Carjackers

Lifelong friends Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are devoted Miami Police narcotics detectives investigating $100 million of seized Mafia heroin, their biggest career bust, which has been stolen from a secure police vault. Internal Affairs suspects that it was an inside job and threatens to shut down the entire department unless they recover the drugs within 72 hours. Mike asks one of his informants and ex-girlfriend Maxine "Max" Logan to look for people who are newly rich and, therefore, suspects. She gets herself and her best friend, Julie Mott, hired as escorts by Eddie Dominguez, a crooked former cop. The party is soon interrupted by Dominguez's French drug kingpin employer, Antoine Fouchet, and his henchmen, Casper, Ferguson, and Noah Trafficante (who informed Fouchet of Eddie's recklessness). Fouchet, sensing that Max has seen too much, distracts her by asking her to model for him; he then shoots and kills her. He also shoots Eddie in the leg, realizing he is a liability, and has his henchman kill Eddie. While this is going on, Julie hides in the bathroom and manages to escape. The madam who hired Julie and Max is disposed of by Noah, who then knocks out Mike as he investigates Max's murder. Frantically calling the police, Julie insists on talking to only Mike, who is following up on a lead with the madam. Certain that she has never met Mike, Captain Conrad Howard forces Marcus to impersonate him to talk to her. At her apartment, Marcus and Julie are attacked by some of Fouchet's henchmen, one of whom Marcus kills. While he rendezvous with Mike at the precinct the next morning, Captain Howard forces Marcus and Mike to imitate each other, with Mike living at the Burnett residence while Marcus stays with Julie at Mike's. They struggle to keep up the charade in Julie's presence, and she soon begins to suspect the truth. Looking through mugshots, Julie identifies Noah as one of the henchmen. The partners go to Club Hell, one of Noah's local hangouts, and she follows unbeknown to them. After being spotted, Marcus knocks Casper unconscious during a bathroom fight. Julie tries to kill Fouchet, but Marcus stops her. In the proceeding car chase, Mike kills Noah by shooting barrels filled with ether, which destroys the villain's car. The trio manage to get away, but are caught on camera by a news helicopter. The ensuing report is later seen by Marcus's family, who were told that he had been temporarily reassigned to Cleveland. Mike and Marcus meet their old informant Jojo and understand about the location of the chemist who is cutting the stolen drugs. They return to Mike's apartment, where Marcus's wife Theresa confronts them and confirms Julie's suspicion they have been impersonating each other. Fouchet and his gang show up and kidnap Julie. Mike and Marcus's department is shut down by Internal Affairs. Despite being reassigned, Howard delays the order, giving Mike and Marcus more time to solve the case. They access Dominguez's private police database profile and learn that the police secretary Francine is his former girlfriend. She was being blackmailed by Fouchet and Dominguez after they took nude photos of her, threatening to post them at her kids' school. Mike, Marcus, and detectives Sanchez and Ruiz head to the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport. During a fierce shootout, they kill Fouchet's remaining henchmen, including Casper and Ferguson, and rescue Julie. They chase a fleeing Fouchet and force his car into a concrete barrier. As he tries to flee, Mike pulls his sidearm on him and commands him to freeze while Marcus tells Mike that Fouchet is not worth killing. Mike instead shoots him in the leg and closes in on him, kicks his gun away, then pauses before attempting to arrest him at gunpoint. As Fouchet tries to bait Mike into shooting him, Marcus pulls him back and makes him holster his weapon. Fouchet surreptitiously draws a gun but is shot dead by Mike, avenging the loss of Max. An exhausted Marcus leaves Julie with Mike handcuffing them to each other and heads home, eager to spend quality time with his wife.