Captain Mark Winslow NYPD a former sheriff in Montana moves to Manhattan after the horrific death of his wife and son in a car accident. Celibate for six years he meets and falls in love with Attorney Kristen Miller who lives in a Park Avenue high-rise apartment. Captain Winslow's efforts to capture two psychopaths - rapists of the worst kind - intermingle with his love life family friends and his six year old daughter Pamela who twists him like a pretzel with her logic. The rapists hold Kristen Miller captive and Captain Winslow never one to go strictly by the rules uses any means to rescue her.