DEA agents Ray (Brian Tyree Henry) and Manny (Wagner Moira) have found their next target: A small drug cooking operation in North Philadelphia. Their raid is a little rough around the edges, but there's no doubt that Ray has done this dozens, if not hundreds of times. Oddly, despite handcuffing the young assailants, instead of arresting them, they take the money and run.
That’s because Ray and Manny aren't actually DEA agents. They're fraudsters, posing as officials of the law to make cash. It's a risky business, but it's carefully controlled. The pair targets small operations run by young people, and Ray justifies it as a net good for society, teaching kids that crime doesn't pay. That's patently absurd, of course, but it works for them, and they make enough to get by. It's a rocky foundation, one that crumbles completely when they target a meth lab in the countryside and inadvertently find themselves the targets of the people behind the biggest drug operation on the East Coast. Suddenly, Ray, Manny, and everyone they know are at extreme risk.
