After only just transferring from another precinct, officer Alex J Murphy is savagely murdered by Clarence Boddicker and his gang of no-good punks. Left for dead, Murphy is scraped up off the floor and pronounced dead in the hospital and his remains are used to build the most effective law enforcer known to man – Robocop. Driven by a set of prime directives, he begins to clean up the streets of Detroit, ever so slowly recovering the memories of his former life, and death. After the harsh realisation that he can never resume his old life, the cyborg officer then goes after his assassins, eventually killing Clarence and bringing down OCPs crooked organisation – proving that there has never been a better mix of man and machine.