It's the start of the Hollywood on Hudson film festival & New York City is swept up in the glamour. There's a red carpet premiere every night; the most exclusive restaurants are filled with wealthy producers & pre-eminent directors; & thousands of fans gather with the paparazzi hoping to catch a glimpse of the most famous & beautiful faces in the world. With so many celebrities in town special task force NYPD Red is on high alert
- & it can't afford to make a single mistake. Then a world-renowned producer fatally collapses at his power breakfast & top NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan is the first one on the scene. Zach works with his beautiful new partner Detective Kylie Mac Donald
- who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend
- to discover who the killer might be. But this is only the beginning: the most brutal public & horrifyingly spectacular crimes they've ever encountered are about to send all of New York into chaos putting NYPD Red on the ropes. Zach & Kylie know there's no way of telling what a killer this deranged will do next. With the whole world watching they have to find a way to stop a psychopath who has scripted his finale down to the last explosive detail.