John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) is a police detective and becomes famous for capturing serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) who is convicted and subsequently executed.
Soon, another serial killer is on the loose who seems to be copycatting the just executed Reese. But this is no copycat. The demon, Azazel, who lives inside of Reese is out on the loose and is jumping from body to body in order to continue killing. And he is coming after Hobbes himself.
Hobbes must seek for help from an unusual source if he hopes to defeat this evil on rampage.
Captain Karen Emma Walden (Meg Ryan) is a Medevac Huey Commander sent to rescue the crew of a helicopter shot down in Iraq during the First Gulf War. She found the crew under heavy enemy fire, tries to rescue them and then her own helicopter is shot down. The survivors of both Choppers were rescued the next day, but Walden had been killed in action.
Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) is assigned the case to determine if she should be the first woman to receive (posthumously) the Medal of Honor For Valor in Combat.
Everything seems straight forward at first, but Serling begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of witnesses. Serling decides to dig a little bit deeper and uncovers details about the incident that both astounds him and also reminds him of the pain and guilt of another event in his past. He must make the story public before the Pentagon and the White House try to cover it up.
Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is a World War Two veteran. He is out of work, looking for a job and desperately needs to pay his mortgage. He is introduced to a man named Dewitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) who is looking for someone to help find a missing white woman, Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals) who is thought to be hiding somewhere in the Black Community. He offers Rawlins $100 to look for Daphne Monet. Easy is suspicious but takes the money anyway.
He begins the search and is quickly embroiled in the intrigues of the town. He is framed for murder and now has two L.A.P.D police officers on his trail. Easy wants out of the job he's been given but Albright forces him to continue, or else Easy dies.
Soon more trouble comes his way and with the situation getting desperate and complex, Easy Rawlins feels the need to get some outside help.
John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) is a police detective and becomes famous for capturing serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) who is convicted and subsequently executed.
