Wendell Bud White grew up the son of an abusive, alcoholic father, who used to beat his wife and son. As Bud got bigger, he tried to protect his mother, and one night his father chained him to a radiator then beat his mother to death with a tire iron. Bud vowed to himself that he would protect women from such brutes, but as he grew up, he realized he possessed the same brutish anger. Instead of turning it on women, however, he turned it on their abusers. Always on the lookout for damsels in distress, Bud has earned a reputation on the LA police force as a punisher of wife-beaters. His tough tactics attract the attention of Captain Dudley Smith, who recruits him as an enforcer for his attempt at taking over the LA drug racket. After meeting Lynn Bracken, a call girl, he begins to reassess his career and decides to rise above his thug rep and develop his crime-solving skills. Along the way he runs afoul of Ed Exley, a by-the-book careerist willing to feed White to the sharks in order to advance his own aspirations. As Exley discovers his own flaws and White discovers his own potential the two collide and find common ground for a dynamic partnership. Show less «