"Okay. I'm gonna beat you up a little now because that's going to make me feel better there, and then we can get back to this nice talk."

01:00 am on a steamy summer night. A grubby police office in dowtown New York City. Two cops and two crooks battle with wits and fists to uncover the truth about a murder. Sean is back from Vietnam and unable to find his way. Jimmy has the look of a choir boy, but the attitude of a punk. Jack can't get through the shift without a fix. And Kelly's daughter is on the end of the phone with a gun to her temple.

Thomas Babe was born on March 13, 1941 in Buffalo, New York. An American playwright, writing mainly during the mid 70s and 80s, he achieved a cult status with uncompromising studies of human relationships like "A Prayer for my Daughter" (1977). He died of lung cancer on December 6, 2000, in a hospice in Stamford, Connecticut.