Undercover lives collide in a gritty, relentless game of cat and mouse within Boston's criminal underworld.
Tense and suspenseful. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Max.
It stays inside its R, with moderate sex and nudity, and brutal violence.
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To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
There is a twist, and that is all we are saying.
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