maynard's. Johnny also reveals Smith's partnership with Deverell.Turns out that Smith was collaborating with Deverell to smuggle Chemical weapons into US to sell to terrorists. Smith & Deverell used the cover of the serial killer to tie up their loose endsThe detectives confront Smith, who reveals that Deverell has been smuggling chemical weapons into the USA from Russia...and selling said arms to the Serbian underworld. Smith is arranging contacts for the deal, which is being cut by the Russian Liberation Fighters (aka the Organizatsiya). The sale has been scheduled to take place at a welfare hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
When Cole and Campbell storm the hotel to disrupt the weapons deal, Cunningham kills Deverell (because Deverell set up Cunningham for the LAPD, in order to clear himself of the arms-running charges) and wounds Jim. Cole fights Cunningham, who is finally tossed through a window and impaled on a wrought iron fence. Campbell half-jokes that Cole has brought him nothing but bad luck ever since they became partners. Cole says he'll keep that in mind, as Campbell is driven off to the hospital.
