Throwing in the Towel

Sean is asked by a boxing trainer to find outwhy a promising teenage boxer has suddenlybecome morose and depressed. Before Seangets around to doing so, the young man isfound dead; an apparent suicide after havingjumped off a building. Motivated by guilt, Seanconvinces Cindy to leave the public defender’soffice and join him in a private investigationagency with the death of Damiyun Walker astheir first case. Cindy and Sean become bothbusiness partners and lovers.They discovered that Damiyun had found outthat a thirteen year old Vietnamese girl wasbeing used as a sex slave by a local gang and hewas killed when he tried to rescue her. Thehomicide detective looking into these twodeaths also ends up dead under circumstanceswhich indicate someone in law enforcement isbehind running the sex slavery of Vietnamesegirls in Portland. Sean, a Vietnam vet, has toconnect with his past contacts in the Marinecorps to find out who in Portland has theconnections in Vietnam to get these girls pastICE enforcement, and ends up in ashow-down with the ringleader.