杰西卡(艾什莉·贾德 Ashley Judd 饰)是一名女警官,她的父亲是臭名昭著的连环杀人犯,这成为了杰西卡毕生的污点和笼罩在心头的阴云,她一直希望自己能够坦然面对这段过去。近日里,城市里接连发生凶杀案,线索表明这些案件系同一人所为,杰西卡将此看做是她走出过去的大好机会,自告奋勇的提出接手此案。 然而,随着调查的深入,杰西卡震惊的发现,所有在案件中死亡的被害人,都和自己曾经发生过亲密关系,也就是说,她是这宗案件的核心,而她的现任男友麦克(安迪·加西亚 Andy Garcia 饰)则成为了凶手的下一个目标。杰西卡必须振作起来,只有她才能够保护她的恋人和人生。Jessica Shepard is an on the rise police officer of San Francisco's esteemed police department, after having solved a big case about a serial killer. Her mentor John Mills is proud of Jessica as a father would be of his daughter, since Mills was the partner of Jessica's late father. With a newly established promotion, Jessica finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners. Not to mention a new partner named Mike Delmarco, who might be Jessica's next closest thing to a confidant. However, a man has been found dead and the two officers are brought into the investigation. What they find is a surprise when the dead in question was a man Jessica slept with, he being part of a list of one night stands that Jessica has engaged in. Now under suspicion and a terrible drinking problem gnawing at her, Jessica will have to prove to her superiors and to her skeptical partner that she's not the one behind the murders and Mills is one of the few people standing behind her. This is a story about a woman trying to find the perpetrator of these horrible crimes, before she herself might end as one of them.