Denny Malone wants only one thing: to be a good cop. The entire eighteen years that he spent with the New York police, he serves on the front line, he encounters pain, the dead, victims and perpetrators on a daily basis. His life belongs to the streets of Manhattan-North. Today, he is an award-winning detective and the head of an elite unit whose mission is to fight gangs and clean the streets of drugs and weapons. He is prepared to use any means available to protect his city, a city built on ambition and corruption, a city where no one has a clear conscience - not even Malone himself. The Unit is a riveting story of greed and violence, of inequality and discrimination, of crime and injustice, of revenge and redemption, revealing the seemingly insurmountable tension between the New York Police Department and the diverse populations they serve. It's a searing portrait of a hectic city and a fearless, heroic, but deeply corrupt man who finds himself on the precipice.