Detectives Greevy and Logan are waiting for a prisoner to be transferred to them from Federal authorities. When the van arrives, one of the three men in the van is dead and the other two say they saw nothing. When a second man from the van is found hanging in his cell, that leaves Ian O'Connell as the only suspect. The case is politically sensitive however as O'Connell is a member of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Political Army. O'Connell claims to have nothing to do with the fighting. He's been in jail for 5 years without being charged and he's about to be deported so the Feds want O'Connell to keep a low profile something that a murder trial will not accomplish. For ADA Stone murder is murder and politics doesn't enter into it.
—garykmcd