In late 1999 parts of a dismembered body are found in a bin-bag by a jogger. DS Nick Thomas, who's assigned the case, feels there is no one he can trust. Meanwhile on one of the roughest council estates in Leeds, teenager Jamie Winn, known simply as J, steals and extorts on behalf of his criminal father, while elder brother Ricky is on the payroll of powerful mobster, William Maloney, whose tentacles reach to the very top of the city's hierarchy...