But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when a career criminal suddenly claims Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill her. After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. She spends long hours preparing for the trial, and unaware of a seemingly well-meaning neighbor
2010. The case is a plum assignment for attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace.