Porter, a career thief and former
U.S. Marine, has gunshot wounds treated by an unlicensed doctor, having been shot and betrayed for $70,000, and plans his revenge. After months of recuperating, Porter uses a series of petty thefts and
short cons to acquire cash, a new suit, and a revolver. He and his partner-in-crime Val Resnick had stolen $140,000 from a local
Chinese Triad, but Val deceived Porter's wife Lynn into believing Porter was having an affair with Rosie, a call girl he used to protect. Lynn shot Porter and left him for dead as Val took the cash to pay off a debt to "the Outfit," a powerful organized crime syndicate. Porter confronts Lynn, who has been consumed by guilt and become addicted to heroin. He tries to confiscate her drugs, but she finds some in a secondary stash. Porter awakens the next morning to find her dead from an overdose. Believing that Val was funding her habit, Porter interrogates Lynn's drug connection, who points him to Val's middle-man, Stegman. Porter finds Stegman in the company of corrupt police detectives Hicks and Leary, and Val learns from Stegman that Porter is alive. Enlisting the help of Rosie, who is now affiliated with the Outfit, Porter ambushes Val during a session with Pearl, a Triad-connected
dominatrix, and demands his money. Val goes to Carter, a higher-up with the Outfit, who warns him to eliminate Porter on his own. However, after Val leaves he directs one of his men to take care of Porter himself. Desperate, Val directs Pearl to tell the Triads that Porter was responsible for the $140,000 heist. Before the Triads can kill Porter, Hicks and Leary arrive, having found Lynn's body and questioned her dealer, and extort Porter for a cut of his money once he recovers it. Following Porter to Rosie's apartment, Val shoots her dog and threatens to rape her, but Porter shoots and wounds him. Giving up the names of Outfit bosses Fairfax and Carter, Val is killed by Porter. Taking Rosie to his secret apartment, Porter finds a bomb rigged to the telephone by Carter's men, who call him from a car outside. Cutting their fuel line, Porter incinerates them with a lit cigarette. Outside Carter's office, Porter is waylaid by Hicks, Leary, and Stegman, who also demands a cut. Porter gives them his revolver to hold while he is inside, securing Leary's fingerprints on the gun that killed Val. Meeting with Carter, Porter disarms his guards and threatens to kill him. Deferring to the organization's corporate structure, Carter calls Bronson, the head of the Outfit. Porter repeatedly corrects them that all he wants is his half-share of the money Val stole, but Bronson refuses to pay, and Porter kills Carter. Framing Hicks and Leary for Val's death, Porter leaves Hicks's badge and the gun with Leary's fingerprints by the body. With Rosie's assistance, Porter kidnaps Bronson's son Johnny, which he reveals to Bronson on another call while he threatens Fairfax. Hicks and Leary are arrested by
Internal Affairs due to the false evidence Porter planted. Stegman captures Porter, but a shootout ensues with Pearl and the Triads, leaving Stegman, his driver, and the Triads dead; holding Porter at gunpoint, Pearl is knocked unconscious when the Outfit arrives to abduct Porter. Badly beaten, Porter meets face-to-face with Bronson, who has brought a $140,000 ransom but swears Porter will never touch it. Porter reasons that all he wanted was the $70,000 Resnick took, but Bronson orders his men to hammer Porter's toes until he reveals Johnny's location; they smash two toes before he gives them an address. Bronson, Fairfax, and their men drive to the address, Porter's apartment, with Porter locked in the trunk. As they go inside, Porter breaks free and uses the car phone to dial his apartment phone; Bronson answers, triggering the bomb left by Carter's men, and the explosion kills Bronson, Fairfax, and their men. Leaving Johnny cuffed to her radiator, Rosie joins Porter in starting a new life together, beginning by "going for breakfast... in Canada." ==Cast==