Once a first-rate Secret Service agent, Joe Hallenbeck is now a gruff private investigator whose latest gig is protecting a pole dancer. When she's murdered, he grudgingly teams up with her boyfriend, Jimmy Dix, an ex-quarterback with a gambling problem, and the two go after her killers. Before long, they stumble onto a plot by a well-known football magnate to bribe federal legislators into legalizing sports gambling.