Detective Jim Briggs breaks up a parking lot quarrel between a valet and a hot-shot lawyer who offers money and is arrested for attempted bribery. When Gorman fakes an injury and accuses the detective of police brutality, Sgt. Stone puts his own badge on the line to help him.

A death-row inmate Joe Caslin points out the similarity between a current crime and his conviction, which in turn sets about a turn of events to save Joe.

Sam persuades the beautiful girlfriend of a brutal extortionist to stop acting as his punching bag and turn evidence against him.