In the first part of Criminal, Leo Patterson (played by Charlie Hunnam) and his best friend, Ricky Lawless (played by Gus Halper), are haunted by a murder from their childhood and a heist that went horribly wrong, which brings them face-to-face with a part of their past they can’t run from. Everything comes to a head in Part 2 now that Ricky is in too deep with the wrong people. He must turn to his brother, Tracy Lawless (played by Luke Evans), who left behind a life in the Army over 20 years ago, and the two must reunite after all these years and embrace each other as family to make it out of the situation alive. The show is based on the hit series of graphic novels by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.