A tip from Freddie Calhoun—junkie, snitch, and career no-hoper—sends Vice Narcotics on the trail of a city-wide marijuana distribution ring. For once Freddie seems to be telling the truth. Detectives Phelps and Earle search, question, and raid their way up the chain of command, trying to figure out how fifty-pound drug shipments are moving through Los Angeles in plain sight.