Neil McCauley lives by the mantra that you must be able to drop everything in your life if the heat gets too close. As a successful robbery criminal for most of his life, McCauley seeks one last heist to seal his future, along with his three trusted comrades. With a fourth recruit on board for a lucrative heist, the well-planned robbery goes sour and people die as a result. Frustrated, McCauley wants revenge against this fourth recruit, Waingro, and begins an intricate investigation to hunt him down. LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna is hot on McCauley's tail. Hanna wants to stop the revenge killing and jail the robbers for the rest of their lives. With girlfriends and wives making the stakes even higher, McCauley and his crew must strike a balance between revenge and normal life.