For the past nine months a murderer has run free on the streets of New York, striking only at night and doing so in a fashion that evades the police perfectly. No one has gotten close to solving this case but Detective Jacob Black is determined to be the one to finally free the city of the killer and lock him behind bars for the rest of his life. For the first time ever, the killer had been sloppy and struck in a place where his frame was caught on camera, however, his face was not. Overjoyed with this information, Detective Black uses it to try and uncover the identity of the man who has been terrorizing New York, and gets nothing but confusion. The video didn't seem to bring Black any closer to finding the identity of the man but instead it uncovers some parts of Blacks past that even he didn't know. Nothing seems to match up in his life anymore and he realizes that he had been living a lie. Now Blacks freedom, and perhaps even his life, is put on the line. Can he straighten everything out before it's too late?