Bad Country

It's 1983 in the South Louisiana bayou country. Lt. Bud Case with the Baton Rouge PD is able to arrest Aryan Jesse Weiland the subsequent result of an undercover operation on a precious gems fencing operation, Weiland who has an arms length prior rap sheet of various criminal offenses. While Case only has possible weapons and burglary charges against Weiland which could still place him behind bars for decades, Case believes there is more to what Weiland has been involved in based on his cool demeanor, meaning that he has some powerful people behind him who he expects will be able to get him free. Case learns that Weiland's main role in the criminal world is as a contract killer, and as such probably knows where bodies are buried which if known by the authorities could place his employers away. Facing potential life in prison with the priors and parole violation, Weiland, largely for the sake of his wife Lynn and their newborn son Tommy, decides to accept Case's offer to help collect evidence to bring down one of the biggest crime rings in the area led by Lutin Adams. Part of that negotiation includes placing Lynn and Tommy in hiding in the guise to Weiland's associates of she having gone away due to them having marital problems. As they get further into this operation and as Lutin suspects there is a snitch in his operation as one problem after another starts to arise, Case and the Weilands' lives could be in further danger if they are discovered. On Case's side, not all is smooth either as he has continuing issues with who the Attorney General's office in Washington has assigned to the case, Martin Fitch, who Case considers a neophyte and pretentious prick.