Point to rest at the garage owned and run by his friend Ray Davies, Ray decides to help him move up in the criminal world by introducing him to Slink, the owner of a local strip club. Slink becomes impressed with TK's skills and eventually introduces him to two close associates - Bishop and "The Mexican". The men assign TK to help assist them in the breakout of Candy, a criminal mastermind, from Rikers Island. After Candy's escape, the group introduce TK to their boss Corrigan, a corrupt undercover detective, who reveals that he intends to take over the cocaine business from the city's Colombian cartel. Candy devises a plan to capture a prominent Colombian drug lord, Rafael Martinez, and ransom him back to the cartel. TK successfully kidnaps Martinez and recovers the ransom money for Corrigan but upon handing it over, Corrigan and the others kill Martinez and betray TK, implicating him for the murder. While the gang leave to take over the cocaine trade, TK is imprisoned in Sing Sing prison for 28 years, and spends his time planning to go after the group upon his release. In 2006, TK is released and reunites with Ray in New York. TK learns that Corrigan became the city's Police Chief, while the other members moved into different businesses - Slink moved into the adult industry and drugs manufacturing; Bishop became a drug kingpin; and Candy set up a prostitution ring and drug moving service. TK decides to go after and kill The Mexican first, and dumps his body for Corrigan to find. Ray then introduces TK to Maria Cortez, an employee of Candy, and works with her to get close to her boss. During this time, TK pursues both Slink and Bishop, disrupting their businesses before killing both men. When Candy learns that TK is working for Maria, he attempts to use her in order to bait him into a trap. However, TK manages to survive it, and saves Maria before killing Candy. Upon returning to Ray's garage, Corrigan reveals that Ray has been working for him: in exchange for clearing his debts, Ray set up the assassinations of Corrigan's associates to erase all of his connections to Martinez's kidnapping and subsequent murder. After killing Ray, Corrigan flees when Maria arrives to stop him; TK realizes that she is Martinez's daughter and that she had been working for Candy to