One man police force, judge and jury Paul Kersey is back in L.A. and dating attractive reporter Karen Sheldon, who's daughter overdoses on crack. Paul immediately blows the drug dealer and his entourage to pieces. Then, an enterprising publisher whose own daughter has died from a drug overdose hires Kersey to wipe out the city's two rival drug dealers and their gangs. Kersey methodically eliminates gang members, first from one side and then the other, until one gang's paranoia about the other gang causes the two competitors to engage in a major confrontation that could leave them all dead.