Wearing a new hat given to him by his wife Dt.Halloran begins his first day as a newly promoted Detective. After being assigned to partner "legend" Dt.Dan Muldoon he's soon face to face with a cop killer and his accomplice who's taken hostages at the New York Coliseum.

Dt.Halloran kills a robber who is just about to shoot him. However lingering feelings of guilt having him approach the man's family to see the type of man he was.