Three years after the events of Beverly Hills Cop (1984), street-smart Detroit detective Axel Foley returns to posh Beverly Hills. This time, he's on a mission to help Detectives Billy Rosewood and John Taggart solve the "Alphabet Crimes" case, an outbreak of violent smash-and-grab robberies. In the meantime, things get interesting as a deadly female assassin involved in an international arms trafficking ring terrorises the city's glamorous streets. But who is the elusive prime suspect? Can Axel and his partners crack the knotty case and bring the perpetrators to justice?