Corporal John Steele is an eleven-year veteran of the Montgomery Police Department. While the city is plagued with a series of convenience store robberies, he is assigned a new partner, Officer Marie Madison, a rookie fresh out of the police academy. At each robbery, the suspect assaults the clerk before leaving a note addressed to Corporal Steele. With each robbery becoming more violent, detectives try and figure out how the suspect knows which robbery John will be responding to next. Each note is causing flashbacks of the night when as a rookie officer he and his partner were shot. As detectives draw closer to solving the crimes, the suspect lures John and Marie into a deadly game of cat and mouse.