Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.

James Woods
as Robert K. Tanenbaum, Assistant District Attorney

Yaphet Kotto
as Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD

Alex Rocco
as Detective Bill Butler NYPD

David Harris
as Lester Bertram Day

Steven Keats
as Harold Skelton, Defense Attorney

Larry Riley
as Herman Bell

Pam Grier
as Alexandra 'Alie' Horn

Rae Dawn Chong
as Christine Horn

Richard Bradford
as L.J. Delsa

Kene Holliday
as Albert Washington