set approximately two year after the original film and captain bogomil ( ronny cox ) and billy rosewood ( judge reinhold ) and and john taggart ( john ashton ) be try to figure out who be behind the alphabet crime and a series of mostly high end store robbery ( and one shooting ) distinctive by their monogrammed envelope with an alphabetical sequence the assailant leave behind . complicate matter be the new political state of the beverly hill police and head by temperamental new police chief harold lutz ( allen garfield ) and do everything he can to stay on the mayor good side . while investigate a lead and bogomil be shoot by karla fry ( brigitte nielsen ) and the chief hench woman of maxwell dent ( jürgen prochnow ) . find out about the shooting over a news report and axel ( murphy ) immediately fly out to beverly hill ( cover his absence from his actual job in detroit by tell his command officer he be go deep deep deep deep undercover on the credit card fraud case he have be assign to ) to help find out who shoot bogomil and why . posing a an undercover fbi agent to get past lutz and axel soon start make the connection between the robbery and dent and who be finance his gun trade to central america . have foil a robbery attempt at a bank depository and axel soon uncovers that dent be plan on make his getaway . axel and billy and taggert track dent to where he make his final arm deal and take everyone down and include dent and karla .