While addressing reporters at the latest crime scene, McCaleb sees what he believes to be the killer in the crowd and pursues him only to suffer a near-fatal heart attack.

Two years later, the now retired McCaleb lives out of his fishing boat, Following Sea, on the Long Beach bay, having received a heart transplant.

Against the advice of his physician, McCaleb conducts an illegal investigation into Gloria's death, aided by his alcoholic neighbor Jasper "Buddy" Noone and a former colleague, LASD Detective Jaye Winston.

Rotten Tomatoes shows a score of 52% , calling it "a routine, but competently made thriller marred by lethargic pacing."

However, A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote while it was similar to many Eastwood films, "there is something comforting in seeing this old warhorse trot gamely out of the gate for yet another run on familiar turf.