When Tizara James gets kicked off the King Street police force, it's for good reason. Marked as a dirty cop and suspected of killing her no-good boyfriend, Tizara thinks she's hit rock bottom. The only job she can get is as a bouncer for a shifty club owner. When her probation officer Sam Johnson catches Tizara drinking and practically having sex while on the job, he brings her in, leaving her to agonize alone in a claustrophobic interrogation room. Now she knows she's hit bottom.Just when she thinks it's all over and that she's blown her parole, in walks Tizara's once-upon-a-time lover Carter, looking all smug and handsome in his brand new $400 suit. So she pretends that there may be water in her pool and tries to swim, but it's no use. Everybody in that room knows she's got nothing and no choices. So when Carter offers to drop all charges against her and give her maybe, just maybe, a shot back at her old life, Tizara grabs it. And in return, Tizara must find a serial killer who is murdering the clients of King Street's West Side prostitutes.

Tizara hasn't been a cop for over five years. She's rusty. She drinks way too much, which makes her pretty worthless in the work department, and every day, she relives the nightmare of having killed her ex. But Tizara knows this may be her only shot. Even though she has to work with Carter, who just made Captain, she decides she's not going to screw this one up.  Besides, rent is due and Tizara's more than a couple of months behind.  Her biggest problem, however, is that most of the King Street cops feel she's bad news. So bad, in fact, that it doesn't take Tizara long to find out that, except for Carter, nobody's going to watch her back. Funny thing is, once she gets that she's on her own, she begins to do the job. Working undercover as a prostitute, Tizara slips into the world of the West Side girls. As she gets to know them and their pimp, Sonny, the killer strikes again.  But this time it's not a client; it's one of the girls.

Tizara thinks that the killer might be one of the cops she knows because the dead prostitute had close ties to one cop in particular, one who hates Tizara with everything he's got.  But when she goes to Carter with her theory, he tells her that the evidence points instead to her. Her prints were found on the girl's body and Tizara was the last person seen with her. Tizara lets Carter know what she thinks of his theory and runs to the nearest bar. By the time she stirs up trouble with a couple of cops, she's falling down drunk. The only place Tizara can go for safety is to the West Side, where Sonny takes her in. The next day, Tizara learns that somebody else has been killed. Carter brings her in for questioning. She's off the case and everything's going to hell. Sonny bails her out of jail, which pisses off Carter. Though she's off the case, Tizara works it anyway on her own terms, even though she knows she won't get anything out of it.  She sets off to find the cops she believes are behind the killings. While she's working that angle, Carter finds some dirt on Sonny and charges him with the murders.

Out of time, Tizara finally tracks down the cop who framed her for the murders, and he leads her to one of the prostitutes. She stakes them out as the hooker is about to kill the cop. Tizara tries to save him, but she's too late.  The hooker turns her murderous attention to Tizara. The two women struggle until Tizara manages to grab the cop's gun and shoot the killer dead. As the cop lies dying, he tells Tizara that the girl just wanted to be something special. Tizara retorts, "Don't we all?"