A serial killer known as Red Smile is slaughtering his way through California, taunting the police with his riddles. Brian Warner and his partner Marcus James Reed are the two cops trying to take Red Smile down.
Brian Warner is an L.A.P.D. police detective, martial artist and the definition of no-nonsense cop. He is also a masked vigilante known as Black Shadow who hunts killers and does what the police can't: He works beyond the law to protect it. After a gruesome murder Black Shadow and the police investigate the case together. They befriended reporter Anne Kresky in hopes of using her and her contacts for the investigation into this bloody crime, where organs and other bodyparts have been removed...