Märksõna Crime Lord

Kui Los Angeleses röövitakse Hiina konsuli tütar, palub konsul juhtumi lahendamisel oma vana tuttava, inspektor Lee (Jackie Chan), abi. USAs ei taha FBI aga temast midagi kuulda, mispärast määratakse hiinlase paarimeheks targutav uurija James Carter (Chris Tucker). Mehed on erinevad kui öö ja päev, kuid sellegi poolest mõistavad nad, et peavad jõud ühendama ja kriminaali trellide taha saatma.

Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.

The "jogo do bicho" (an illegal lottery of numbers) in Rio de Janeiro is controlled by families whose leaders are also patrons of samba schools. Two of these families are experiencing bloody wars of succession.