Rules of Engagement) is a green, but very ambitious
police officer who desires strongly to follow in his father's footsepts by becoming a
detective lieutenant, which he attains by taking partial credit for the infamous Nite Owl murders, where three men barge into a diner and kill all of the inhabitants inside, including a
former police officer named Stensland (Beckel, Blue Streak) Stensland's
former partner is Bud White (Crowe, The Quick and the Dead), a rough - and - tumble cop as loyal as they come, but also willing to do the things that Exley is not, namely, to cross over the line of the law to
see that justice is served.