![Billy Bathgate](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/zDC0bY6IvGIf1SrDipLZJxR0Z2d.jpg)
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures — even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.